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v5.0 Top Twenty New Features
 
1. Powerful new image object, allows your images to be displayed with rotation, graying, soft shadow and multiple color frames
2. New Shape Object which includes 37 new shapes to the shape object (including stars, lightning, explosions, speech bubbles and arrows) and support for gradient fills
3. New rich text object with improved transparency, clickable web links, multiple level undo and full text justification (i.e. simultaneously aligned on left and right)
4. Significant enhancements to the creation of web page albums including optional slideshows of album pages, image or both, support for background music files, more control over fonts and improved graphics
5. Text, image, clipart, button and shape objects now all support the new "Click Effect", allowing over 40 different actions to occur when any of these object types are clicked (e.g. starting a slideshow, displaying a file, going to a page, etc).
6. Improved styling of the user interface with glyphs displayed in drop down box and tab controls, and new graphics for buttons and previews
7. Many improvements to the shelf dialog, including support for loading and saving of shelves, more control over album font size and color and support for offline albums (i.e. on CDs)
8. Improved camera wizard with combined display of all connected USB and Twain devices and support for the acquisition of video files
9. Many improvements to the "Insert Page Wizard" including quick selection of ten common styles with a preview, less clutter and confusion and support for rotated display of images
10. Can now specify E-mail, web site and other contact details for albums
11. Now when adding images to an album associated sound files (of the same name) are automatically added as autoplaying objects. Also when creating image books, it automatically checks for text files of the same name as the source image files
12. Many new keyboard shortcuts for faster application control, including resizing images to 100% (Ctrl+Alt+1), move or delete the current page (Ctrl+M or Ctrl+D), Go to page (Alt+G), previous or next chapter (Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+PgUp/Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+PgDown) and lock object to the full page (Shift+Ctrl+L)
13. Contents, Index and Image Index objects can now have their display limited to the current chapter
14. Now albums exported to DVD PixPlay can be edited further before burning them to CD
15. Favorites List files created in Smart Pix, MegaView or EZ-Pix can now be directly imported into Diji Album
16. Four new button functions: send e-mail, open web page and go to the start or next chapter
17. Added: Now offers itself as a retrieval option when inserting a camera or image CD under XP
18. Now stores the last compiled version of an album so that it can be sent to multiple recipients without needing rebuilding
19. The clipart object now supports animated GIFs
20. The digital camera (EXIF) date field is now used when included in the image

 
Complete Change List
 
Added: Now supports multiple shelf files
Added: Can now specify E-mail, web site and other contact details for album
Added: 37 new shapes to the shape object (including stars, lightning, explosions, speech bubbles and arrows)
Added: Can now display page thumbnails in the contents panel
Added: New Image Object: Rotation, graying, soft shadow, two color borders, multiple text objects
Added: Can now set the font color and size for albums on the shelf
Added: Now shapes support gradient fills
Added: Insert Pages wizard now allows user to choose from 10 common page layouts
Added: When creating image books, if a text file is found with he same name as the image file it will be used for the accompanying text
Added: When inserting images into pages it optionally allows you to automatically add associated sound files (of the same name) as autoplaying objects on the page
Added: Acquisition of video files from digital cameras is now supported
Added: Can now specify a music file to use while an HTML slideshow is displayed
Added: Slideshow option is also available for normal HTML albums
Added: Can now specify the image to use to display an HTML album as a slideshow
Changed: HTML album slideshows are now done using JavaScript and can be paused
Added: With HTML albums can now display a slideshow of the images, album pages or both
Added: Can now specify the size and color of HTML headings
Added: Support for numbering in rich text blocks
Added Support for clickable web links in rich text blocks
Added: Rich text blocks now offer full justification (i.e. simultaneously aligned on left and right)
Added: Multiple level undo/redo to rich text editor
Changed: Now reads File date and time from EXIF data where available
Added: Now remembers the last compiled version of an album so it can be sent to multiple recipients without needing recompilation
