Reunion 9.06
Reunion 9.06 has been released.
New features :
• .Mac and iDisk integration. When you create a report, look for “iDisk” in the Destination popup menu.
• Ability to create a movie file of a slideshow.
• New slideshow preferences: background color, drop shadow/size/color, text colors, bold text, more transitions, and a sample preview.
• New editing options for slideshow items: edit the name and description of a slide directly in the slideshow list, insert a text-only slide, images can be dragged to the slideshow list from the Finder, iPhoto, and family card.
• Automatically open your family file - When you open Reunion, the most recent family file with which you were working will automatically open. This is a new global option in Reunion Preferences / Startup which is turned ON by default.
• New Treetops Report button.
• In Found Lists, you can now save a default setup (column and sort settings) that will apply to new found lists. Defaults for lists of people and couples are saved separately. To do this, open or create a found list and setup the columns/sorting the way you desire. Then choose Save Default Column & Sort Setup from the Found Lists popup menu.
• Enhanced sorting in lists - when sorting lists of couples and when sorting family group sheets, a new “Last Name, First Name” sorting preset appears in the Sort popup menu (Note: this only appears in new family files). Also added “First & Mid Name” a sort field option which appears when you click the title of a column in a list (This appears for all family files).
• Use of abbreviations in chart boxes has been enhanced. If there is no “short” abbreviation for a field name (in the field preferences), then no delimiter is added. If the short abbreviation ends with punctuation, the delimiter will be a space character. This change provides the ability to have chart boxes without field names or abbreviations, in addition to using your own special punctuation.
• Added Unique ID to text file import and export.
Changes for Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) :
• Fixed an updating problem with the toolbar that caused fluttering tools.
• Tab key behavior restored in Index window, Edit Person/Family windows, Found Lists.
• Fixed a crash with File -> Save a Copy while children are appearing in the list mode on the family card.
• Improved support of iPhoto library when clicking the Add (+) button in the Multimedia window.
• Fixed sticky menus (cases where the menu title would remain highlighted).
• Fixed a problem where opening/closing the Manual window could lead to a crash when Command clicking the toolbar button (located at the very top-right of the Manual window).
• Restored the on-screen appearance of the chart (behind the Print window) while printing.
• Improved the appearance of the text “xxx marked people” (in green) at the bottom of the family card window.
• Fixed a problem where the Add Source pull down menu (in the Edit Person/Family windows) would go blank sometimes.
Other changes and fixes :
• Back button - fixed a problem with backtracking when using the Back button and the Sibling popup menu in certain sequences.
• Bookmarks menu - fixed a problem where random items would become disabled in the menu.
• Charts - fixed a problem with connecting lines disconnecting when deleting text from boxes.
• Charts - fixed a problem with the cursor when deleting all text inside a text box.
• Charts - fixed a problem with stacking of multiple pictures in box after redrawing a chart.
• Charts - fixed a problem with the Add Box command and Undo of same.
• Charts - fixed a problem with waterfall descendant charts and the Number Pages button (in Page Setup).
• Charts - fixed appearance of non-solid lines in chart objects and connecting lines.
• Charts - in the Finder, when choosing File -> Get Info for chart files, the Created and Modified dates are differentiated.
• Charts - page breaks have been moved “behind” all other objects.
• Charts - page breaks on screen no longer drift on charts with a large number of pages in one direction.
• Charts - removed extra space in boxes between place abbreviation and place name in certain situations.
• Charts - tweaked the tool tips for tool panel buttons.
• Charts - fixed a problem where using the “Update From Family File” would not maintain the current text font, size and color in a box.
• Citation details in note fields - fixed a problem relating to the character limit of the detail field.
• Cross Platform - Person Sheet & Family Group Sheets were not sorting properly when the family file wasn’t native.
• Cross Platform - two preferences in the Web Preferences / Sources window were changing when moving across platforms.
• Cross Platform - Web Preferences / Options / Contact Info, mailing address, letters of first word were being reversed.
• Deleting Fields - added warning when attempting to delete a field after using the Usage button and then returning to the Person or Family sections of the Field Preferences window.
• Descendant Reports & Charts - when spouses are not included, redundant entries of descendants who had multiple spouses will not appear in reports. This was a problem only in cases where a descendant had multiple spouses AND he did not have children with the second spouse AND the report layout (Name Setup) did NOT include spouses.
• Descendant Chart - fixed a crash when editing a descendant chart after selecting a box, selecting all text, using the Backspace key, followed by the Enter key.
• Edit Parents window & Edit Spouses window - the Go button (and double clicking a line) work properly now.
• Edit Person window - changes to the name would not enable the Save button if the first character typed was a quote.
• Edit Source / Source Fields - tab key behavior improved.
• Edit Source / Source Fields window - improved ease of deleting selected fields.
• Edit Source window - fixed a problem when 2 family files are open.
• Edit Source window - added spell checking to the Edit menu.
• Family Card - fixed a problem when using Page Up/Down to navigate to family cards.
• Family Card, Back & Forward buttons - better click and hold compatibility with Wacom tablet users.
• Family File, Get Info - added the ability to report OS X sub-versions above 10.x.9
• Family Group Sheets - fixed a problem creating family-based sorts of sheets.
