[Joel]

Right in the nick of time, we have a release candidate for OmniGraffle and OmniGraffle Professional 5.3 available for download and perusal.

What's new in version 5.3:

New Features

• Mac OS X 10.7 Features and Compatibility
- OmniGraffle is ready for Lion, if you are running Mac OS X 10.7 you'll be able to take advantage of the new navigation gestures, automatic document saving and versioning, as well as full screen mode.
• New Line Behavior
- We've modified how lines appear when they are connecting to shapes to more appropriately show their actual endpoints at the center of the shape, as well as making the Curvy line type much more attractive visually and adding much more powerful control handles for the Orthogonal line type.
• iPad Compatibility
- Certain artisitic features available on OmniGraffle for iPad (such as open freehand shapes) now display properly on the desktop.
• Other New Features
- Paste in Place has been added as a dedicated control in the Edit Menu.
- The Konigi wireframe stencils are now bundled by default.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a particularly nasty crash that could occur when certain ColorSync Profiles were installed.
• Addressed an infinite loop crash when using automatic layout.
• Fixed a hang while applying a change in orientation when using orthogonal lines.
• Smart Guides should now no longer interfere with grid snapping and should never prevent snapping to grid pixel boundaries, regardless of zoom level.
• Dragging an image from a web browser should now drag the image, not the URL for the image.
• Fixed a bug where the Shift and Caps Lock could interfere with drawing tools hotkeys.
• Exporting a multi-canvas document to PDF should now take unit scale into account.
• OmniGraffle now offers PDF and PNG on the pasteboard before PICT and TIFF.
• Fixed a bug where pasting an object could errantly duplicate a canvas.
• Avoided an error when exporting an entire document to HTML if there were colons in any canvas names.
• OmniGraffle now handles font transparency to and from the iPad.
• Fixed some image tiling issues and other image related bugs in flipped tables.
• The Japanese version of the Common -> Shapes stencil should now include smart arc and wedge shapes.
• Multi-Touch gestures for trackpad and other input devices are now disabled by default.
• Fixed a bug where the Mac App Store version was not opening LinkBack PDFs from newly created files.
• The Magdalen Islands are now part of Quebec, and not Nova Scotia.

Find the disk images at the bottom of our download page, and read up on the lengthy history of OmniGraffle at our historical release notes page.