PixFiler Updates
Changes in PixFiler 5.2.1 (13-Apr-2008)
- Improvements
- the background processing system will now prioritize the last entered batch of photos when processing new photos
- program is now installed for all users on the computer. Only the user that installs the software need to enter license code. The code will be valid for all users on this computer.
- Bugfixes
- the 'Add Photos' did not always process the right photos if several batches were entered just after another. This could cause the photos to display slowly.
- you were sometimes asked to send the event log even if there were no new events. This could happen when multiple users were connected to the same database.
- several minor bugs have been fixed.
Changes in PixFiler 5.2.0 (28-Mar-2008)
- New features
- number of photos are now shown in the Navigator View
- search by some EXIF data in Navigator View
- set margins for some printer reports
- adjust text sizes in printer reports
- added raw support for several new cameras
- Improvements
- form for selecting reports has been improved
- starting multiple instances of PixFiler could cause problems. This is not possible anymore
- introduced more multi threading to make the software make better use of dual and quad core processors.
- improved speed of adding new photos to the database
- improved error reporting
- Bugfixes
- sometimes Id would 'disappear when you annotated a photo.
- deleting database would cause program to crash on startup. It will now ask you to select another database or create a new
Changes in PixFiler 5.1.5a
- Bugfixes
- Navigator View would not work correctly when starting PixFiler from a CD.
- Advancesd Search would give a Read-Only error if database was in read-only mode.
Changes in PixFiler 5.1.5
- Bugfixes
- two error messages would be displayed at program startup if the photo index was located on a read only device, for example on a CD. This caused CDs created with PixFiler to fail.
Changes in PixFiler 5.1.4
- Improvements
- Navigator now lets you browse by date, not only by year or month as in previous versions.
- Bugfixes
- words that ended with ? or : in the description field were not searchable
- tab characters caused problems if you used cut/paste to move text to description field.
- multiple lines in the descrition field caused the with of the thumbnail pop-up box to be wrong.
- setting default rating did not work.
- Copy to clipboard" sometimes gave the message "i" and didn't copy the photo.
Changes in PixFiler 5.1.3
- Improvements
- creating thumbnails is now faster.
- Bugfixes
- if you had multiple photos attached to a description, the buttons used to select photo would not always display.
- sometimes the photos were resized wrong when creating web pages. Photos on the album page were often too large and small photos were sometimes enlarged.
- improved quality when copying and resizing photos.
Changes in version 5.1.2
- Improvements
- it's now possible to disable the rating stars. Set this in the 'Add/edit fields' form.
- the default button in the annotation form has been moved to 'Save >>'. You can now just press the enter key to save and go to next picture.
- Bugfixes
- fixed a bug in the license checking system that affects customers that bought a BR's PhotoArchiver license lately and are using this license key in PixFiler. This should be ok, but PixFiler thinks the code is illegal and shuts down the program. This problem also made it difficult to enter a new legal license code.
- 'and not' did not work for IDs the Advanced Search.
- aposrophe in an event caused problems in the Navigator View (bug introduced when fixing bug in 5.1.1).
Changes in version 5.1.1
- Improvements
- you can now use 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' to go to next and previous picture in the full screen view.
- Bugfixes
- CDs created from PixFiler 5.1 would produce a 'Missing component' error when run.
- creation of CDs would crash for large databases.
- ' in a place name would show wrong photos when clicking on the name in the Navigator View.
Changes in version 5.1
- New fetures
- photos can be sent as emails. They will automatically be resized and compressed.
- see where the photo was taken on a map. Requires EXIF-GPS information in the photo file and an Internet connection.
- the rating of a photo is now shown as 1-5 stars in the prevew and full views. You can set the rating by clicking on the stars. During upgrade to 5.1, all existing ratings will be updated so 5 becomes the best rating, not 1 as in older versions. The following conversions will be done: 1->5, 2->4, 3->3, 4->1.
- added support for DNG (Adobe Digital Negative) file format.
- a new form for Adding/Renaming/Deleting categories have been added.
- category names can now be exported/imported. This makes it possible to move the category names from one photo index to another.
- You can now search for empty fields, for example photos without a place specified.
- Improvements
- you can now rate the photos by pressing the buttons 1 to 5. Works both in preview and full view.
- images shown in the full screen view are now optimized so diagonal lines looks better.
- it's now possible to search for unrated photos in the Navigator.
- You can now choose what to display below the thumbnails. Up to three lines of text can be shown.
- adding new photos are now a lot faster.
- the routines that decodes the image files have been changed.
- resize thubnails by using ctrl+scroll wheel.
- uses user defined field name in stead of fixed field name in Navigator View.
