iCalamus 1.26 - Changelog

What's new in iCalamus 1.26:

March 7th, 2012

· Fix: A core method for copying objects got a major bug fix which should increase overall stability of the program.
· Fix: A rare crash could occur when using the mouse pointer to handle text ruler elements.
· New: The OEM stopper dialog in OEM and Mac App Store versions of iCalamus can now be suppressed, avoiding any personal registration.

What's new in iCalamus 1.25:

February 27th, 2012

Photographerbook:
· Fix: Photographerbook no longer offers print lacquer. Therefore, we have disabled the relevant options in the Document Service inspector for now.
· Fix: [691]: Minor text adjustments.

Misc:
· Fix: A new untitled document will be created when no document is opened and the running app has been double-clicked or re-activated by a click on the app icon in the Dock. (This is the expected behaviour for document-based applications as requested by Apple's User Interface Guide.)
· Fix: Scroll bars now are always visible in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
· New: Spanish A Spanish version of iCalamus is also available, localized by Manuel Angel Amaro Carmona.

What's new in iCalamus 1.24:

February 2nd, 2011

Photographerbook:
· Fix: Shipping costs for Photographerbook deliveries to France have been updated.
· Fix: [684]: Aperture book names are no longer swapped.

Text Ruler Inspector:
· Fix: [688]: Text ruler list entries can be dragged by mouse in the Inspector view.

Misc:
· Fix: [479]: App serialization no longer fails when write access is missing.

What's new in iCalamus 1.23:

November 24th, 2010

· Photographerbook - New: PDF Import Assistant enhanced for iPhoto.
· Misc - Fix: Various tiny bugs fixed.

What's new in iCalamus 1.22:

November 16th, 2010

Photographerbook:
· New: PDF Import Assistant enhanced.
· New: Some Photographerbook plug-in dialogs adjusted.

Misc:
· Fix: Various tiny bugs fixed.

What's new in iCalamus 1.21:

November 9th, 2010

· New: iPhoto 11 is now supported.
· New: Aperture 3 is now supported.
· New: A new PDF Import Assistant makes creating and ordering photo books and calendars from iPhoto and Aperture much easier.

What's new in iCalamus 1.20:

March 31st, 2010

· Operating System Compatibility

· New: [650], [651]: Snow Leopard is now supported.Snow Leopard
· Fix: Many memory leaks fixed.

· Photographerbook

· New: [655]: iPhoto 09 is now supported.
· New: Leather books can be ordered.
· New: Books can get book corners and wadded covers.
· New: Books pages can get UV lacquer on both front and back sides.
· New: Photographerbook's product prices have been lowered up to 40%.
· Fix: Document uploads > 2GB are no longer allowed, due to PDF standards which do not allow larger PDF documents.

· Document Views

· Fix: [639]: Images without embedded dpi resolution are no longer re-scaled to 72dpi by default.

· Text Style Inspector

· New: [644]: Dialog "Edit Text Style" redesigned and enhanced.
· New: [79]: The dialog "Edit Text Style" shows a font preview now, using all available text style parameters.

· Edit Text Style

· Text Ruler Inspector

· New: [640]: New function "Create and Apply Text Ruler Styles from Selection" in the action menu.

· Enhanced text ruler functions
· New: [641]: Dialog "Edit Text Ruler" redesigned and enhanced.

· Edit Text Ruler

· Text System

· Fix: [252], [253], [469], [658]: Text formatting rewritten and enhanced.
· Fix: [593]: Text frames with page text field contents can be copied in all available methods correctly.
· Fix: [610]: Text frames with text field contents can be vectorized.

· GUI

· New: [418]: Three new Toolbar icons are available now: Document Grid, Page Guides, and Frame Guides. These three icons are equivalents for the relevant View menu items.

· Toolbar Symbols
· New: [609]: Windows menu offers a Zoom entry now.
· New: [642]: New View sub menu added to Context menus. It reflects the three View menu items: "Show Document Grid", "Show Frame Guides", "Show Page Guides".

· Document page context menu
· New: Swedish A Swedish version of iCalamus is also available now, localized by Karl-Johan Norén.
· New: [671]: The Preferences window dispenses with the still redundant switch "Show All".

