EazyDraw Version 2.7.0a ---- September 28, 2008

Added capability to construct fillet and chamfer joins.  These are found on Tools main menu, they are added to the Combine submenu.  These actions apply to a pair of straight ending graphics, the fillet is applies at the intersection of the graphics.  Individual graphics with straight line vertices such as a rectangle or orthogonal path accept the commands as well.  Documentation is complete, use search phrase "fillet and chamfer" to investigate the details of operation.  Note that fillets may be applied to wall paths as well.

Fixed a bug that would cause EazyDraw to use high percentage of the CPU resource.  This related to two or more, overlapping, annotations or dimensions.  If clicked in the right sequence the cpu usage would spike until a clearing click on an unrelated area of the drawing.  All fixed now.

Fixed problems printing very large drawings.  This was associated primarily with the use of the electronic printer options.  The print operation could fail, and then upon quitting EazyDraw the application could hang or crash.  Now the hang and crash is corrected.  There should be no issues printing very large drawings either to printer or for "Save as PDF".  Exporting very large drawings as PDF or EPS had a potential for an arbitrary size limit, but not the hang or crash, this is all corrected as well.

Corrected problem with the Tape Tool live cursor.  When used with an origin not at the top left of the drawing the live cursor readout provided incorrect position readings.  A shift of the origin was double compensated.  This is corrected and works properly now.

EazyDraw Version 2.7.0 ---- September 23, 2008

See Hot New page for current release notes.  Notes below are from previous public beta versions.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0n ---- September 20, 2008

Corrected recently introduced problem associated with library elements that contain a gradient.  Could prevent successful launch.  Corrected.

Fixed long time nucance with converting text to Bezier outlines.  Ligatures would cause an extra faint rectangle to be added to the text.  Corrected.

Optimized converting large bitmap images from RGB to CMYK color space  This is now three to nine times faster.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0m ---- September 18, 2008

Testing robust debugging, performance optimization, improved spell checking, improved CMYK conversion.

Improved Spell Checking, with Grammar support.  The Spell check palette has several additions to provide a word count and indicators for checked and misspelling counts.  New elements are provided more user control over a spell check session. Access is now provided to clean "learned" words from a dictionary. Grammar checking is only available on Leopard, not supported for Tiger (OS X version 10.4.x).  The new capability is fully documented in the Help content, search phrase "spell check".

Improved CMYK color model support.  The color model conversion, managed with the popup found at the bottom of the Layers drawer, has been improved to properly work with images and text.  The whole process of color space conversion is now more robust and should perform at a robust professional level.  You can now precisely inspect a color by pausing the cursor over any color well, a tool tip popup will indicate the color space for the color and the numerical amount of each component.  A color space conversion now operates on all text, it applies properly to the text and all text marks such as tab leaders, strike through, underline, and text drop shadow.

Improved rendering of gradients.  mprovements include better screen drawing of small and intricate gradients such as those applied to text glyphs.  Added full support for gradient transparency for printing and pdf output.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0k ---- August 23, 2008

Several improvements for text: linking, flow around graphics, tabs.

Rotated Text:  A new rotation handle is now provided for Text Boxes.  The rotation handle is the same color an appearance as the rotation handle for rotated rectangles and rotated ovals.  Now one may rotate text with a click and drag of this handle, without reverting to use of the rotation tool.  It works in the normal fashion, the shift key may be used as a modifier to lock the rotation angle at even degree increments.  Editing of rotated text is now easier, simply double click on the rotated text box and an edit block (unrotated) is presented directly on the drawing.  All of the other ways of rotating text are still available (such as converting to an Annotation), but now they will need to be executed explicitly.

Text Flow:  It is now possible to have text flow around other graphics.  This is enabled with a menu command now found on the Paragraph submenu of the Text main menu.  When enabled, text is typeset around graphics that are to the front of the text (as in the Send Menu).  Graphics behind the text do not impact typesetting.  The flowing typesetting is live and will respond as either the text or the other graphics are moved or re-shaped.  The text flow respects the filled state of graphics, if the graphic is not filled (solid color, gradient, or pattern) text will flow around the outline path of the graphic but not the "interior" of the graphic.

Text Insert:  Inserted text now is typeset to follow the exact contour outline of the containing graphic.  Previously the text was simply typeset in an interior rectangle.  Now inserted text conforms to the shape of the host graphic.  Centered Text is still typeset in a simple rectangle, which is centered at the geometric center of the graphic.  The new "flow" behavior is not used for Centered Text, only Inserted Text.

Text Links:  Linking of text boxes is now supported.  This is enabled with the Text Link menu command found on the Text main menu (3/4 of the way down).  When enabled a selected text box has two new handles, light green with small arrows.  These link handles are used to link one text box to another.  Click and drag from one of the link handles to draw out a link path, connect the link path to another text box to create the text link.  When linked text is typeset sequentially into all linked text boxes.  As text is edited, or a text box is resized, the text content is re-typeset in the sequence of text boxes.  Documentation is complete for this, use search phrase "text links" to study the full documentation.  The text link is shown by a pseudo orthogonal connector, you cannot select this connector directly but if a linked text box is selected then the link path appears and may then be selected in the normal fashion.  Use this sequence to select a text link for deletion, this is how a text link is removed.

And all this new text capability works together.  For example text may be inserted in a shape, and flow around other graphics, while being linked to other text boxes.  And a double click of a rotated, linked text box with tabs will allow text and interactive tab editing directly on-screen.

Improved data entry in Graphic Details drawer, when using fractions and fractions with feet and inches.  Previously in some rare cases entry of a numeric value would pop back to the previous value, preventing changed.  Previously decimal notation was required for feet and inches input.  Now decimal or fractions may be used when entering as feet and inches.

Further improvements for ungrouping PDF content.  Recent work has been ungrouping of PDF from FreeHand.  Text from FreeHand pdf now formats better and corrections were made to avoid dropping of text from these documents.

Corrected export of bitmap formats, when anti-aliasing is not in use.  Normally a border of 2 pixels is provided for anti-aliasing to apply to the edge of the exported graphic.  When anti-aliasing is not in use this border was still applied, now it is not.  Turning off anti-aliasing now works to export the exact size in pixels.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0h ---- June 11, 2008

Corrected export of bitmap formats, when anti-aliasing is not in use.  Normally a border of 2 pixels is provided for anti-aliasing to apply to the edge of the exported graphic.  When anti-aliasing is not in use this border was still applied, now it is not.  Turning off anti-aliasing now works to export the exact size in pixels.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0g ---- June 5, 2008

A new full capability Tabs palette is now available.  It is accessed from the Text Main menu, Paragraph submenu.  Help documentation is complete, search phase: "tabs".  Tab position, spacing, and alignment are all now available for user specification. Full capability Leader specification is provided including; solid dashed and dotted leader lines, arrows for leader lines, user shift specification, leader line weight (thickness), color, and alternating colors.  Note that this rather detailed parameter palette requires a corresponding larger screen size.  But it is designed for convenient use with Window Shade shortening, and/or the mini-palette form.  If you are not familiar with the Window Shade or Mini-Form parameter palette features this would be a good candidate for learning the capability.

