Version 1.3.4
Revision 510 - 2008-03-28
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to an application crash if more than one document window is open holding text objects and text is changed in both documents. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to an application crash if more than one document window is open holding text objects and text is changed in both documents. |
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[CHANGED] Posterino now spits out a bit more information to the system log if an image can't be loaded. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to an application hang on startup. One visible clue for this issue could be that the Image Picker shows the "Loading..." message but never displays any images or the chosen template never shows up. See report 20080316-6145-PWH . |
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[CHANGED] Change the keyboard shortcut for the "Send as Postcard" command to Command-Option-Shift-'D' due to problems under Leopard. |
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[CHANGED] Some small user interface adjustments and improvements. |
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[NEW] Added a warning message if the user tries to enter a gift code instead of an activation code while activating the software. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem with the default image border width and shadow offset of newly created image objects. See report 20080127-6502-ALE . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where metadata like date, comment etc. where missing if you used drag & drop to put an image into the document. See report 20080104-4196-RUS . |
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[CHANGED] Some user-interface and localization improvements. |
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[NEW] You can now scale the document independent from the graphic objects via the "Adapt size of all graphic objects" checkbox under "Poster" > "Scale...". |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem in the scaling mechanism that could lead to fewer scaling options if you want to send a poster as e-mail or postcard. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a bug that could lead in rare cases to a wrong image aspect ratio. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem in the image rotation mechanism that could lead to invisible images at render time. |
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[FIXED] Solved a issue where the yellow "x" - that appears when Posterino can't locate an image - does not go away even if you put a different image on the frame. |
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[NEW] Posterino now respects the rotation of an image. See reports 20071116-3927-FRA , 20071116-4041-FRA and 20071119-7522-CHR . |
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[NEW] Added the ability to reset the Postmark preferences to the factory settings. |
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[FIXED] Solved drag and drop problem of image files without file extension. See report 20071118-7077-JAY . |
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[FIXED] Solved an update problem where the scaling of a document was not reflected in the view of the editor. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to the software activation failure experienced by some users running Tiger. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to exceptions at the end of the rendering process when you use a document that needs a postmark stamp. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem that could lead to a crash 20 minutes after you have send a real postcard. |
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[FIXED] Solved the problem that occasionally occurred during rendering of documents holding text object. The problem ranged from simple exceptions to application crashes. |
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[FIXED] Postage stamps are now stamped even if the document is no postcard. See report 20071010-9699-CHR . |
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[CHANGED] Made Posterino compatible with Leopard. |
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[CHANGED] Overall speed improvements to the editor and rendering process. |
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[CHANGED] Some small user-interface improvements. |
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[CHANGED] Some improvements of the French localization. |
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[CHANGED] Various localization and user-interface improvements. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where you can't create a new document if you used the Finder's "Info" panel to switch off several localizations. |
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[FIXED] Solved the problem with the 'Save As' operation. See report 20070325-3860-RIC . |
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[FIXED] The keyboard shortcuts for 'Zoom In' and 'Zoom Out' are changed to better fit international keyboard layouts. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem with the post-stamp in the 'Vertical Postcard' template where the default post-stamp image did not show up. |
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[NEW] A new context menu item for reloading the contents of the Image Picker. Also available via the action button at the bottom of the Image Picker. |
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[CHANGED] Improved the performance of choosing a random selection of images for large sets of available images. |
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[FIXED] "Choose random Selection" of images now respects the image set returned by a search phrase entered into the image picker. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a problem introduced by the last update where the image view used by the Image Picker is not the usual Posterino image view. The slider had no stop markers and the view had no "action" popup button. |
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[NEW] Posterino is now localized for English, French and German. |
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[NEW] You can buy postcard coupons right from within Posterino. Send a document as postcard and press the "Buy Coupons..." button to open the postcard shop. |
