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Release Notes
Interim change: Bookmarklet updated
- Improved: Bookmarklet does no longer save itself with captured HTML code. Important: Re-install the bookmarklet from the Download Extras page to use this improvement.
All editions: 2.0 Public Beta 5
- From this release on all editions of DEVONthink require Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires July 31, 2009.
- NEW: Properties of RTF/RTFD and PDF documents (except locked and indexed ones) are now editable via Tools > Show/Hide Properties...
- NEW: Comparison options Ignore Umlauts and Fuzzy added to Search window, to toolbar search and to smart groups editor.
- NEW: Tag predicate added to smart groups.
- NEW: Tooltip added to location field of Info panel; tooltips of smart group results include the location, the comment and available meta data.
- NEW: Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
- NEW: Expanded smart groups in three-pane view display number of found items.
- NEW: Attribute icon shows that an item has a comment.
- Improved: Occurrences are now always highlighted blue on yellow.
- Improved: Ranking of search results using wildcards.
- Improved: Selection handling while toolbar search results are visible.
- Improved: Capturing from text views via drag-and-drop or services retains the URL of the original document.
- Improved: It is again possible to begin editing of the comments and URL columns after pressing the Tab key.
- Improved: Revised shortcuts of Go and Format menu to avoid conflicts. In addition, shortcuts for Previous/Next Tab are now identical to Safari 4.0.
- Improved: Tooltips of recent destinations of Move/Replicate/Duplicate sub-menus display location of destination.
- Improved: All attribute icons for external and/or locked items or items with an attached script are now displayed.
- Improved: Slightly revised order of Format menu.
- Improved: Double-clicking search results with the Option key pressed opens them in a new tab if tabbed browsing is enabled. The behavior of Option-double-clicking is harmonized also for all panels.
- Improved: Links to local files in rich text or PDF documents are always opened externally.
- Improved: Go > Previous/Next Instance unhoist the current window if necessary.
- Improved: Highlighting of occurrences of opened Spotlight search results.
- Improved: Items replicated both inside and outside of the trash are again returned by smart groups, can be duplicates and are used by automatic Wiki linking.
- Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
- Improved: Rebuilding retains the original order.
- Improved: English, French, and German Localizations.
- Fixed: Issues of database locking on computers with multiple network interfaces/host names.
- Fixed: Incompatibility to local domains.
- Fixed: Some Wiki links containing multiple numbers did not work.
- Fixed: Tooltips of navigation bar were not always correct.
- Fixed: Some column widths did not adapt correctly.
- Fixed: Locked orphaned files could not be repaired using Tools > Verify & Repair.
- Fixed: Data > Reveal did not always work.
- Fixed: Importing/indexing of certain Word documents was very very slow.
- Fixed: Bugs and glitches.
DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0 Public Beta 5
- NEW: iPhone web interface completely redesigned.
- NEW: Options 'Ignore Umlauts' and 'Fuzzy' in simple search web interface.
- NEW: Adding notes to global inbox. (Web server)
- NEW: Display name of the application is now 'DEVONthink Pro Office'. This does not affect scripting or Automator.
- Improved: Look of email import window.
- Improved: Setting OCR languages based on canonical Apple Languages settings.
- Improved: Old ExactScan application and HP scanner application added to list of known scan applications. (OCR)
- Improved: Extended JSON/XML output. (Web server)
- Fixed: Rare issues with certain files for OCR.
- Fixed: Crash that occurred with some scanners.
- Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
DEVONthink Pro 2.0 (and up) Public Beta 5
- NEW: Help > Install Add-ons... adds DEVONthink Pro Office's global inbox folder to the Finder's sidebar and to all save/open panels on demand. This makes it possible to 'save to' DEVONthink Pro Office.
- NEW: All Automator actions updated to work with DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0. The actions now take advantage of the new functionality in version 2 but break full compatibility to earlier versions. Please re-visit your workflows. New example workflow added.
- NEW: Sidebar elements are collapsable.
