Posterino Release Notes

Overview

Improved Workflow

Improved workflow throughout: Adding, removing or creating image objects now results in an instant re-layout of your document.
New and improved content: Expect new templates, new frames, new backgrounds and more. For example, you can now add individual text captions to any image on your document.
New layout options: We advanced the existing templates to include a "Circular” option and added Grid Lines to ease manual image placement.
Automatic styling: The look of your images can now be changed and aligned automatically.
A whole new crop editor: The enhanced version improves crop workflow and creates a persistent crop state.
We added a bunch of new sharing services: Post on Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. Send your creation as Message or via AirDrop.
A sleek new user interface: The redesigned interface has a larger workspace, especially handy if you are working on a MacBook.
Posterino is now sandboxed and supports Retina display.
Additional requested improvements: We implemented a large number of popular user requests, resulting in a myriad of large and small improvements in many areas of the application.

Details

Improved Workflow

We re-worked the layout modes to ease and speed your workflow. Posterino now features an "Automatic" layout mode, where graphic objects are automatically placed by the app, and a "Manual" layout mode where graphic objects are placed by the user.
Adding, removing or creating image objects now results in an instant re-layout of your document in "Automatic" layout mode.
You can now change the placement of graphic objects by simply dragging it on top or between other graphic objects. The layout will be adjusted automatically.
You can now specify the number of new image objects to create. The current layout is instantly adjusted to make room for the new image(s).
With the redesigned crop editor, you just double click on an image and a nice crop editor pops up from which you can size, move and rotate your image. This is greatly improves the user experience over the previous model. Also, the crop is preserved when the frame of the image changes. The new crop editor also supports keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures.
The text editing experience has been streamlined.
You can now easily change the major properties of a "Calendar", "Metadata" or "Postmark" layer by double clicking it to open a popup inspector right on the image in question.
By popular request, we improved the algorithm that randomly fills your document with images. When all image frames are filled, selecting "Fill at Random" again will present a new set of random images. This function also works on a document’s sub-set of images that have been defined by the current selection. The result: you can easily play with different variations of the same document.
We added and improved various keyboard shortcuts to speed the process for Pro users.

Layout Behavior

As requested by many users, you can now explicitly set the number of rows and columns for a "Grid" layout.
An improved "Irregular" layout now respects the aspect ratio of each individual image of your document.
The "Random" layout better distributes images along with some nice new layout properties which control the "randomness" of the layout.
We added a new "Circular" layout that is especially lovely for portrait images. You can control the direction of the layout and the spacing between the images.
A new "Grid Lines" layout, aids with the manual placement of images on a grid of magnetic lines.

Styles

We significantly eased the way you apply a look to your images by introducing a concept we call "Style". A style represents the overall look of the majority of your document’s images. Newly created images will now automatically look like the other images of your document.
We added handy commands like: You can align the style of all images to the style of an individual image you selected. Or you can copy and paste styles.
The bottom line: you can now change the look of your document quickly and easily.

Content

The image frames now support an oval shaped look as well as partially rounded corners.
Also by popular request: You can add custom text captions of various shapes and styles to your images.
It’s now easier to add image backgrounds to your document.
We improved the way postmarks work. They are no longer applied on export. Instead, we moved them to the document editor so you can add and remove a postmark via the context menu of a postage stamp object. Also, postmarks are added automatically to newly created postage stamp objects. And - by your request - you can change the date of the postmark by double clicking it.
We’ve also introduced new and improved templates, frames, filters, decorations and backgrounds.

Image Browser

Enjoy support for the latest version of iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom.
By popular request: The image browser now adds a badge to every image used in the document. You can see at a glance which images are currently in use and which are not.
You can filter the browser content for badged or un-badged images.
Since Posterino is now sandboxed , you need to explicitly grant Posterino access to any images located outside your Pictures folder. To simplify workflow, we added a new "Folders" preference where you can grant Posterino access to all of your image folders.

	[CHANGED] Removed unused popup menus from several inspector panels.
	[FIXED] Cropping an image, which is rotated in its frame, works now as expected.
	[FIXED] Improved persistence of custom paper sizes and aspect-ratios.
	[FIXED] Fixed truncated menu item names in the Posterino menu.

	[FIXED] Handled various grid layout edge cases. Changing the image in a frame no longer unlocks a locked grid layout. Changing the gap of a grid layout no longer adds empty frames.
	[FIXED] Improved visibility of text cursor over various kinds of text background color.
	[FIXED] No crash on opening templates holding text objects any more.
	[FIXED] Handled a rare crash as a result of working with the image browser.

	[NEW] New grid layout method behavior: You can now lock the columns or rows of a layout and set a specific X x Y grid in the inspector.
	[CHANGED] The whole app underwent a major source code cleanup. This has been a tremendous amount of work but you can't see it from the outside. The fate of the developer.
	[CHANGED] Updated third party components.
	[FIXED] The grid layout inspector panel is now updated on Drag and Drop operations.
	[FIXED] No longer an empty „Dynamic Details“ panel in the inspector, when no layout method is selected.

