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v4.0 Top Ten New Features
 
Can now embed graphical album image indexes into your pages
Improved HTML album creation now supports slideshows, background music, displaying of images in new windows and more customisation options
Improved object editing with multiple selection, visible grids, etc.
Can now record and insert your own sound recordings (e.g. your voice)
Improved styling of interface, including XP style glyphs
Added the ability to export albums to Acrobat format (*.pdf)
Added the ability to create compressed, self-extracting HTML albums
New Quick page creation functions: New Image Page, New Multimedia Page, New Text Page, New Image Index Page
New editing status bar which displays the currently selected objects, size, position, etc
Improved Album Image Index dialog allows drag drop reordering, and image deletion and reshuffling

 
Complete Change List
 
Added: Font smoothing option
Added: Animated GIF Support
Added: Spell checking via MS Word
Added: Ability to set an image with a transparent background when rotating
Added: Support for coloured gradient backgrounds
Added: Ability to crop images to non-rectangular shapes (specify, ellipses, etc)
Added: Now allows you to set the heading object that is added to new pages
Added: Now allows you to specify no heading object, so a text heading is added
Added: New option disables the Decompression Prompt when running self-extracting albums
Added: Links now no longer need to be underlined
Added: HTML Album Index now features page thumbnails
Changed: Now optimises the in-memory size of displayed image
Added: Faster loading for images embedded in pages
Added: Ability to embed graphical indexes of folders
Fixed: Can edit page items in the contents panel even in view mode
Fixed: May not embed fonts on win 98 machines
Fixed: Pages without sections, but with names appear in contents even if sections only is enabled
Fixed: If the function "Only display sections" is used in the contents the link is wrong
Fixed: It is not possible to change the text colour of the contents
Fixed: page number selection not visible when select insert link and previously used a non-page number item
Added: Hides the "Skip BG Music" option if there is only one background file
Fixed: The "continuous loop" option does not "stick"
Added: Option to limit the size of in-memory images (further than the default)
Fixed: JPEG Quality dialog shown unnecessarily
Fixed: Rotation may rotate in opposite direction than expected
Changed: New MAPI e-mail sending code
Added: Ability to set shelf title font
Added: Add multimedia controls function
Changed: Uses new font record to transfer font data internally
Added: Support for multiple delete
Added: Support for multiple clipboard actions
Changed: Pasted objects appear at the position they were copied from
Added: Object alignment palette
Added: Select all right click item
Removed: Can no longer use Delete key to remove a page (only to remove objects)
Added: Align to grid function
Added: Display grid option
Changed: Choose page dialog now optionally displays album page thumbnails
Added: Function to move the current object to a different page
Added: Ability to override warning when run exe files from DJA
Added: Ability to choose colours when building HTML albums
Added: Ability to set images to use for navigation links when building HTML albums
Changed: Page flipping during slideshow playback, no longer waits for audio files to complete
Added: HTML Album now plays the first auto-play sound on each page
Added: New HTML option allows you to display clicked images in a new window
Fixed: Graphics used in special buttons are not copied to the distribution
Added: Slideshow option for HTML albums
Added: In viewer album info, now optionally displays the page index as thumbnails
Added: Ability to e-mail just the current page
Fixed: Vertical Lock position may be lost
Added: Hints for sound, attachment and video buttons
Added: FileDate field for labels which inserts the date of the file
Added: FileTime field for labels which inserts the time of the file
Added: Special Buttons can now be transparent
Fixed: When get properties of special buttons may forget its style setting
Added: Images can now have transparent backgrounds
Added: Preview in rotate image dialog
Added: Drag drop reordering in album image index
Added: Ability to remove images from the album using the image index
Added: Optional reshuffling of image positions to take up space vacated by a removal
