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Scapple 1.4 provides compatibility for both macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon.

Refinements and Changes

Big Sur Refinements

• UI and icons updated to match the new look of macOS 11 Big Sur.

Apple Silicon Support

• Scapple is now a Universal app, running natively on both Silicon and Intel machines.

Speed Enhancements

• Optimisations to drawing boards with many notes and connections.
• Optimisations to typing in zoomed boards with many notes.

Changes

• Added a preference that allows you to use solid lines instead of dashes for connections without arrows.
• Replace and Replace & Find are now disabled if there is no replacement text or if the selected text does not match the find text.
• Note shadows are now always black and no longer invert to white when against a dark background.
• Removed the recent search menus from the Find panel as they did not work correctly.

Refinements

• Improved Paste, so that image and multiple pastes from the Finder now work better.
• Scapple now fixes invalid characters on paste (such as replacing tabs with spaces and page breaks with newlines).
• Improved clean-up in XML file format for deleted notes (previously data recording which notes had arrows pointing to them could be left around after notes were deleted).
• When using “Stack” to move notes out of one stack into another, the original stack is now adjusted and no longer leaves a gap where the removed note used to be.
• Stacks are now maintained when notes within them are merged.
• When pasting, if notes in a stack are selected, the pasted notes are now placed under the first selected note in the stack. (This does not apply when pasting via the contextual menu.)

Bug Fixes

• Quick Look preview bug fixed.
• Fixed some minor bugs relating to pasting text into Scapple.
• Fixed bug whereby pasting text into a note would result in black text until editing ended, even if the board was set to use a custom text colour by default.
• To work around a bug with certain fonts (such as Chalkduster) whereby descenders can draw outside of the text area, which could lead to descenders being unfaded when the rest of a note was faded, text drawing is now clipped to the text area when a note is set to be faded.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby images could not be dragged in and would drag in as URLs instead.
• Fixed bug whereby the bold and italic shortcuts may not work as expected on 10.15.
• Fixed a drawing issue whereby the appearance of notes scrolled out of view may not be updated when edited or selected.
• Worked around a dark mode drawing issue in the styles area of the inspector when using a background texture. The background of the styles area is now drawn dark grey when using a background texture, rather than showing the texture itself in this area.
• Fixed bug whereby shadows drawn against background textures would be white.
• Some performance improvements.

• Scapple’s licensing and activation system has been updated to work with our new e-commerce provider, Paddle.
• Find and Replace now allows loose punctuation (so that straight quotes will find curly quotes).
• Reduced the minimum window width when the inspector is not shown.
• Worked around an Apple bug whereby text turned automatically white against a dark background would become permanently dark when edited.
• Fixed a bug whereby the background colour may not immediately be updated in areas outside of the visible area after changing the colour.
• Fixed bug whereby the typing attributes for new notes may not be correct, and may fall back on using Helvetica black until editing ends.
• Fixed bug whereby the Preferences panel was too short on the Mac App Store version.
• Fixed issue with the notes count in the footer bar being placed wrong when toggling the inspector in a narrow window.
• Fixed a bug in Replace & Find whereby the selection may be off.

Enhancements

• Added support for Dark appearance on 10.14.
• Space bar scrolling is now smoother when zoomed.
• Style names in the inspector are now truncated if too long to fit, instead of wrapping.
• Scapple is now notarised for enhanced security.
• Scapple now uses the embedded eSellerate frameworks so that it no longer has to install separate files.

Bug Fixes

• Removed scaling option from printing for now given that this did not work anyway.
• Fixed bug whereby hiding and showing footer bar would cause footer bar to be shown behind the Inspector.
• Fixed bug whereby setting the floating colour palette to active focus would disconnect it from colour settings in the inspector.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a crashing issue on systems older than 10.10.

Additions and Enhancements

Make Connections

• You can now label connections between notes. To do so, select two notes and choose “Connection Label…” from the “Notes” or contextual menu. Double-click on an existing label to edit it.

Updated UI

• The Inspector has been modernised and now appears as a sidebar rather than as a floating panel.
• The footer bar and other UI elements have been refreshed for a more modern appearance.

