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iCalamus Changelog

What's new in iCalamus 2.26

Nov 28, 2023
  • Fixed compatibility issues with Sonoma

New in iCalamus 2.25 (Feb 5, 2023)

  • New features:
  • User Guide: the user guide has been updated and is now available in PDF format in English, German and French
  • Updated features:
  • Localization: Improved French localization
  • Settings: iCalamus settings dialog improved

New in iCalamus 2.24 (Nov 1, 2021)

  • Fixed a possible hang during display of a gradient background
  • Fixed a possible issue on macOS Monterey

New in iCalamus 2.23 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Dark mode display of about dialog
  • Dark mode display of welcome dialog
  • Dark mode display of rulers
  • Internal optimizations

New in iCalamus 2.21 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Bug fixes

New in iCalamus 2.20 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Updated features:
  • add preference: set enable/disable frame upon object creation
  • dark mode improvements
  • font menu preferences
  • adjusted thickness slider
  • Bug fixes:
  • improved exception handling
  • fixed crash during import of some old iCalamus 1 files

New in iCalamus 2.19 (Feb 7, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Mojave (10.14) dark mode support
  • Updated features:
  • Preferences: added option to disable autosave and versions
  • Preferences: added option to disable unused page formats
  • Updated gui elements for upcoming macOS
  • Updated online help system

New in iCalamus 2.17 (Jun 28, 2018)

  • iCalamus was acquired by Lemke Software
  • The new version reflects this with updated support and forum menu items.

New in iCalamus 2.16 (Apr 29, 2018)

  • Kernel:
  • Fix: Text flow sometimes didn't work. This issue has been fixed for new documents. To fix this issue in existing documents, please delete the relevant frames which contain text and the frames to be flown around. Then restore the relevant frames using "Edit > Undo". This fixes the content flow registry in these frames.
  • Objects menu:
  • New: Offers a new submenu named "Adjust". It offers the same functions which are available already in the context menu for image frames and in the Geometry Inspector's action menu. But the submenu in the menu bar also allows to assign Menu shortcuts to these functions.
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • The built-in CrashReporter has been updated.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.15 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • Menu:
  • New: File menu: The entry "Paste in Place" has been renamed to "Place".
  • Measurement Preference:
  • New: Pica measurement units are supported.
  • New: [772]: The text cursor width can be changed.
  • Content Inspector:
  • Fix: [877]: Outline thickness measurement unit is assigned to "Measurement Preferences: Line Units".
  • Page Inspector:
  • New: The action menu offers two new options: "Select All Left Pages" and "Select All Right Pages".
  • Manual:
  • New: The manual describes the new features in the relevant chapters.
  • New: Various dialog screenshots have been updated.
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • Tiny adjustments in localizations.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.14 (Nov 14, 2016)

  • Kernel:
  • Fix: [875]: Emergency Bugfix: Supports macOS Sierra (10.12).
  • Fix: Embedded PDFs sometimes didn't let iCalamus open and convert old v1.29 documents.
  • Text Formatting:
  • Fix: [872]: Using numbering styles with Page Number text fields no longer crashes iCalamus.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Fix: Text Fix: There have never been values for inner and outer bleed. The related dialog texts have been adjusted.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.13 (Jul 26, 2016)