	[NEW] Added a label next to the zoom slider on the bottom toolbar showing the actual zoom level in percent.
	[CHANGED] On zooming in and out, the document stays in focus over the center of the view port.
	[CHANGED] Improved zoom behavior. You can now zoom the document between 25% and 300% of the actual document size. A zoom level of 100% equals the actual document size on screen.
	[CHANGED] Made the invisible frame manipulation handle hit area just a bit smaller.
	[FIXED] On zooming, the page now stays in center of the available screen.

	[CHANGED] Improved object focus of Drag & Drop operations to visually focus all relevant target objects.
	[CHANGED] Adjusted the way a graphics object goes into frame manipulation mode.
	[CHANGED] Made the sizing handles in frame manipulation mode easier to hit with the mouse pointer.
	[FIXED] Handled a case, where on opening an image for cropping, the zoom level jumped unexpectedly.
	[FIXED] Prevented a situation where it was possible to accidentally grab a rotation or sizing handle when actually you try to execute a Drag & Drop operation on a graphics object.
	[FIXED] A graphics object no longer may „jump“ randomly when released after moving it in manual layout mode.

	[NEW] You can now change the first weekday of a calendar object. Go to the "Calendar - Weekdays" panel in the inspector.
	[CHANGED] Updated a bunch of calendar template preview images.
	[FIXED] The first weekday of a calendar object is now the same as the one in the system settings of your Mac.

	[FIXED] Handled a possible crash on document setup and zooming.
	[CHANGED] Improved diagnostic code.

	[FIXED] Handled a crash which could occur, when setting a grid column or row to 0 and locking it.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation which could lead to a crash when migrating Posterino v2 documents.
	[FIXED] Updated the preview image of template „Moscow“ which incorrectly showed a white border.

	[FIXED] Handled a situation which could lead to a crash on executing an Undo operation.
	[FIXED] Custom page size names are now editable when the app is run under macOS Big Sur.
	[CHANGED] Adjusted the calendar templates to show the new year "2021" in the preview of the template browser.

	[FIXED] Handled a situation which could lead to a crash on saving custom templates.
	[FIXED] Solved a possibly crash when using the image pattern layer.
	[FIXED] The app now determines the version of a compatible macOS correctly.

	[CHANGED] Updated all calendar related templates.
	[CHANGED] Some minor user interface adjustments.

	[FIXED] Handled some minor font substitution issues with the Geek and Windward templates.
	[FIXED] Solved a problem where parts of a template seam to disappear due to inappropriate scaling of a Padding layer.

	[NEW] Added new calendar templates "Square Images + Calendar", "Vertical Months" and "Geek".
	[NEW] Added additional properties to format the calendar month and weekday.
	[NEW] Updated the online help to reflect the changes to the calendar system. Also added a topic on how to add personal events to a Posterino calendar.
	[CHANGED] The huge calendar inspector panel is now broken down to individual parts for Year, Months, Weekdays and Days.

	[NEW] You can now use your system calendars to color the text or background of a day on a Posterino calendar object. Hover over a calendar object and open the popover available in the top right corner to setup this feature.
	[NEW] Improved layout and features of the calendar object. E.g. you can now set individual fonts for different parts of the calendar via the Calendar inspector panel.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could induce a crash when run on pre Dark Mode versions of macOS.

	[CHANGED] On export the JPG image quality is now as high as possible by default.
	[CHANGED] Improved crash reporting system.
	[FIXED] The effects browser no longer shows text styles for calendar objects.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could lead to a crash when several documents are opened at the same time.

	[FIXED] Handled an issue where no system save panel appeared at the end of the „Save to Disk“ export task.
	[CHANGED] Updated the built-in software update mechanism.

	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could prevent Drag and Drop of images from the built-in image browser when running under macOS 10.14 Mojave.
	[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to a crash when leaving the `image count` property field of a layout method in the inspector.

	[NEW] Posterino will now display a message in the (empty) image browser to request access to the Photos library if access has not yet granted.
	[CHANGED] On an attempt to drag a photo from Photos to Posterino, an error message is displayed in case access to Photos is denied.
	[CHANGED] Improved layout of export process UI.
	[CHANGED] Cleaned up Help menu items.
	[FIXED] Solved a situation where a large preview image on the document is not as crips as it could be.
	[FIXED] Dropping an image to set a background image now works on the first attempt.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could lead to several long seconds of unresponsiveness on first app startup.
	[FIXED] Moving an image in the crop editor using the mouse now works properly under macOS 10.15 „Catalina“.
	[FIXED] Improved readability of text caption editor under Dark Mode.
	[FIXED] Adjusted the content of the Sharing popup menu to the services actually available under the current macOS.
	[FIXED] The Release Notes are Dark Mode compatible now.