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[NEW] Added navigation buttons to the Postcard Details dialog to allow easy navigation between the postcard interface and PayPal. |
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[NEW] New images sources: desktop pictures, screen saver pictures, user pictures, favorite pictures and iChat icons. |
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[NEW] Custom image import folders are now persistent between Posterino runs. |
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[FIXED] The feedback operation now correctly returns the version of Mac OS X run by the user. Mac OS X 10.4.10 has incorrectly been reported as 10.4.9. |
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[FIXED] Solved an issue in the "Postmark" preferences, where the postmark texts are not update live while typing in the text. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a bug in the Flickr details dialog where the 'description' and 'tags' text fields did not wrap the text into the new line. |
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[CHANGED] Changed the product activation process to make it more fault-tolerant. |
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[CHANGED] Updated the Posterino FAQ to reflect the new product activation process. |
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[NEW] Added a popup menu to the postcards details dialog holding the search result if more than 1 and less than 40 hits are found. The popup also holds additional addresses a person may have. |
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[NEW] The postcard details are displayed in the users preferred language as long as the postcard gateway is able to speak that language. Otherwise it defaults to English. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a problem where saving postcard documents with an empty postage stamp leads to an application crash. See report 20070426-9755-ENE , 20070510-9858-IAN . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem with the scroll arrows and in-functional scroll wheel of the template view in the Template Chooser dialog. See reports 20070410-6743-SON , 20070504-7421-SON , 20070315-2435-166 and 20070403-0861-NOS . |
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[FIXED] Fixed a localization problem with French numbers larger than 999 in the "Poster" > "Scale" dialog. See reports 20070423-1863-166 , 20070405-6097-166 and 20070405-7499-166 . |
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[FIXED] Fixed wrong layout of images 16 and 24 in template 'Clusters II'. See report 20070504-5072-166 . |
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[CHANGED] Some small user interface improvements and updates to the online help. |
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[CHANGED] Updated user interface and online help to reflect the new features. |
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[NEW] Added "Keyboard Shortcuts" and "FAQ" menu items to the "Help" menu. |
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[NEW] Send real postcards right from within Posterino. |
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[NEW] Upload images to Flickr right from within Posterino. |
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[CHANGED] All export and mail options are grouped in an "Export" sub menu in the "File" menu. "Create Poster" has changed into "Export" and has moved from the "Poster" menu to the "Export" sub menu in the "File" menu. |
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[NEW] Now there are toolbar buttons for every available export operation. Choose "Customize Toolbar..." from the "View" menu to choose an individual export operation toolbar button for your toolbar. |
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[NEW] New template 'Twisted Post'. |
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[NEW] Added layer operations to the context menu of the document editor. |
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[NEW] New toolbar buttons 'Bring to Front' and 'Send to Back' for object layer handling. Choose "Customize Toolbar..." from the "View" menu to add the new buttons to your toolbar. |
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[CHANGED] Changed the implementation of the 'Backward' and 'Forward' object layer operations to focus on the visual hierarchy of objects instead of the 'physical' hierarchy. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a bug in the handling of object layers after loading a document. See report 20070225-6456-KAR . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where a single image is rendered several times on the output. See report 20070222-4081-BRI . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where shuffled images re-appear at there old position after loading a saved document. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a problem where images smaller than the defined thumbnail size are created with a big black border. See report 20070220-1575-KME . |
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[NEW] You can navigate the templates in the template chooser by using the arrow keys. |
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[CHANGED] Choose random selection does no longer deselect the current selection. |
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[NEW] Added new templates made for holding portrait images ("Portraits" and "Irregular II") and one for displaying an image for each day of the year ("365 Days"). |
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[NEW] You now can drag and drop image files and folders onto the document window. |
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[NEW] Added some new photo frame templates. |
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[NEW] Added a "letter" paper size. |
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[CHANGED] Some additions to the online help regarding shortcuts and paper sizes. |
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[FIXED] Aligned the text field of the 'Sunrise over Ulm' template with the image above. |
