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NoteTaker Changelog

What's new in NoteTaker 3.2.1

Dec 16, 2013
  • Fixed issues related to OS X 10.9 "Mavericks"
  • Fixed issue with favorite characters not appearing in Edit menu.
  • Fixed issue with zoom settings causing entry contents to not be visible.
  • Fixed crash on save when closing notebook after adding attachment.
  • Fixed issue with Contacts toolbar button.
  • Fixed issue saving new notebooks on certain systems.

New in NoteTaker 3.2.0 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • Fixed issues related to OS X 10.9 "Mavericks".
  • Fixed issue with Page Folio permissions.
  • Fixed issue with XHTML output.
  • Fixed issue with format of inserted contacts.
  • Fixed issue with Hyperlink toolbar button.

New in NoteTaker 3.1.0 (Aug 9, 2013)

  • Spanish localization.
  • Fixed issue with RTFD export.
  • Fixed issue with Voice Memo controls absorbing left and right arrow key events.
  • Fixed occasional crash when closing a notebook after coming out of sleep.
  • Fixed occasional crash when closing a notebook using window close button on Contents page.
  • Fixed issue with Open Recent menu and shared notebooks.
  • Fixed conflict with MS Exchange framework.
  • Fixed issue with location of user AppleScript files.
  • Fixed issue causing crash when opening a notebook with a damaged index and a ToDo section.
  • Fixed memory leak when closing a covered notebook
  • Improved handling of missing attachments.
  • Improved notebook data format for better compatibility with future products.
  • Fixed issue causing hyperlinks to entries to lose destination page and entry information.

New in NoteTaker 3.0.7 (Oct 30, 2012)

  • Full support for App Sandboxing in OS X Lion and later.
  • Images can be auto-scaled to fit the width of an entry.
  • An image's scaling can be propagated to all images on the page, section, or notebook.
  • Favorites from the Special Characters pallet are now available from the Edit menu.
  • Added a new "Download" contextual menu item for attachments in remote notebooks.
  • Find and Replace now operates on page and section titles in addition to entry contents.
  • "docx" format files can now be imported.
  • RTF, text, tab, pdf, doc, and docx files can now be imported as an outline or a single entry.
  • Page marks are now displayed in Libraries, and can be dragged into a Library.
  • Finder aliases to notebooks are now recognized and included in Libraries.
  • Added Strikethrough to Format->Font menu and editor contextual menu.
  • Improved handling of superscripts on ruled pages.
  • "Copy Entry URL" and "Copy Page URL" menu items were added to the Sharing menu.
  • Newly created Clipping and Search services are now enabled by default.
  • New preferences allow selection of defaults for showing tags and controls on a page.
  • The Share->Email menu now includes an option to email a page as a PDF attachment.
  • The default entry on a newly-created page is now automatically in edit mode.
  • Clicking below the last entry now puts the text cursor at the end of the last entry.
  • Default shortcuts for "Font->Bigger" and "Font->Smaller" are now the OS X standard.
  • Fixed issue causing a de-capitalized word to be removed from the index.
  • The "Move Highlighed" option in Highlight & Summarize is now fully undoable.
  • Changes to the default fonts for a remote notebook are now saved in the owner's copy.
  • Fixed an issue causing links to documentation notebooks not to work.
  • Fixed display issue with entry selection outlines when the zoom is greater than 100%.
  • Entry background color no longer disappears when the cursor becomes active in the entry.
  • Text tables exported to Web Notebooks now better reflect user-adjusted column widths.
  • Nested text tables are now correctly exported to Web Notebooks.
  • Removed problematic "--" from the comments of some NTML exported files.
  • Favorite Style keyboard shortcuts assigned by a user are now preserved after restarting.
  • Favorite styles now properly preserve underline settings.
  • Safari images and Mail attachments are now correctly clipped using clipping services.
  • Entry creation date is no longer reset when copying and pasting entries.
  • Fixed some issues setting the background image for pages in remote notebooks.
  • Fixed issue with web notebooks viewed in IE9 on Windows 7.
  • Underlines in styled text are now reproduced in web notebooks.
  • Fixed issue with display of multiple-page PDF attachments.
  • Fixed issue causing the Hyperlink toolbar button to not work.
  • Saving a local copy of a remote notebook no longer fails if the cover page was not viewed.
  • Fixed issue causing display problems when toggling the Toolbar while the Ruler is visible.
  • Column background color now changes after changing page background in Preferences.
  • Fixed issues caused by non-image attachments are included in To Do page entries.
  • Fixed issues caused by referencing attachments from the index section.
  • Font->Underline command now works on multiple entry selections.

