The following is a listing of Releases for Dru.
Version 2.0.8 Jan. 2018
Update
- Added stability to EditText tool.
- Added stability running multiple opened xvd projects.
- Added stability while app is idle.
- Fixed Misc. issues.
Version 2.0.1 Oct 2017
Update
- Fixed random issue with Exporting HTML prototypes.
- Fixed issue with exporting some images.
- Minimum macOS version is now 10.9.5 (If you are still using OS X 10.7 & OS X 10.8 please use Dru version 1.7.
Version 2.0 Aug 2017
New
- Added Full CoreText support
- Added Columns tool
- Added EditText editor tool
- Added Enhanced Story e
- Added Font Previews
- Added Expanded font styles
- Added Vertical alignment for Text shapes.
- Added Toolbar styles
- Added Text styles tool
- Added 64 bit app support (A new foundation for the future.)
Updated
- Fixed issue in Style browser.
- Fixed issue with measurement type not being displayed in some areas.
- Added option to change rendering style in preference.
- Other Misc. issues fixed.
Version 1.7 July 2016
New
- Added Enhanced Retina Support. (More Interface controls are clearer.)
- Added Rendering Engine Support for enhanced page scrolling for large document with 150 plus objects.
- Added Enhanced Batch functionality. (Modify multiple shapes)
- Added Enhanced Image Export capability. Multiple pages can now be exported as image.
Updated
- Page guides to scale better when zooming greater 800 percent.
- Objects now snapTo Guides, Objects or the Grid with greater precision.
- Fixed misc. bugs.
Version 1.6.3 October 2015
Updated
- Effect pop-over now allows changing PPI/DPI of effects. In addition to supporting 72ppi. Three other ppi settings are supported such as 144ppi, 300ppi and 600ppi.
- Fixed issue with Form facade function not showing correct form state.
- Fixed HTML export issue for Dropdown form object.
- Fixed misc. bugs.
Version 1.6.2 August 2015
Updated
- Fixed issue related to exporting @2x and @3x images.
- Fixed Other misc. bugs.
1.6.1 July 2015
New
- Formfields can know be formatted with expanded phone number styles such as US, China, France and UK.
Updated
1.6 May 2015
New
- New Path Tools – Use the new Smooth point and Smooth Extend point and Path smoothing tools to add detail to your vectors.
- New Form Tool – Add color to Form Field Text labels and Form Field backgrounds.
- New Image Matrix Tool – Give images and anchor to stand on.
- New Object Alignment tool – Now two or more objects can know be vertically or horizontally aligned.
- New @2x, and @3x image exporting.
- New SVG documents exporter. Share your creations with others using SVG.
- Basic Retina support.
Updated
- Enhanced Duplicate and Repeat tool – Now supports duplicating page guides.
- Enhanced Options panel that supports precise Page guide placement.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Auto image squaring for exported images.
1.4.11 December 2014
- Fixed issues with supported Languages.
1.4.10 October 2014
- Fixed issue with page orientation in the ”Page Size & Margins” option not switching from Portrait to Landscape.
- Fixed other misolanouse.
1.4.9 June 2014
- Fixed Random issue affecting form field list boxes exported to PDF.
- Fixed issue in form fields defaults value not displaying correctly for some characters.
1.4.8 May 2014
- Fixed and issue related to exported images not including file extensions (.tiff,.png,.jpg).
- Enhanced support for exported PDF files that contain form Text fields with defaults values being viewable in 3rd party PDF reading Applications outside of Preview.
1.4.7 April 2014
- Fixed issue related to exporting a PDF.
- Minimum OS X version is now 10.7.3 (If you are still using OS X 10.6.8 please use Dru version 1.4.6
- Miscellaneous fixes.
1.4.6 March 2014
- More Enhanced SVG file Importing.
- Fixed issues related to exporting a PDF with Advanced PDF settings enabled.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
1.4.5 Feburuary 2014
- Enhanced SVG file Importing.
- Fixed issue related to the Exclude Vector tool.