Several corrections to text editing, especially with respect to undo and redo of undo's.  Now selected ranges and insertion points are restored to exact conditions when undo or undo-redo actions are performed.  One annoyance was that when editing text and deleting text so that the text box shrinks in height, then a left-over gray background area would remain below the text now smaller text box.  This situation is now corrected.

Corrected problem with default Time Stamp format.  The default format had the month twice and not month, day.  Corrected.  Upgrading users may need to use the Time Stamp Format panel, correct the format and save as a new default to clear the problem.  New installations will not see the problem.  Removing EazyDraw preferences file will rebuild the preference in the correct format, but all other persistent defaults will be cleared by this approach.

Improved Guideline Snapping for squares.  The snapping would show on the drawing, but the size of the square would not always adjust properly to the guideline snap position.  Now all works properly when creating and editing squares.

Corrected minor problems with Find and Replace.  Fully tested again, on Leopard.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0e ---- May 15, 2008

Correct issue with previous beta version that did not allow changing font size from the system font panel.

Corrected problem forming a group, that contained a group which contained graphics with inserted text. The painting order (front to back ordering) of the graphic with inserted text could jump to a different painting order position and possible obscure other graphics of the newly formed group. All is correct now.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0d ---- May 1, 2008

Added support for Space-Bar panning.  If the space bar is held down, the cursor changes to the Hand cursor and mouse down and drag actions will pan the drawing, as in scrolling.  Panning is allowed even if graphics are currently selected.  Panning sequences are allowed, lift the mouse - move over, click down again and pan further in a given direction.  The panning mode persists until the space bar is lifted.  This action does not work id a Text box is in editing mode, or key board focus is in text entry mode on a palette or the Graphic Details drawer.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0c ---- May 1, 2008

Several corrections to text editing, especially with respect to undo and redo of undo's.  Now selected ranges and insertion points are restored to exact conditions when undo or undo-redo actions are performed.  One annoyance was that when editing text and deleting text so that the text box shrinks in height, then a left-over gray background area would remain below the text now smaller text box.  This situation is now corrected.

Upgraded the Underline capability.  The Underline menu found on the Text Style submenu has been expanded with different styles and underline patterns.  The menu on the Graphic Details drawer was upgraded as well.  A Strike submenu was added to the Text Style submenu.

Added the ability to "pan" a drawing by holding down Option key while doing a click and drag operation.  Pan operation is performed in place of drag-select when the Option Key is used.

Changed the behavior of the Graphic Details drawer during creating of a graphic.  Earlier versions updated the drawer as the graphic was initially drawn - at creation step.  Version 2.6.0 had this behavior optimized out, no longer showing the details of the graphic as it is initially drawn.  Users have requested to return to the older behavior, now again the the Graphic Details drawer is "live" as a graphic is created.

Corrected issues with entering values in Graphic Details drawer.  In some rare cases entry of a numeric value would pop back to the previous value, preventing changed.  Changes were made to prevent this situation.

Corrected issues with entering values in Graphic Details drawer.  In some rare cases entry of a numeric value would pop back to the previous value, preventing changed.  Changes were made to prevent this situation.

Corrected various issues with Undo with Grid Snapping in the On state.  If the initial state of a move or resize action was not snapped onto the grid, the Undo action would be snapped to the grid and hence the Undo would not return the moved or resized graphic to the proper position or size.  Now the Undo actions ignore grid snapping and therefore will return the graphic to the original state.

EazyDraw Version 2.6.0b ---- April 23, 2008

Corrected problem exporting FAVICON files.  Exports on Intel processors did not work, the exported file had a corrupt header.  Exports on PowerPC's worked, the problem on happened on Intel processors.  Now all is fixed, the standard FAVICON settings for the ICO export now produce valid FAVICON.ICO files.

Corrected problem using feet and inches for input on Graphic Details drawer.  Problem seems to have arisen after EazyDraw version 2.4.2.  Length values would jump back to different values after an entry in the Graphic Details drawer.

Corrected problem that was possible when using the Axis graphics, entering percentage as a label.  If the percent character was added twice, to the main value and the increment then the file would not open.  Corrected now.

Corrected problem doubling vertices of a rectangle that was converted to simple path.  An extra tail like segment was erroneously added.  Corrected now.

Corrected problem converting Oval or Circle to Polygon, an extra vertex (fully hidden) was present.  Now corrected.

Corrected problem exporting drawing that was imported from Claris Draw with corrupt graphics (generated in ClarisDraw).  These graphics had infinite size and then the Export from EazyDraw would fail - with the "Serious Error" warning.  EazyDraw now guards against the situation - corrupt graphics should still be deleted from the imported drawing if noticed, but they can be time consuming to find.

Corrected Undo problem when resizing a Continuous Bezier at a vertex that was not continuous (for example a Free Bezier converted to a Continuous Bezier).  When adjusting a control handle, the Continuous Bezier converts the vertex to the continuous form, thereby changing both controls of the vertex.  Undo would only re-place one of the two.  Now both go back to their original positions.

Corrected some issues with the Combine commands related to situations where the two graphics exactly overlay.  Keep in mind that these situations are not defined mathematically so it is up to the user to adjust graphics accordingly before executing the Combine command.  Several situations of exact overlap were inserted to the boolean logic and give more "expected" results.

EazyDraw Version 2.5.2k ---- March 26, 2008

Three new tools for drawing Spokes, as in spokes of a wheel, added to the Stellate palette. Cross-overs for schematics to indicated connections or lack thereof, Combine submenu for Union, Intersection, or difference of two graphics, New Parallelogram tools on Charting palette. New Free-Hand tool on main tool palette.  New Pinning capability on Format main menu, Draw Tangents and/or normals to curves from the Tape Measure tool (type "t" or "n" ).  Improved Knife when cutting cyclical math curves (sine waves).