New in NoteTaker 2.7.0 (Sep 3, 2011)

  • NoteTaker 2.7 introduces limited real-time sharing, a feature previously exclusive to NoteShare. With NoteTaker 2.7 you can instantly share a personal notebook in just a few easy clicks. Share notebooks with family members on other Macs at home, or read your shared notebooks from your iPhone or iPad while connected at home or on the road using NoteShare Mobile Viewer.
  • NoteTaker sharing supports up to five concurrent connections from other copies of NoteTaker, NoteShare, or NoteShare Mobile Viewer. Users on these connections can open any number of notebooks, and all six users (the notebook’s owner and the users on the five remote connections) can work on the same notebook simultaneously.
  • The new full screen mode in OS X 10.7 "Lion" is now supported when running in 10.7.
  • You can now import both RTF and RTFD files into a notebook with the File>Import command.
  • Problems editing template names on the Templates tool panel have been resolved.
  • Several issues related to Lion compatibility have been fixed.
  • A new Help notebook, "Guide to Sharing and Collaboration" consolidates all sharing-related information previously found in multiple notebooks.
  • Some sharing-related menu items have been reorganized or simplified.
  • PNG format is now preferred over TIFF when pasting images onto a page.
  • Some issues relating to interaction with NoteShare Server Pro have been fixed.

New in NoteTaker 2.5.8 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • Enhancements:
  • Optimizations to web notebook updating and NoteShare Mobile Viewer support.
  • Fixed issues with dynamic DNS panel in Preferences.
  • Fixed issues with renaming templates in the Templates tool panel.
  • Java JVM version checking has been brought up to date.
  • Fixed problem with cover image not updating in web notebook when changed in the original noteboook.
  • Web notebook text index pages are now a single page instead of containing embedded iframes for each letter.

New in NoteTaker 2.5.0 (Sep 6, 2010)

  • Enhancements:
  • Multiple Tags. Categories are now called "Tags". Support for multiple tags has been added. Menu items in the Tags contextual menu now toggle the presence of tags in the tag list for an entry. The Tags index page lists entries under all tags assigned to each entry. Multiple tag support has also been added to NoteShare Express, version 2.4 or later.
  • Note that opening a notebook with multiple tags using an earlier version of NoteShare or NoteTaker may result in some tags being not shown or discarded.
  • Attachment caching. Attachments in remotely-opened notebooks are now locally cached. Downloaded attachments are now kept under: ~/Library/Caches/NoteTaker/Services/[/port]//
  • Web Notebook improvements. Web notebooks now feature improved compatibility with iPhone and iPad.
  • Print Formatting improvements. The Page Setup scaling factor now causes content to be scaled while preserving the printed page size. The title area also prints more compactly.
  • Gestures. 3-finger swipe gestures can now be used to turn pages on multi-touch trackpads.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed problems with the general preference "reopen previously open notebooks." Shared/open notebooks were not reopened.
  • The Sharing>RSS menu item now shows the correct state of the current page for remotely-opened notebooks.
  • Fixed issue causing a web notebook cover page to not be updated if the cover page had not yet been lazily created.
  • Fixed issue preventing a click on link to a stubbed attachment in a remotely-opened notebook from causing the attachment to be downloaded.
  • Fixed issue causing crash when pasting entries onto a remote notebook page with a new blank entry that is actively being edited.
  • A few fixes to applet data handling between NoteShare Express and NoteTaker.
  • Change to Page Mark creation and parsing for increased compatibility with NoteShare Express
  • Fixed an issue affecting cmd-c copying and cmd-v pasting of attachments from the Finder in Snow Leopard.
  • Single-page PDFs smaller than 640x640 are once again converted to PNG bitmaps in Web Notebook exports instead of displayed with the PDF plugin.
  • PDF data on the pasteboard is now preferred over TIFF data when both are present, during paste operations.
  • Added support for superscripted and subscripted text in Web Notebooks
  • Fixed issue with "Scale Image" Preview option not working.
  • Fixed issue causing the first character of a new entry to retain strikethrough appearance of the previously edited entry.
  • Fixed missing "unlocked space" icon in NoteTaker's Open Shared Notebook panel.
  • The Sharing Monitor no longer truncates notebook page numbers to 2 digits.
  • The "Go -> First Entry" command now scrolls to the top of the page if the first entry extends beyond one page length.
  • Fixed issues in Open Shared Notebook panel that could lead to a memory crash.
  • Two finger scrolling is now available in drawer panes for users of multitouch trackpads.
  • Shortcut Preferences tab no longer displays spurious command-key icon when none was typed.
  • Fixed issue causing pasted text with links to lose the link behavior, when pasted into an existing entry.

