Acorn Release Notes

• Fix: Copy on shape layers no longer adds a border for the PDF representation.

• New: You can now copy a layer style from the layer styles window (by using the action menu in the bottom).
• New: New plugin api to add bezier paths to a shape layer.


• Fix: Fixed a bug where sometimes text would be redrawn too much and showed up darker than it should have.
• Fix: Fixed a problem where using shift+down arrow + having the move tool selected was causing the fill dialog box to pop up.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when using the eyedropper tool on bitmap layers which are framed in a specific manner.
• Fix: Added WebP as an export format when exporting with AppleScript.
• Fix: EXIF data is now retained when opening a RAW image.
• Fix: Fixed a problem where kerning was sometimes lost when duplicating a text layer.
• Fix: Fixed a rounding error when resizing an image.


• Change: PNGs are now always saved without interlacing.

• New: New AppleScript property on bitmap layers to get and set the origin.
• New: You can now delete a point on a bezier curve by selecting it and pressing the delete button.


• Change: The menu item for the View ▸ Zoom tool has been renamed from "Zoom" to "Zoom Tool" so it doesn't confuse the system keyboard shortcuts with the menu item "Zoom" under the Window menu.
• Change: Removed the CIColorMatrix from the filters sheet, since it only confused people with its complexity.


• Fix: GIF wasn't an option in the "change file type" Automator action. This has now been corrected.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where Acorn would crash when opening zero length .acorn files.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where sometimes bad PSD files were written out because of empty layers.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when a malformed PSD was opened.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher with the pencil tool and very very small lines.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher web exporting and trimming a completely transparent image.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when copying very very thin vector shapes.

• New: A new pref to ignore rotation gestures has been added.
• New: Individual points in a bezier curve can now be selected and moved with the arrow keys.
• New: Clicking on the gradient preview where you'd like a new color stop to show up will now add one.
• New: Performance improvements with very large images.
• New: The brush designer can now make brushes up to 400px in size.
• New: The "Layer on Images in Acorn" Automator Action now has an opacity option when adding a new layer, making it easier to add watermarks to your images.


• Change: If you add a new group layer using the tool palette + button (hold down the command key when pressing) Acorn will automatically being editing the layer name for you so you can give it a better name than just "Group"
• Change: Text now has it's own setting for stroke with. Previously, setting the stroke from the shape palette would work on text, now it only works from the text palette.
• Change: The hidden pref for adding a "Save A Copy As…" has been removed, since it caused problems on 10.7 with autosave and versions turned on. Since this operation was basically an export, we've assigned the keyboard shortcut for that option to the Export… menu item (cmd-option-s), so everything should be just as awesome as it has always been. However, make sure to let us know if this ruins your day.
• Change: The system font palette (the one that comes up with cmd-t) no longer shows the text shadow widgets. To add a shadow to text, use the shadow widget under the shape palette, or add a drop shadow layer style.
• Changed the for how paths to your workspace documents are saved. This means on the first launch of 3.2, your workspace won't be remembered if you are on 10.6 (this does not effect 10.7 folks). However, later workspaces will be remembered.
• The "Layer on Images in Acorn" no longer automatically closes documents.


• Fix: Fixed a crasher when applying a layer style preset.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where your selection was lost when performing a transform on a layer with a selection.
• Fix: When dragging an image out of the layers list to the desktop, a PNG was written without the correct DPI. This has been fixed so it writes the correct DPI to the image now.
• Fix: Sometimes when you rotated rectangle or oval shapes that were rotated, the location in the canvas would change. This has been fixed.
• Fix: JPEG 2000 files now save and export with transparency.
• Fix: Fixed a problem where moving a rotated shape would cause strange drawing.
• Fix: Acorn would switch spaces on 10.7 when you were in full screen mode on 10.7, and you tried to move a canvas guide. This issue has been squashed.
• Fix: Some filters (such as the sunbeam filter) did not show the correct results in the canvas preview. This has been corrected.
• Fix: Drawing on a quickmask or layer mask when you had the opacity slider set to to something other than 100% would delay the showing of the output. This has been fixed.
• Fix: Corrected an issue where sometimes free rotating a canvas exactly 180 degrees would increase the size of the canvas unexpectedly.
• Fix: Undo was sometimes broken after using various Automator actions in Acorn. This has now been corrected.
• Fix: Acorn would crash when opening up PSD files which had more than 190 layers. In cases where a PSD has more than 190 layers, Acorn will now open up the image as a single layer.
• Fix: The bezier tool works a lot better when snap to pixel is turned on.
• Fix: Numerous drawing and behavior fixes when using the bezier tool + zoomed into the canvas.
• Fix: When zoomed way in on a selection, the marching ants now correctly draw in straight lines between adjoining pixels.
• Fix: The View ▸ Enter / Exit Full Screen menu item now correctly updates depending on what state the window is in for 10.7 folks.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when selecting the Depth of Field from the filters sheet.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when using the instant alpha tool. My undying gratitude to Jeff Buck for finding a reproducible case for this.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when opening up a malformed PDF file.
• Fix: Now reading in the correct color space when opening a PSD file.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when using the magic wand tool with bitmap layers of a certain frame.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where sometimes the sliders on the gradient preview would become unresponsive.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when opening up certain PSD files.
• Fix: Improvements to the bezier tool when snap to pixels is turned on.


