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   TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 8 April 2013

   TidBITS Staff

   Snapz Pro X 2.5.2 -- Ambrosia has released [1]Snapz Pro X 2.5.2 to fix
   an issue with accurately capturing the precise pixels of a selection
   and bring back support for several styles of image borders (which was
   excised in version 2.5). The update also improves the reliability of
   movie encoding, improves compatibility with both OS X 10.8 Mountain
   Lion and Retina displays, and adds Chinese and Russian localizations.
   ($69 new, free update, 15.8 MB, [2]release notes)

   [3]Read/post comments about Snapz Pro X 2.5.2.

   BBEdit 10.5.3 -- Offering a veritable festival of fixes, Bare Bones
   Software has released [4]BBEdit 10.5.3 with over 50 bugs squashed (many
   of them also found in version 4.5.1 of the free general-purpose text
   editor TextWrangler). Most amusing is this release note:

     The display glyph for invisible spaces (when 'Show Invisible' and
     'Show Spaces' are both turned on) is now U+00B7 (MIDDLE DOT). If
     spaces don't display when those settings are turned on, then your
     display font is missing that glyph, and you should report it to your
     font's developer as a bug. (I would have used U+1427 (CANADIAN
     SYLLABICS FINAL MIDDLE DOT) for the humour value alone, but not
     enough fonts supported that glyph. Sorry.)

   Amongst the other fixes that are exclusive to BBEdit 10.5.3, this
   update once again looks for URLs in plain text dragged into project
   lists to aid in the addition of remote file references from FTP apps,
   ensures that the Close All in Project command now works for
   instaprojects, fixes a crash that occurred when attempting to Convert
   to XML (under Markup > Tidy), ensures that relative path references in
   HTML and CSS documents are correctly resolved, and fixes a performance
   bug where the Functions floater would impose a 'heavy penalty' in
   conjunction with a source file that contained a large number of
   function entries. ($49.99 new from Bare Bones or the [5]Mac App Store,
   free update, 12.5 MB, [6]release notes)

   [7]Read/post comments about BBEdit 10.5.3.

   TextWrangler 4.5.1 -- Bare Bones Software has also released
   [8]TextWrangler 4.5.1, mirroring the bulk of the fixes found in the
   simultaneously released BBEdit 10.5.3 ' TextWrangler's more powerful
   (and non-free) sibling. Among the highlights, the general-purpose text
   editor fixes an issue where the Text Encoding pop-up menu in the Save
   dialog didn't reflect the current encoding setting; squashes a bug that
   used excessive memory and would crash the app when opening large,
   complicated files; reduces the amount of time displaying startup
   progress; fixes a bug that caused Show Hidden Items in the Open dialog
   to be ignored; and corrects some artwork for enhanced viewing on Retina
   displays. (Free from Bare Bones Software and the [9]Mac App Store, 9.6
   MB, [10]release notes)

   [11]Read/post comments about TextWrangler 4.5.1.

References

   1. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
   2. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/story/Ambrosia-Software-Releases-Snapz-Pro-X-252
   3. http://tidbits.com/article/13683#comments
   4. http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/
   5. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bbedit/id404009241?mt=12
   6. http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/current_notes.html
   7. http://tidbits.com/article/13681#comments
   8. http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
   9. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textwrangler/id404010395?mt=12
  10. http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/notes_tw451.html
  11. http://tidbits.com/article/13682#comments