macOS Big Sur support.

 App Store Edition Only  In-app purchases removed and all previous in-app purchase features now included free of charge.

Minor bugs.

Minor bugs.

Dark Mode support (macOS Mojave or later).

Speed Boost (Image and PDF).

Text View.

Options for image/PDF display quality in Normal View.

Speed improvements with shadowed text and shadowed shapes.

Smoothness of scrolling, zooming and panning.

Insert text cursor relative to text selection, using arrow keys.

Menu options to insert “Images", "PDF, EPS, AI”, and “Text, RTF” now support multi-file insertion.

When selecting a shape, undesired snap/move now prevented.

Task Chooser design.

Show/hide animation of sidebar, Info Bar and rulers.

User interface layout and view rendering, broken by macOS 10.14 Mojave.

Using Option-Right Arrow to move the cursor beyond the End of Flow character causes a crash.

Display bug on Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan.

On Thumbnails, deleting the last page causes a crash under some circumstances.

Translating graphics by dragging can be very slow to undo.

Translating graphics on spread-based master pages jumps incorrectly between spreads 1 and 2.

Unable to Load Default Font error causes startup crash on new install of Mojave 10.14.3.

Creating a text shape latches and implicitly creates a text shapes next time around.

With no selection and window focus not on the document window, clicking and dragging doesn’t show the bounding box.

Help ? buttons don’t work on macOS 10.14 Mojave.

Straight Line Tool bounds don't include mirrored line half when creating about center.

Jerky scrolling and zooming.

No obvious way to leave View > Customise Toolbar mode on macOS 10.14 Mojave.

Click on Inspectors then move an already selected shape. No Info Bar.

Undoing multiple interleaved depth shapes.

On Text Column Inspector, Column Width control not disabled with one column.

Applying corners to a Rectangle with Hole shape crashes with a C4 range error.

First line paragraph indent isn't applied if there’s a runaround before it.

Pasting a shape partially off screen causes a rendering issue.

Pasting or duplicating a shape with the Reshaping Tool or Rotation Tool always swaps to the Pointer Tool.

Info Bar update error when dragging, if the mouse goes outside the view area, then back in.

Thumbnails cache rebuild problems.

Hyperlink preview text on the Link popover dialog sometimes squashed.

Double clicking on a line auto-changes to the Text Tool when a text path isn't enabled.

Many minor fixes.

Inspectors initial position not top right, on first app launch.

Corner Inspector.

Info Bar, with comprehensive contextual help and keyboard shortcuts.

Keystroke constraints for sizing and positioning shapes.

Context-sensitive popups, showing shape size, position, angle and snapping constraints.

Visual drawing aids added to shapes during creation and editing.

'Sticky' drawing tools and library shapes.

Highlighting shapes when dragging a selection rectangle.

Align, distribute and snap all take the new corner styles into account.

Duplicate selected shape(s) by dragging with the Alt key held down.

Align single shapes.

Keyboard modifiers for nudging shapes with keyboard arrow keys.

Export any document as a PDF file, with reader spreads.

Pinch to zoom when using a trackpad.

Fast swapping from Image Tool or Flow Link Tool to Pointer Tool or Text Tool.

Maximum font size increased from 576 pt to 9999 pt and more standard font sizes added.

UI precision of mm and degrees increased to two decimal places.

Combined Zoom Tool replaces separate tools for zooming in and out.

View zoom range increased.

When inserting, pasting or dropping PDF-based content onto an empty area, add it at full-size.

Tabbing round selected shapes now shifts the view to bring out-of-view shapes into view.

Text cursor and mouse icons redesigned to improve clarity and visibility.

Image Tool now makes any image movable by double clicking on it, regardless of fit/align settings.

Stroke width now included when hit testing shapes for text addition/editing.

Dragging in of external text and images improved to make the target tool/selection consistent.

New document windows are now wider and positioned at the screen center.

Pages/spreads now centered when adding, duplicating, moving, removing, or navigating between.

With a multi-shape selection controller handles under other shapes can now be dragged.

5-point star now a pentagram.

Text Container Inspector renamed Text Column Inspector and its layout improved.

