New User Interface: Improved Windows Vista compatibility and support for Vista and XP visual styles and custom themes.
Memo Tips: Custom data in the form of text memos can now be attached to any figure or label. The memo displays you hover over the object with the mouse. When saving a diagram as a web page, memo tips can be included with similar functionality.
Color Palettes: A number of new color palettes are included for a wider variety of convenient color selections.
Tool Tips: Tool tip help is now available when hovering the mouse over styles, drop menus, color selections and so on.
Property Apply: Object properties can now be applied from the properties screen without terminating the screen. The same is true for diagram properties and options. These screens also remember their positions from one invocation to another.
Shortcut Keys: Some key shortcuts have been added for more convenient and standardized text editing. For example, Ctrl-B can be used as a shortcut to Bold text, Ctrl-I to italicize text, Ctrl-L to left-justify text, and so on. These function in the same manner as other leading software packages.
Copy/Paste Fill: The Fill properties screen now contains a simple feature to copy all of the fill properties from any object or style to another. In prior versions, only the solid fill color was easy to duplicate from one object to another. Now all the possible combinations of gradient options can be easily copied and pasted as easily from one object or style to another.
Import/Export: Graphics import and export have been improved, as reflected in both the Export feature and the Save as HTML feature. Bitmap formats such as BMP and JPG have been improved and better standardized, and PNG output has been both corrected and improved. The Export screen now contains a preview control and checkbox to select the entire diagram or only selected objects. Export is now also available using the SaveAs command. Import support for the outdated and less popular PCX format has been discontinued.
Font Previews: Font family controls now support sample text previews.
Page Set-up: A new page set-up model allows setting of pages with any dimensions regardless of printers available on your computer. Page sizes that are larger than the selected printer can handle are automatically divided into multiple pages similar to poster mode. This feature makes diagrams more portable from one computer to another on which different printer drivers are installed. In addition, page defaults can now be saved and applied to new diagrams avoiding the need to set up the page for each new diagram.
Internal Text Margins: The margins between the text and the edge of a figure can now be set individually for any figure.
Tabs Figure text can now include tabs, and individual figures can be configured with custom tab stops including left, center, and right justified tab positions.
Added an automatic switch to English (inches) to/from metric (cm) in the Page Set-up screen based on the paper size selected. This will affect only this screen, but upon making a change and leaving the screen, it will offer to change the global unit display option as well.
Text wrap and figure size constraints have been improved and some related bugs fixed.
Crop marks printed on partitioned pages are printed more intelligently, only where needed.
When setting a hyperlink for a figure, you can now specify a diagram file that does not yet exist (defaults to the same folder as the current diagram), and in one step the link will be created and you will be given the opportunity to create the new diagram.
Holding down the middle mouse button (or mouse wheel button) will now allow you to grab and drag the view as an alternate method of scrolling.
