New Releases (5.x)

[Patrick]

5.5.0   01.04.2011
- New: Added buttons to conveniently access side bar panels on the View ribbon tab.
- Changed: Dragging images on to a topic will no longer bring the topic into view. This makes working with large shapes much easier.
- Updated the Welcome Mind Map to include the new keyboard short cuts.
- Improved: Decreased the paragraph spacing of the topic notes.
- Improved: Massive performance improvement when importing NovaMind 4 files with a lot of text.
- Improved: Spanish translation.
- Fixed: When side bar panel is active, clicking on the bottom-right icon of the panel doesn't close the panel.
- Fixed: Side bar panel failed to show when trying to show it while it was in the process of sliding out.
- Fixed: Minor memory leak when expanding/collapsing topics.
- Fixed: Link lines are deselected after print or print preview.
- Fixed: When exporting as image, link lines are exported with the selection visible.
- Fixed: Unable to close Print Preview window via ESC key.
- Fixed: Incorrect layout when setting the layout angle to either exactly 45 or 135 degrees.
- Fixed: Occasional exception when using the move right command in the outline view.
- Fixed: Modifying the hierarchy from outline view would take the focus from outline view
- Fixed: Glassy effect doesn't draw correctly on an oval shaped callout topic.
- Fixed: Disabling the Spell Check under Options does not disable spell checking for topic notes.
- Fixed: NovaMind 4 imports does often not import topic notes correctly.
- Fixed: NovaMind 4 imports does not import some bold and italic settings on text.
- Fixed: Control+Enter doesn't create a new paragraph on topic.
- Fixed: When trying to set format on text on multiple paragraphs or lines, it is only set on the first.
- Fixed: Typing on the selected topic doesn't turn it into editing mode sometimes.
- Fixed: Rare exception when typing text on a large Mind Map.
Pro:
- Improved: You can now hold down the Ctrl key while activating the Full screen view to prevent the window from maximizing.
- Fixed: Restoring a maximized Window in full screen mode doesn't end full screen mode.
- Fixed: MindManager import is saying MindManager 7/8 in file open dialog.
- Fixed: Exported PowerPoint file requires to be repaired by PowerPoint.
Platinum:
- New: NovaMind 5 Presenter - Give presentations right within NovaMind.
- New: Presenter Walkthrough feature to give ad-hoc presentations.
- Fixed: When exporting to MS Project the resulting XML uses an incorrect namespace.

[Patrick]

5.5.1   31.05.2011
- New: Additional shapes: Parallelogram Left, Parallelogram Right, Arrow Left, Arrow Right and Cloud.
- New: Cloud boundary shape.
- New: PDF export.
- New: Office 2010 style application menu.
- New: Easy access to recent folders from the application menu.
- New: Ability to create a new document from an existing document.
- New: Ability to export a document as a template.
- New: Easy access to templates in the New menu.
- New: Access to example mind maps through the gallery.
- New: Update can now be installed after exiting the application.
- New: Update notification window provides information on the new version and the download size.
- New: Added menu item to manually check for updates. (application will still automatically check on start up)
- New: Added Tutorials and Documentation button to the help menu.
- New: Map tabs will now show a thumbnail of the map in the tooltip.
- New: Thumbnails of Mind Maps will now be stored in the file.
- New: Added ability to Quick Print the mind map.
- Improved: Reworked topic shape gallery and shape format window.
- Improved: Rewritten the Topic Shape and Boundary galleries on the Format tab to be more understandable and useful.
- Improved: The context menu for enclosed topics images has now all the options for the topic as well.
- Improved: The default boundary shape is now a rounded outline boundary.
- Improved: The topics dash style is no longer applied to the radial topic connector.
- Improved: Added ability to retry the installation of the media library in case of failure.
- Improved: Better status and error messages when installing the media library.
- Improved: The NovaMind splash screen will no longer steal keyboard focus.
- Improved: When editing topic text the caret will no longer be underneath the translucent scroll bars.
- Improved: Chinese translation.
- Improved: Disable shape setting when selecting a boundary.
- Improved: Exporting map to PNG will now add a margin around the maps content.
- Improved: When updating, the installer will now respect a custom installation directory.
- Improved: Duration in task data can now be a decimal value.
- Fixed: Installer won't use the previous installation when updating the application.
- Fixed: Sometimes the topic notes icon is note removed when deleting all text.
- Fixed: Boundary Shape button for currently selected type is not checked.
- Fixed: When typing on topic NovaMind no longer makes sure that the caret is visible on the map.
- Fixed: Cannot select floating topic via keyboard navigation.
- Fixed: Rare exception when zoom/scroll animation is still underway and the Map is closed.
- Fixed: Connector is not shown if topic doesn't draw the outline.
- Fixed: Occasional exception when showing the context menu for topics.
- Fixed: Occasional null reference exception in find/replace feature.
- Fixed: Rare exception when grafting topics.
- Fixed: When removing an image from a topic with no text, the topic is deleted even when the topic has sub-topics.
- Fixed: When undoing dragging an image from a shape to a topic the image disappears.
- Fixed: Printing threw an exception when printing a line where the thickness is not a whole number and when using a solid line style.
- Fixed: When opening additional NovaMind windows the color picker of the new window would use the color set from the first window.
- Fixed: Cannot create hyperlink on topic by dragging and dropping from Internet Explorer 9.
- Fixed: Importing a non-UTF-8 encoded text file occasionally fails.
Platinum:
- Improved: Tweets in the intro are slightly smaller giving better results in low resolutions.
- Fixed: The topic notes have different paragraph spacing when in presentation mode.

