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NEW FEATURES in PMView 2000 version 2.20
The following features are new in PMView 2000 v2.20:
1. File Sequencer: The file sequencer (PgUp/PgDn in PMView's main window)
now follows the sort order and file filter selected in the File Open
dialog.
2. File Sequencer: The file sequencer file list will now be refreshed
when forcing a refresh (F5) in the File Open dialog.
3. File Open/Save dialogs: The "Open file:" entry field is changed to a
drop-down combo box that holds a list of the 50 most recently used
directories.
4. File Open/Save dialogs: Automatic addition and removal of
attached/detached disk drives in the folder tree.
5. Printing: PMView now supports printing of all pages in a multi page
file (e.g. TIFF). A range selector has been added to the print dialog
for selecting what page range to print.
6. Printing: Provided that the printer driver supports Dynamic Job
Properties (DJP) to change the print orientation, PMView will now
use DJP to change the orientation instead of rotating the image data.
This enhancement makes printing of large documents faster and more
reliable. The use of DJP also lets PMView keep the orientation and
copy count settings in its Print dialog synchronized with the settings
in the printer specific settings dialog.
7. Print dialog: New option for setting the number of copies to print.
8. Print dialog: The print dialog has been made more user friendly by
replacing the three "Fit" pushbuttons with a list box that lets you
select the option you want. The new design allows "Fit page" to work
as most users expect and always automatically fit the image to the
page (for instance when a margin or the orientation is altered).
9. Display quality: Added dithering in 15 and 16 bit video modes. This
addition eliminates visible color stairs in the image.
10. Display quality: New improved ordered dithering gives better image
quality in video modes that use 256 colors.
11. Saving, TIFF: New TIFF save option that lets you save TIFF files with
only one single data strip. (Some FAX applications require this).
The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.20:
1. File Open/Save dialogs: Unreasonably slow performance when having
more than 10,000 files in the same directory.
2. File Open/Save dialogs: If the mouse is accidentally dragged when
pressing the ALT key and the left mouse button, PMView may hang.
(This situation may easily arise by accident when pressing ALT and
the left mouse button to rename files).
3. File Open/Save dialogs: Pressing the CTRL key and the left mouse
button on a selected (highlighted) file does not work the same way
as in OS/2 folders. If the file is selected, pressing the CTRL key
should activate a state where all files that are under the mouse
pointer are deselected. PMView acts the same way regardless of the
status of the clicked files. Files under the mouse pointer are
always selected.
4. File Open/Save dialogs: The reference file in the FOC is not changed
when loading new files with the PgUp/PgDn keys in the main window.
Thus, pressing the SHIFT key and clicking on a file does not give
the expected selection. Instead of using the currently selected
(highlighted) file as reference, the file that was most recently
selected by the user is used as reference.
5. File Open/Save dialogs: Pressing F5 to refresh does not add new drives
nor does it remove deleted drives.
6. File Open/Save dialogs, batch conversion: In case the format conversion
of a file for some reason fails the template file is not deleted. This
may happen for instance if the source file is corrupt or if the file is
not a valid image file.
7. File Open/Save dialogs: Container view options are not stored separately
for the Open and Save dialogs. (Both dialogs use the same registry
settings.)
8. Loading, DCX: PMView cannot read 8-bit DCX files with more than 1 page.
9. Loading, TIFF: PMView will now read 1-bit TIFF files that are missing
the required tag 252 (Photometric Interpretation).
10. Loading, TIFF: PMView will now read TIFF files with invalid data in
tags 279 (StripByteCounts) or 325 (TileByteCounts).
11. Workplace Shell integration (MAKEDEFV.EXE): Double-clicking on files
launches the Multimedia Viewer instead of PMView.
12. Workplace Shell integration (MAKEDEFV.EXE): Double-clicking on files
with two or more dots in the file name, e.g. "my.file.gif", does not
launch PMView.
13. Workplace Shell integration (MAKEDEFV.EXE): Deselecting BMP does not
work unless WBMP also is deselected.
14. On-line help: Several errors and omissions in the on-line help are
fixed.
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The following features are new in PMView 2000 v2.14:
1. New menu option "File->Next/Previous->Wrap" that lets you select
if PMView's File Sequencer should wrap at the last/first file or not.
The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.14:
1. Screen capture: Problem with using the keyboard mnemonics <Alt-F><T><S>
to activate File->Capture->Screen for hot-key capture.
2. The "Copy" and "Preserve Color Depth" menu items in the "Edit" menu
use the same mnemonic character.
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The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.13:
1. PMView does not ask for save confirmation if the File Save dialog is open.
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The following features are new in PMView 2000 v2.12:
1. New menu option "View->Show->Window Borders" that lets you hide the
window borders of PMView's main window.
