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Clarify Changelog

What's new in Clarify 2.0.10 Build 215

Nov 22, 2017
  • The following bugs have been fixed:
  • Fixed two errors that could occur after editing a step title.
  • Clarify would sometimes crash on Windows when spell checking a document.
  • Clarify would crash on macOS High Sierra when using the color dialog.
  • Typing in a step title field would sometimes lag.
  • Moving the mouse outside of the Clarify window while dragging a canvas resize handle, stopping mouse movement, and releasing the mouse button would cause the canvas to revert to the original size the next time you moved the mouse over the canvas resize handle.

New in Clarify 2.0.9 Build 213 (Oct 6, 2017)

  • The following bugs have been fixed:
  • Clarify would sometimes crash on Windows when spell checking a document.
  • Clarify would crash on macOS High Sierra when using the color dialog.
  • Typing in a step title field would sometimes lag.
  • Moving the mouse outside of the Clarify window while dragging a canvas resize handle, stopping mouse movement, and releasing the mouse button would cause the canvas to revert to the original size the next time you moved the mouse over the canvas resize handle.

New in Clarify 2.0.8 Build 209 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Copy, paste, and duplicate actions were not working for annotations.
  • When exporting images captured on high resolution displays that included with text annotations the text in the text annotation was not being scaled properly.
  • Trying to undo a create step or duplicate step action would trigger an error.
  • Dragging a step from one document to another document and then trying to undo the action would trigger an error.
  • On Windows copying an image to the clipboard would only work the first time.
  • While editing text in a text annotation on Windows the line spacing in the text was too large.
  • On Windows the preferences from the previous version of Clarify were not being carried forward to the new version.
  • When no windows were open the File menu would sometimes disable the wrong menu item when trying to disable the Close item.

