Release notes

v1.17.0, April 2025

The "Reference" item in the Help menu has been replaced with "Manual" and links to the new manual on the website. This contains the old reference and a lot of new information and is continually being expanded and improved.
The default settings have been revised and include new values for colors and scaling. When exporting, there are also new values for format and fonts. These values are preset for new installations. For existing installations, the values are applied when the "Reset" menu item is selected in the settings.
[Windows only] When using the copy function with the PNG format during export, an older format without transparency support is placed on the clipboard in addition to the current bitmap format with transparency support. This allows pasting into apps that don't yet support the current bitmap format.
[Windows only] Windows App SDK updated to version 1.7.1.

[Windows only] Fixed an issue where the text clearance on foreground areas was not the correct size when printing.

Rotation control points no longer snap to the drawing grid, but only to degrees. They now snap to half degrees and not just whole degrees.
Adding an arrowhead twice gives the line an arrowhead at the beginning and at the end.
When drawing lines, the length indicator remains visible even if the beginning of the line is far outside the view port.
[Windows only] Update of Windows App SDK to version 1.6.4

To define the drawing size, you can draw a frame with lines, which can then be made invisible when exporting or printing

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

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

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

SVG export: the optionally visible grid is aligned correctly even if some objects at the edge are not in the grid

[Windows only] Commands from the Edit/Object menu work correctly after opening a new or existing file