Grapher 9

Version 9.2.612 (September 29, 2011)

• Added the ability to draw plots to the clipping limits for logarithmic axes.
• Added ability to edit objects in a group from a script. An example:

‘This example demonstrates how to access a shape in a composite object.

Composite.Shapes.Item("Ellipse").Line.Forecolor = grfColorRed

• Added a check for old computers that do not have sufficient hardware requirements to run Grapher. Grapher now issues a warning that the computer does not meet the minimum requirements and closes the program.
• Added the ability to pass command line arguments to a script from automation. An example:

‘Type this in the command line

“path_to_scripter\scripter.exe” /x “path to script\script name.base” filename

where the filename is the path and name of the file. The filename can then be used in the script by assigning it with:

filename = Command$

• Corrected an issue where panning in Fixed Digitize mode did not allow digitizing to be cancelled.
• Digitize is now correctly cancelled when switch between programs.
• Corrected an issue where exporting a TIF file always resulted in a file with no compression.
• Corrected an issue where exporting a graph resulted in some objects being moved in the output file.
• Corrected an issue where changing the worksheet for linked text in a graph title could cause a crash.
• Corrected an issue where entering a space in the text editor could cause a crash for some users.
• Corrected an issue where bar charts would not be created from the worksheet if the first row was empty.
• Corrected an issue where saving to a Grapher 8 GRF file format could cause a crash.
• Corrected an issue where tabbing between labels when in Move Label mode did not correctly select the next label.
• Corrected an issue where bitmaps incorrectly were one pixel larger than the export dialog indicated.
• Corrected an issue where Grapher was always visible from a script. Grapher is now not visible until the Grapher.Visible command is set to True.
• Corrected an issue where a warning was issued when backing up worksheet files.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when grouping and ungrouping multiple items.
• Corrected an issue where the plot did not update when changes were made to an axis and the Auto Update button was not checked in the Property Manager.
• Corrected an issue where vertical or horizontal line plots were not drawn.
• Corrected an issue where adding a summation plot to a vertical line plot caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where pasted images that contain transparency sometimes display incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue where clicking on a script name in the Script menu did not activate the script.
• Corrected an issue where deleting worksheet cells and then undoing the delete caused incorrect text to appear.
• Corrected an issue where the DXF Import Options dialog contained odd characters.
• Corrected an issue where XLS files could not be opened.
• Corrected an issue where a “Formatting may be lost” warning appeared when saving files as project files.
• Corrected an issue where the worksheet sometimes displayed time values incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue where transforms in the worksheet did not show the entire text of previous transforms.
• Reworded a warning message when saving BLN files in the worksheet.

Version 9.1.536 (July 13, 2011)

• Corrected an issue where changing text in a script changed the text box justification property. Justification now not affected by changing the text.
• Corrected an issue where ternary Y and Z axis titles were positioned incorrectly when the titles were long.
• Default file and page coordinate values are now always calculated when exporting files from automation.
• Corrected an issue where the DXF import options dialog was not being displayed correctly.
• Corrected an issue where portions of plots moved when printed or exported.
• Corrected an issue where histogram bins were incorrect for data with a single data point. The single point is now always placed in the correct bin.
• Corrected an issue where the Choose Axes dialog was displayed when running a script where the script copied a plot.
• Corrected an issue where data labels did not always print.
• Corrected an issue where plot label were not being placed correctly when the plot label location was alternate above-below.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when copying/pasting a bar chart graph that contains a summation plot.
• Corrected an issue where summation plots were copied and pasted into incorrect locations.
• Corrected an issue where polar class scatter plots exported to raster formats incorrectly. Plots are now exported correctly.
• Corrected an issue where polar class scatter plots did not show the correct properties when an inset zoom was added to the graph. Plots now appear correctly.
• Corrected an issue where selecting multiple columns in the worksheet did not create a graph from all columns.
• Corrected an issue where printing and exporting from a script did not show all objects.
• Corrected an issue where dashed lines appear behind solid lines when the dashed lines should not appear. Plots appear correctly now.
• Corrected an issue where undoing the creation of a top-level legend caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where some Grapher 8 GRF files saved in Grapher 9 could not be opened in Grapher 8.
• Corrected an issue where portions of polar graphs did not display correctly when the angle axis incremented in a counterclockwise direction.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when opening a 64-bit GRF file in the 32-bit version of the program.
• Improved the selection bounding box displayed when a group of objects is selected.
• Improved the symbol palette so that any symbol in any font can be selected and inserted.
• Corrected an issue where some rare-format PNG files import incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue where importing the same WMF file would use too much memory.
• Corrected an issue where long strings of pasted text did not display the bounding box correctly. Warning message now issued when the pasted text exceeds the available size.
• Corrected an issue where multiple sheet XLSX files displayed the order of the sheets in an incorrect order.
• Added ability to type right to left text correctly.
• Corrected an issue where reloading a MDB or ACCDB file, reloads the wrong table.