New in Clarify 2.0.7 Build 205 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Support for the WordPress JSON REST API. On WordPress 4.7 and above the JSON REST API is installed. This API is much more reliable than the XML-RPC API and Clarify will try to use it if available. Visit http://help.clarify-it.com/m/clarify/l/178680-sharing-with-wordpress for instructions on setting it up.
  • Clarify has full unicode support for filenames.
  • Added preference to specify what Clarify should do when it starts up.
  • Clarify now detects image density settings when pasting images from the clipboard or importing image files.
  • Added a "Copy images at full resolution" preference. If checked then images are copied to the clipboard using all available image data.
  • Added [[DD/MM/YYYY]] to the list of available variables in PDF templates.
  • Added support for inline code blocks to the Markdown HTML exporter.
  • Added support for site licenses.
  • Changes:
  • Dropbox support has been removed. As of September 1, 2017 Dropbox no longer renders HTML content from a Dropbox account. Clarify made use of this feature.
  • You can no longer create a free clarify-it.com account in Clarify. The clarify-it.com platform is being retired and we are not allowing new accounts to be created.
  • Modifying drag operations on Windows is now done with the CONTROL key. Previously the ALT key was used which was not keeping with the Windows standard.
  • On Windows PHP has been updated to version 5.6.31.
  • Cyrillic characters are now converted to an ASCII equivalent when generating filenames.
  • Updated US, British, Spanish, French, and German dictionaries on Windows.
  • Sequence annotations with different numbers but the same font and font size will now always be drawn with the same radius.
  • Added an additional check to ensure that an anchor name that is entered is unique to the document.
  • When adding a step to a document via drag and drop or pasting the anchor will be set to empty if it conflicts with an existing anchor in the document.
  • If Clarify cannot detect the available WordPress API by inspecting the HTML of the website then a blank WordPress sharing account is created.
  • Document tags are now inserted as Keywords in the PDF document when exporting to PDF.
  • Clarify now saves documents to a temporary file and then moves the file to the final location. If anything goes wrong while saving, the existing file will not be overwritten with bad data.
  • The Substep title color swatch was 1 pixel too far to the right in the PDF template editor.
  • Support for F12-F16 has been added for screen capture hot keys.
  • When exporting images an improved resizing algorithm is used.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • While resizing an image canvas using the handles the mouse would sometimes get stuck in resizing mode even after the mouse button was released.
  • If all Clarify windows were closed on macOS then an empty line would appear in the Window menu.
  • If closing the last document window on macOS displayed a modal dialog then the document window menu would remain in the menu bar after closing the dialog and window. Making certain selections from this menu would cause an error.
  • Clarify was not always performing the correct action at launch.
  • It was possible to trigger other actions during a File > Save action via shortcuts. This could lead to odd errors.
  • The footer defined in a sharing account was not being sent to the DOCX template when exporting to Word.
  • Fixed an issue with the File menu becoming corrupted in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an error that would happen when uploading a document with a unicode character in the filename to WordPress.
  • HTML export would fail if the current username had accented characters in it.
  • Logos in PDF templates would not work if the current username had accented characters in it.
  • HTML templates would not load property if the current username had accented characters in it.
  • Fixed a divide by 0 error in the image annotation contextual menu.
  • Cursor guides would sometimes appear in the screenshot.
  • Text annotations were sometimes cutting off at the bottom of letters.
  • When selecting a logo for an HTML sharing account the logo was not being added to the output correctly.
  • Edit > Paste wasn't always working when an image was on the clipboard.
  • Optimized routine that determines if the last character typed should trigger a spell check of a just completed word.
  • Fixed a potential error in the "Set List Starting At" dialog.
  • Fixed an error that would occur if you tried to undo an annotation change in a step that wasn't visible in the navigation tree.
  • The Find window would only appear in the first Space it was opened in. [macOS]
  • The "Ignore Case" checkbox in the Find dialog was really just ignoring what you selected.
  • A document would not be marked as dirty if the only change to text was a change in case.
  • The email subject was coming through as HTML rather than UTF-8 when creating emails.
  • Spell check would makr the wrong range of characters if a smart quote of any kind preceded the misspelled word.
  • Format > Outdent was not enabled when the cursor was a line that was a list item and indented.
  • Fixed scaling of Sequence, Rectangle, Text, and Line annotations when outputting high resolution images.
  • Text annotations with right-aligned text would sometimes have the left side of the text clipped when exporting.
  • Fixed an error that could occur when trying to determine location of the text insertion point relative to the current line.
  • Fixed an error that could occur when finishing an annotation creation event and the annotation no longer exists.
  • If the Find window was open then screen capture would not work.
  • It was possible for the image tool to take over an annotation so that an image would always be selected even when another tool was active.
  • Words that had been learned in the dictionary were not being added to the spell checker properly when starting up Clarify.
  • Updating an existing Evernote connection with a new OAuth key would complain that an Evernote account already existed.
  • When adding an image file to a document it was possible to create a conflict between the new image and an existing annotation. This conflict would result in an execution error.
  • The default PDF style CSS document was not targeting tables properly.
  • An error about an invalid text selection could occur when performing a spell check.

New in Clarify 1.2.7 Build 3 (Jul 25, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Creating new clarify-it.com accounts automatically sets the account to use an SSL connection.
  • Updated the links to manuals so that they point to the new version 1 help docs location.
  • Fixes:
  • Pasting text that was center aligned would maintain the alignment and there was no way to change it. Since Clarify does not support text alignment in paragraph text the alignment is now removed when pasting.
  • When trying to open a Clarify 2 document the user is alerted that the file was created with a newer version of Clarify.
  • Fixed an error reporting bug in the Evernote library.
  • Evernote Business notebooks that have been deleted but which are still linked to a user's account no longer cause an error.

New in Clarify 1.2.6 Build 1 (Mar 28, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • When changing the spelling of a word the color of the word was not being maintained. though no error occurred.
  • Fixed an issue that could occur when closing document windows.
  • NULL characters are stripped from the registration key field now. Copying from Outlook would include a NULL character at the end.
  • If you clicked on the capture rect and then tried to use the arrow keys to nudge the capture area, the distance moved would be incorrect.
  • Clicking on a word in the spell check suggested word list would insert gibberish.
  • When changing the spelling of a unicode word the text selection after updating the word would not be correct.

New in Clarify 1.2.5 Build 10 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • An error dialog would appear when cutting or copying annotations even though no error occurred.
  • Clicking the capture rectangle to drag it would center the rectangle around the click location. The rectangle now maintains position relative to where you click.

