This is a Universal Binary version for use on new Intel based macs or PowerPC processors. Intel users should NOT- open using Rosetta, Rosetta is a "compatible" mode to be used with applications that have not been compiled for native use on Intel. Running EazyDraw Intel-Native is 5-10 times faster than running under the Rosetta emulator, launch times are also significantly slower in the emulator mode. Universal binaries require Mac OS X version 10.4.3 or newer, this version of EazyDraw will not run on Panther or Jaguar. Jaguar and Panther users should refer to the release note "Jaguar and Panther" found on this disk image.

New Interactive Cursor provides readout of canvas position or precise graphic metrics such as intersections or point and tangent of a curve. The new Measuring Tape Tool measures drawing distances in free form or snaps to graphic positions to provide exact relative distances. Intelligent guidelines will position columns, rows, seek intersections or vertices and orient to extended lines, parallels or perpendiculars; great for geometric and technical drawing. New scaling options provide improved support of imported MacDraw and ClarisDraw scaled drawings.


This version provides a new capability to Ungroup PDF content. Access for this feature is found on the Format main menu, Grouping submenu - near the bottom. The pdf content is imported to the drawing in the normal fashion - insert, drag and drop, copy and paste, etc. Use the Graphic Details Drawer inspector to check that the inserted image is actually pdf information. The pdf content is converted to editable text, Bezier graphics, and embedded images with the "Ungroup PDF" command. Select the pdf image and execute the menu command. The pdf image is converted to EazyDraw graphics and left in the drawing as a normal EazyDraw group graphic. The new group graphic may be ungrouped to access and edit individual components of the pdf content. Learn more with EazyDraw Help, search phrase "Ungroup PDF". This is a new feature primarily intended for access to line art. It is likely that conversion of typeset text will not format exactly as in the original. Please submit problem files to our support staff for bug fixes in future versions.

There are several new Wall and Ribbon tools, they are found on the lower portion of the Technical Tools palette. You can now draw walls at any angle. The walls at angles will support snapping together to form proper corners and joints. There are also tools for drawing curved walls which could be termed Ribbons. These are 2-dimensional ribbons, they hold a constant width even when curved or twisted. All walls and ribbons now support solid color, pattern, and gradient fills. The gradients are applied either along the length of the ribbon or across the ribbon, control for the wall's gradients is found on the normal Gradient Fill panel. There is a new Wall inspector palette, found on the Tools main menu. It provides access to several wall characteristics including manual specification of the shape of ends, corners and joints. Documentation is complete, access with search phrase "walls" or "ribbons".

This version now provides French language support. Menu, parameter palettes, and user interface elements are now localized for French language support. EazyDraw help is not localized and is available only in English.

Support is available for a Japanese localization of EazyDraw. This is provided by Hideki Imanishi. It is available at: http://homepage.mac.com/hide_imns/EazyDrawGuide/ . We join the Japanese EazyDraw user community in thanking Hideki for his excellent work.

The new Live Cursor is provided with the "Tape Cursor" tool that was added to the top of to the primary tool palette it is represented by a measuring tape icon. This tool combines a live numeric readout with the normal Arrow select tool. The X and Y (over and down) coordinates are shown in a small floating window attached to the cursor. Selecting a graphic and placing the cursor on or near the graphic will provide various measurements of the graphic -- interactively, on screen. Position over a handle to obtain a precise readout of the graphic position. For many graphics the relative position of the cursor (ie right or left side of a line) will provide different measurements (ie length/slope or X,Y value). This mode remains active until the Arrow tool is explicitly clicked . For documentation enter search phrase "Tape Cursor" .

The new Guideline selection is found on the Grid and Guides submenu of the Format main menu or on the Grid Palette. When Guidelines are checked, moves and edits of graphics are aided by automatic soft snap to provide alignment with other graphics on the drawings. Guidelines are sought from the graphics that are visible on the drawing screen. If there are too many guidelines interfering, or if the desired graphic's guideline is repressed by others - zoom in closer to the region of interest. A new Cloaking submenu provides methods for managing which graphics provide guidelines. The snap vertices capability has been expanded and optimized as well. The default state has this guidelines and vertex snapping unchecked. Full documentation is available: search phrase "guidelines" .

Option Clicking with the Measuring Tape Tool provides an on-screen tape measure. This is a free form measuring tape for measuring distances on the the drawing. To measure distances between graphics, select both graphics and click near a point of interest, the Measuring Tape will "snap" precisely to the graphic and measure distances from the point of interest. When the cursor is placed near a second point of interest another "snap" provides the desired precise measurement. For documentation enter search phrase "Tape Measure" .

A new submenu is provided on the Format main menu for Cloaking the guideline aspects of a graphic or layer. When snapping to guidelines (or vertices) it is common that too many guidelines are present and they interfere with establishing relationships to the desired master graphics. This submenu provides a method for excluding a graphic(s) or layer(s) from presenting guidelines and vertices. This can eliminate guideline clutter. Alternatively a few select graphics could be used as master guidelines by performing a "Select All" - Cloak, then select the desired master graphics and "Uncloak". Documentation is complete: search phrase "cloak".

Full Layers may be cloaked. The layer must be visible to be enabled on the submenus found on the Cloaking submenu (Format main menu). There is a separate menu for guidelines and vertices. A guideline layer may be established by cloaking all other layers: not the guideline layer. Then explicit guidelines may be drawn on the Guideline layer.

The "Hand" tool has been changed to perform a Panning action for the entire drawing. Now if the hand tool is selected, a click and drag on a drawing window will move the focused visible viewing rectangle, in the same fashion as the scroll bars action. Previously this tool was a dedicated graphic moving tool. SInce the Arrow tool is normally used for this action, it was decided to change the Hand tool to the more conventional Pan function.

