Origin 2018 Bug Fixes

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ORG-17104

Copy and paste fitting result table to MS Word resulted in wrong values.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug introduced in Origin 2017 SR1. For example:

Copy a graph with a fitting result table in graph and paste into MS Word. The slope and intercept values are wrong.

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ORG-15915

Find Y from X Issue when using Copy Columns To

Fixed in Origin 2018. For example:

1. Perform Linear Fit and output the Find Y from X sheet.

2. Right click on the data column and using "Copy To..." to copy data to the col(a) in Find Y from X sheet.

3. Change source data to recalculate result.

      ==>Find Y from X sheet contains garbage values.

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ORG-17089

Initial formula fail to work after recalculation

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug introduced in Origin 2017 SR0.  For example:

1. Open Nonlinear Fit tool, use the initial formula to initial parameter then fit.

2. Change the source data to recalculate the result.

3. Change Parameter to open fit tool then click the Initialize Parameter button.

      ==> Fail to initial parameter by the initial formula.

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ORG-17163

Nonlinear surface/matrix fit tool's initial formula saved in theme fail to work

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug introduced in Origin 2017 SR0.  For example:

In Nonlinear surface/matrix fit tool, save the initial formula in the theme. With source data/graph selected, press Shift key to open fit tool and load the theme.==> Wrong intial value for parameter.

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ORG-16699

Copy-Paste Operation should also copy Recalculation mode.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously when copy-pasting operations, the recalculation mode wasn't copied. For example:

Suppose there is a fitting operation on a plot with Recalculation mode set to Auto. Operation is copied and pasted to another plot.

 ==> The Recalculation mode for the new operation is set to Manual.

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ORG-16304

Improve the accuracy of Weibull Fit parameters

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously the paramters of WeibullFit only has 4 digits, while Origin 2018 has full precision.

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ORG-17026

Unbalanced two way ANOVA output wrong descriptive statistics results in Interaction table

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously unbalanced two way ANOVA data with special missing group, the output descriptive statistics results in Interaction table is incorrect.

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ORG-16837

Issue of importing a specified sheet of excel

Fixed in Origin 2018. 

Use LT script to import a specified sheet of excel file:

impExcel sheet:=1; 

==>It does not work.

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ORG-16922

Find in Project using wildcards failed to find items in graph legends.

Fixed in Origin 2018.

Prior to Origin 2018,if using find in Project (F3) and using wildcards in search, items in graph legends were not found. For example:

1. Create a new workbook and fill XY columns with row numbers.

2. Set col(B)'s Comment to "test".

3. Select col(B) and plot a line graph.

4. Press F3 to open Find dialog, clear all check boxes except the Text Objects on Graphs box.

5. Input " te " as Find What and click Find button.
   --> Graph Legend is found.

6. Check Allow Wildcards, input " te* " as Find What and click Find button.
   ==> Graph Legend is not found.

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ORG-16424

Categorical order of source data not kept when unstacking columns.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously, when unstacking categorical data, the categorical order wasn't copied over.

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ORG-8696

Locked columns not allowed to be set as Categorical.

Fixed in Origin 2018.

Sometimes user wants to convert output columns to Categorical  for plotting or further analysis. Before Origin 2018, this wasn't allowed. 

Issues caused:

• Can't index color in plot from locked text column

• For grouped plot, can't set categorical orders of locked text column

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ORG-16417

Stack column recalculation not triggered after changing group info in column label row.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously if user stacked columns based on grouping info in a column label row (e.g. comments) and changed the values in the label row, recalculation was not triggered.

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ORG-16462

Worksheet selection rending issues.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously, there were various selection rendering issues in worksheet in the past. One Example:

When still in in-place edit mode of A9 cell, click B(Y) column header, the whole column B isn't highlighted.

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ORG-16625

Axes ticks thickness do not accept comma(,) in German version

Only integer works in Axis Tick Thickness control (in Axis dialog: Line and Tick Tab) in German version. Origin 2018 fixes it and comma works fine in German version now.

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ORG-16259

Origin Crashes when insert Axis reference line

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug introduced in Origin 2017 SR1. For Example:

1. Click New Graph button to open a graph window.

2. Double click x axis to open Axis dialog.

3. Go to Reference Lines tab.

4. Click on 3rd row.

5. Click Insert button.

6. Now the cursor is in in-place edit mode. With the in-place edit mode, click the Line checkbox of the 3rd row. ==> Origin crashes.

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ORG-17048

Fill colors in floating column plot failed to change to By Points list from toolbar

Fixed in 2018. Bug was introduced in Origin 2017.

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ORG-15715

When column/bar border width is set to 0, neighboring fill areas overlap.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Now, after setting border width to 0, neighboring bars will not have any fill area overlap.

Note: The issue was only obvious when graph is zoomed in.

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ORG-16272

Contour fill color is not fully filled to custom boundary

Some contour fill color is not fully filled to custom boundary. Origin 2018 improve the algorithm.

