PolyView Version 4.33
Release date: January 1, 2007.
- Added support for the ERF (raw) files produced by the
Epson R-D1 camera.
- Added support for the PEF (raw) files produced by the
Pentax K10D camera.
- Added support for Adobe PSD images in High Dynamic Range
format.
- Added the Auto Rotate command to the File Transforms menu
of the Operations menu.
PolyView Version 4.32
Release date: December 2, 2006.
- Added support for FujiFilm S6000fd and S6500fd camera raw
files.
- Added support for Kodak P850 and P880 camera raw files.
- Added support for Radiance HDR format files.
- Added lossless File Transforms to the Operations menu
of the folder browsers.
- Fixed a problem with the Open With popup in the context
(right-click) menu of the Thumbnail Explorer.
- Fixed a problem with the Sync File Dates command that
caused it to incorrectly compensate daylight savings time
settings.
PolyView Version 4.31
Release date: October 15, 2006.
- Image digital camera raw format additions:
- Sony R1 and DSLR-A100.
- Pentax *istDL and K100D.
- Fujifilm S3 Pro, E900, S5200, and S5600.
- Canon 30D and 400D. (Requires new PolyView CRW Support
Library installation. See the Canon CRW help topic for
download/installation instructions.)
- Nikon D2Xs and D80. (See the Nikon NEF help topic for
information about viewing Nikon NEF image files.)
- Panasonic DMC-FZ50.
- Olympus SP500UZ.
- The Open image count limit on the Limits tab of
Properties now controls how many image files will be
opened when a group of files is dragged and dropped on
PolyView.
PolyView Version 4.30
Release date: April 15, 2006.
- Added support for Fujifilm S5100 digital camera raw
files.
- Added support for Olympus E-500 digital camera raw files.
- Added support for Panasonic DMC-FZ30 digital camera raw
files.
- Fixed a problem with the Always On Top item on the
Windows menu not being saved between sessions.
- The maximum Browsed Image Display Time item on the
Browsing tab of Properties has been increased from 120
seconds to 600 seconds.
PolyView Version 4.29
Release date: February 19, 2006.
- Added support for the ORF files produced by the Olympus
E-500 digital camera.
- Added support for Fujifilm S9500 digital camera raw
files.
- Improved the performance when deleting files from a
thumbnail album.
- Fixed a problem with invoking the context menu from the
Thumbnail Explorer with the Shift-F10 key.
- Fixed a problem with the Sync File Dates command that
caused it to incorrectly interpret time zone and daylight
savings time settings.
- Fixed a problem with reading files from some network
attached storage devices.
PolyView Version 4.28
Release date: January 1, 2006.
- Added support for the raw files produced by the Panasonic
DMC-LX1 camera.
- Added support for the Canon CRW/CR2
files from the latest Canon Digital Cameras.
(Requires new PolyView CRW Support Library
installation.)
- Added the Copy Selection Coordinates command to the Edit
menu.
PolyView Version 4.271
Release date: October 1, 2005.
- Corrected a problem with the Scratch Removal Tool when using it on 8 bit per pixel grayscale images.
- Corrected a problem with slide show transition effects.
PolyView Version 4.27
Release date: September 24, 2005.
- Added support for the MRW files produced by the Konica
Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 5D camera.
- Canon CRW/CR2 from the latest Canon Digital Cameras.
(Requires new PolyView CRW Support Library
installation.)
- Nikon NEF from the latest Nikon cameras. (Requires new
PolyView NEF Support Library installation.)
- Raw images from Canon EOS cameras that were shot in Adobe
RGB color space are now decoded to that space.
- Improved the white balance compensation used during the
processing of Konica Minolta, Leica, and Panasonic raw
formats.
- The folder browser now displays the embedded preview
images from Canon raw files if the preview image is
larger than the display pane of the browser.
- Corrected problems with the display of Windows Metafiles
and Kodak DCS images.
- Corrected inconsistencies with the way physical pixel
size (Dots Per Inch) information is written to JPEG
files.
PolyView Version 4.26
Release date: July 29, 2005.
- Added the Best fit dimensions option to the Change Image
Size operation to provide optimal resizing of landscape
and portrait images by swapping (if necessary) the
destination width and height specifications.
