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Added: Can now quickly add a caption to each image by specifying it under the image preview |
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Added: Many improvements to the UI including XP style controls throughout |
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Added: Can now paste images directly from the clipboard |
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Added: Can now lock text objects to the center of title pages |
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Added: Can now drag music files into DVD PixPlay (either in main window or background music dialog) |
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Added: Now image caption settings are specified in the main window and can be previewed |
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Added: Start up dialog with access to common functions |
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Changed: Help file is now in (CHM) HTML format |
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Added: Gradient background options for title pages |
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Added: Preview window in transition settings dialog |
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Added: Sorting of items as they are added |
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Added: Can now specify background music that is played after video files complete (if there are images remaining) |
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Added: Navigation buttons when showing an image full screen |
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Added: Underline option to text addition |
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Changed: Handling of temp image saving when creating a CD |
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Changed: Now saves temporary images in JPEG format to lower disk space requirements |
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Added: Now remembers if you always output to file |
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Added: Now remembers the folders that you save video files to |
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Added: Can now specify that filenames should be displayed rather than frame numbers |
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Fixed: Turning off file extensions does not take effect until the display is refreshed |
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Added: Now much faster at encoding images that have filenames overlaid |
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Added: Much faster loading and saving of title page files |
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Fixed: Sometimes text added to title pages will wrap even if it was not designed that way |
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Changed: Transitions use the maximum number of frames available |
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Removed: Option to specify the number of transition frames per second |
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Added: Now remembers your default music selection |
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Added: Now remembers your default transition selection |
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Added: Now warns you when loading a project if any of the background music files cannot be located |
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Added: Now uses checkboxes for selection of items in the Add Images dialog |
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Fixed: If use send to back in the title page designer object may still be drawn in front of other objects |
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Changed: Improvements to the VCD test function |
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Fixed: When try to burn a second identical CD using Back/Next it may re-perform the MPEG creation |
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Added: Now monitors that a minimum level of disk space is left on your system drive |
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Fixed: If click Edit or Add Text while a file is loading it may not edit the correct file |
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Changed: Layout of Help menu |
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Removed: Support and Web Site dialogs (in favor of menu links) |
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Added: Extra logging for transition frame errors |
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Added: Estimate of final project size is now much more accurate regardless of VCD type |
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Fixed: May estimate time of slideshow incorrectly if it contains video files |
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Changed: Show Registration Prompt from first running |
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Changed: Various improvements to the Registration Prompt dialog |
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Added: Can now cut, copy and paste items in the page editing dialog |
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Fixed: On some systems get a line insertion error when printing |
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Added: Now when outputting filenames during CD creation it never puts the filename in the margin area |
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Added: Multimedia header reading is cached even when creating a CD for faster processing |
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Removed: Option to continue display of last frame until music completes (superseded by new stretching function) |
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Fixed: Display time in Create CD dialog not correct for video files |
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Changed: Reduced default automatic cropping to max of 5% of each edge |
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Added: Now the e-mail support link in the help menu also forwards the log |
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Added: Tip advising how to use the soundtrack of a video in a mixed slideshow |
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Added: Function to move all videos to the start of the slideshow |
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Added: Can now resize the image display panel |
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Added: Can now hide the slideshow settings panel |
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Changed: Now usage tips are only shown once per session |
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Added: New option to further improve the accuracy of the preview timing |
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Fixed: Frame index of thumbnails may not update when reorder items in the slideshow |
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Added: More efficient debug logging when building slideshows |
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Changed: Now all work files are put in folders with the name of the project |
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Removed: brassplate.png clip art image |
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Added: Many internal improvements |
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Changed: Doesn't warn about being a video only project if images and videos are added at the same time |
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Changed: Doesn't warn about being a video only project if images added after the video files |
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Fixed: May change the position and size of the text box created |
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Fixed: Videos in slideshow would cause the time display to be slightly incorrect |
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Changed: Disable the status controls for CD writing while not writing a CD |
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Added: Now detects when images with text have been removed (even though the title page remains) |
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Changed: Some toolbar glyphs |
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Added: Now shows the length of background music in the create CD dialog |
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Added: Now remembers the font you used when editing each title page and offers it next time you edit it |
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Changed: Double-clicking in the title page editor now displays the Background Properties |
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Added: Display quality of thumbnails for title frames and images with text is now much better |
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Added: New shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T to remove the text from an image |
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Added: Can now use wildcards, %FILENAME% and %FILEDATE% when specifying the captions for images |
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Added: Improved the display of output project size |
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Added: Can now navigate when in full screen mode or viewer using the space key |
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Added: Manual navigation option for image slideshows |
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Fixed: Sometimes did not warn you if you were saving to a video file and chose a name of a file that already exists |
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Added: Default file/folder name when saving projects to file/folder is always unique |
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Changed: Offer the MPEG save option as default rather than Cue |
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Added: Now displays ellipses for very long filenames |
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Added: Now image selection dialog displays Title pages too |
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Added: Many more pop-up usage tips |
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Added: Now much quicker to specify a custom display time for images as the spin control is not disabled by default |
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Changed: Now when display a slideshow (preview or on a CD) the cursor is hidden |
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Added: New Xequte style key format |
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Removed: Superfluous Full-screen function |
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Added: Outputting to native DVD format |
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Added: Can now specify whether DVD complaint mpegs use AC3 or MPEG Layer 2 Audio |
