Omnigraffle issues

6.4.1

  • trying to install a stencil. double-clicked the .gstencil file. Clicking Move says "The file couldn't be saved." Clicking cancel doesn't work. And because there's a sheet down, I can't close the file.

6.2.3

  • Bottom layer is locked, so list of objects on that layer is hidden. I dragged an object from a layer above it, trying to see if I could add it to the locked layer. The layer didn't highlight or anything, but but if I went far enough down, the insertion line showed up below the locked layer, and when I let go it added it as the top object in the locked layer. Not sure if that's the intended behavior.
  • Bug: Was full screen on a [insert resolution] monitor. Unplugged monitor. Full screen on the built-in laptop monitor (running at 1680 x 1050) was cutting off part of the inspector pane. Had to go out and back into full screen.
  • Random feature request: scales of arbitrary units. What if I'm making a graph and want 1 px = 8 MHz?
  • Bug: can't undo pasting object style
  • Feature req: fill with preserve transparency. Like to color objects from Noun Project
  • Feature req: speaking of Noun Project, direct reading of SVGs would be great

6.2

  • No way to collapse stencil category
  • searching in stencils only works within a category, not globally
  • switching to Floating view shouldn't shift the ⌘# shortcuts by 1
  • changing the background color of text in a table (from the ⌘T panel) has no effect
  • why is lock/unlock is ⌘L/⌥⌘L, but group/ungroup is ⇧⌘G/⇧⌘U? In fact, why not just have the lock/group shortcuts toggle depending on the status of the selected objects? (Answering my second question question: because if some are grouped and other ungrouped, need to know which to do.)
  • wrapping text in one column of a table requires lots of manual tweaking. need to drop the padding to 0 (there is no padding on single-line rows, apparently, even though it defaults to 5), and manually make the row height default * number of lines

6.1

Thank You for registering: - Ok button doesn't respect system Graphite setting (System Preferences -> General -> Appearance) when highlighted for full keyboard access - Ok button – can't click, hold, drag off to not click. Or, you can, but it doesn't change back to the unclicked color till mouseup. Clearly not a standard cocoa button

  • new doc: what the heck is auto-resize? what's the relationship between Page Setup and the templates? what's best practice if I'm doing a 48"x36" poster?
  • would be nice if changing canvas fill auto-adjusted grid colors so I could still see them
    • oh, checking and unchecking 'Grid in front' makes it visible. it was grey all along.
  • why aren't i getting guides to snap a shape to the center of the canvas?
  • radio buttons in the Alignment inspector (clever, by the way) also don't respect Graphite setting
  • an image and its mask don't scale together. I have a cropped/masked image, but adjusting geometry only does the "frame", and adjusting the image doesn't adjust the frame. frustrating.
    • moving and rotating keep them together; only scaling is separate
  • select object, shift-cmd-c. why does this not work?
    • selecting a text object and doing cmd-T does work for changing font
    • if the reason is that it's ambiguous whether it's fill color, stroke color, or text color, either pick a default or throw an error; don't open the color box and have it do nothing

  • reopening in full screen after a crash isn't letting scroll (not going to try to repro)

    • (resolved by changing zoom)

  • can't drag and drop an SVG (ok), but Place Image fails silently instead of greying out svg files

  • no tool tips over multi-way buttons in the type inspector. It took me a little while to figure out what the overflow buttons were.
    • in fact, the whole layout of the type inspector looks sloppy somehow. i get why everything is where it is (once I figured out what everything was), but it's still weird. overreliance on icons, for sure.
  • not necessarily a problem, but it took me forever to find paragraph formatting (like lists, etc.). found it eventually in/above the ruler, but I kept looking in the inspectors.
  • kerning and leading shift slightly when editing vs when not (display bug)
  • overly aggressive attaching of a text box to a line
    • I have a dividing line down the center of my canvas. I created a new text box that I wanted centered. I went to tweak the up/down position with the keyboard and found it moving side to side. I discovered in the geometry inspector that it had attached itself to the line and was adjusting the distance from that line. I wanted it to be a free-floating text object.
  • how do I insert a table?
    • ohh, Arrange -> Make Table. I guess that makes some sense.
  • over-reliance on icons in alignment inspector, too
    • particularly the difference between the "spread evenly" and "offset using spacing" icons
  • when editing shape text and changing the font weight of highlighted text in the Type inspector, clicking on other text in the paragraph doesn't change the displayed weight (bug)
  • after zooming to fit window, shift-cmd- to zoom in then back out should land you back at fit to window
  • changing viewport height by hiding the toolbar doesn't center a fit window zoom

Really old (ignore)

  • Color picker gets disconnected from objects when doing other things. The color picker should at least indicate that it's no longer connected to anything.
  • Cropping images feels like a work-around of centering and zooming in a smaller object
  • No paragraph formatting (e.g., lists, hanging indents)
  • Would love to be able to fill objects while preserving transparency. (E.g., for changing the color of single-color vector objects)
  • The paradigm of selecting stroke shapes is weird. For things like rectangles, I really just want to be able to select which sides I want stroked
  • Getting objects to exactly touch. The existing thing works pretty well for this, but sometimes there can be tiny misalignments that show up when a PDF is zoomed out, for example.
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