Origin 2018b Bug Fixes

Owned by Snow Li
Last updated: May 29, 2020 by Wall-E
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Analysis

Batch Processing

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17472

Open book should take care multiple source data sheet

when do batch processing with multiple source datasheet, in summary book, click open books button will fail to regenerate intermediate workbook.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

Fitting

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17447

Try to ignore missing values in fitting bounds for parameters

 If missing value exists in the bounds, try to treat it as there is no bounds setting at all and then not pass it into iteration.

0

ORG-17445

Wrong Confidence/Prediction Bands in Polynomial Fit if using Apparent Fit

 In Polynomial Fit's report, Apparent Fitted curve is outputted with wrong Confidence/Prediction Bands. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

General

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17241

Embedded graph with gadget needs update when data change

When a graph with a Gadget tool is embedded in a Workbook window, the result of the Gadget tool will not update as the source data chages.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

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ORG-17679

Recalculate and Rescale Issues on Virtual Matrix

 Fix the issues exist in the analysis related to Virtual Matrix.

Peak Analysis

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-16466

Improve Guassian_LorenCross function in PA

 Overflow of the exponential part in the function's denominator part when abs(x-xc) is very large and lead to fit failed.

0

ORG-18081

Next Button in PA was disabled when switch peak finding method

 In PA Find Peaks page, change Method combo in Peak Find Settings branch to be 1st Derivative" (anyone except "Fourier Self-Deconvolution (Pro)") leads Next and Finish button disabled.

Signal Processing

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

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ORG-18130

Fixed a crash in FFT Gadget.

Statistics

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17684

3-way ANOVA output wrong for certain data

 3-way ANOVA fails to output Homogeneity Tests(Levene's Test) for certain data. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17815

ANOVA1 with tukey get error 2003

Certain datasets for One Way Anova, Two Way Anova and Factorial ANOVA  get error for Tukey Test. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17586

Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA should not use the same row header for Descriptive Table when raw data from different worksheets

 Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA, Mood's median test , Friedman ANOVA and (NPH)K Independent Samples should not use the same row header for Descriptive Table when raw data from different worksheets. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-15017

The PCA results aren't right when there is numeric data in Label column(1st col)

The Principle Component Analysis score results aren't right when there is numeric data in Label column(1st col).

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

Data Handling

Curve Handling

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17649

"Create Categories" in Cluster gadget does not get correct data range if ROI box is rotated/skewed.

If the ROI box is rotated or skewed, the "Create Categories" in Cluster gadget will not be able to get correct data range.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-18059

Target line does not refresh in Vertical/Horizontal translate after remove

Database Import

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17607

Worksheet Script run after Import for Database

 Worksheet script fails to execute after Database import, and this is fixed in Origin 2018b.

Import Data

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-18089

Drag and drop data file failed to set column as Date with Custom Date format

When save a filter by Import wizard with the settings: on Data Columns page, set Custom Date Format, and right click on column header to set format as Date.

And then drag and drop the a date format ASCII file into Workbook to import with the saved filter.

==>Fail to set the specified column with Custom Date Format.

Importing Third Party Formats

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17394

2018 Customer Complains About Excel DDE Slowness with Large OPJ

Improve the speed of loading OPJ with lots of DDE links.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17662

Slowness in MDF file Import

Customer sent a big mdf file which takes 1 hour to import in Origin 2018 and earlier versions.

In Origin 2018b, it only takes 67 sec.

Origin Project Files

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17786

Customer Report on OPJU issues

 Customer‘s OPJU Crashing on load. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17786

Customer Report on OPJU issues

 Customer‘s OPJU Crashing on load. Fixed in Origin 2018b.

Workbook and Worksheet

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17802

Failure to Convert Virtual Matrix into XYZ Columns if X and Y is text.

Virtual Matrix with text X or Y failed to be converted into XYZ columns.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17425

Origin crashes with non-unicode header row

In Origin 2018, Origin may crashes when make a plot if column contains non-unicode char.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

Also, LabTalk Char() function has been improved to all Unicode. Now is up to 0xFFFF.

