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Change Log

Major improvements to zooming

MindNode Pro now supports zooming to any factor between 10% - 400%, allows zooming with multi-touch trackpads and mouse wheel ([CMD]+[Mouse Wheel up/down] and supports Fit Mind Map and Fit Selection. Furthermore the zoom factor button next to the horizontal scroll received a major facelift and now looks and behaves similarly to pop-up-buttons used in the iWork suite.

Filled Nodes

Nodes can be drawn filled and with a border. It’s also possible to change the background color of filled nodes.

Multi-touch support

Additional to the two-finger scrolling, MindNode Pro now supports pitch to zoom and three-finger-swipe to change the selection on all new multi-touch trackpads.

Link Support

The support of links changed a lot in this release. Besides Hyperlinks and Filelinks, MindNode Pro now also supports mail links. The way how links are handled now reflects the way Apple handles them in iWork applications (a blue rectangle around a link indicates that the entire links is being edited, compared to only editing the current selection as before). Filelinks can now also link to folders.

Other Improvements and Fixes:

• Print settings are correctly saved with each document.
• Improved handling of canvas resizing. It decreases automatically when folding and moving nodes. The canvas no longer has a visible border.
• When editing a left aligned node, the canvas no longer moves around.
• When printing a document with folded node the application will no longer print empty pages for folded nodes.
• Correct handling of title-size-knobs.
• Changes default main node thickness to 2 pt instead of 3 pt.
• Root nodes are now called main nodes.
• Improved the handling of the scale value text field in the printing options.
• New style preference for changing the default value for decrease branch thickness.
• Correct saving of branch colors.
• Fixes a drawing bug when adding a new line character at the end of a node.
• Correct handling of paper sizes.
• New style preference settings for fill color, decrease branch thickness, allow branch color variations (instead of repeating colors MindNode varies colors).
• The selection style of mind node changed to allow easier changing of fill colors.
• When editing a title the application no longer draws a white background. This enables the use of white and similar colors as font colors.
• Increased spacing between nodes when using auto rearranging.
• Improved behavior when entering the edit mode. The application now inserts the insertion marker at the point of the click and no longer selects the entire node.
• The color of the selection rubber band changed.
• Main nodes are ordered by their canvas location when exporting to RTF, HTML, FreeMind and OPML.
• It’s no longer possible to create a main node when double clicking the canvas.

To help differenciate MindNode and MindNode Pro, MindNode will receive a new icon in the upcoming 1.3 release. My original plan was to enhance the icon for MindNode Pro, but doing so without cluttering the icon, turned out to be too difficult. So we ended up trying color variations to create a new look for the MindNode icon. I hope you like the new icon.

After long considerations I just made the switched to Kagi as my main payment provider. This will provide a much smoother checkout experience for my customers and will allow me to integrate a store into the application in the future. Buy at Kagi»

With this switch I also changed the base currency from Euro to US-Dollar. The new price of MindNode Pro is $14.95. With the current Euro-Dollar exchange rate this makes the application even more affordable. Please also note that this is still an introductory price. The final price for MindNode Pro 1.x will be $24.95 and will come into effect on March 1st, 2009.

An other change I made to my site is the new Software Licensing Policy. In my opinion it’s a very fair license and if you have any feedback on it, please let me know.

So you just got a new mac and you are still looking for an easy to use mind mapping application? Why not have a look at MindNode Pro and save 3.- Euro on the original price of 11,95.- Euro by applying the checkout code “holiday08promo”. This offer is only available until the end of the year.

Enjoy your holidays and have a great year 2009!
Markus

I discontinued InfiniteCanvas.app and all related projects (including the iPhone viewer). The application is dated and there was never a lot of demand for it

I’d like to thank Peter Purgathofer, Scott McCloud, Tym Godek, Ryan Estrada, Neal Von Flue, Alexander Danner, Eva Ganglbauer, Derik Badman, Grant Thomas and everybody else who helped me during the development of the application. Thank you!