What's new in iCalamus 1.16:

April 25th, 2009

Photographerbook:
· New: [628]: Photographerbook documents (including iPhoto documents) no longer output a "Watermark" (Preview) on local printers or when saved as PDF, when you use the registered version of iCalamus.
· Text edit mode context menu: Insert Text Field
· Fix: [638]: Issue with 'Insert File Creation Date' and 'Insert File Modification Date' in unsaved documents solved.

GUI:
· New: A Polish version of iCalamus is also available now, localized by MichaÅ‚ NaskrÄ™t, MichaÅ‚ MikoÅ‚ajewski, Patryk DomagaÅ‚a and Dominik SieciÅ„ski. pl
· New: [624]: Menus for 'New Shape Object' and 'New Line Object' now show a line between simple and dynamic objects.
· New: [625]: Frame Inspector: Outline section redesigned to clarify things.
· Fix: [615]: Undo/Redo action names are shown again in the Edit menu.
· Fix: [620]: Popup menu issue in dialog 'New Document' fixed.
· Fix: [623]: Dialog cosmetics in 'Parameters for Double Circle Arc' fixed. en
· Fix: [630]: Typos in tooltips fixed. fr
· Fix: [633]: Typo in Context menu fixed. fr

What's new in iCalamus 1.15:

November 6th, 2008

Document:
· New: [579]: iCalamus allows two pages in the unregistered version now.
· New: [339]: The new text fields "Fixed Date" and "Total Number of Pages" offer further simplifications for your document layout.
· Fix: [553]: Page numbering bugs have been fixed.

Printing:
· New: [580]: Print output in unregistered iCalamus version only prints a "watermark" line on the second page, no more on the first page.

GUI:
· New: [183]: The input field "Font Size" in the Text Inspector has been enlarged by popular request. Furthermore, you can now change the current font size using a slider which changes it in 1pt intervals from 9pt to 72pt. Other values can still be entered in the input field, of course.
· New: [481]: When a new image frame is created or image data have been imported somehow into a frame, the relevant frame is set proportional now by default.
· New: [578]: All "lite edition" descriptions are removed from GUI to avoid irritation. There is only one iCalamus, registered or unregistered.
· Fix: [86]: The tabulator choice fields in the upper right area of text rulers now show tooltips.
· Fix: [577]: Click on red closer button in iPhoto Import dialog could crash or freeze iCalamus.
· Fix: [583]: The multiple selector in the dialog "Edit Text Style" now show tooltips.
· Fix: [587]: All menu items of the Zoom sub menu in the View menu and all Context menus have been synchronized; those in the View menu show tool tips now.
· Fix: [590]: Menu entries which are not supported by Mac OS X for a localized language, are now localized by iCalamus.
· Fix: [600]: The function "Send Message" also transfers the iCalamus version informations to help the support giving better recommendations.
· Fix: [602]: The text field "Current Date" will be updated automatically when applied in the dialog "Edit Text Field" and when you save the docment.
· Fix: [603]: Date text fields are recognized correctly in the dialog "Edit Text Field".
· Fix: [606]: Menu entries in the context sub menu "Insert Text Field" and in the dialog "Edit Text Field" have been resorted and synchronized.

Frame Inspector:
· Fix: [594]: The corner symbols for outline line styles in the "Outline" section can be recognized much better.

Page Inspector:
· Fix: [385]: To avoid page movings by mistake, you have to confirm an alert first.

What's new in iCalamus 1.14:

September 12th, 2008

· Fix: [571]: Too large auto-generated images (blends, shadows) could cause iCalamus to hang due to missing RAM.
· Fix: Internal corrections for iPhoto Calendar and iPhoto Book production.
· New: iCalamus menu and Help menu have been redesigned.
· iCalamus menu
· New: iCalamus lite versions now ask for registration on launch and quit.
· New: [480]: The dialog "About iCalamus" shows user name and serial number.
· Fix: [561]: Document Service popup menu in "New Document" dialog works normal again.
· Fix: [562]: All multiple selectors in all available inspectors now show tooltips.
· Fix: [569]: "Check For Updates" shows the "What's New?" information in the currently used iCalamus language.
· New: [566]: Color Inspector chapter now gives information about web colors and web color edit field.

