Recent Changes in NoteBook

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v370

• Fixed an issue with shape images generated during website export.
• Worked around an issue with DropBox and NoteBook’s Spotlight importer.
• Fixed a rare highlighting-related bug.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v368

• Fixed an issue with NoteBook's Spotlight importer.
• Fixed a Contents Card bug.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v367

• Added a fix for a crasher.
• Fixed a Contents Card toggle bug.
• Fixed a bug with website generation when running in French.
• Fixed a bug with drag-and-drop of attachments.
• Fixed a bug with entry of German dates.
• Fixed a bug with shape image generation during website export.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v366

• Fixed a problem with exporting pages with shapes to HTML.
• Fixed a bug with importing from the Grab service while editing text.
• Fixed a problem with opening links to Apple Mail messages.
• Fixed a bug where cells dragged to another application would present the copy cursor when the operation is actually a move.
• Fixed a redraw bug when dragging cells out of a window.
• Fixed a rare HTML export hang.
• Fixed a problem with entering times with due dates.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v365

• Fixed a problem with assigning due dates to cells.
• Fixed a bug where cells with attachments aligned left or right but no text would not display dates.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v364

• Reworked NoteBook's Spotlight importer to improve performance on Tiger and Leopard.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v363

• Fixed a bug where the Outline -> Join command was active on Divider pages.
• Fixed a bug with printing text notes containing highlighting.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v362

• NoteBook Clipping Services now appear in the General category on Snow Leopard.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v361

• Added changes to fix problem with text sometimes turning white in Snow Leopard.
• Worked around a bug in the Snow Leopard undo system.
• Fixed a bug with scribbles that could create problems while displaying a page.
• Fixed a problem with Quick Look support in Snow Leopard.
• FIxed a bug where the Paragraph Mode symbol would appear upside down in Snow Leopard.
• Fixed a problem with syncing action items to iCal in Snow Leopard.
• Fixed a problem with jumping to specific Help Viewer pages in Snow Leopard.
• Cleaned up title bar of single-page windows under Leopard and Snow Leopard.
• Fixed a bug related to the undo system and working with pages in separate windows.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v360

• More changes to prepare for Snow Leopard.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v359

• Reworked the plug-in installation subsystem.
• Fixed some localization issues.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v358

• Fixed a Snow Leopard bug where the Open Recent menu would always be empty.
• Fixed a bug where sticky flags attached to a Notebook page would sometimes not appear on the next Notebook opening.
• Fixed a bug where if a Notebook had pages open in a separate window, those pages would appear when you next opened the Notebook even if the Notebook opened with the cover on.
• Fixed a problem with the location of checkboxes in the Steno paper style.
• Fixed a problem with the column sizes in the Steno paper style.
• Fixed a bug where Paste Above only worked with copy/pasting cells.
• The E-mail Page as PDF option in the toolbar now generates multi-page PDFs, as needed.
• Pressing Return on a Divider page with a Divider selected now adds just a new Divider page (previously it added a new Divider page that contained an untitled note page).
• NoteBook now takes additional steps to salvage URLs with illegal characters so that they can be opened when clicked on.
• Fixed a problem with strange behavior in Cornell Note Taking pages after creating one, typing its name, and pressing Return.
• Fixed a problem with entry of British dates in the outline's due date field.
• Fixed a bug where the website export thumbnail setting "link to original" was sometimes lost.
• Fixed a bug where if you dragged a cell from a page to a page listed in the Contents Card, and that page was open in a separate window, the dragged cell would not be drawn in the destination page's window.
• The Date and Time Stamp toolbar item now displays a checkmark (in its menu when you click and hold it) next to the type of date/time stamp it will generate when you click the item.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to make certain attachment inspector pane settings the default settings.
• Fixed a bug where the Inspector's Options tab would sometimes not update correctly.
• Fixed several cell numbering bugs related to indenting and dragging cells.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v357

• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would sometimes hang if an attribute column was too narrow.
• Fixed a Snow Leopard bug where the preferences panel would fail to display the first time it was invoked.
• Fixed a bug related to HTML export of text notes on the cover page.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v356

• Fixed a bug where the Page -> Go -> Back command would sometimes act erroneously on Leopard.
• Fixed a bug related to sending PDFs from Mail to NoteBook.
• Updated the German localization files.
• Fixed a bug where sticky flags removed from a page sometimes reappeared the next time the Notebook was opened.
• Fixed a bug where notes in the shape layer would not appear when the Notebook was exported as a website.
• Fixed a bug where if you scrolled a sticky flag attached to a cell out of view, scribbles and other graphic content would not disappear.
• Pressing Cmd-Right Arrow with a cell selected now places the insertion point at the end of the cell's text rather than the start.
• Fixed a bug where cover page settings were sometimes lost.
• Made a change to fix a bug with the placement of page numbers when printing the page footer.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v355