New in NoteTaker 2.5.0 Beta/ 2.4.0 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • Enhancements
  • Multiple Tags.
  • Categories are now called "Tags". Support for multiple tags has been added.
  • Menu items in the Tags contextual menu now toggle the presence of tags in the tag list for an entry. The Tags index page lists entries under all tags assigned to each entry.
  • Multiple tag support has also been added to NoteShare Express, version 2.4 or later.
  • Note that opening a notebook with multiple tags using an earlier version of NoteShare or NoteTaker may result in some tags being not shown or discarded.
  • Attachment caching. Attachments in remotely-opened notebooks are now locally cached.
  • Web notebooks now feature improved compatibility with iPhone and iPad.
  • Print Formatting improvements. The Page Setup scaling factor now causes content to be scaled while preserving the printed page size. The title area also prints more compactly.
  • Gestures. 3-finger swipe gestures can now be used to turn pages on multi-touch trackpads.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed problems with the general preference "reopen previously open notebooks." Shared/open notebooks were not reopened.
  • The Sharing>RSS menu item now shows the correct state of the current page for remotely-opened notebooks.
  • Fixed issue causing a web notebook cover page to not be updated if the cover page had not yet been lazily created.
  • Fixed issue preventing a click on link to a stubbed attachment in a remotely-opened notebook from causing the attachment to be downloaded.
  • Fixed issue causing crash when pasting entries onto a remote notebook page with a new blank entry that is actively being edited.
  • A few fixes to applet data handling between NoteShare Express and NoteTaker.
  • Change to Page Mark creation and parsing for increased compatibility with NoteShare Express
  • Fixed an issue affecting cmd-c copying and cmd-v pasting of attachments from the Finder in Snow Leopard.
  • Single-page PDFs smaller than 640x640 are once again converted to PNG bitmaps in Web Notebook exports instead of displayed with the PDF plugin.
  • PDF data on the pasteboard is now preferred over TIFF data when both are present, during paste operations.
  • Added support for superscripted and subscripted text in Web Notebooks
  • Fixed issue with "Scale Image" Preview option not working.
  • Fixed issue causing the first character of a new entry to retain strikethrough appearance of the previously edited entry.
  • Fixed missing "unlocked space" icon in NoteTaker's Open Shared Notebook panel.
  • The Sharing Monitor no longer truncates notebook page numbers to 2 digits.
  • The "Go -> First Entry" command now scrolls to the top of the page if the first entry extends beyond one page length.
  • Fixed issues in Open Shared Notebook panel that could lead to a memory crash.
  • Two finger scrolling is now available in drawer panes for users of multitouch trackpads.
  • Shortcut Preferences tab no longer displays spurious command-key icon when none was typed.
  • Fixed issue causing pasted text with links to lose the link behavior, when pasted into an existing entry.

New in NoteTaker 2.4.0 Beta (Oct 10, 2009)

  • Enhancements:
  • The "Find All" results table in the Find panel is now part of the main panel instead of in a separate drawer. This allows the results table to be expanded vertically as desired, instead of being limited to the height of the Find panel (a limitation of drawers).
  • Entries in remote notebooks are now synchronized to the owner's copy automatically every 15 seconds while an entry is actively being edited, to minimize possible data loss due to a network failure.
  • The X-Ray View (Option-hover) for document attachments now uses QuickLook to present the document. Option-hover shows the QuickLook thumbnail, whereas Option-Shift-hover shows the QuickLook preview in a new QuickLook window.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed problem with blank notebook toolbar pull-down menus in OS X 10.6
  • Fixed problem in custom Service definitions that caused some image types not to be clippable.
  • Changed handling of HTML coming off the pasteboard. Previously it was shown in a new web entry. Now it is converted to RTFD and pasted as editable content. This provides improved parity in how rich content is pasted from Apple apps and non-Apple apps.
  • Fixed issue causing an empty web notebook folder to be created when a notebook was opened even when auto-updating of the web notebook was not enabled.
  • Fixed communication issue with NoteShare Server when quitting.

