Drawings containing copy-and-pasted text from the pre-2000 era would fail to open on Golden Gate. Golden Gate operating security is always tightening; GoldenGate internal changes can cause older drawings not to open. We have this fixed now; there should be no problem opening any EazyDraw dating from 2001 to present. Several improvements to the EazyDraw Automation API. These generally help AI agents using EazyDraw automatically fill out standard (non-form) PDF forms. EazyDraw only needs a simple PDF form to provide a platform for adding text and content to the PDF document. The API improvements make it easier for the AI agent to place text in the desired rectangle on the PDF accurately. Improved the Orient menu commands found on the Format main menu. Fixed several commands that were not working properly; their undo menu entries and actions are now correct. Also improved the automatic orient tangent and tangent snap feature. Improved the Match panel for attribute search and matching. Fixed several logic and comparison issues, and overall improved match performance. Improved the Text Stamp format panel. Fixed several small quirks and bugs in the full Text Stamp feature, including the format setup dialog. Other improvements to the API and MCP interface. Added a first-session calibration, centered labels, more precise move tools, improved graphic reference by name or UUID, and other fixes and tweaks. These improvements require the PyPI eazydraw 1.3.0 update. Fixed issues with raster outputs such as PNG and JPEG on Golden Gate. Backgrounds and transparency now work properly on Golden Gate. Fixed issues with vector gradients on Golden Gate. Apple introduced new drawing engine optimizations on Golden Gate. These made some vector gradients look terrible. This version has robust workarounds to ensure high-quality vector gradients on all displays and MacBooks on Golden Gate. New expanded tools for the API and MCP interface. Several new tools help AI agents learn and do more with EazyDraw. These include deterministic rendering, direct export tools, and interaction with EazyDraw user libraries, including applying attribute packages. These require updating the EazyDraw Python module to version 1.3.0.

EazyDraw 12.10.0 is a major free update with support for macOS Golden Gate, AI drawing assistance, and improvements throughout your drawing workspace. * Draw with AI. Connect compatible AI tools, including Claude Desktop, through EazyDraw’s new Automation API and MCP connector. Ask your assistant to create and arrange shapes, draw Bézier curves, style text, apply gradients, and work with layers. It can inspect your drawing and check its work visually. Changes remain fully editable and undoable. Set up the connection in EazyDraw’s Automation settings. * Choose your drawing style. Pencil, Brush, and Silhouette smooth your freehand strokes into clean curves. The Bézier tools offer familiar point-and-handle drawing: click for corners, drag for smooth curves, and adjust handles as you go. Improved graphics tablet support captures pen pressure along each stroke. * Browse patterns visually. The Patterns palette’s new Browse tab displays a scrolling gallery of pattern swatches. Explore grouped lists of textures, geometric patterns, hatches, and wallpapers. Resize the previews and click a swatch to apply it while keeping your fill, overlay, and transparency settings. * Put text colors within reach. Choose text, highlight, stroke, underline, and strikethrough colors from the Text Colors menu or the context menu. A new toolbar button provides quick access to highlight colors, and highlight presets let you apply or clear a highlight in one click. * Work with a modern file format. New drawings and libraries now use EazyDraw’s native JSON format by default. An optional flat layout in File > Properties gives scripts and AI tools a simpler structure with unique identifiers for every graphic. Existing drawings continue to open and save in their current format. * Enjoy a more consistent workspace. Menu swatches, toolbar popovers, and palette controls are refined for Golden Gate. More toolbar buttons follow your chosen icon theme and accent color. Menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, toolbar labels, and tooltips are corrected and consistent across all twelve languages. This update also brings practical improvements to everyday drawing: * More accurate area measurements for shapes with holes, overlapping outlines, and self-crossing paths. * Smoother gradient transitions, more consistent gradient angles, and steadier Blend ordering. * Better SVG import and export, including gradients, text on a path, and pattern overlays. * More reliable printing after changing the number of pages. * Fixes for oval connectors, text bubble tips, quadratic curve conversion, and translucent brushes. * More dependable toolbar settings, tablet preferences, Quick Look previews, and opening of complex drawings.