The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.12:
1. Convert to Black&White: Conversion of a Deep Color image results in an
image that PMView internally still thinks is Deep Color. Saving this
file results in a Deep Color image instead of a Black&White 1-bit image.
2. File Open dialog: File open dialog opens with no files
3. General: Fixed a problem with entering the decimal separator in
entry fields
4. General: Some files cause PMView to crash.
5. About dialog: The About dialog does not display the version number
of PMView.
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The following features are new in PMView 2000 v2.10:
1. WBMP (WAP Bitmap) file support (read/write)
2. PIC (Softimage Picture) file support (read/write)
3. Threshold control for Black/White conversion
4. PMView's System Info dialog now includes the version and internal build
number of PMView.
The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.10:
1. Loading, JPEG: Some recovered JPEG (non-JFIF) files do not load because
they are mistaken for FAX G3 files. The detection of FAX G3 is too
lenient. The requirement is incresed from a 10 line minimum to a 100 line
minimum for G3 files.
2. Loading, Windows BMP: Loading a Win32 BI_BITFILEDS type bitmap file
results in incorrect colors (interchanged red/blue color compontents).
3. Loading, TIFF: Some TIFF files using Packbits compression cannot be read.
PMView refuses to read files that are incorrectly stored with scanlines
that decode into too many bytes. This is now fixed so that PMView is more
lenient in its error checking and accepts such TIFF files.
4. Saving, Windows BMP: Windows BMP files saved with PMView has an error in
the file header.
5. Saving, EPS: PMView generates an incorrect BoundingBox and scale factor.
6. Zooming: Zooming to the minimum or maximum limit causes the zoom to get
stuck at either limit.
7. Zooming: Zooming intermittently crashes PMView.
8. Slideshow: Closing a slideshow disables the file sequencer
(File->Next/Previous).
9. Slideshow: The color and the font are not saved.
10. Slideshow: The background of the progress bar is not painted correctly.
11. Printing: Printing on a printer that uses different horizontal and
vertical resolution results in a stretched image.
12. Brightness/Contrast/Color dialog: Contrast adjustment algorithm improved.
13. Tool bar: The tool bar icons remain grayed-out after applying a transform
to an image.
14. File Save dialog: When saving a new image (not existing on disk yet),
PMView correctly opens the save dialog with the last folder saved to
highlited in the directory tree. However, the container does not show
the contents of this directory.
15. File Open/Save dialogs: Conversion status is not correctly displayed.
16. File Open/Save dialogs: Files in use (locked) by other applications will
not appear.
17. General performance: The minimum thread priority delta for threads is
changed from 0 to 1. This lets other applications in the system be even
"more idle" than any of PMView's background tasks.
18. Installation: Installation instructions updated.
19. Installation: The REXX script for manual installation updated.
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PMView 2000 is the first multi-platform version of PMView. This version
is available for OS/2 Warp v3/v4/SMP and Windows 95/98/NT4/2000. The user
interface code has been rewritten and a lot of changes and improvements have
been made. Here's a list of changes and improvements in PMView 2000. Because
of the large number of changes only major changes and new features are listed.
The following features are new in 2000 :
1. Enhanced File Open/Save windows with a drag&.drop enabled directory
tree.
2. New thumbnail option that lets you use "On-the-fly Thumbnails".
On-the-fly Thumbnails are created on-the-fly and are not written to disk
like Icon Thumbnails. On-the-fly Thumbnails have the advantage that they
can be used on read-only media. There is also a "Mixed" mode option that
loads an Icon Thumbnail if available or otherwise creates an On-the-fly
Thumbnail.
3. New print dialog. Three optional methods for mapping the image to the
printer: pixelwise, image resolution, or fit page. Print preview and
"drag"-style adjustment of print margins. There is now also a page
orientation selector including an option for automatic selection of
orientation.
4. User configurable shortcut keys (hot keys). The keys can be configured
on the new "Shortcut Keys" page in PMView's options notebook.
5. Tool bar with Move, Zoom, Scroll, and Selection tools. The tool bar is
optional and can be disabled.
6. Status bar with progress bar and sizing grip. The status bar is optional
and can be disabled. Note that the sizing grip has added functionality:
Double-clicking on the grip does the same as View->Wrap Image.
7. New menu option "File->New->Image" that lets you create a new empty
canvas.
8. New menu option "File->New->PMView Window" that lets you start a new
PMView session.
9. Progressive TWAIN support. The image appears in PMView's main window
line-by-line as it is being scanned.