  • Kernel:
  • Fix: [857]: The function "Paste URI/URL in Place" no longer crashes when no frame was selected previously.
  • Fix: [862]: Inspector panels sometimes could not be shown on OS X < 10.10.
  • Fix: [864]: The "Document Setup" dialog shows updated document parameters when they have been changed in the Page Inspector's "Edit Global Page Parameters" dialog.
  • Fix: [864]: Wrong colors of PDF content on screen.
  • Fix: No more problems with accessing parameters of shadow effects of copied frames.
  • Fix: PS Converter: Supports Sandboxing and PS files as well as EPS files.
  • Fix: SVG Converter: Supports Sandboxing and has been updated.
  • Editing Text:
  • New: [431]: The "Attachment Image Size" dialog has been enhanced. Using the percentage fields, you can change the image dimensions numerically.
  • Media Inspector:
  • New: The Reload alert can be suppressed by checking the "Do not show this message again" option.
  • Fix: [858]: Context and Action menu entries use the same order as the action icons in the Action bar.
  • Page Inspector:
  • Fix: [865]: The dialog "Edit Page(s)" can no longer be used when no page view has been selected.
  • Fix: [866]: The dialog "Edit Global Page Parameters" no longer shows a useless alert when it has been closed without changes to the pages layout.
  • Context Functions:
  • Fix: [791]: All relevant context menus offer a new entry "Paste in Place".
  • GUI:
  • New: [769]: The "Welcome to iCalamus" dialog shows the whole file and paths names in Tooltips.
  • New: [830]: The icons for locked/unlocked objects (e.g. frames, layers) have been enhanced.
  • Fix: [856]: On El Capitan, the OS X file picker didn't show import options by default, but just an [Options] button. This made many users oversee the import options.
  • Manual:
  • New: The chapter "Feedback" has been enhanced.
  • New: Various dialog screenshots have been updated.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Tiny bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.12 (May 26, 2016)

  • Kernel:
  • New: The Text menu offers a new feature: "Insert Blind Text".
  • New: The "Update Preferences" pane checks for (paid) upgrade versions, too.
  • New: Various dialogs have been redesigned using Auto Layout.
  • New: [832]: SVG Import has been fixed.
  • Fix: Color profiles with CMYK destination are correctly supported.
  • Fix: Paste URI/URL in Place: Fixed a crash which could occur while typing the URL.
  • Fix: [847]: Drag and drop of files into a document no longer fades the document content.
  • Fix: [850]: Merging of pasted shadow colors has been fixed.
  • Fix: [854]: Rich text from the clipboard can be pasted into text frames again.
  • Polish localization improved.
  • Media Inspector:
  • Fix: [797]: Fixed an issue caused by OS X which didn't physically reload images when contents of the original file and the copy within the document were different but creation date and modification date of original file and copy were identical.
  • Hyphenation:
  • Fix: [852]: Fixed the broken hyphenation engine of the Hyphenator plug-in.
  • Text menu:
  • Fix: "Edit Text Field": The options to add or remove a date format on the "Text Field Parameters" panel have been fixed.
  • Manual:
  • New: The section "Color Profile" in the chapter "Content Inspector for images" has a more detailed description.
  • Polish localization improved.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.11 (Jan 31, 2016)

  • Kernel:
  • New: [575]: The "Send Message" window has become non-modal to allow text copy operations from document windows. It has been renamed to "Messages Editor".
  • Fix: "Messages Editor": Empty messages can no longer be sent.
  • Fix: [838]: "Edit > Duplicate With Offset" regards the "Width/Height in %" scaling factors from the Geometry Inspector.
  • Fix: [839]: "Edit > Duplicate With Rows and Columns" regards the "Width/Height in %" scaling factors from the Geometry Inspector.
  • Fix: [845]: "Edit > Duplicate With Offset" accepts negative values for horizontal/vertical distance.
  • Fix: [846]: "Edit > Duplicate With Rows and Columns" accepts negative values for horizontal/vertical distance.
  • Fix: The "Check for Updates" function has been fixed on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
  • Content Inspector for images:
  • New: The inspector now also shows the size of the currently selected image in pixels.
  • New: The "Adjust Image" button shows a help text.
  • New: The "Adjust Image" panel stores its current position on screen.
  • Fix: The "Adjust Image" panel layout has been corrected.
  • Geometry Inspector:
  • New: [843]: The "Angle" combobox now offers all angles in steps by 10 and 45 degrees.
  • New: [844]: The "Angle rotation wheel" now also sets angles in steps by 10 degrees when pressing the [Control] key.
  • Text Inspector:
  • New: [836]: Offers more realistic values for Expanded text.
  • New: [837]: Offers more realistic values for Oblique text.
  • Text Style Inspector:
  • New: [836]: Offers more realistic values for Expanded text.
  • New: [837]: Offers more realistic values for Oblique text.
  • Manual:
  • New: The section "Color Space" in the chapter "Edit color" has a more detailed description.
  • New: The section "Adjustments" in the chapter "Content Inspector for images" has a more detailed description.
  • New: The chapter "Page Setup" now also describes the iCalamus print marks parameters view of the Page Setup dialog.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Fix: Crash fixed which occured during the sorting of colors.
  • Fix: Issue fixed with page number text fields on layout pages.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.10 (Aug 20, 2015)