A new "Align To Grid" palette is added to the Tools main menu. This palette provides fine control of the exact snapping position for a graphic, or group. This is useful for group graphics (ie a symbol) positioned and aligned with grid snapping, and necessary for electronic schematic drawings. Documentation is available: search phrase "align to grid".

Two methods are now provided for changing the scale of a drawing or layer. If a scale change is performed, on the scale palette, a user panel is shown on the drawing which asks which form of scale change is desired. Previous versions of EazyDraw scaled all graphics when performing a scale change. The new panel provides for this form of scale change, or a change of scale with no corresponding "re-draw" of the graphics. This new form is especially useful when importing MacDraw or Claris Draw scaled drawings as this method provides a means to simply set the correct scale for the drawing or layer.

Several new "Enabled Actions" for layers are now found on the popup menu on the Layers drawer. It is now possible to Show or Show/Select graphics on layers "above" or "below" the active layer. This can improve efficiency when working with multiple layer drawings. This convention was used with MacDraw and ClarisDraw and is a familiar practice for users of these applications that have switched to EazyDraw.

A new parameter is provided for walls (doors, windows, ect). The parameter will enable or prevent the automatic matching of wall ends and wall thickness when two of these objects are snapped together. This is important, for example, when connecting a 6 inch exterior wall with a 4 inch interior wall of a building plan. The new check box is found on the Graphic Details drawer, it is called "Auto Mate". When snapping, both wall segments must have their respective Auto Mate states checked for automatic mating of corners and wall thickness. Another method for preventing "mating" of two segments is for one segment to have it's end fully closed. If either end is fully closed wall thickness matching is not performed, even if Auto Mate is checked for both segments.

Improved capabilities for multi-layer drawings, when selecting objects on the non active layer. Now actions such as duplicate will insert the new graphics on the same layer as the original, rather than all duplicated graphics going to the current active layer. Several undo actions were incorrect if the originating graphic was on the non-active layer, these situations now work properly. Also several grouping and ungrouping actions, of graphics on the layers other than the active layer, would introduce undesirable alterations of the painting order. Now these situations are properly performed and undo of these actions completely returns all graphics to the proper state and layer.

Extended the contextual menu concept to provide the menu when the mouse is held down, without movement, for about 1 second. This will provide the same menu that pops up when a control click is performed on a drawing. Contextual menu access with simple hold down of the mouse.

A minor change for Exporting bit map graphics that have anti-aliasing capability, TIFF and JPG. When exporting just graphics, not the full drawing, a 2 point (1 /32 of an inch) margin is now added to the exported image. This margin is needed to provide shading pixels that are used for anti-aliasing curves that are near the edge of the image. Previously smooth curves like an arc could have a "flattened" clipped appearance in the exported bit map. This artifact was caused by the lack of "border" pixels to apply the anti-aliasing effects. This change will add a very minor extra border (white or transparent) around the exported image.

Added default persistence for the "Hide Extensions" and "Thumbnail Preview" selections on the "Save As" panel. In the past these needed to be set with each new drawing, as they reverted to an invariable default state for each new drawing. Now EazyDraw remembers the settings properly for the individual drawing and user selections are automatically remembered when changes are made to the selection. The preference for the state of each check box is the last value overtly selected by the user. To establish your personal preferences, simply make the selection(s) and the changes are automatically saved with the primary preferences for EazyDraw.

Changed the way Arcs and Pie shapes are created. Now a minimum size arc of 10 degrees is initially applied to the shape during the first click and drag step of the creation process. It is still possible to create smaller sweep angles during the second step of the creation process or as an editing step after creation. However, small zero degree sweep Arcs and Pies will not be so likely to happen by accident. This inadvertent zero degree sweep angle situation was confusing new and occasionally experienced users who would then see only the blue angle control handles and assume they were the Arc rather than controls for the Arc's elliptical major and minor axis parameters.

Further improvements to "Ungroup PICT", related to PICT's containing bitmaps. Additional bitmap formats are now understood and converted to TIFF properly.

Corrected a few minor problems with some of the lesser used parameters on the Dimension palette. All contextual help elements for this panel were improved.

Corrected a confusing behavior when adding layers to a drawing. Previously the new layer would initialize at the current default scale which is not expected in many cases. Now the new layer is added to the drawing with the scale and units of the current active layer for the drawing, fully independent of the current scale preferences settings.

Corrected problem when forming groups of graphics that contain text. The text would move to the center of the group, if multiple graphics contained text all text would overlap at the center of the new group. This is corrected now, inserted text remains with the proper graphic elements of the newly formed group.

Corrected problem selecting and editing Bezier curves, when zoomed in by a large amount. In some cases the graphic would not select, and if selected clicking on a handle would deselect the graphic rather than allowing interactive editing with the handle. This is now .,vb  corrected.

Correct problems with the rotate tool, related to horizontal and/or vertical lines also sometimes when rotating groups that contain groups. In some cases when using the rotate tool large black rectangles would fill the area of the rotating graphic and these would not be redrawn correctly, leaving black artifacts on the drawing screen. The problem has been corrected with this release.

Corrected problem moving multiple graphics to a new layer, via the Graphic Details drawer. Previously only the first graphic of a multiple selection was moved, the others remained unchanged. Now all graphics move and undo works correctly, even if the various graphics are derived from different layers.

Improved the dimension report for length of Arcs. The length of an Arc or Pie graphic is now reported precisely. Lengths reported for other curved Bezier graphics has been improved to provide accuracy of about 1 in 10,000 or 100,000.

Corrected some problems encountered when printing without selecting a paper size. In some cases this would cause Landscape printing to not format properly on the printed page. Now, when this happens, a warning message is provided. The message urges the proper selection of a supported and available paper size using the Page Setup palette.