- Added the Process ICC Profile option to the Format
Conversions operation to provide the ability to convert
images with embedded ICC profiles to a format that will
display properly on non-ICC enabled viewers.
- Added the /F command line option to start PolyView with
the Folder Browser opened.
- Added support for MRW files produced by the Konica
Minolta DiMAGE A200 camera.
- Added support for the ORF files produced by the Olympus
C70Z, C7000Z, and C7070WZ cameras.
- Added support for viewing all pages of multi-page WinFax
FAX image files.
- Improved the color balance calculations for raw image
formats that do not provide this information.
- Fixed a problem with relative slide show scripts not
working properly with folder name entries in the slide
show.
- Fixed a problem that caused small square images to always
be magnified to fill the entire display area.
- Fixed various problems with the conversion and export of
4 bit per pixel image files.
- Fixed a problem that caused multi-page AWD images to
appear to have too many pages.
PolyView Version 4.251
Release date: June 5, 2005.
- The Open image count limit property on the Limits tab of
the Properties dialog now also applies to drag-and-drop
operations.
- Fixed a problem with the Open image count limit not being
applied correctly in the Thumbnail Explorer.
- Fixed a problem that resulted in image distortion on the
edges of an image being displayed in enhanced display
modes.
PolyView Version 4.25
Release date: June 2, 2005.
- Image Format Support Updates
-
Added the Sync File Dates command to the File menu. This
command sets the creation and modification time of a
digital camera image file to match the corresponding
information in an image's EXIF record.
- Added the Best fit dimensions option to the Format
Conversions resizing operation. This option allows
optimal resizing of landscape and portrait images by
swapping (if necessary) the destination width and height
specifications.
- Added the Open image count limit property to the Limits
tab of the Properties dialog. This property provides a
way to limit the number of images that can be opened by
PolyView in a single request.
PolyView Version 4.241
Release date: April 23, 2005.
- The File Transform operations on the Operations menu are
now disabled for images that have been modified by other
menu operations and not saved.
- Corrected the lossless file rotation operations performed
from an open image window to preserve the original file's
creation and modification time attributes.
PolyView Version 4.24
Release date: April 22, 2005.
- Lossless file rotation operations now preserve the
original file's creation and modification time
attributes.
- The camera information (EXIF) dialog box now remembers
the last size and position it had when it was closed.
PolyView Version 4.23
Release date: March 5, 2005.
- Image Format Support Updates
- Added support for raw (ORF) files from the Olympus E-300
camera.
- Added support for raw (PEF) files from the Pentax *ist DS
camera.
- Added support for raw (SRF) files from the Sony DSC-V3
camera.
- Added support for processing raw images from the Canon
EOS D2000 camera.
The Change Image Size command on the Operations menu now
removes all camera metadata (EXIF, IPTC, etc.) when the
Create New Window option is selected.
Corrected a problem which caused failures when resizing
images with edge lengths longer than 32767 pixels.
PolyView Version 4.22
Release date: January 1, 2005.
- Image Format Support Updates
- Canon CRW/CR2 from the latest Canon Digital Cameras.
Requires new PolyView CRW Support Library
installation.
- Nikon NEF from the latest Nikon cameras. Requires new
PolyView NEF Support Library installation.
- Improved the color processing of Digital NeGative
(DNG), FujiFilms RAF, Leica RAW, Minolta MRW, Olympus
ORF, Panasonic RAW, Pentax *istD PEF, and Sony SRF
image files.
-
Corrected the behavior when pasting an image captured
with the freehand selection tool into another image.
Previous versions of PolyView pasted a rectangular image
if the source image (the image being pasted) intersected
an edge of the destination image (the image being pasted
into).
PolyView Version 4.21
Release date: December 10, 2004.
- Added support for the raw files produced by the Konica-
Minolta Maxxum 7D camera.
- Improved the color processing of Adobe Digital NeGative
image files, and added support for more camera types.
- Corrected a problem with the display of animated GIF images.
- Corrected a problem that led to a "Parameter is
incorrect" popup when opening files on CDs or network
devices with certain types of formats.
- Corrected a problem that led to file open failures when
sending files to PolyView from the Windows Explorer or
other applications.
- Corrected a color reversal problem with color images
saved as 16 bit per pixel Windows Bitmap format.