  • Kernel:
  • New: For better support, the "Send Feedback" dialog also transmits the OS X version iCalamus is currently running on.
  • Fix: If iCalamus doesn't find the no longer used folder ~/Library/Application Support/iCalamus, it no longer shows a silly alert.
  • GUI:
  • New: Polish Polish localization has been re-added and improved, thanks to Paweł Pyrlik
  • Manual:
  • New: The chapter "Print" has a new subchapter "Print to PDF".
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.08 (Jan 17, 2015)

  • Color Inspector:
  • New: Context menu for color list.
  • Fix: [767]: The Gradients dialog didn't show all GUI elements in the Gradient bar when opened for the first time.
  • Fix: Fixed emphasis marker editing of gradients.
  • Content Inspector:
  • New: Basic image filtering support (Exposure, Saturation, Enhance).
  • Content Inspector
  • Text Ruler Inspector:
  • New: [227], [328]: Text Rulers support keyboard shortcuts.
  • New: Context menu for text ruler list.
  • Text Style Inspector:
  • New: [227], [328]: Text Styles support keyboard shortcuts.
  • New: Context menu for text style list.
  • Fix: The function "Create and Apply Text Styles from Text" no longer hangs on imported RTF texts.
  • GUI:
  • New: [701]: The Navigation bar shows total number of pages in document, too.
  • New: Editing image masks has become more handy. Discover the new function "Edit Mask".
  • Edit Mask
  • New: Update Preferences: New checkbox "Check for beta versions, too".
  • (Not available in the Mac App Store version.)
  • New: iCalamus informs about free update versions, beta versions (optional) and paid upgrade versions.
  • (Not available in the Mac App Store version.)
  • New: Document Inspector: Context menu for master page list.
  • New: Numbering Inspector: Context menu for numbering styles list.
  • New: Document Information has been changed from a modal dialog into an independent window.
  • Fix: [524]: Deleting pages no longer lets pages disappear in the document window and Page inspector view.
  • Fix: [754]: New added tabulators in text rulers are recognized again.
  • Fix: [765]: PhotoGrapherBook documents store a proper preview thumbnail of the cover page again.
  • Fix: [766]: Inspector windows sizes are reset to useful sizes when opened.
  • Fix: Text Ruler elements in active text frames can be grabbed correctly again with the mouse pointer.
  • Due to missing localization support we have removed the Polish localization temporarily.
  • Tiny adjustments.
  • Manual:
  • The chapter "Objects menu" has a new subchapter "Edit Mask".
  • The chapter "Enter Full Screen" has been enhanced for new Yosemite full screen handling.
  • The chapter "Save" gives more information about the Autosave options by Mac OS X.
  • Other Bugfixes:
  • Fix: [528]: Text content flows around stroked outlines and lines.
  • Fix: [665]: Fixed a crash when grouping/ungrouping text frames that are part of a text pipe.
  • Fix: [705]: Inspector windows placed outside of an iCalamus document window no longer disappear when e.g. the Text inspector pane receives a mouse-click.
  • Fix: [745]: Text frame shadows have been corrected.
  • Fix: [750]: Duplicating guides no longer causes frozen documents.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.07 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • Kernel:
  • Fix: Supporting Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
  • Fix: Vector objects with no or one single path element no longer cause frame handling issues.
  • Fix: Textflow issue resolved.
  • Geometry Inspector:
  • Fix: [760], [768]: Fixed incorrect value changes of width/height of scaled objects.
  • Editing Document:
  • New: [763]: Browse document pages using standard keys.
  • Fix: [740]: Changing text style and adding text no longer crashes iCalamus.
  • Photographerbook:
  • The Photographerbook company has moved to a new location. The new address is being shown in the relevant dialogs.
  • GUI:
  • New: All relevant icons updated into resolution-independent versions.
  • New: The registration form converts entered NAME and MATCHCODE strings automatically to uppercase letters.
  • Fix: Text Inspector: : Wrong tooltip text replaced in the Superscript/Subscript baseline offset value field.
  • Fix: General Preferences: : Wrong tooltip text removed from Zoom popup menu.
  • Fix: Media Inspector: : Fixed selection for sorted items.
  • Fix: "View > Zoom > Full Size" correctly zooms to 100% document size on all screens.
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • Fix: [757]: Set frame to proportional mode when importing images by dragging.
  • Fix: [759]: Odd document grid parameters caused iCalamus to become unresponsive.
  • Other bugs fixed.
  • Experimental:
  • New: Import of SVG files: iCalamus converts SVGs into PDF (don't use this in productive environments yet).