[Patrick]

5.5.2   15.06.2011
- New: Color Array automatic coloring enables you to have sub-topics automatically colored from a list of colors.
- New: Reset Formatting option in the topic context menu enables to reset shape, color and connection line settings to the default.
- New: Reset to Theme option in Theme context menu enables to resest all shapes, colors and connection lines settings to the theme default.
- New: NovaMind 4 import will now import topic shape, topic colors, boundary colors, the map background and rainbow coloring.
- New: Hide Topic Text option in print window.
- Improved: If the callout uses a Cloud shape the connection will now be drawn using a number of smaller clouds.
- Improved: When importing from NovaMind 4, attached shapes will no longer be placed exactly on top of each other but will use a offset instead.
- Fixed: Exception when Collapsing Map and immediately clicking on Focus Topic.
- Fixed: When clicking some of the buttons in the backstage the backstage doesn't close automatically.
- Fixed: Map name in map tabs sometimes have line breaks resulting in the tab to be displayed incorrectly.
- Fixed: Misc fixes to the Gallery.
- Fixed: On the Home tab the Bold, Italics, Underline, and Strikethrough icons are clipped just a little bit across the top.
- Fixed: Mouse handling issues after the text formatting or hyperlink/attachment popup was displayed.
- Fixed: Cannot navigate to search result if search result is in an unopened tab.
- Fixed: Adding a hyperlink that targets a network drive via \\ results in http:// being added to the hyperlink.
Platinum:
- Fixed: Creating a presentation slide when a link line is selected doesn't work.

[Patrick]

5.5.3   29.06.2011
- New: Advanced gradients can now be used for fill color and on the Mind Map background.
- New: Add internal links between topics.
- Fixed: Rare error when exporting to PDF and the decimal separator of the current culture is a comma.
- Fixed: Error when printing a collapsed topic which uses rainbow coloring.
- Fixed: Deleting a topic with a link line causes an exception.
- Fixed: Minor translation issues in the Spanish translation.
- Fixed: .nm5template file extension is not registered to NovaMind.
- Fixed: Color on Color Array user interface doesn't update when changing color set.
Pro:
- New: Create Mind Map from Topic command in topic context menu.
- Fixed: Exporting a Mind Map to MindManager which has a topic that contains multiple hyperlinks fails.

[Patrick]

5.5.4   29.06.2011
- Fixed: Hot-fix release to fix a deployment issue with 5.5.3

[Patrick]

5.5.5   30.06.2011
- Fixed: Editing gradients caused an error when using some non-English culture settings.

[Patrick]

Read about it on our blog.

