Version history for FreeVimager
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Changes for v9.9.8 - v9.9.10
- - Always open images with zoom level Fit or Fit Big
- - File formats like .png and .gif can store a background color which is
- used to render the images. When watching pictures one after the other
- a fixed background color may be preferred. That's now possible with
- the "Lock Background Color" option found in View menu
- - More robust exif metadata reader, for some corrupted jpeg files
- the program could crash
- - Solved a Color Picker display bug (thanks to Veksha for helping)
- - Updated the avir library to version 2.5
- 9.9.9 (May 2nd 2020)
- - The full path shown in titlebar is shortened to fit the system
- given maximum titlebar text size of 159 characters
- - Fluid and constant speed when quickly forwarding several images
- - Zoom ComboBox working now correctly when a slideshow plays
- - Background color toolbar button high DPI and high contrast aware
- - Fixed scrolling for big images and big zoom factors
Changes for v9.9.5 -
- Supporting high DPI aware NSIS 3 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
Changes for v9.9.3 - v9.9.5
- - Bottom toolbar color popup must not cover its own button
Changes for v9.9.1 - v9.9.3
- - Increased a security check limit which prevented loading
- big .png images
Changes for v9.7.0 - v9.9.0
- - Better support for high contrast themes
- - Support for .jfif graphics files
- - Updated installer with an improved closing logic for multiple
- running instances of FreeVimager
- - Fixed a bug which in some circumstances blocked the display of
- a good image placed near a corrupted one
- - Updated the avir library to version 2.4
Changes for v9.0.7 - v9.0.9
- - New temperature, humidity, pressure and water depth exif tags
- - Updated the AVIR library to version 2.2
Changes for v9.0.5 - v9.0.7
- - Updated the AVIR library to version 2.1
- - Fixed dialog positioning when the secondary monitor is to the left of the primary monitor
Changes for v9.0.3 - v9.0.5
- - Building the application with LARGEADDRESSAWARE set to have up to
- the double of address space
Changes for v7.7.0 - v9.0.0
- - FreeVimager is now DONATIONWARE
- - Document tabs have got a close button
- - User interface clean up
- - Using better random generators
- - libpng updated to 1.2.59
Changes for v5.5.0 - v7.0.0
- - Small fixes
Changes for v5.0.9 - v5.5.0
- - libpng updated to 1.2.57
- - Fixed memory leak of CRT threads under Windows XP
Changes for v5.0.7 - v5.0.9
- Enhanced the Sharpen dialog by using the unsharp mask method
Changes for v5.0.1 - v5.0.5
- - When sorting in Batch Processing dialog if the Date Taken doesn't
- exist use the oldest between Date Created and Date Modified
- - Added crash dump support and verbose diagnostic logging
- - libpng updated to 1.2.56
- 5.0.3 (November 18th 2015)
- - Jpeg loading is more fault tolerant: ignore missing SOI marker
- - Show/hide commands for Statusbar and Toolbars
- - Removed fullscreen only slideshow mode as CD/DVD slideshows
- are from the old days
- - Removed audio file opening support as we are a graphics viewer
- and not an audio player
Changes for v4.3.0 - v4.7.0
- - The crop tool permits now precise selections through the
- arrow keys (use the tab key to switch crop handle)
- 4.5.0 (May 14th 2013)
- - The generated pdfs are now smaller and compatible with all
- current viewers (solved wrong color display issue of
- Nitro Pdf Reader and some mobile pdf viewers)
- - Files sorting and viewing is now done like in Windows
- Explorer (1.jpg, 2.jpg .. 10.jpg, 11.jpg, 12.jpg)
Changes for v4.1.0 - v4.3.0
- - New image Reload (from disk) command
- - Changed command accelerators to be more translation friendly
- - Removed Burning with Nero support (the Microsoft Windows
- burning API works well since Windows XP)
- - Removed OCR txt batch output support because it needed
- the Microsoft Office MODI component