New in iCalamus 2.06 (Jul 25, 2014)

  • Kernel:
  • New: iCalamus reads the screen size information and scales 100% to fit real 100% size. The old "Screen Resolution" dialog is no longer required.
  • Fix: Loading of converted documents from older iCalamus versions has been optimized.
  • Media Inspector:
  • Fix: Image formats unsupported by Mac OS X (like Adobe's .DNG format) are converted into TIFF.
  • GUI:
  • New: The manual offers much more content with zoomable pop-up images for large graphics and finally can be navigated by keyboard.
  • Fix: Various localization adjustments.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Fix: [761]: Page numbering with "Page Number" text field allows negative start offsets (min. value is -99,999).
  • Fix: Color initialization debugged.
  • Fix: Tabs in paragraph styles (text rulers) are automatically sorted.
  • Fix: Print dialog opens faster for large documents.
  • Fix: Order front document windows of loaded documents if progress panel has been shown.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.05 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • Editing Text:
  • Fix: [751]: Adding tabs to or removing tabs from a text ruler no longer crash iCalamus.
  • GUI:
  • Fix: GUI elements in "File > Page Setup > Settings > iCalamus" are no longer clipped.
  • Manual:
  • New: A new chapter in the "Outline inspector" section describes and explains the Outline styles of iCalamus 2.
  • French localization improved. fr
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.03 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • Editing Document:
  • New: [738]: Smart alignment guides are shown when frames snap to page/frame center axes or to page/frame borders.
  • New: The View menu option "Snap to Page Guides" which is required to be activated for the Smart alignment guides, is now switched on by default.
  • Output:
  • Fix: Fixed the shadow creation for Retina displays.
  • GUI:
  • New: Some warning alerts can be suppressed for future display by checking the option "Do not show this message again".
  • New: A new "Reset Warning Alerts" button in the General Preferences pane resets all suppressed warning alerts.
  • New: A new "Restore Defaults" button in the General Preferences pane resets many user-defineable parameters to the built-in factory defaults.
  • Fix: Measurement values on vertical rulers are displayed in vertical direction.
  • Preferences:
  • New: [744]: The "Autosave" option has been removed from the General Preferences. iCalamus now supports the new Autosave and Versioning methods by Mac OS X. Even new documents which haven't been saved with a user-defined document name, are now automatically saved.
  • Photographerbook:
  • New: Due to irritations with different product descriptors used in the Photographerbook website and iCalamus, the popup menus for Photographerbook document types, paper types and formats now show the predefined (German) type and format names, followed by the localized names in brackets.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash that could occur after uploading a ZIP file to Photographerbook.
  • Fix: Paper formats and document presentation adjusted.
  • Manual:
  • New: The new file menu entries are reflected in the manual.
  • Fix: The manual section "Move frames with arrow keys" has been updated to reflect the no longer required [Ctrl] key.
  • Other bug fixes:
  • Fix: [743]: "Check for Updates" is functional again.
  • Fix: Fixed a zoom related issue.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash when trying to load old 1.x documents that contain PICT images, which is no longer supported. Now shows an alert.
  • Fix: The continuous moving of frames by pressing and holding arrow keys without needing the [Ctrl] key to be pressed.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue when creating opacity based outlines: the selected threshold wasn't used in final result.
  • Fix: EPS/PS import has been fixed.
  • Other bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 2.02 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • GUI:
  • New: The Toolbox panel can be switched from two-columns to one-column view.
  • Fix: [607]: Order of input fields accessible with [Tab] key in dialogs and Inspectors panels has been adjusted.
  • Fix: Number input fields support stepping up/down by cursor keys again.
  • Fix: Mouse cursor views enhanced.
  • Color Inspector:
  • Fix: Fixed a crash when creating new colors with no color selected in list.
  • Editing Document:
  • New: [697]: Guides defined on master pages are magnetic on layout pages, too.
  • Fix: [412]: Objects now snap on page borders (when "Snap to Page Guides" is activated).
  • Editing Text:
  • Fix: Fixed a problem with overwriting characters selected by double-click.
  • Manual:
  • Fix: The manual has been updated to reflect the updated icons and toolbox panel.
  • Fix: Various translations have been completed or reviewed.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix: [732]: Page guides in new documents are visible again.
  • Fix: [733]: Export of multiple frames was impossible due to Sandbox restrictions. Export now creates a folder and writes separate files to it (if needed).
  • Fix: Object snapping issues have been fixed.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash on entering a page number in the PDF editor window.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash on opening version 1.x documents with missing images.
  • Fix: Fixed a crash on inserting file date text field into text of unsaved new documents.
  • Fix: PNG export has been fixed.
  • Other bug fixes.