- Enhanced Vector Tools now include a Divide tool.
1.4.3 December 2013
- The New Document Window now allows the setting of a Default page type.
- Now support Drag & Dropping of images in to openned documents.
- Fixed issue related to saving placed images.
- Fixed issue related to saving a PDF file opened from the file menu.
1.4.1 December 2013
- Fixed issue with exporting to PNG file presents a double export window.
- Fixed issue with exporting to Website creates corrupted CSS folder.
- Fixed other issues.
1.4 November 2013
New
- Multi-Point Gradient tool. Three or more points of color are better then two.
- Clipping Shape tool. The Clipping Shape tool allows easy creation of clipping shapes that mask out areas of a shape.
- Form Field Formats. Enhance your fillable pdf forms with date, time or number fields.
- Enhanced Image fill tool. An Image fill can now be applied to more shapes types then before.
- App Sandboxing for Mac OS 10.7.3 or greater. Making your files more secure.
- Cocoa interface code makes Dru more responsive when using a mouse or a finger on a touch pad.
- Quick Key Combinations allow short cuts to frequently used menu commands such as Fill, Stroke, Drop Shadow, and Effects.
- Story Editor. Now faster and more easier with zoom and enhanced Font engine.
Update
- Fixed issue in several gradient properties not being saved to XVD file.
- Fixed issue when editing a text object inside of a group object
- Snap To Options are now located in the Toolbar
- Enhanced Image fill tool. An Image fill can now be applied to more shapes types then before.
- Enhanced Forms tool. Extended Font types can now be set using the Form field options panel.
- Enhanced Group object editing for Text objects.
- Enhanced Text options will all the updating of Fonts and Sizes the Options panel.
- Enhanced “Convert To” tool to now support conversion of a round rectangle, Star, Polygon, to a shape that can be edited using the Points tool.
1.2.2 March 2013
New
- Advanced PDF forms export option. This fixes a issue with exporting Form field objects with active properties such as Multiline, ReadOnly, and Required.
- Exported Form text field can know be aligned centered or aligned right.
Note
- Fixed issue with form field list box tool not adding list box object to view/page.
- Fixed issue with form field list box tool not adding list box object to view/page.
- Fixed issue in story editor that prevented some highlighted words from being spell checked using a right click or a control click.
1.2.1 January 2013
New
- Forms fields now display their default state.
- Default style for a Textbox can now be set.
- Forms field objects contained inside a group can now be edited with out breaking the group object apart.
Note
- Fixed an issue with Color and Shapes styles not loading properly
- Fixed an issue with master page icon not displaying correctly.
- Fixed an issue with duplicating a document page that has a master page assigned to it.
- Fixed an issue with Form options popover not updating the display of the object being edited.
- Bookmarks are now exported when exporting HTML files.
- Fixed issue with Forms Fields in a group not exporting property.
1.2 September 2012
New
- Text to Outlines allow text objects to be converted to vector shapes.
- Shape Tools provides several functions allowing the creation of new shapes from two different shapes.
- Master Pages allow the sharing of common graphic objects among multi-pages.
- HTML Exporting allows the automatic exporting of document pages as HTML pages.
- Quick Start window allows quicker access to application features such as recent items, New Documents and Samples
- Styles browser for Colors and Shapes
- Smart Shapes such as the Polygon tool and the Star tool.
Updates
- Enhanced SVG importing
- Fix issue in the interface that did not provide adequate user guidance.
- Fix issue in Form field mode which prevented object alignment while using the form fields browser.
- Fix issue in bookmark tool that caused the points tool to incorrectly activate for form field objects.
- Fix issue in rotating grouped objects that contained other rotated objects.
- Fix issue in blend mode not being and undoable function.
1.0.6 December 2011
New
- Bookmark tool now has the ability to reset a Bookmarks destination (Control+Click, Right click on bookmark name in the bookmark listing)
- Support for importing/opening Scaleable Vector Graphic (SVG) files in Dru.