New in Clarify 1.2.5 Build 8 (Nov 13, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Support for multiple monitors on OS X Mavericks.
  • You can format text annotation text using bold, italic, and underline.
  • Fixes:
  • Relayering annotations would not save the change to the document.
  • The document title was not being encoded properly in PDF output.
  • Fixed an error that would occur if an invalid PDF template was stored in the user PDF template folder.
  • Enter key was not triggering a capture in window capture mode.
  • Double-clicking when in area capture mode and no area was highlighted would capture a random screenshot.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a Clarify document on Windows that was created on OS X with iPhone images in portrait orientation.
  • PDF font menu on OS X now lists proper font families for use with PDF generator.
  • Fixed an issue that could occur when using the arrow keys to select rows.
  • Fixed an error that could occcur when mousing over steps while closing a document window.
  • "Select All" would not always select all of the content in the field if unicode text was present.

New in Clarify 1.2.4 Build 5 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed encoding of URLs so that characters like "&" won't break PDF output.
  • Capture controls would sometimes appear in screenshots on certain Mac computers.
  • Using the arrow key to navigate the PDF templates would cause an error when transitioning from Clarify templates to custom templates.
  • Added some additional error checks when resizing annotations.
  • Fixed PDF export bug related to quotes in the subject.
  • Fixed issue with Evernote accounts containing multiple shared notebooks.
  • Fixed issue when creating new notes in a business notebook.
  • When creating steps using the "+" button the default step structure wasn't being applied to the new step.

New in Clarify 1.2.3 Build 1 (Jul 18, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Evernote export now works with Evernote Business.
  • Changes:
  • Document images are now stored in the Clarify user data folder rather than a system temporary directory. Some disk cleaning applications would wipe out the images causing them to be lost when saving the document.
  • Added some additional error reporting when preparing a document for export.
  • Fixes:
  • Made some changes to ensure a valid value in Dropbox export folder name.
  • Long step titles would cause errors on Windows due to temporary image file paths being too long.
  • When switching Evernote accounts the list of notebooks was not being cleared out.

New in Clarify 1.2.2 Build 1 (Jun 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • The Preferences window is now hidden when capturing a screen.
  • Fixes:
  • Deleting a step then using shift click to select more steps to delete would generate an error when you tried to delete.
  • Fixed a document title encoding issue in PDF output.
  • Fixed bug with image annotator and mouse move events.
  • superscript was not being dealt with properly in instructions.
  • Document and step titles were not being encoded properly when exporting to clarify-it.com.

New in Clarify 1.2.1 Build 13 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Added Tabloid to the list of Page Sizes.
  • Changes:
  • When creating a clarify-it.com web account in Preferences SSL now defaults to on.
  • Added network logging support.
  • Only the first word of the account name is accepted when configuring a Clarify-it.com account.
  • Fixes:
  • Steps with multiple lists in them would cause an error when exporting to Evernote.
  • Dictation now works on OS X Mountain Lion.
  • Fixed some error reporting in PDF output.
  • PDF output was escaping entities in step titles when it shouldn't have been.
  • Image filenames are now UTF8 encoded when adding them to PDF output.
  • Combining bullet lists and code formatting would break PDF output.
  • Fixed a potential bug when replacing a step image with an image file and annotations have to be moved.
  • Fixed a potential crash when updating an image for a particular step.
  • Dropbox export was not encoding HTML entities in step titles correctly.
  • Evernote export was not encoding XHTML entities in step titles properly.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when working with text on Windows.
  • Using the URL protocol to register on Windows was not working if name contained a "&".
  • Dragging text onto step instructions could cause an error.
  • When cleansing image filenames a name with only question marks would become empty. This would cause problems with images uploaded to Evernote when steps titles were entirely in a language such as Chinese.
  • A default font is assigned for PDF templates again.
  • Moving the mouse while clicking on a window to capture would cause the error "invalid rectangle passed to export routine".
  • The dirty display was not being updated after a find and replace operation.
  • Find and Replace could enter an endless loop and would cause a crash.
  • Fixed some errors in the web safe filename routine.
  • Fixed an error that could occur while previewing a PDF template and switching windows.

New in Clarify 1.2.0 Build 23 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Features:
  • New Evernote integration! You can now select the notebook to create the note in and update the note. The Clarify source file is stored with the note as well so updates are always quick and easy.
  • Any team member can update a Clarify document on clarify-it.com. Clarify now recognizes if a document has been uploaded to a clarify-it.com account, even if you weren't the one who originally uploaded it.
  • Fixes:
  • Fix for Eastern European language input.
  • When undoing a step reorder the steps would not always be put back in their proper positions.