New in iCalamus 2.01 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • Inspectors:
  • New: Color Inspector: Supports display and editing of default colors (if no document is loaded).
  • New: Numbering Inspector: Supports display and editing of numbering styles (if no document is loaded).
  • New: Text Ruler Inspector: Supports display and editing of default text rulers (if no document is loaded).
  • New: Text Style Inspector: Supports display and editing of default text styles (if no document is loaded).
  • New: Frame Inspector: Supports default frame styles (will be available in the GUI in a coming version).
  • Output:
  • New: Fixed an issue where elements on master pages were not always printed.
  • GUI:
  • New: Mouse pointers optimized for Retina displays.
  • System:
  • Fix: Crash Reports are being sent to the iCalamus developers again (Sandbox-compatible).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix: [695]: Page orientation icons in all Page format dialogs correspond to their defined page orientation and page size.
  • Fix: [731]: Fixed an issue with opening recently converted documents.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with printing text on right document pages.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with exporting selected frames.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with decorating paths.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with moving frames.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with display of the reference point for frame transformations.
  • Fix: Frames from the clipboard can be used in the line decoration editor.
  • Fix: Images can be moved in frames again.
  • Fix: Frame contents can be copied into other frames again.
  • Other bug fixes.

New in iCalamus 2.00 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • System:
  • New: 64 bit application
  • New: Requires Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or later.
  • New: Supports text substitution.
  • New: Supports Smart Quotes.
  • New: Supports Smart Dashes.
  • New: Supports Smart Links.
  • New: Supports Data Detectors.
  • New: Supports Automatic Spelling Correction.
  • New: [159]: Supports the system Fonts panel.
  • New: [159]: Supports the system Color panel.
  • New: Supports the system Substitutions panel.
  • New: Text output is much faster.
  • New: Image and PDF output is much faster.
  • New: [690]: No more control characters in the Finder preview of the document.
  • New: Images and PDFs are automatically shown in the best resolution for the current zoom value.
  • System Outline Style:
  • New: New stroke style for path text support.
  • New: New stroke style for placing frames on the path.
  • New: New outline styles: Dimension, Rough, ZigZag.
  • System Frame Output Style:
  • New: New frame output style.
  • New: New float shadow.
  • New: Frames can be drawn with a reflexion.
  • Tools:
  • New: New Shear tool.
  • New: New Scale tool.
  • New: New Document Editor GUI.
  • New: New rotation grabpoint: the selected frame can be rotated directly; with [Shift] pressed the rotation snaps in 90° steps.
  • New: On frame creation by mouse, the current frame size is shown at the mouse pointer position.
  • New: Zoom Tool: click reaction enhanced.
  • New: Single Line Tool: On creation of a new line, its length and angle are shown at the mouse pointer position.
  • Editing Document:
  • New: Each document sheet uses independent document rulers.
  • New: [383]: Each document sheet uses independent document grids.
  • New: [673]: Enhanced memory management on document view output.
  • New: [488]: 'Edit Linkback Item' in context menus is only shown if required.
  • New: [525]: New dialog for template selection.
  • New: PDFs are now stored in a separate directory inside the document bundle, as was true for images before. This way documents with many embedded PDFs have an enhanced loading speed and memory requirements.
  • New: The Print Info line can be edited for new documents in the Preferences pane and in the Document Info dialog for existing documents.
  • New: [416]: Page guides values can be edited.
  • Editing Text:
  • New: The context menu for text editing offers all common text editing functions from Mac OS X.
  • New: iCalamus supports the system Color panel in the text editor.
  • New: [588]: iCalamus supports adding/removing of hyperlinks in the text.
  • New: [653]: You can jump to hyperlinks inside documents using [Cmd][Click].