Line Inspector renamed Stroke Inspector.

Keyboard shortcut for menu option View > Invisible Flow Items changed to Control-Command-I.

Body/Master Page buttons and Normal View/Preview buttons moved from toolbar to page view title bar.

Font loading when iStudio starts up now occurs as a background activity.

Scrolling of main window disabled when the Link popover dialog is displayed.

Layout and image quality of Welcome Panel.

Rulers show/hide animated.

Unable to paste text on the Link popover dialog or Licensing dialog except via the local contextual menu.

Some keystrokes routed to the main window when the Link popover dialog is active.

Inconsistent routing of keystrokes when the Thumbnails window is active.

Undo doesn’t work when setting shape height using the Shape Inspector.

Drag and drop text files with unknown encoding causes a crash.

Snap Point not shown when snapping to margins only.

Image Tool: image on top of a controller can’t be selected.

On master pages contextual menu Page sub-menu options are active and cause crashes.

Images with DPI < 72 are loaded incorrectly, causing a hang when creating the Image Inspector preview.

Undo of Distribute shapes moves shapes to wrong positions.

Task Chooser sometimes appears above second autosave dialog.

Double click on a line segment adds an inaccessible text column.

Several issues with node controllers when creating shapes with coaxial straight lines only.

Picking a graphic when the mouse ends up over a handle. The graphic then drags, not the handle.

Show/Hide Inspectors button on document window doesn’t sync when opening a document with Inspectors already open.

Inspectors initial position not top right, on first app launch.

Comprehensive hyperlink support.

Page/Spread reordering and duplication.

Separate Thumbnails window.

Contextual menus.

Recent fonts list.

Many organisational settings persist between restarts.

Convert last spread to single page and vice versa.

Document window tabs (macOS Sierra only).

Fonts list reordered and system fonts removed from list.

Undo extended to include page/spread delete, reordering and duplication.

Default stepper increment for inches changed to 0.025".

Defaults for inset/outset now set based on units in operation.

Navigating to a different page doesn't change zoom.

Inserted images now scaled within the page size, instead of original size.

Speed and accuracy of inset, outset, and runaround calculations.

Improvements to styling when pasting and entering text.

Text effects icons now tri-state (none/partial/all).

Notifications added when bold and italic font variants are unavailable.

Flow linking now appends any existing downstream text.

Better naming of Page & Spread Inspector drop down menus for Add/Remove.

Adding a new page now selects it.

Swapped ^P and ^A keyboard shortcuts for Pointer Tool and Text Along Path Tool.

Added menu items for image flip.

Enabled/disabled state of menu items and toolbar icons now better reflects current selection.

Menu items for Alignment and Justification now indicate current text state with tick.

Removed delay on first display of font menus.

Clicking on empty linked flow containers inserts cursor in nearest laid out content.

Blinking cursor.

Fixed no-break space and non-breaking hyphen behaviour - now doesn’t break.

Startup sequence improved. Removed Splash screen. Changed startup ordering.

Added explicit version for Welcome Panel so it always shows for each new version.

Added preferences option to do nothing on startup.

Changing Use DPI setting on Image Inspector now leaves fit setting unchanged.

Image Inspector Scale factor now shown in red (as warning) if greater than 100%.

View now scrolled automatically to bring newly pasted shapes/images into view.

Drag and drop image from another app now centers image on the drop point.

Pasting shapes onto a different page or document now doesn’t offset the first paste.

Clearer error message when failing to obtain a license due to the wrong computer.

Content pasted from a different document is now always positioned on the spread area.

Removed doubled-up Inside/Outside margins for spread documents on master pages.

New hi-res icons on Shape, Image, and Paragraph inspectors.

Select Shapes menu item order, and keystroke assignments.

License messages for Website Download Edition when a migrated license file is detected.

License Activation Code entry to give prompts for 20 characters.

Overhaul of tooltips for the whole UI.

Notify user if a file can’t be saved due to insufficient file system space available.

Notify user when a file is becoming too large.

Show document file size on the document window title bar.

Prevent oversize documents from being saved.

When flow linking adds text frames, if shapes have a line stroke, add an inset.

