With the release of macOS 15.4 a small proportion of users were unable to verify their subscription status, as a consequence of the app failing to connect to the Mac App Store. This resulted in the app being unable to save or print. Mechanisms have been put in place to mitigate against this, and to recover if it occurs.

Studio Publisher has been migrated from Paid to Freemium. Download for free. If you purchased from the App Store prior to this version you are eligible to upgrade for free, and do not need to purchase a Subscription. The app will detect this when it runs. For new users there is a range of Subscription plans, each with a free trial. You can get involved at very low cost! This is a maintenance release, with the following minor fixes: - Subscriptions window was clipped along the bottom edge on lower resolution screens, preventing access to the Buy button - Users were unable to open the View Options window - The Toolbar Subscriptions button text colour was incorrect - EPS references have been removed from Menus and Help Pages as the format is no longer supported by Apple

iStudio Publisher has been migrated from Paid to Freemium. Download for free. Existing users who originally purchased from the App Store prior to this version are eligible to upgrade for free, and do not need to purchase a Subscription. For new users there is a range of Subscription plans, each with a free trial. New users can get involved at very low cost!

FIXED: Launch bug. First encountered in Sonoma, this bug prevented iStudio from launching if duplicate font files are installed, such as both OpenType and TrueType versions of the same family.

NEW: Updated for the Apple Silicon M-series chips. The dual binary build still supports legacy Intel chips. FIXED: Image and Text file insertion bug. First encountered in Sonoma, this bug prevented images and text files from being inserted via the menu or the Image Inspector. Neither drag-and-drop nor copy-and-paste were affected. FIXED: Several UI layout and alignment issues.

Fixed: Incorrect text display on screen when text shadow and font changes combine. Fixed: Occasional crash on document close.

Fixes several issues required to run smoothly on macOS Big Sur

iStudio 1.5.2 contains minor bug fixes. In-App Purchases have been removed and the features are now included for free.

iStudio 1.5.1 contains minor bug fixes. iStudio Publisher 1.5 contains a host of new features, performance enhancements, improvements and fixes. Here are some highlights: • Dark Mode support (macOS Mojave or later). This is an In-App Purchase. A user interface dark theme crafted to embrace macOS Dark Mode. By default, the user interface theme follows the system preference for Light/Dark Mode, but you can override this using the new iStudio Publisher > Appearance menu. • Speed Boost (Image and PDF). This is an In-App Purchase. Image and PDF handling optimisations to provide a significant speed boost in all activities requiring dynamic image/PDF refresh, including: image sizing and positioning, image container sizing, positioning and node editing, document scrolling, zooming and panning, document window resizing, selection of window arrangements, and show/hide of the Toolkit, Info Bar and rulers. • Text View. This is an In-App Purchase. A new working mode, to focus on writing by removing distractions. Images and PDFs are substituted by placeholders and all shadows are hidden. A new View Options window includes options to fade shapes and lines, or hide them entirely. • Options for image/PDF display quality in Normal View. In Normal View, images/PDFs can now be displayed at three quality levels: Original (best), Medium (default), or Low (fastest). Make this choice via the new View Options window. In combination with the new Speed Boost (Image and PDF) feature, image heavy documents can now be set to respond without lagging, or you may choose to work with full quality images/PDFs while the speed trade-off remains acceptable. • Speed improvements with shadowed text and shadowed shapes. Significant speed improvements have been achieved meaning that working with large amounts of shadowed text is now possible, without lagging. • Smoothness of scrolling, zooming and panning. Magic Mouse standard scrolling with inertia now feels noticeably smoother. • Insert text cursor relative to text selection, using arrow keys. Left Arrow: insert at selection start; Right Arrow: insert at selection end; Up Arrow: insert in previous line, above selection start; and Down Arrow: insert in next line, below selection end. • Menu options to insert “Images", "PDF, EPS, AI”, and “Text, RTF” now support multi-file insertion. Provides the multi-file insertion capabilities already available when dragging files into a document. • When selecting a shape, undesired snap/move now prevented. A slight delay has been added between selecting a shape and accepting mouse movements to avoid unwanted move on select. • New Task Chooser design. For the full list of new features, improvements and fixes, see the Release Notes in iStudio Publisher’s help pages.