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Fixed: May not display all of background Music buttons on large font system |
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Added: Can now set slide shows to automatically loop (DVD format only) |
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Added: Send slideshow by Email function |
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Fixed: If disable all transitions may still have transitions shown |
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Fixed: Cannot import JPEG format images as clip art |
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Changed: Formats other than BMP, WMF, EMF, GIF are now not transparent when added as clip art |
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Fixed: May need to download viewer before burning (even if not exporting an image slideshow) |
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Fixed: May not use the correct length for title frames (or images with text) if it has been custom set |
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Added: More informative error message when encountering twain errors |
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Added: Now only displays movie write error once |
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Added: Better logging of save errors |
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Added: Improved logging for movie write errors |
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Fixed: AUDIO_TS folder not added to DVD's |
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Fixed: May lose cursor position when deleting items |
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Added: Now remembers the default folder for loading of video files |
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Added: Now warning that is displayed when exporting a single video to file can be disabled |
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Added: Can now specify whether images used in project are copied to your work folder |
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Fixed: Images on CD's are copied to the base work folder not the project work folder |
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Added: Can now reorder images using Cut, Copy and paste keyboard shortcuts |
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Added: Can now add images from windows explorer using copy and paste |
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Added: Can now import projects and file lists into the current project |
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Changed: Now always converts spaces to underscores in CUE filenames to address Nero issue with such filenames |
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Fixed: E-mail link in Create CD dialog may not work |
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Fixed: When exporting a single video as "Original" format may not play back |
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Changed: Many improvements to disk writing library |
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Fixed: Various changes to make DVD formats more compatible with DVD players |
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Added: Device Capabilities dialog is now much more informative |
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Fixed: In some rare situations didn't detect that a valid writeable disk has been inserted |
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Added: Now always adds a UDF bridge when writing DVD disks |
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Changed: Don't output temp file deletion to log |
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Fixed: "Cannot read from movie file" problem |
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Changed: AC3 audio rate is now set to 48 kHz |
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Added: Improved confirmation messages displayed prior to burning of a disk |
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Added: Tidied status messages while burning |
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Added: Warning if the autorun file for an MPEG disk cannot be located |
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Added: Now displays a final "Slideshow Generation Completed" tab |
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Added: New option to shutdown PC after slideshow generation completes |
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Added: New option to display extra burning details |
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Changed: By default cache size and device buffer progress bars are hidden |
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Added: Better processing information displayed during burn |
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Added: Now prevents the specification of UNC paths for temporary folders |
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Added: Now when adding images to your project embedded IPTC descriptions are read |
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Added: New tag %IPTC-DESCRIPTION% which reads the description directly from the IPTC field |
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Added: New option to display more buttons on the toolbar for image editing, copying, pasting and starting DVD chapters |
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Fixed: Warning about overwriting an existing file even if only testing the slideshow |
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Fixed: Some incorrect tab orders |
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Added: Can now specify different file display methods in the add images dialog |
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Added: Can now display an image full size in the add images dialog |
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Added: Size of the Add Images window is now saved |
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Fixed: Timing may be inaccurate if transitions are disabled |
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Changed: Improved general accuracy of slideshow preview timing |
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Added: Stretch small images and video to screen size to Image Slideshow options dialog |
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Added: Can now use PageUp/PageDown to navigate between DVD chapters when viewing Image Slideshow disks |
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Changed: Now displays length of slideshow with one decimal place |
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Added: Now checks for XMP files and adds them (and any files they reference) to image slideshow projects |
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Changed: Improved layout of Create Disk dialog |
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Fixed: Slow at determining next transition effect to use (when random) |
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Fixed: When creating DVD's may set square pixel flag |
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Changed: Better logging of DVD and VCD imaging processing |
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Changed: No longer writes a temporary log |
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Added: Faster saving of project files |
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Added: No longer has a 64k limit for project files under Win 9x |
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Changed: No longer sets JPEG images added as clip art as transparency |
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Fixed: Some issues scanning images into DVD PixPlay |
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Changed: Removed sub-folder lines from folder tree |
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Added: Now checks that the install file is not located in the application folder when installing |
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Changed: Now always re-orders files for DVD output |
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Changed: Now adds an ellipses when items are repeated in the progress log |
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Changed: Now makes preview accurate even when not previewing from the start |
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Changed: Now when preview the slideshow from a midpoint, it choose the appropriate track for that position |
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Added support 24 New Formats (after downloading free plug-in): Alias Wavefront RLE (*.pix),
Apple Pict (*.pict), AVS (*.avs), Camera Digital Negative (*.dng), FITS (*.fits), FlashPix (*.fpx), Gimp Image (*.xcf),
Graphviz DOT (*.dot), HDF (*.hdf), HP PCL Printer Image (*.pcl), JBIG (*.jbig, *.jbg, *.bie), Khoros VIFF (*.viff),
Kodak Cineon (*.cin), Magick (*.miff), Matlab (*.mat), MTV Raytracing Image (*.mtv), Palm Pixmap (*.palm), Scalable Vector Graphic (*.svg),
Seattle File Works (*.pwp), SMTPE DPX (*.dpx), Sun Rasterfile (*.sun), Vicar Rasterfile (*.vicar), XWindows Bitmap (*.xbm),
XWindows Pixmap (*.xpm) |
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Fixed: Truncates long captions when outputting slideshow |
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Added: Now checks disk space more frequently when converting |
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Added: Now when creating VCD/DVD files it displays processing feedback |
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Fixed: During slideshow conversion it may not display an hourglass cursor |
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Fixed: May continue processing even after cancellation |
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Changed: Now uses MP2, by default, rather than AC3 for DVD audio |
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Removed: Outdated method for updating wnaspi32.dll version |
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Added: Now when no burners are found it offers to redirect users to the web site for assistance |
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Added: Better logging of burner status |
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Fixed: Disks with existing content may be described as not writeable, even if the erase option is selected |
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Changed: Now when first selecting transitions all are enabled by default |
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Added: When deleting title pages/images with text from your project cached screen and thumb files are deleted |
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Fixed: References to DVD chapter breaks aren't deleted for files removed from the project |