5.5.6   11.08.2011
- New: Custom shapes for Mind Map elements.
- New: Shadow effect for Mind Map elements.
- New: Reflection effect for Mind Map elements.
- New: NovaMind localized into Traditional Chinese.
- Fixed: Dragging in the ribbon tab background area does not move the window.
- Fixed: PDF export does not work correctly when Mind Map zoom level is not 100%.
- Fixed: When selecting a topic and only some of its sub-topics, grafting removes the sub-topics which were not selected.
- Fixed: Thumbnails are not always updated correctly when saving a document.
- Fixed: In rare cases the print window does not selected a default paper size.
- Changed: Closing operation (Ctrl+W) will now close the window if it only contains an empty document.
Pro:
- Fixed: When creating a new Mind Map from an existing topic, internal links targeting any of the sub-topics of the new map are broken.
- Fixed: When creating a new Mind Map from an existing topic, link lines between sub-topics are lost.

[Patrick]

5.5.7   11.08.2011
Pro:
- Fixed: Create Mind Map from Topic feature doesn't work.

[Patrick]

5.6.0   27.10.2011 - Read about it on our blog.
- New: The full screen feature is now also available in the Express edition.
- New: Ability to print the outline of the document.
- New: Ability to define a header and footer when printing.
- New: Keyboard shortcut to show notes window (Ctrl+T).
- New: Keyboard shortcut to switch from topic editing to edit topic notes (Ctrl+") and back (Ctrl+Shift+").
- New: Link to our newsletter subscription page in the Help menu.
- Changed: Removed inherit coloring mode.
- Changed: When copy-grafting a topic the new topic will be selected.
- Fixed: After grafting a topic keyboard navigation and instant text editing doesn't work without re-selecting the topic.
- Fixed: Grafting the only node from the left side to the right side causes the node to re-appear on the left side again.
- Fixed: Print window does not list all supported page sizes.
- Fixed: Welcome screen would show up when opening a Mind Map from the gallery in a new window.
- Fixed: A typo in the welcome Mind Map.
- Fixed: Application crashes when pressing Ctrl+T while editing text.
- Fixed: Some NovaMind 4 files have invalid image references which cause an error when importing.
- Fixed: The opacity of the background image is not imported correctly from NovaMind 4 documents.
- Fixed: Occasional 'Invalid Hook' exception when closing the attachments or hyerplinks popup.
- Fixed: Rare exception when dragging and dropping.
- Fixed: Occasional exception when removing topic
- Fixed: Layout of children is incorrect when using custom shapes and top-down layout.
- Fixed: In rare cases documents created on the Mac version don't open correctly.
- Fixed: Error when trying to open a file when some other application also reads from it.
- Fixed: Rare exception when closing a Mind Map.
- Fixed: Setting text attributes before writing new text doesn't work.
- Fixed: Cannot close Send Feedback window with the ESC key.
Pro:
- New: Ability to print multiple Mind Maps at once.
- New: Added iMindMap 5 importer.
- New: MindManager importer now supports importing attachments.
- New: MindManager exporter now supports exporting attachments.
- Fixed: When navigating to a different Mind Map using an internal hyperlink the target topic is not properly visible.
- Fixed: In rare cases deleting a Mind Map with both internal and external hyperlinks causes an exception.
- Fixed: Adding a hyperlink no longer adds 'http://' when a file or directory does not exist.
- Fixed: When importing a MindManager file some topic notes are only partially imported.
Platinum:
- New: Export presentation slides as images.
- New: Print presentation slides and print presentation handouts.
- Fixed: Out of memory exception when having a lot of presentation slides in the slides panel.
- Fixed: Root topic may appear selected during a presentation when presenting a document with multiple Mind Maps.
- Fixed: When editing a presentation sometimes the red editing-frame doesn't show up correctly.

[Patrick]

5.6.1   01.11.2011
- Fixed: Printing, in some cases, cuts off the content.
- Fixed: Select All doesn't select floating topics and their sub-topics.
- Fixed: Hitting Return when renaming a Map tab creates a new topic.
- Fixed: Hitting Return in font face or font size textbox in the editing popup creates a new topic.
- Fixed: Cannot select a font face using the keyboard in the font combobox.
- Fixed: Font face doesn't update properly based on selection.
- Fixed: Error when changing topic shape while the text is being edited on the same topic.
- Fixed: When adding multiple topics quickly keyboard navigation and selection is sometimes malfunctioning.
Pro:
- Fixed: Cannot rename map tab when root topic has no text.