New Cross-Over palette is found on the Tools main menu.  This feature provides a method to indicate the state of two crossing lines or paths.  The indicators are used to show schematically whether or not the crossing paths are physically connected.  The easiest way to think of the concept is that of a "jumper" that would indicate one path "jumping-over" another and not making a connection.  Several indicator shapes are provided: jumper, bridge, gap, and other.  There are also indicators such as a "dot" that can be used to indicate the opposite state, that of a physical connection.  The location of the indicators may be controlled parametrically or automatically placed and crossing points of lines and paths.  In the Automatic mode, the Painting Order is used to determine which path is logically "over" another, only to top path will indicate the specified Cross-Over state.  Documentation is complete; use search phrase "cross over" to learn the details of this new capability.  Copy - Paste special supports this attribute and the Cross Over palette has a Library Properties button to allow a Cross-Over property to be added to a user library.  The Cross Over palette also has a mini-palette form that is user configurable.  The new palette is fully localized for the French language user interface.

A Combine submenu is provided for forming a new graphic from two graphics source graphics.  The Union, Difference and Intersection operations are found on this new submenu about 2/3rds the way down on the Tools main menu.  These are compound operations that cut two overlapping closed graphics, then recombine the sub-paths according to defined logical rules.  Documentation is complete; use search phrase "combine" for detailed definitions of these operations.

Added a new Freehand pencil path tool to the main tool palette.  The new tool provides simple freehand drawing, the path placed on paper will follow the cursor with minimal smoothing.  With this tool one does not need to lift and click the mouse to drop vertices, as is the case with the other Bezier path tools.  The fitting of the mouse trail to the created path is sensitive to the degree of zoom of the drawing.  Therefore if a more detailed (jagged) path is needed, zoom in.  If a path is too jagged, zoom out.  After completion the Smooth or Round commands found on the Tools -> Transform menu may be used to improve the continuity of the path, if necessary.  The new Pencil tool takes the place of the radius - orthogonal path tool, the orthogonal path tools are still available on the Technical tool palette (near top).

Added a new capability to draw tangents and normals (perpendicular) to a curve.  For straight paths this was done using the guides capability but it wasn't possible to get a precise automatic line oriented with respect to a curved path.  Use the Tape Measure tool to access the new capability.  When ever the tape measure cursor is indicating the slope of a curve at a given point (the light green cursor read-out) simply typing "t" or "n" will add a tangent or normal line to the drawing.  The line added has the center and angle pinned so resizing will not loose the precise orientation.  It is recommended to review the EazyDraw.

Newly expanded Lock capability, now referred to as Pin and Lock actions.  There are two new submenus at the bottom of the Format main menu with new individual selections for locking a graphic.  The lock menu now allows a graphic to be locked independently against moving and deleting.  The new Pin submenu allows the fixing of the center, length, or angle of a graphic.  The Pin selections are of primary interest for simple lines, using these choices will offer several new useful interactive editing forms for a simple line.  The Pin Center selection works with lines, rectangles, and rectangular shapes such as those found on the Charting palette.  When the center is pinned, interactive on-screen size changes are made relative to the rectangle (or line) center.  The Pin state of a graphic is indicated by a new handle mark shown at the center of the graphic, no mark indicates no pinning.  The new lock-against-delete state is indicated by round rather than the normal square handles.  Documentation is complete; use search phrase "pin" to access.

Improved Knife, when cutting cyclical math curves, specifically all variations of sine waves and the triangle wave form.  Before the knife tool would cut the cyclical math curve correctly but the resulting two or more curves were reduced to Bezier curves, loosing their cyclical control functionality.  Now a cut sine wave will result in two new sine waves.  The period and phase of each new cyclical function is adjusted to exactly match the original wave form.  This improved functionality does not apply to the discontinuous cyclical wave forms, square wave, pulse and saw-tooth; these still drop back to Bezier paths when cut.  If one of the resulting cut wave forms would have less than 1/2 of a cycle, the waveform is still reduced to a Bezier curve.

Made several improvements to the PDF ungroup.  These focused on ungrouping PDF file generated from the Deneba Canvas application.  The PDF ungroup now detects use of tile-pattern-fills in the PDF translates these to EazyDraw patterns.  The text generation from Canvas is rather non-standard with individual character placement, this situation is now handled and the text streams are recombined into EazyDraw text boxes and positioned with normal typesetting attributes.  This means that more text from these files is imported, sized, and positioned correctly.  The import is somewhat slow due to this construction.  Optimization will be added in the future after we have have more feedback and testing on the basic ungrouping correctness and accuracy.

Added 4 new charting tools. Three new forms of parallelograms were added.  We were missing two geometries of the orthogonal parallelogram form, two more of these were added, now all forms of this shape are possible.  A free form parallelogram tool was added, it easily creates any possible parallelogram. A new "Bow Tie" shape was added to fill out the row of 4 tools.  They behave and draw in the normal fashion, no new documentation needed.  Full support on the Graphic Details Drawer is complete.

Added 3 new stellate tools for drawing spokes.  There are 3 forms, a simple straight spoke, a Bezier shaped spoke, and a rounded rectangle spoke.  They are found at the bottom of the Stellate palette.  They behave and draw just like other stellates.

Changed behavior of superscript and subscript commands (both from Text menu and Attributes bar).  Previously these commands only changed the baseline of the target text range.  Now the commands change the baseline and decrease the font size by 2 points.  The inverse command (No(rmal) on the attributes bar and "use default" on the text menu) returns the baseline and adds 2 points of font size.  The independent raise or lower baseline commands behave as they did before.

Corrected inconsistency with the Knife tool when cutting a simple line.  It was possible to drop the vertex of a line with the knife, the result would be a line with only one point. This inconsistency is now corrected, it is not possible to drop-cut either of a line's two vertices or end points.

Corrected problems adjusting the size of some Free Transform interactive graphics, that contained rectangles or charting shapes nested in group graphics.  These now all scale properly.

Corrected possible scaling problems with the new Cut Circle graphics that were introduced with version 2.5.0.  Previously they would scale properly in a group, but if the containing group was removed by an Ungroup the Cut-Circle graphic's resize handles would be misplaced.  All is correct now.  Cut Circles are the graphics found on the Technical Tool palette, second row from the bottom.

Corrected problem introduced with EazyDraw version 2.5.2, version 2.5.0 and earlier did not have the problem.  It was a rare problem causing EazyDraw to launch incorrectly.  It could only happen to users that were upgrading from an earlier version of EazyDraw.  The trigger of the bug was custom (or inadvertent) additions to the colors found in the "eazydraw.clr" color list (in Colors folder found in the home Library folder).  If fewer than 8 custom colors were added, the problem would occur upon launch. - very rare situation.  All fixed.

Corrected problem importing MacDrawPro and ClarisDraw drawings with bitmap images (JPG, TIF) on Intel machines.  Some bitmaps that would import correctly on PowerPC processors were not interpreted correctly on Intel CPUs (byte swap issue for those who understand what that means).  All corrected now.