Version 9.0.444 (May 11, 2011)

• Grapher 9 released.

Grapher 8

Version 8.8.957 (May 20, 2011)

• Corrected an issue where GRF files that contained incorrect information in summation plots caused the program to crash. Files now open correctly.
• Function plots with large numbers in the function caused round-off errors. This caused the function plot to appear as a step plot. Function plots now appear smooth.
• Changing the worksheet for multiple selected plots sometimes resulted in a crash. This has been corrected.
• Corrected an issue where axes could be dragged to a zero width size and were unable to be resized again.
• Corrected an issue where clicking Cancel when a worksheet could not be found resulted in a crash.
• Corrected an issue where copying several large images results in a crash. An “Out of memory” error is now issued.
• Corrected an issue where colors were exported incorrectly when exporting 3D objects to a vector PDF.

Version 8.7.844 (February 2, 2011)

• Corrected an issue where opening and closing a linked worksheet can cause the program to become unstable.

Version 8.6.835 (January 25, 2011)

• Corrected an issue where text properties were not set and saved properly from a script.
• File | Export now exports linked object in exported file.
• Corrected an issue where opening certain GPJ files causes Grapher to crash. Grapher now checks the file and opens it, if possible.
• Corrected an issue where confidence plots could become unattached to any plots. This could cause a crash when opening the file.
• Corrected prefix and suffix text properties to match default text properties, by default.
• Corrected an issue where a script could open a plot document with the property inspector and object manager grayed out.
• Corrected an issue where a polynomial fit with a confidence plot could generate many error messages.
• Corrected an issue where antialiasing was always turned off for line plot with more than 1000 data points.
• Corrected an issue where overlaying a contour map onto a 3D Surface map cause the Z direction for the contour to flip.
• Corrected an issue where old WK4 files were not loading correctly. This could cause a crash.
• Corrected an issue where saving a DAT file from a worksheet sometimes resulted in the text qualifier not being remembered.
• Added a method to reference GRD files from a template when the template is loaded from a script.
• Added an option to the Grapher.INI file to specify the number of points for a line before antialiasing is turned off. To increase the number of points, add the line Anti-alias Point Cutoff=n to the Grapher.INI section, where n is the number of points. By default, this is now set to 5000.
• Added a Printer button to the File | Page Setup dialog.

Version 8.5.733 (October 20, 2010)

• Corrected an issue where printing with Tile or Fit to Page as the printing method resulted in arrowheads being moved on the printed page. Arrowheads are now located correctly on the printed page.
• Corrected an issue that resulted in a crash when saving some GRF files.
• Corrected an issue where copying linked text from one graph to another resulted in the linked text in the new window not having a reference to the worksheet. Worksheet and cell location are now remembered in the new graph window.
• Corrected an issue where copy and paste using the CTRL+Insert and SHIFT+Insert keys caused a crash. Program no longer crashes and now copies and pastes correctly.
• Corrected an issue where opening some GRF files resulted in a “Failed to open document” message when opening a bar chart that uses Bar Chart Groups. Graphs now open correctly.
• Corrected an issue that caused a crash when undo levels were set to 0.
• Corrected an issue where YCCK images imported with solid black fill.
• Improved quality when copying or exporting partially transparent metafiles.

