home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Here is a list of features that are new in PMView 0.93.
-
-
- 1. TWAIN scanner support
- 2. WPS drag & drop support
- 3. The size of the thumbnails that PMView creates is now selectable
- 4. New menu item and hot-keys that let you open the next or prior image file
- in the current directory with a single keypress (Shift+PgUp, Shift+PgDn)
- 5. Multi-page file support (TIFF, DCX, GIF, and BMP)
- 6. Palette Load and Save
- 7. Optional delayed capture that lets you capture pop-up menus etc.
- 8. Automatic recovery of GIF, JFIF, PNG, and TIFF files with an unknown
- header (extra bytes at the start of the file).
- 9. Transparent UU-decoding, XX-decoding, and Base64-decoding (MIME).
- PMView transparently decodes any UU-encoded, XX-encoded, or Base64-
- encoded file that contain an image file.
- 10. BIN (MacBinary header) file support
- 11. CUR (Windows cursor) file support, read/write
- 12. DCX (DCA/Intel) file support, read/write
- 13. ICO (OS/2 icon) file support, read/write
- 14. ICO (Windows icon) file support, read/write
- 15. IMG (Digital Research GEM) file support, read/write
- 16. MAC (MacPaint) file support, read/write
- 17. PIC (Bio-Rad PIC) file support
- 18. PNM (PBMPlus Portable Anymap) file support, read/write
- 19. PTR (OS/2 pointer) file support, read/write
- 20. RLE (Compuserve RLE) file support, read/write
- 21. RLE (Utah RLE) file support, read/write
- 22. RAS (Sun Raster) file support, read/write
- 23. SGI (SGI Image File Format) file support, read/write
- 24. WPG (WordPerfect Graphics) file support, read/write
- 25. XBM (X Bitmap) file support, read/write
- 26. XPM (X Pixmap) file support, read/write
- 27. XWD (X Window Dump) file support, read/write
- 28. PMView now has a real Installation/Uninstallation program
-
-
- The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 0.93.
-
-
- 1. File Open/Save dialogs: If you have entered a subdirectory on the current
- drive and after that change to the root of another drive the "Directory"
- listbox will look strange. Sometimes this causes PMView to crash with
- a SYS3175.
- 2. File Open/Save dialogs: Thumbnail->Delete only works on files that have a
- successfully loaded thumbnail. Consequently a broken thumbnail cannot be
- deleted and regenerated.
- 3. File Open/Save dialogs: The thumbnail deletion thread does not stop when
- closing the file open dialog. Closing the file open/save dialog while
- thumbnails are being deleted will hang the system until all thumbnails
- have been deleted.
- 4. File Open/Save dialogs: File time is not correctly displayed; the number
- of displayed seconds is incorrect, for example 10:23:54 is displayed as
- 10:23:27.
- 5. File Open/Save dialogs: The file type for PBMPlus files (PBM, PGM, and
- PPM) is incorrectly reported as PNG.
- 6. File Open/Save dialogs: The reported image dimensions and bitcount for
- JFIF files is not correct for some files.
- 7. File Open/Save dialogs: PMView reports "No Thumbnail Available" for all
- files that don't have a thumbnail. If automatic thumbnailing is on, PMView
- will try to create thumbnails for all files, including files of unknown
- format. This has been changed so that PMView now checks the format of the
- file and immediately reports "Unknown file format" if the format of the
- file is unknown.
- 8. File Open/Save dialogs&colon. The state of the CTRL key is ignored when
- starting a Swipe selection. (Currently selected files are unselected
- although you're keeping CTRL pressed while pressing the right mouse
- button and moving the mouse to mark the Swipe selection area.)
- 9. File Open/Save dialogs: SHIFT+F9 does not work (it should let you rename
- the selected file)
- 10. File Open/Save dialogs: SHIFT+F10 does not bring up the context menu.
- 11. File Open/Save dialogs: SHIFT+TAB does not work in the "Drive:" field
- of the File Open and Save dialogs.
- 12. File Open/Save dialogs: Files are always displayed with their long names
- in Detail View. (Changing the setting of "View->Longnames" has no effect.)
- 13. File Open/Save dialogs: Changing the text color of the container
- (by dragging a color and pressing CTRL) works fine; PMView will change the
- text color in the container. However, PMView will not remember this color
- and use it the next time it is started.
- 14. File Open/Save dialogs: On certain systems a CD-ROM drive is represented
- by a hard drive icon in the drive list.
- 15. Slideshow: Choosing Copy Settings on a slide that is not selected
- (highlited) will cause PMView to hang.
- 16. Slideshow: PMView fails to turn the mouse pointer back on after
- running a slideshow. This occurs if the pointer is turned off by pressing
- CTRL+M while the slideshow is running.
- 17. Loading: When running in deep color or in edit mode PMView does not
- refresh the window after loading an image and the gamma, contrast,
- etc. was specified at the command prompt.