iStudio Publisher 1.5 contains a host of new features, performance enhancements, improvements and fixes. Here are some highlights: • Dark Mode support (macOS Mohave or later). This is an In-App Purchase. A user interface dark theme crafted to embrace macOS Dark Mode. By default, the user interface theme follows the system preference for Light/Dark Mode, but you can override this using the new iStudio Publisher > Appearance menu. • Speed Boost (Image and PDF). This is an In-App Purchase. Image and PDF handling optimisations to provide a significant speed boost in all activities requiring dynamic image/PDF refresh, including: image sizing and positioning, image container sizing, positioning and node editing, document scrolling, zooming and panning, document window resizing, selection of window arrangements, and show/hide of the Toolkit, Info Bar and rulers. • Text View. This is an In-App Purchase. A new working mode, to focus on writing by removing distractions. Images and PDFs are substituted by placeholders and all shadows are hidden. A new View Options window includes options to fade shapes and lines, or hide them entirely. • Options for image/PDF display quality in Normal View. In Normal View, images/PDFs can now be displayed at three quality levels: Original (best), Medium (default), or Low (fastest). Make this choice via the new View Options window. In combination with the new Speed Boost (Image and PDF) feature, image heavy documents can now be set to respond without lagging, or you may choose to work with full quality images/PDFs while the speed trade-off remains acceptable. • Speed improvements with shadowed text and shadowed shapes. Significant speed improvements have been achieved meaning that working with large amounts of shadowed text is now possible, without lagging. • Smoothness of scrolling, zooming and panning. Magic Mouse standard scrolling with inertia now feels noticeably smoother. • Insert text cursor relative to text selection, using arrow keys. Left Arrow: insert at selection start; Right Arrow: insert at selection end; Up Arrow: insert in previous line, above selection start; and Down Arrow: insert in next line, below selection end. • Menu options to insert “Images", "PDF, EPS, AI”, and “Text, RTF” now support multi-file insertion. Provides the multi-file insertion capabilities already available when dragging files into a document. • When selecting a shape, undesired snap/move now prevented. A slight delay has been added between selecting a shape and accepting mouse movements to avoid unwanted move on select. • New Task Chooser design. For the full list of new features, improvements and fixes, see the Release Notes in iStudio Publisher’s help pages.

iStudio Publisher 1.4.1 contains a host of new features, productivity boosters, improvements and fixes. Here are some highlights: • Corner Inspector Add corner styles to any shape vertex (where two straight lines meet), and create a huge range of inspiring shapes with ease. Choose from: radius, scoop, chamfer, notch, and several loop designs. Adjust corner size, smoothing, apply to vertices of any angle, and select which angle ranges to include. Corners retain their proportions as shapes are modified. Several Shape Library designs have been reimplemented and significantly improved by using these new corner capabilities. • Info Bar, with comprehensive contextual help and keyboard shortcuts Discover contextual keyboard shortcuts as you work, to supercharge the Toolkit and Shape Library without having to refer to the help pages! A huge productivity booster. • Keystroke constraints for sizing and positioning shapes All shape tools and drawing tools have been enhanced with keystroke constraints, to provide proportional resize, resize straight line segments along their own axis, resize about the center, ignore snap grid, constrain rotation angle to 5 degrees, and rotate about opposite corner. The new context-sensitive Info Bar identifies all available options. • Context-sensitive popups, showing shape size, position, angle and snapping constraints Displayed when drawing, dragging, rotating and editing shapes. • Visual drawing aids added to shapes during creation and editing Includes a global bounding box, diagonal cross, center point, and protractor (during angle adjustment). • 'Sticky' drawing tools and library shapes The Caps Lock key now persists the selection of all drawing tools and library shapes - select once and draw many. • Highlighting shapes when dragging a selection rectangle Provides invaluable visual feedback of what will be selected. Use the Shift key to include partially enclosed shapes. Another productivity booster. • Align, distribute and snap all take the new corner styles into account • Duplicate selected shape(s) by dragging with the Alt key held down • Align single shapes Single shapes can now be aligned to the page center or page edges. When spread editing, the nearest page is used. • Keyboard modifiers for nudging shapes with keyboard arrow keys • Export any document as a PDF file with reader spreads Reader spreads display a document as it appears when assembled as a booklet or magazine: first page on its own followed by facing pages side-by-side. • Pinch to zoom when using a trackpad • Maximum font size increased from 576 pt to 9999 pt and more standard font sizes added iStudio Publisher can be used to create very large posters without the need to scale the final exported PDF. • UI precision of mm and degrees increased to two decimal places • Combined Zoom Tool replaces separate tools for zooming in and out • View zoom range increased (1%-10,000%) • When inserting, pasting or dropping PDF-based content onto an empty area, add it at full-size Ideal for filling out PDF forms and for adding PDFs requiring annotation. • Tabbing round selected shapes shifts the view to bring out-of-view shapes into view • Image Tool makes any image movable by double clicking on it, regardless of fit/align settings • Stroke width included when hit testing shapes for text addition/editing Provides selection consistency between different tools and selection activities. • Dragging in of external text and images improved to make the target tool/selection consistent. • New document windows are now wider and positioned at the screen center • Pages/spreads centered when adding, duplicating, moving, removing, or navigating between • Font loading when iStudio starts up now occurs as a background activity Provides significant load speed improvements for large numbers of user-installed fonts. For the full list of new features, improvements and fixes, see the Release Notes in iStudio Publisher’s help pages.