• Fixed a bug where the toolbar would not resize itself when the ruler was active.
• Fixed a bug where an image set for annotation would sometimes resize when the page was revisited.
• Fixed several localization bugs.
• Added French and German localizations.
• Fixed a bug where Option-clicking a page in the Contents Card opened the page in a new window, but also changed the current page in the main Notebook.
• Fixed a bug where copy/pasting pages between Notebooks did not copy the page's annotation image to the destination Notebook.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v354

• Fixed several localization bugs.
• Fixed a bug where if you added an attachment to the outline, clicked it so that it was selected, and pressed Delete to delete it, the attachment would appear in both the Attachments and Discarded Attachments Multidex pages.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v353

• Fixed a bug related to showing lots of contact stickers in the Super Find Inspector.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v352

• Fixed a bug with link detection of URLs ending in a closing paren.
• Pressing Tab in a Cornell Note page now inserts a tab character. Pressing Option Tab tabs between the page's three sections.
• Fixed a crasher related to closing Notebooks.
• Fixed a bug where Paste and Match Style would not accept plain text from the Clipboard.
• Fixed a crasher related to turning to the Highlighter Multidex page.
• Fixed a bug where it was sometimes not possible to switch to another app by clicking in a window while working with a tablet stylus.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v351

• Fixed a bug where annotation pages would display the first page of the annotated document.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v350

• Fixed a bug where NoteBook could begin converting your handwriting to text and as a result lose strokes that were in progress.
• Added an option to the Ink toolbar item to ignore stylus pressure when sketching. This is a NoteBook-wide setting.
• Fixed a bug with images sometimes appearing flipped.
• Fixed a bug with images sometimes shrinking in size each time you revisited their page.
• With an attachment selected in the outline, Edit -> Copy now copies that attachment to the clipboard.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v349

• Pages with no margin lines now website-export their shapes a little bit further to the right, so that they more closely resemble the original page.
• Files copied into a Notebook are now copied with the Finder "Lock" setting turned off.
• Fixed a bug where on Leopard the date controls in the Cell Inspector would resign focus after each key press.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v348

• Fixed a bug where empty text shapes would generate errors during website export.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to click on an attachment in a Writing page and press Delete to delete it.
• Fixed a bug where shapes and sticky notes ignored the document's spell check setting.
• Fixed a shape editing redraw bug.
• It's now possible to apply highlighting to text in shapes and sticky notes.
• The Format -> Font -> Strike Through command now works with text in shapes and sticky notes.
• Sticker contextual menus that contain lots of Contact stickers should now open faster the first time they're made visible.
• The Favorites section of the Sticker contextual menu has been moved to the start of the menu, before the section that lists the Stickers present in the current Notebook.
• Fixed a crasher related to closing a Notebook with visible sticky notes and then waking the computer from sleep or changing monitors.
• Fixed a bug where pages in a separate window would sometimes grow slightly in size when a Notebook was reopened.
• If you double-click to create a new text note and then end editing without changing it, NoteBook removes the empty text note.
• You can now choose the color of the Contents Card font, using the Contents Card font box in preferences, and the Notebook Inspector for each Notebook.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v347

• Fixed a bug with inputting UK dates in the cell due date field.
• Fixed a bug where cell numbering would sometimes increase the height of cells when it did not need to.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v346

• Added the Edit -> Paste -> Paste Above command, which pastes cells on the clipboard above the currently-selected cell.
• Renamed Edit -> Paste -> Paste Text as Plain Text to Edit -> Paste -> Paste and Match Style, and changed the keyboard shortcut to Shift-Option-Cmd V to match Apple app convention.
• Fixed a bug where if you copied a text link URL (a link created by dragging a file to a Notebook with NoteBook set to create text links for attachments) and then pasted to a Note page without an insertion point, the link pasted as if it came from Safari.
• Added Shapes and Stickies and Flags to the toolbar's View item.
• Fixed a bug where lines were always drawn beneath shapes in a NoteBook-generated website.
• Cells appearing in the To Do Items and Date Multidex pages now appear in Hide Full Cell Text mode if that's how the cells appear on their original page.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v345

