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- LView version 3.1 Copyright Leonardo Haddad Loureiro
-
- Version 3.1 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- Options/Jpeg Options now supports two semi-independent setups for
- for JPEG decompression. You can use the "Normal" setup for
- slower/higher quality decompression and "Preview" for
- faster/lower quality decompression. Both setups can be
- customized.
-
- New option "Assume ECJ pro version" on Options/Jpeg Options.
- Checking/Unchecking will tell LView how to analyse other
- options and warn the user about potential conflicts.
- The default for this option is UNCHECKED.
-
- CHANGES:
-
- Options/Jpeg Options/"use ECJ" now defaults to UNCHECKED.
- Options/Save All Options now records the current position of
- the toolbar window, which can be:
- . at the left side of LView's window,
- . at the right side of LView's window,
- . as a button at LView's window caption.
- Options/Popup When Iconized now defaults to UNCHECKED.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- Contact sheet building sometimes failed to release memory, on
- version 3.0.
- Loading an image file by dragging it to LView's window did not
- to clear the "changed status" for the current image.
-
- Version 3.0 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- Added support for WECJLIB.DLL from Express Compression Laboratories,
- to provide FAST jpeg file loading.
-
- New window "Commands Window Tool" for fast access to the most used
- software features.
-
- New command Retouch/Smooth Filter.
-
-
- Version 2.51 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- New option "Options/Popup When Iconized", to determine if LView
- should exhibit it's window after loading a file, even
- when iconic. Checking will make it ALWAYS exhibit the
- window (DEFAULT), unchecking will prevent LView from
- restoring it's window after loading an image file.
-
- New command "Help/Device Caps" to inform the user about the
- capabilities of the current display device.
-
- New command "Help/Diagnosis" to give the user hints about
- the ideal LView configuration in the current display device.
- This command also checks some of LView's internal data
- structures for possible inconsistencies.
-
- LView's crosshair cursor was redesigned to make it more visible
- when displayed on top of a larger variety of image colors.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- Command "Edit/Resize" was fixed and now operates correctly either
- on the whole image or on the current selection area.
-
- Command "Edit/Redimension" was also fixed.
-
- Option "Options/Confirm JPEG GScale Save" now works on both
- "File/Save" and "File/Save as" commands.
-
- The abnormal "color behaviour" that some users experienced in
- version 2.5 is expected to be solved. Once this problem
- could NOT be reproduced for debugging, I would appreciate
- feedback from users who did experience this bug.
-
- Version 2.5 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- New command "File/New" to create an "empty" image that may be
- filled with clipboard pastings, and text additions.
-
- New command "Edit/Add Text", for adding text to images. Choose
- text color, font, orientation, positioning and more.
-
- New command "Edit/Redimension" to change an image's dimensions
- without altering it's contents.
-
- All commands in the Edit menu now operate on the current selection
- area. Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete/Resize/Redimension/Crop/Apply/
- Add Text/Flip/Rotate will take effect on the selection area
- rather than on the whole editing image.
-
- New top menu item "Retouch" to group all image edition functions
- related to image visualization, like "Gamma", "Color Balance",
- "GrayScale", etc.
-
- New command "Retouch/Palette Entry" for individual palette entry
- color redefinition.
-
- New commands "Options/Drop to: Contact sheet", and
- "Options/Contact Sheet Options", allow for automatic construction
- of contact sheet images
-
- New command "Options/Background Color" to define the color to
- be used when filling empty areas resulting from the execution
- of commands like File/New, Edit/Delete, Edit/Cut, etc.
-
- New command "Options/Confirm JPEG GScale Save", will make LView
- ask for confirmation whenever saving an image to JPEG format,
- with "Options/Jpeg Options/Save Grayscale" set.
-
- New command "Options/Confirm ALL Saves", will make LView ask for
- confirmation when "File/Save" is selected.
-
- New command "Options/Thick Area Frame", will select the thickness
- for the selected area boundary display.
-
- CHANGES:
-
- All treatment of Selection Areas was changed. Areas can now be
- detached, moved, and tiled anywhere inside the editing image.
- All clipboard commands, and Edit Menu commands in generall
- now operate on the selected area, whenever one is selected.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- Some color palette bugs were fixed.
