Help: What's New in This Version?

We've been hard at work since DiscLabel 1.0, listening to your feedback and continually

making DiscLabel a better product. We hope you enjoy the results!

DiscLabel 6.0.1 (17-June-2009)

Various enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 6.0 (27-May-2009)

80 additional professionally-designed template sets now included; new themes include business, professional, music, and special occasion designs
Simplified interface for creating new designs and selecting templates
Enhanced image import palette offers multiple options for inserting images and can add images into all label and packaging design elements simultaneously
New inspector palette for easy editing of object, image, and text properties
Powerful and flexible new montage tool for creating a wide variety of photo montages and adding them to design elements
Improved random design generator can modify all design elements in one step
Sparkle automatic software updating

DiscLabel 5.4.1 (10-December-2009)

Added new opacity filter to the Image and Layer Effects dialog; enables transparency for an entire layer
Fixes various issues including deleting designs from the design list & intermittent shadow drawing on images

DiscLabel 5.4 (20-November-2009)

15 new free template designs for holidays, gifts, and business
Multiple selection in design list allows more efficient project organization
Option to sort design list folder alphabetically
Beta support for zoom, swipe, and rotate gestures on compatible hardware

DiscLabel 5.3 (23-October-2009)

Support for importing photos from Aperture
Allows selection from multiple iPhoto libraries when importing
Adds Blu-ray design elements for design and printing
Various other bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.2.4 (28-August-2009)

Bug fixes for iPhoto 6.0.6

DiscLabel 5.2.3 (3-July-2009)

Various enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.2.2 (28-May-2009)

Various enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.2.1 (24-Apr-2009)

Added support for Dymo DiscPainter direct-to-CD printer
Various enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.2 (10-Apr-2009)

Faster image library loading
Image import handles iPhoto Events
Simplified initial access to Media
Media search capability
Improvements for text layout and compatibility with OS X 10.5.2
Enhanced UI for image effects panel

DiscLabel 5.1.2 (21-Feb-2009)

Various enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.1.1 (10-Jan-2009)

Miscellaneous printing improvements
Various minor enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.1 (19-Dec-2007)

Fixes to font formatting with problem fonts in Leopard
Contextual menu adds functions for thumbnails in Media view
Contextual menu added to Edit view
Wave image filter effect
Improvements to object selection via Edit->Select Item Behind
Layer Effects display optimized
Other Bug fixes

DiscLabel 5.0 (14-Nov-2007)

High quality scalable clip art (1300+ items, additional 12MB download)
Advanced tag and keyword browsing interface for clip art
More templates for greater design flexibility
Layer effects allow all objects, including text, to have special graphical effects applied to them
Simplified image import user interface
Spotlight module for indexing tagged scalable vector graphics (SVG) clip art
Various other fixes and improvements

DiscLabel 4.4.2 (29-Oct-2007)

Fix import / export for Leopard

DiscLabel 4.4.1 (18-Oct-2007)

Fixes printing for core labels
Improvements when importing images from folders containing hundreds of images
Handles color profile information when importing images

DiscLabel 4.4 (4-Sept-2007)

Adjustable LightScribe image contrast
Support for papers with custom label sizes
Additional media, and Canon printer tray E support
Various other improvements

DiscLabel 4.3 (26-June-2007)

Major usability enhancements to image effects
Import Image will import images from iDVD themes
Miscellaneous printing improvements

DiscLabel 4.2.1 (10-May-2007)

Minor fixes and improvements

DiscLabel 4.2 (1-May-2007)

New Effects and Filters dialog for more flexible image manipulation
Stroke the edge of an image
Add shadows to any object
Support for printing HP CD/DVD Tattoos
Text Palette UI improvements

DiscLabel 4.1.2 (22-Feb-2007)

Additional grab handles on objects
Rotate via grab handle
Contextual menu on design element list in Edit
Preference to rasterize printing output
Minor fixes and improvements

DiscLabel 4.1.1 (4-Jan-2007)

Paste & Match Style
Fixed undo problem with text
Fixed issue with special characters in design names
Text changes are always saved when changing views
Minor fixes and improvements

DiscLabel 4.1 (14-Dec-2006)

Circular pie image montage
Support for HP direct-to-disc printers
BMP and PNG file export
Preference to turn off automatic display of text palette
Improved support for Canon direct-to-disc printers
Additional cursor feedback while editing
Bug fixes and improvements to text editing and graphics importing

DiscLabel 4.0 (16-Nov-2006)

Simplified and more flexible new design creation
Improved user interface
View & select design elements in concert with design
Text editing user interface simplified and improved
Smooth color gradients for objects and text
Hand-drawn scribbles and polygons
Multiple layers for design creation. Copy and paste all layers
Additional improvements too numerous to mention

DiscLabel 3.3.2 (14-Sep-2006)

New template pack: Music Pack 3
Fixed track length import from iTunes 7
.Mac is no longer requested to access My Templates

DiscLabel 3.3.1 (13-Jul-2006)

Various minor enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 3.3 (15-Jun-2006)

Share templates via .Mac (see .Mac in DiscLabel's preferences)
English help is now searchable in Help Viewer
Single disk image for all languages
Fixed problem when switching between Media and Edit

DiscLabel 3.2 (18-May-2006)