- NEW: New commands added to contextual menu of sidebar.
- NEW: Smart groups of the sidebar can be global, database or group specific. Each smart group remembers the last used view, sorting, and thumbnail details.
- NEW: Groups can be added to and removed from the favorites of the sidebar.
- NEW: Custom feed stylesheets located in '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink Pro 2/StyleSheets' can be selected in the RSS preferences.
- NEW: New RSS update schedule option 'After opening a database'.
- Improved: Sorter more reliable, improved user experience.
- Improved: Hide Sorter renamed to Quit Sorter.
- Improved: Default smart groups 'Today', 'Yesterday' and 'Unread' are no longer added to new databases but are by default available in the sidebar.
- Improved: Saving a search that runs across multiple databases or a read-only database adds the smart group ('saved search') to the global sidebar. Default view for these smart groups is list view.
- Improved: Default views for databases and the global inbox/trash.
- Improved: Drag-and-drop added to sidebar trash.
- Improved: Drag-and-drop to application icon uses default destination, too.
- Improved: Visibility and width of sidebar are now window-specific; the default visibility for new windows is the last used visibility.
- Improved: Destination selector expands parent groups if necessary.
- Improved: Renamed 'Archive' group to 'Downloads', uses standard Leopard icon.
- Improved: Word column of Concordance drawer/panel truncates long words.
- Improved: 'Database in use' alerts contain filename of database.
- Improved: Recognition of RSS feeds; updating of feeds.
- Improved: AppleScript support.
- Improved: A number of scripts are more reliable and compatible.
- Improved: OPML import and export faster.
- Improved: Synchronization of global inbox folder much faster.
- Improved: Many smaller interface enhancements.
- Fixed: Locked files/folders inside '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink Pro 2/Inbox' were imported after each startup.
- Fixed: Minor interface glitches.
- Removed: Obsolete Scripts > Data > Quick Look script.
- Removed: Obsolete DEVONthink Search Dashboard widget.
- Known issue: In anticipation of a 'Take Note' feature hot key, the Copy Selection hotkey will need to be set again.
DEVONthink Personal (and up) 2.0 Public Beta 5
- NEW: Pressing the spacebar in list, icon, column, and search views opens the floating Quick Look panel.
- NEW: Web archives can be edited also in DEVONthink Personal.
- NEW: Web archives can be converted to HTML via Data > Convert > to HTML.
- NEW: Items can be sent by email also in DEVONthink Personal.
- NEW: Help > Bookmarklets making it easier to install the bookmarklets.
- NEW: Preference option Media > Web Archives > Create thumbnails.
- NEW: Instance is/is not indexed and Kind is/is not Video/Audio/Email predicates added to smart groups.
- NEW: Workaround to make CHMporter compatible to both Leopard and DEVONthink Pro Office.
- Improved: Bookmarklet design updated, minor bug with Safari 3.x fixed.
- Improved: Data > Mark > As Checked/Unchecked show the state if necessary.
- Improved: Improved naming of top level group in Move/Replicate/Duplicate To menus.
- Improved: Background color of selection of editable web archives can be set via the color panel. Highlighting commands of Format menu are supported.
- Improved: Bookmarks no longer automatically synchronized after opening a database.
- Improved: Services to append plain/rich notes do not change the Dock badge label anymore and don't use the group selector if a note has been already taken. These services are no longer database specific.
- Improved: Much faster updating of Info panel for images and PDF documents.
- Improved: More reliable handling of file system events.
- Improved: Compatibility to Safari 4.0 beta.
- Fixed: Revised default window sizes.
- Fixed: Duplicate recognition, classify, and see-also did not work reliably for images.
- Fixed: Bookmarks import was always using the top level group.
- Fixed: Some contextual menus did not work.
- Fixed: Certain PDF documents freezed the Info panel on Intel processors due to a bug of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
- Fixed: Meta data of images, PDF documents, and web archives was not always stored after synchronizing them or after adding them via scripts, services, DEVONagent, etc.
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