Porta History
v1.04 - Feb 2009
- fixed simpleviewer display issue in firefox 3.0.6
- hidden expert-users-only autoviewer output now conforms to version 1.4
(use 'autoviewer' as footer text and copy the autoviewer.swf file to the album root folder)
- simplified chinese language added by Wilson Han
- upgraded nsis to v2.44
v1.02 - Nov 2008
- Thai language added by Kiattiyos Thongson
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v1.00 - Oct 2008
- updated simpleviewer to version 1.9
- display issues with firefox 3 and google chrome resovled
- preview images in the album editor are now much larger (should fit into 1024x768)
- settings-lost-when-having-special-characters-in-the-input-directory-problem solved
- problems with #-signs and other special characters in album filenames solved
- iframe problems with html albums only showing the main images fixed
- thumbnails will now follow the main images again in html albums
- the can-not-replace-captions-with-empty-captions-issue fixed
- larger stage padding for simpleviewer albums is now allowed
- improved rendering of html albums in internet explorer 7
- problem with very deep directory structures solved
- added support for multi-line iptc keywords
- fav-icon broken in iframe html fixed
- Slovenian language added by Matjaž Milharèiè
- Esperanto language added by Robert Stalzer
- Farsi language added by Mohammad Ali Babaee
- Bulgarian language added by Galin Atanasov
- Latvian language added by Sicc
- Korean language added by Hanjo Kim
- Malay language added by Nik Isrozaidi
- Catalan language added by Oriol Molinos
- upgraded nsis to v2.21
- xp manifest added
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v0.99 - Sep 2006
- stretching problems for auto-rotated images fixed
- simpleviewer footers can now contain more text
- correctly escaped html in simpleviewer albums
- introduction text will now hold the entire text of alice's adventures in wonderland
- scroll bars correctly shown in the lightbox view (if needed)
- large images will now show correctly in the 'show all' mode
- Croatian language added by David Kurti
- Romanian language added by Alex Itcus
- Greek language added by Nicki Panou
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v0.98 - Aug 2006
- updated simpleviewer to v1.8 (fixes the ie 'active content update' and the flash 9 issues)
- the html presentation layer has been rewritten to validated xhtml
- non-square bounds on main images, e.g. for wide screen displays
- crop/fit option for simpleviewer thumbnails
- improved image caching during album regeneration
- less constrained image size selection
- utf-8 is now used exclusively (less problems for non-English regions)
- locale-aware character conversions (less problems for non-English regions)
- Lithuanian language added by Vytautas Zinkevicius
- hourglass added during lengthy operations in the watermark dialog
- macintosh-based iptc text is now supported
- better handling of corrupted jpeg files
- fixed a rare problem with the watermark font directory
- fixed problem with thumbnail caching in simpleviewer albums
- removed memory leaks in the exif extraction code
- hidden expert-users-only support of philips tv slideshows (use 'philipsxml' as footer)
- hidden expert-users-only support of autoviewer albums
(use 'autoviewer' as footer and copy the autoviewer file, viewer.swf, to the album root folder)
- input images will now be raw-copied if they match the medium image size
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v0.96 - Jan 2006
- much faster updating of albums (when album images and their ordering are preserved)
- minor gui adjustments (# images -> album editor, info -> progress bar)
- fixed minor problem with simpleviewer albums embedded in framesets
- Traditional Chinese language added by Vincent Wuen
- link to the introduction text added to simpleviewer albums
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v0.94 - Dec 2005
- fixes a fatal rendering problem occuring when viewing simpleviewer-based albums in the three-day old Firefox 1.5 browser (remember to regenerate your simpleviewer albums)
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v0.92 - Dec 2005
- images can now be manipulated using pop-up menus in the album editor
- added two new watermark alignment options: top center, bottom center
- fixed the disappearing-simpleviewer-album-link-when-the-footer-is-empty-bug
- fixed the html-in-simpleviewer-major-captions-is-not-working-bug
- various gui adjustments to the album editor + the main and caption extraction dialog
- watermarks are now also added to large images
- the readme is revised and extended slightly
- upgraded nsis to v2.11
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v0.90 - Nov 2005
- finally got around to add drag and drop reordering of images in the album editor
- added an option for reverting the image order in the album editor
- original image filenames can now be used for the album files (alt. to sequential numbers)
- excluded images that were previously included will no longer remain in the album directory
- watermark text is now added as jpeg comments in the album images
- albums placed in the root folder of a cd or usb stick will now start automatically (autorun.inf)
- porta icon added to the album directory (favicon)
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v0.88 - Nov 2005
- better simpleviewer integration: introduction and large images are now supported
- Turkish language added by Mehmet Arun and Deniz Taylan
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v0.86 - Nov 2005
- fixed a limitation in the jhead code thanks to an example image from Quinten Vanderpoorten
- simpleviewer output now supports the stage padding option (space around the main image)
- simpleviewer footer has be changed to include the album link as well
- Czech language added and Slovak language updated by Rado Gadoczi
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v0.84 - Oct 2005
- fixed a bug in the iptc reader thanks to an example image from Eric Cheng
- slightly more accurate help text in the introduction editor
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v0.82 - Oct 2005
- much improved font rendering in watermarks (replaced freetype with freetype2)
- a fairly subtle drop shadow has been added to the watermarks to improve readability
- fixed bug causing minor captions to be overwritten in some cases when editing albums
- fixed bug causing the alt-tag of the main image to remain fixed to the first image
- Hebrew language added by Moshe Alima
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v0.80 - Oct 2005
- watermarks can now be rendered into the main images (showing e.g. iptc author/copyright)
- much more flexible exif extraction interface
- two typos corrected in the German html translation by Herbert Leitgen
- minor changes of html generation and html templates
- fixed tiff-preview issue in the album editor
- the readme is slightly updated
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v0.78 - Oct 2005
- much more flexible iptc information extraction interface
- fixed fatal error when reading iptc headers with bogus information
- right-click context menu text changed to "Make/Edit Porta Album"
- slightly better keyboard short-cuts
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v0.76 - Oct 2005
- adjusted compression and sharpening -> smaller albums with higher image quality
- improved simpleviewer integration significantly and added several new options
- simpleviewer html is now close to xhtml compliant (should we loose the embed tag?)