Corrected problem exporting TIF images.  It was possible to have a dark line at the top of the image.  The line was only a present when using a white background, transparent backgrounds were drawn correctly.  The problem was introduced with version 2.5.0, and the dual-rep TIFF capability.  It is corrected now.

Corrected problem importing MacDrawPro and ClarisDraw drawings with custom colored patterns.  The patterns would import correctly but after saving the EazyDraw file and re-opening the Patterns would return to the default black and white pattern.  This is now corrected.

Corrected problem rotating text with a filled text box, filled with solid color, pattern, or gradient.  In this situation the rotation would not restore after a save and re-open of the file.  This is now corrected.  Another aspect of the problem was that text would be inverted (up side down) while rotating, this is now corrected as well.

Corrected issue importing ClarisDraw files related to long text fields.  A new format variation was encountered and included in the text interpretation.  This may help some users that were having trouble getting all their text to import.

Improved the Ungroup PDF for older versions of PDF that are commonly generated on Windows machines.  Text size was not translating properly, one would see a corrupt text box with reported font size of 1.0 - this situation is now handled with the PDF conversion.

Corrected arrow at the end of a rounded or radius connector.  The end arrow was not pointed in the correct direction.  It now behave correctly.  This only happened with the one particular form of a orthogonal connector that was drawn the had its corner shape changed via the Connector palette.

Corrected problems rotating some graphics 90 degrees clockwise and 90 degrees counter clockwise with the flipping menu commands or attribute bar buttons.  Text was not flipping the actual text, only the text box. Other graphics were being changed to raw Bezier paths unnecessarily, for example a rectangle was not maintained as a rectangle with the flip action.  All is correct now.

Corrected problem changing the text color from the toolbar button.  If the text had multiple styles of typeface, a subscript for example, the color would only change up to the point of typeface change.  Corrected now.

Corrected possible problems exporting to Keynote drawings that were imported from a Classic drawing application such as MacDraw, or ClarisDraw.  In the old classic environment it was possible to "color" a line with a pattern color.  This is not acceptable to Keynote and while EazyDraw would handle the situation, upon export to Keynote a block was encountered that would prevent the file save.  All is fixed.

Corrected problem saving the color of a Grid Graphic, the ones found on the bottom of the Technical Tool palette.  The color would revert to black, or default unless an outline was showing for the grid.  Now the color saves and restores correctly.

Optimized the internal code for opening a new drawing.  Opening a drawing or creating a new drawing was beginning to take a noticeable amount of time, especially on PowerPC processors or any processor on Tiger.  The drawing initialization code was optimized, now there is no noticeable time to open a blank drawing.  Opening larger drawings will still require a time in proportion to the size and complexity of the drawing.

Removed the support for creating and updating file icon previews in the main file open dialog.  This was an older feature of relevance on Jaguar and Panther and no longer needed.  The QuickLook technology in Leopard has superseded the older file icon technology that was used for these previews.  On Tiger and Leopard support for the old feature would unnecessarily "touch" files while browsing the Open dialog, thereby changing the File-Modified dates - an undesired consequence.  Removing the feature all together corrects the issue.

EazyDraw Version 2.5.2 ---- February 14, 2008

Customizable Toolbar improvements, Ability to convert a Blend to component paths, Improved MacDrawPro Import, Improved ClarisDraw Libraries Import, Fixed possible customizing toolbar lock-up.

Customizable Toolbar

Several improvements were made to the main window toolbar - when used in the Text label mode without icons.  In this mode the palettes such as the color picker and gradient picker are presented as menus.  These menu presentations were significantly enhanced to provide reasonable submenu organization for a more efficient user experience.

Lock-up during customizing toolbar

Corrected possible random behavior when customizing a toolbar.  Extremely rare problem which would occur during customization of the toolbar on one drawing if another drawing was closed a minute or two before the customization action.  The bug would take several random forms, possibly hanging the window or not completing a customization task but most in most cases there would be no visible sign of the problem, just a message in the system log files.  All is fixed now.

Convert Blends

Added the ability to convert blends into individual paths or lines.  This lets one use the blend capability as an interactive form of advanced duplicate, for linear duplication tasks.  The blend function can generate a family of curves transitioning across a small set of defining curves.  The new capability, found on the "convert to" submenu, allows the full family of curves to be "ungrouped" for individual management and editing.  This is also useful for complex illustrations, the individual paths may behave better for scaling and distortion as a nested grouped component.  The individual curve may in some cases draw more quickly as well, in the case where thousands of curves might be in use.

Graphic Details Limits

Added minimum limits for several parameters on the Graphic Details drawer.  It was reported that a zero-radius circle would cause KeyNote to crash when exported.  This problem is found with several other graphics, for example a zero width rectangle.  Therefore minimum limits are now in place for several parameters.  However, in some cases very small values might be required, for example a small dot of a circle.  To allow entering very small values EazyDraw sets the minimum limit in accordance with the zoom of the drawing.  Therefore, if a very small value is needed for a parameter it may be necessary to zoom in on the graphic before entering the value.

Import ClarisDraw Libraries

Corrected problem importing ClarisDraw libraries.  The problem was related to library graphics that included text.  This is now corrected, we have imported several large complex libraries that have been submitted by users.  The ClarisDraw Library import is now quite robust.

MacDraw File Convert

Corrected import issue with MacDrawPro drawings.  The problem was with certain forms of Bezier paths that contained vertex points with no control points.  This seems to be a rather rare construct, one needs to know to option click a control point in the reshape mode in MacDrawPro in order to even create one of these curves.  So the problem probably did not appear for most users.  All is corrected now.

EazyDraw Version 2.5.1c ---- January 27, 2008

Attributes Toolbar, Charting and Graphing Tools, 512 based Icons, improved PDF ungroup, Multi-Rep TIFF export (for developers), Hex Grid for Game Design, New Scale Worksheet.

Attributes Toolbar

Improved performance of the new Attributes Bar, when text is selected.  Users of slower PowerPC CPU's reported sluggishness when using the Attributes Bar.  The updating of the attributes for text has been optimized to minimize CPU load in this situation.  Please note that the Attributes Bar has the newer Leopard appearance, to maintain Tiger compatibility EazyDraw needs to simulate the buttons and their detailed gradients when running on Tiger.  This takes a fair amount of CPU load, and may be noticeable on an older PowerPC.  PowerPC - Tiger users should consider upgrading to Leopard or turning off the Attributes Bar.  Of course, for performance and stability the Leopard upgrade is strongly advised for all situations.