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[FIXED] The Shuffle operation now preserves the crop information of the images. See report 20061020-3972-AND . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where drag and drop operations from the first image to any other always lead to a copy See report 20061116-7693-PET . |
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[NEW] You can end the cropping of an image by pressing the Return, Enter or Escape key. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where clicking on a selected image does not lead to an image swap or move operation. |
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[FIXED] The drag and drop of images from one frame to an other now preserves the crop information of the image. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a problem where the used image count of the images in the image picker is not updated correctly in a copy or paste operation. See report 20070110-0526-HUG . |
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[FIXED] Fixed a bug in the "Choose random Image" operation. |
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[FIXED] Added measurement unit to some values on the details panel. |
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[NEW] Added a hint regarding custom paper sizes to the template chooser. |
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[FIXED] Corrected the naming of a label of the "Panel Position" radio group (preferences: "Document Window" > "General"). See report 20070109-1238-PET . |
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[FIXED] The template "Irregular I" not longer produces a blank page. See reports 20070108-2471-RIW , 20070113-3000-KOZ and 20070115-1922-MAR . |
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[CHANGED] Changed version to 1.0 final. |
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[NEW] New life poster and postcard templates. |
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[NEW] A new online help chapter about "Altering the layout" under "Layout Options". |
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[NEW] The images used in the document are now indicated by a green badge in the top right corner of the image picker. To show or hide this feature, go to "Posterino" > "Preferences..." > "Document Window" > "Image Picker" > "Show" and toggle the "Used image count" checkbox. |
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[NEW] Layout grids! You can show a grid in your document window and graphics objects will snap to this grid. The grid depends on the settings of the "Layout Generator" (in the "Poster" menu). You can show and hide the grid from the "View" menu. All preferences regarding the grid are under "Posterino" > "Preferences..." > "Image Handling" > "Grid". |
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[FIXED] Fixed some inconsistencies in international number formating in some edit fields. See report 20060901-5669-RAN . |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem with text objects. See report 20061215-1778-DAN , 20061115-7667-PET . |
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[NEW] You can specify a short descriptive text when creating a new template. |
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[NEW] The template chooser now shows an image visualizing the placement of photos on the document and a short descriptive text about the template. |
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[NEW] A new operation to scale you current document to some arbitrary size and resolution. See "Poster" > "Scale...". |
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[NEW] New template chooser featuring the template categories. |
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[NEW] Added context menu to the poster editor to manipulate image and frame settings. Or you can reveal the selected images in the Finder or open them in an external editor. |
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[NEW] You can switch on graphic object tool tips to display information about the used image. If available, file name, date, comment, rating and image paths are displayed. See "View" > "Object Tool Tip". |
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[NEW] You can define the image picker sort oder under 'Posterino' > 'Preferences...' > 'Document Window' > 'Image Picker'. You can sort the images by pre-defined (iPhoto or Aperture) order, date, comment, file name or rating. |
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[FIXED] Fixed an issue where the "needs rending" state of a saved document was not updated correctly. |
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[NEW] If you hold down the Shift key while rotating an image or a frame, the rotation will stop at 45 degree segments. |
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[NEW] Relocate images from iPhoto and Aperture used in a document if the image library has moved to a new user account. |
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[NEW] The template chooser now remembers the last used template. |
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[NEW] Added a postcard paper size for printing. |
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[FIXED] Solved a problem where you could not create additional graphic objects once the document has been saved. |
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[NEW] Support for Aperture 1.5. You can use your Aperture images right from within Posterino now. |
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[NEW] You can specify the email application to send postcards with. See "Postcards" on the "General" preferences panel. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a date sorting problem of file system images in the Image Picker. |
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[NEW] If you choose to mail you poster you now can specify the quality of the image to be send. |
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[NEW] Improved rendering process feedback. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a problem where Posterino did not display images referenced by an alias. This was for example the case, if you set the iPhoto preference checkbox "Copy files to iPhoto Library folder when adding to library" to false (under "iPhoto" > "Preferences..." > "Advanced"). See report 20060918-5003-MBI , 20061030-9485-SRA . |
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[FIXED] The image picker slider is now automatically hidden if there are only a few images in the picker. |