What's New in EazyDraw 12.6.0 EazyDraw 12.6.0 is a major release introducing the EazyDraw Automation API-a powerful new way to drive EazyDraw from your own scripts, tools, and AI workflows. This update brings closer co-working with iPadOS 26, independent object locking, and advanced machine-readable serialization. The EazyDraw Automation API EazyDraw can now be driven programmatically via a local, secure lightweight web service. Perfect for batch production, AI-assisted authoring, and connecting EazyDraw to external agents. Write scripts in Python, Shell, or any language to: - Control Drawings: Open, close, and read complete document structures (layers, graphics, scale). - Automate Layouts: Place, position, and resize library elements precisely. - Apply Styles: Programmatically apply fill colors, gradients, vector hatches, dashes, and arrows from your libraries. - Export on the Fly: Seamlessly export drawings, layers, or single graphics to SVG, PDF, PNG, or JPEG. - Secure and Local: Runs entirely on your Mac, protected by a private access token, and respects all standard editor undo/redo states. Managing the service is easy with the new Automation API settings palette. Smarter Drawing Properties and AI Readiness The Drawing Properties palette has been completely reworked to support external Python parsing and AI agent inspection: - Flat Serialization Format: Choose the new "Flat" format for a fully resolved, machine-readable layout where every graphic carries its attributes inline-making it effortless for AI agents to read and write. - Persistent UUIDs: Assign stable, universally unique identifiers to objects, layers, and libraries so automation scripts can reference specific elements reliably across sessions. - Metadata Defaults: Set convenient defaults for Title, Author, Organization, and Projects that automatically apply to new drawings. Seamless iPadOS 26 Co-Working - Cross-Device Copy and Paste Special: Pair with EazyDraw for iOS (v4.2.0) to seamlessly copy and paste attribute groups (Color, Style, Gradients, Arrows, Dashes) between your Mac and iPad. Independent Move and Size Locks Take finer control over graphic protection via the updated Format > Lock submenu: - Lock Move: Pins a graphic's position while allowing you to resize and reshape it. - Lock Size: Freezes the size and shape while allowing you to reposition it. - Visual Status: Selection handles change style (open-circle for locked Move, gray for locked Size) to show protection states at a glance. Other Improvements - Improved inspection of angles using minutes and seconds notation. - General performance refinements and bug fixes.

What’s New in Version 12.4.6 Improved Layers popup with color-coded visibility and active layer indicators Updated button styling and enhanced Attribute Bar feedback, including clearer Dark Mode states Added “do not draw” cursor for areas outside the drawing at extreme zoom levels Improved angle input parsing and localization (degrees, minutes, seconds) Fixed connector behavior with pivot interactions Fixed dimension text background issue and improved color control reliability Fixed ruler and Scale palette updates after Full Screen and Tahoe window changes

What’s New in Version 12.4.5 Improved Interactive Zoom The Interactive Zoom tool now provides a much wider usable range and better control. Start the zoom gesture near the center of the drawing for fine control, near the bottom for faster zoom in, or near the top for faster zoom out. Palette and Toolbar Layout Fix This version fixes a problem introduced in recent version 12 releases that prevented saving palette and toolbar layouts. Layouts can now be saved and restored normally. Layout files are now stored in JSON format, while still supporting layouts saved from earlier versions. Updated Documentation The PDF manual and HTML help pages have been updated. The PDF manual now includes clickable outline links for easier navigation in viewers such as Preview and Adobe Acrobat. Improved Cross-Device Workflow Additional refinements improve exchange of drawings and graphics between Mac and iPad, including better support for Handoff, sharing, and AirDrop. Localization Fix Corrected an issue with angle input when using German localization and comma decimal separators. This now works correctly on both macOS Tahoe and Sequoia.