• Fixed a LinkBack-related bug.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to use the Inspector to change the alignment of attachments in multiple selected cells.
• Fixed a bug where applying the current attachment's Attachment settings to all attachments on the current page did not affect the antialias setting.
• Fixed a bug where clicking a link bubble in an Multidex page would take you to the cell's page but not show it if the cell was collapsed within an ancestor if the page was open in a separate window.
• Fixed a bug where the toolbar separated item turned into a flexible spacer after adding it to the toolbar.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v344

• PDFs added to the shape layer no longer have their shadow turned on.
• When adding a file for annotation, NoteBook now switches off printing of page numbers for that Notebook.
• When adding a file for annotation, NoteBook now sets the Notebook to conform to the selected paper size during printing..
• Select All no longer selects a page's background shape.
• Fixed a bug where when pasting shapes onto a page NoteBook did not resize the page so that a scrollbar was visible if the pasted shapes were off the page.
• Fixed a bug where the zoom popup button would sometimes move when you changed the size of a tab.
• Fixed a bug where changing font settings in the page font inspector pane temporarily prevented subsequent text editing of the page.
• Fixed a bug where the inspector would sometimes display the purple "custom settings" images when an inspector pane was disabled.
• Fixed a bug where hiding the contents card would sometimes shift the position of sticky flags placed along the left edge.
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to set the underline or strikethrough color using the Font panel.
• Fixed a bug where a window for a page in its own window did not display its title when placed in the dock.
• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would have trouble clipping to a page with hoisted cells.
• Fixed a bug where PDFs inline within cells in the outline would not print out as line art.
• Fixed a bug in copy/paste of shapes that resulted in incorrect indexing and website export of the copied shapes.
• Fixed a bug where page numbers would disappear when rolled over with the mouse on Divider pages on Leopard.
• Fixed a problem where numbering set by the Format -> Text -> List command was not added when pressing Return in a Writing page.
• Fixed a problem where unscaled images would sometimes appear slightly fuzzy.
• Fixed a problem where sticky flags attached to cells could not be assigned to other cells or removed from a page.
• Fixed a bug where pressing down arrow while editing a page's name would appear to end editing but would not actually end it.
• Fixed a bug where when pasting a selection from Mail that contained an attachment, directly into a cell, the attachment would not appear in the cell.
• Fixed a bug related to adding alarms to tasks in iCal.
• Fixed a bug where on a page set to autoformat its cells, NoteBook would autoformat the page's name when edited.
• Fixed a bug where the Open With menu was included in the contextual menu of URL links.
• Fixed a bug where cells following a cell that spans pages and has a page break would get printed twice.
• Fixed a bug where the Attachments inspector would not update correctly with Writing pages.
• Fixed a bug where with a cell or Writing page with an inline and right- or -left justified attachment, if you set the inline attachment to right- or left- justified, the previously-justified attachment would disappear.
• Fixed a bug where if a cell had a sticky flag and was collapsed within its parent or ancestor, its flag would still be visible.
• When working with sticky notes that contain both background text and shapes, if you have a shape selected and then double-click the background text the sticky note now goes into text editing mode.
• When working with sticky notes that contain both background text and shapes, if you're editing the background text and click on a shape outside of the editing area, the sticky exits editing mode and selects the shape.
• Fixed a bug where after creating and then moving a text note, its text would sometimes not wrap properly the next time you edited it.
• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would sometimes change the modification date of a Notebook that is opened and closed without changes.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to apply Attachment settings in the Inspector using the Options tab.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v343

• Fixed a bug where if you have a Notebook set to print chapter style page numbers (i.e. x-x), Divider pages would continue to show physical page numbers.
• When opening a Notebook from a Spotlight search, you can now tell NoteBook to not perform a Super Find search on the search terms.
• Fixed a bug where if you opened an already open Notebook (by double-clicking it in the Finder) that Notebook would not become the active window.
• The preferences panel now contains a button controlling the option to warn or not warn about deleting pages from Dividers.
• When editing an action item's due date in the outline, the due date field now contains the time as well as the date. Additionally, changes to the due date's time in the calendar control now stick.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v342

• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to move lines in front of shapes in the shape layer.
• Fixed a bug where the Inspector would not change size when switching to another website export subpane.
• Fixed a bug where if you pressed Control Option Cmd to switch to highlight mode, and then released the Control key, the cursor would remain a highlighter cursor.
• When editing a cell in an outline, Shift Command Return now ends editing and creates a new cell.
• When editing a cell in an outline, Shift Return (the keyboard equivalent for Outline -> New Cell Above) now functions correctly.
• With no cell selected on a note page, if you begin typing NoteBook now creates a new cell to hold it.
• Fixed a bug where changes to pages opened in a separate window could be lost on save.
• Fixed a bug where if you opened a page in a separate window and closed the window, that window would sometimes reappear if you toggled the cover page.
• Shapes added to sticky notes are now rotated to the same degree as their note.
• When you work with a sticky note it will now respond to commands from the shape menu.
• When you select shapes in a sticky note, those shapes are deselected when you click outside of the note.
• When you rotate sticky notes and flags, the shapes they contain also rotate.
• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would beep if you selected multiple cells and toggled the Show Cell Control button in the Inspector.
• When exporting as a website to MobileMe, NoteBook now places the results in your MobileMe Web/Sites folder if that path exists, and provides a web.me.com URL. If the Web/Sites folder does not exist, NoteBook places the results in your MobileMe Sites folder and provides a mac.com URL as before. Note that it is not possible for a MobileMe user to create the Web/Sites path - please refer to Apple help document http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2637.
• Fixed a long-standing bug where if you asked NoteBook to perform an action after website exporting such as opening the website in a browser window, that action would only occur the first time you exported and never subsequently.
• Fixed a bug where adding a new sticky note while editing an existing note created problems with editing sticky notes thereafter.
• Fixed a bug where sticky flags attached to cells collapsed within their parents were visible when you turned away from their page.
• Fixed a bug where sticky flags scrolled out of view would sometimes briefly flicker into view when you turned to their owning page.
• Fixed a bug where triple-clicking (or more) into a sticky note would cause the insertion point to disappear.
• Fixed a bug where a sticky flag attached to a cell with multiple lines of text would become (visually) disassociated from the cell when toggled to show a single line of text.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v341

• Added support for UC Logic tablets.
• Fixed a bug where the sort pane's inspector button would not display a menu when clicked.
• Fixed a bug where undoing a View -> Zoom caused the Notebook page to go blank.
• Fixed a bug where the Notebook Inspector's font control did not change the font on Multidex pages.
• Fixed a bug where non-Media attachments were not included in the output of website export.
• Fixed a bug where shape line endings did not always pay attention to the line's stroke width.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to choose the three-ring binding style option without also choosing the paper hole option.
• Added a Delete menu item to the attachment contextual menu for attachments that are aligned right or left.
• Fixed a bug where when clipping to a Divider page, the new clipping page would become the last page of the last subsection rather than the last page of the Divider page's section.
• Fixed a bug where when clipping to a Divider page, if the Divider page was visible its new page would not appear in its list of pages.
• Added an Open With menu item to the contextual menu for text-linked attachments.
• Added a check for a crasher related to line shapes.
• Fixed a bug where when focused on shapes the select all and deselect all commands would modify the selection in the outline layer.
• Fixed a bug where the toolbar search item did not ignore the Return key.
• Fixed a bug where when if you created a new cell, set its numbering style, added a child, then created a new child and unindented it, the unindented cell would not retain the original numbering style.
• Fixed a bug where the Multidex page items in the Search toolbar item menu were always grayed out.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to set the Inspector to not show custom settings.
• Fixed a bug where the Option tab's Revert to Default Settings command was always grayed out.
• Fixed a bug where some tab inspector controls were not editable for Multidex pages.
• Changed website export to export the backslash character as a specific char code.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v340

• Fixed a second problem related to dragging cells with action items.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to double-click a PDF-annotation page to start creating a text note.
• Fixed a crasher related to transferring Spotlight comments while rebuilding a damaged Notebook.
• Fixed a bug where the due date calendar button was not visible if the spine's paper holes were not present.
• Fixed a bug where PDF-annotated page backgrounds were grainy when zooming the page.
• When editing a text note, NoteBook no longer displays its resize knobs.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to completely disable JPEG compression of thumbnails in HTML export.
• Made a change to try to address a problem where PDF annotation pages sometimes have trouble loading.
• When a text note increases in height so that it extends beyond the bottom of the page, NoteBook now scrolls the full text note into view.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v339

• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would sometimes have trouble dragging cells with completed descendants.
• Fixed a bug where Notebooks would forget to display the ruler/toolbar again on the next open.
• Made another change so that NoteBook should recognize Bluetooth-connected tablets.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v338

