- Tablet support improved
- now works without WinTab (Windows 10)
- Tilt support: Can be enabled in the tool settings of the respective tool (e.g. brush) on the right of the presets.
- Text layer size: Adjust to content size by double-clicking on frame handle
Improvements
- Lens correction:
- Windows: Typing in lens list preselects items
- Placeholder: If a lens correction is applied to a placeholder as a dynamic filter, the correct EXIF data is now used.
- Lensfun: Optional only the lenses matching the camera are displayed.
- Handling without suitable lens improved
- Lensfun support, Sony: Better support for Sony lenses
- PDF import
- New faster with many layers
- Unnecessary rectangular clipping layers are removed
- Text is combined to lines
- JPEG export, clipping path: Can now also export documents consisting of a group and a clipping path as JPEG with clipping path
- EXR import: XYZ-layers are combined to groups, even if one of them doesn't have a letter
- PNG export: With "Optimize Size" switch
- File > Import > GS-Import, macOS: now starts Ghostscript optionally from /usr/local/bin/gs
- Scripting:
- Scripts can now perform actions as operations
- AppleScript "save" with filename and VBScript "saveAs" now saves an additional PLD version if required
- Binary data can now also be passed as hex string or Base64
- Barcodes can be generated
- new operation "Resize"
- Under Windows there is IPLDocument.Merge, under macOS there is the "merge" command
- Windows: New command "SaveDialog": path = doc.SaveDialog(String dialogTitle = "", String defaultPath = "")
- New operations: MakeSelection, InvertSelection, ClearSelection, FillSelection.
- Actions now with "ShowDialog" parameter
- Copy/paste support
- Input: Under Windows now with IApplication.InputBox, under macOS with "input box"
- "Save as" as action: If the file name is the default untitled name, it is replaced by the document path and name.
- Variable Blur, Dynamic Filter: The variable Blur is now available as Dynamic Filter. The placeholder file must have a mask.
- Browse, Search: Now with presets
- Clipboard, Windows: More data types are now placed on the clipboard: PDF, SVG, JPEG, PNG and TIFF
- Filter > Quality > Exposure: now works directly, for float images therefore now without clipping
- Automask: with merged reading
- Lasso tool, aspect ratio: the ratio was only applied if proportional was on.
- Measuring tool uses the dpi of the document
- "Edit vector points" tool: Points created by double-click are selected and can be moved directly.
- Vector paths: curve point handles are now round
- Vector layer, assign pattern: Transformation is retained when Alt key is held down
- Selection tools available for virtual copies
- Drag file to document, placeholder: pressing Shift does not drag file to placeholder
- Virtual copies, path effects: Virtual copies can now have path effects (important for virtual copies in placeholders that have an outline distortion applied to them)
- Text layers:
- Editing: Ctrl+Delete/Backspace deletes word by word (Alt on macOS)
- Spelling checking: The spelling checking is only displayed in the text tool for the active layer.
- Spell checker: The spell checker is now displayed in color in documents with gray profile.
- Shape flow: Flow distance can now be changed for several layers simultaneously
- Register accuracy, shape flow: The first line of a text frame could be out of register.
- Layer list
- Mask by clicking on thumbnail: Revised
- Mask by clicking on thumbnail: Both intensity and transparency can be added and subtracted now
- Label color: If child layers do not have their own label color, they inherit the color of their group.
- Color lists from QuarkXPress can be read
- Plug-in interface updated
- Mosaic: The relative flattening of the highlighting now refers to the cell size
- Group many levels: Accelerated
- Delete many layers: Accelerated
- Setting the ruler origin: The dialog now displays the appropriate help.
- Ruler: now has references to help
- Drag a guide line from the ruler: Displays position
- Convert layer to lasso: Vectors without an outline now always use the path
- Shortcuts, Windows: Simple shortcuts without Ctrl now ignore the Caps Lock key
- Drop-down lists, Windows: Improved keyboard control (arrow keys, selection by typing)
- 16-bit display in the Picture Info
- Adjustment layers, modal dialog, Undo: Several modal adjustment layer changes are no longer combined.
- Grain Filter: With presets
- Window maximization, macOS: Just as the Windows version, the macOS version now remembers whether the last document window was maximized.
- Used libraries updated
Bug fixes
- Text register: sometimes did not draw a line
- Text register: Text register was not used when copying pages/pasting text layers from other documents.
- Text wrap: strange spikes with shape flow around transparent image fixed
- Text flow with layer effect: Background effects (e.g. "shadow outside") did not output the text flow correctly during export.