32-bit binary no longer required (or supplied) in Application package.

Many other minor improvements and tweaks.

Crop marks not always showing in exported PDF.

macOS 10.12 bug - crashing when drawing some PDFs at small sizes, on some machines only.

Flows spanning multiple spreads don’t get fully rebuilt when a linked flow container is removed.

Opening documents causes the same Accept/Decline dialog to pop up twice.

'Save Document Copy As' doesn’t behave correctly if the user selects PDF export format.

Character Inspector Effects don’t clear when disabled due to no selection.

Launching the app by opening a document file that has an autosaved file opens both files.

Changing image fit to Original, via the Inspector pop-up list, puts two commands in the undo log.

Cursor can become invisible if you select text, click and hold but don’t drag, then click around.

Toolbar Show Master/Body Page icons change state if you press them twice.

Undo/redo of some actions places selection handles on the wrong spread.

Shape Library selection error if click selection is followed by drag off shape.

Many other minor fixes.

Crash on OS X 10.11 El Capitan due to new system font implementation.

Closing a document window that's behind another can lead to a crash.

Application Preferences panel.

Set the default text for the app: font, size, color and line spacing.

Bleed and crop marks.

Export document as booklet PDF.

Flatter user interface design, with retina support.

Dictation (requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later).

Quick Look document preview.

Full screen view (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later).

Lorem ipsum (placeholder text) generator.

Menu option to import text/RTF file.

Keyboard shortcut for view mouse cross hair menu option.

Document view scaling accuracy compared to actual size.

Document view zoom controls.

Overall app stability.

Buy Now button broken on Trial Expired dialog.

Incorrect scaling of grouped objects.

Mapping form feed code points to top of column paragraph styles.

Vertical ruler border wrong on different displays.

Incorrect zoom rounding on UI control.

Zoom In/Out Tools don't round trip.

UI lockup when displaying thumbnails on Yosemite.

Deleting shapes that contain a flow can cause crashes under some circumstances.

Deleting pages causes display error if doing this hides vertical scrollbar.

Adjusting width or height of straight lines causes invalid value when initial value is zero.

Many minor fixes and tweaks.

App Sandbox implemented (App Store Edition).

Developer ID implemented (Website Download Edition).

Auto save behavior.

If no documents are open, clicking Dock icon now shows Task Chooser.

Stack dumps resymbolized to enable Crash Reporter.

Licensing menu availability (Website Download Edition).

Gradient color fill a grouped shape.

Drag in PDF content.

Resume behaviour.

Device color issue.

Custom page size name field.

Stroke or fill rendering of a shadowed shape.

License copying by Migration Assistant (Website Download Edition).

The font selection pop-up list now shows a preview of each font face, if there are less than 2000 fonts installed.

The first time the font pop-up list is selected, a message is displayed while the font face previews are being generated.

Changes to the menu options and keyboard shortcuts for workspace layout configurations and view zoom settings.

Memory leak when caching images.

Caching PDF images resulted in huge memory allocations.

The help index file was missing.

Default values for grid spacing, margins, steppers, gutter and nudge are now all separately defined for each measurement unit.

Nudge distance now auto-adjusts with grid spacing as well as zoom factor.

Help page navigation.

Error notification when attempting to open documents with an older version of the app.

Launching the app by double clicking a document on the Desktop led to incorrect startup behavior on OS X Lion.

An incorrect build option resulted in all users needing at least one English based language to be included in the languages list.

The vertical scroll bar was the wrong size.

Minor fixes to the shadow generation algorithm.

Minor changes to enable running on OS X Lion.

Auto-switch to lower resolution images for faster image display whilst working and back to full resolution images for final export or print.

Support for different language keyboards, including entering characters with accents.

Default user font now picks up the system setting for application font size.

Dragging or pasting in a corrupt image crashed the application.

Inserting an image with DPI settings of less than 1 crashed the application - DPI values are now reset to 72.

"Insert with font" button on the Character Viewer didn't work.

A CMYK gradient fill of partial opacity didn't display correctly - it now gets converted to RGB.

Gradient fills with different colorspaces didn't display correctly - the second colorspace is now converted to match the first.