Added: XP Style buttons for video, sound and file buttons
Added: New tags for Author Email and Author Web site fields
Added: Filename only display option for Image indexes
Added: Can now disable the background when printing
Added: New text tag %CHAPTER_NAME% to display the chapter name for the current page
Added: Contents/Index object can now optionally just display pages of the current chapter
Added: When inserting images using the Insert Page Wizard it now shows a preview of the layout
Added: Can now display thumbnail indexes just for the current chapter
Added: Can now choose to add only JPEG format images when inserting new pages
Added: Hovering over an object now displays information on the objects properties and click effect
Added: Can now specify image rotation when creating pages using wizard
Added: Clipart now supports animated GIFs
Changed: Adding of new clipart is now done in clipart properties (not options)
Added: Can now resize images to 100% zoom with a single click and shortcut Ctrl+Alt+1
Added: Much faster graying in crop dialog
Added: New option to disable confirmation when drag/drop moving pages
Added: Option to confirm moving of pages in contents panel also applies to confirmation of reordering of images in Image Index
Added: Glyphs to object selection list box
Added: Glyphs to background music list box
Added: Glyphs to Printer selection box
Added: Glyphs to shape selection box
Added: Glyphs to extra files list box
Added: Glyphs to album files list box
Added: Glyphs to template selection list box
Changed: Improved styling of tab controls throughout program
Added: Support for EPS and PSPImage formats
Added: Play sound file in select background music dialog
Added: New menu item, "Move Page To..."
Added: Can now set default album and page slideshow delays even when user manually starts the slideshow
Added: Buttons in album info dialog to launch the author web page or email
Added: Button in About Box to display album info dialog
Added: Now adds an underline to link objects when they are hovered over
Changed: Improved Image acquisition wizard: now detects and lists all USB and twain cameras together
Added: Now supports /CAM parameter to start acquisition from a camera or other image device
Added: Send E-mail and Open Web page functions to button effects
Added: Shortcuts Ctrl+D and Ctrl+M to delete/Move the current page
Added: New shortcut to go to an album page, Alt+G
Added: Two new buttons types: Go to chapter start, go to next chapter
Added: Shortcuts to go to the previous or next chapter: Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+PgUp/Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+PgDown
Added: New shortcut to lock an object to the full page: Shift+Ctrl+L
Added: Glyph lock in the status bar now displays a hint regarding the nature of the object locking
Added: Updated graphics in page insertion wizard to more modern style
Added: Can now choose to only play background music during a slideshow
Added: Now remembers the volume name of albums on the shelf from CD-ROMs. Prompts to insert the correct CD if the album is clicked
Added: Now Shape objects can have any of the same click effects as a Button
Added: Now Clip Art objects can have any of the same click effects as a Button
Added: Now Text objects can have any of the same click effects as a Button
Added: Now link button offers quick access to the most common link types
Changed: Simplified the Pages Wizard by demoting some lesser used font settings
Added: Can now specify the amount of spacing between an image and its text
Added: Option to hide the click function options from Image, Clip Art and Shape Properties
Added: Glyphs to tabs in Page Properties dialog
Added: Glyphs to tabs in Album Properties dialog
Added: Glyphs to tabs in Options dialog
Added: Can now add multiple images using the Add to Clip Art function
Added: Add to Clip Art function now allows a new filename to be assigned if an image of the same name already exists
Added: Can now import Favorite List files from Smart Pix, MegaView or EZ-Pix
Added: Can now edit albums exported to DVD PixPlay before burning them to CD
Changed: New image windows now use large images is used in main window
Changed: User can now increase or decrease the slideshow page delays rather than the explicitly set them
Changed: Now when copying a page from another album it replicates all of the objects it contains to the project folder of the new album
Added: Sound and video objects set to autoplay (i.e. hidden in the viewer) are grayed out in the editor
Changed: No longer wraps text that is rotated (for aesthetic reasons)
Added: Progress displayed during image acquisition
Changed: Slideshow special button now has a down state
Added: Show message button now also functions in HTML albums
Changed: Improved styling of rich edit dialog
