VERSION HISTORY

3.9.9 (May 1st 2012)

- Beside the multi-page file the Scan to Tiff command
  saves now also the single pages in separate files 
- New toolbar button for Scan to Tiff and for Email
- When Scan to Tiff or Scan to Pdf dialogs are closed
  the program asks whether more pages are to be scanned
  (removed the superfluous Lock Scan Dialog option)
- Convert 32 bpp images to 24 bpp when sending them to the
  printer; this because the alpha component is interpreted
  by some printers even if it's not an image with alpha channel
  
3.9.7 (March 27th 2012)

- The zoom selection box is now working as expected when
  canceling the zoom level selection by pressing ESC or
  clicking outside the selection box

3.9.5 (February 27th 2012)

- Better and faster printing for low-resolution images
  (1bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp and 16bpp)
- Updated toolbar min. width calculation

3.9.0 (December 20th 2011)

- Reduced dialogs and resources
- Fixed randomness for slideshow in random mode

3.7.0 (November 8th 2011)

- Rename command (F2 key)
- String and other fixes
- Dropped memory mapped BMP support
  (today's PC have enough RAM)

3.5.5 (October 10th 2011)

- No changes (be in sync with ContaCam version)

3.5.0 (September 13th 2011)

- Fixed Xmp metadata reading, sometimes this caused a
  really slow loading of jpeg or tiff files
- Animated gifs are now displaying in high quality when
  that setting is chosen
- libpng updated to 1.2.46

3.3.0 (August 15th 2011)

- Optimized installer size and removed installer CRC check
  because it can fail on network shares
- Fixed background color popup not displaying correctly bug
  appeared with version 3.1.0 and affecting the unicode
  executable running under Win 2003, XP and Win 2000 
- Enhanced the Paste command
- Fixed Preview Display not showing correctly bug
  for small sizes on Windows 7
- Added a Cut operation to the Crop/Copy/Cut command

3.1.0 (July 5th 2011)

- New compile with MFC security update (MS11-025 and KB2538241)

3.0.0 (May 9th 2011)

- Fixed W/H ratio info display for the crop tool with cm units
- Optimized first picture soft load
- Main window and File Info dialogs are restored to the
  primary monitor if the last position is on a invalid monitor
  (for example after the removal of a video projector)
- Enhanced translations
- Added some codecs

2.3.9 (March 12th 2011)

- Fixed playing problems for audio files with really long path
- Fixed Loading... keeps occasionally showing in file open dialog
- Fixed animated gif preview problems in file open dialog for
  big files with many frames
- German translation

2.3.5 (February 18th 2011)

- Standalone version is now clean: it will not create
  a directory in the user's application data folder
- View image location in Google Map

2.3.0 (January 13th 2011)

- Open in full-screen settings option
- Possibility to play slideshow in random order

2.1.0 (October 27th 2010)

- More robust thread start/stop logic

2.0.9 (September 24th 2010)

- libpng updated to 1.2.44
  
2.0.7 (August 12th 2010)

- Added touch screen gestures support for zoom in/out
  and for next/previous picture
- Fixed batch processing when input and output files
  have overlapping names in same directory
  -> reorder in same directory now works as expected!
- Translation fixes
- libpng updated to 1.2.43
- Help command for paste into coordinates file
- Fixed crash under Vista or higher when multiple avi
  are open and full-screen mode is entered with DirectX

2.0.5 (May 17th 2010)

- Translation fixes
- YUV Blt() support check
 
2.0.1 (April 8th 2010)

- Fixed brightness, contrast,... preview display size
  for pictures with a larger size than the screen
 
2.0.0 (March 18th 2010)

- Some optimisations
- View's toolbar repainting bug fixed
- Integrated codecs (lossless, mjpeg, theora and vorbis)
- Crop/Copy fix for images with transparency

1.9.7 (September 3rd 2009)

- Multi language support: Russian and Italian translations
- Solved batch processing animated gifs and saving with
  another extension bug
- Save new picture remembers last used file type
- Crop/Copy rectangle... supports rectangular selection
- Tiff loading is more fault tolerant
- Installer supports file association command line params:
  for example /jpg=1 to associate and /jpg=0 to unassociate
  jpeg files. Use the names found under File - Settings...
  There is also /all=1 and /all=0 to associate/unassociate
  all file types
- Starting from Win2000 installer supports a force application
  close parameter: /kill=1

1.9.5 (May 12th 2009)

- Paste Into with different corners and coordinates txt file
- Bmp loading is more fault tolerant
- New dialog bug fix
- Fixed wrong loading of 2bpp pngs with transparency
- Fixed ANSI chars conversion problems in Win95 and NT4
- Added a Save As... toolbar button
- Added Next / Previous Page / Frame toolbar buttons
- Fixed the no printing to big formats (like A1 or A0) bug
- When unchecking Fit in Print Preview then 100% is set now
- In Batch Proc./Slideshow dialog enhanced the speed and the
  stability of the output directory size calculation and
  of the files count

1.9.0 (November 12th 2008)

