Today’s post is one I have been looking forward to presenting to you for months. Merlin Project version 8 is here, continuing this fine tool’s advances in both features and visual elegance. Here are some of the more important points:
- A new dynamic help system. Toggle it on and mouse over icons in the toolbars, work area and inspector to see useful documentation of the features.
- A bigger inspector font. It is surprising how much it improves readability.
- A fuller capability to customize the timeline bar and other lines in several view types, adding line thickness and dashed or dotted line styles to the existing color customization.
- A new workflow for creating a new outline column.
- The phone icon in the resource inspector can now start calls for all devices connected to the computer. On the iPad, of course, this also works if a GSM card is installed.
- Beautification of the checklist attachments and the inspection window.
- There are two new commands in the API for AppleScript to automatically (e.g. via Hook) get the URLs of documents and their contents.
- The iPad version can now also create resource pools.
- A redesigned workflow with file attachments and inspector pane.