  • New: The formerly independent context menu entries 'Insert Image' and 'Edit Image' have been combined. After you have inserted an image into a text, the Image editor dialog is directly shown.
  • New: [352]: Text Rulers: Text rulers can be shown/hidden in the View menu.
  • Editing Image:
  • New: Images can be converted into other color systems (e.g. from RGB to Greyscale), using profiles.
  • Search & Replace:
  • New: The Find panel supports the find indicator (animated yellow annotation).
  • New: [646]: iCalamus supports copied control characters in the Search field.
  • Copy & Duplicate:
  • New: [522]: Duplicate With Offset now uses the width and height of the currently selected frame(s).
  • New: Duplicate with Offset: supports columns and rows.
  • New: [521], [555], [573], [692]: Even frames without content can be virtually copied.
  • New: New function: 'Duplicate With Rotation'. It can be used in the Rotate tool. Select a frame, define the rotation center point and go.
  • New: An offset has been added to pasted frame representations, so you can recognize copies more easily.
  • New: [444]: Frame contents can now be copied into other frames: simply cut/copy a frame content, then open a frame container and paste the content there.
  • Export:
  • New: TIFF export supports RGB, Greyscale and CMYK images. Due to a restriction of Mac OS X, alpha channels are not supported for Greyscale and CMYK image export.
  • New: [693]: The Export menu function has a built-in key command.
  • New: New function: The File menu offers a new function 'Export as PDF'.
  • Inspectors:
  • New: New Inspector system (64 bit, compliant to the Mac OS X GUI style guide).
  • New: Inspectors support multiple inspector views.
  • New: [595]: Color of Shape, Outline and Shadow can be selected on shape and outline inspector pane.
  • Geometry Inspector:
  • New: Geometry pane: new combo box for Shear Y.
  • New: [179]: New switch 'Transform Content' in the Geometry inspector.
  • Page Inspector:
  • New: [558]: You can select a range of pages with the [Shift] key.
  • New: [463]: You can delete a range of pages.
  • New: On creation of a new master page, you can edit the page guides values.
  • New: [455]: Photographerbook documents support master pages.
  • Outline Inspector:
  • New: New Dashes editor for line parameters.
  • New: New line ends: Feather (single, double, triple), Diamond, Filled Diamond, Dimension Arrow, Dimension Arrow + Bar.
  • Content Inspector:
  • New: [200]: Image Content inspector: new popup where you can view and select the color profile.
  • Align Inspector:
  • New: [470]: Frames can be aligned to the page borders.
  • Color Inspector:
  • New: [128]: Color lists can be saved and loaded.
  • Text Ruler Inspector:
  • New: Text Ruler lists can be saved and loaded.
  • New: [352]: Text ruler visibility can be switched ON/OFF.
  • New: New context menu where you can add/remove tabs as well as change the type of existing tabs.
  • Text Style Inspector:
  • New: Text Styles can be saved and loaded.
  • Preferences:
  • New: Measurement Preferences: the no longer required Screen Resolution tab has been removed.
  • New: [80]: General Preferences: Zoom in/out step width can now be user-defined.
  • New: [320]: General Preferences: The page border shadow visibility can be switched on/off.
  • GUI:
  • New: New Welcome window.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix: [488]: Document page context menu no longer shows 'Edit LinkBack Item' menu item.
  • Fix: [565]: Text no longer randomly disappears when editing and clicking into text.
  • Fix: [567]: Unused first gradient color can be deleted.
  • Fix: [604]: Editing text frames with virtual copies without distance no longer crashes.
  • Fix: [631]: Adobe fonts no longer crash on shaped text flow.
  • Fix: [657]: The file picker correctly reacts on [Enter] key and filename pre-selection by entering first letters of filename.
  • Fix: [667]: Export of very large or high-res JPEGs no longer crashes iCalamus.
  • Fix: [678]: Switching between document views no longer crashes.
  • Fix: [682]: Export no longer flips embedded images in text frames.
  • Fix: [683]: Text ruler information shows last valid text ruler when you click behind the last valid text in a rather empty text frame.
  • Fix: [715]: The zoom combobox in the bottom left corner of the document window shows correct zoom values again.