Fixed: When deselect a multimedia item it still has a red border
Added: Hidden option to add all variants of a font to ensure embedding
Added: New Bind styles
Added: Distribution now remembers its settings during a session
Added: Ability to drag and drop exiting album images to your pages using the Image Index
Added: New dialog displayed when a filename already exists in the album (shows image preview)
Added: Checks for duplicate filenames even if have option set to leave in original locations
Added: Option to always assign a new filename when they clash
Changed: Only copies background music files to the project directory if the 'Copy' option is set
Added: Warning if try to enter a key for a different version of Diji Album
Added: Ability to load registration details from a file
Added: Object menu allows access to main object functions
Added: HTML albums now support some special buttons (page links, album index, display image and close album)
Added: Using contents pane you can now drag entire sections at once
Fixed: Wrong thumbnails displayed in thumbgrid for erroneous images or non-image formats
Added: Ability to add a border to text blocks
Added: Automatic colour enhancement function
Added: Add Extra files dialog now support addition of multiply selected files
Added: Now remembers your last used album browse folder
Added: Now remembers your last used folder for opening a multimedia, text or HTML file
Added: More informative warning if a page file is missing
Added: Ability to import all the pages of another album
Added: Now shows a small image for each object type in file options
Added: Images now displayed in page indexes
Added: Camera/Scanner Wizard settings are now remembered through out a session
Added: Ability to 'Remove an object from all pages'
Added: Ability to print a range of pages
Added: Now multi-page prints process as a single print job rather than separate ones
Added: Ability to print without page edges and binding
Added: Ability to use a custom image for Sound, Video and File buttons
Fixed: Album back cover setting is not remembered
Added: Ability to automatically include page numbers in albums
Fixed: Bug in time extension utility that causes it only to work for one running
Added: Improvements to Contents display
Added: Ability to set the border width separately for each image
Added: New Page|From Images in Folder function
Added: Preview selected background function
Added: Improvements to page edge style
Added: Faster background display if only a solid colour is used
Added: Page edge count now represents the number of pages remaining
Changed: Better method for storing the page bind files
Added: New CDShelf.ini file placed in root dir overrides all shelf.ini files on a CD
Added: Shelf Dialog scrolls on low res (640x480) displays
Fixed: Start Up dialog is always displayed no matter what start up option you choose
Added: Filenames are automatically stripped of spaces for HTML compatibility when building HTML albums
Added: Print settings are now remembered throughout session
Added: Ability to set the corners for each image
Added: Greying of crop selection is now optional
Added: Support for multiple selection of page objects
Changed: Improved interface for crop dialog
Changed: Improved interface for insertion of video, sound and attachment buttons
Changed: Improved method for calculating the default application size
Added: Option to choose between large or small toolbar icons
Changed: Cover always appears as a new section in the index
Added: Can click Esc to redisplay the menu if you hide it
Added: Spacing between scrollbar and text for a transparent text object
Added: Remembers the "Add Heading" setting for new pages
Added: New name plate objects (thanks, Janet Barnett)
Changed: Name plates objects are now automatically displayed as non-transparent
Added: When building an HTML album it checks for invalid chars
Fixed: Background Music Random order setting is not remembered
Added: Complete revamp of page printing and exporting code
Fixed: Disabling of shelf does not work
Added: No longer displays the shelf if it has been disabled via shelf.ini
Added: Pop-up tips for special situations
Changed: Improved "flash" effect for tip box
Changed: Smoother page flip transition
Fixed: Rotation causes selected image to get smaller
Fixed: Inconsistency between page name set in contents and page name set in Page Props
Fixed: If error occurs during red-eye removal then the image may be lost
Fixed: Some page objects (contents, text, etc) appears on page before flip is complete