'Auto' mode for line spacing. In this mode, line spacing adjusts automatically when the font size of any of the characters in a paragraph is changed. This is now the default mode for new paragraphs.

Left align tab stops, with adjustable spacing that can be set in the Paragraph Inspector.

Handling of line and paragraph breaks when transferring text to and from other applications. Line breaks are now preserved correctly when copying to third-party apps that are plain text-based. Also, line breaks are now correctly preserved when inserting text generated on Windows systems.

Licensing system extended to include support for MacBook Air running all versions of macOS.

Selection height when text size expands, particularly with automatic line spacing.

Changes to enable building the application for distribution via the Mac App Store, in addition to the existing distribution methods.

Removal of the help page application licensing information from the Mac App Store build.

Inserting a text cursor crashed the application under some circumstances.

Exporting to EPUB crashed the application under certain conditions.

Using the spelling checker with Undo/Redo in a particular way crashed the application.

Hidden flows were occasionally created when certain shape operations were undone and redone, which could cause the spelling checker to crash. The operations affected were: copying and pasting shapes, linking and unlinking containers (column and path).

Hidden flows weren't removed from legacy documents, which could cause the spelling checker to crash.

Line spacing was wrong if a whole paragraph was in subscript or superscript (rare).

When copying shapes that were in a text flow but had no content (because the text hadn't reached them), the copies weren't enabled to receive text.

The splash screen did not display long document file paths without clipping them.

Two Document Inspector controls were left enabled after closing a document.

Entering certain characters such as '&' into the EPUB Author or Title meta fields on the Document Inspector caused a problem.

When selecting more than one paragraph with character selection, multi-values were not always correctly displayed on the Paragraph Inspector.

Text selection could obscure glyphs on neighbouring lines for tight line spacing.

Strings imported from external documents that contain code points outside the Unicode BMP were not handled correctly.

XML character entity references within ispx (XML) files were not handled correctly.

Undo and Redo toolbar icons weren't enabled correctly.

Image Inspector would not allow selection of image types PDF, EPS or AI.

Incorrect handling of master page content by the Export Document as PDF menu option.

Spelling Checker.

Automatic page numbering.

Separate master pages added for first, last, and left/right pages on spreads.

Undo/redo support added to all actions for which it was previously missing (with the exception of deleting pages, which warns the user).

Link to http://istudiotemplates.com added to the Welcome Panel, Task Chooser, File menu and Help menu.

Removed inactive Text Style Catalogues icon from the application's status bar.

Removed inactive Preferences item from the iStudio Publisher menu.

Clipboard contents sometimes unavailable for pasting when swapping applications.

Incorrect label sense on menu options Align/Distribute Shapes > Horizontal/Vertical Center.

Flow linking sometimes left droppings when linking paths.

Several esoteric bugs in tool operation, causing instability.

Document view windows didn't refresh immediately when dragging text between master and body pages (in separate windows).

Pending delete was not undoable in one step in three different places (previously required two steps).

Copy and paste options for: images, shape outline paths, shape style, character style, and paragraph style; plus Paste in Place (matches original page position) and Paste and Match Style.

Drag and drop images/PDFs/EPS/AI/RTF text/plain text; from the Desktop, from other apps, and between iStudio Publisher documents (text only between iStudio Publisher documents in 1.1.2).

Shift key modifier during drag and drop to force the creation of a new shape container to hold drag and drop contents, for text and images.

Dragging shapes between pages (spreads) in the same iStudio Publisher document.

Export current text flow as EPUB (new File menu option).

Export current text flow as RTF (new File menu option).

Page imposition to enable printing as a booklet, without having to reorder the document pages.

A miniature Image/Pointer Tool icon displayed in the top right corner of each shape/image control to allow convenient switching between Pointer and Image Tools.

Document Title and Author data fields added for EPUB export, settable from the Document Inspector.

Image tiling controls added to adjust the "seed image" position.

Auto-scrolling when editing (creating, editing and moving shapes, or dragging to select shapes or text).

Auto-scrolling when dragging (text internally, text and images into the application, and text out of the application).