New in NoteTaker 2.3.2 (Sep 15, 2009)

  • Enhancements:
  • The "Find All" results table in the Find panel is now part of the main panel instead of in a separate drawer. This allows the results table to be expanded vertically as desired, instead of being limited to the height of the Find panel (a limitation of drawers).
  • Entries in remote notebooks are now synchronized to the owner's copy automatically every 15 seconds while an entry is actively being edited, to minimize possible data loss due to a network failure.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed problem with blank notebook toolbar pull-down menus in OS X 10.6
  • Fixed problem in custom Service definitions that caused some image types not to be clippable.
  • Changed handling of HTML coming off the pasteboard. Previously it was shown in a new web entry. Now it is converted to RTFD and pasted as editable content. This provides improved parity in how rich content is pasted from Apple apps and non-Apple apps.
  • Fixed issue causing an empty web notebook folder to be created when a notebook was opened even when auto-updating of the web notebook was not enabled.

New in NoteTaker 2.3.1 (Jun 16, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • New Version of Sharing in NoteTaker.
  • Enhancements:
  • Minor UI enhancement to SketchPad applet
  • Enhancements to allow display of ATOM 1.0 feeds.
  • Changes to Voice Memo behavior. Panel now floats on top when recording is active. Recordings are now auto-terminated when the computer sleeps. In the case of a remote notebook that becomes disconnected, active recordings are placed in a new Untitled notebook for access after waking up.
  • The count of viewers shown in the title area of shared notebooks now includes the owner if the owner is viewing (never included before)
  • The list of viewers in the Edit button contextual menu of shared notebooks now includes the owner only if the owner is viewing (used to be included all the time)
  • The list of shred notebook viewers in the Sharing Monitor now includes the owner only if the owner is viewing (used to be included all the time)
  • If you try to unlock a Space that has been defined by more than one owner using different passwords, NoteTaker will now selectively unlock the Space only for the owners where the supplied password applies. Versions of the Space used by the other owners will remain locked. You can then unlock those by clicking on that space under the specific owner.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed minor issue with covering notebooks with drawer open.
  • Fixed script problem in NoteTaker Trial
  • Fixed problem where a section sort by a remote notebook viewer did not update the owner's copy.
  • Fixed minor voice memo panel display issue.
  • Minor fix to recognition of atom RSS feeds.
  • Enabling or disabling RSS or web notebook generation now marks the notebook as changed, even if the notebook is ineditable due to not having the pen or being read-only, so the settings can get saved.
  • Fixed some memory leaks.
  • Centered cover background image now appears centered in web notebooks instead of at the top of the page.
  • Fixed issue in RSS generation of notebooks with ampersands in their file name.
  • Fixed problem causing entries to not be visible after focusing, navigating away, then navigating back to the page via a link.
  • Fixed issue possibly causing crash after changing the global entry default font in Preferences.
  • Fix display issue with dragged text.
  • Fixed issues with file names containing a forward slash.
  • Fixed issue causing notebook image attachments copied and pasted or dragged elsewhere in a notebook to not carry along their scaling.
  • Fixed problem with some document attachment icons in web notebooks not to display in Internet Explorer.
  • Entries in web notebooks now display their own background color when set.
  • Fixed issue causing some background images to appear upside down when viewed in remote notebooks.
  • Fixed issue with applet data when copying applets between notebooks
  • Fixed issue with user-set page margins not being respected
  • Fixed issue causing possible loss of custom categories
  • Fixed issue with RTFD exports.

New in NoteTaker 2.2.4 (Nov 19, 2008)

  • Enhancements:
  • Web notebooks now show a To Do check box instead of a leaf control icon if the entry is a leaf and has the To Do category.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed drag/drop issue placing images in the title area.
  • Bringing up the category menu on a non-selected entry now selects the entry.
  • Fixed issue causing tabs to sometimes be truncated in web notebooks.
  • Fixed issue with incorrect entry reordering in remote notebooks, when multiple entries are dragged down on a page.
  • Fixed compression buffer overrun problem.
  • Added "iPod" to web notebook iPhone-format recognition in the web notebook javascript code. To enable iPod Touch support for existing web notebooks, move them to the Trash and regenerate them by saving the original notebook.
  • Fixed some possible memory leaks.
  • Fixed some indexing problems for very large index files.
  • Fixed race condition when opening remote notebook URLs while launching NoteTaker.
  • Fixed issue with opening covered notebooks on some systems.
  • Fixed possible buffer overflow problem when encrypting large attachments for transmission.
  • Added PPT to the list of file types that are not compressed in transit (since they are already compressed).

New in NoteTaker 2.2.3 (Aug 26, 2008)

  • Fixed a crash occurring in some Web Notebook creation events.

