## Acorn 1.5.4 is now available

Acorn 1.5.4 release notes:

- Fixed a crasher on 10.6 with the line shape tool.

Acorn 1.5.3 release notes:

- No longer clipping off the corners of custom brush images, when you rotate the brush in the Brush Designer.
- Cleaned up some drawing artifacts when making selections while zoomed in.
- The 60pt Flat Spatter 60 brush now picks up on the current color, instead of being just black.
- Selecting "Crop" from the Image menu now sets to current tool to the crop tool (but only if there's no selection to crop already).

Acorn 1.5.2 release notes:

- Fixed a bug where Acorn would crash on startup, if it couldn't find a good color to generate the brush preview.
- Fixed a bug where rectangle shapes had a corner radius added to them when re-opening a file.
- Removed the shortcut for copy merged since it was the same to toggle the Colors window.
- Fixed a bug in the QuickLook plugin where lines were not drawn correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the resolution wasn't imported correctly from psd files.
- Brush fixes.
- New fancy icon.

Acorn 1.5.1 release notes:

- Fix: Fixed a bug in Acorn's QuickLook plugin.
- Fix: Fixed the "Sreenshot" misspelling the preferences.
- Fix: The missing icon for the move button in the palette has decided to make a reappearance.
- Chg: Added code to detect possible incompatible future versions of Acorn files.
- New: I forgot to mention in the 1.5 release notes that there are new blending modes for 10.5 users for both layers and brushes.

## Acorn 1.5 release notes:

New Features:

- New Brush tool.
- New "Brush Designer" that lets you create new brushes and tweak the way it behaves. Live preview of your brush strokes, updated as you modify your brush settings.
- New "New Shape Layer" menu item under the Layer menu.
- New "Copy Merged" command under the Edit menu.
- New command under the window menu: "Gather Palettes" to move the Palette(s) to the top right corner, or to another monitor.
- You can now drag and drop folders from the Finder into a canvas to grab it's icon.

Changes / Additions:

- The file action scripts are now passed the environment variables that Acorn is given on launch.
- If you are in full screen mode (by pressing the 'F' key), pressing the ESC key will now toggle you out of it.
- New brush preview widget in the brush palette.
- The hidden pref to disable compression when saving no longer works.
- Updated updater (Sparkle).
- The image browser now supports previewing of Acorn files (It's about time for that to happen! 10.5+ only).
- New cursors for the rect, oval, and round rect selection tools.
- Pressing the 'b' and 'n' keys now toggle between the brush and pencil tools.
- The shortcut for the traditional draw tool (aka pencil) is now 'n', and the new brush is 'b'.
- Acorn's sample code now comes with AcornImage.framework, a simple framework for displaying Acorn images. http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/SampleAcornPlugins.zip
- No longer clearing the selection on a paste.
- Reworked prefs wording.
- New Layer Via Copy now works with nothing selected.
- No longer writing out an icon for files saved on 10.5, instead we'll let QuickLook do the lifting there.

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed a bug where Acorn could not open JPEGs when it had a color space Quartz didn't like much.
- Fixed a bug where the layers list would not update when choosing an image from the recent items list (until you moved your mouse anyway).
- The current corner radius for shapes is now remembered between launches.
- Tweaked the eyedropper tool to be more accurate when zoomed way in.
- Fixed a bug where saving when you have a selection on a bitmap layer which was nudged with the mouse wouldn't write all the bits properly.
- Cleaned up some blurry handles on shapes.
- Fixed a bug where scaling an image with text would sometimes crash.
- If you've got a vector graphic selected, and it doesn't have a fill, and you used the 'x' key to swap the colors, Acorn no longer gives it a fill.
- Fixed a crasher when doing a select-all with certain big images, and you had marching ants turned on.
- Fixed a flood fill bug with certain big images.
- Fixed a bug where transformed selections on bitmap layers would move to the wrong spot when you applied it.
- Fixed a problem where printing or saving an image while you were editing text, wouldn't always draw the text.
- Fixed a problem where drag and drop would make images blurry if you were zoomed in.
- Fixed a bug when making a rectangle selection, where the width/height display was off by 1 pixel when you selected the whole canvas.
- You can now clear a marquee selection with the esc key when a hidden layer is selected.
- Fixed a redraw bug when rotating the canvas.

