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All editions: 2.0 Public Beta 8

• From this release on all editions of DEVONthink require Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires February 28, 2010.
   
• NEW: Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents. It is also used when indexing or synchronizing files/documents.
• NEW: An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
• NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
• NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
• NEW: Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
• NEW: Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
• NEW: Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar and in the Database Properties panel.
• NEW: Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
• NEW: Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text and HTML/XML file formats defined by third-party applications added.
   
• Improved: Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
• Improved: Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, column views, PDF thumbnail views, sheet views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
• Improved: Status and file property icons revised.
• Improved: Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
• Improved: Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
• Improved: The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
• Improved: Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
• Improved: Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
• Improved: Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views or column views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
• Improved: Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
• Improved: Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
• Improved: Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
• Improved: View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
• Improved: Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
• Improved: Tab management in general.
• Improved: Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
• Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
• Improved: Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
• Improved: Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views including DEVONthink Pro's sidebar now.
• Improved: After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
• Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
• Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
• Improved: Advertisement filter.
• Improved: Sorting.
• Improved: Rebuilding is more reliable.
• Improved: Handling of user style sheets.
• Improved: Memory management and performance.
   
• Fixed: Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
• Fixed: Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
• Fixed: Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
• Fixed: Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
• Fixed: Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
• Fixed: After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
• Fixed: Switching between views or databases does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
• Fixed: Rare crash after switching views or databases.
• Fixed: Localization glitches.
• Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
   
• Removed: Danish localization.
   

DEVONthink Pro Office 2.0 Public Beta 8

• NEW: Support for tagging. (Web Interface, Scanning)
• NEW: Option to keep original resolution of scan. (Scanning)
• NEW: Image Capture recognized as scanner application. (OCR)
   
• Improved: Removed literary default text for notes. (Web Interface)
• Improved: Extended HTTP headers to enable caching by proxies/browsers reduce the number of hits by up to 90 percent and so improve the responsiveness. (Web Server)
• Improved: All URLs of templates and XML/HTML/JSON output are now relative. (Web Server)
• Improved: AppleScript support, rotation on scans. (OCR)
• Improved: Updated Automator actions to support extended 'Exclude from' properties.
• Improved: Error messages.
• Fixed: Problem with Mail disabling DEVONthink Pro Office's plugin (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'). (Email Archiving)
   
• Fixed: Support for Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' on older Intel-based Macs. (Email Archiving)
• Fixed: In certain conditions accentuated characters were not correctly recognized. (OCR)
• Fixed: Bookmarks linking to internal items, e.g. in other databases, were clickable. (Web Interface)
• Fixed: HTTP connections weren't always closed. (Web Server)
• Fixed: Large icon of feeds and glitches of icons of Trash and Inbox on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'. (Web Server)
• Fixed: Unnecessary usage of absolute paths. (Web Interface)
   

DEVONthink Pro 2.0 (and up) Public Beta 8

• NEW: Support for tagging. (Sorter)
• NEW: 'Take Note' also available in DEVONthink Pro Office.
• NEW: New preferences option to convert RSS categories to tags.
• NEW: Global inbox supports File > Database Properties and therefore Spotlight support and sharing can be enabled.
• NEW: Lots of new templates and template scripts, e.g. iCal Event and PubMed.
• NEW: Add and Action buttons added to bottom bar of sidebar.
• NEW: Import Files To Database option of Download Manager replaced with a Download To… submenu; option Destination renamed to Folder. The destination (either a database or the folder) can be only changed while the queue is not active. Clicking on downloads in web views or opening them in tabs adds them automatically to the Download Manager (like in any other web browser). Files downloaded to a database are marked as unread.
• NEW: Drag-and-drop from Entourage (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only). (Sorter)
• NEW: Dragging a URL with Command and Option held creates a link from any browser. (Sorter)
• NEW: Scripts > Comments > Convert to Tags script. Intended for comments added by DEVONthink Pro's feeds, the del.icio.us script or other comments containing tags separated by commas.
• NEW: Scripts to add tasks/events to iCal, OmniFocus, Things, and The Hit List; see Scripts > Reminders
• NEW: Script 'Export daily backup as files & folders' added to examples on disk image.
• NEW: Keys of BibTeX files are now supported and displayed by sheet views.
   