-
- Version 2.0 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- New commands "File/Print", "File/Printer setup...", "Options/Printer
- Options", and new option "Options/Drop to: Printer", allow for
- printing images interactively or in batch.
-
- New command Edit/Interactive RGB, allows the user to define mappings
- for Red, Green and Blue pixel components. These mappings can be
- defined either by "drawing" their curves, or by specifying a
- calculation Function. Red, Green and Blue can be edited separately.
-
- New command "Edit/GrayScale" to transform, after confirmation, any
- loaded image from color to grayscale representation.
-
- New command "Edit/Negative" to transform, after confirmation, any
- loaded image from to negative representation, like on a film negative.
-
- New command "Edit/YCbCr Adjustment" to edit an image in terms of
- it's Y, Cb and Cr attributes.
- Y - edits image Intensity,
- Cb - balances Blue and Yellow
- Cr - balances Red and Green
-
- New command "Options/Use system colors:", allows LView to use all
- palette entries, including the "system colors" (used by windows
- for menus, etc). Works when viewing images in 8-bit mode.
- "Use system colors:" can be set to:
- "Never" - To avoid remaping Window's system colors (default),
- "While focused" - To remap system colors only while LView is focused.
-
- New command "Options/Place window at:", to provide automatic window
- repositioning after loading an image from the disk, pasting from the
- clipboard or cropping.
- "Place window at:" can be set to:
- "Same" - Window will not move (default),
- "Left&Top" - Places window at desktop's upper left corner,
- "Left&Bottom" - Places window at lower left corner,
- "Right&Top" - Places window at upper right corner,
- "Right&Bottom" - Places window at lower right corner, and,
- "Center" - Window is centered on desktop.
-
- New command "Options/Fit on load:", to provide automatic "Fitting"
- for images loaded from the disk and pasted from the clipboard.
- This command produces the same effect as loading the image and
- then choosing "Edit/Resize/Fit to desktop", with "Preserve aspect
- ratio. It automates this operation and works during slideshow
- viewing.
- To change image size on load, "Fit on load:" can be set to:
- "Never" - Image size is not changed (default),
- "to Shrink" - changed if smaller than desktop fit,
- "to Enlarge" - changed if larger than desktop fit, and,
- "Always" - always changed to fit the desktop.
- -> This option will also work during batch compression. Unless
- you want a resizing performed prior to compression, turn it
- off before beginning a batch compression operation.
-
- Added accelerator key support for the following functions:
-
- Window client area scrolling (also work when selecting an area):
-
- HOME - scrolls one page to the left
- END - scrolls one page to the right
- PGUP - scrolls one page up
- PGDN - scrolls one page down
- UP ARROW - scrolls one line up
- DOWN ARROW - scrolls one line down
- LEFT ARROW - scrolls one row to the left
- RIGHT ARROW - scrolls one row to the right
-
- Common functions, also available in menu items:
-
- SHIFT+DEL - same as Edit/Cut
- CTR+INS - same as Edit/Copy
- SHIFT+INS - same as Edit/Paste
- CTR+DEL - same as Edit/Delete
-
- CTR+S - same as Options/Place window at:/Same
- CTR+HOME - same as Options/Place window at:/Left&Top
- CTR+END - same as Options/Place window at:/Left&Bottom
- CTR+PGUP - same as Options/Place window at:/Right&Top
- CTR+PGDN - same as Options/Place window at:/Right&Bottom
- CTR+C - same as Options/Place window at:/Center
-
- CTR+R - same as Edit/Resize
-
- CHANGES:
-
- Menu items and shortcut keys were redefined for organizational
- purposes.
-
- In the event of a read error or image inconsistensy, LView will
- preserve any part of the image already read. Even if the user
- interrupts the loading of an image, what was read so far will
- be available and exhibited. This works for all supported image
- formats.
-
- Algorithm for "Edit/Contrast Enhance" was improved.
-
- When loading a file, LView will try to recognize it's format,
- regardless of what the file extension is.
-
- When saving a file with the "File/Save as" command, LView will
- save the file in a format compatible with it's extension,
- regardless of the selected file type selected on the
- "Save File as" Dialog:
-
- .jpg for JPEG format
- .bmp/.dib for Windows and OS/2 formats
- .gif for GIF format
- .tga for TARGA format
-
- If the file extension is none of the above, LView will use the
- format chosen on the "file type" field on the "Save File as"
- Dialog.
