Diagram Designer Changelog

What's new in Diagram Designer 1.30.0

Jan 22, 2023
  • Improve handling of damaged files
  • Translation updates
  • Released from open source repo

New in Diagram Designer 1.29.4 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • Fixed value edit box display problem in WinXP

New in Diagram Designer 1.29.2 (Jul 13, 2018)

  • Fixed issue copy/pasting curved connectors

New in Diagram Designer 1.29.1 (Sep 27, 2017)

  • Fixed issue with reading some diagrams from previous versions

New in Diagram Designer 1.29 (Aug 27, 2017)

  • "Diagram | Connector line style" option to control whether the background of connector/curve texts are filled
  • Support for curved connectors
  • Automatically try to fix corrupted files
  • Fixed text rendering issues after automatic line breaks

New in Diagram Designer 1.28 (May 12, 2015)

  • Fix for text alignment in rotated text
  • Line/connector endpoints in the property editor
  • Don't hide mouse position in the status bar when hiding the template panel
  • Bugfix in text editor dialog

New in Diagram Designer 1.27.3 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • Fix for error during mouse drawing
  • Fix for line breaking in rotated text
  • Reset size buttons in picture object properties

New in Diagram Designer 1.27.1 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • Installer fix (error during file format association)

New in Diagram Designer 1.27 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • Transparent PNG handling bugfix
  • Drag-drop support for changing object order in tree
  • \@ ... \@ around text with disable other escape sequences inside
  • Link points can be edited for standard rectangles
  • Improved object text margin
  • Improved link editor

New in Diagram Designer 1.26 (May 8, 2013)

  • More text position options on polygon objects
  • Change line break rules
  • Option to disable connector snapping
  • Fixed bug when enabling/disabling displays
  • Full page in zoom menu
  • Copy/paste link points (link editor)
  • User defined default link points for groups and images (options dialog)
  • Improved connector routing
  • Text rotation
  • Store flowchart templates pane visibility

New in Diagram Designer 1.25 (Jan 23, 2012)

  • Auto crop option in export
  • Improved connector routing
  • Grid size in toolbar
  • Distribute in Align menu
  • Tabs for pages and layers
  • Template palette drop down
  • Connector text background painted with fill color
  • Automatic line breaks
  • Drop down menus for changing line end styles (arrows etc.)
  • Many relation arrow style

New in Diagram Designer 1.24 (Mar 13, 2011)

  • Click to apply format in text editor
  • Strikeout text format

New in Diagram Designer 1.23.6 (Mar 13, 2011)

  • Improved diagram export
  • Bugfix for printing multiple pages
  • Lock on grid editing in Options dialog
  • Copy to clipboard bugfix

New in Diagram Designer 1.23 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Bugfix related to setting default diagram font
  • Windows 7 slideshow mouse cursor fix
  • Gradient color in filled objects
  • Print as bitmap mode for better handling of transparent objects

New in Diagram Designer 1.22 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • If DiagramDesigner.ini exists settings are stored here instead of in registry
  • Default links and anchors on group objects for easy scaling
  • Option to show printer margins (the area where the printer can actually print)
  • The junction between connected lines can be moved without disconnecting the lines
  • Object size display in status bar while resizing
  • Links to other pages now working in slide show mode

New in Diagram Designer 1.21 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • UML class diagram symbols
  • Line start/end marker can be changed in toolbar
  • Print scaling setting
  • Link point markers (red x) only shown while dragging an object
  • New improved antialiasing algorithm
  • Object shadows option
  • Find text function

New in Diagram Designer 1.20 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Improved Vista support
  • Diamond line end style
  • Line segments style for curve lines
  • New outline connector style
  • Scaling anchors on objects in group to support scaling of a group
  • Bitmap alpha blending (cannot be used with halftone scaling)
  • Antialiasing in slide show and bitmap export
  • Text formatting bugfix
  • Easier editing of link points using the mouse

New in Diagram Designer 1.19 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Closed curve can be converted to polygon and filled
  • Preview of template palettes in load dialog
  • Preview/thumbnails of diagrams in Explorer
  • Flowchart palette based on the work of Allen Titley and Alessandro Visentin and others
  • Move up/down buttons in link editor
  • Template palette remembered from last run

New in Diagram Designer 1.18 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Ctrl+arrow keys move selected objects by one grid unit
  • Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys move selected objects by one screen pixel
  • Layer menu can be opened from the status bar
  • New menu shortcut system: Just begin typing the name of the menu item or press F10
  • Fixed bug in formatting of text with different font sizes and multiple lines
  • Radius property on rectangles and connectors (only works with solid line style)
  • Symmetrical resizing of objects using the Shift key (press Shift AFTER pressing the mouse button on a corner)
  • Fixed bug with text on objects related to multi-byte character sets

New in Diagram Designer 1.17 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Resizing of group objects
  • Anchors on grouped objects for use when resizing
  • GUI design palette
  • Screen saver disabled during full screen slide show

New in Diagram Designer 1.16 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • New text translation system with plain text language files
  • User interface updates
  • Popup note text attribute (\N)
  • A number of bugfixes

New in Diagram Designer 1.15 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Text color (\C) attribute
  • Improved BMP and JPEG import
  • Better handling of "Large fonts" setting in Windows
  • New program help file by Allen Titley

New in Diagram Designer 1.14 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Links between pages (\Apage)
  • User interface updates
  • Underline (\U) and overline (\O) text
  • Improved text editing dialog

New in Diagram Designer 1.13 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Links between documents (\Afilename.ddd)
  • Text margin
  • User interface updates

New in Diagram Designer 1.12 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Problem with graph plotter in expression evaluator fixed
  • Link point deletion bugfix
  • Non-latin characters in translation supported
  • Windows XP theme support

New in Diagram Designer 1.11 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • GIF import/export
  • Double arrow type
  • Minor improvements

New in Diagram Designer 1.09 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Slide show capabilities
  • More keyboard shortcuts
  • Option to align objects to page or selection boundaries
  • Spell checker
  • Rotation (only implemented for some object types)

New in Diagram Designer 1.00 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Double-click object to edit text
  • Multiple connected lines can be drawn by left+right clicking while drawing
  • Object style editing in tool bar