- Basic menu support for Portuguese language.
Updated
- Fix a minor issue when creating new bookmarks or deleting and existing bookmark.
- Fix issue in grouped checkbox objects when exporting to PDF.
- Fix an issue in exported checkbox objects not retaining there border when exporting to a PDF.
- Fix an issue in Story Editor that caused some latin characters to not display properly.
- Fix an issue in Story Editor that caused and unexpected slow down when committing changes.
- Fix issue when using the millimeters measurement system
- Fix several miscellaneous issues.
1.0.5 October 2011
New
- New Bookmark tool
- Enhanced Page browser
- Enhanced Grid tool
- Snap to Guide.
- Toolbar and ruler styles.
- Document resuming. Lion feature.
- Rotation support for placed/imported images and graphics.
- PDF Forms fields and Bookmarks Importing. (When placing imported PDF documents and pages Dru will import Form Fields or Bookmarks contained in the imported PDF Documents).
Note
- Fixed random printing issue.
- Fixed issue in snapping objects to ruler guides
- Fixed various miscellaneous.
- Fixed issue system not notifying user that a document contains only formfields and no drawing objects when attempting to export a fillable PDF.
1.0.3 July 2011
New
- PDF documents or PDF pages can now be imported from the ‘Open’ command. (previously only the image tool allowed the importing and placing of PDF documents or PDF pages)
- Dru documents that contain imported PDF documents with multiple pages can now be updated to display a different page of the imported PDF document.
Note
- fixed several graphical issues related to Lion.
- fixed issue related to object’s lock setting not being respected.
- fixed issue causing files with imported pdf documents from loading properly.
1.0.2 June 2011
New
- PDF documents or PDF pages can now be imported from the ‘Open’ command. (previously only the image tool allowed the importing and placing of PDF documents or PDF pages)
Note
- Fixed possible data loss issue.
- Fixed issue related to image objects and drop shadows
- Fixed issue causing page guides from being resized when the document settings are changed.
- Fixed various miscellaneous issues.
1.0.1 April 2011
New
Group objects can now be edited with out breaking a Group apart.
Updated
- Fixed an issue in where the Points tool would not function as expected.
- Fixed an issue where the app will no longer attempts to open file types it can’t understand.
- Fixed an issue preventing certain undoable actions from functioning as expected.
- Fixed an issue causing the appearance of compound paths to appear corrupted.
- Fixed an issue causing the appearance of mirrored page objects to appear corrupted.
- Fixed an issue causing placed PDF’s to rendered as image and instead of a vector.
- Fixed a drop shadow window issue causing page objects to appear unaffected when changing settings.
- Fixed an issue preventing opened FML files from opening properly
- Fixed an issue that displayed an file open error when it wasn’t needed.
- Fixed an issue that forced exported PDFs file to open in Preview.
- Fixed various miscellaneous issues.
1.0 March 2011
Dru easy to use features enable the user to create a document with ease – without the complications associated with other programs. It only takes a few simple clicks to create eye catching presentations such as: brochures, letters, fillable forms, logo’s and other graphical elements.
Editing Modes
- Pointer Mode allows scaling of shapes.
- Points Mode allows the editing of points of a selected shape
- Forms Mode allows speedy creation of fillable PDF forms
Tools
A wide range of drawing tools that allow creativity such as: Text, Rectangle, Oval, Line and other vector based shapes.
- Effects – Apply drop shadows and filters effects to vector shapes.
- PDF forms – The creation of fillable PDF forms that allow the sharing of information.
- Objects browser allows instant categorization of page objects for easy organization
- Page browser allows quick and easy access to multiple pages
- Duplicate & repeat function allows for quick and easy copies
- Story Editor allows focused editing of text.
Pagination Engine
- Allows for dynamic page creation using maximum creativity. Create one or more pages.
Sharing & Exporting
- Export PDF files
- Export Fillable-Forms as PDF or FML files
- Import media types such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, PSD
- Export JPEG, TIFF, PNG files