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• Think Tank

• Users might be interested in the Translation How-To.

The most important new features

Further information and documentation of New features.

• Better inline_editor for all plain text nodes
• Edge like connectors (available from connector pop-up menu)
• External objects: External bitmap and SVG images can be attached using menu Insert->External object and resized
  • Image size can be reseted double clicking on the bottom right corner
  • Images can be scaled by dragging the bottom right corner
• Insert image dialog and insert external object dialog have file previews
• F-Toolbar
• Find or Replace in all open maps
• Full screen mode
• Hidden Edge Style
• Horizontal Edge Style
• Hot keys can be set by pressing left mouse button on menu item and holding CONTROL key
• Outline view
• Portable Freeplane
• Selective paste from edit menu (Paste as...)
• Spell checker
• Structured HTML paste

New filtering features

• Date based filter
• Filter conditions for numeric values return false for non numeric values
• Filter based on link labels
• Filter history
• Filter menu
• Filter tool bar can be hidden like all other tool bars,
• Filter status is displayed in status line

Other features

• All backup or autosave files are numbered from 1 to maximum number, the bigger number the latest file.
• Automatic backup for all loaded files on first save.
• Backup and autosave use directory ".backup" created in the map directory.
• Edit nodes with line breaks in in-line editor (alt+enter to quit , shift+enter for line break)
• Enable link pop-up menu even if neither target nor source node is selected.
• Exception traces for internal errors are automatically sent to freeplane team for analysis.
• Export Using XSLT
• Hide tabs if only one map is loaded
• Hot keys: CONTROL + ALT + RIGHT, CONTROL + ALT + LEFT
• Icon actions moved in separate menu
• Icon toolbar hidden by default
• Linking to arbitrary URI integrated
• Links where target or source are selected are found first.
• New icons: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%
• New navigation actions useful for presentation "next node" and "previous node". They traverse the map in depth-first order.
• Personal modification color can be set in prefeences
• Plain text search for filter in html nodes added
• Priority filters based on priority icons
• Text labels can be added to any end and in the middle of any link by link pop-up menu
• Text rendering mode use more exact fractional metric based version.
• The action is also available from pop-up menu
• The attached file can be opened by double click on the image itself
• The same zooms applies to all maps
• Zoom keep selected node position
• Zoom saved between sessions

Testing Freeplane

How to test

Testing/release policy

Scripting

Scripting documentation

Useful links

• SourceForge page of Freeplane with summary on the latest project activity [[1]]
• Open discussion forum of Freeplane [[2]]
• Builds repository of Freeplane [[3]]
• Icons
  • Silk Icons organized into folders [icons organized.zip]
  • Flags of the world icons organized into folders [Flags organized.zip]

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