• Improved: Global inbox is now always at the top of the groups panel, the group selector and the global trash.
• Improved: Contextual menu and Action menu of sidebar; double-clicking smart groups in the sidebar opens an edit sheet for them.
• Improved: Concordance drawer supports Quick Look.
• Improved: Sidebar displays number of unread items in favorite groups/feeds, too.
• Improved: Tooltips include the database name.
• Improved: Drag-and-drop support for multiple email messages (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'). (Sorter)
• Improved: Full screen detection and hiding. (Sorter)
• Improved: Full screen settings can be reset to defaults. (Sorter)
• Improved: Spotlight comments are saved using the Finder. (Sorter)
• Improved: Handling of main windows after closing databases.
• Improved: Naming of files downloaded via the Download Manager.
• Improved: Recognition of format of .tsv/.csv files independent of extension.
• Improved: Various scripts overhauled, e.g. Scripts > Import > Del.icio.us, Scripts > Data > Find & Remove Similar Contents and Scripts > Rename > To Web Page Title.
• Improved: Mail import scripts optimized. Email messages and mailboxes imported via AppleScript now honor the Create thumbnails preference option.
• Improved: AppleScript support; new 'placeholder' parameter allows to conveniently replace text in to-be-imported text, rich text (RTF/RTFD), HTML, or XML documents when importing, e.g. in template scripts; new commands to control the Download Manager; support for tagging and for scripting tabs.
• Improved: Optional group selector of 'paste clipboard' AppleScript command and while adding one item from DEVONagent contains now also a field to enter the document name.
• Improved: Reliability when moving documents between databases if the destination database is not accessible anymore (e.g. located on a disconnected drive or a sleeping server).
• Improved: Printing a PDF to DEVONthink Pro Office does not freeze the source application anymore while the group selector is visible.
   
• Fixed: Dragging aliases/symbolic links to the inbox folder (e.g. in the Finder's sidebar) deleted the original file, not the alias.
• Fixed: Issue when trying to use the "OCR Items" action in a Folder Action. (Automator)
• Fixed: Automator workflows using DEVONthink Pro did not work in Scripts menu on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
• Fixed: Minor bugs in template scripts.

DEVONthink Personal (and up) 2.0 Public Beta 8

• NEW: Completely redesigned column views. They now show the selected item in the lower pane, similar to iTunes, and they support Cover Flow and the fullscreen mode. They remember the last displayed item.
• NEW: Many template scripts are available in DEVONthink Personal now, too; new .dtTemplate packages contain localized files/folders for templates and use placeholders for commonly used data such as date, user name, or the clipboard contents without having to use scripting.
• NEW: DEVONjot widget supports tagging.
• NEW: Clicking on links in PDF documents with Command held opens new tabs (like in other views).
   
• Improved: Links in Quick Look previews (e.g. of email messages or vcards) are clickable, clicking them with Command held opens them in a new tab (if possible).
• Improved: Search windows support See Also and Classify as well as Concordance drawers, too.
• Improved: Icon views (with or without details) display the state and whether items are unread right before the name (without details) or in the upper right corner (with details).
• Improved: Data > Convert > … commands add the converted items to the same locations as the originals and therefore retain tags and replicants.
• Improved: The Label toolbar item can be added to the toolbar of document and search windows, too.
• Improved: Templates can be installed by double-clicking them in the Finder.
• Improved: Templates moved to Data > New With Template (also in contextual/action menus).
• Improved: Open Link and Open Link In New Tab commands added to contextual menus of PDF views.
• Improved: Log panel; new contextual menu.
• Improved: File > Export > as Text/RTF/RTFD/Word Document insert the names of the documents on demand into the text.
• Improved: Escape key can be used to close the Quick Look panel.
• Improved: Validation of command Data > Convert > to HTML.
• Improved: Opening and editing multiple documents externally.
• Improved: Highlighting and handling of occurrences in PDF documents.
• Improved: Rendering of PDF documents on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
• Improved: Playback of QuickTime movies optimized for QuickTime X.
• Improved: Encoding handling after importing text/HTML/XML templates or OPML files.
• Improved: The kind of image documents is now usually the file extension and therefore sorting by kind is more useful.
• Improved: Spotlight meta data importer are found and used even when Spotlight is disabled or not up-to-date.
• Improved: Third-party XML file types, e.g. Tinderbox, are indexed via Spotlight plugins again.
• Improved: Better indexing of PDF documents created by Ghostscript by using PDFKit on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'; more reliable handling of huge PDF and PostScript documents.
• Improved: Many minor user interface enhancements.
• Improved: Localization.
• Improved: Performance and reliability.
   
• Fixed: Protected PDF documents could not be imported/indexed on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
• Fixed: Editing indexed files/documents didn't retain file creation/modification dates and Spotlight comments.
• Fixed: .svg files are now never imported as text, even if their HFS type claims that they are text.
• Fixed: Worked around bug of Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard's WebKit causing importing or indexing of 'legacy' web archives (including conversion of v1.x databases) sometimes to crash. It is possible to convert these web archives afterwards to rich text but not to display them.
• Fixed: Workarounds for various bugs in ImageKit and PDFKit system frameworks added.
   
• Removed: Obsolete commands Data > New > Outline, same optional toolbar item, Data > Mark > Show/Hide State, Show State option of Info panel, and State is Hidden/Shown predicate of smart groups. In addition, the 'To-Do' smart group isn't added to new databases anymore.

 

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