• Field Preferences - pressing the Delete key when the Delete button is disabled no longer deletes the selected field.
• Field Preferences / Usage list - deleted fields no longer appear in the field usage report as “Invalid Fields.”
• Find Anything - removed the “Has Citation” item from second popup menu when searching for changed date of people, couples, and mailing addresses.
• Found Lists - fixed a crash with multiple Found List windows open simultaneously and a crash when pressing command - M with a found list open.
• GEDCOM - fixed some problems with ANSEL support in GEDCOM Import & Export.
• GEDCOM - fixed tag for event “Blessing” in new family files.
• GEDCOM Import - fixed a problem while analyzing file when the VERS line had no value.
• Import Family File - fixed a problem importing source records caused by an empty source record in the destination file.
• Import Text File - fixed a problem with certain variations of UTF-16 text files.
• Index - fixed a crash when re-sorting the Index after changing data directly in the list.
• Index - married names are properly updated in the Index.
• Index - selection and filtering are retained if the Index button is clicked and the Index is already open.
• Index - when adding children and parents from the Index, the default surname in the search box applies the prefix name setting in Index Preferences.
• Info windows - renamed to better distinguish between the family file and chart info windows.
• LDS Ordinances window - several improvements and fixes.
• Log - The Log window will now remember the currently selected log when there is more than one log in the list of logs.
• Manual - added “Use selection for Find” to the Manual menu in the menu bar.
• Manual - will work properly if there is a bullet (option-8) in the Reunion application file path.
• Marking - marked status of people is properly updated in all windows when found lists and index windows are open simultaneously.
• Memos - fixed a problem printing long memos in person sheets and family group sheets. Added support for printing multi-line memos.
• Menus - fixed menu refreshing after opening certain windows, followed by opening a manual window.
• Menus - fixed a problem with the menu bar not refreshing after opening the GEDCOM export window and then clicking Cancel.
• Menus - the Edit Parents menu items are disabled if there are no parents.
• Menus - the item Window -> Previous Lists -> Source Usage is properly enabled when any window is in front.
• Multimedia - dragging movies into the Multimedia window / Thumbnails would sometimes display a white box instead of the poster frame for the movie. NOTE: QuickTime 7.2 is required for Intel Mac users.
• Multimedia Preferences / Locations / Repair button - fixed a problem removing similar, but not redundant, paths from the list.
• Multimedia - fixed a rare crash when searching for pictures in the iPhoto library.
• Notes - adding citations no longer replaces any selected text (or selected citation) in a note field.
• Notes - fixed an obscure problem with cutting and pasting text in note fields.
• Numbering - fixed a problem when using the “legal” numbering system with the Change -> Numbering feature. Intel only.
• Page Setup - settings for binding margins are retained between sessions.
• Person Sheets - corrected a problem when using custom sorts.
• Perspective Events - file name extension of Perspective Event sets is no longer case sensitive.
• Print Preview - Arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End can be used to change pages.
• Quitting - fixed crash when quitting Reunion with two family files open.
• Quitting - fixed a problem when quitting Reunion or when closing a family file when an Edit Source window with unsaved changes is still open.
• Recent Found List - Cmd-R now opens the most recent found list, whether or not the list was saved.
• Register Report - fixed a problem with tab placements in RTF files (relating to indentation of notes for children).
• Register Report - If data was entered and later removed in the death event field for a child, they are no longer labeled dead in the report if the Register Report Layout / “Birth & death dates for children” setting is “Narrative.”
• Reports - fixed a problem with reports going to MS Word when the RTF option to “insert index codes” is enabled and names included diacritical marks and/or quotes.
• Reports - made a change to avoid a problem with some word processors when non-printable characters appeared in a data field.
• Reports - corrected some formatting issues for citations in notes.
• Shortcuts - some letter-key shortcuts are now case-sensitive (as in R8) which fixes a problem adding people via shortcuts.
• Slideshows - items dragged into an open Multimedia window are included in a slideshow prior to closing the window.
• Source List window - search box selection behavior improved.
• Source List window - the last 5 items in the Window -> Previous Lists submenu are properly enabled when appropriate.
• Source Usage window - now remembers it’s column setup for new searches.
• Speed Names - can now be turned off.
• Undo - support for Undo added when using arrow keys for speed names.
• View Preferences - window will open with a greater height to better display fields in a view.
• Web output - sensitive multimedia items in source records are properly included/excluded based on the setting in the Privacy & Sensitivity Preferences / Sensitivity.
• Web output - fixed a problem with URLs in source fields ending with a period.
• Web output - movies on media pages larger than 511 pixels in either direction are no longer cropped.
• Web output - multimedia files were not included in source records above the number specified in the Web Preferences/Sources/”Sources per page” setting.
• Web output - multimedia in Sources tweaked for better compatibility with Firefox and Safari.
• Web output - tweaked the placement of surnames on TOC page in the Olive style.
• Web output - tweaked the field placement on person sheets for the Olive style.
• Web output - tweaked the “lp_coverpage_standard1.css” and “lp_webcards_standard1.css” files. This should provide better compatibility with MSIE 6.
• Web output - some extended characters have been added to the ISO 8859-1 character set.
• Web output, web family cards - fixed a problem with missing camera icon for family web media pages when the privacy filter engaged for a living couple.
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