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Aabel™ 2.x Series Updates

Aabel 2.x series FREE updates include bug fixes, enhancements to existing features, and new features.

NOTE: The current updater includes all fixes and added features that have been implemented since the release of Aabel 2.0.

February 14, 2008: Aabel™ 2.4.2R Update

Important Note: This is an essential patch for users who have updated to most recent releases of Leopard:

The patch provides a workaround for a System bug in the Quartz engine: the bug is triggered during rendering of PDF collages that include RTF or imported PDF objects, affecting the export of such PDF collages.

January 8, 2008: Aabel™ 2.4.2 Update

New:

A feature that allows recoding non-UTF-8/non-ASCII text to UTF-8 during import and which includes all System-supported text encodings (typically around 100); the feature is added to shape file- and delimited-importers.

Maintenance:

This update includes a fix for a Quartz bug triggered in paired line charts with error bars, addresses issues in keyboard short-cuts for some menu items under Leopard, and has fixes for bugs and glitches discovered during stress testing of the application.
The alias manager response time (which is a System-performance issue) can occasionally interfere with launching an application. To get around this problem, if the alias manager does not respond within a reasonable time, Aabel will start without a further request for resolving aliases to recent files. Should this happen, the "Open Recent" menu will not list the files whose aliases were not resolved.
A 10.4.4.x System bug that affects the interrelationship between the System character palette and Aabel worksheet editor has been fixed in the latest version of Leopard. Hence, the workaround we provided earlier as a solution has become a problem when running the application under Leopard. Using this update, Aabel applies the related workaround when launched under 10.4.4.x while deactivating it under Leopard.

November 14, 2007: Aabel™ 2.4 and Aabel Stats SDK 1.0

New

Leopard Ready: OS-related enhancements under Leopard include increased speed of Quartz drawing, faster and smoother worksheet window operations
Supporting Statistics Plugin Modules: Aabel stats plugin SDK v1.0 is now released; this allows users to write their own statistical methods/use Open Source code while using the services and technology that Aabel provides through the API

Aabel 2.4 is the first plugin-enabled version of the application.
For SDK information, click here.

August 2, 2007: Aabel™ 2.3 Update

New:

Choice of user-defined multipliers for scientific notation to allow varying formats accepted by different scientific journals
Major enhancements to existing features with emphasize on improving worksheet operations and fixing glitches in window-related operations
A global option for modifying the color of worksheet grid lines
An added area chart type where both X and Y are value axes (in commonly used area charts, one axis is categorical, i.e., the values are treated as a sequence of data categories)
Added features to pie charts (true 3-D, removing outline of slices in 2-D pie, etc.)
Allowing conversion of a textual variable with unambiguous date data without separator (e.g., yyyymmdd) to a variable of type date (with any of the built-in formats or a custom-defined format)

Maintenance:

Fix for a bug in the double-Y line chart when Y2 having a log scale
Fix for an Intel bug triggered when importing values from formula-cells in Excel
Fix for a crash bug triggered when a viewer had lost contact with a data file to which it has been referencing along a very long path name
Fix for a bug triggered when the error bars extended into values that are undefined on a log scale
Fix for bugs that were rarely triggered during stress testing of the application
Workaround for a System bug concerning resizing and zooming of windows when using more than one screen
Workaround for a System bug related to coordinate systems & resolution in the OpenGL Intel implementation

April 15, 2007: Aabel™ 2.2 Update

New:

Map Analysis:

Polynomial trend surface analysis of XYZ data
Polynomial trend surface analysis of matrix data
Matrix cellwise operations
The map analysis output includes new matrices and/or XYZ estimates of trend and residuals, as well as an ANOVA report for significance of regression of Kth order polynomial trend surface.
Added Map Projections:
Hammer projection (added to already existing 18 projection systems)
State plane coordinates (US) supporting all 134 zones, NAD127 and NAD83
Other New Features:
Displaying real world coordinates of cursor position on X-Y charts, so that data can be read as you drag over a graph
Copying real world coordinates of a drawing positioned over an X-Y chart
Allowing the use of log scale in column/clustered column and bar/clustered bar charts, without breaking the viewer backward compatibility (i.e., by adding a separate plot type that also permits changing the datum position)