• Fixed an issue introduced in version 12.4.0 that could prevent some EazyDraw drawings from opening on macOS Tahoe. • Updated documentation, including a revised PDF manual and refreshed HTML help pages. The PDF manual is now aligned with EazyDraw version 12 and includes clickable outline links for easier navigation in PDF viewers such as macOS Preview and Adobe Acrobat.

This update introduces major improvements for macOS Tahoe. • Updated drawing window appearance to better align with macOS Tahoe design guidelines, improving visual clarity when working at different zoom levels. • Added an option to adjust tool-button size, allowing users to optimize tool palettes for readability or screen space based on their display and preferences. • Refined tool-button visuals and control sizing for improved contrast and usability across a wide range of displays. • Improved integration between Mac and iPad with more reliable Handoff, two-way drag and drop, and enhanced cross-device Copy and Paste, including support for Paste Special attributes. • General stability, performance, and compatibility improvements for macOS Tahoe and iPadOS 26.

A new action has been added to the Paste Special menu. The All option saves all special graphic attributes with a single click—for example, if a graphic has a custom fill color, vector hatch, and dashed outline, all three attributes are captured at once. Improved JSON file format performance
This update includes an upgrade to the JSON file format, significantly reducing save time for drawings that contain very large (multi-megabyte) text strings. Additional capabilities have been added for downsizing and resampling bitmap images that use 16-bit pixel components. This is increasingly important on macOS Tahoe, where many system image-capture tools now output 16-bit images. The underline and over-line controls in the Text Attributes shortcut bar were not working correctly on Tahoe. They now function properly on all supported macOS versions. 
This version fixes the color well on the Dash Parameters palette, which failed to enable on Tahoe. Dragging a JPEG image onto a drawing now properly supports both .jpg and .jpeg extensions. The automatic resample-and-size feature (introduced in Version 11) previously worked only with .jpeg files. Both extensions are now fully supported, as defined in current standards. Several buttons and controls received visual refinements for improved consistency with macOS Tahoe design guidelines.

This version fixes two convenience buttons to the Attributes bar: the lock checkbox button for generic graphics and the Kern buttons for text. These buttons now work correctly for all supported languages. The color wells on Page Layout did not enable properly. Most importantly, the background color was permanently disabled, preventing color change for the drawing background. All of the Page Layout color wells now work correctly. The Fillet and Chamfer panels, accessed from the Tools main menu -> Combine submenu, did not allow user input for the fillet radius. Fillet and Chamfer are now fixed and work correctly again.

This version fixes a new bug in the latest Tahoe release: a double-click of a tool on the primary tool palette did not lock the tool into hold status, allowing for the convenient creation of multiple copies of the same graphic.  This critical feature is back and working correctly. Thanks to all users reporting the problem. The recent improvement to Quick Look, which supports older drawings saved before 2014, has been added to the macOS Spotlight search driver. Spotlight on Tahoe is now able to analyze these older drawings properly.

Fixed stepper buttons on the text attributes bar. The font size and baseline buttons worked in only one direction.. Fixed bug in image resampling for images saved from the new version of Icon Composer shipping with macOS Tahoe. These are 16-bit per component images with a full alpha (transparency) channel.  EazyDraw resampling algorithms now support this format. EazyDraw conserves the enhanced 16-bit image depth when downsampling. Fixed the appearance of the convenience zoom and layer pop-up menus found at the lower left corner of the main EazyDraw drawing window. The Zoom readout was clipped by the enlarged, rounded corners of windows on macOS Tahoe. The display now shows nicely with a pleasing appearance. Quick Look preview was not working on newer versions of macOS for drawings saved prior to about 2014. Attempts to Quick Look preview these drawings saved years ago caused a hang for the preview. EazyDraw 12.1.2 fixes this problem.

Fixed compatibility issues with macOS Sequoia used with German, French and other non-English localizations.