Added: Now when adding an object to all pages it will prompt you to confirm addition to pages that already have the object
Added: Can now rename images that are used in the album from the Properties dialog
Changed: Simplified Insert Pages Wizard by demoting the custom page background settings to a sub-dialog
Changed: Simplified Insert Pages Wizard by demoting the page margin settings to a sub-dialog
Added: Can now customize the splash screen that is displayed on loading (by adding a splash file to the installation)
Changed: Improved the ragged top edge algorithm so that the rightmost image is always high
Added: Now when checking the shelf for non-existent albums it does not remove those on missing removable devices
Added: Can now double-click files in the Insert Pages Wizard to display their file data
Changed: Improved layout of distribution wizard
Added: New button function to display the last page of the album
Updated: CD writing library
Changed: Must faster graying of non-selection area in crop window
Changed: Added third image display quality option
Added: Can now set the image display quality when editing
Added: Can now lock clipart to certain sizes
Changed: More informative description of selected page when deleting pages
Added: In main window contents panel and album properties can now re-order pages using Alt+Up/Down
Added: Delete and Rename (F2) shortcuts to pages lists in main contents panel and album properties
Changed: More consistent page flip animation
Changed: No longer display page flip animation during editing (unless a slideshow is underway)
Changed: Reduced time before the reg info dialog can be dismissed to two seconds
Added: Can go to selected page in contents panel using Enter key
Added: New window buttons now have hints
Added: Now supports the /IMPORT parameter to automatically commence the importation of a file list
Fixed: May sometimes get the wrong page name displayed when editing until the page is reloaded
Changed: Go to page in oversize album now displays the standard page selector rather than a page number input dialog
Changed: Current page now always displayed in the contents panel
Changed: "Sections" are now referred to as "Chapters"
Added: All buttons types display a hint regarding their usage when selecting them in the button properties dialog
Fixed: Updated rich edit control to fix ugly font problem when transparent background is used on system with font smoothing
Removed: Some clip art items that are no longer relevant due to the expanded shape support (arrows, lightning, etc)
Added: Improved data handling in Shelf dialogAdded: Improved data handling in Reg Info dialog
Removed: Icon formats are no longer added in the Pages Wizard
Added: Improved data handling in Pages Wizard dialog
Changed: HTML source files are now stored in an HTML sub-folder
Changed: Replaced "HTML album" references with "Web Page Album"
Changed: Now default font when going into Rich text dialog is the same as the last used font
Changed: More efficient object copying mechanism
Removed: Obsolete transparent background color in crop and rotate image dialogs
Removed: Superfluous default settings for adding borders and corners to images from New Album wizard (as asked again in New Pages Wiz)
Added: Tips for enabling the click function options for images, clip art and shapes
Fixed: Toolbar button may advance music rather than stop it
Fixed: Background music may continue when shelf displayed at end of slideshow
Changed: Updated graphic in usage tip window
Changed: Improved File Open dialog in Rich Text editing dialog
Fixed: Transparent text object may not update after text modification
Changed: Now archives log files larger than 3MB
Fixed: Default rich text font color may not be saved
Fixed: In some situations can get read-only error when pending shelf list is saved
Fixed: Help button still available in Find dialog even if Viewer Help is disabled
Fixed: Setting an image as wallpaper may not use full resolution of the image
Changed: Images that are bigger than the screen size are reduced to screen size when setting as wallpaper
Fixed: Large toolbar images setting may not be remembered
Fixed: In some configurations may be able to engage edit mode in the viewer
Fixed: More accurate testing of pages that are modified
Fixed: If use the "Remove from all pages" function may get file errors when creating a CD ROM distribution
Fixed: After double clicking an item in the contents menu it may start dragging
Fixed: No longer prompts to move if drop on dragged item
Fixed: Weirdness when dragging and dropping sections using the contents panel
Fixed: Now better at detecting moving of pages to identical positions
Fixed: May not get a full quality output when printing a single page
Fixed: If click a "Print file of Name" button may still prompt to print the album
Fixed: Changing the lock status of an object does not update the status bar glyph until reselecting the object