• Other: Acorn is now building in Xcode 4.2, various framework bits have been moved around, and there's even an experimental sandboxed version of Acorn on the latest downloads page if you want to play with it.
• Other: There's a new hidden pref, using a different text rendering path for Acorn. To enable it, open up Terminal and paste this in:
  

  defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn nsTextDrawing 1

  It hasn't been fully tested yet, but it does fix some issues with the current text path.

• Fixed a possible crasher when using the gradient tool.
• Change: To scale the image while resizing the window, you now have to hold down both the command and option keys (previously it only took the option key). This change was made because on 10.7, holding down the option key when resizing a window from a corner will move all corners at the same time.
• Fix: Acorn would draw slowly when working on a shape layer and you had a New View window open at the same time.
• Fix: An issue where a Acorn would crash when opening up the iPhoto Library has been corrected.
• Fix: An issue where holding down the option key with the brush tool selected would not update the brush preview correctly with a new color.
• Fix: An issue where a bitmap layer could disappear when changing the color profile has been fixed.
• Fixed some memory leaks.

• Fixed a bug where opening a zero length PDF would crash Acorn.
• Fix: Turned off support for automatic background termination in 10.7.
• Fix: Hiding the palette with the tab key and then trying to use the brush tool where it just was would previously fail. Now it works as expected. Hurray!
• Fixed a bug where using the eyedropper tool to pick up a color wouldn't draw with the right color depending on what the colorspace your image was in.
• Fixed a bug where you would get an error after a warning when canceling a save for an image in a flat format when you had multiple layers.

• New: Native 10.7 full screen support.
• New: Acorn now supports 10.7's autosave and versions features (but it's off by default- turn it on in the preferences window).
• New: You can now change the image's color profile with the Image ▸ Assign Color Profile… menu item.
• New: You can now select a default color profile in the advanced prefs.
• New: If you have PDF content on the clipboard and a shape layer is currently selected, Edit ▸ Paste will insert a special PDF/vector shape into the layer which doesn't care what size you scale it to. So if you want to make a complex vector shape in another application that will copy PDF content to the clipboard, you can then keep that shape in a vector format in your Acorn image.

• Change: The default color space is no longer the device color space, and is now "Generic RGB".
• Change: It's now easier to drag and drop folders onto Acorn's icon in the Dock (for opening an image browser).
• Change: Rearranged the preferences window a bit.
• Change: Now using cmd-control-f to enter and exit full screen (the single keystroke 'f' still works as well)
• Change: The opacity layer style now shows it's value as a percentage instead of a decimal number.
• Change: The default location for the Drop Shadow filter and layer style has been moved a bit.

• Fixed a bug where saving as a PNG while you were in a crop would not render all layers to the saved file.
• Fixed a bug where duplicating a layer by option dragging it would sometimes put it in weird locations.
• Fixed a bug where the "Keep aspect ratio" button could be disabled with the Lanczos scaling algorithm selected (which can only scale keeping the aspect ratio).
• Fixed a bug where using the Image ▸ New Image from Layered Screenshot would clip the main window's shadow on 10.7.
• Closing a document while it has a web export window open will now close that web export window.
• Fixed a bug where the Bring Forward command wasn't working correctly for the very first layer.
• Fixed a bug where using levels would sometimes cause your layer to jump.
• Holding down the space key while making an elliptical selection will move the origin of the selection.
• If a crop preset is too big to fit on the current canvas, it is now scaled down to fit.
• Fixed a bug with the Do JavaScript Automator Action, where your changes wouldn't always be saved.
• Fixed some drawing bugs when using the brush or pencil tool with a drawing opacity not set to 100%.
• Fixed a bug where images would be left open after you closed them (only on 10.7).
• Fixed a bug where the effects from layer styles weren't fully updated in realtime when scaling an image.
• Fixed a bug where the font panel wasn't always updating correctly when you selected some text.
• Fixed a bug where inverting a selection would sometimes give weird bounds.
• Fixed a bug where swapping palette colors while editing a text area would cause the swap to not complete.
• Fixed an issue where memory would grow unexpectedly with lots of zooming in and out.

• Fixed a bug where using the dictionary shortcut key would make Acorn take a screenshot.
• Fixed a bug where there layers list would sometimes disappear.
• Fixed a bug where sub layers of groups were sometimes not indented correctly.

