X2max Software
xmCHART 5
Ready for FileMaker Pro 19, FileMaker Server 19, FileMaker WebDirect.

- Adjust your drawing by using xmCHART's built-in scripting language.
- Enhance your diagrams by adding texts and images.
- Add trend lines, moving averages and error bars to your charts.
- Create advanced charts by overlaying and combining diagrams.
- Arrange arbitrarily texts, graphics and charts all within one drawing.
- Import and export high-resolution bitmap images in different image formats.
- Get the cursor position and launch a FileMaker script.
- Produce resolution-independent PDF and SVG images for publication or web use.
- Combine barcodes with texts, images and diagrams.
- Create high quality PDF drawings in FileMaker Runtime solutions.
- Available for macOS, Windows, CentOS Linux.
Announcements
3
AUGUST
2020
xmCHART 5.0.4 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
Improvements:
- Significant speed improvement in rendering shadow effects (Windows).
- Improved support for Unicode emojis, flags, etc. See examples.
- Improved image quality on Retina displays (macOS).
- Different styles for ascending & descending line segments added, see example.
- New highly customizable AddMultigon() function added, see examples.
- Function AddSlice() may now have different inner start and end radii, see examples.
- Functions AddRoundFrame() and AddRoundRect() allow now up to four individual corner radii, see examples.
- New function HighLowChartOptions() added, see examples.
- SaveAsPDFFile(): Append or insert drawing to an existing PDF file.
- LineStyle(): Optional shift factor to the jump and step constants added, see examples.
- Tables: Cell texts consisting of several lines are now supported, see example.
- Tables: New function TableRowAlignments() added, see example.
- Tables: Support of user-defined fonts added.
- Improved and more precise error messages.
- Fixed incomplete export using FileMaker script step Save Records As PDF (macOS).
- Fixed a bug returning a broken image "Untitled.dat" (FileMaker Server Windows).
- Fixed a hyphenation bug occurring in non-English texts (Windows).
- Line smoothing: PCHIP algorithm now works correctly also for closed shapes.
- Fixed xmCH_GetMouse() offset error.
- Fixed a bug in "xmCHART_Installer.fmp12".
- Fixed a series of minor bugs and glitches.
This update is free for all users of xmCHART 5.0
27
November
2019
xmCHART 5.0.3 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
Bug Fixes:
- Bug returning an empty image has been fixed (FileMaker Server Windows).
- xmCHART 5 Quick Reference.app: Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.
21
November
2019
xmCHART 5.0.2 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
Bug Fixes:
- Concurrency (multi-threading) related crash fixed (Windows).
- Label format bug in combination with running totals fixed (all platforms).
- Issue with stroke color gradient fixed (macOS).
- Fixed a bug in combination with PNG images which may cause a crash (macOS).
- Crash due to an empty chart data series fixed (all platforms).
- Wrong positioning of elements within successive views fixed (all platforms).
- ChartDataRead(): Bug messing up imported values fixed (all platforms).
- BarcodeQR(): Bug producing garbage characters fixed. (all platforms).
- LabelBackgroundOptions(): Fixed a bug which may cause a crash (all platforms).
- DropLineReferenceLine(): Wrong position of reference line fixed (all platforms).
- SaveAsPDFFile(): Memory leakage fixed (Windows).
- AddArrowExt(): Shadow clipping bug fixed (Linux).
- Speed improvement due to optimized text rendering (Linux).
- Tables: Custom column width bug fixed (all platforms).
- Tables: Missing last cell if empty fixed (all platforms).
- Tables: Cells with styled text is now working properly (all platforms).
- Tags: Fine tune positions and alignments of tag elements (all platforms).
- xmCHART 5.0.2 made more backward compatible with older xmCHART versions (all platforms).
- xmCHART 5 Quick Reference.app: Improved support for the dark mode in macOS Mojave and later.
- Reworked gallery database.
11
July
2019
xmCHART 5.0 RELEASE
Features at a Glance:
- New chart types: Linear and radial gauges, contour and density plots, Venn diagrams.
- New text engine rewritten from scratch — supports now styled texts and hyphenation.
- New table, group and tag elements.
- Legend for heat maps, tree maps and density plots.
- New and improved arrow and round polygon objects.
- Texts and symbols along arbitrary paths.
- Backgrounds with round corners and paddings.
- Enhanced and improved symbol collection.
- Custom color schemes and color scales.
- Improved and optimized dashed line styles.
- Enhanced fill style for Gantt charts.
- Rotated views.
- New and faster input parser.
- Support of Script Steps.
- Enhanced gallery database.
- Numerous bug fixes.
- Ready for FileMaker 18, FileMaker 18 Server, FileMaker WebDirect.
28
April
2019
xmCHART 4.0.10 MAINTENANCE RELEASE
- All xmCHART 4.0.10 plug-ins are code signed.
- Issue closing the About Box of xmCHART in FileMaker Preferences fixed (macOS).
- Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.
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