Graphing

3D Graphs

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17741

 Symbol disappears after change 3D symbol to 2D in certain 3D scatter plot

1.new project, click F11 to open Origin Central, select 3D scatter ribbon and wall graphs, double click the forth plot(3D scatter with colormap) to open

2.click Ctrl to select one point, open plot detail dialog for it

3.change symbol type to 2D, click OK

==> symbol disappears

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-18133

Origin crash when rotate 3D Scatter plot with Text label and Leader line

 Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17475

XYZ surface plot with subset of data is wrong after enable error bar

1.new wks, filled xyz columns with uniform random numbers
2.make 3D surface plot with row from 9
3.open plot detail dialog, enable error bar, select one arbitrary column data for error data, click OK.
==> plot is wrong

Fixed in Origin2018b.

Axes

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17398

Fail to remember Custom Axis Link

 Set Custom Axis Link in Link Axes Scales tab in Plot Details dialog. Then reopen Plot Detail and go to Link Axes Scales tab, the custom settings are gone in Origin 9.5

Box Chart

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17237

Symbol tab customization should also affect box chart component

Line thickness control doesn't work on any component. While  Scatter symbol size doesn't work on mean percentile symbol. Now Symbol tab customization should also affect box chart component. 

Column/Bar/Pie

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17723

Connected line was not drawn when there are many missing data points

0

ORG-17386

Could not copy/paste column plot border color

 Since 9.4 SR1, copy column/bar/3D bar plot's format and select Paste Format: Border didn't work. 

0

ORG-17933

Trellis stacked bar plot shows missing column

 Some trellis stacked column/bar doesn't show in speicific opj file.

Contour

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17824

Contour or Image Profile Fails with Customer Matrix

 Image/Contour Profiel will not work correctly for some opj. Dragging lines fails to update the plots, output sheet, etc.

0

ORG-17668

Contour Plot Freezes Origin on Turning Off Speed Mode

 Origin freezes when turning off speed mode for some contour plot

0

ORG-17474

Too much levels will make the contour show the colors incorrectly

 For some contour plot with too many levels, open speed mode could show incorrectly since Origin 9.3

0

ORG-17487

XYZ contour disappear after merge into smaller layer area

 Some XYZ contour graph fails to merge into smaller layer area

0

ORG-16088

XYZ Profile curves get broken by making multiple graphs

 Make specific contour profile via template library more than one time, profile curves in 1st Graph disappear.

Customizing Color

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17543

Colormap Issue for Customer Project

Colormap failed when level is not in minimum and maximum of data.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

Data Label

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17596

Annotation for Trellis Plot Get Wrong Anchor Point Position

 Annotation for Trellis Plot, drag this annotation to show leader line, leader line do not connect to the point.

0

ORG-17654

Fail to save vertical connect for annnotation

 Annotation for a 2D plot, fail to set Connect as Vertical in Leader line tab in Annotation dialog

Drawing Objects

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17020

Reference Line did not apply if customize other tab

 Make some customization in Reference Line tab in Axis dialog and then switch to other tab and do some customization and Apply. The settings in Reference Line tab is gone.

0

ORG-17429

Support Copy and Paste format for Stats & Formula Reference line

 Copy Axis' format with Stats & Formula Reference line and then paste into another axis for paste Format: Reference Lines fails in 9.5 .

General

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17340

Could not show tooltip in Plot Details to display column modifier info

1. make 3D surface plot
2. activate graph window, open PD dialog, go to Fill tab,
3. hover the mouse over Contour fill from matrix
==> tooltip to display data's info is not showed

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17438

Graph Issues after Delete Worksheet Column

 Delete worksheet columns for group plots will make legend or plot's color show incorrectly.

0

ORG-15101

Need speed up when drag and drop the layout window with multiple surface plots

 ==> When drag and drop the layout window with multiple surface plots, it is slow.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17750

Slowness when drawing many columns

 Line plot drawing is much slower since Origin 2017. It also exists in Origin 2018. E.g. when drawing 7000 columns, Origin hangs up. It takes about 10 sec. in Origin 2018b.

Graph Types

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17248

Support Table Tick Label(not Panel Banner) for Trellis Plot

 In the past, Trellis will not support table tick label unless it's panel banner.

Line and Symbol

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-18021

Runtime error after copy paste format for special point in scatter plot

1.fill wks with row number

2.make scatter plot, duplicate the plot

3.activate graph1, select one special point, change its symbol color

4.right click white space, select copy format: all

5.activate graph2, right click, select paste format
--> it seems to be well

6.go back to graph1, repeat step4-5
==> error: VC Member function call execution error

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-16429

Wrong line connection for Akima Spline method

1.Import Raman Baseline.dat from \Samples\Spectroscopy.
2.Plot line graph with col(b) then open Plot Detail dialog.
3.Line tab, set Connect as Akima Spline. Click OK.
==> The graph is mess up.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

Multi-Axes/Multi-Panel

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17166

Plot Multiple Panels by Label, Error Bars, and Grouping Issue

 When using Plot Multiple Panels by Label and there is error bar data, plots are not properly grouped in graph.