Acorn 1.2.1 release notes:

- [Fix] Fixed a bug where the brush cursor would sometimes be clipped on the edges.
- [Fix] The filter window no longer jitters the expanded auto-fit preview when shrinking the window.
- [Fix] Improved drawing for shapes.
- [Fix] The "Last Filter" command now asks if you want to rasterize you invoke it on a shape layer.
- [Fix] Clicking on the filter window when the application is in the background now brings up all windows so you can see your filter preview.
- [Fix] The image resize window no longer goes wonky if you use the pixels/percentage popup without actually changing the value.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where the filter preview would jump around if you had a selection in the canvas.
- [Fix] File actions no longer show up in the "Last Filter" menu item.
- [Fix] You can now print unsaved documents.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug in QuickLook where shapes on shape layers were drawn in the wrong order.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug in levels, where the preview would draw offset in certain situations.
- [Fix] Minor bug fixes to Fancy Crop.
- [Fix] Using cmd-option-k to bring up the crop widget when no crop widget is already up, uses the Fancy Crop functionality.
- [Chg] Smoother drawing of images when zoomed out.
- [Fix] The way gradients are applied now match the previews.
- [Fix] Dropping applications on the canvas now pastes the app's icon again.

Acorn 1.2 release notes:

- [Chg] Tweaked the way tolerance is computed for the flood fill and magic wand tools.
- [Chg] The tool palette no longer shows a bad cursor x/y location when all documents have been closed, and no longer updates when a mouse is not over a canvas window.
- [New] Shape layers get a lighter border for the thumbnail preview in the layers list, to differentiate it from bitmap layers..
- [New] You can now move shapes when in rect tool mode, by holding down the command key and clicking on a shape to move it.
- [Fix] The grid no longer draws with a shadow when using the gradient tool.
- [Chg] Renamed "Transform Selection" to "Transform", since it didn't actually require a selection.
- [Chg] Moved the Flickr Uploadr menu item to the File/Actions menu, to make Brad Ellis happy.
- [Chg] Updated brush cursor look.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where you were still given cursors to resize with the crop tool, even though it was no longer around.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where transforming a selection on a bitmap layer which wasn't 100% opaque, would cause some funkiness when committed.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where option-clicking on a color (while in brush mode) gave you a color that was slightly off from what was presented.
- [Fix] Documented newDocumentWithImageData: in NSDocumentController for plugin authors.
- [Fix] Fixed a problem where there was ghosting along the edges of a selection, when filling or drawing in the selection with a brush.
- [New] You can now drag and drop acorn documents into a canvas to add layers to the image.
- [Fix] Acorn canvases no longer accept first clicks (for drawing or other actions) when the its is not frontmost.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where images on a shape layer were not being displayed when using QuickLook.
- [New] New "Last Filter" item under the Filter menu.
- [Chg/New] Reworked the context menu, and added "Rasterize Layer" for shape layers.
- [New] New menu items: New Layer With Selection / New Layer With Selection via Cut.
- [New] Holding down the option key when moving a bitmap selection with the move tool now duplicates it.
- [New] Using the arrow keys to move shape layers now works if no objects are selected.
- [Fix] Improvements to drag and drop.
- [Chg] Removed some filters from the Filter menu which didn't really make any sense to be in Acorn. However, all core image filters are still available in the filter panel filter picker sheet.
- [New] No longer displaying the filter panel when a core image filter does not have any options. To force the panel to come up, hold down the option key.
- [New] Holding down the option key when choosing a core image filter from the Filter menu, now applies it right away without bringing up the filter panel.
- [New] Holding down the shift key when pressing 's' now rotates backwards through the selection tools.
- [Fix] Improved placement when pasting bitmap images.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where making tiny screenshots would grab the wrong portion of the screen.
- [Fix] The grid now draws properly when zoomed in or out.
- [Fix] Closing the tool palette no longer causes the current document to throw up a save sheet when it's dirty.
- [Fix] Fixed a bug where you could not set the font to be condensed bold.
- [Fix] The startup window no longer floats above everything.
- [Fix] Fixed some memory leaks.
- [New] Acorn can now open and save JPEG 2000 images.
- [Chg] Tweaked shift-selection options to more closely match what people expect from using other applications (And you can now hold down option for center selections).
- [Chg] Improved rectangle selections when zoomed in.
- [New] New Overlay blend mode.
- [New] New "Offset" filter under Filter->Tile Effect.
- [New] Holding down the option key when using Trim to Edges works just like Fancy Crop (tm!) does.
- [New] Fancy Crop (tm). The crop tool now tries to figure out a nice default if you just click on the canvas without dragging.
- [New] Smarter trim command, now crops to the edge color and not just alpha pixels.
- [New] Paste added to the context menu.