Release Notes for Acorn 1.5

Download Acorn: http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/∞

What's New:

New Brush tool.
New Brush Designer that lets you create new brushes and tweak the way it behaves. Live preview of your brush strokes, updated as you modify your brush settings.
New "New Shape Layer" menu item under the Layer menu.
New "Copy Merged" command under the Edit menu.
New command under the window menu: "Gather Palettes" to move the Palette(s) to the top right corner, or to another monitor.
You can now drag and drop folders from the Finder into a canvas to grab it's icon.

What's Changed:

The file action scripts are now passed the environment variables that Acorn is given on launch.
If you are in full screen mode (by pressing the 'F' key), pressing the ESC key will now toggle you out of it.
New brush preview widget in the brush palette.
The hidden pref to disable compression when saving no longer works.
Updated updater (Sparkle).
The image browser now supports previewing of Acorn files (It's about time for that to happen! 10.5+ only).
New cursors for the rect, oval, and round rect selection tools.
Pressing the 'b' and 'n' keys now toggle between the brush and pencil tools.
The shortcut for the traditional draw tool (aka pencil) is now 'n', and the new brush is 'b'.
Acorn's sample code now comes with AcornImage.framework, a simple framework for displaying Acorn images. http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/SampleAcornPlugins.zip∞
No longer clearing the selection on a paste.
Reworked prefs wording.
New Layer Via Copy now works with nothing selected.
No longer writing out an icon for files saved on 10.5, instead we'll let QuickLook do the lifting there.

What's Fixed:

Fixed a bug where Acorn could not open JPEGs when it had a color space Quartz didn't like much.
Fixed a bug where the layers list would not update when choosing an image from the recent items list (until you moved your mouse anyway).
The current corner radius for shapes is now remembered between launches.
Tweaked the eyedropper tool to be more accurate when zoomed way in.
Fixed a bug where saving when you have a selection on a bitmap layer which was nudged with the mouse wouldn't write all the bits properly.
Cleaned up some blurry handles on shapes.
Fixed a bug where scaling an image with text would sometimes crash.
If you've got a vector graphic selected, and it doesn't have a fill, and you used the 'x' key to swap the colors, Acorn no longer gives it a fill.
Fixed a crasher when doing a select-all with certain big images, and you had marching ants turned on.
Fixed a flood fill bug with certain big images.
Fixed a bug where transformed selections on bitmap layers would move to the wrong spot when you applied it.
Fixed a problem where printing or saving an image while you were editing text, wouldn't always draw the text.
Fixed a problem where drag and drop would make images blurry if you were zoomed in.
Fixed a bug when making a rectangle selection, where the width/height display was off by 1 pixel when you selected the whole canvas.
You can now clear a marquee selection with the esc key when a hidden layer is selected.
Fixed a redraw bug when rotating the canvas.


You can also see what was new in Acorn 1.2