 
v4.01 Modifications
 
Added: Can now control the quality of sound files when inserting your own recordings
Added: Can now set a page to be hidden during a slideshow
Added: Can now use transition effects in created HTML albums
Added: Random slideshow order option
Added: New Album Index object (sorted list of all pages in the album)
Added: Insert Index Page function
Added: Can now specify which filename CD-ROM compatibility model to use (defaults to Joliet)
Added: More accurate retention of font sizes when editing
Added: Border around album when using the set to ratio option
Added: Right-click menu to rich edit dialog
Added: Can now force lowercase links when creating HTML (useful for UNIX servers)
Added: Now if select print and an image or text object has not been clicked, it defaults to the first object on the page
Added: In the viewer you can now click on the right of the page to change to the next page
Fixed: When unselect item it does not update the status bar
Added: Remembers shrink to window setting for new image windows
Fixed: Shelf button not visible in viewer
Fixed: If choose to display album on CD-ROM distribution may just get a blank screen
Changed: Reduced height of find dialog
Fixed: Images may not be reduced in size when building albums and selecting the reduce options
Changed: Default folder name when creating CD-ROM distribution is "CD-ROM Build"
Fixed: Unreg warning when printing from the Viewer
Fixed: In albums with many pages right click "Go to page" may not work
Changed: In Edit Mode it sets font sizes to the average of both ratios, in view mode it uses the smallest dimension
Fixed: In registration dialog says software is less than $30
Added: Easier to add Word and Acrobat files to an album
Added: Warning that a plug-in may be required for some formats
Changed: Drag drop code to minimize unexpected drags of pages in the contents panel
Changed: Dragging up into a section now places the page into the section rather than prior to it
Fixed: When dragging a section from the end of the album to a new position it may leave the last page
Fixed: Images with invalid DPI settings appear oddly
Fixed: When inserting pages via the wizard the opposite choice for the insertion position is used
Fixed: Background music may not pause for page objects
Changed: Glyph for previewing the album in view mode is not longer modified
FIxed: When come out of view mode background music may continue to play
Fixed: When modifying the page name in page properties the contents panel is not updated
Added: Now when another program passes a file to Diji Album for importation, it prompts if you want to import it
Fixed: In view mode need double click to display an image
Added: Better advice on completion of an album build on what to do next
Fixed: Help button in Album and Page Properties dialogs raises an error
Fixed: Sound file remains in project folder even if cancel out of the recording
Fixed: Dashed framed Shapes may sometimes become solid, frameless shapes may become dashed
Added: Now when searching for text it also searches the filenames of images
Added: COnfirmation when reorder pages by drag and drop
Fixed: Spelling error in installation
Fixed: Wording error in New Pages Wizard
Fixed: Editing Toolbar is needlessly wide when positioned in the left dock
Fixed: JPG_ undo file is left in project folder after an image editing undo
Fixed: Problems entering captions for Diji Objects
Fixed: Grey selection rect is not placed correctly entering the crop dialog
Fixed: When select a font item in the font selection dialog the font color is no clHighlightText
Fixed: Ctrl+I indents the text rather than italicizes it
Changed: New pages are now created after the current position
Added: Now displays contents nodes as expanded if there are less than 25 pages
Fixed: Unregistered warning displayed when printing from the Viewer
Added: Ability to disable the flyover hints for an album
Fixed: Help button in new album dialog does not function
Fixed: Multiple loads if Full-screen album option is enabled
Fixed: Background and page music sometimes starts simultaneously
Changed: Extended length of base filename from 4 to 15 characters
Changed: Filenames for text, sound and image objects now contain the page name
Changed: Background music playback is now delayed until loading is complete
Changed: Back cover is now never shown for more than 5 seconds during a slideshow
Changed: By default, albums now do not have a back cover
Changed: Image hint is now not displayed during a slideshow
Fixed: Ctrl+Enter does not setting full-screen
Added: The more windows standard F11 now functions as full-screen
Changed: Improved styling of page number display
Changed: Now embeds the page flip sound within the app
Changed: During a slideshow the page flip is now played synchronously so it is timed better with the visual flip
Changed: Now displays "Page x" in the toolbar rather than just a number
Fixed: if manually advance the slideshow the page display period is not reset
Changed: "Add/move object to page" now supports multiple select
Changed: When using "add/move object to page", fonts are now not page size dependent
Removed: Up/Down cursor keys no longer navigate pages
Added: Can now widen tips toolbar
Fixed: Can no longer drop files after going into full-screen mode
Changed: Default name for last page is now Back Cover

