Version History

Diagram Designer

Diagram Designer

Version History

 

Note that this version history is incomplete.  It does not include all changes in all versions.

Version Date Comments
1.21 2008-10-14
  • UML class diagram symbols
  • Line start/end marker can be changed in toolbar
  • Print scaling setting
  • Link point markers (red x) only shown while dragging an object
  • New improved antialiasing algorithm
  • Object shadows option
  • Find text function
1.20 2008-03-16
  • Improved Vista support
  • Diamond line end style
  • Line segments style for curve lines
  • New outline connector style
  • Scaling anchors on objects in group to support scaling of a group
  • Bitmap alpha blending (cannot be used with halftone scaling)
  • Antialiasing in slide show and bitmap export
  • Text formatting bugfix
  • Easier editing of link points using the mouse
1.19 2007-06-05
  • Closed curve can be converted to polygon and filled
  • Preview of template palettes in load dialog
  • Preview/thumbnails of diagrams in Explorer
  • Flowchart palette based on the work of Allen Titley and Alessandro Visentin and others
  • Move up/down buttons in link editor
  • Template palette remembered from last run
1.18 2006-12-30
  • Ctrl+arrow keys move selected objects by one grid unit
  • Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys move selected objects by one screen pixel
  • Layer menu can be opened from the status bar
  • New menu shortcut system: Just begin typing the name of the menu item or press F10
  • Fixed bug in formatting of text with different font sizes and multiple lines
  • Radius property on rectangles and connectors (only works with solid line style)
  • Symmetrical resizing of objects using the Shift key (press Shift AFTER pressing the mouse button on a corner)
  • Fixed bug with text on objects related to multi-byte character sets
1.17 2006-09-26
  • Resizing of group objects
  • Anchors on grouped objects for use when resizing
  • GUI design palette
  • Screen saver disabled during full screen slide show
1.16 2006-06-06
  • New text translation system with plain text language files
  • User interface updates
  • Popup note text attribute (\N)
  • A number of bugfixes
1.15 2006-01-07
  • Text color (\C) attribute
  • Improved BMP and JPEG import
  • Better handling of "Large fonts" setting in Windows
  • New program help file
1.14 2005-08-12
  • Links between pages (\Apage)
  • User interface updates
  • Underline (\U) and overline (\O) text
  • Improved text editing dialog
1.13.2 2005-02-06
  • Preview bugfix
1.13 2005-01-23
  • Links between documents (\Afilename.ddd)
  • Text margin
  • User interface updates
1.12 2004-08-07
  • Problem with graph plotter in expression evaluator fixed
  • Link point deletion bugfix
  • Non-Latin characters in translation supported
  • Windows® XP theme support
1.11 2004-05-31
  • GIF import/export
  • Double arrow type
  • Minor improvements
1.09 2004-03-18
  • Slide show capabilities
  • More keyboard shortcuts
  • Option to align objects to page or selection boundaries
  • Spell checker
  • Rotation (only implemented for some object types)
1.00 2004-02-19
  • Double-click object to edit text
  • Multiple connected lines can be drawn by left/right clicking while drawing
  • Object style editing in tool bar
0.99 2004-01-24
  • Connect links option
  • Connections marked with green boxes when objects are selected
0.98 2004-01-15
  • Paste special option
  • Text objects no longer has a link point
  • Font name and size can be changed in text labels
  • Template palette can be edited as normal diagram page
  • New line styles
  • Holding Ctrl while editing changes edit mode for lines, shapes and pictures
  • Holding Alt while editing will disable "snap to grid"
0.97
 
2003-12-26
  • Expression evaluator precision and plot axis auto-scaling improved
  • Import MNG pictures
  • New text alignment options
  • Language module
0.96 2003-12-06
  • New page properties dialog
  • Default line width changed to 3/4 point
0.94 2003-11-25
  • Multi-layer designs
  • Automatic renaming of objects to match text
  • Additional object shapes
0.92 2003-11-12
  • All objects/text can be converted to metafile objects
  • Rotation of metafile objects
0.91 2003-11-08
  • Object tree display
  • Curve object type
0.90 2003-10-25
  • First public release