-
- LView will exhibit only the initial letter for it's Main menu items
- (e.g. "File" will be become "F"), when viewing small images. This
- is to reduce ocurrences of menu wrapping.
-
- '...' were added to menu items that open dialogs, '!' was added to
- menu items that execute automatically (except for the well known
- clipboard commands)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- Fixed a bug on saving 1 bit Windows/OS2 BMP files.
- LView now closes it's help window before exiting.
-
-
- Version 1.6 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- New command added: Options/Show Scroll Bars, allows the user to
- enable/disable window scrollbars exhibition.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- When viewing images with Options/8-bit Bitmap unchecked (i.e. in
- 24-bit mode), trying to save an image to BMP (Windows or OS/2)
- format would make LView 1.5 cause a GPF.
-
- When loading a grayscale JPEG file with Options/8-bit Bitmap
- checked, LView 1.5 would cause a GPF. That would not occour
- if Options/Jpeg Options/Load GrayScale was set.
-
- If a slideshow was interrupted while loading an image file,
- after successfully loading one or more image files, the
- File/Save item would not be disabled, and choosing it
- would make LView 1.5 cause a GPF.
-
- If the user tried to exit LView 1.5, after an unsuccessfull file
- load, due to a file format error, a GPF would occour. This would
- not happen if other files were subsequently loaded without errors,
- prior to exiting LView 1.5.
-
- When saving certain images to TGA format, a few incorrect horizontal
- lines would be generated.
-
- Loading of interlaced GIF files would cause a GPF.
-
- Loading TGA files was sometimes failing to close the file handle,
- causing LView 1.5 to run out of file handles.
-
- Exiting LView 1.5 during a slideshow pause (either in manual or
- automatic advancement) would cause a GPF.
-
-
- Version 1.5 news:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- Targa image files are now supported, both for loading and saving.
-
- If Options/8-bit Options is set, LView will do a 1 pass quantize with
- Floyd-Steinberg dithering, when loading 24-bit targa or BMP
- (Windows or OS/2) image files
-
- LView's window can now be maximized. Auto resizing will be disabled while
- LView's window remains maximized.
-
- New command 'Delete' in the File menu. If confirmed it will delete
- the last loaded or saved filename.
-
- New command 'Gamma Correction' in the Edit menu. Gamma correction can be
- applied to Red, Green and Blue pixel attributes.
-
- FEATURES ENHANCED:
-
- The Load Grayscale option in the Options/Jpeg Options dialog
- performs a faster load for Jpeg files suited for previewing.
-
- 'Fit to desktop' option added to the Edit/Resize dialog. Also in this
- dialog, when altering one dimension the other will be recalculated
- and exhibited, if 'Keep aspect rate' is checked.
-
- When copying to the clipboard, LView will copy only the selected area,
- if existant, instead of the whole image.
-
- Auto scroll function (when selecting an area)
- The image now scrolls at a constant pace of 1/8 of the client area size
- The image now continues to scroll as long as the mouse pointer stays
- outside the window, even if it doesn't move.
-
- File loading/saving operations and drag-and-drop operations (like
- slideshow and batch compression), can now be canceled by clicking
- the on the status indicator shown at the menu bar area. You will be
- prompted for a confirmation.
- BEWARE that canceling a save operation will cause the LOSS of
- the file being saved.
-
- LView can now be terminated anytime during it's execution. If a
- operation such as file load/save or drag-drop is taking place,
- you will be prompted to confirm it's cancelation.
-
- LView's dialogs for image attributes editing (HSV, Color Balance, Contrast
- and the new Gamma Correction) were redesigned to a more compact format.
-
- An 'Exec' Button was added to the Color Balance dialog, to allow for
- individual settings for Red, Green and Blue offsets before execution,
- when the display is in 24-bit color mode.
-
- In the Jpeg Options dialog, the sampling factor options were replaced by
- h2v2 and h2v1, according to Jpeg terminology. These are 'advanced'
- options, and changing the default h2v2 to h2v1 will produce larger
- compressed files, with some gain in image quality.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- The auto-resize algorithm was rewritten and minor bugs were corrected
- including the scrollbar ranges.
-