iStudio Publisher 1.3 contains many new features, improvements and fixes – our largest update ever! Here are some of the highlights: • Comprehensive hyperlink support Link text and shapes to web pages, email addresses, internal pages, files and custom URLs. Visualise and test links in iStudio Publisher. Use internal links to create a document contents page that links to different sections. Links are embedded in exported PDFs. • Page/spread reordering and duplication Complete control over adding, removing, duplicating and reordering the pages/spreads in your document, with full undo/redo. • Separate Thumbnails window Navigate around documents with ease. Adjust window size/zoom to view your whole document. Drag to duplicate or reorder pages/spreads. Window remembers its size, position and zoom. • Contextual menus All your favourite actions in one handy place, and some new ones. A much-requested productivity booster. Typically available using control-click, right-click or two-finger tap (for trackpads) on the document window. • Font support upgraded Font interaction is much better organised and presented, and it's faster. Font faces in each family are clearly grouped together, and the total number of available faces is shown. We also added a Recent Fonts list, which grows as you open existing documents and whenever you apply fonts. It's available from the main menu, the contextual menus and the inspectors, and it resets when iStudio Publisher launches. • Notifications added for unavailable bold/italic font variants We don't synthesise fonts as it's not good practise. If you need a bold or italic font variant, it has to be installed. If it isn't, the app now warns you when you try to set it. • Many organisational settings persist between restarts Document window size/position, shape library state, rulers, inspector panel size and position, open inspectors, Thumbnails window size/position/zoom, and most view settings (including snap and grid). • Inserted images are scaled within the page size, instead of original size Applies regardless of how you insert images: copy/paste, drag/drop, insert menu, or Image Inspector. Previously, large images could extend well beyond the page boundaries, making them tricky to resize. Now the size of the image's containing shape is capped at 80% of the page dimensions, and the image's fit mode is set to "Fit - no Stretch". • Speed and accuracy of inset, outset, and runaround calculations Shapes with non-trivial boundary lines perform noticeably faster when you adjust their inset and outset distances. The generation of the inset and outset paths is much improved. Now when you enable text outset, you get smooth rounded corners instead of sharp vertices. • A range of measures to manage large files You're notified if a file is growing large, or can’t be saved due to insufficient file system space. Document file size is shown on the document window title bar. • Document window tabs (macOS Sierra only) Open multiple documents in one window, each with its own tab. • Blinking cursor • Drag and drop content from another app now centers the content on the drop point • Flow linking appends any existing downstream text Linking two text containers together concatenates any flow that they may already contain, appending the downstream text. (NOTE: only if the downstream container doesn't already have text flowing into it from another source). • Pasting shapes onto a different page or document doesn’t offset the first paste A productivity booster. The app remembers how many times you've pasted onto each page, and calculates successive offsets accordingly. This makes it very quick to paste items in the same place onto multiple pages. • Overhaul of tooltips for the whole UI We've added more tooltips, improved existing tooltips, and included keyboard shortcuts where appropriate. For a full list of the new features, improvements and fixes, see the Release Notes in the iStudio Publisher’s help pages.