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[FIXED] Fixed the bug that caused pixel residue to show up while manipulating image bounds, moving frames or selecting images in a poster. See reports 20060914-6496-SON , 20061009-2262-FBL and 20061021-8629-DRA . |
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[FIXED] Changed the title of the 'Compression' label to 'Quality' to align this with the settings in the create template dialog. See report 20061115-7374-PET . |
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[NEW] A new sheet is shown after the poster has been rendered to let the user choose what to do with the rendered document. The options are 'Send to iPhoto', 'Save to Disk' and 'Send via Mail'. |
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[FIXED] The installation of a license now results in a re-rendering of your document to immediately remove the demo message. No restart necessary anymore. |
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[FIXED] Fixed an issue that rendered the poster or postcard empty. |
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[NEW] Added new chapters on image placement and layout options to the online help. |
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[CHANGED] Ensured that the images in the image picker are sorted by date. |
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[CHANGED] The details panel now shows all tabs and does not hide the unused ones. |
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[CHANGED] The 'Welcome' window does not automatically become the key view any more. This way the main window does not lose its focus when the 'Welcome' window shows up. |
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[FIXED] Solved a couple of minor user interface problems. |
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[FIXED] Solved an issue where images from a folder on disk where distorted or had aspect ratio inconsistencies. See reports 20061023-7620-ADA , 20061023-0271-PUB and 20061020-5270-JOH . |
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[NEW] The first sketch of an online help system is made. We have got a "life poster" and "postcard" tutorial and some pages about image import. |
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[NEW] You can use the new "Tell a Friend" command in the "Help" menu to easily setup an email message to spread the word about Posterino. |
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[CHANGED] "Help" > "Posterino Help" will now open the local help viewer instead of a web page. |
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[FIXED] Fixed a couple of minor user interface problems. See report 20061006-2168-FBL , 20061009-2197-FBL . |
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[FIXED] Fixed the problem where the template chooser was displayed on top of an existing document file. See report 20061005-1222-HEN . |
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[CHANGED] Speed improvements in rendering JPG thumbnails. |
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[CHANGED] Much improved image browser. The current release should address the known problems with iPhoto. |
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[NEW] You can now import images from file system folders. See "Import Folder..." in the "File" menu. |
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[FIXED] Fixed problem where a corrupted image spoiled the Posterino image picker. |
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[NEW] Start of public beta. |
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[NEW] You can switch postmarks on and off using a checkbox on the "Postmark" preferences panel. |
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[CHANGED] Major improvements in text handling. |
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[CHANGED] Improved the display speed and rendering of the thumbnail images in a document. Better image quality in subsequent zoom levels. Rendering of preview thumbnails reduced to a minimum of visible images. |
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[CHANGED] Improved the zoom in and zoom out behavior. |
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[CHANGED] The zoom in and out operations now have a defined stop point. You can't zoom into infinity any more. |
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[FIXED] Small images are now scaled up in the rendering process if they are smaller as the frame they are in. See report 20060830-6574-RAY . |
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[CHANGED] Changed the text of the "Render" toolbar button and menu item into "Create Poster". |
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[CHANGED] The first document window created is now positioned in the golden middle of the main screen. All subsequent windows are staggered. |
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[CHANGED] A couple of improvements in the overall editor behavior. |
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[CHANGED] Various minor user interface improvements. |
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[FIXED] "Choose random Selection" in the "Images" menu now works properly again. |
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[NEW] Postcards are now stamped with postmarks! See the "Postmark" preferences panel for configuration options. |
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[NEW] Postage stamp and postmark position and rotation are slightly varied by random. You can control the range of variation with a slider on the "General" preferences panel. |
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[CHANGED] Removed the "Layout" details panel and made it into a "Layout Generator" available via the "Layout Generator..." menu item in the "Poster" menu. |
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[NEW] You can now open a document file right form the template chooser by clicking on the "Open Existing File..." button. |
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[FIXED] Solved the paper size and orientation weirdness in the template chooser. See report 20060901-1638-RAN . |
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[FIXED] Improved the template sort order. See report |