• Acorn had to change its Automator actions a bit. If you have an existing Automator workflow make sure to open it up and double check that Acorn's workflow items are still there.
• Fixed a hang where scaling down certain text would crash Acorn.
• Fixed a bug where Acorn was not able to draw straight lines with the brush tool when you were using a stylus + shift clicking between points.
• Fixed a bug where making a rectangle selection using two guides would add an extra pixel of width (or height) to the selection.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't start a new selection within another selection when you had the selection mode set to addition (and you weren't holding the shift key down).
• Fixed a bug where the canvas resize sheet was setting the wrong initial values when inches were selected in the unit popup.
• Fixed a problem with certain blend modes and shape layers.
• Fixed a problem where bringing up the resize image sheet while you were cropping mode would cause bad things to happen.
• Fixed a bug where painting wouldn't occur after turning on quick mask, drawing, undoing, and turning off the quick-mask.
• Fixed a crasher for certain PSD files created from Fireworks CS3.
• Large PSD files will open a bit faster now.
• New button to bring up layer styles in the bottom of the palette.
• Removed the "Make a new layer when drawing shapes" preference because it hasn't worked for two major releases, and nobody noticed till yesterday.
• Fixed a bug where dragging a filter box in the filter panel would sometimes cause a ghost image to show up in the preview window.
• Fixed a bug where the feather selection command wasn't always working correctly.
• Fixed a bug where negative float values in the styles window were being truncated to whole values.
• Fixed a bug where web exported WebP images were coming out with a red tint to them.
• Layer styles are now scaled when you resize your image.
• Added "Add Layer Mask" and "Enable Layer Mask" to the Layers menu item.
• Fixed a bug with the offset filter.
• The when bringing up the canvas resize sheet, the width field now has automatic focus again.
• Fixed a bug where scaling the image would sometimes add a corner radius to rectangles.
• Fixed a bug where some internal plugins weren't loaded on case sensitive file systems.
• Fixed a bug where using a brush with opacity set to less than 100 would sometimes show white blocks in areas where you had previously made a selection.

• Fixed a trimming bug.
• Fixed a bug where the colors in the filter panel were different than the colors in the canvas when a preview was shown.
• You can now change the levels in a layer mask.
• If Acorn can't seem to open up a layered PSD, it'll try and open up its composite layer instead.
• Fixed a redraw problem with rotated bezier paths.
• Fixed a bug where you could uncheck the "Keep aspect ratio" option when scaling an image with the Lanczos scaling algorithm.
• Fixed a bug where creating a new graphic on a shape layer with a really big drop shadow layer style would draw incorrectly.
• Generator layer styles (like circles, gradients, checkerboard) now have an overlay option which is enabled by default. We've also removed the source atop blend mode, since this did the exact same thing as the overlay button does now.
• Fixed a bug where the bold button in the font palette wasn't working correctly.
• Fixed a bug with moving a selection on a bitmap where cutting was involved and it's much too involved to actually explain here. But it works as expected now, so that's good.
• Fixed a bug where the registration certificate (non app store versions) would show your old registration number.
• Fixed a bug where the canvas wouldn't show up on new documents for certain document sizes.
• Fixed a PSD import bug where the pass through blend mode for layer groups wasn't showing up correctly.
• Fixed a bug where blend modes were not working correctly all the time for layers in a layer group.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't start a selection outside the canvas with the rect selection tool when corner a radius was set.
• Fixed a bug where drawing with brush opacity in the brush designer wouldn't work.
• New apis for adding shape, group, and bitmap layers. New api for setting the contents of a text area with HTML.
• Fixed a bug where setting the quality parameter was ignored when using webExportWithOptions: in a JSTalk script.
• Fixed a bug where zooming your window while it was in full screen would cause the menu bar to disappear.
• Fixed a crasher when selecting a preset in the layer styles window.
• Fixed a bug where dragging a layer around with a fuzz stroke layer style active would sometimes draw incorrectly.
• If you try and use the gradient tool on a shape that has fill turned off, Acorn will turn it on for you (so the gradient will show up).
• Fixed a regression when Acorn wouldn't remember if you had the fill shape button turned off between launches.
• Fixed a bug where the preview for a layer style wouldn't show up correctly on group layers with masks.
• Fixed a bug where the a mask + layer style on a shape layer was composited in the wrong order.
• Fixed a bug where paste into wasn't working.
• Fixed a bug where minimizing the window would cause graphics to display badly later on.
• Now copying PNG data to the clipboard, making it more compatibly with mail clients.
• If you hold down the option key when opening a PSD, Acorn will now give you the option to open it up with multiple layers, or a single composite layer.
• Two new layer style filters: Monotone and False Color.
• Fixed a bug where trying to change the opacity while you were in a transform operation would cause Acorn to ask you to commit the operation.
• Fixed a bug where layers with an opacity setting would sometimes draw funky pixels at the opaque edges of the image.