- 18. Loading, GIF: If an image in the GIF file uses a local color table, PMView
- will not use the local table if a global table is also present in the file.
- 19. Loading, GIF: An invalid value for the codesize field in the GIF file
- (data error) will cause PMView to crash.
- 29. Loading, PCX: The default EGA palette does not have the correct colors.
- 21. Loading, PNG: Loading of 48-bit PNG files does not work correctly.
- 22. Loading, TIFF: PMView refuses to read TIFF files that have any other image
- orientation than top-left.
- 23. Saving: PMView does not report write errors (e.g. disk is full).
- 24. Saving, TIFF: TIFF files that have been saved with PMView cannot be read
- by Aldus Photostyler. (PMView fails to write the offset of the last IFD.)
- 25. Saving, TIFF: Saving of files smaller than the selected strip size (8kB)
- does not work correctly.
- 26. Saving, TIFF: Saving of files with CCITT Group 3 &. 4 compression does
- not work correctly.
- 27. Capture: Right-clicking on PMView's main window does not work after
- you have captured a window.
- 28. Convert to 256 colors: On certain systems PMView dies with a SYS3175 error
- when converting.
- 29. Convert to 256 colors: Convertion results in wrong color hues. This is most
- noticeable if you capture a deep color screen and convert it to 256 colors.
- 30. Image Info Dialog: Saving a file does not update the file size information.
- 31. National Language Support: PMView does not respect the Decimal separator
- setting in OS/2's Country settings.
- 32. Options Notebook: PMView does not respect the setting of Negative
- Thumbnails when creating thumbnails from a PhotoCD.
- 33. Paste as Selection: The hot-key for "Paste as Selection" (SHIFT+INSERT)
- does not work if the clipboard was empty when PMView was started.
- 34. Print Setup: Choosing "Job Properties" brings up the printer configuration
- dialog instead of the job properties dialog.
- 35. Rotate Arbitrary Angle: Rotating an image by an arbitrary angle (for
- instance 55 degrees) may produce noise (garbage) at the edges of the image.
- This only occurs if "Interpolate pixels" is on.
- 36. Track info dialog: It is impossible to directly type in a value in one
- of the spinbuttons.
- 37. Window position: PMView does not reposition its main window in an optimal
- way for images that are slightly smaller than the desktop.
- 38. Full Screen Mode: If you close the current image in full screen mode, the
- popup menu will be grayed out and cannot be used to turn off full screen
- mode.
-
-
- Other fixes and changes in PMView 0.93.
-
-
- 1. The behaviour of the Refresh command in the File Open/Save dialog is
- changed. Now PMView will only update added (or removed) files instead
- of reloading all files in the directory.
- 2. Reduced need for environment variables; PMView now works fine without
- setting the PMVIEW_INI, PMVIEW_FILTER, and PMVIEW_HELP variables.
- 3. The /HEL command line flag and the PMVIEW_HELP environment variable
- are removed. PMView assumes that PMView.HLP is in the same directory
- as PMView.EXE
- 4. Improved loading speed of thumbnails.
- 5. Improved color quantization and dithering quality. The "Maximum Error"
- setting is no longer useful and has been removed.
- 6. PMView now remembers the previously used directory in the File
- Open/Save dialogs. If a default directory has not been set, PMView will
- go to the directory that was used the last time PMView was running.
- 7. PMView now reads and writes the resolution information for all formats
- that can store resolution information (BMP, IMG, JFIF, PCX, PNG, TIFF).
- The horizontal and vertical resolution of the current image is available
- in the Image Info dialog.
- 8. Like OS/2 v2.x, previous versions of PMView treated WPS filenames
- (.LONGNAME EA) as case sensitive. If you had a file "Test.bmp" already
- on disk and saved another file as "test.bmp", PMView would create a new
- file instead of replacing "Test.bmp". In order to replace "Test.bmp" you
- would have to type in the name with the correct casing. Teoretically this
- was a good idea, but in practice it could be annoying. This was changed
- and WPS filenames are no longer case sensitive in OS/2 Warp. The same
- change has now also been applied to PMView.
- 9. New hot-keys: Ctrl+C (File->Close), Ctrl+R (File->Recall). The hot-key
- for File->Crop is changed to Alt+C. The slideshow hot keys for "Show
- controller", "Run slideshow", and "Pause slideshow" are changed to
- Alt+C, Alt+R, and Alt+P respectively.
- 10. File Save As dialog: PMView now defaults to the most recently used image
- format. (Older versions of PMView defaulted to the format of the current
- file.)
- 11. File Save As dialog: The default extension for saved files is now in
- lower case. (I.e. ".bmp" instead of ".BMP")
- 12. In previous versions of PMView the bitmap in the About dialog looked awful
- on systems with only 16 colors. Now it is dithered and thus looks better.
- 13. The bogus EPS TIFF-preview read support is removed.
- 14. The user interface for the registration program (register.exe) is now
- graphical (PM) instead of text only.
-