PackRat 1.7.5 fixes issues with creating pages and reminders via AppleScript and problems with the Synchronize with Backpack Automator action. Both problems only occurred in OS X 10.5. See the release notes for full details.

I just released PackRat 1.7.4. This one fixes another Textile conversion bug. Packrat wasn’t converting links properly if you had a bunch right next to each other.

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I just released a new version of Packrat. This one fixes a number of issues with Textile conversion. See the release notes for the details.

In these troubled times, one has to look for other ways to bring in the dough. So, I’ve been wondering. How much interest is out there for a Windows version of Packrat?

If you’re interested, leave a comment on this blog, send email to rod at infinitenil.com, and leave donations on my paypal account at rod.schmidt at infinitenil.com

Effective immediately, the price of PackRat is now $14.95.

I just released PackRat 1.7.1. This is a bug fix release that fixes the problem PackRat had with displaying Textile tables. My Textile conversion rewrite wasn’t handling tables. Now it does.

I just released PackRat 1.7. This release addresses the issues I had with releasing a Universal version that fixed the image issues. Now PowerPC users can get the fix as well. Intel users will want to get the update as well as pages are now displayed much faster.

Technically, I had to write a Textile converter and a template engine in Cocoa so I could remove RubyCocoa. RubyCocoa was the culprit that was keeping me from building a 10.4 universal version of the app. This is also why the page rendering is faster.

You can get the new version here.

As some of you know, the latest version of Packrat (1.6.2) doesn’t work on PowerPC. It works fine on Intel. To accommodate all my PowerPC customers, I have made available a download of PackRat 1.6. Just go to http://www.infinitenil.com/packrat or click here.

The problem is caused by some third party software I use that won’t build on Leopard properly so that it will also run on Tiger for the PowerPC. It works for Leopard Intel. So basically, I’ve decided to eliminate this third party software from the software, which could take awhile to do.

I apologize for your troubles. If you are using a PowerPC machine, just download the old version as mentioned above.

I just released PackRat 1.6.2. It contains some bug fixes for attachments and images. When Backpack was updated it changed the URLs for attachments and images. The Backpack API doesn’t support images or attachments, so we have to reverse engineer this. The changes broke our code.

One of the fixes restores the ability to click on an attachment or image and get the original. This only works when you are online and this has always been the case.

The other problem was displaying image thumbnails. Before PackRat would simply access the thumbnail images when you were online and they would be saved in its cache and the images in the cache would be used when you were offline. This no longer works because images and attachments are now secured. You have to be online and logged in to access them. Again the API has no way of retrieving them. Because of this Packrat no longer displays the image thumbnails. It just displays links for the original images. I apologize for the loss of this feature but its beyond my control.

I plan to add support for displaying the images in Packrat 2.0. 37signals has also said they will add image download support to the API but it will be awhile. I don’t expect anything within 6 months, probably longer. I don’t plan to wait for 37signals unless I have to but I don’t expect to.

You can get Packrat 1.6.2 here.

I know things on the Packrat front have been a little quiet as of late. Have no fear, we are working on the next major version of Packrat. No release date yet, but just know development is proceeding. The major development here is a complete redesign of the user interface. This will allow us to implement the features you’ve all requested.

Sherpa development has been placed on hold until Packrat 2 is released.