Introducing MagicPlot 2.8

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List of features

Full-functional project tree with nested folders

Nested Folders

Figures in Folders

Reordering in Project Tree

Compatibility with older versions

The project file with nested folders may be opened in previous release, MagicPlot 2.7.2 or earlier, however we don't recommend to do that. Nested folders will be merged in previous versions of application.

Full Copy-Paste Support

In MagicPlot 2.8 any objects in Project tree can be can be copied, cut and pasted. In previous versions the copy and paste functionality was available only on Figures and Fit Plots, moreover only items of one type (curves or drawn objects) copied at once. MagicPlot 2.8 dows not have such restriction.

Copy full Axes Box with Curves

Copy-Paste between Projects

Project Autosaving

Grouping of Drawn Objects

Changing Table in Curve Data Dialog

Multi-column Plot Legend

Other Fixes and Improvements

Improved: 0000017: [Drawing] Creating empty Figure without axes boxes or deleting the rest axes box

Improved: 0000300: [Other] Disable annoying renaming by mouse click in project tree

Improved: 0000244: [Plots] Optimize colormap drawing

Improved: 0000225: [Other] Add symbol <Planck constant with bar> to the math symbol table

Improved: 0000282: [Other] Leave project file opened for cloud services work

Improved: 0000193: [Plots] Add warning about doubled values in x/y column of color map plot

Improved: 0000284: [Plots] Rename (clarify) properties context menu items

Improved: 0000023: [Drawing] Improved drawing objects sticking algorithm: all other objects are checked

Improved: 0000298: [Fitting] Add more max iterations in drop-down menu in Preferences

Fixed: 0000223: [Plots] Adding of fitted data as Fit Sum to the main graph produces Thickness-2 roughly dashed line

Fixed: 0000222: [Plots] When Fill “To X Axis” is applied to data shifted by waterfall result is not correct

Fixed: 0000232: [Plots] Waterfall shift values are mistakenly copied when creating Fit Plot from Figure with waterfall

Fixed: 0000202: [Other] Table and tree rows height is broken for HiDPI on Windows

Fixed: 0000295: [Import] UTF BOM chars are not ignored on the beginning of the imported file

Fixed: 0000299: [Import] NaN text is not recognized as a number in import and the column becomes text column

Fixed: 0000294: [Import] Disable empty lines skipping on import and pasting

Fixed: 0000296: [Plots] ColorMap is not replotted when x/y column data is changed

Fixed: 0000304: [Plots] Incorrect warning “Y column has missing points at the beginning” in Color Map Properties dialog

Fixed: 0000281: [Plots] ColorMap legend (colorbar) is not scaled with all image when changing canvas size

Fixed: 0000219: [Other] Adding a new table puts it randomly, either in selected folder or in a new folder

Fixed: 0000050: [Other] Print/Export Images in Project context menu and Ctrl+E, Ctrl+P must print all selected, not the one

Fixed: 0000289: [General] Out of memory error when dropping big project file on Figure canvas (tries to treat it as image first)