 
v4.02 Modifications
 
Fixed: Copy errors if using "Linking" to objects option
Fixed: Viewer help may be displayed even when disabled
Added: Hide Help Menu option
Changed: Improved printing code
Added: No longer need plug-in for red-eye and lossless editing
Fixed: Advanced button does not work in Save Image dialogs
Fixed: Album description sometimes splits over multiple lines
Fixed: Reverse sorting may not work in page wizard
Fixed: Transparent images may not show as transparent in viewer
Updated: Font list to match Win 2000 and XP standard fonts
Added: Now builds an index for Adobe Acrobat albums

 
v4.1 Modifications
 
Added: Now can write CD-ROM albums directly to a CD or DVD
Added: Can now choose the style of the UI from common skins such as Office or Windows XP
Added: Now allows albums to be exported directly to DVD PixPlay for playback on a television
Added: Text and link objects can now be aligned left or right
Added: Now supports JPEG2000 format images
Added: When batch adding images to an album, you can now choose to overwrite or rename ALL if filenames clash
Added: When printing the optimal page orientation can now be automatically selected
Added: Images in HTML albums are now displayed within an HTML page
Added: Images in HTML pages can now be zoomed
Added: HTML albums can now use a texture image as a background
Added: Can now choose position of navigation links in HTML albums
HTML pages can now optionally contain a custom link on all pages
Added: Menu can now be repositioned
Added: Checks folder exists when doing a build/distribute
Fixed: Page load issues may occur if toolbar is positioned on the left
Removed: Confusing shelf launch option when building CD Album
Added: Warning when using folder names starting or ending in periods
Changed: Now uses underscores in place of spaces in HTML filenames
Changed: Now always defaults to large toolbar buttons regardless of screen size
Fixed: When use insert page wizard chosen page style may not be used
Fixed: If use multiple image corners they may be missing when building the album
Changed: Now doesn't add "unregistered" watermark to the first twenty pages of an HTML album
Added: Search function now searches page names
Added: New navigation graphics for HTML albums
Added: New splash screen and application icon
Updated: Shelf Icon
Added: Help with the use of optimizing image compression when building
Fixed: If an images is removed from an album when reinserting you need to assign a new name (if linking option is used)
Added: Print Button Object now supports HTML files
Added: Now adds a readme.txt and quick start shortcut to CD-ROM albums
Changed: Main window styling
Added: Now defaults to any connected camera devices when acquiring images
Added: Now clears default camera device if it is not connected
Added: Hidden options to reduce the size of large print jobs
Changed: Improved styling of the album page preview
Changed: Now when printing a page with the border option disabled it does not add a page rectangle
Added: Progressive JPEG loading is now an option
Added: Improved quality of image and HTML albums
Added: Advanced option to delay page flipping until all sound objects have completed
Fixed: If text in rich text paragraph is centered or right aligned then image outputs may be skewed
Added: Can now easily select from HTML album navigation link graphics
Changed: Links in album index are now just +1 size rather than +2
Fixed: Some color problems in shelf dialog
Added: More informative flyover hints in shelf dialog

 
v4.11 Modifications
 
Fixed: Image links in HTML albums may have fixed links
Fixed: Text Pages inserted using the insert page wizard have a black background
Changed: Limiting of unregistered warnings
Fixed: About Box and Splash screen poorly laid out on custom font systems
Added: Option to add an uneven top edge when adding images to your page
Changed: Default background color for image windows is now black
Added: Can now set the page display time for a DVD slideshow
Changed: Changed page display in status bar to include the total number of pages

 


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