Title
Curio 1.1.2 Release Notes
Article ID
AR010102
Release Date
April 14th, 2004.
Requirements
Requires Mac OS X v10.2.7 or above, with Safari.
New Features
Pressure Sensitive Color Saturation
Like the brush size, the brush's color saturation now changes with pressure while you're scribbling on a tablet. The opacity stays set to the value specified in the Inspector. This combines the best of Apple InkPad (size and saturation change with pressure) and Adobe Photoshop (opacity can be set for a brush). It now feels much more like you're scribbling on a real-world sketchbook.
Quick Render Mode
Our new Quick Render mode makes dragging figures around, and sketching with the stylus or eraser extremely responsive! While a drag is in progress, Curio will now temporarily go into Quick Render mode where shadows are removed and high-res renderings of text figures are disabled since both of these items are normally very time consuming. You can only tell the text figures aren't high-res if you are zoomed into the page. Then, when you complete your drag, shadows and high-quality text rendering are immediately restored. For scribble suport, activating a stylus or eraser puts the idea space into this mode, then choosing another tool or simply hitting the Escape key will restore high-quality renderings. With this approach Curio can easily support very large text figures, 800% zooms with sharp text rendering, and very quick response times.
Other Features
- Assets: files embedded into the asset library are now marked with "read and write" file permissions. This includes attachments dragged from Mail which are normally "read only".
- Idea Space: the Escape key now not only ends editing but also chooses the Select tool automatically. This is very handy when done with a stylus or eraser session to restore the view from Quick Render mode.
- General: the memory consumed by the scribble layer has been reduced by 33%!
Notable Fixes
- Idea Space: fixed the elusive and strange fuzziness or boldfacing you might see when editing text while zoomed into the page! This didn't occur in Mac OS X 10.2 but is due to a new quirk introduced in Panther. Fortunately a workaround has finally been established which makes text editing beautiful once again.
- Idea Space: the playback buttons show up again when you first double-click on a movie or sound asset.