IMPORTANT: Note that some fixes described below refer to problems on
specific operating systems or unique configurations only, and are
unlikely to have adversely affected the user experience of the majority
of our users. Should you encounter unexpected behavior at any time,
please contact Softpress Support who will be able to advise further.
5.1
NEW FEATURES
Added an RSS Feed Action
Freeway now supports SVG as a graphic import format, a format in which Actions can generate graphic content
CRASHES & ERRORS
Fixed a crashing bug when pasting a page into a selected folder
Fixed a crash after deleting a color used in a link style
Fixed a crash after deleting font sets that were used in link styles
Fixed a crash that could happen after opening a document and replacing missing fonts
Fixed a crash that could occur when checking and unchecking the CSS or Layer checkbox
Fixed a crash that could occur after undoing the deletion of an in-flow table with Invisibles turned on
Using Freeway and Keyboard Shortcuts PDF files in the application bundle have their permissions fixed
Bring to Front is no longer enabled for a table cell
Opening the About box in Freeway Express and then switching in and out no longer disables the application
Fixed a crash after editing Alt text in the Accessibility report
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash if there was vertically centred graphic text with a shadow in a table cell
Fixed a crash that could occur when an Action cleared a URL parameter
Fixed a crash that could occur when replacing styles
ACCESSIBILITY
Unnecessary disclosure triangles are no longer displayed in the Site panel when displaying Alt text
The
Accessibility report no longer warns about the Alt text of items for
which Alt text will not be output (e.g. children of graphic items)
Placeholder
images (I.e. ones which should not have Alt text) are now regarded as
those less than 15 pixels high and 25 pixels wide
The Accessibility report no longer warns about the Alt text of items which will not be published.
Tool tips now display when the mouse is over the icon when displaying Alt text in the Site panel
The Alt text field in the Accessibility report is now disabled when the dialog first appears
The Accessibility report no longer warns about the Alt text which will not be output because the item is part of a group
When
a graphic item which is part of a group has a link, a panel now appears
in the Inspector palette allowing Alt text to be set independently of
the group
IMPORT
Dragging text into a Freeway page with CSS layout turned on now creates a box large enough to contain the text
Freeway now recognized MP4, AVI, WMV and M4V (iPhone compatible movie) files as QuickTime content
OUTPUT
Fixed a problem on Leopard where the page background fails to show when a Flash is present
A non-publishing/non-showing item will now be published/shown if pasted as an in-flow item
In-flow
block items can now be either CSS or table based items. This is
controlled with a new CSS checkbox in the Inspector palette. In
Express, in-flow block items are now output as single-celled tables
Fixed a problem that could lead to bad HTML 3.2 output when combining links and colors
LOCALIZATION
Fixed a bug that could cause an Action's abort button to be truncated in many localizations
Fixed a layout problem within the text panes of the Inspector palette when Freeway was running in Swedish
Fixed an inconsistency in the localization of Pass-through Graphic when Freeway was running in French
Fixed a spelling mistake of "Manglende emner" in the Danish Localization
Fixed an inappropriate abbreviation of 'Reéchantillonner' in the French localization
Fixed a problem that prevented some of the text in the Rollover Action from being localized
Correct an translation error in the upload dialog of the French localization
TEXT & STYLES
Fixed a problem where text changes on a Master page were not carried through to an instance page after Saving and Reopening
Fixed a problem where overflowed text was not drawn in an auto/scroll overflow item if invisibles were on
The "Link" link style is now called "Normal"
Removed the superfluous Hover link style for HTML 3.2 pages
Fixed a problem that would remove links if part of the link was changed to a different link
Fixed a problem where links to anchors could be removed if the anchor had its styles removed
Fixed a problem where the hidden paragraph symbol was drawn offset from the end of the line in right to left text
Fixed a problem where the Primary Text Direction popup contents were disabled in the Edit Style dialog
Bullets in lists now appear on the right for Hebrew
Right to left lists are correctly drawn in Freeway as right-aligned and with bullets to the right
Right to Left unindented lists are now correctly output as unindented
Fixed a text recalculation problem wrapping around a child item with a border
Fixed a bug that caused an item with undefined height from shrinking too much
Child items are no longer drawn while you are editing within a text flow
Fixed a bug that could cause two items to be deleted when undoing the insertion of a single item in the text flow
Fixed a problem where the first line of text next to a floated item would have the wrong vertical position
Fixed a bug that could cause the height of items with an undefined height and padding to change height whilst typing
Fixed problems selecting in-flow items when editing text
Fixed a problem clicking in a text-flow with other items positioned on top
Wrap no longer draws justified text outside non-rectangular graphic items
Add to dictionary now works in the Spelling dialog on Leopard
ACTIONS
The Scriptaculous and Google Actions no longer look like they are in the Blogger Action bundle
The Scriptaculous Actions now prevent text flashing while an effect is running in Firefox and Camino
The Play/Pause Sequence Timer Action can now only be applied to the correct item types
Fixed a bug that deleted inline styling when paragraph styles were used with CSS Menus
Amended the JavaScript within the CSS Menus Action so it is consistent with other Freeway generated JavaScript
Fixed a bug that would prevent the CSS Menus from using a background image if repeat was set to "None"
Fixed
a problem where copying from the Freeway window and pasting into a text
field in the Actions palette would only insert half the number of
characters
The Blogger Action no longer outputs uppercase HTML tags when XHTML is selected
Google Maps Marker Action has been removed from the Freeway 5 Express application bundle
Action items can no longer have children
The Country List Action's customize dialog no longer has an Abort button
Fixed a spelling mistake in the Google Action Suite
The Google Map Action is now named Google Maps
The latitude and longitude fields in the Google Maps Action can now be up to 6 decimal places long
Colors that are created by Freeway Actions are temporary instead of permanent
Fixed a problem that caused rollovers with inline graphics from not being rendered properly
Clicking on a disclosure triangle will now pull the keyboard focus from an active text field in the Actions palette
Fixed some capitalization issues of the text in the Google AdSense Action
Fixed some capitalization problems in the menus of the Google AdSense Action
The watermark graphic that is applied when using the Watermark Action is now positioned correctly
Fixed a permissions problem in the Rollover Action when used with the Target Show/Hide Layer and iframe Actions
Graphics
generated by the live-preview for Action-items are now clipped
properly. This bug primarily affected the Google AdSense Action
ACTION DEVELOPMENT
Fixed a caching problem in the 'live preview' of Freeway Actions
Added
a 'fwFilePathToURLString' to the Actions API to make it easier to
specify items within the Action bundle as URLs when writing Actions
with a live preview
Fixed some problems that could cause
multiple consecutive parameters with "advance' attribute set to 'no'
appear clipped in the Actions palette
Fixed some translation problems in the Link to PDF Action in the French Localization.