- to avoid scaling artifacts, simpleviewer albums how have a fixed height and width
- fixed a bug disallowing html in major captions for simpleviewer albums
- fixed cropping issues for simpleviewer thumbnails
- added the option of having captions just being consecutive numbers
- typo corrected by François Bertaiola in the French html translation
- new German html translation provided by Kenneth Weidlich
- changed credit phrase
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v0.74 - Sep 2005
- hip flash album support added thanks to Felix Turner and his SimpleViewer
- extraction of iptc captions is now supported
- keyboard shortcuts added to the album editor
- more flexible caption extraction
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v0.72 - Sep 2005
- fixed missing cr/lf in the introduction text when editing/updating albums
- fixed disappearing album link when editing/updating albums
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v0.70 - Sep 2005
- the much-requested edit feature is now available for albums generated by v0.70 or newer
- fixed problem pertaining to selection of the correct default browser
- fixed problems showing the help file for firefox users
- upgraded expat to v1.95.8
- new skin added: framed
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v0.68 - Aug 2005
- albums can now be generated simply by right-clicking folders
- Estonian language added by Hasso Mehide
- safari problems fixed thanks to Eric Zimmerman
- default link text + url added (see the help file)
- minor interface changes
- upgraded nsis to v2.08
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v0.66 - Jun 2005
- images can now be excluded using the album editor
- added automated album generation via scripting (see the help file)
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v0.64 - Mar 2005
- Japanese language added by Adrian Ivana (requires Japanese language pack in win xp)
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v0.62 - Mar 2005
- Portuguese language added by João Pinheiro
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v0.60 - Mar 2005
- Slovak language added by Rado Gadoczi
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v0.58 - Feb 2005
- jhead is now used exclusively for exif handling (fixes a rare exif extraction problem)
- home-made css skins copied to templates\js1\ext are now recognised
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v0.56 - Jan 2005
- hidden files are now ignored altogether
- improved error handling of scrambled jpeg files significantly
- added error handling of images being deleted during the execution of Porta
- fixed minor bug in the boundary handling during scaling
- added owner window pointer to the directory browse dialog
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v0.54 - Jan 2005
- fixed an annoying bug causing v0.52 to run on Intel Pentium IV only :-(
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v0.52 - Jan 2005
- finally got around to add some thread-magic to the caption editor
(this means that pratically *all* waiting time is gone)
- the output directory can now be changed
(albums can thus be built from read-only sources)
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v0.50 - Jan 2005
- vastly faster thumbnail generation in the caption editor (up to 15 times faster)
- tab order and colour change in the caption editor
- new skin added (grey)
- minor css changes (title font size adjusted etc.)
- fixed target bug for the links 'Show album' and 'Lightbox'
- added a tiny plug for Porta in the default footer
(this is easily removed, also permanently, see the help text)
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v0.48 - Dec 2004
- Hungarian language added by Emil Zimmermann
- minor changes to the exif formatting
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v0.46 - Dec 2004
- tiff image support thanks to the libtiff project (1/8/16 bit)
- improved image quality in the caption editor
- fixed layout bug in the about box
- the appearance of web pages and local pages (readme & skins) is now 'dimmed grey'
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v0.44 - Dec 2004
- auto-rotation of images according to the exif orientation (can be disabled under Options)
- double-click the main image in the caption editor to open it with the default windows viewer
- double-click the destination path to open the source directory
- added focal length to the exif information shown for each image
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v0.42 - Nov 2004
- Polish language added by Maciej Tomczak
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v0.40 - Nov 2004
- all pages are now placed in the internet zone in Internet Explorer
(this disables the annoying security warning under xp service pack 2)
- added the possibility of a user-specified link in the thumbnail section
- the 'album view' link is now also shown when displaying
an image selected from the lightbox view
- percentage done is now shown in the main window title)
- fixed a bug in the Gaussian filter
- fixed single-image album bug
- fixed image-reduction bug when large images are disabled
- the installer is now a bit more slim
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v0.36 - Aug 2004
- first public release to appear on tucows
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Snappy Album v0.02 (Porta's working title) - Mar 2004
- the very first gui mock-up using the porta engine
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