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| History of |
| MegaView |
| Photo and Multimedia Viewing Software |
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MegaView v11 is a feature rich upgrade offering numerous changes and improvements.
For information on upgrading, please see our upgrade page.
v11 Top Ten Enhancements:
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Huge improvements in styling, wording and layout in the 80 most used windows |
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Display a map showing the location of the current photo (if photo includes GPS field)
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Display a histogram of your image color range
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24 new transition effects |
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Graphics enabling you to rapidly select motion and transition effects
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More image formats: Windows Media HD Photos (*.hdp,*.wdp), Multipage PCX (*.dcx) files, enhanced DICOM and huge TIFF files |
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New Advanced Options dialog provides access to 30 power settings |
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Automatically clear the thumbnail cache when closing MegaView |
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Quickly reposition in file and keyword grids by clicking the first few letters of name |
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Improved desktop wallpaper features including instant "Undo" |
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Windows 7 support including progress display in the Windows Taskbar |
v10 Top Fifteen Enhancements:
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Automatically rotates digital camera photos for correct display |
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Zip files are now natively supported. Browse Zips like normal folders with thumbnail support |
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New dockable tool window displays all information for the current file, including camera and music fields
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Now supports a much wider range of digital camera Raw photo formats |
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Dicom Medical Imaging format is now natively supported |
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Automatically plays associated sound files of images |
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Added many digital camera (EXIF) fields, including all GPS fields and Windows embedded data |
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Full Vista support: Now offers much more Vista specific improvements |
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Significant improvements to styling throughout the software |
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Now provides full support for multiple monitor usage |
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Images can be automatically scrolled simply by hovering the cursor over the display |
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Numerous changes to layout and wording throughout the application to make it easier to use |
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Faster loading of many image formats |
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Automatically hides favorites mode when not in use |
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New buttons: "Go up" on folder tree toolbar and Rotate buttons on main toolbar (when image editing toolbar is hidden) |
v9 Top 15 Enhancements:
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Motion Effects are now available to add interest to your slideshows |
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Now supports one-click camera acquisition: Once Smart Pix knows your preferred settings it can retrieve all of the photos from a camera with a single click |
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Many improvements to the Camera/Scanner Acquisition Wizard including more powerful naming options and maintaining of all preferred settings |
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Various improvements to the Slideshow Disk Creation wizard including support for motion effects and optional buttons for printing, launching a web page or sending an email |
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Adobe Photoshop PSD images (single and multi-layer) are now supported for loading and saving |
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New advanced batch renaming options including appending of seconds, changing of date order and inclusion of the original filename |
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Much faster in various areas due to powerful caching functionality and optimized image loading |
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Can now view and capture all frames of WMV, AVI and MPEG videos even if very large |
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Now favorites file lists can be saved as text files or relative link lists |
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Support is now included for many more EXIF fields including GPS Latitude and Longitude |
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Automatic display of the embedded IPTC description if a custom description has not been assigned |
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Added support for RAW formats from many newer cameras and less common TIFF formats |
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The File Information dialog can now be resized (and its size is remembered) |
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When hovering the mouse over a file thumbnail full details on the file are displayed |
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Various styling improvements particularly under Windows XP |
Changes in v11.1
- Fixed: Slow parsing of big folders due to always reading EXIF date
- Fixed: View video frames option may be disabled if Simplified UI option is enabled
- Added: Text captions also display when using the multiview option
- Fixed: Some issues editing pages of TIFF files
- Added: Some stylistic improvements
- Changed: Mouse wheel always scrolls the current control. If no scrollable control is focused the mouse wheel setting under Tools > Options, Other determines whether the wheel navigates the file list or zooms the image
- Added: Shift key inverts the mouse wheel function
- Changed: Updated Help file
- Added: Added support for newer camera RAW formats
- Fixed: File info dialog may not clear when adding new information
Changes in v11.2
- Changed: No longer shows IPTC warning for non-JPEG and TIFF files when exporting keywords and descriptions
- Fixed: In rare situation JPEGs with certain EXIF fields can be corrupted when saved
- Fixed: Slideshow interval display issue when using long display times
Changes in v11.3
- Added: Can now use multimedia control keys to navigate files
- Added: Manual and automated checking for updates
- Added: Some performance optimizations
- Fixed: May get an error when exporting keywords and descriptions to IPTC
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