***** El Capitan Ready ***** iStudio Publisher 1.2.1 is a maintenance release, which fixes a problem that prevented version 1.2 from running on El Capitan. It also fixes several other bugs. iStudio Publisher 1.2 is a feature release, with additional stability improvements and bug fixes. New: Application Preferences panel. New: Set the default text for the app: font, size, color and line spacing. New: Bleed and crop marks. New: Export document as booklet PDF. New: Flatter user interface design, with retina support. New: Dictation (requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later). New: Quick Look document preview. New: Full screen view (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later). New: Lorem ipsum (placeholder text) generator. New: Menu option to import text/RTF file. New: Keyboard shortcut for view mouse cross hair menu option. Improved: Document view scaling accuracy compared to actual size. Improved: Document view zoom controls. Improved: Overall app stability. Fixed: Buy Now button broken on Trial Expired dialog. Fixed: Incorrect scaling of grouped objects. Fixed: Mapping form feed code points to top of column paragraph styles. Fixed: Vertical ruler border wrong on different displays. Fixed: Incorrect zoom rounding on UI control. Fixed: Zoom In/Out Tools don't round trip. Fixed: UI lockup when displaying thumbnails on Yosemite. Fixed: Deleting shapes that contain a flow can cause crashes under some circumstances. Fixed: Deleting pages causes display error if doing this hides vertical scrollbar. Fixed: Adjusting width or height of straight lines causes invalid value when initial value is zero. Fixed: Many minor fixes and tweaks.

iStudio Publisher 1.2 is a feature release, with additional stability improvements and bug fixes. New: Application Preferences panel. New: Set the default text for the app: font, size, color and line spacing. New: Bleed and crop marks. New: Export document as booklet PDF. New: Flatter user interface design, with retina support. New: Dictation (requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later). New: Quick Look document preview. New: Full screen view (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later). New: Lorem ipsum (placeholder text) generator. New: Menu option to import text/RTF file. New: Keyboard shortcut for view mouse cross hair menu option. Improved: Document view scaling accuracy compared to actual size. Improved: Document view zoom controls. Improved: Overall app stability. Fixed: Buy Now button broken on Trial Expired dialog. Fixed: Incorrect scaling of grouped objects. Fixed: Mapping form feed code points to top of column paragraph styles. Fixed: Vertical ruler border wrong on different displays. Fixed: Incorrect zoom rounding on UI control. Fixed: Zoom In/Out Tools don't round trip. Fixed: UI lockup when displaying thumbnails on Yosemite. Fixed: Deleting shapes that contain a flow can cause crashes under some circumstances. Fixed: Deleting pages causes display error if doing this hides vertical scrollbar. Fixed: Adjusting width or height of straight lines causes invalid value when initial value is zero. Fixed: Many minor fixes and tweaks.

New: App Sandbox implemented. Improved: Auto Save behavior. Improved: If no documents are open, clicking Dock icon now shows Task Chooser. Improved: Stack dumps resymbolized to enable Crash Reporter. Fixed: Gradient color fill a grouped shape. Fixed: Drag in PDF content. Fixed: Resume behaviour. Fixed: Device color issue. Fixed: Custom page size name field. Fixed: Stroke or fill rendering of a shadowed shape.

This is a maintenance release - it includes a couple of small changes and fixes some bugs. Changes: • The font selection drop-down list now shows a preview of each font face, if there are less than 2000 fonts installed. • The first time the font drop-down list is selected, a message is displayed while the font face previews are being generated.The first time the font drop-down list is selected, a message is displayed while the font face previews are being generated. • Changes to the menu options and keyboard shortcuts for workspace layout configurations and view zoom settings. • Help additions Bug fixes: • Memory leak when caching images • Caching PDF images resulted in huge memory allocations • The Help index file was missing

This is a maintenance release - it fixes some Lion issues, some bugs, and includes a couple of small changes. Bug fixes: • On Lion, launching the app by double clicking a document on the Desktop caused incorrect startup behaviour • An incorrect build option resulted in all users needing at least one English based language to be included in the languages list • The vertical scroll bar was the wrong size • Minor fixes to the shadow generation algorithm Other changes: • Default values for grid spacing, margins, steppers, gutter and nudge are now all separately defined for each measurement unit • Nudge distance now auto-adjusts with grid spacing as well as zoom factor. See the new Help page for more information. • Improved Help page navigation • Improved error notification when attempting to open documents with an older version of the app • Help additions

This is a maintenance release - the app is now Lion ready. We've also made some significant performance improvements for image and PDF display. You can now choose from several display qualities in Working Mode (available via the View menu). Toggle between Working Mode and Preview Mode to quickly view the document in full print quality. Also includes a number of bug fixes and minor improvements - better support for different language keyboards, including entering characters with accents. Please note that CJK support is not yet complete.