Version 8.4.696 (September 17, 2010)

• Corrected an issue where a crash happened when closing the plot window while the Graph Wizard was open.
• Corrected an issue where older graphs sometimes open with a black screen.
• Corrected an issue where the underline looked too heavy when zoomed in on text in the Text Editor.
• Corrected an issue where Grapher displayed the ‘Prompt for worksheet” dialog if an Excel file sheet name ended in with a space.
• Added checking to assure that any plots listed in the bar chart groups actually existed. This may have caused a crash with some bar chart files.
• Enhanced metafiles now paste lines with correct width into other programs.
• Corrected an issue where a rotated, limited angle axis did not rotate the grid lines, angle arc, and connecting lines correctly.
• Apply button must be pressed when “Auto Update” is unchecked for changes to take effect.
• Corrected an issue where the Script Recorder was incorrectly recording the export command with PDF files.
• Added checks to ensure that when running with an undefined default printer when choosing File | Print a dialog was displayed prompting printer installation.
• Changed logic so that changing the worksheet is now always applied immediately, whether “Auto Update” box is checked or not.
• Corrected an issue where changing the worksheet for a surface data map did not update the map.
• Corrected an issue where a crash happened when a legend was still linked to non-existent plots.
• Corrected an issue where colors appear differently on surface maps if the vertical axis is log scale.
• Corrected an issue where a crash happened when calculating a confidence interval for a exponential fit curve with a large number of data points.
• Corrected an issue where including pie charts in a composite object caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where changing axis limits when a plot existed with no points caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where step plots were calculated incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue where polar rose diagrams and wind charts were not displaying correctly on log radius axis.
• Corrected an issue where a crash happened when a fit plot contained zero data points and the fit plot line contained an arrow end line style.
• Corrected an issue where a crash happened when a between fill was calculated incorrectly.
• Added Windows 7 to crash reporting system.
• Altered logic for XLSX file with formulas. Older versions of Excel calculated the value and stored it in the cell. Added logic to calculate the value with XLSX.
• Corrected an issue where exporting to a DXF file added additional lines on top, bottom and left.
• Corrected an issue where YCCK JPG files import with incorrect colors.

Version 8.3.523 (April 7, 2010)

• Corrected an issue where the 1x still showed on an axis despite "No 1x's" checked.
• Corrected an issue where adding a function plot caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where digitizing from a polar plot recorded the wrong coordinates.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when running a script which converted a 2D graph to 3D and then undid the change.
• Corrected an issue where printing to PDF did not include arrow heads.
• Corrected an issue where picture fill patterns were drawn incorrectly when stretched.
• Corrected an issue where legends do not display arrow heads.
• Corrected a rounding error when integers and decimals were mixed.

Version 8.2.460 (February 11, 2010)

