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Changelog

Colloquial is always getting better — here's how.

by Chris Haskett
Updates

A redesigned Export Designer

  • Controls float over a live preview instead of pushing it aside
  • A0 to A4 page sizes are honoured properly
  • Legend stays inside the sheet on every side
  • Past exports are collected on the page you made them from
  • Browser printing opens the designer

Exporting a view used to mean setting options on one screen and finding out what you had actually produced on another. The designer now shows you the sheet while you change it.

The controls sit over the preview and can be minimised out of the way when you want the whole canvas, and the export region runs to the edges of the screen rather than a box in the middle of it.

  • Page size finally behaves. A0, A1, A2 and A3 were being quietly rendered at A4; picking one now produces a sheet at that size, with the preview's viewport derived from the sheet's real dimensions rather than an assumption about it.

  • The legend is properly contained on all four sides. Above and below were the awkward cases — a wide legend used to run past the edge of the canvas — and its entries now take the colour of the series they describe, so a printed sheet reads the same way the screen does.

  • A card on the export page collects what you have generated, showing each one as it moves from Generating… to Ready, with everything else under Past exports.

  • Printing a view from the browser now opens the designer instead of sending the raw page to the printer, which is almost always what was actually wanted.

  • Settings passed in the URL take priority over your stored preference, so a link to a specific export produces that export.