What's new in iCalamus 1.1.3:

June 14th, 2008

· New: iPhoto documents can be imported like iPhoto calendars into iCalamus a Photographerbook documents and be printed external at the Photographerbook company.
· iPhoto Books - New: [523]: iCalamus documents support Quick Look now.
· iPhoto Books - Fix: [546]: Content of Image frames could disappear on next loading of document.
· iPhoto Books - Fix: [544]: Saving templates no longer creates multiple backup files.
· iPhoto Books - Fix: [543]: When creating new documents from Templates, the template images could get lost.
· iPhoto Books - Fix: [542]: Error »Couldn't create image sources from URI!« fixed.
· iPhoto Books - Fix: [541]: Copied images were duplicated in document bundle on document saving.
· Text Inspector - Fix: [554]: The text attribute »Outlined« can be used again.
· Textruler Inspector - Fix: [452]: Fixed a bug in certain ruler/text style assignments.
· GUI - New: Latvian A Latvian version of iCalamus is also available now, localized by M?rti?? Zemzaris.
· GUI - New: [371]: Column sorting in the »External Plug-Ins« dialog has been optimized.
· GUI - New: [418]: The Toolbar in the document window offers some redesigned and new function buttons.
· Toolbar - New: [550]: The View menu offers two new menu entries: »Show/Hide Toolbar« and »Customize Toolbar«.
· Toolbar - Fix: [552]: Preferences window no longer offers the »Show/Hide Toolbar« button (Apple standards).

What's new in iCalamus 1.1.2:

May 22nd, 2008

· File Handling
· NEW: Memory management enhancements for images and shadows, which cause e.g. faster document loading and less RAM usage on print.
· Fix: 538: Deleted images are no longer saved in the document.
· Fix: 535: iPhoto images are also foun when they are not placed in the default path ~/Images.
· Fix: 536: After data have been merged into the document from the clipboard, the document view no longer switches to the page center but stays as set before.
· Fix: 533: EPS files with Mac OS X identifier 'EPSF' can be placed and imported again.
· Fix: 517: Documents from iCalamus versions older than iCalamus v1.10 could not be saved in iCalamus v1.11.
· Inspectors
· Fix: 532: Error in Frame Inspector initialization fixed which could cause that options in the Frame Inspector subgroups could not be selected.
· Text Editing
· Fix: 519: Page Number text fields didn't work due to a bug in Mac OS X Leopard.
· LinkBack
· Fix: 531: Data transfer from »Art Text« via LinkBack no longer crashes iCalamus.
· GUI
· NEW: New 'Quick start' chapter in the manual explains: How to create a black background in photo books.
· NEW: 219, 343: A progress bar visualizes loading and saving of large documents.
· Several menu items have been adjusted to used standards, e.g. by TextEdit (German version).
· Redraw bug under Leopard on tools usage fixed.
· Quotation marks and ellipsis formatting fit to typographical criteria (German version).

What's new in iCalamus 1.1.1:

November 20th, 2007

· NEW: iCalamus user Sergio Febo has done an Italian localization it of iCalamus.
· NEW: The Content inspector offers realtime resolution control for placed images and warns if the print resolution is too low – smart help for all users who are not so familiar with the coherence of image size and resolution.
· NEW: Default export format is PDF, no longer BMP. The last chosen export format is now stored.
· NEW: New 'Quick start' chapter in the manual explains how to handle iPhoto Calendars in iCalamus for print output.
· NEW: iCalamus requires screen resolutions as of 1024 by 768 due to larger dialogs.
· Fix: Pressing [Enter] in text edit mode has sometimes hidden the text.
· Fix: PDF Export of multiple frames into single files no longer crashes.
· Fix: The document backup saving method of iCalamus collided with the backup saving method of Mac OS X.
· Fix: Text editing sometimes failed for piped text frames.
· Fix: Text style recognition for multiple text styles in a text range corrected.
· Fix: iCalamus Help can be navigated offline in Apple Help Viewer again.
· Fix: The menu entry 'Edit LinkBack item' is restored on program launch again.