• Corrected an issue where the AddText command in a script incorrectly added a background line. Background line is now invisible.
• Corrected an issue where saving a GRF file from a script that contains the AddText command produces incorrect text properties.
• Corrected an issue where lines in an inserted template in a text box appear very thick when printed or exported.
• Corrected an issue where running a script that sets the maximum axis value to the same or smaller value than the minimum axis value caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when closing a plot window after running a script that contained the undo command.
• Corrected an issue where the loading data progress dialog appears when running a script with application.visible=false. Progress dialog does not appear now.
• Corrected an issue where copying and pasting results in some text not appearing correctly.
• Corrected an issue where ternary axis lengths were reported incorrect.
• Ternary graph no longer ignores negative values.
• Corrected an issue where changing the axis limits on a ternary graph creates a large plot.
• Corrected an issue where the Reset ternary axis limits button did not work when axes go from 0-100.
• Corrected an issue where Changing the scale on a ternary axis from 0-100 to 0-1 and then trying to limit the axis to a subset caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where some points on a ternary graph were not plotting correctly.
• Corrected an issue where custom fit equations were not saved under Windows 7.
• Corrected an issue where the auto backup failed if the backup folder was not set under Windows 7.
• Corrected an issue where default settings for objects were not stored under Windows 7.
• Corrected an issue that caused a crash when using user defined fit with some line/scatter plots.
• Corrected an issue where some graphs did not print in full.
• Corrected an issue where arrow heads on lines were not being exported.
• Scaled arrow heads appear correctly scaled with wide lines.
• Corrected an issue where rotating a line with an arrow resulted in the arrow not being rotated.
• Arrow heads on lines are now visible when the View | Full Screen command is used.
• Corrected an issue where a crash occurred when exporting a line with arrow heads to a vector PDF file.
• Corrected an issue where adding a new plot to an existing graph caused a crash when the undo levels was set to zero.
• Corrected an issue where the polar bar chart, rose diagram, or wind chart bars did not rotate when changing the angle axis start location.
• Corrected an issue where Saving digitized data in a report window caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where clicking Cancel when prompted for the XLS or XLSX sheet while creating a plot caused the next graph to be created to not prompt for the worksheet.
• Adjusted the spline fit curve so that when a fit curve could not be generated with some higher spline tension factors, the graph automatically adjusts the spline tension factor.
• Corrected an issue where opening some Grapher 6 GRF files caused a crash.
• Corrected an issue where the position/size toolbar did not always update.
• Corrected an issue where tiled picture patterns have extra lines.
• Corrected an issue where exporting to some vector formats (SHP, GSB, GSI, etc) created unfilled areas as curves not areas.
• Corrected an issue where a syntax error was issued when using an IF statement and other characters in a function plot equation.
• Corrected an issue where non-defined ASCII files would not open.

Version 8.1.388 (December 11, 2009)

• Inserted Template in the Text Editor now uses the font just before the template.
• Corrected an issue where very large images caused an error when used as custom fill patterns.
• Corrected an issue where AutoMText.HAlign was set to grfAlignRight when any AutoMtext.Font or AutoMFont.text property was changed.
• Corrected an issue where printing with "Fit to Page" selected increases the line widths.
• Corrected an issue where objects get unarranged when multiple objects are selected and Arrange is immediately followed by a shared property change.
• Corrected an issue where arrow heads are resized when polylines are resized.
• Corrected an issue where double clicking on a GRF causes an error.
• Corrected a issue where the date/time format was ignored for plot worksheet labels.
• Corrected a issue where labels with multiple lines from an XLS file did not display correctly.
• Corrected an issue where the math text \plain command was not working correctly.
• Corrected a difference in the Grapher 7 GRF format between Grapher 7 and Grapher 8. This caused a GRF file saved in Grapher 8 as a Grapher 7 file to be unable to be opened in Grapher 8.
• Corrected a scaling issue with infinitely long arrow heads.
• Corrected an issue where some objects in an EMF file were not imported correctly.
• Corrected an issue where a crash would occur when editing an axis that was not attached to a graph.
• Corrected an issue where the between fill command produced inconsistent results if the line/scatter plots were also filled.
• Corrected an issue where legend text did not retain some formatting after using the All Font button to set font style.
• Corrected an issue where using undo or redo commands after changing properties of a graph magnifier could cause a crash.
• Corrected an issue where changing values in an XLS worksheet opened in the Excel window does not update plots.
• Corrected an issue where some tick marks and labled did not appear when the Tick range settings were changed.
• Corrected an issue where the program crashed trying to open some plots with between fill and no data.
• Corrected an issue where saving GPJ files created from XLSX files causes an error to occur.
• Corrected an issue where the grid lines did not always redraw in the graph magnifier.
• Corrected an issue where the tick mark spacing was incorrect in the graph magnifier.
• Corrected an issue where copying and pasting summation plots can cause the program to crash.
• Corrected an issue where the export command in a script fails when exporting to PDF.
• Added an Export2 command to Scripter.
• Corrected an issue where the bounding box did not fully enclose a polyline with an arrowhead.
• Corrected an issue where dates from a CSV file were not read correctly.
• Corrected various EMF export issues.
• Changed CSV import to accept files that contained very long lines.
• Corrected an issue where previewing some fonts caused an error.
• Corrected an issue where PDF exports were padded on all sides.

Version 8.0.278 (September 14, 2009)

• Grapher 8 released.