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LabanWriter 4.7 Updates

Additions and New Features

  • Removed limit on high level stripe spacing on turn symbols
  • Improved drawing of vertical ad libs
  • Improved drawing of arrowheads on counter clockwise curves
  • Enabled flipping of Floorplans
  • Added Floorplan exit to pins palette, made boy and girl floorplan symbols rotate in 16ths
  • Added Eighth rest and sixteenth rest symbols to music palette
  • Improved text placement in flipped floorplans
  • Improved flipping of spirals, added cmd-shift-F for flip floorplan
  • Removed stage exit symbols
  • Changed to Mach-O format binary
  • Updated code to run as a native intel binary
  • Added help menu (lost in intel translation)
  • Rewrote help content using Apple Help Book technology
  • Added flipped staff separator
  • LW fonts are now imbeded in the application, no need to install them separately
  • Fix display problems in Preferences and About windows on Intel machines
  • Redesign of about box, removing electric slide
  • Added Licence agreement page to help menu
  • Changed default file name to end in .lw
  • Improved accuracy of text style menu state when selecting text

Fixed Bugs

  • Fixed option drag of floorplans, which was duplicating symbols on floorplan.
  • Upper body symbol couldn't be put on score.
  • Counterclockwise rotation of circles fixed
  • Flipping circles without arrowheads now works
  • Fixed a bug when saving rotated text into a PICT
  • Fixed bug which didn't allow color on timing ad libs
  • Body area symbols don't move when adding ticks
  • Fixed a bug that accidentally added color to text from LW 4.3 documents
  • Fixed placement of symbols on outside right of the staff when placed just inside the right staff line
  • Fixed reading of rotated text with accents created in 4.5 or lower
  • Fixed aligned text appearing in alignment palette
  • Fixed vertical flipping of circles and spirals
  • Fixed flipping of captions in floorplans
  • Fixed drawing of ad libs in PICTs (and JPEGs etc.)
  • Fixed bug in which deleting ending double barline would shift staff symbols
  • Fixed tabbing between edit fields in export dialog
  • Fixed start of rotated text that was cut off in JPG format
  • Fixed body areas moving when changing tick type
  • Fixed staff change not able to remove bottom line of staff
  • Fixed problems with rotated text dragged to desktop loosing styles, and reading saved files with rotated text and multiple styles
  • Fixed alignment of small head symbol in columm
  • Fixed bug in spiral palette controls. Changing to ccw in circle didn't change direction in spiral
  • Fixed edit menu being disabled when opening a new document with text in it.
  • Fixed nasty bug in which deleting one piece off text would delete others
  • Fixed a bug which added extra lines to a score when saving mix-level directions as JPGs
  • Fixed bug that added lines to JPEG involving one square left and right directions.
  • Fix drawing of rotated text in JPEGs, which was clipping the start of some letters.
  • Fixed display of file icons under 10.5 by adding a UTI type for labanwriter scores
  • Fixed disappearance of rotated text when changing elargement size
  • Fixed disappearance of header text on scores longer than 22 pages
  • Added rotated turning and spreading signs
  • Fixed disappearance of finger and toe symbols when score is enlarged
  • Fixed text face changing when opening a file
  • Fixed a bug causing hand and foot symbols to disappear when reading from file