New in NoteTaker 2.2.2 (Aug 15, 2008)

  • New web notebook alternative index file index-iframe.html is optimized for embedding into an iframe in other web pages. �Web notebooks must be updated or regenerated for this to be added.
  • Voice Memo recording with MP3 Metadata enabled.
  • Fixed a crash caused by opening an ntz archive.
  • Ignore entry spacing of 1 (the default) on ruled pages, to avoid an undesired double-spacing effect.
  • Re-enable keyboard shortcut preferences.
  • Returns to correct window position when expanding/contracting outlines on ruled pages.
  • Fixes a crashing case when opening a page mark.
  • Fix to Voice Memo crash bug (when MP3 "Title" tag contained a "/").
  • Fix to possible crash when a notebook fails to save due to a file protection conflict or other problem.

New in NoteTaker 2.2.0 (Jun 16, 2008)

  • NoteTaker now includes the Sharing menu, for opening notebooks shared by NoteShare and NoteShare Server.
  • NoteTaker now also includes the Sharing and Activity Monitors for working with shared notebooks.
  • The Sharing Monitor and sharing edit button context menu now include iChat presence information, if iChat is running. Click the green dot in the Sharing Monitor to start a chat session with another viewer of a shared notebook.
  • NoteTaker and NoteShare now support smart quotes when run under Leopard.
  • Fixed issue with plugins when specifying a 64-bit Java JVM in Java Preferences.

New in NoteTaker 2.1.0 (Apr 26, 2008)

  • A new Preferences tab called "Web" allows the specification of web server, web notebook locations, and global Web Notebook options.
  • The Preferences panel has been modified to use a standard OS X toolbar using buttons with icons and labels.
  • The "Copy Page URL" and "Copy Entry URL" commands now include HTML and RTF representations on the pasteboard, with the notebook name as the text for the link.
  • Fixed problem causing RSS feeds to fail to display, if they claim to be UTF-8 but contain non UTF-8 characters
  • Fixed bugs related to creation and display of movie attachments.
  • Fixed bug in web notebook updating. If an Index section was present but not all index pages were included in the web notebook export, the entire web notebook was being updated on every save (instead of just the changed portions).
  • Fixed issue causing blurred rendering of QuickTime controls (and possibly other attachments) on ruled pages.
  • Fixed issue causing unfilled areas in the attribute column background after certain actions on ruled pages, with line spacing > 0.
  • Fixed issue with tabbing between fields in the license panel.
  • Fixed issue with page marks that point to the Contents page of a notebook.
  • Fixed bug causing premature deletion of docked page mark and folio files that had been dragged directly from the toolbar.
  • Fixed problem with translation of internal notebook links to web notebooks.
  • Fixed issue causing Index page entries to be editable.
  • Fixed issue with templates created from collapsed entries.

New in NoteTaker 2.0.2 (Feb 18, 2008)

  • Fixed bug causing web entries in Page Folios to become attachments.
  • Fixed bug preventing Java plug-ins from opening if the file names were upper case. Removed support for OS X 10.3.x (Panther).
  • Added code to avoid using Cocoa routines to get host name, which can apparently cause delays when DNS is unresponsive.
  • Fixed a problems with clipping services.
  • NoteTaker no longer updates QuickLook files when saving a notebook, if not running in Leopard.
  • NoteTaker now defaults to Java 1.5 on Leopard, for running embedded applets.
  • NoteTaker now allows modification of entry state and priority on non-text index pages (index pages that show an entire entry).
  • New "Parent" column type on Index section pages shows initial text of parent entry of displayed entry (on index pages that show an entire entry).
  • Significant improvements to alignment of text on ruled pages.
  • NoteTaker no longer registers as a direct opener of MS Word (".doc") files, although they can still be imported as before.
  • Recent notebook web browsing history is now saved in ~/Library/Application Support/NoteTaker/history.plist, for auditing purposes.
  • Fixed bugs in sorting.
  • Fixed bug in display of movies when a notebook is first opened to a page with a movie.
  • Fixed bug that could cause local attachment files to be duplicated in rare cases.
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused QuickTime attachments to be displayed at the wrong size in Leopard.
  • Fixed bug in Voice Memo that could result in a crash when making long mp3 recordings.
  • Fixed a bug causing failure to display RSS files in web entries, and failure to export NTML using an XSL transform.
  • Fixed bug causing visible web or plug-in entries to appear blank after unfocusing an entry.
  • FIxed bug interfering with assignment of key shortcuts in Preferences.
  • Other minor Leopard-related changes.