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v5.* Enhancements |
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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 that 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 |