Automatic tracking of the caret (text cursor) while typing or moving the caret, to keep the caret visible.

Insert image menu option and Image Inspector 'Choose Image' re-implemented as a drop-down sheet.

Margin settings for spread edited documents changed to inside/outside (from left/right).

Maximum number of document pages increased to 9999 (from 999).

Time for saving large files, reduced by about half.

Time for loading large files, reduced by an order of magnitude.

Reassigned all 'V' based keyboard shortcuts for Arrange and View, to keep all 'V' shortcuts for paste.

Implemented proper detection of file types.

Line breaking support for URLs, including full support for Unicode 5 breaking rules.

Emergency line breaking (automatic) added for long text strings (20+ characters) having no natural break points.

Extended Unicode characters didn't always copy and paste correctly.

Unicode word boundary analysis didn't work with all scripts.

Large files crashed on saving.

Auto-saved documents didn't get the focus on load.

Tool tip on Character Inspector Height slider was wrong.

Paste was sometimes enabled when a document was opened, but nothing could be pasted.

On inserting a new text container, the caret was created but the focus didn't allow text input.

Stability problems when running on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Manual mode for image resizing and positioning that is independent of an image's containing shape, and which enables an image to be cropped by any shape with complete flexibility.

Image Inspector features to support manual image resizing and positioning.

Image Tool for selecting, resizing and positioning images.

Text Box Tool for creating empty text boxes.

Keyboard shortcuts for: tool selection, text navigation, selection and alignment, incremental changes to font size, zooming the current view, page/spread navigation.

Check License menu option now displays an iStudio ID, for use when contacting iStudio support.

Network based licensing to support multi-user systems.

Splash screen activity/status messages during application startup.

Welcome Panel and the existing Welcome dialog retained and renamed Task Chooser.

Introduction to iStudio Publisher user guide and What's New overview now included with the download DMG and available on our website.

Any extra space characters entered with a License Activation Code are now ignored.

Terminology changes. All occurrences of the word 'object' have been changed to 'shape', including renaming the Object Inspector to the Shape Inspector. 'Text wrap' has been changed to 'runaround' throughout.

Application and XML file changes to support improved image rendering.

Colors added to the mouse icons for flow linking, to match the colors of the text flow icons.

A licensing system check added for a downloaded Trial license being expired already.

Export to PDF dialog box title now set and a candidate filename and path are offered.

Grouped images didn't flip correctly.

The color profile for text shadow color was not being saved correctly.

Auto save incorrectly asserted the file edited status.

Unlicense option, to allow a license to be moved to a different computer.

Relicense option, to reinstall an existing license, e.g. after a hard disc crash.

Keyboard shortcut Command-Option-0, to resize and reposition the current document window, Inspectors and Color panel to fill the screen.

Color management of text, stroke, fill and shadow colors now preserves the definition color space when picking, loading or saving colors. Associated color profiles are embedded in iStudio document files and PDF print files. (Previous versions of iStudio Publisher converted all colors to the macOS internal calibrated RGB, which was then saved in our file structure.)

Curve creation and aggregation added to the Multi-Line Tool.

Welcome dialog now includes more options, including an Open Recent document list.

New Document mechanism redesigned, including replacement of the standalone dialog with a drop-down sheet.

New Document dialog now presents more page summary information and includes a button to open the standard macOS Page Setup dialog, for selection/management of standard/custom page sizes.

Controls added to the New Document dialog to enable creation of a default text container on each new page and linking between text containers.

Cascaded menus enabled to choose toolbar items that lie beyond the right hand side of the document window.

Toolbar customization configuration now saved, so that it persists between sessions.

Licensing system dialogs improved to provide better information.

Paragraph Inspector line spacing control to round-trip correctly when alternating between 'scaled' and 'exactly'. The scaled upper limit has also been increased from 10 to 100.

The Image Inspector's Use DPI pop-up list setting was not being saved, causing it to revert to the default setting of 72 between sessions for images of higher resolution.

Occasional crashing when changing units.

Line Inspector incorrect validation prevented manual entry of values into the line width control.

Snap to margins not working during spread editing. The snap algorithm has also been improved.

Ruler tick marks occasionally turned blue.