Open

A new system variable @TCSM is added. Set @TCSM=0 for old behavior.

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ORG-17244

Contour plot doesn't display correctly with large Z values( E17) and large Z range(-E17 ~ E16).

Fixed in 2018. Bug was introduced in Origin 2017.

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ORG-16338

Some contour graph crashes by turning off speed mode

Some contour opj will crash after disable speed mode. Fixed in 2018. But this fix may lead to speed issue. You can use system variable @QCT to toggle. @QCT=1 to enable the fix. @QCT=0 to disable it.

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ORG-17155

Failed to show fill area between error bars when axis is reversed.

Fixed in 2018. Bug was introduced in Origin 2017.

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ORG-16442

Fill Area Under Curve- Fill to Next Data Plot is slow to render.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously it could cause Origin to crash.

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ORG-16170

Graph special points settings that aren't modified failed to follow main plot settings.

Origin supports customizing a single point, such as color, shape, size, label, etc. 

If user doesn't change some settings of a single point, then it should still follow the main plot (e.g. user may only want to change a single point color but the size should still follow the main plot).

In Origin 2018, by default <auto> shows for those unchanged settings. So if user modifies main plot settings, special point settings will follow. 

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ORG-16673

Improvements for Plotting Scatter with X/Y Error

In Origin 2017 and earlier, if you wanted to make a XY Error scatter with designation like X - xErr - Y1 - yErr1 - Y2 - yErr2 - ... - Y# - yErr#, each Y column need to have its own XErr and YErr. In Origin 2018, you can make XY Error scatter plot with such desingation directly.

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ORG-10750

 Exported 3D OpenGL Graph is not real vector graphic

Fixed in Origin 2018. 

For now only 2D graph objects, axis title and axis labels can be exported as real text.

Add @OGLEO to control, it's combination of the following bits:
AxisLabels = 1,
AxisTitles = 2,
2DGraphObjects = 4,

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ORG-14764

 In JOS the exported graph with unicode X using Japanese font fails to open by AI/GSview 

Fixed in Origin 2018.

1. add Text object in graph (JOS default font type should be ＭＳ Ｐゴシック)and paste text: a\(x00D7)b

2. export as eps

==> the exported file fails to be opened in GSview 5.0 or AI

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ORG-16066

Wrong layer is exported when show active layer only is checked.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug introduced in Origin 8.5.1. If user has a multi-layer graph and View: Show: Active Layer Only is checked,

when exporting the graph, sometimes the inactive layer was exported.

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ORG-16947

Customizations of Windrose plot (using raw data) are not remembered after recalculation.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Previously, if user made some customized parts of a windrose plot (e.g. added some text labels) and then changed the input data, after recalculation was done the customizations were lost.

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ORG-16483

Template names duplicated in Recently Used Plots.

Fixed in 2018. In every session of Origin 2016 and 2017, when user chose Plot: Template: User to plot a graph, the name of the template is added to the Recently Used Plots list causing duplicate entries.

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ORG-17295

Problems Saving to or Opening from Google Drive

 Fixed in Origin 2018. New location for saving ~TMP files used during project saving will be at "C:\Users\<user>\Documents\OriginLab\TempSave\" to avoid opj Saving to or Opening from Google Drive problem.

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ORG-15844

Slowness and crashing issue related to Printer

In previous versions, Origin is slow to launch and use related to some printers, such as

HP Laserjet P4010_P4510 Series PCL 6

HP Laserjet 4250 PCL 6

etc.

In Origin 2018 we removed such dependency so Origin should work normally no matter what the default printer is.

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ORG-17294

LaTeX link fails to work correctly in German Operation System

In German windows operation system like Win10, Origin2018  succeeds to insert LaTeX objects in graph window.

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ORG-16890

Origin J/C version in English code page fails to set correct default font

Fixed in Origin 2018.

Install J/C version Origin in English code page, open Origin to check. ==> The font toolbar shows some wrong font type.

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ORG-16317

LT - Internally executed LabTalk call should not trigger ErrorProc

Fixed in Origin 2018.

• X-function Case:

• Script inside parenthesis: 

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ORG-17023

LT function Angleint2 and Angleint1 fail to return the value in units of degrees

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug in Origin 2017. For example:

angleint2(1,1,3,3,5,7,6,9,0) =; --> returns 0.32175055439664, which is radian result

angleint2(1,1,3,3,5,7,6,9,1) =; ==> still returns 0.32175055439664, but it should return degree result 18.434948822922

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ORG-16354

Set Column Values issues with string functions and conditional operators.

Fixed in Origin 2018. Bug in Origin 2017. For example:

In below illustration, row 1 of column B should show China.

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ORG-17086

OC Error of using the non-English character µ as variable name

Fixed in Origin 2018. When there is a non-English character µ in variable name, it will fail to compile.

Introducing a new system variable @SID to control this, it has the following meanings: