• LiveQuartz 1.9 is a Snow Leopard only release. Older versions remain available on the web site.
• Various Bug fixes and GrandCentralDispatch optimizations on Snow Leopard
• Faster quit and better use of multiple CPUs
• New «Flip» transformations added in geometry filter category (Horizontal and Vertical)
• New «Shadow» filter added in stylize filter category
• Better localization of filter parameters (with full explanation in the filter parameter panel)
• Filters are represented in their order : top to bottom
• Layer display offset bug resolved on transformed layers that have some filters
• Pixel accurate image display and pixel accurate drawing when working precisely on pixels (except when using scale and rotation transformations or text)
• Rewritten and fixed drawing tools
• Rounded corner rectangle drawing tools
• «Import from device…» added to import from scanners, digital cameras, iphones, etc...
• «New from Clipboard…» menu added
• New option on saving as flat image formats to keep alpha for the background or not
• Window last position is saved
• Pasting an image selection now pastes it at the same place as the original

Bug fixes on Snow Leopard : Opening of pdf files

Bug fixes on Snow Leopard : LiveQuartz is now fully compatible with MacOS 10.6

• Intel 64 bit binary added ! Now LiveQuartz will run in 64 bit if you have at least MacOS 10.5.6 on a Core2Duo or better.
• Japanese Localization (thanks to Shintaro Ikegaki & Ryuta Kojima)
• Preferences for default color and default font
• New more simple livequartz-update system (http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org)

• New behaviour of drawing and gradient tools : By default, LiveQuartz is not creating a new layer each time you use the tool anymore (if you like the old behaviour, you can get it by typing this in the “terminal” application : “defaults write com.rhapsoft.livequartz IMDrawingWithoutMerging YES”).
• LiveQuartz keeps the current selected tool after drawing.
• With “shift” key pressed, rectangle and oval tools keep proportions 1:1. And with “shift” key pressed, the line tool steps 45°.
• When choosing “Save as…” to a standard image file format, you can see a preview of final file size.
• A file opening bug has been fixed (when there are empty layers)
• A very old bug with display of “lasso” selection doing some pauses is fixed
• “RHIF” Spotlight plug-in bug fix
• 1.8.1 only for MacOS 10.5.3 because LQ has some hanging issues on PowerPC with 10.5.2

• From release 1.8, LiveQuartz is Leopard MACOS 10.5 only !
• LiveQuartz handles multi-touchs (with compatible trackpads) : swipe (tools choice and selected layer choice), rotation (layer rotation) and magnifying (magnification and layer zoom transformation)
• New free line drawing tool (click on the line tool sub-menu to choose it)
• New standard Leopard filter picker with bookmarks ("Collections")
• Background eraser's action can be restricted by a selection
• More logical merging of layers : Now, only selected layers are merged
• Global image resize is finally possible !
• New tool settings user interface (only tools available for the current tool are displayed)
• New line width setting for drawing tool
• PDFs, text and drawing layers are correctly rendered (as long as we do not alter their content or use filters on them)
• New "Take a picture" menu to use the standard picture taker of Leopard (snapshots from iSight camera)
• Lot's of bug fixes
• Memory usage optimisations
• Faster launch times
• Faster QuickLook plug-in (RHIF format)
• QuartzGL (Faster display system) is available in preferences but is not enabled by default because there are too many display issues yet

• Bug fix : when pasting graphics, there was a blur effect
• Bug fix : there was a bug on undo after opening a rhif document
• Enhancement : tools' undo is grouped now

Bug fix in "RHapsoft Image Format" save behaviour

- New setting in preferences for background grid color
- Bug fix in the RHapsoft Image Format QuickLook plug-in

• Bug fix : In earlier versions, when exporting text which has alpha and no filter, text became opaque
• New super easy to use background eraser tool (ONLY ON LEOPARD)
• QuickLook ready (ONLY ON LEOPARD)

Bug fixes for Leopard

- Leopard ready