Unwanted save point in the auto-saving system.

Splash screen proportions were distorted.

Incorrect resizing artifacts remaining when the window was enlarged. Fixed by increasing the minimum document window size.

The Option-mouse scroll zoom control wrapped occasionally, i.e. jumped from 5000% to 5% or vice versa, during fast zooming.

Changing the page size did not cause the document state to be set to 'edited'.

Document Inspector occasionally displayed a blank paper name and zero page size, particularly at startup and when the auto save system became active.

Modifier keys did not take immediate effect, but were delayed to the next mouse movement. For example, when using the Shape Library and pressing the Command key to create a text-only shape.

Deleting the last page of a document with the Thumbnails Navigator open caused a crash.

Newly created shapes were sometimes not immediately displayed in the Thumbnails Navigator (if open) or on a second document window.

Bezier Curve Tool generated a user prompt to close a curve with only two points, when the resulting curve would be created open.

Memory leaks when creating and destroying documents, and when loading the font menu.

Support for inserting AI - Adobe Illustrator Artwork files (.ai), via new menu item Insert > AI.

Keyboard shortcut Command-D added for Duplicate current selection.

Choice of measurement units enabled - choose from millimeters, inches, inches (decimal) or points. The default setting is determined by the locale. A user override is provided via a new pull-down list located at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical rulers.

Text filtering added during copy and paste from other applications to map ASCII Line Feed and Carriage Return code points to the corresponding Unicode delimiter code points.

User registration dialog added to the full licensing process.

Licensing process extended to include support for free issue licenses and test licenses.

Improved Inspector support for indicating multiple values when more than one shape or text style is selected.

Text copied from some other applications, including Word 2008, was pasted in as an image instead of text.

Licensing error from a standard (non-Admin) login account caused by file permissions.

Application Update Roadmap added to the help pages.

Support for inserting the following image file types added:
ICO - Windows icon files (.ico)
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group files (.jpe, .jif, .jfif, .jfi)
JPEG 2000 - JPEG 2000 files (.jp2, .j2k)
PICT - QuickDraw image files (.pict, .pct, .pic)
PSD - Adobe Photoshop files (.psd, .psb)

Image loading and saving. Images now stored inline in their native form, with no loss of quality or metadata.

Image DPI setting on the Image Inspector.

Image DPI setting is now remembered when a saved document is loaded.

License management now supports an option to license by email.

Undo Redo toolbar icons enabled.

Toolbar 'Print' and 'Save' icon tooltips corrected.

On the Document Inspector, fixed the grid steppers and enabled the grid line frequency.

Grid settings are now saved with a document and changing the grid settings changes the document status to 'edited'.

Cloud callout completed in the Callouts Shape Library.

Cloud shape added to the Miscellaneous Shape Library.

Tracking slider on the Characters Inspector fixed.

Freehand Scribble tool now generates less points, and modifies this according to the current zoom.

Help menu reordered and Updates Coming Shortly replaced by Application Update Roadmap.

When creating a text flow in a container with a visible border (line), the column inset is now set to 1mm.

Spiral Shape completed.

Welcome dialog and New Document dialog are not shown if the application is launched by clicking on a document.

Toolbar 'Print' icon not enabled correctly for licensed versions at startup.

Occasional crash when entering a License Activation Code.

auto saved documents do not correctly show their 'edited' status, in both Licensed and Unlicensed mode.

Resource permissions on nib files, which were preventing the application from running.

Installer problems, permissions and directories.

A license server communication (SOAP) problem sometimes caused a crash.

The Splash screen did not close without an internet connection.

Licensing system added and enabled.

Margin display.

Snap to margins.

Document Inspector: page configuration, grid configuration, margin configuration.

Character Inspector: text underlining, text strikethrough, text outlining, text shadowing, text opacity, text subscript, text superscript.

Object Inspector: shape size and location.

Application startup sequence and screens/dialogs.

Toggling the Page Mode between Master and Body now correctly zooms to page/spread.

Justification of the hyphenation glyph.

Hyphenation is now turned off by default on paragraph settings.

Occasional crash when Command-dragging to create a text frame.