- Text layer, assign paragraph style, retain manual formatting: If a new paragraph style was assigned while holding down the Shift key, the text formatting did not change.
- Text layers, text register: Has also been applied to rotated layers
- PDF import: Strange PDFs with an empty Cross Reference Table at the end are read correctly
- PDF import: FlateDecode with Predictor 3 decoded the first pixel incorrectly
- PDF import: Process colors are no longer turned into spot colors
- PDF export: Virtual copies with adjustment layers/iamge clipping were not exported correctly
- PDF export: Problem with exporting strange characters fixed
- PDF export: Layers that need to be rendered now take the background color of the document into account for merge modes
- PDF export, 1-bit images, unregistered version: there was a saving error
- SVG and PDF export, placeholders, dynamic filters with replace mode: dynamic filters with replace mode were not exported correctly (with PDF 1.4 only)
- PSD export: When saving vector paths, the export could be aborted
- Raw import: memory leak when opening raw files
- Conversion of multiple layers: It always change both the image type and color depth.
- Select colors: 32-bit with alpha the preview showed stripes
- Plug ins: Mask was no longer used
- Drag&drop layer, placeholder: If a layer was dragged to a placeholder layer, the placeholder layer was replaced.
- Copy/paste, lasso, vector layers: The size of the pasted layer was often not correct
- Adaptive sharpener: sometimes wrong transparency was created with 32-bit and transparency
- Docked dialogs, Windows: Tab changed focus to other docked dialogs
- Browse: Focus is set to file list after opening
- Toolbar, 2 rows, vector, large icons: The vector settings were not adjusted to the toolbar width.
- "Edit vector points" tool, edit pattern transformation in document: Colors that were relative to one of their groups showed the wrong transformation rectangle
- Ruler tool: didn't work correctly
- Line tool: "In active layer" did not work with images
- Copy brush: The document preview used the wrong intensity until it was changed for the first time.
- Painting tool: Didn't remember settings
- Painting tools, copy brush, channel list: If the editing was restricted to one channel in the channel list and then switched to the painting tools/copying pencil, the restriction was not active.
- Distortion tool: crash occurred when deleting nodes
- "Curve creation" tool: If the mouse pointer was over a path, the wrong help text was displayed in the status bar.
- Scripting, gradients: only linear gradients were possible
- Scripting, Windows: IPLLayer.Origin did not work with the background layer
- Scripting: Save/SaveAs (Windows), and save (macOS) now support "ShowDialog" and "Title".
- Scripting, Windows, arrays as parameters: Arrays passed as reference were not supported.
- Scripting, Windows: Error messages are no longer truncated
- Scripting, Windows: IPLMatrix.TransformPoints/Sizes/Rectangles did not work with VBScript
- Patterns, spot colors: Patterns did not delete the spot channels
- Layer list, search function: Alt+click on marker now works even if not all layers are displayed
- Page list: Moving several complete pages forward did not work properly
- Layer attributes, clipping: When changing the width, clipping was always activated for adjustment layers.
- Browse, EXIF data, Mac: may have been displayed without scroll bar
- Convert layer type: System images (which were created somehow, how is not clear) can now be converted to RGB
- Change document size, picture mode: another layer may have been activated afterwards
- Curves, transparency, 16-bit and 32-bit images: Curves didn't change the transparency properly
- Save layer: Path text and shape flow are retained during saving
- Lens correction: Possible crash due to last used lenses fixed
- 1-bit images: Support for blend modes
- 1-bit images: rotated images with alpha and a width of more than 8192 pixels are output correctly
- Histogram, extended display: median adjusted to Ps
- Color Editor, Windows, color picker, document window: Under Windows, the color picker of the Color Editor did not use the color profile of a document window.
- Edit > Cut, Vector, Lasso: Cutting to a vector layer with a lasso caused a crash
- Layout > Page > Load page(s): if the selected document was an image, there could be a crash
- Filter > Quality > Pixelize: Now also edits the transparency
- Vector layer, pixel alignment: It is now aligned even if smoothing is switched off.
- "Save as" as action: Crash when editing the action step without document
- Convert layer type, path text to vector: path text could not be converted to vector
- Fixed problem with Document Information on images without any data
- Spelling checker, Windows: Problems with language switching fixed
- Lines, non-antialiased, macOS: the non-antialiased output of the operating system looked terrible, we now use our own
- Roughen filter: If Alpha was switched off, the horizontal scaling of the Rough pattern changed.
- "Adjustment Layer" dialog, histogram: The histogram was not updated when a script changed another layer than the active one.