Note Styles

• You can now assign note styles via the inspector using the new “Note Styles” palette.
• Create new note styles by dragging notes into the inspector.
• Drag a style out of the inspector to create a new note of that style.
• You can now assign the keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Opt-1 to Cmd-Opt-9 to note styles.

iCloud

• A “Scapple” folder now appears in iCloud Drive.

Other

• Holding down Shift and Command in Movement Mode now speeds up moving notes even more than just holding down Shift.
• New options added to align notes horizontally or vertically in background notes.

Bug Fixes

• Tiled background images should now appear the same when exporting and printing as in the UI.
• Quick Look previews now appear correctly on High Sierra.
• Numerous bug fixes.

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Yosemite Compatible

Bug fixes and minor refinements for Yosemite support.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby colour palette popovers would contain a large, empty grey area on Yosemite.
• Fixed bug whereby changing the text colour of a note while editing it would not update the insertion point colour.
• When notes are faded, their shadows are now also faded.
• Fixed bug whereby arrows might not be drawn correctly when drawing fell across fractional pixels.
• Fixed bug whereby notes count label could disappear beneath the zoom slider during window resizing.
• Fixed bug whereby editing could suddenly end when editing a note at the edge of the view when the board was scaled.
• Hopefully fixed bug whereby notes that inherited the fill colour of a background shape would be filled with too dark a colour when the background shape was faded.

Refinements and Changes

Mavericks Compatible

• Enhanced for Mavericks, including support for tags and responsive scrolling.

Enhancements

• When creating a new note with Cmd-Return, the new note now maintains the indent level of the selected note.
• Showing or hiding the footer bar will now determine the setting for new documents.
• Added View > Page Guides, which provides guides showing where page boundaries will fall when printing.
• Minor changes to file format and file reading for compatibility with Windows version.
• Scapple now drags out rich text to Scrivener (requires Scrivener 2.5).
• Rearranged inspector for consistency.
• When exporting only selected notes, only the selected items in a stack are now exported (previously the whole stack beneath the first note selected in it would be exported).
• Export now prioritises stack order over cluster order.
• When notes are stacked, they now always maintain their left alignment with other notes in the stack, even when auto-sizing is enabled and the notes are right- or centre-aligned.
• When splitting a note, the new note now uses the default note width rather than the width of the note it was split from while editing.
• The Preferences panel now applies changes when it loses focus even if the focus was still in one of its text fields.
• Indenting notes is now limited so that you cannot indent so much that a note’s text disappears.
• When double-clicking to create a new note, the placement of the note will now depend on the default alignment as set in the Preferences.
• Notes created by double-clicking on lines now use the default note style rather than the style of one of the connected notes, even if “Use selected note style for new notes” is set in the Preferences.
• You can now drag any file type onto the canvas. Notes containing links will be created for files other than text or image files.
• You can now drag URLs onto the canvas from web pages.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby the board would not reload when versions were restored.
• Fixed bug whereby notes set to use black text colour would always use the default text colour.
• Fixed bug whereby the “z” QuickZoom shortcut didn’t work on all international keyboards.
• Fixed bug whereby printing documents with coloured or patterned backgrounds may result in the arrows or text not being visible in the print-out (or exported PDF) because the text would always be black and the connecting lines would use the default text colour regardless of whether the background was set to be printed or not.
• Fixed bug whereby connecting lines did not use default text colour.
• Fixed bug whereby quitting the app while editing a note would cause the edits to that note to be lost.
• Fixed bug whereby Paste would not work for images on the clipboard.
• Fixed minor bug whereby auto-sizing wouldn’t work if you changed the font size while a note was being edited.
• Fixed bugs affecting stacks when used with right-to-left direction.
• Fixed display bug which would cause the window to appear before it was fully set up.
• Fixed bug whereby double-clicking on a line inside a shape would create a new note that was not connected to the line.
• Fixed bug whereby alignment and indent was lost when pasting text into a note.
• Fixed bug whereby the default alignment set in the Preferences wouldn’t be applied when using Apply Note Style > Default Note Style.
• Shadows at the edges of the board no longer get clipped when printing or generating a PDF or PNG.

Initial Release.