Fixed some problems in the French localization of the Text link to new window Action
Fixed a layout problem in the table output panel of the Inspector palette in the Dutch localization
Fixed some translation issues in the Sequence Timer Action
OTHER
Can now drag items from the Site panel into the top left of the pasteboard
Delete Pages... and Duplicate Page... have been renamed Delete... and Duplicate in the Site panel contextual menu
Clicking the minus button in the Site panel should no longer delete the current page after deleting items
Removed the Delete menu item from Site panel contextual menu when the user clicked on a blank area of the panel
Clicking OK in the Document Setup dialog no longer marks the document dirty if nothing is changed
Rationalized the behavior and appearance of the Inspector palette export options for combined graphics
Resizing multiple items that overlap the edge of the page now resize correctly
Freeway no longer allows Flash movies to be imported as a background
Command-+ on the numeric keypad now grows text in Freeway's preview
Fixed a problem where tabbing in the Edit/Choice dialog would take focus to the Inspector
Fixed a problem where switching to the master page after publishing causes pages to be republished again
Fixed a problem where tabbing in the Inspector would confirm a change without moving to the next field
Tabbing in dialogs now works when Styles Inspector is showing
Made a small change to the default colors of table-based and CSS-layout frame colors. The blue and green are now more distinct
Added "Danish" and "Hebrew" to the language popup in the Save Template dialog
Fixed a problem that could cause the table Inspector to erroneously have overflow options
Fixed a problem that could cause the color popup in the table pane of the Inspector not to draw properly
Fixed a problem in the Freeway Express text effects selector that meant that Express omitted one of it's text effects.
The "OK" button in the iPhoto import dialog now matches other import dialogs by being called "Open"
Framesets now scroll within Freeway's layout view
Corner mounts of child items inside in-flow items are now drawn correctly after text recalculation
Fit Box to Content no longer resizes the page if the item is on the pasteboard
Shift-dragging can now be used to set background images on items
The page no longer grows to accommodate an item on the Pasteboard after Fit Box to Content
Fixed a problem with the display of file sizes in the Inspector with Preview Graphics after an error message
Removed <img style> from the Extended dialog in Express
The Trial help menus now say "Buying Freeway"
Fixed a bug that stopped command-n from creating a new attribute in the extended attributes dialogs
Fixed a bug that affected the way that clear right appeared and behaved in Freeway
Freeway now correctly respects and items border when constraining it to its parent
Height can shrink is now preserved when saving a document
Fixed a problem where the page jumps when resizing multiple items
In-flow items are no longer left unselected after dragging if they have not actually moved
Fit Box to Content was incorrectly enabled when the cursor was in the Inspector palette
Height Can Shrink etc are removed from table items when pasted as in-flow items
Inline graphics, and their children, are now listed in the rollover editor
Fixed a bug that could prevent the parent graphic of graphic not to be included in a rollover during output
Clicking in the size label in the preview toolbar increases the text size
Fixed a bug that caused one of the HTML Layout warning arrows to be blue instead of red
Fixed a bug that could cause corner-mounts and item outlines to be scaled by their containing item
Fixed a problem with the drawing of custom borders on undefined width in-flow items
Fixed a drawing problem in Freeway's handling of transparent tables
Fixed a bug that caused child tables to be drawn with the page background color when they were transparent
Worked
around a problem in 10.5 (Leopard) that could cause the active text
field in a dialog to be drawn in grey if another modal dialog was posed
Fixed some drawing issues in the Inspector palette when running under 10.5 (Leopard)
Changing the selection of a table cell now correctly updates the Inspector palette
Fixed a problem where backgrounds would not be properly regenerated when a background effect was removed
Item Output panel of the Inspector now works in Spanish
Fixed a problem that could cause the update dialog to appear before the registration dialog had been dismissed