Designs can have multiple design elements of the same kind, enabling designs with double-albums and multi-page booklets
Media view shows each element of a design, making it easier to apply specific elements to label sheets
"Import PDF Booklet" command allows you to import a Digital booklet, such as those purchased in iTunes
Improved speed when importing photos from iPhoto
Bleeds no longer print over labels that share a border

DiscLabel 3.1.1 (4-April-2006)

New "Music Pack 2" available, a for-purchase Music Template Pack
Improved handling of Page Setup dialog for printing direct to CD
Various minor enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 3.1 (9-March-2006)

Precise adjustment of printed area for direct-to-disc printing
Various minor enhancements and bug fixes

DiscLabel 3.0.2 (26-January-2006)

Universal Binary (runs native on Intel and PowerPC)
Fixed iPhoto import scripts to work with iPhoto 6
Added new iDVD 6 import script

DiscLabel 3.0.1 (05-January-2006)

Enhanced “Edit Media List...’ interface
Improved montage performance
Bug fixes and improvements

DiscLabel 3.0 (01-December-2006)

Folders for organizing your designs
Factory function, for fast, automatic generation of label designs
Design Elements selector, to view & select from all the elements of your design together (CD label, Jewel case, DVD cases, and many others)
Creates and prints CD label of purchased iTunes Music Store album from demo, without requiring DiscLabel purchase
Media setup, so you can customize media choices to only those you use
Enhanced media display for ease of matching labels with designs
Many new text templates to select for your designs
Improved UI look and feel
Sepia image filter
Text outlines, baseline adjustment, superscript & subscript
Many other enhancements & bug fixes
OS X 10.4 and above only

DiscLabel 2.4.1 (18 October-2006)

Sizes and scales images imported via AppleScript
Get and set current design via AppleScript
Get and set graphic item layer via AppleScript
Support for EPSON R1800/RX700 direct-to-disc printers

DiscLabel 2.4 (7-September-2006)

LightScribe printing support (Tiger only)
Apply CoreImage filters to your artwork (Tiger only)
Spotlight support (Tiger only)
Several minor enhancements & bug fixes

DiscLabel 2.3.2 (2-June-2006)

Special Occasions Pack (June 2006)
Minor enhancements & bug fixes

DiscLabel 2.3.1 (28-Apr-2006)

Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) compatible

DiscLabel 2.3 (2-Mar-2006)

Purchase additional professionally-designed Template Packs
Text kerning is now supported
Downloaded templates are available even when offline
Added support for Epson R320 direct-to-CD printer
Supports CMYK images
Improved compatibility with iLife '05
Minor additional fixes

DiscLabel 2.2.1 (7-Dec-2004)

Four new professionally-designed holiday templates (our holiday gift to you)
Improved accessibility for downloading templates via the Internet

DiscLabel 2.2 (19-Oct-2004)

More downloadable templates (art by Terence Nordyke)
Improved performance
Improved reliability
Cut & paste in text objects fixed

DiscLabel 2.1 (24-Jun-2004)

Improved overall performance
Additional montage options
Add images to montages via drag & drop
More downloadable templates

DiscLabel 2.0 (13-May-2004)

Combine different text and image layouts easily in foreground / background layers
Arrange and distribute objects
Use masking and soft focus to spice up your images
Combine multiple images into a montage
Import images on a per-track basis and use them in your designs
Export designs to PDF, TIFF, and JPEG formats
Print inserts, covers, and booklets on plain paper
Share templates via Rendezvous
Design and print Super Jewel Box CD and DVD elements
See visual cursor feedback for edit functions
Constrain objects to the design edge or not - your choice
Customize inner and outer boundaries for text on discs
Import tracks directly from audio CDs
Import tracks from Rendezvous shared playlists
Set keyboard increment, constrain angle, and gridline placement (in Edit preferences)
Access external folders of templates (in Sharing preferences)
Specify print bleed (in Paper preferences)
Use BPM (beats per minute) tag in track lists
Option-drag to fill all eligible label slots with copies of the dragged design
Calibrate your printer with our clear and easy instruction sheet
Check for updates automatically (in Update preferences)

DiscLabel 1.3 (5-Jan-2004)

DiscLabel Store
Hierarchical paper menu
Image library (DiscLabel NEATO Edition CD)
Other minor fixes / updates

DiscLabel 1.2.1 (28-Oct-2003)

Fixed problem with scripting under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)

DiscLabel 1.2 (7-Oct-2003)

Import of track lists from CSV files
Import of iTunes album / track art
Script menu

DiscLabel 1.1 (3-Sep-2003)

A wide variety of new label types and papers are now supported. These include: Business card CDs, 80mm CDs & Digital Vinyl CDs, DVD inserts, Slim Jewel Case Inserts, CD Cores & hubs, and VHS labels
Circular text can now track inside the curve in addition to outside, and supports underlining
Help can be auto-updated via the internet
New shortcuts for unlock, zoom-in, zoom-out, fit to window, & increase/decrease text pointsize
English help is enhanced
Imported images > 72dpi render correctly on screen & scale to cover the bleed
Tags in the Japanese version have been changed, and now allow any font to be selected
Redraw performance has improved
Various text sizing and rendering issues have been addressed
Miscellaneous other bugs addressed

DiscLabel 1.0.1 (12-Aug-2003)

Fixed crash on import from iTunes in low resource conditions
Improved speed of iPhoto image import
Fixed problem saving imported PSD (Photoshop) files
Print Outlines now shows exact label dimensions and bleed
Fixed possible hang when changing template category
Several other bug fixes