[Patrick]

5.6.2   14.11.2011
- Improved: Show error message when file cannot be opened due to IO error.
- Improved: Color set list now shows current color set.
- Improved: Improved the shadow and reflection rendering efficiency.
- Fixed: Mind Map background does not redraw when changing color set.
- Fixed: Exception when deleting a topic with elbow connectors.
- Fixed: Rainbow color settings and color array settings don't show.
- Fixed: XML malformed exception when trying to print on some printers.
- Fixed: Application freezes when deleting a link lines control point while also dragging it.
- Fixed: Callout using line shape is not correctly rendered.
- Fixed: After saving the document selected topics scroll into view.
Pro:
- Fixed: Sometimes selecting to print all Mind Maps does not print all Mind Maps.
Platinum:
- Fixed: Pressing Enter while editing time in the task information will reset the time value.
- Fixed: Floating topics are not collapsed when starting a presentation.
- Fixed: Floating topics are not collapsed while doing a walkthrough.
- Fixed: Creating a slide which includes the root topic and floating topics does not properly show children.
- Fixed: Sometimes, when switching between Mind Maps during a presentation, the keyboard commands no longer respond.
- Fixed: Occasional exception when creating a slide and the slide list is open.
- Fixed: Starting a presentation while editing a slide can change the slide.
- Fixed: Presentation slides are sometimes unnecessarily redrawn when the topic is expanded.
- Fixed: When using the walkthrough and navigating from a child to its parent, some topics will collapse and then immmediately expand again.

[Patrick]

5.6.3   21.11.2011
- Fixed: Cannot print to network printers.
- Improved: Updated Spanish translation.

[Patrick]

5.7.0   23.01.2012
- New: FlexiTopics enabling more organic looking Mind Maps where text flows on a flexible line.
- New: Ability to set a custom default theme for new Mind Maps.
- New: Format painter to quickly re-use a style from a topic or shape.
- New: New Themes: NovaMind, Draft, Flexible Rainbow and Pinboard.
- New: Themes can now set background style, notes style and boundary styles.
- New: Opacity slider on theme color picker.
- Improved: Reworked built-in themes.
- Improved: Theme thumbnails no longer re-calculate when opening the theme gallery.
- Improved: The layout of topics which have a different layout orientation than their parent is now handled better.
- Improved: Added more keytips on the ribbon.
- Improved: Moved the Background drop down button in Map Design under the Fonts button to save space.
- Improved: When creating a new Mind Map from an existing topic the new Mind Map will use the same theme as the source Mind Map.
- Changed: The 'Default' theme has been renamed to 'Basic'.
- Fixed: Thumbnail images of Mind Maps are not saved correctly in file.
- Fixed: Flexible Line may jump while editing when the auto-save is performed.
- Fixed: Shape and color of attached shapes are reset when resetting a Mind Map to a theme.
- Fixed: Fill color is not set when setting a solid fill color via the Format ribbon tab on a topic which uses an advanced gradient.
- Fixed: Cannot see decimal value on outline stroke width slider.
- Fixed: Link line terminator scale settings of selected link lines reset to 20/20 when opening the format shape window.
Pro:
- New: Create your own Theme.
- New: Create your own Font Sets.
- New: Create your own Color Sets.
- New: Added support for importing relative hyperlinks from MindManager.
- Fixed: NovaMind 4 import did not import task data and checkboxes.
- Fixed: Rare error when importing iMindMap5 files.
Platinum:
- Fixed: Exception in walk-through presentation when "auto collapse" is disabled and "visit all topic" is enabled.
- Fixed: In the presentation slide selector some slides show with a brown background color.

[Patrick]

5.7.1   30.01.2012
- Fixed: FlexiTopic edit text box uses white background color even when text was white.
Pro:
- Fixed: In documents with multiple Mind Maps saving would in rare cases not work properly.

[Gideon]

5.7.2  13.02.2012
Improved: It is now possible to delete topics and shapes with the backspace key in addition to the delete key.
Fixed: an issue with timezones in the NovaMind 4 importer.
Fixed: Documents which contain boundaries and were created on a Mac don't open correctly.
Fixed: The reflection effect on callouts doesn't work.
Fixed: Topic notes do not always use the correct font defined in the theme.