Origin 2021b Bug Fixes

ORG-21341

Axis table labels mess up when the X is out-of-order

If X data isn’t monotonic and user turn on tick label table and specify another column as text for tick labels, the labels will mess up.

Need to go to Scale tab of Axis and set Major tick type to be By Custom Positions and specify there X data is from.

ORG-22849

Contour Plot Display wrong color on minimum value

On contour plot from XYZ data, the minimum level color was mistakenly shown with the color for smaller than minimum value.

ORG-22882

Failed to move Sankey Nodes when Exchange X-Y Axes

After exchanging X and Y axes of Sankey Diagram, you couldn’t drag nodes to move it.

ORG-21765

Contour display issues when contour labels are rotated

Because of contour display issue, we turned off contour label rotation control on Labels tab of Plot Details dialog.

ORG-22788

Wrong format to save for 3D scatter with special point

1. make 3D scatter plot, add one special point, such as change its color

2. copy format

3. make new 3D scatter plot, paste format
   ==> except for special point, no data points

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-21710

Gaps in Polar Contour Plots Fill to Grid

For some Polar Contour plots made from matrix, some white gap will show when grid lines are turned off. Fixed in Origin 2021b.

ORG-21903

Drop line and Labels do not work if there are overlapped points offset plotting

Drop lines could not show when two points overlap and Overlapped Points Offset Plotting in Symbol tab of Plot Detail is turned on.

Labels can not be shown for overlapped points with the same settings.

ORG-20359

Text object looks bad with rotation

Text object looks bad with rotation

1. add text object to graph, string could be ABCDE,

2. set font size=12, Rotate=15
   ==> Many labels look bad. Each character seems not align to one line.

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22930

graph object's dimensions is changed when check keep aspect ratio if units is % of page/layer

In dimensions tab of object properties dialog, if units is % of page/layer, check Kepp Aspect ratio. value of Bottom Margin change to 100-CurrentValue.

Fixed in Origin2021b

ORG-22472

Add animation for button on 3D graph when clicked

1. remote desktop, or make sure openGL version is 1.1.0

2. add a text object on 3D graph and right-click to select Properties: Programming: Script Run After: Button Up

3. fill for example "type hello" in the editbox, click OK.

4. click the button.
   ==> Origin crash

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22538

Palette Editor Edit Color Issue

1. run "palEdit -d" to open Palette Editor,

2. change Gradient Type to Straight Line

3. in Preview tab, move points
   ==> Point indicator is not in same place of mouse
   ==> No edit point for 1st point of each segment

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22796

Prohibit user from picking built-in color lists in Custom color section

We also save custom colors so if we allow user to load built-in color list, it will mess up built-in colors.

ORG-22922

Fail to keep aspect ratio for graph object when uniform width/height

1. Add a graph page to layout window.
   -->keep aspect ratio is default checked.

2. Add any other graph object, select those two object, use uniform width/height button in object edit toolbar to match the width/height.
   ==>graph page fail to keep aspect ratio

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22692

Arrow at begin fail to work fine when click Apply

1. New graph window, double click X axis to open axes dialog.

2. Go to Line and Ticks tab, expand Arrow branch, check Arrow at Begin checkbox, click Apply.
   ==>No changes on the graph.

Broken in Origin 2020, fixed in Origin 2021b.

ORG-22908

grouped column/bar graph mess up after replacing with new data or batch plotting

1. Make column plot with x = 2 5 10 20 with 2 Y cols, duplicate source book.

2. Remove group data and add it back again in layer contents dialog. or do batch plotting with duplicated source book.
   ==>grouped plot mess up.

only fix batch plotting issue in Origin2021b

ORG-21961

Improve the position of date & time stamp after extracting multi-panel graph

1. click Extract to Graphs toolbar button, check "Full Page for Extracted", to extract multi-panel graph

2. active Graph1 which is created by step1
   ==> Cannot see stamp on the page

3. Click Data and Time Stamp button
   ==> nothing happens

4. Select View: Zoom all
   --> stamp shows

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22771

Z label value show incorrect in ternary graph

1. make 3D Tetrahedral

2. open plot details dialog, activate label tab, enable label, label form as Z, click apply.

3. set numeric display format as .4, click apply.
   ==> label is show as Zh/100

4. select data reader, read data on graph.
   ==> Z value show as Zh value in both data info and data display

Fixed in Origin2021b.

ORG-22826

Colormap changed when number of total level is not changed

1. new worksheet, fill XYZ column with random data, plot contour

2. open PD, go to level popup, set level to major level 16, minor level 16

3. go to fill popup, set fill to palette=viridis, uncheck link to palette, apply

4. go to level popup, set level to major level 8, minor level 32, apply
   ==> color changed

Fixed in Origin2021b.