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Version: 2.0.24 - 06/22/2011 12:00 (Air)
Adobe AIR Player Version: WIN 10,3,181,34
Here's a sample image. The diamond and arrows have nasty jagged lines!
I’m
concerned!
Quality of geometric shapes and arrows greatly decreased in latest version
Since I upgraded to the latest version of mockups, the image quality of the geometric shapes and arrows in my mockups seems to have greatly decreased. Version info from the 'About' box:
Version: 2.0.24 - 06/22/2011 12:00 (Air)
Adobe AIR Player Version: WIN 10,3,181,34
Here's a sample image. The diamond and arrows have nasty jagged lines!
Version: 2.0.24 - 06/22/2011 12:00 (Air)
Adobe AIR Player Version: WIN 10,3,181,34
Here's a sample image. The diamond and arrows have nasty jagged lines!
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Hey, is there any advice on this please?Comment
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Sorry for the delay Howard. I am not aware of a change that would affect the quality of these controls. I will survey the team to see if someone has information on this and report back immediately. Thanks for your patience. Normally, I find the answer before I respond but because you have waited I thought I should let you know the status now. Stay tuned...
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Hello Howard,
I just reinstalled the older version of Mockups to observe the geometric shapes. You are absolutely correct, the quality of the display of these controls has decreaded. I will enter a dev work queue item and put it to the top of the list. As soon as it is fixed, it will be available in our prerelease http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/.... I also searched our Pivotal defect database and found nothing related to geometric shapes in the latest release. Sorry for this inconvenience and the delay in responding.
(I too am interested in why the degradation, and will be trying to identify this root cause to avoid this in the future.) -
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Louanne,
Thanks for looking into this for me :-) i only nudged as you guys are usually so quick at replying!
Looking forward to seeing the fix - is there a way in the mean time that I can downgrade to the previous version so I don't have this issue?
Thanks
Howard -
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Hello, I meant to put the link to our archives. Doh! Here it is: http://balsamiq.com/download
Look for: Need to an older version? Head over to our build archives.
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Lou, I have quite a few of the older versions and I will make a mockup and test this issue. Tested versions
999.861
999.864
999.867
999.875
999.876
999.877
999.879
999.880
999.881
999.882
999.887
999.892
999.895 --Added 7-11-2011
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I had the same problem when I updated to the 2.0.24 version. A lot of the icons have jagged edges. After downgrading to the 2.0.23 release the icons are back to normal.
Screenshot of the icons.
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Thanks for the report Johan. Reported to dev work queue. :)
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Hi there. I fixed the geometric shape issue, take a look: http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/...
As for the icons, we'll work on them! -
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Hey Peldi,
That does make things a bit better, but it's still not quite as good as it used to be. Arrows still have the jaggies as well.
Here's the same mockup as my original post rendered in the latest pre-release version:
And here it is in 2.0.23:
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Hi Howard, we'll keep working on the jagged edges. We have to strike a balance between pretty and fast.
We'll work on geometric shape and arrow points next. Any other pixelation in particular that bothers you?
We'll get there, thanks for your help. -
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Hey Peldi,
Ah - I suspected that this might have been caused by re-sizing the images that it uses to speed the app up.
Understand that you guys don't want to have loads of big images hanging around. Maybe a good solution would be to replace the images in those shapes with vectors? I suggest this because when you add a rectangle in Balsamiq, the lines stay the same size when the shape is resized - I was guessing that those are vectors rather than Bitmaps?
Or is this an antialiasing issue? Was there anti-a before that's now been turned off for speed reasons? If so, could it be re-enabled for just when the mockup is exported?
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Hello, I just wanted to report that i am also encountering these same issues. I am on the most recent build:
Version: 2.1.1 - 08/01/2011 14:23 (Air)
Adobe AIR Player Version: WIN 10,3,183,5
When i choose any icons or even other 'shape' type objects example: iPhone Picker object, it is extremely jagged and pixelated. I've tried re-adding the objects\shapes\icons in my project, but basically it all looks pixelated whereas in the past this did not occur.
Can we have a status update on this? It is really making the quality of my wireframes suffer.- view 1 more comment
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Thanks for the update Louanne. Just out of curiosity, are you specifically referring to the object called geometric shape? I see the degradation does happen there, but i've seen the quality of other objects degrade too, example would be "iPhone Pointy Button" and "On Off Switch". Just wanted to point out that it happens in other objects as well, in case the devs were only specifically fixing issues related to geo shapes and icons. Ive updated to the latest pre-release now, problem still persists for me on the above mentioned objects, so ill just wait for new updates or perhaps downgrade in the interim.
Thanks for re-issuing a ticket to the dev queue. Looking forward to resolution.
Best Regards,
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Hi Bill, I will add the other examples you point out to the issue I submitted to dev work queue. Thanks for the help!
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1Hi all. We did a pass at all the icons today. Controls come next! :) http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/201...-
I love that you vectorized the icons. Can we expect that you vertorize all the other controls aswell?
If yes will this mean full vectorized pdf export? (by using your standard controls)
If you answer that aswell as yes, you might have to consider the posebilty that people want to import their own verctorized versions of images. -
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Hi Florian. We didn't really vectorize the icons, we just went from hand-drawn to vector to bitmap. I do plan on doing a pass at the controls as well, we'll see how it looks! As for exporting, it's still going to be bitmap for the time being for sure.
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Hi Peldi, this seems like a step in the right direction, many of the icons are fixed and look a lot better! I had a question, it seems like the use border feature for an icon may cause some of the pixelation to occur on icons.
As an example, add the question mark icon (im using XS size). Looks fine, no pixelation. Now check off the use border option on the icon and it becomes very pixelated at that size. Is this something you can take a look at as well? -
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Icons looks way better, but... sorry! :) I noticed that size M results in a much more rougher, jagged looking images still. Specifically I looked at the latest icons cicle, then new trash, and to make sure it wasn't just the new icons, I looked at random at another one, solid down triangle. They all exhibited the same behavior.
So there might be some rendering issues with 32x32 size. It is even noticeable in the designer, as you open the dialog to select an icon image and change the size there, you can see quality degradation in M, and also in XS, although once you select XS the actual image appears to look smooth.
Thumbs up for this update, great idea, I love it. Example images:
Sergei Khvatkov -
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