PS: If you are a comic artist still interested in the ic concept, please drop me a line. There is an interesting new webbased infinite canvas project in development and the developer is looking for artist who want to provide input.

I released MindNode Pro 1.0.3. This release adds a german localization and contains improvements to the FreeMind Importer/Exporter.

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Detailed Release Notes

• German localization.
• Improved documentation.
• Improved FreeMind import and export (Links, Folding).
• Shortcut for Reorganize Nodes.
• Fixes issues with files and folder containing spaces and other special characters.
• Fixes an issue related to node resizing on a scaled canvas.
• Reorganize Nodes is no longer reserving space for folded nodes.
• Interface improvements in the register dialog.

This is a major update for MindNode. It’s now based on the improved MindNode Pro codebase, bringing major performance and stability improvements to this release.

Detailed release notes

• Find support.
• Copy will place a RTF representations of all selected nodes onto the pasteboard.
• Branches are always drawn below nodes.
• Pressing ESC during dragging will undo the operation.
• Improved Inspector.
• Solves issues with the software updater when the inspector is open.
• The software updater won’t check on first launch.
• Drag and drop support for Strings and RTFs.
• Removed the tab between bullet and text when exporting to RTF.
• Updated the way font changes are handled when not in edit mode. It’s now a lot smoother and underlining works correctly.
• Improved handling of color wells and the color panel when entering edit mode.
• Smaller node active area.
• Strikethrough support.
• New node well
• New root nodes are only created on mouse up.
• Major improved html export.
• Many other minor changes and improvements

MindNode Pro 1.0.2 adds find support and offers significant improvements to exporting and font handling.

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Detailed Release Notes

• Find support.
• Strike through support.
• New window that displays license information.
• Fixes an issue related to unfolding a node when animations are disabled.
• Folding is now persistant.
• Removed the tab between bullet and text when exporting to RTF.
• Updated the way font changes are handled when not in edit mode. It’s now a lot smoother and underlining works correctly.
• Inspector now commits changes to URLs when loosing focus or closing the inspector panel.
• Links work correctly when exporting to PDF.
• Improved handling of color wells and the color panel when entering edit mode.
• Optimized node active area.
• Root nodes are created on mouse up.
• Stroke width is correctly applied when reconnecting and detaching nodes.
• Changes to the color panel are only applied to a node text if there is no active color well.
• Improved html export.

I uploaded a new beta of MindNode Pro. This version fixes several bugs and adds replace support to the find panel.

Download MindNode Pro 1.0.2 beta 2

I’m planning to release updates of MindNode Pro and MindNode later this week. MindNode Pro 1.0.2 is a minor bug fix release that will enable the long promised search functionality. MindNode 1.2 on the other hand is a major release that will bring MindNode to the same code-base as the pro version.

Today I’m releasing first betas for both version. Beta means that the application is still buggy, unstable and may trash your data. If you decided to run any of those versions be careful and have a backup ready.

Download MindNode Pro 1.0.2 beta 1
Download MindNode 1.2 beta 1

Release Notes:
MindNode Pro 1.0.2 beta 1

• Basic find support (replace will follow in future builds).
• Issue related to unfolding a node when animations are disabled.
• Folding is now persistant.
• Removed the tab between bullet and text when exporting to RTF
• Updated the way font changes are handled when not in edit mode. It’s now a lot smoother and underlining works correctly.
• Inspector now commit changes to URLs when loosing focus or closing the panel.
• Strike through support.
• Link Export during PDF export.

MindNode 1.2 beta 1

• Basic find support (replace will follow in future builds).
• Copy will also place RTF representations of all selected nodes onto the pasteboard.
• Branches are always drawn below nodes.
• Pressing ESC during dragging will undo the operation.
• Solves issues with the software updater when the inspector is open.
• The software updater won’t check on first launch.
• New License Agreement and updates to the welcome window.
• Drag and drop support for Strings and RTFs
• Removed the tab between bullet and text when exporting to RTF
• Updated the way font changes are handled when not in edit mode. It’s now a lot smoother and underlining works correctly.