New Default Toolbar

We have a new default toolbar configuration.  This configuration compliments the Attributes Bar better than the previous toolbar, some elements previously in the default toolbar are now present in the Attributes Bar, allowing other elements to be added to the main toolbar.  If you have used EazyDraw before you will not see the new default configuration and you may want to customize your toolbar or customize and move the new default configuration to your toolbar.

French Localization

Additions and corrections for French localization.  Dash and Arrow palettes formatted better for the French labels and wording.  Export panel localized fully now.  Fully tested on Tiger and Leopard using the French user interface.  Corrected issues with Open AppleWorks files, using French interface, the open dialog would not show the option to select another file type for Open: now all works properly.  Further work on the French PDF manual is now available, this project is still not complete.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Corrected a possible "unexpectedly quit" that could occur when applying a transfer property (shadow, or gradient for example) from a library.  These are the property library elements that are placed in a user library using the small LL icon found on parameter palettes.  The unexpectedly quit would happen when applying the property from the library to a graphic in a drawing.  All is corrected now, the Library property transfers all work as documented now.

Improved the Keynote export.  Support for arrows has been added.  Corrected possible position errors for lines when exporting just graphics rather than full drawing area, now lines are precisely positioned in all situations.

Fixed a problem on Dash panel, the default list of defined named dashes was not provided.  Now the menu has 8 named dash patterns properly listed and available for use.

Fixed pasting images into MS Word and other older technology applications that prefer the Classic PICT data format.  Images often would paste up-side-down.  A vertical flip was added, this should correct the issue, if unwanted flips are noted please report the problem.

Changed behavior of including an anti-aliasing border when exporting bitmaps.  If anti-aliasing is on and you select to just export graphics, or selected graphics, a 2 pixel border is included to allow anti-aliasing of outside edges of the graphics.  This is not desirable in some cases such as creating a background image for a web site where the image may be tiled, as an undesired white border will be present on each tiled image.  The border is not included if you export "Full Drawing Area" and now it is also eliminated if anti-aliasing is turned off.  Previously the border was still included when exporting just graphics without anti-aliasing, this was logically inconsistent.

Corrected rare annoyance associated with the pattern and gradient toolbar tools.  The problem was that the use of one of these tools could inadvertently change the temporary default for a pattern or gradient, then new graphics would have a gradient or pattern.  Then it would be necessary to open the Gradient panel and turn off gradient so that new graphics would draw without the gradient, (or pattern).  This was rare but annoying.  All is fixed now.  The toolbar tools can be used freely without worry of this happening.

Corrected problem on EazyDraw Preferences, restore all to Factory would not close the pull down panel.  This is fixed now.

Corrected problem with the new modified circle graphic, it was possible to set the minor radius larger than the radius on the Graphic Details drawer.  This could then prevent the file from opening.  This is corrected, and files saved with this error are now senses and corrected so that they are opened properly and the inconsistency is corrected.

Corrected possible problem using independent scales for different layers.  If the scale panel was not open the grid could draw incorrectly when linked to rulers.  All corrected now.

EazyDraw Version 2.5.0 ---- January 4, 2008

Attributes Toolbar, Charting and Graphing Tools, 512 based Icons, improved PDF ungroup, Multi-Rep TIFF export (for developers), Hex Grid for Game Design, New Scale Worksheet.

Attributes Toolbar

A new Attributes Toolbar is now available.  It is a mini toolbar located at the top of the drawing area, above rulers and below the main toolbar.  It is accessed from a menu selection at the bottom of the View main menu, you can turn it on / off from there.  The preference control for showing the toolbar on new drawings is found on the Page Layout palette.  Documentation is complete (EazyDraw Help, but not the PDF manual at this time) use search phrase "toolbar" to learn more, we refer to it as the "attributes toolbar".  This toolbar is actually a family of toolbars, they are context sensitive, they change when graphics are selected or deselected.  The tools shown are chosen to be relevant to the selected graphics on the drawing.  This feature is similar to the mini toolbar found in the iWork '08 suite (Pages '08 and Numbers '08), use of these tools should be natural for iWork08 users.

Scale Worksheet

There is a new Scale Worksheet, access it from your Scale palette or the new attributes toolbar.  The worksheet helps arrive at a proper scale for a scaled technical drawing.  It interactively displays the relationship between your choice of paper size and the dimensions of the project.  A great help for both a novice that may need assistance in understanding how a scaled drawing will work, and the expert planning a project and presentation format.

512 icons

All new 512 based icons for the application, drawing files, and library files.  These were drawn with EazyDraw and saved in the updated OS X, Apple Icon Image format so that they look great on Leopard.

Charting and Graphing Axis Tools

New charting and graphing tools on the Technical Tools palette, near the bottom, are now complete.  These now have full support on the the Graphic Details drawer and Help documentation is now complete .  There are 4 new axis and grid tools to be used as integral components of a graph or chart.  They consist of an integrated tick-mark, a compound text label graphic, rectangular grid, and hexagon grid.  They can be used to build axes and labels for chart graphics.  These have been highly optimized to display quickly.  It is better to use one of these compound graphics, especially for text-label sequence, compared to a conventional group array of text or tick marks. To learn more use these search phrases in EazyDraw Help: "graphing tools", "text labels", "grid tools".

Unjoin Bezier

Added new command to Unjoin a Bezier path or curve.  This will separate segments of a complex path at points where the path jumps (MoveTo segments) from one stroked portion of the path to another.  This is useful and recommended when complex paths have been imported into an EazyDraw drawing.  This situation is found when text is converted to Bezier or stylized.  It also occurs with ungrouped PDF files, and is common for PDF files that originate from AutoCad.  You may think of it as one more level of ungrouping available in these situations.  An example might be a semi-colon, this would let one separate the two marks of the semi-colon.  It is found on the Tools main menu, Convert submenu.  If a complex path is not converting as desired, use this new Unjoin then attempt the convert.

Hex Grid

Hex grid tool on Technical Tool palette is now complete with Graphic Details support.  The grid can be rotated and fully adjusted with respect to the origin.  The sides can be extended or shortened for different appearance.  When fully extended an isosceles triangle grid is attained.  Documentation is complete.

Multi-Rep TIFF Export

Added the ability to export multi-representation TIFF files.  This format is the new Apple standard for application images and icons.  The format is a tiff file but it actually contains two tiff images, one at the requested DPI resolution and a second at 4x the DPI resolution.  These will become important as Leopard moves onto higher resolution displays (think HD) in the future.  This is of primary interest to software developers drawing buttons and icons for Mac and web applications.  There is an example of one of these TIFF files in the examples folder, Preview displays the files and shows the two resolutions.  TIFF Export now provides color space control.  RGB, RGBA, CMYK, and CMYKA are supported.  The DPI for TIFF saved files is now saved with the file so that the file opens with a proper nominal size in Adobe applications.