- Jpeg loading is more fault tolerant
- Since Windows Vista mplay32.exe has been removed.
  FreeVimager can now be used to play a sound and close itself
  when done like mplay32.exe used to do with the /play and
  the /close command line options. Additionally there is a /hide
  switch to hide the program window.
- Preview Display dialog added different zoom factors and
  corners for precise paste into
- New command for empty paper creation
- Print cancel button is responsive now
- New Save As Pdf command 

1.7.0 (June 10th 2008)

- Current directory always set to the program's directory
  to avoid locking the directory from which we double-clicked
- Standalone application stores now settings in an INI file
- Date Taken Shift under batch processing

1.5.5 (March 9th 2008)

- SSE optimized bicubic interpolation. Printing uses now
  this method (before it used the bilinear method)
- Lanczos resampling
- Menu entry in full-screen to switch to next or previous
  monitors
- Rotate toolbar icon
- Scan to PDF and scan to TIFF now remembers the last used
  file path
- Fixed the OSD not following when switching monitor
- Fixed the no correct view update when switching to a
  monitor with a different resolution
- New preview display with alpha transparency and Paste Into
- Paste Into right-click context menu entry
- Fixed grayscale command for images with transparency
- Palette edit dialog for 8 bpp or less images
- Count Unique Colors menu entry
- Soften dialog with different levels of softness
- Double-click switchable coordinate units (px, cm and inch)
- Print preview fits to the printer margin if Margin is
  checked and to the printer page if Margin is not checked
- Convert to red with alpha channel from the grayscale levels
  (useful to convert black text on white background to text with
  transparency; change to another color with the hue regulator)

1.5.0 (February 1st 2008)

- Solved a zip extraction problem when a file or a directory
  do not have the right attributes
- New settings dialog under the File menu: single instance,
  tray icon and other parameters
- Histogram under brightness, contrast, ... regulators
- Redeye removal algorithm enhanced: supports big redeyes,
  hue range regulation and manual mask pixels add / remove
- Under the View menu added the No Borders command to
  enable / disable borders around images
- Moved the Close All menu entry from the File menu to the
  Window menu
- Audio CD player (cda file extension)
- New FAQs menu entry under the Help menu
- Under Vista the installer runs as admin,
  but launches now FreeVimager as a normal user

1.3.0 (September 5th 2007)

- This is a stable release with many fixes
  and optimizations
- Improved Windows Vista compatibility
  (runs well with UAC enabled)
- Batch processing file list load / save uses
  now a UTF8 (with BOM) text file
- CD / DVD  slideshow remembers OSD settings
- Fixed zip compression file names bug on UNICODE build
- Fixed autorun.inf writing bug on UNICODE build
- In full-screen use the TAB key to flip the image to the
  next monitor, SHIFT + TAB to flip to the previous one

1.1.0 (May 4th 2007)

- Solved the empty Gif Extension crashes the program
  (Bugzilla Bug#2)
- Solved the chessboard transition Bug: FreeVimager
  crashed with small images
- Scan to Multi-Page Tiff, to Pdf and E-Mail it
- Tiff Metadata write is now lossless
- Store Zoom preferences
- Batch processing can output to Animated Gif,
  to Avi, to Multi-Page Tiff or to Pdf
  OCR Txt output if Office 2003 or higher installed
- Do not change Date Modified when doing a lossless
  jpeg rotation
- CD / DVD  slideshow remembers now slideshow delay,
  transition type and zoom mode
- Added Icc Profile View to File Info dialog

1.0.0 (March 2nd 2007)

- first public release
- gps exif tags support
- enhanced iptc and xmp batch support

0.9.9 (November 9th 2006)

- iptc and xmp read, write and batch support
- solved metadata copy problem
  between tiffs and from jpeg to tiff
- on-screen display in full-screen mode

0.9.7 (August 31th 2006)

- Save Copy As... file menu entry
- Negative edit menu entry
- Add and Soft Borders edit menu entries
- metadata copy with tiff (still some problems with exif)
- show tiff exif data

0.9.5 (July 20th 2006)

- big bmp menu entry removed added check box in open dlg
- new batch / slideshow dialog
- alpha channel editing support (only png files)
- picture sharpen and soften added
- better quality picture shrinking and thumb preview creation
- first tutorial explaning the slideshow creation
- avi file player full-screen size outside monitor borders
- avi player supports direct rendering of YUY2 and YV12 surfaces
- avi player decodes many YUV formats

0.9.3 (March 24th 2006)

- stable and smooth running
- big bmp files support through memory mapped Bmps
  (new menu entry added)
- batch shrink / email sending improved with dedicated thread
- support to burn with Nero API and on Windows XP with native API
  (Nero APIs are the preferred choice because XP APIs are not
  that reliable and mature)

0.9.1 (February 24th 2006)

- fixed crashing when selecting other extension while saving
  (only with new comctl32 version 6)
- added run program when finished installing
- first time the program runs the File Association dialog pops-up
- unicode Support For File Loading/Saving
- fixed mouse pointer blocking some seconds with big jpeg files
- added HQ stretch

0.9.0 (February 4th 2006)

- first release to close friends