Publishing

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17406

 Axis table lost in exported image file

  
  1. Make a graph with axis table and it has break.
  2. Export the graph.
    ==> The 2nd level label is lost.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17221

Arrow and line have offset after copy paste when enable AA

If anti-aliasing is enable for arrow, arrow's shape and line do not match in the graph pasted in Word.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17664

Axis arrow cut off in graph pasted to word with Tight Margin Control

In a graph, if axis arrow is turned on, but where is no axis title and ticks, then if user set Margin Control as Tight and export graph or copy page, the axis title is show in half. 

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17963

Fit Page to Printer did not update page dimension correctly

 ==> Fit page to printer doesn't fit exactly to printer.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17511

Group column indexed data plot pasting to CorelDRAW lost label text object

Fixed problem that graph's lables are lost if pasted in CorelDRAW.

Due to Clipping fail correctly handled by Corel Draw, user can use metafile to workaround, or turn of clipping by new system variable: @ATLC, whether enable axis table label drawing clipping. 1 for enable(default), 0 for disable.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-6086

Hidden contour line will be shown in exported vector type format like EPS/WMF

 Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-18019

MT Extra Font fails to export as EPS correctly

Export text object whose font type is MT Extra as EPS.
==> The letter shows as English letter.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17643

Origin fails to export graph with annotation connected by dash line

1. add labels by Annotation button
2. change leader style to dash
==> fail to copy & paste or export

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17685

Size in pixel in expGraph dialog is wrong

1.specify size in pixel in expGraph dialog
2.change Resolution under export setting
==> value of fit width and fit height are not updated automatically

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17941

Tick labels are auto brought to the front when copy&paste

Copy graph as following and paste to Word/PPT

==> tick labels of Y & Z axis are showed

Fixed in Origin2018b.

0

ORG-17692

Very Tall Customer Graph Exports with Wrong Dimensions

OPJ from customer contains 9 graph windows whose short name is the same "Graph1". Export the very tall graph (Graph1) and dimensions in expGraph and actual exported image are totally wrong. As well, an empty layer that is hidden shows up in export.

A new labtalk command is added:


doc -rd;


This command will automatically rename the duplicated pages.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

Specialized

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17465

Multiple Scatter Matrices cause user stuck by Merge Graph Windows

Merge graph unable to add more layers/sheets for some scatter matrix with too many layers. After this fix:

  • Default of Merge combo in Merge graph dialog changed to Specified.
  • When the final total number of merged layers is > 1024, error message will show.
  • Introduce system variable @GLL with default value 100. Merge graph dialog will exclude all graph with layers > @GLL .

Text Labels & Legends

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17773

Z values messed up in Image Plot from Matrix with more than certain levels

 Some specific image plot fails to show correctly with more than 256 levels.

Theme and Template

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17724

New system variable is added to prevent system theme to set axis rescale option during template loading

 @DFR is added with default value 0.

Installation and Licensing

Compatibility/Upgrade

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17359

The preview graph of ternary coordinate is lower quality displayed when compare with origin2017.

Use EMF for ternary and polar preview in Digitize dialog.

Fixed in Origin2018b.

Nodelocked Licensing

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17557

Offline Activation fails if user account contains Unicode character

If user account name contains UNICODE characters, activating Origin without internet connection will fail.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

Miscellaneous

Origin Workspace

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

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ORG-17550

app toolbar fail to work after do changes on button settings

install app which will create toolbar,such as Distance Between Two Points, if do changes on button settings in customize toolbar dialog, the app toolbar fail to work.  this issue will be gone after restarting origin.

Fixed in Origin 2018b.

0

ORG-17620

Long LaTeX script fails to shows correct

 Workaround:  The long LaTeX equation should be separated to 2 parts or set @LTXR=2000.
Note: Need set @LTXR=2000 firstly, then recreate a new long LaTeX equation. For the old one, it still fails to work.

Programming

Labtalk

ID

JIRA

SUMMARY

DETAILS

0

ORG-17871

page -X command to add shortcut not working for doc -e

Fixed in Origin 2018b.