Improved PDF Ungroup

Improved the speed of PDF ungroup, the improvement can be quite significant (100-1000 fold) for some complex PDF images.  Corrected problem opening a drawing that was the result of a PDF ungroup - the first time after the ungroup; opening would take a very long time for large PDF - fixed now, opening time is normal for the size of the file.  Improved PDF ungroup in several respects, it now handles PDF files that originated from AutoCad more intelligently, more quickly, and with better results.

Problems Addressed

Corrected a detail point on the export of TIFF graphic files.  Now the physical size of the image is properly represented with respect to the Dots Per Inch (DPI) that was specified when saving the file.  The correction does not actually change or improve the bitmap image, but other applications such as Photoshop will now show the image at a more representative size.

Corrected entering lengths in the Graphics Details drawer when units and fractions were in use.  In some cases the length entered, if it had a fraction, could become about 10 times larger than the value entered .  This is fixed now.

Improved the Convert To Lines for complex paths.  Now disjoined jumps in a complex path do not confuse the conversion.  Previously one could see extra lines added at these jumps.

Corrected problem on Graphic Details drawer, when entering the radius for an Arc and completing with a Tab key, if Tab was hit again the radius would go to zero.  Problem is now corrected, two tabs hit in succession now simply advance the entry point to the next then the next text fields on the Graphic Details drawer.  All fixed now.

Corrected bug setting text alignment for larger text blocks with multiple font styles and sizes.

Corrected problem with palette layout selection at launch of EazyDraw.  The problem was that a user defined palette layout for launch would be respected only on every-other launch.  Corrected now, any selection for Palettes At Launch, EazyDraw preferences, is now respected each launch.

Corrected rare problem that was possible on Leopard, not Tiger, that would result in a bad drawing window opened when EazyDraw was launched.  The bad window would not display and not respond to key clicks and could not be closed.  This is fixed now.

The French PDF manual has been updated, it is still not complete, the work is still in progress.  The newest version has updated figures and more pages complete.  It is in the International folder.

Improved AppleWorks import, main improvement relates to images that were imported into AppleWorks.  .  In some cases the size of the image was not correctly reproduced in the EazyDraw drawing, more situations are now handled properly.

Version 2.4.1 Items follow...

AppleWorks 6 Import

This release introduces support for native AppleWorks drawing files, AppleWorks version 6.x.  This is a full import, all AppleWorks content is converted corresponding EazyDraw shapes and accents.  Use the normal Open panel, the Insert menu, or drag and drop a file onto an open EazyDraw drawing window to convert an AppleWorks drawing to its EazyDraw counterpart.  Support is provided only for the Drawing and Painting files.  Drawing files contain vector information and may be fully edited as a normal EazyDraw drawing. Painting files are imported, and they will look better when displayed with EazyDraw's true OS X foundation, but they are bitmaps and are not editable as vector content.

The import supports colors, patterns, wallpaper and gradient accents.  The Open panel has an option to direct EazyDraw to install these accents as proper OS X colors so that they may be used by EazyDraw and other Cocoa applications on OS X.  EazyDraw paired with iWork now provides an excellent migration path from AppleWorks to iWork '08, Leopard and future versions of OS X.  More Info: AppleWorks Import .

DXF Import

DXF import is now operational.  This is the primary purpose of this public beta, we need users to try the import and provide us with feedback concerning problems or AutoCad elements that may require further work.  This is a full AutoCad DXF import that supports a broad range of AutoCad drawing constructs; including support for layers, DXF hatches, dimensions, colors, dashed lines, arrow heads, and text.  Each of these elements is converted to the corresponding graphic content of a native EazyDraw drawing. 

Use the normal "Open" panel to import the DXF drawings.  The DXF filter is selected from the popup menu at the bottom of the Open panel.  The drawing needs to have the ".dxf" extension.  We are asking that users provide us with feedback to any issues noted with the import.  If a drawing does not convert we would like to receive the dxf original drawing by email - all content of supplied drawings will be kept in confidence and the drawing will be deleted from our systems after the conversion problem is isolated.  If a conversion should cause EazyDraw to unexpectedly quit, we would like to receive the system log file that reports the failure. Thanks in advance for all assistance.  Documentation is not complete for this new feature.

EazyDraw is intended to comply with the 2-d portions of the AutoCAD standard definitions for the DXF format versions 2004, 2000/LT2000, and R12/LT2. We will use AutoCad 2004 running on Windows XP as the "gold standard" for evaluating import and export of these files.

Distribute Along

This version adds Distribute Along support, at the request of many Canvas users that have migrated to EazyDraw.  The feature is accessed via menu commands, the Align palette does not yet provide access to these actions (next release).  Distribute Along is found on the Format main menu, Align and Size submenu.  This action will distribute an number of graphics along the path of a master graphic.  The master graphic is the first one selected, it is marked in the standard way with a center mark that is not shown for the other graphics of a selection. 

An example would be to distribute several rectangles along a line.  To do this select the line first then the rectangles, then select the desired Distribute Along action from the menu.  There are individual menu commands for positioning various defining points of the distributed graphics, for example Top Left, or Center.  The Grid reference point may be used, see the documentation on "Align To Grid" to understand the use of this reference point. 

The process requires a determination of the Order of arrangement for the distributed graphics, this is managed by menu item selection; nearest, or top-to-bottom for example.  It is also possible to orient the distributed graphics, these selections are found at the bottom of the new submenu. The orientation is relative to the tangent of the master graphic's path - at the point of distribution.  Documentation is not complete for this new feature.

Axis Labels and Ticks

Added 4 new axis and grid tools to the Technical Tool palette.  They are found on the bottom row of the palette.  They consist of an integrated tick-mark, label graphic, rectangular grid, and hexagon grid. They can be used to build axes and labels for chart graphics.  They are fully operational in the drawing and interactive editing mode.  They are not yet supported on the Graphic Details drawer and documentation is not complete.

Grid Graphics - Rectangular and Hexagon

Two independent grid graphics are now available on the Technical tool palette, near the bottom.  These are used to automatically draw and manage a full drawing grid.  There are interactive controls for adjusting the spacing and phase of the grid, horizontal and vertical spacing is independent.  The Hexagonal grid has adjustment for spacing, phase and angle.  Documentation is not complete a this time.  Graphic Details support is not provided with this release.  These are fully capable graphics, they will accept line weight, stoke color, fill, and dashed line attributes in the normal fashion.