New in Clarify 1.1.3 Build 1 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Name of window captured is now inserted into the step title on Windows.
  • Fixes:
  • Clarify now works on Apple computers with Retina displays.
  • Fixed a crash that was occurring on some Mountain Lion installs.
  • Quitting Clarify during a screen capture session by means of a keyboard shortcut now works properly.
  • Pressing the return key in the spell check suggestion field was not tabbing to the next control.
  • Screen capture now includes all layered windows on Windows.
  • When opening a document window an error could occur when positioning and sizing the document window.
  • Certain characters were not being escaped in the header and footer strings. This would cause PDF generation to fail.
  • Setting the text color for a PDF template would not update the template properly.
  • Setting the footer text color for a PDF template would not affect PDF output.
  • Fixed some issues with text running into the footer in PDF output.
  • PDF footer text hint said to use html formatting when in fact it doesn't accept html formatting.
  • Clicking the star icon in the web accounts/PDF template lists was not turning off the default account setting.

New in Clarify 1.1.2 Build 12 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Dragging a step to top of navigator list would generate an error.
  • Dragging a step from one document into an empty document would not work. A document had to have at least one step to accept a drop from another document.
  • Setting the list style to none using the Format menu would cause an error.
  • The Find dialog was being initialized with gibberish text.
  • Pasted text was not always being formatted properly [regression].

New in Clarify 1.1.2 Build 7 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed crash that occurred when drawing line annotations.
  • Fixed a potential drag/drop crash.
  • Certain text formatting combinations no longer break PDF export.
  • Code blocks with empty lines in them no longer break PDF export.
  • URLs with "&" in them no longer break PDF export.
  • character in filename would generate an error when exporting to PDF. This character is now replaced with "-" when exporting.
  • If an error occurred while initializing a screen capture session it was not handled properly.
  • Clicking on a step annotation while editing the step tile in the Navigation column no longer causes an error.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause an error when previewing PDF templates.
  • Clicking on an image while a text editor is open will no longer create annotations (e.g. when the sequence tool is selected).
  • Clicking in the toolbar background would not close an open field.
  • Undoing annotation property changes was not redrawing the view.
  • Document dirty state was not being visually updated after changing certain annotation properties.
  • Fixed the Windows version information in the Email Feedback email subject.
  • Clicking on a registration URL now works even if the expired trial dialog is displayed in Clarify.
  • Changes:
  • You can now use [[File_Name]] in the footer text of a PDF template. The name of the PDF file will be inserted when exported.
  • In PDF and Dropbox output code blocks now have a smaller font, have more intelligent line breaking and have a border/background.

New in Clarify 1.1.1 Build 4 (May 4, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Determing whether or not the preference screen should be scrolled on smaller monitors was not working properly.
  • Some documents would generate an error when exporting to PDF.
  • PDF output was choking on filenames with accented characters.
  • Clarify was not properly escaping document titles when inserting XML for PDF meta information.
  • Code blocks and tab indents are now rendered properly in PDF output.
  • Control + Tab now inserts tabs in step instructions on Windows.
  • The shortcut keys for indent/outdent and text alignment (text annotation tool) were not working properly.
  • The Share button would not work if there was only one web export account and no default account had been set.
  • Changing step dimensions works again.
  • Clarify no longer scales images when pasting steps, duplicating steps, or recreating a step from an undo operation.
  • If exporting to Evernote launched Evernote for the first time then Clarify would hang [Windows].
  • The sound played after exporting to Evernote was very faint [Windows].
  • Evernote would sometimes complain that it couldn't find the Clarify file to import [Windows].
  • Navigation column contextual menu was not always pasting the proper data when a step was on the clipboard.

New in Clarify 1.0.6 Build 1 Beta (Mar 10, 2012)

  • Added an Evernote button to the share toolbar.
  • A sound is now played after exporting to Evernote.
  • Added the notification center. Rather than displaying modal dialogs after exporting to the web, the notification center displays the success message and buttons for performing further actions.

