Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added alternative approach to measure strings for FormattedText (Old/Default: CharacterRanges vs. New:MeasureStringGenericTypoGraphic)
  • Change this via Tools > Settings... > String Measure Method
  • CharacterRanges should be considered deprecated
• Added in-memory caching when exporting sublayouts
• Added cnv (color normalized value) macro for converting colors to normalized values
• Added ability to specify graphic elements as masks
• Added ability to specify color matrix

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added ability to toggle graphic settings
• Added tracking of tree node collapse state to each project.
• Added ability to control the card count via define values (and only define values)
• Added ![exporting] ![exportformat] ![parentlayout] ![rootlayout] card values (see manual)
• Fixed ![deckindex] and ![cardindex] (they were swapped)
• Fixed rare/intermittent issue with reference reads
• Added preliminary SubLayout element functionality [needs even more documentation]
• Adjusted Image Cache to track last updated times on files
• Added WebP image support (import/export & Windows only) via SkiaSharp (https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp)
• Added card index functionality for image export / pdf export

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added ability to access element fields with &[fieldname]
• Added new graphic element type option to draw the graphic at the element origin
• Various fixes related to google chache
• Reference overhaul to specifically fix relative paths for excel references

Observed Issues

• Performance will be impacted as the translation cache will be used less due to the introduction of the &[fieldname] functionality. I'll be investigating ways to improve this.
• Occasionally I have seen problems where a CSV file would indicate that it was not found. Refreshing seemed to fix things (not sure if anyone will see this as it might be specific to my machine). Likely related to the reference overhaul

Warning

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

If you run into issues please try a prior version.

Changes

Note: this version is functionally equivalent to v.1.3.0.0-unstable.v.a9

• Overhaul to Google sheet selection due to security policy changes
• Added detection for main window launch on non-existent screens (will re-position to 0,0)
• Added a number of options for pdf export (combobox) based on context
• Added PDF export support for the export name format (on export you can use it or further customize the output file)
• Added layoutname as another card value
• Added padl and padr to allow for padding of strings
• Added ability to pick colors from the entire screen when using the color selection dialog.
• Added font scale markup (fscl) to scale a font vertically/horizontally.
• Added caps markup for forcing all text within to be all caps
• Added mirror markups for FormattedText (<mv> & <mh>). This affects inline images/background images only.
• Added mirror element option (all element types)
• Added new reference macros: ![refline] and ![refname]
• Added reference information to the canvas window title text

Bugs

• Uhm probably a few in there.

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Follow-up to A8 build: Adds a new google reference selector dialog

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Adjusted Google functionality to avoid the use of the drive.readonly scope. This means you will need to paste in the url (or id) of the spreadsheet as Google requires an extensive/costly approval process for applications to have read access to user drives. This change applies to both setting up the project wide defines as well as layout references.

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added a number of options for pdf export (combobox) based on context
• Added PDF export support for the export name format (on export you can use it or further customize the output file)
• Added layoutname as another card value (![layoutname])
• Added padl and padr to allow for padding of strings (#padl;5;0;123#)

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Fixed stitched export to crop any rendered elements outside of the bounds.
• Fixed stitched export of rotated cards to rotate in-place instead of the entire resulting stitched image.

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added ability to pick colors from the entire screen when using the color selection dialog.

Warning

This is an experimental pre-release. There may be issues so proceed with caution! Go use a non pre-release unless you want to risk potential issues.

If you are mid-project I strongly recommend against upgrading to a new version. If you choose to do so please backup your project before using the new version!

Changes

• Added caps markup (forces all characters to be uppercase)
• Added fscl markup (font scale, horizontal and vertical)