D-Slot Tools

Added new D-Slot tools to the Technical Tool palette.  These are shapes made by combining a circle and one or two straight sides.  They are a rather common shape that is often constructed with a circle and two rectangles or other drawing tricks. The shapes provided make it much easier to construct and manage these shapes when needed.  They are fully operational in the drawing and interactive editing mode.  They are not yet supported on the Graphic Details drawer and documentation is not complete.

Previous (late summer 2007) Additions and Fixes

Below are the most recent additions and corrections that were made to the last release of EazyDraw.

Selection Menu

Added a selection submenu to the View main menu.  These menu commands correspond to the buttons on the Selection Tools palette, enclose, touch enclose, back, .... .  This was requested to allow the assignment of shortcut keys to the different selection modes and tools.  Unfortunate that we did not think to do this sooner, but it in place at this time.  These were tested with the Menu Keys preferences dialog, everything works as expected.  It is now possible to short-cut assign these functions.

Independent Layer Scale

Corrected problem opening a drawing that had independent layer scales.  This bug crept into one of the recent releases.  The independent scales for the layers reverted to the scale of the Paper layer.  In some cases this change would not be noticeable, unless one explicitly revisited a layer with a different scale.  All works correctly now.

Grouping Dimensions

Made several corrections to grouping of attached dimensions, that are included in the group.  Previously these had a tendency to become detached from the target graphic.  This would mean that if the group was ungrouped, the the dimensions would need to be manually re-attached.  This debugging sessions lead to other subtle corrections of grouped dimensions and connectors.  All should work much better now.  One behavior change: when moving a dimension the attache ends of the dimension are no longer "active", they will not attach to target graphics.  One needs to move an end explicitly to have it seek and attach to objects.  This means that if a dimension is attached at one end, a move will leave that end attached and only move the free end.  Again: to attach, or detach a dimension end, the end needs to be move as a single point explicitly.

Snap Reference

Fixed problem with the default setting for the Snap To Grid position.  This was always going to top-left, even if you had changed your default setting.  Corrected now, behavior is the same as the default management for other panels.

Time Stamps

Added the ability to remove the title prefix to a text stamp, time stamps and page stamps.  If un-checked there will be no descriptive prefix to the time stamp (or page stamp).  The time shown will be just the raw time as applies to the stamp, last save or last change ... .  This would mean that the user prefix should be used to avoid confusion.  So this is now fully under user control.  The default is still to include the hard wired label prefix.

MacDraw and ClarisDraw

Made minor improvements to the ClarisDraw and MacDraw imports.  The corrections related to rotated arcs, the rotation was using the EazyDraw conventions and the results were incorrect.  These stay at their intended locations now.

LinkBack Improved

Corrected problems with LinkBack editing.  The problems related to closing and active LinkBack edit window when the drawing was edited but not saved or published.  All is tested and works now.

Services Menu Support

Updated the Services interface.  EazyDraw now responds more intelligently to a wider variety of items that one might find on the Services menu.  In particular the services provided by LaTexIt are now fully supported.  You may enter LaTex code in an EazyDraw text box and call LaTexIt from the services menu.  The LaTex code is then sent to LaTexIt and the returned fully typeset result is pasted into your drawing, replacing the original text.  This replacement is provided with full LinkBack support, that means that you may edit the original source text by simply double clicking the LaTexIt result in the EazyDraw drawing.  To learn more, study the LinkBack documentation in the EazyDraw Help system or the PDF manual.

Flip Horizontal

Corrected possible problems with Flip-Horizontal.  In some cases this would cause EazyDraw to Unexpectedly Quit.  They have been corrected.

Custom Tool Palettes

User libraries now accept tools dragged from any EazyDraw tool palette.  This allows one to create a fully custom tool palette by populating a library with the desired tools.  Switch the library to the Icon mode and then the palette may be re-sized to a desired form vertical or horizontal.  These tool palettes now accept parameter sets, there is a new small gray icon found on the top right of parameter palettes drag that icon to a library tool palette and the new tool will apply the parameter set when clicked.  Custom library/tool palettes will accept user drawn icons, use the Name library display form to drag and drop any graphic on the icon-button found lower right of the graphic display at the top of the library palette in when in the name form.

User Libraries

User created libraries are now available.  Direct import of Claris Draw libraries is now operational - use the normal "Open Library" command found on the File main menu.  Documentation is complete for these new features.  Use the search phrase "User Libraries" to access the EazyDraw Help pages for this topic.  However, the Library capability is fully operational and tested.  Please report any bugs or issues with this new feature.  You may create your own libraries with the "New Library" option found on the File main menu.  You may open directly Claris Draw libraries, they then may be saved as EazyDraw libraries.  Any graphic may be inserted in a library with drag and drop from an EazyDraw drawing or with the Add button ( a + key ) found near the bottom of the Library palette.  There are 3 modes for a library, Name, Element, and Icon.  The first two are largely self explanatory, the Icon mode converts the library palette into a normal EazyDraw tool palette, just like Charting the Stellate palette.  In the Icon mode, apply your tools in the normal "select tool, click on drawing, and drag" fashion.  Library elements work closely with the new Transfer palette - see paragraph below.

Read Claris Draw Libraries

This version will open Claris Draw libraries directly.  Open them directly with the Library Open feature at the top of the new Library main menu.  Any Claris Draw library that you have either created or purchased will open and behave just as a normal EazyDraw user library.

Transfer Palette

A new Transfer palette is added to the EazyDraw user interface.  It controls the behavior of a graphic when it is dragged and dropped (or copy->pasted) to another drawing.  This palette is designed primarily to be used with Library graphic elements, but is also works on any graphic in a normal drawing.  The concept of transfer provided to control how and which attributes of a graphic are carried with the graphic when it is added to a new drawing.  For example a shape may be added to a drawing from a library, but an associated gradient fill may not be desired and hence turned off for the Transfer.  A major application of this capability is to apply a graphic's attributes rather than the graphic.  For the previous example, the converse is possible - the Gradient Fill of the library element may be applied to target graphics, independent of the actual graphic or its shape.  Documentation is complete for this palette, use the search phrase "Transfer" to access the Help pages for this topic.

Drag Parameter Sets

Parameter palettes now have a new small gray icon at the top left.  This may be used to drag the parameter set to a user tool palette.  This method is used to install parameter set tools on user tool palettes.  For example a gradient fill my be dragged to a tool palette, then the particular gradient fill is applied to a target graphic with a simple click of the tool.  These tools may be dragged and dropped on a target graphic, or clicked when the target graphic is selected.

