What's new in Project Blueprint 1.1.7

How to update

1.1.7 is free for every 1.x licence, Founder or regular, on Mac and on Windows.

• Mac, on 1.1.4 or later: choose Help ▸ Check for Updates. When the download finishes, quit Blueprint, open the disk image, drag Project Blueprint onto Applications and choose Replace.
• Mac, on 1.1.3 or earlier: download the latest version from the release notes page and replace the old app in Applications.
• Windows: download and run the new installer from the Windows page. It upgrades the installed app.

One licence for Mac and Windows

• A Blueprint licence now works on any two computers you personally use, Mac or Windows.
• This covers every licence already sold, for either platform. Open the licence window on your other computer and paste the same key.
• Both apps need 1.1.7 or later to accept a key from the other platform.

Symbols and tool sets

• Symbols show their pictures in the Toolbox (the old Tool Chest), including symbols imported from Revu tool sets.
• Save your own symbols: draw lines, circles and text, group them, then right-click ▸ Add to Tool Set to keep them in any tool set.
• Symbols saved on a turned page in Revu come in the right way up.

Drawing and editing

• Grouped symbols stay together: a click picks the whole symbol. ⌥-click on a Mac, or Alt+click on Windows, picks one part, such as the number, so you can move it on its own.
• The Length line follows the pointer after the first click. Hold ⇧ (Shift), or turn on Ortho (F8), to lock it to 90° or 180°.
• Changes you make in the Properties panel can be undone, and typing into a field is a single undo step.
• Pressing Esc while dragging a markup puts it back where it was.

Pages and panels

• Drag pages out of the Thumbnails panel into Mail, Outlook, Finder or File Explorer to make a PDF of just those pages, with their markups.
• Click a panel's edge to hide it: the left, right and bottom panels. Click or drag the edge again to bring it back. Hidden panels stay hidden next time you open Blueprint.
• In a narrow window, the toolbar scrolls sideways instead of pushing the panels off screen.

Sign and Redact

• The new Sign button places a saved signature or your initials, or lets you draw a new one or take it from a photo.
• The Redact button has every redaction action in one place: mark areas, redact a selected area, and apply all or selected redactions.

New names

Blueprint now uses its own names for a few features. Only the names changed: your files, saved settings and exports work as before, and searching for an old name still finds the tool.

• Spaces → Zones
• Tool Chest → Toolbox
• Markups List → Markup Register
• Dynamic Fill → Smart Fill
• Visual Search → Symbol Search
• Profiles → Workspaces
• Polylength → Path Length
• Sketch to Scale → Draw to Scale
• Batch Link → Auto Link

Safer files

• A locked or read-only PDF is never replaced behind your back, and Split never overwrites a file that's already there.
• If a save fails when you quit, Blueprint keeps a recovery copy first.
• With a second window open, menu commands act on the window in front.
• XFDF exports keep fill colour, dash pattern, text size and colour, and cloud size. Text box colours show in other PDF viewers.
• PDFs set to “no printing” aren't printed, and a trial with a wrong computer clock can still export.
• Large drawings with many markups use much less memory, and the Markup Register stays quick with lots of formula columns.

Windows 1.1.7

• Everything above about symbols, tool sets, grouped symbols, the Length line, dragging pages out, panel edges, Sign and Redact, and the new names.
• The search result you pick is highlighted on the page.
• Accent colours change everywhere at once and stay readable on yellow and pink. Page thumbnails shrink with the panel, and measuring tools are colour-coded.

Frequently asked questions

Is Project Blueprint 1.1.7 a free update?

Yes. Every Project Blueprint licence, Founder or regular, includes all 1.x updates, on Mac and on Windows.

Does one licence work on Mac and Windows?

Yes, from 1.1.7. A licence works on any two computers you personally use, Mac or Windows. This includes every licence already sold: paste the same key into the app on your other computer.

How do I update Project Blueprint to 1.1.7?

On a Mac with 1.1.4 or later, choose Help ▸ Check for Updates, quit Blueprint, then drag the new app onto Applications and choose Replace. On 1.1.3 or earlier, download the latest version from the release notes page. On Windows, download and run the new installer; it upgrades the installed app.

Why were Spaces and the Tool Chest renamed?

Blueprint now uses its own names: Zones, Toolbox, Markup Register, Smart Fill, Symbol Search, Workspaces, Path Length, Draw to Scale and Auto Link. Only the names changed. Your files, saved settings and exports work as before, and searching for the old names still finds each tool.