General Enhancements

Modification of the row-wise calculation syntax (in the worksheet formula editor and data manipulator) to permit any number of variables to be included in such calculations
An added feature to the Kaplan-Meier logrank significance test, allowing the choice of either pair-wise comparisons or comparing pairs while taking into account all groups
Enhancement in the way that moving average is used in matrix contour, minimizing artifacts at the boundaries
An added option to allow flipping an axis direction in a contour matrix diagram
An added option in clustered univariate charts (i.e., box & whisker, box percentile, the diamond mean comparison plot, bar and line plots of mean, median, min., and max.), which allows removing the grid lines separating groups belonging to different variables
An added option to pie charts to allow removing the outline of the pie slices

Maintenance

Fix for encoding and conversion errors (e.g., use of Japanese variable names in formula editor; long file names with German characters in database metaphor, etc.)
Fix for glitches in axis synchronization and synchronization between sorting and object labels in scatter series plots with a category axis
Fix for a bug that was triggered when using dates as categories in a univariate chart
Fix for a bug that was triggered when using log scale in a bubble chart
Fix for glitches in resizing worksheet columns

November 9, 2006: Aabel™ 2.1 Update

New:

Support for drag & drop from Aabel into applications that support the operation (e.g., Keynote, Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, etc.)
Support for drag & drop from other applications (e.g., LaTeX Equation Editor, graphic files from Finder, etc.) into Aabel
Enhancement of UI for use of diverse export formats (PDF, PICT vector graphics, PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, bitmap PICT, SGI, TGA, etc.)
Added flexibility in 3-D and 4-D scatter charts, to allow graphic clipping without a need to exclude data from the visualization pipeline
Added Partial regression ANOVA to multiple regression for testing the significance of individual predictor variables
Major overhaul to Kaplan-Meier survival analysis implementation, to allow using unstructured raw data An additional method for pivoting and summarizing raw survival data outside the context of a survival analysis
Six varieties of new 3-D Quartz prism charts Added flexibility for making templates from contour diagrams
Aabel 3-D charts have been drawn and rotated using OpenGL for speed and real-time interactivity. This update provides the additional option of using Quartz quality graphics in 3-D column, pyramid, area, and band charts for presentation purposes, while retaining the rotation speed using OpenGL.

Maintenance:

Fix for a bug interfering with conversion of the 1.5.8 viewer files
FIX for a bug triggered during the export of a thematic group using a thematic map, an X-Y chart, and an X-Y-Z contour (causing a shift in the position of the contour chart relative to borders of the thematic master)
Fix for a bug that resulted in misplacement of regression equations (hot-linked to variables) during export
Fix for a print/export problem triggered in double-Y/double-X charts displaying two independent regressions applied to X1-Y1 and X2-Y2
Fix for a crash bug in number formatting in Intel: the bug is triggered while attempting to generate a bar/line plot of mean from variables having a single data entry
Fix for an Intel issue with importing custom-design date formats
A workaround for a System bug that affects the interrelationship between the System character palette and Aabel worksheet editor
Fix for a damaged menu resource, a problem affecting the superscript/subscript preference settings
Fix for an axis synchronization issue in matrix scatter chart

July 13, 2006: Release of Aabel™ 2.0

A Universal package that combines the functions of three full featured applications in one, providing:
A rich variety of statistical methods with a focus on visualization, dynamic data exploration tools for discovering patterns and outliers, and multidimensional data filtering for generating subsets of data
Numerous data management tools, scientific graphing with over 200 styles of data representation, diverse data import and graphic file export support, Unicode support, and presentation and publication quality graphic output
Thematic maps, ArcView shape file import support, and map projection utilities, allowing the import, transformation, and display of spatial data using the dynamic graphics engine of Aabel

Aabel 1.0 to 2.0 Development Timeline