Formatting for Graphic Details

This version has significantly expanded inspection and data entry capability of the Graphic Details drawer.  There is now full user control over formatting of the numeric text data fields on the Graphic Details drawer.  It is now possible to control the number of digits of precision, and several other formating options such as the inclusion of units, use decimal or fractions, and presentation of lengths as feet and inches for English units based drawings.  Input of data now allows specification of units including feet and inches.  For feet and inches input, use the single and double quote punctuation notation.  For any other units, use the abbreviations such as cm, mm, m, in, ft, etc.  Full control over the definition and presentation of angles as Degrees or Radians is provided with several other formatting options for angles.  Help tips for numeric values on the Graphic Details drawer now show values as alternate units or with added precision, control is provided on the Tips tab of the new Graphic Details formatting panel.  The new capability is accessed by opening the Graphic Details drawer and de-selecting all graphics.  When the drawer is open and no graphics are selected, the new formatting options are available on the Graphic Details drawer.  Documentation of this new capability is complete for the EazyDraw Help content, click the question mark - Help button that is shown on this new Graphic details panel to access full documentation.

PDF from TexShop

Corrected problems importing PDF content from TexShop and other components of the MacTeX distribution.  The problem manifested itself as ghosts of extended PDF images.  TexShop exports a full PDF document with each image clip, the export information specifies a small clipping box to limit the visible portion of the document to the specified clip area.  EazyDraw was not respecting the clipping information in all cases.  All is correct now, inserted PDF content displays only the intended visible portion and exports present the proper visible area.  A note:.  if your master TexShop PDF typeset original is large, each clip is a copy of the full master original, so if several clips are inserted the EazyDraw drawing can become a rather large file - it will compress though due to the repetition.

Launch and data save checks

Added two fail-safe checks to assure that EazyDraw is operating correctly.  Two situations have been encountered where 3rd party software has damaged OS X and subsequently caused unstable behavior in EazyDraw.  One issue is with SpellCatcherX, it may damage the OS X spell checking technology and subsequently cause EazyDraw to fail to successfully save a drawing.  Second issue is a possible damaged system Font panel caused by the application Sketchup; Sketchup erroneously supplies a private color swatch (Class: SketchupColor ) to the public Font panel, this in turn causes other applications that use the OS X system Font panel to fail without warning, this manifests itself as an unsuccessful launch of EazyDraw which causes erratic behavior of EazyDraw.  Both problems cause similar erratic behavior for Safari, Mail, TextEdit and other OS X Cocoa applications.  EazyDraw can not recover from these problems, but it now posts a "serious error" warning message.

Keynote Export Improvements

Improved the Keynote export capability.  Reversed the order of slides when exporting layers as slides, this makes the workflow from ClarisDraw to EazyDraw to Keynote consistent with respect to slide ordering.  The Keynote export fixes involved insulating EazyDraw against corrupt zero size graphics.  This could happen when importing from ClarisDraw.  Now EazyDraw replaces these in the KeyNote export file as a red rectangle or red crossed lines.

Improved Morph

Added ability to control the scaling of dash patterns and arrows to the Morph panel.  Now these may be checked and applied just as Line Width is provided as a control for a general scaling.

Double click to add text

A double click on a vacant area of a drawing now automatically adds a Text Box and enables the new Text Box for text input.  In short: double click to add text.

Change to click and select

Changed the behavior for selecting graphics in some situations.  You now may need to be closer to path of graphic with an outline.  This helps prevent large looping graphics from selecting and moving when trying to select interior graphics with a click and drag motion.

Improved convert to image

Improved and changed the behavior for converting some graphics to images.  Groups and Free Transforms had several potential problems that were corrected, now all of these convert properly to an image.  Now convert to image depends on the degree of zoom at the time of the convert.  If you are zoomed in, the image will be higher quality (and of course larger so be careful with larger graphics).  If zoomed out the image will be lower quality or more of a thumbnail.  This helps a lot with Text and larger groups.  This means that you may convert a large text box to a simple image and improve speed with a level of quality that is now under your control.  Larger groups will convert to image in the same fashion, this can be used to improve responsiveness for very large drawings.  The technique of converting to an image should be more useful now.

Select All - Qualification

Now if you click a graphic tool the perform a select all, the select all action just selects graphics of the kind of the clicked tool.  In other words to select all text, click the text tool then select all.

Bug fixes

Corrected problems with EPS export.  In some cases export content was shifted and possibly clipped.  These are now corrected.

Corrected problem with the Revert To Saved command.  This became broken on more recent versions of Tiger.  It is now working correctly again.

Corrected problem rotating Text counter clockwise.  Text flipping, on the Transform submenu, was rotating clockwise for both the clockwise and counter clockwise menu command.  Now all works as it should.

Corrected problems rotating, from the Transform Flip submenu, group graphics with text and PDF content.  Results were not as complete as were obtained from the rotate tool or the full Morph panel.  Now all forms of rotate behave as expected with embedded grouped text and PDF content.

Added ability to apply and Interactive Scale, Uniform Scale and Freeze to text graphics.  Interactive state is found on the Interactive submenu of the Format main menu.  These were not allowed before.  Users found a work-around to first apply Free Transform interactive level then apply Freeze or other interactive states.  This extra step is no longer needed.  A potential problem with Free Transform Text when the Align-To-Grid palette was open was also fixed.  Freeze, removes all resize and scaling ability from a graphic.

Added conversion capability to convert normal text to annotation text and the reverse, convert annotations to normal text.

Area is now reported on the Graphic Details drawer.  This is found near the bottom of the Graphic Details drawer.  It reports area when a single graphic is selected that has a defined area.

Added ability for Select All to focus on graphics of a particular type.  If a creation tool is selected, then Select All will select all graphics of the active Tool's type.  For example, to select all text, click the "T" for Text tool button then execute a Select All.

Corrected problem specifying the location of dimensions for Walls.  The "Inside", "Center", or "Outside" selection on the Walls palette was not working.  The only way to set this parameter was via the Graphics Details Drawer.  This is now fixed and both methods of setting this parameter now work.

Corrected problem exporting EPS.  It was possible that the export would drop graphics near the top or left of a drawing when rulers enabled.  This is now corrected, no missing graphics on EPS export.

Corrected problems relating to the new bitmap shadows when applied to an image or photo, such as a JPG or PDF.  This would also show up if the image was encapsulated with an Interaction level.  In many cases the bug would cause the drawing to lock up and become unusable.  It is now corrected and all forms of shadows can now be applied to image graphics.

Further improvements on handling double click on a file to launch EazyDraw.  If the file was complex or contained dimensions, EazyDraw the drawing window could be corrupted.  The display of the window was incomplete..  It is now corrected and all files should open properly upon double click, with EazyDraw running or launched on double click.

Corrected possible problem with Gradient Fill palette and the recently added Named Gradients popup menu.  In rare situations this popup menu would be de-activated.  Now works properly.