• Fixed a bug introduced in v337 where NoteBook would sometimes crash opening old Notebooks and at other times.
• Adjusted position of the current page "white dot" when drawn over divider page triangles in the Contents Card.
• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would sometimes have trouble dragging cells with hidden descendants.
• Fixed a bug where checked and then unchecked action items still displayed a completion date in the dates column.
• Fixed a bug where the paragraph mode toolbar item showed the wrong icon.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v337

• Fixed a bug where changing the current sticky note type using the toolbar item did not fully update other sticky toolbar items in other Notebook windows.
• Made a number of changes that hopefully fix the problem where it is not possible to edit sticky notes.
• Fixed a problem where on Leopard diagrams consumed a lot of CPU cycles.
• Made a change so that media files are read in from disk just before being rendered, rather than whenever information about the attachment is requested.
• If a Notebook window is set to not show sticky notes, adding a sticky note now set its to display sticky notes before accepting the new sticky note.
• In v334, some NoteBook users experienced a problem where they could add a sticky note to a Notebook, save it, close it, and then not see the sticky note when they reopened the Notebook. It turns out the Notebook window was not set to display sticky notes, so the sticky notes are present, just not visible. Choosing View -> Stickies and Flags and then saving fixes the problem.
• Made a change that should fix the problem of sticky notes sometimes not staying permanently removed after dragging them away from their page. If you have a Notebook that exhibits this problem, the ghost sticky notes may reappear one more time, but dragging them from their page and saving should remove them for good.
• Fixed a bug where removing a sticky note would not unindex it.
• Fixed a bug where shapes and sticky notes were not included in a rebuild of the Multidex.
• Added the NoteBook -> Recent Changes menu item, for viewing the changes in recent NoteBook updates.
• Fixed a sticky note crasher.
• The View -> Keywords and View -> Priorities items have been reenabled for Writing and Cornell Note Taking pages.
• For PowerPC machines slower than 1Ghz, the Animate Page Turns option is now set to Off by default.
• NoteBook should now recognize Waltop and Bluetooth-connected tablets.
• Fixed a problem where completed items set to hide would not hide. In addition to hiding at the start of a new day, completed items will also hide after turning away from their page.
• Fixed a problem where printing to conform to paper width or a custom size was often truncated.

Changes in NoteBook 3.0 v335

• Fixed a bug where sticky notes were shape constrained by the Shift key.
• Fixed a bug where stylus drawing would eventually slow down dramatically.
• Fixed a bug where NoteBook would crash after configuring the toolbar with the ruler visible.
• NoteBook no longer assumes the presence of the Times Roman font (which caused crashers on systems without it).
• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to double-click in a sticky note to start editing using a stylus.
• Fixed an exception related to shape labels and sticky text.
• Option-clicking a page in the Contents Card now opens that page in a separate window.
• Fixed a bug where information added to a page in a separate window could sometimes be lost on save.
• Fixed a bug where the toolbar would sometimes cover the page title when the ruler was visible.
• NoteBook now creates the ~Documents/Notebooks folder as described in NoteBook Help.
• Changed the position of the color swatch in sticky flags so that the swatch is always visible when a sticky extends beyond its Notebook's bounds.
• Fixed a problem with the default clipping item that brings up the clipping help page for first-time clipping set-up.
• Fixed a problem with PDF services related to the default clipping item.
• FIxed a problem with PDF services where clipping services with slashes in their names caused did not get PDF services.

Changes in NoteBook 2.1 v272

• Fixed a problem where the license manager would sometime incorrectly report that a license was not available.

Changes in v271

• Added a fix for a rare problem where the Contents Card would sometimes refuse to appear.
• Added some changes to the licensing system to work around Leopard quirkiness.

Changes in v268

• Fixed a problem introduced in v266 where clipping attachments would sometimes cause NoteBook to behave incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug related to drawing Cornell Note Taking pages.
• Fixed a bug where attachments in Media Frames did not print in high-resolution.

Changes in v266

• Fixed a problem where File -> Open Recent menu items appears too tall on Leopard.
• Adjusted NoteBook's NoteTaker document importer to handle NTML exported by NoteTaker that does not conform to the NTML spec.
• Fixed a bug where the Edit -> Insert -> Page Break command was enabled on Writing and Cornell Note Taking pages.
• Fixed a bug introduced in v265 where cut/copy/paste didn't work on Writing and CNT pages.
• Fixed a bug introduced in v261 where clipping a URL and setting its Title in the Clip and Annotate sheet resulted in just one cell rather than a title cell and the URL in a child cell.