Fixed: XIF and FAX formats may not be added when using the Pages Wizard
Added: Now can select (and save) from three common text styles
Changed: Better internal handling of Diji Object type references
Fixed: Toolbars can be removed in the specify text dialog
Changed: Image objects better at supporting non-standard animated GIF types
Fixed: No longer offers the irrelevant %TEXTFILENAME% option for Image Books
Fixed: Opening an album with a missing music index file no longer causes a load failure
Fixed: Major application slowdown if logging is enabled
Fixed: Album size calculation may not work with ALB and EXE albums
Changed: Updated object selection library (which fixes some weirdness experienced when multiply selecting controls)
Added: Now offers itself as a retrieval option when inserting a camera or image CD under XP
Added: Now warns you if trying to install/uninstall while the application is already running
Changed: Diji Album key extension to DJAKEY
Removed: Option to rotate and flip images from the main window as it was easily confused with the display rotation option of image objects
Added: Alt+, and Alt+. to decrease/increase the rotation of an image
Added: Hide the help button in print wizard if album hide help option is set
Fixed: Wording error relating to printing of the current object in the print dialog
Changed: Improved styling of status bar in image insertion dialog
Fixed: No hint shown in image insertion dialog
Changed: Improved confirmation text when moving pages
Changed: Removed tooltip for the Insert Pages wizard folder selector
Added: Start up menu now displays the four most recently opened albums
Fixed: Not prompted twice to confirm overwrite in distribution wizard
Added: Under Page properties page move selection is limited to the page count
Fixed: Problem displaying image selector in album with no images added
Added: Glyphs to right-click menu in New image window
Fixed: When displaying monochrome images in new windows may come out black
Changed: Improved variable handling in New Window dialog
Fixed: When deleting objects using the image index then page thumbnails are not refreshed
Added: More informative confirmation message when removing objects from your page
Fixed: When deleting images using the album image index it may not delete all selected
Added: Now when using period/comma to change the slideshow display speed, the multiplier is displayed in the status bar
Changed: Tool tip display handling when in edit mode
Added: Support for shortcuts (delete and Ctrl+A) in the insert pages wizard
Fixed: If drag drop object and choose option not to copy image to project then are warned that the file already exists in the project
Added: Option to allow objects dragged from Explorer or the Image Selector to be positioned at the drop spot
Added: Now supports registration key files of multiple versions
Updated: Improved serial number system
Added: Graph in registration information counting down usage days
Added: button to play/preview/display the video/sound/file in Properties
Changed: Archives logs bigger than 1MB
Added: Output print quality setting
Fixed: Width of Rich Editing window not remembered
Changed: Now when adding a link to text it only adds an underline if there is an underline in the links style
Fixed: Go to page dialog displays when hovering over go to page menu item in large album
Added: Error message when CD writing does not complete
Changed: Handling of delay in Reg. Info dialog
Removed: Albums are no longer automatically added to the shelf when they are built
Updated: Viewer example album
Added: New option to strictly redraw image objects even when editing
Fixed: Auto-orientation option when printing has no effect if preview not enabled
Fixed: Some issues with writing CD-ROM distributions
Changed: No longer allow email of the current page when page exporting is disabled
Fixed: Read-Only albums may listed as editable (although they are not)
Changed: Now only display the album email option in the viewer if an e-mailable version of the album is available
Changed: Now doesn't fill CD write speed box until select the drop down dialog
Added: Now writes ASPI file versions to log
Added: Now attempts to use internal ASPI driver first
Added: Improved cursor display during slow activity in CD writing dialog
Added: Now resets all album specific fields in the distribution wizard when loading a new album
Fixed: If have two different Diji Album versions on the same system it may use the old viewer files when compiling an album
Fixed: Some flyover hints missing in image properties dialog
Added: Changes to how lowercase filenames are handled when setting the UNIX HTML formatting option
Fixed: A/V that can occur when displaying new windows during a slideshow
Changed: May show registration status in Viewer
Changed: Now allows Version 4 and 5 to be registered on the same system


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