ConceptDraw changes from v5.0.1 to v5.1

• The new command "Paste Special as Previous" has been added to the program in menu "Edit". It allows to paste objects from clipboard in the format that was chosen in the previous time the command “Paste Special was used
• The feature of turning on/off WYSIWYG displaying of fonts in the FontCoboBoxes. The corresponding checkbox "WYSIWYG Font list" was added at the “View” page in the “Preferences” dialog. When the "WYSIWYG Font list" is turned off the work with Font CoboBoxes is essentially faster. When "WYSIWYG Font list" is on, at the configurations with a large number of installed fonts, the work with Font CoboBoxes can be slower, but in this case when the necessary font was chosen, the names of the fonts are displayed as cognominal fonts.
• Support for Import/Export DXF files has been improved. Now ConceptDraw completely supports specification of DXF formats up to version R12.
• Revised and optimized ConceptDraw format, that makes it possible to reduce the size of files *.cdd and *.cdl in average at 25%. At the same time the compatibility with the previous version remained.
• In the professional version of the software the CDBasic reference guide was updated.
• Problem with text background color shifting for 1.x documents has been fixed.
• The problem of saving documents with ellipse segments to in 1.x format was fixed. (Previously the formulas for parameters Ñ and D were saved incorrectly)
• The problem on MAC platform that did not allow to enter the font size different from predefined was fixed.
• The problem with text wrap in the objects when opening 1.x documents was fixed.
• The problem with text redrawing in object , when some neighboring symbols were imposed at each other was fixed.
• The problem with falling down of the software when some elements from "Mac OS X User Interface” library were dragged was fixed.
• The problem with falling down of the software when some elements from libraries on Windows 98/Me were dragged was fixed.
• The problem with software falling down during the work with object “L-Room’ was fixed.
• The problem with export to PDF documents without background page or when OLE-object was inserted into background page was fixed.
• Also the problem with export to PDF documents with not singular scale was fixed.
• The problem with software falling down during the attempt to exit it on Mac platform from system dockbar was fixed.
• The problem with software falling down when close the document or the entire application during the work of CDBasic script was fixed.
• The problem with printing on Win 95/Me was fixed.
• The problem with incorrect calculation of number of the pages when printing text by scripting program from CDBasic editor on Windows platform and during the print of multiple-page documents on MacOS was fixed.
• The series of the problems connected with redrawing of the documents was fixed.
• The problem with redrawing of floating dialog with list of layers was fixed.
• The problem with not saving printing preferences that were made straight before the process of printing.
• The series of problems connected with the work with connectors in a group and with connectors that were connected to each other was fixed.
• The array of the problems connected with work with tables of the objects was fixed.
• The problem with converting PICT to VectorPicture objects was fixed.
• The problem with opening Help on Mac platform was fixed.

Contents revision:

• All libraries with fixed problems and deficiencies were reviewed.

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