[Joel]

OmniGraffle for iPad 1.8 is a major update that adds a new drawing tools interface as well as better support for iPads with Retina displays and fixes a number of bugs.

[NOTE: If you're reading this within a few hours of the original post, your local App Store might not have the update yet. If that happens, just wait an hour or so and then try again: it will be there soon!]

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New Features

• A new toolbar has been added to house the drawing tools, improving usability and allowing the addition of future drawing tools.
• Controls have been added to the Canvas Size Inspector to set whether the zoom level and object geometry is based on Apple points, screen pixels, or PostScript points.
• The Inspector interface has been greatly improved.
• A new Artistic Fill Style, Stipple, has been added.
• Performance optimizations for placed images and artistic fills have been added.

Bug Fixes

• Addresses a number of compatibility issues when running on iOS 6.
• The Stroke Inspector thickness steppers should now handle values less than one point.
• Improved performance when dealing with multiple canves documents that have text variables.
• Fixed some corner radius rendering issues on Retina displays.
• Fixed a bug where placed PDFs would vanish when exporting a document.
• Fixed some issues when double-tapping stencils to add them to the canvas.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to change the font after clearing text from an object.