New in iCalamus 1.29 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • Emergency Bugfix:
  • Fix: [714]: Text frames created with iCalamus v1.27 sometimes could not be edited in v1.28.
  • Fix: Other bug fixes.

New in iCalamus 1.28 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Misc:
  • Fix: [713]: PDF output of shadow elements on Mac OS X 10.8.2 no longer outputs solid color areas.
  • Fix: Other bug fixes.

New in iCalamus 1.27 (Jun 2, 2012)

  • Misc:
  • Fix: [704]: Adding additional views to the document window no longer crash iCalamus.
  • Fix: Other bug fixes.

New in iCalamus 1.26 (Mar 7, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.25 (Feb 27, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.24 (Feb 2, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.23 (Nov 24, 2010)

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

New in iCalamus 1.22 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Photographerbook:
  • New: PDF Import Assistant enhanced.
  • New: Some Photographerbook plug-in dialogs adjusted.
  • Misc:
  • Fix: Various tiny bugs fixed.

New in iCalamus 1.21 (Nov 9, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.20 (Mar 31, 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".

New in iCalamus 1.16 (Apr 25, 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 Michał Naskręt, Michał Mikołajewski, Patryk Domagała and Dominik Sieciński. 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

New in iCalamus 1.15 (Nov 6, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.14 (Sep 12, 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.

New in iCalamus 1.1.3 (Jun 14, 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).

New in iCalamus 1.1.2 (May 22, 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).

New in iCalamus 1.1.1 (Nov 20, 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.