The primary purpose of this release is to support profound changes and performance optimization in macOS introduced with macOS version 26 (Tahoe), including the new Liquid Glass user interface design standards.  This release of EazyDraw 12 is compatible with macOS 10.13, 10.14, and 10.15. and macOS 26. Users of older versions of macOS should continue to use their compatible version. Check the EazyDraw Support web page for details. Updated EazyDraw application icon for macOS Tahoe 26 and the new Liquid Glass design language. The new icon has a blue theme to correspond to Productivity Apps. The application icon no longer appears in a static rounded rectangle; it now adapts to your macOS appearance settings, and it supports Dark, Clear, and Tinted icon styles. All windows and palettes have a modern, rounded appearance, and many provide Liquid Glass integration backgrounds.

Design support for SF Symbols: EazyDraw Version 11.11.2 adds support for creating custom symbol iconography for your Apps. This version recognizes SVG templates from the SF Symbols App, then automatically creates EazyDraw layers for guides, notes, and editing. EazyDraw SVG recognizes and preserves template integrity for import back into the SF Symbols app. Create compatible SwiftUI artwork with a few simple steps: Find a similar icon in SF Symbols and choose Export Template, open the template in EazyDraw and design the vector preview wireframe, Export from EazyDraw and drop the new SVG drawing into SF Symbols.

EazyDraw Version 11.12.1 provides a new capability to create artwork for the new App Icon format introduced on June 9at WWDC 25.  EazyDraw now allows layer names to begin with numbers. The new version of Icon Composer expects individual SVG file names starting with layer numbers.  Now, EazyDraw has a new setting for Export Contents on the SVG Export view, called Individual Layers. This new setting exports all icon material layers with a single Export command.  A new design template is now available at EazyDraw.com, which conveniently documents the latest icon design specifications for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and VisionOS. Use the EazyDraw template drawing as the starting point for a new icon design. There are two templates, one for all devices except Apple Watch. The Apple Watch template is 1088 x 1088 allowing circular graphics to extend beyond the defining rounded rectangle.

EazyDraw 11.12.0 provides initial compatibility with the macOS 26 developer release and several other minor corrections and stability improvements. This version offers improved SVG and Intaglio conversion. This version addresses several new compatibility issues related to supporting opaque images and patterns on macOS Sonoma and Sequoia.

EazyDraw version 11.10.1 provides several improvements for exporting and importing SVG drawings, including improved export of automatic Dimensions. SVG export of arrows with knockout support was extended to all classes of automatic dimensions, providing crisp arrow tips when viewed with any browser. Bitmap pattern conversion between opaque and transparent pixels had pixel corruption, which is fixed with this release. The update addresses several other points of stability and performance.

EazyDraw Version 11.9.0 restores and improves QuickLook and thumbnail icons on macOS Sequoia. This version implements a new macOS protocol for providing preview images of your drawings for QuickLook and thumbnail icons. After the upgrade: You may need to trigger macOS to restore previews and thumbnails.  In general, we find that after about 24 hours, macOS will begin supplying previews and thumbnails, or there are a few tricks you may want to try.  Preview seems to restore more quickly, but thumbnails can take longer.  First is a simple restart of the Finder; use the command on the Force Quit panel.  Next is a reboot for reliable restoration to check that you only have one new EazyDraw version on the system.  Perform Get Info on an EazyDraw drawing, then view the Open With popup menu; on the popup menu, choose the new 11.9.0 EazyDraw, and remove all other versions of EazyDraw seen on the menu from the system if possible.