New in Clarify 1.0.4 Build 2 (Mar 10, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Copying multiple steps to the clipboard would cause an error (introduced in version 1.0.3).
  • Added a tooltip to the step image export button.
  • The number of days left in trial were not being displayed properly in the UI the first time Clarify was launched.

New in Clarify 1.0.3 Build 2 (Mar 10, 2012)

  • Features:
  • When exporting to Clarify-it.com there is now a button that copies the HTML for the document on Clarify-it.com the clipboard.
  • Step contextual menu now has option for creating new document using selected steps.
  • Fixes:
  • PDF output could generate an error for some documents that had text that spanned multiple pages.
  • Improved error reporting when uploading to Clarify-it.com.
  • The preferences dialog had the maximize and minimize window buttons enabled.
  • Updated image filename generation so that smart quotes are stripped and acccented characters are converted to equivalent ASCII character.
  • Steps with curly quotes in the name and an image no longer cause an error when uploading to Clarify-it.com.
  • UI tweaks in Web pane of Preferences.
  • Fixed margins and spacing for text fields, radio buttons and checkboxes.
  • Changes:
  • Export button that appears to right of step title now places image with annotations on clipboard. Previously it exported the image to disk. Holding down the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (Windows) will export the image to disk.
  • Copying a step to the clipboard now places the step image with annotations on the clipboard rather than the entire step as RTF text.
  • Step contextual menus now have option to copy step to clipboard as RTF.
  • Default button in Register dialog is now "Register". Enter/return keys now behave properly as well.
  • Typing after using the arrow keys in a field now triggers a new undo entry.
  • Improved error reporting when subdomain, username or password is incorrect in Clarify-it.com settings.

New in Clarify 1.0.2 Build 5 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Features:
  • Brand new look for PDF output.
  • Added "Rounded Corners" as a border option for images.
  • You can now rotate step images left or right using the Edit > Rotate Image menu.
  • When adding an image file the EXIF data is checked and the image is rotated appropriately.
  • Added File > Import > Image Files... for importing image files into a document.
  • Fixes:
  • Edit > Paste was not being enabled for Registration and Preferences windows.
  • Images exported using JPEG compression had really ugly drop shadows.
  • Fixed a potential error that could occur when moving the mouse over a step while closing the document window.
  • The Share menu was not displaying scripts from the user application data folder [unsupported feature].
  • Fixed a potential error that could occur when pressing the return key in a text annotation text editor.
  • Typing should be more responsive in the text annotation now.
  • The UI was not being updated to represent the documents dirty state after uploading to a server.
  • The proper font was not always selected by default in the font menus.
  • Fixed a potential error when pasting text.
  • Dragging a step image from the application to another application was not honoring the export format setting.
  • Updated the Pro Tip message for the PDF toolbar action. It did not accurately describe the currently available options.
  • Fixed an issue with text output in PDF on Windows when text spanned more than 2 pages.
  • Changes:
  • Clarify now detects when JPEG images are added to a step and assigns JPEG > Best as the export format.
  • On Windows the font menu now displays up to 20 fonts at a time in the menu.
  • Windows installer changed so that admin privileges are no longer required.
  • Clarify now runs in portable mode if the preference file is placed alongside the application.
  • Default extension for JPEG format is now jpg rather than jpeg.

New in Clarify 1.0.1 Build 1 (Oct 28, 2011)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed positioning of "attach to email message" action menu.
  • When undoing deletion of a step the "id" is no longer added to the step object in the document object. This unexpected property was causing problems when duplicating steps.
  • Using the contextual menu for left column or document view would not paste the clipboard image when creating a new step from clipboard when not clicking on a step.
  • Pasting an image with annotations would generate an error.
  • When editing text in a text annotation the text would always be changed to white. Not a great idea if the background color is white.
  • When pasting text into a step instruction field there was a slight visual hiccup while the field was resized.
  • Null characters could slip into step instructions. They are now stripped when saving contents.
  • Edit > Paste was not being disabled when no document window was open.
  • The distance between the error message and the data entry fields in the Clarify-it.com setup window was not being set properly.
  • Text annotations would not render their drop shadow when first created or adjusting height/width.
  • Duplicating steps now adds an undo entry.
  • Changes:
  • Clarify-it.com signup and Web preferences now use an account name (subdomain) and email for the username.