	[NEW] Improved support for images from Photos. Posterino can now load full-size images from the cloud. Also improved access authorization handling.
	[CHANGED] Improved export user interface.

	[NEW] Posterino now supports macOS Dark Mode. You can control the appearance under Posterino > Preferences > General > Appearance. Eg.g. In case you are generally running Light Mode but want to use Posterino in Dark Mode. There is a switch for that.
	[CHANGED] Posterino now picks up the accent color of the system (under „General“ in the system preferences) for selections and UI elements.

	[CHANGED] Improvements to the built-in software update mechanism.
	[CHANGED] Small user interface improvements.

	[NEW] The object tool tip (View > Object Tool Tip) now also shows the image size in pixel when hovering with the mouse over an image.
	[FIXED] Handled a crash that may occur when changing the document pager size.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could lead to a crash, when the number of rows or columns of a grid layout inspector panel is left blank.

	[CHANGED] Updates to the built-in image browser to support the current version of Lightroom and Photos.
	[CHANGED] Updates to various software components.
	[NEW] The built-in software update mechanism no longer requires a hop to the Downloads folder.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation where the template chooser opens showing just a black background and no templates.

	[CHANGED] Updated frameworks supporting the built-in image browser and crash reporting.
	[CHANGED] Some minor updates to the user interface.
	[FIXED] Handled a possible crash on reseting „don’t show again“ preferences.

	[FIXED] A decimal number page size property is now displayed with two significant digits of the Size popup of the Page Size panel under the Adjustments tab.
	[FIXED] The local decimal separator is now respected on the Page Size input fields.
	[CHANGED] Improvements to the built-in image browser.
	[CHANGED] Minor improvements to the behavior of the inspector.

	[FIXED] Handled a crash that could occur own opening the feedback window.
	[FIXED] Solved crash that could happen under macOS 10.11 when opening a text caption editor popover.
	[FIXED] Made sure a new text object has a meaningful font size.

	[FIXED] Fixed some missing translations in the language support system.
	[FIXED] Made sure a newly created text object has a text layer whatever the style „majority mechanism“ may think.
	[FIXED] Handled a crash that could occur under older versions of macOS.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation where the app could crash on an invalid export file name.
	[FIXED] The Release Notes are now well formatted again.

	[FIXED] Selecting a graphic object could sometimes produce a system beep instead of a change in selection. Not any more.
	[FIXED] Improved the feedback system.

	[CHANGED] Updated image browser support for Lightroom.
	[CHANGED] Improved feedback system.

	[FIXED] Solved a situation where opening the Release Notes could lead to a crash.
	[CHANGED] Improved performance of built-in image browser for large image libraries.

	[FIXED] Page Size settings: On changing the orientation to Landscape and subsequent clicking the „Apply“ button, the orientation does no longer jump back to Portrait.
	[CHANGED] Improved Lightroom support for the built-in image browser.

	[FIXED] Solved the problem where images on export are gray boxes due to insufficient access rights.
	[FIXED] Solved a case where double clicking a text caption leads to a crash.
	[FIXED] A feedback window sheet can now be closed using the Return key.
	[CHANGED] Changed the UI so it’s clear that a page unit of Pixel means a resolution of 72 DPI.
	[CHANGED] The request to give some feedback on the latest update is now displayed when the app is quit instead of at startup time.
	[NEW] Added details on Photos troubleshooting to the online help.

	[CHANGED] Some major spring cleaning: Improved existing code, removed old and obsolete code, handled OS deprecation warnings and updated various frameworks.
	[CHANGED] Cleaned up inspector panels and improved layout of properties.
	[CHANGED] Replaced the „image count“ slider of the layout method by a simple number field.
	[CHANGED] Improved German language support.
	[NEW] Pumped the maximal number of images per document to 1000.
	[NEW] Whole new much simpler feedback form (Help > Send Feedback). Surprise me with some feedback ;)

	[FIXED] Fixed the menu command to open the online help on keyboard shortcuts.
	[CHANGED] Improvements to Transport Layer Security.

	[FIXED] When changing the "image count" of a document created from the "Bubbles" template, the new images are now oval.
	[FIXED] On applying a Mosaic-Crop, the resolution warning is now updated.
	[FIXED] Handled a situation that could lead to a crash when drawing very tiny images.
	[FIXED] Fixed online help shortcut page to use more Mac-like key names.

	[FIXED] The graphic object size is now respected when pasting objects in "Manual" layout mode.
	[NEW] Pasting graphic objects in "Auto" layout mode now applies the current object style.
	[CHANGED] Some improvements to the online help.
	[CHANGED] Updated various frameworks Posterino depends on.