EazyDraw 11.8.2 is the primary release of macOS Sequoia compatibility. EazyDraw Version 11.8.2 adds two new features for dashed lines: convert to strokes and convert dashes to spaces. Converting Dashes to Strokes generates a new individual dash segment with Bézier curves or lines. Dashes to Spaces flips spaces of a dashed curve to the dashes and dashes to spaces.  Use the Tools -> Convert To submenu to access the new dash convert commands.  Find the new commands on the Attributes bar, the Dashes popup, and the Convert To buttons. Fixed issues on macOS Sequoia related to redo of undo and the state of selected graphics. The issue only related to the intermediate state of selected graphics; the actual undo and redo were performed properly. Now, undo, redo, and subsequent undo redo sequences behave properly, including selected graphic states. EazyDraw now automatically names graphics created by dragging and dropping an image file. The file name is assigned to the graphic name, and these names are shown on the Easy Look report. This version of EazyDraw corrects a possible crash or hang when dragging and dropping a bitmap image into a drawing on the newest versions of macOS, Sonoma, and Sequoia.  We found this problem only from reports of crashes shared by the user community with Apple, the crash being too rare to reproduce in test sessions.

EazyDraw version 11.8 adds support for the newest versions of macOS. This version fixes several minor problems, including changing bitmap image DPI using the Graphic Details inspector and applying automatic cross-over indicators to Bézier curves with linear segments. This version improves JSON file format support, extending this file format to edge cases involving arrays of graphics. This version improves the exact positioning of automatic cross-over and arrow flourishes. EazyDraw on Vision Pro offered better accuracy and speed; these algorithms are now incorporated in this macOS version.

EazyDraw 11.5.6 adds the capability to split Bézier curves at vertices. The split creates two independent Bezier paths or curves with the targeted vertex endpoints. Think of this action as Un-Weld.  Control-click a vertex to bring up a contextual menu to use the new split function. Or, execute split on the Graphic Details inspector using the vertex edit popup menu.  Use Tools->Convert To->Curves to split a multisegment Bezier into individual segments. The latter method is similar to Convert To Lines, working with all Bezier segment forms, not just lines. EazyDraw 11.5.6 slightly changes the shape of rounded corners of rectangles with rounded corners. To this date, a well-defined cubic curve formed the rectangle corner using two control points positioned at exactly one-half (0.5) of the specified corner radius, which does not result in an exact conic section (arc with a constant radius).  This version changes the control points from 0.5 to 0.55228 to cause the cubic polynomial to more closely match the arc of a circle.  The visual change in the corner's path is barely noticeable at 10x zoom.  EazyDraw 11.5.6 provides several other stability improvements and feature enhancements.

EazyDraw 11.5.3 corrects problems with adjusting the width of the Graphic Details Inspector, for the English localization. Other languages did not have the problem.

EazyDraw 11.6.2 corrects a compatibility issue with macOS Sonoma introduced with version 11.6.1. The essential changes for version 11.6.1 follow. EazyDraw 11.6.1 corrects a severe compatibility issue with macOS Sonoma 14.4, discovered by our beta testing. Use EazyDraw 11.6.1 or newer on macOS 14.4 or newer. This release also corrects a few problems with arrow and Bezier paths on macOS Ventura and older. EazyDraw 11.6.1 is an essential update for Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura users. EazyDraw 11.6.1 finalizes the new JSON drawing format, which will be the primary exchange format for EazyDraw on Vision Pro.

EazyDraw 11.6.1 corrects a severe compatibility issue with macOS Sonoma 14.4, discovered by our beta testing. Use EazyDraw 11.6.1 or newer on macOS 14.4 or newer. This release also corrects a few problems with arrow and Bezier paths on macOS Ventura and older. EazyDraw 11.6.1 is an essential update for Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura users. EazyDraw 11.6.1 finalizes the new JSON drawing format, which will be the primary exchange format for EazyDraw on Vision Pro.

EazyDraw version 11.6 is a significant update, including a new capability for importing large photos and bitmap images. Documentation for the new feature is on EazyDraw Help -> File -> Open -> Drop-Photo. This capability provides dynamic sizing and high-performance image analysis to compute resampled images that match content needs. The computation is performed on alternate CPU threads while the user controls results with convenient cursor placement. This release provides other feature enhancements, custom Arrows, and SVG import. This release includes improved support and further optimizations for Sonoma.