Release notes
v1.13.0, September 2024
New features
- Text can optionally be written with a fixed character width so that a character is exactly half a square wide
- For text with a fixed character width, a monospaced font can be selected in settings, export and print
Improvements
- Usage aids (formerly "usage hints") are no longer switched off and on completely via the menu, but rather individually via the settings
- New usage aid for text creation
- [Windows only] update of Windows App SDK to version 1.5.6
v1.12.0, August 2024
New features
- Selected objects can be scaled
Improvements
- [Windows only] update of Windows App SDK to version 1.5.5
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug when mirroring arcs
v1.11.0, July 2024
New features
- Auditive feedback
Improvements
- New keyboard shortcuts for resetting design options that are easier to remember
- [Windows only] update of Windows App SDK to version 1.5.4
v1.10.0, June 2024
New features
- Text search
Improvements
- Improved operation speed at complex sketches
- Background fills no longer use a calculated RGB value to create a transparency effect to the background, but instead use an alpha value
- SVG export: the background of the export preview can be changed between light, gray and dark
- When creating new text, arrows appear next to the cursor to indicate that the arrow keys can be used to select the alignment
Bug fixes
- SVG export: the optionally visible grid is aligned correctly even if some objects at the edge are not in the grid
v1.9.1, May 2024
Improvements
- The tutorial is shorter and includes illustrations
- Selection markers for points and groupings are more visible
- [Windows only] update of Windows App SDK to version 1.5.3
Bug fixes
- [Windows only] commands from the Edit/Object menu work correctly after opening a new or existing file
v1.8.5, April 2024
Improvements
- Keyboard shortcuts for zooming, tilting and resetting the view, so a 3-button mouse is no longer required, but still recommended
- Grid in export or print is placed over background fills
- Grid opacity can be set for export and print
- SVG export produces more structured files with less overhead
v1.8.1, April 2024
New features
- Support for MacOS platform (beta test)
- Text: cursor can be moved wordwise with keys
- Text: multiple clicks select words, lines or all characters
- Font setting: doesn't show special fonts anymore (which doesn't support bold and italic style)
- Font setting: shows preview of font
- GUI: a transparency effect let the set background color to shine through
Improvements
- The file changed flag takes the history of undo/redo commands into account
- File format: consistent pretty printing of XML across platforms
- File format: more detailed description of missed, invalid or unknown elements at reading
- File format: changing for arrows
- Tutorial: some minor changes
- [Windows only] update of Windows App SDK to version 1.5.2
- Reduced auto scroll trigger margin at window borders
- Possibility to insert text from clipboard even when there is no text focused
- SVG export: more precise dimensions (floating-point numbers)
- SVG export: removing of "Created with Square Sketch" comment in XML head
- SVG export: better compatibility with Safari browser