10. Screen Capture: Support for capturing by hot key.
11. Screen Capture: Support for including the mouse pointer in the capture.
12. The number of colors is reported for deep color images. (This is
optional and is off by default).
13. File Sequencer: Background preloading (read ahead) of next file
14. File Sequencer: File caching (OS/2: optional, Windows: automatic)
15. BMP: Support for 15-, 16-, and 32-bit bitmaps.
16. BMP: Support for Win32 specific bitmaps (BI_BITFIELDS)
17. BMP: Support for top-down bitmaps (bitmaps with negative height).
18. EPS (Encapsulated Postscript) file support (write only)
19. PSD (Adobe Photoshop Document) file support (read/write)
20. G3 (CCITT Group 3 Facsimile) file support (read/write)
21. SFW (Seattle Filmworks) file support (read only)
22. TIFF: JPEG-in-TIFF file support (read/write)
23. TIFF: ZIP-in-TIFF file support (read/write)
24. TIFF: L*A*B* color support (read only)
25. TIFF: PMView will now read TIFFs even if the Orientation tag is invalid.
26. New command line option /ZOOm that lets you set the initial zoom
percentage
27. New window sizing and positioning options: center window on screen,
respect system task bar, and more.
28. New "Grid" view mode in the file open and slideshow container.
29. New zooming commands that let you zoom by factor.
30. New commands that delete the current image and automatically load the
next or previous image. (These commands are only available via shortcut
keys. The default keys are Ctrl-Del and Alt-Del.)
31. New options in the File Open and File Save windows that let you choose
whether the window should always float on top of PMView's main window
and whether the window should be hidden or not when you double-click
on an image or press "Open".
32. New option to hide the title bar. (This option is located under
View->Show->Title Bar).
33. New option to hide the scroll bars. (This option is located under
View->Show->Scroll Bars).
34. New option that lets you select if the delete command should
automatically load the next image after deleting the current image.
(This option is located on the "Loading" page in PMView's options
notebook).
35. Corrupt files in the File Open container are highlited with a red
background. This feature is optional and can be disabled.
36. New Autostart option that will automatically start a loaded slideshow.
This option can be found in PMView's options notebook on the "Slideshow"
page.
37. New menu entry for creating a slideshow from a directory, or a directory
including all subdirectories. This is located on the directory tree popup
menu in the File Open window.
38. New menu entry for setting the desktop background.
39. Direct menu entries for selecting the most common filters. Many of these
filters are new filters not previously available in PMView.
Here is a list of notable changes between 2000 and v1.0 for OS/2:
1. All windows, dialogs, and controls now scale dynamically. This means
that they look good regardless of system font differences (texts are
not truncated nor is there excessive white space between controls).
2. Hot keys have been changed to be compatible between platforms
3. Some menus are rearranged (Selection Info - formerly called Track Info,
Image Info, Show Menu, and Show Controller are now found under the
View->Show-> menu.)
4. Thumbnails are no longer kept in memory in the form of OS/2 bitmaps.
This requires less memory and solves a bitmap resource problem that
has been observed on some systems.
5. The open/close state of the image info window is remembered. If the
image info window is visible when closing PMView, it will automatically
be shown when PMView is restarted.
6. TWAIN memory handling is improved. When using a TWAIN source that
supports transfer of data in small blocks (e.g. CFM) the memory need is
only 50% compared to PMView v1.0.
7. User configurations are now stored as version independent option keys in
the OS/2 USER INI file.
8. The "Mode" control is removed. Mode->Slideshow is replaced by
File->New->Slideshow. Mode->View/Edit is replaced with File->New Image
(alternatively you can use File->Close).
The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000:
1. PMView is now able to correctly display images with a height and/or
width larger than 65535 pixels.
2. TWAIN: On some systems scanning with CFM Twain does not work correctly.
The TWAIN code in 2000 is rewritten and now works correctly.
3. Mouse Properties dialog in the System Setup Folder: Dragging from
PMView's file open container or slideshow does not work when the OS/2
"Dragging Objects" property is set to "Button 1".
4. File sequencer: When keeping the '+' or '-' (alternatively Shift+
PgUp/PgDn) key pressed, PMView will get stuck in a four image loop
although there are more images in the current directory. This problem
is fixed in PMView 2000 that has a completely new file sequencer with
preloading (read-ahead) and optional directory caching.
5. File Open Window: Scrolling the file open container does not work
correctly if there is a large number of files in the container.
This is an OS/2 bug. The problem no longer appears in PMView 2000,
because it uses its own container control instead of the control
provided by the system.
6. File Open Window: No cursor is drawn in detail view mode. This means
that the Shift+F8 method of selection cannot be used.