Title

Curio 2.1 Release Notes

Article ID

AR020100

Release Date

January 12, 2005.

Requirements

Requires Mac OS X v10.2.8 or above, with Safari.

New Features

• New shapes! In addition to the rectangle and rounded rectangle shapes offered previously, Curio's group, text, and asset figures can now be framed with octagons, hexagons, trapezoids, brackets, vertical brackets, triangles, diamonds, semicircles, ovals, and clouds.
• Adornments such as flags, ratings, and checkboxes, can now be embedded within the shape border. This makes it easier to do flowcharts and mind maps.
• If you are using Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger) and you drag text or paste text copied from Sleuth or Safari then a new hyperlink attribution appears at the end of the text so you can see where the text came from. (Thank you Apple!)
• Likewise, also in 10.4 only, if you copy or drag an image from Sleuth or Safari then we can grab that origination URL if we were otherwise unable to determine a click-through URL for the image.
• Default style information for groups, lists, and PDF image figures can now be remembered.
• Added new Shift-R keyboard shortcut to rotate the selected figures clockwise.
• Added new Backtick (`) keyboard shortcut to quickly toggle the Inspector's visibility.
• Added new Control-Backtick (`) keyboard shortcut to quickly switch the Inspector's current tab.
• Added a new Edit > Paste As Plain Text when you want the raw text without any formatting.
• When printing or exporting as PDF, the Fit to Print option now allows you to separately control whether the idea space's orientation is automatically rotated between landscape and portrait to minimize scaling artifacts.

Notable Fixes

• Minor tweaks so Curio starts correctly under Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger).
• Fixed some issues printing high-dpi items like EPS files. Now we make sure no images are cached by NSImage and we use setSize before drawing into our sized image.
• Resize handles are now reduced in size if the figure itself is small so the handles are not in the way.
• In 10.3 and above when using Full Screen mode the Dock is set to automatically hide and reveal instead of being permanently hidden.
• Dossier will now print its current contents and not just the last saved contents.
• Fixed an issue where if you set a new default size for idea spaces then we kept rounding it up to the nearest whole page.
• If the select tool is active then the idea space accepts first clicks when coming from another application. Otherwise the first click simply activates the window. This will prevent the accidental creation of stray scribble marks, lines, rectangles, etc.
• Now handling the drag and dropping of files onto a Read Only project a bit better. We now show an alert asking the user to check to see if it's a Read Only project file (instead of simply throwing an exception and creating a bogus asset figure).
• If the Select tool is active and if the right mouse button is clicked then we first select the item we're over before showing the context menu.
• Fixed a bug where if the name of the exported idea space happened to be just long enough that the image name fit the 31 character limit perfectly, then the HTML file name would be too long. Also fixed a problem where the HTML file name generated was sometimes different from what it should have been.
• Fixed a weird font problem that occurs when you select some text in a text figure then change the font size via the Inspector's font size edit field — the font would revert back to its previous size when you click away.
• Fixed a bug where an image figure with a one pixel border, and no curved edges, would appear to be missing its left border.
• Modified our key bindings so holding Shift does the same thing as holding Option when nudging figures with the arrow keys. You now have to press Option-Shift to snap figures into their closest grid intersections.
• Fixed a bug with saving a brief as a template sometimes the new template wasn't showing up in the template list.
• Fixed a bug with the Undo system causing hangs after rebuilding a dossier form.
• Fixed a bug where Edit > Copy wouldn't copy a TIFF version of the selected images onto the clipboard (only a PDF was added). Also Copy As > PDF and Copy As > TIFF are both now accessible if only a scribble region is selected.
• We now look for the word "Black" also when determining if a font supports the "bold" attribute.