PolyView Version 4.20
Release date: November 25, 2004.
- Added initial support for Adobe Digital NeGative (DNG)
format. Future releases of PolyView will improve the
color processing of DNG images and add support for
additional camera types.
- Added support for the RAF images produced by the FujiFilm
FinePix F700 camera.
- 4 bit per pixel grayscale images are now saved to TIFF as
paletted images if their color map does not conform to an
evenly spaced gray palette.
- Corrected a problem that led to a "Parameter is incorrect"
popup when accessing files on CDs or network devices with
certain types of formats.
- Corrected a problem that led to file open failures when
sending files to PolyView from the Windows Explorer or
other applications.
- Corrected a problem with reading 4 bit per pixel
grayscale TIFF images.
- Corrected a problem with reading CMYK TIFF images with
alpha or extra sample information.
PolyView Version 4.11
Release date: October 30, 2004.
- Added support for raw images from the FujiFilm FinePix S20 Pro camera.
- Preview images can now be displayed from Canon EOS-20D camera raw files. Full support
for raw decoding of these images awaits a library update from Canon.
- Fixed a problem with merging multiple text items onto an image.
PolyView Version 4.10
Release date: September 25, 2004.
- Image Format Support Additions
- FujiFilm FinePix RAF from S5000 and S7000 cameras.
- Canon CRW from the latest Canon Digital Cameras. (Requires new PolyView
CRW Support Library installation.)
- PolyView is now fully compliant with EXIF 2.21 and DCF 2.0, including the recognition of
images in Adobe RGB color space.
- Windows XP Thumbs.db image properties now include the original file name and
modification date.
- Various bug fixes have been included in this release.
PolyView Version 4.00
Release date: June 19, 2004.
- Image Format Support Additions
- Nikon NEF from D2H and D70 cameras. (Requires new PolyView NEF
Support Library installation.)
- Canon CRW from Digital Rebel (300D) and EOS 1D MkII. (Requires new PolyView CRW Support Library installation.)
- Added support for several new Kodak Professional digital cameras, including the DCS Pro
Back Plus and the DCS Pro Back 645. (Requires new PolyView Kodak
PDC Support Library installation.)
- Foveon X3F images from Sigma SD9 camera.
- Leica Digilux 2 RAW images.
- Minolta DiMAGE A2 Raw
- Olympus C5060 and C8080WZ raw.
- Paint Shop Pro (PSP) image support through Version 8.
- Panasonic DMC-LC1 RAW (SRF) images.
- Sony F-828 RAW (SRF) images.
- Transparency support for reading Targa images.
- Windows XP Thumbs.db.
- The Auto Contrast and Auto Level commands on the Operations
menu now use the selection area to perform their image analysis, with the resulting
intensity or color balancing operation applied to the entire image.
- Display gamma compensation is now applied to the display of thumbnails when Apply to
all but open images or Always apply gamma is selected.
- Images in thumbnail albums that reference a "missing" file are now displayed
as an empty block. A Rename operation can then be used to correct the name or
location of the file.
- Added the Rotate Tool to the Tools menu for an open image. The Rotate
Tool provides a method of quickly rotating an image by drawing a line on the image
that is to represent a horizontal line after rotation.
- The Associate ICC Profile command on the Edit menu now always returns
to the last folder visited by a previous use of the command.
- Added the Resize window during zoom option to the General tab of Properties
to improve the behavior when zooming into large images. With this option selected the
resulting windows makes better use of the available screen area.
- Added Redo support.
- Added auto-rotation based upon the orientation information embedded in an image’s
EXIF information. See the Do EXIF Rotation option on the General tab of Properties
for more information.
- Fixed ratio and fixed size frame buttons have been added to the selections available for
toolbar customization.
PolyView Version 3.93
Release date: November 11, 2003.
- Added support for reading Minolta DiMAGE A1 raw image files.
- Added support for reading Olympus E-1 raw image files.
- Added support for reading Pentax *ist D raw image files.
- Upgraded Kodak Professional Digital Camera support. (Note: All processing for Kodak
Professional Digital Cameras has been upgraded with this release, requiring that the
updated version of the PolyView Kodak PDC Support Library
be downloaded and installed.)
- The Olympus ORF processing algorithms now use the Contrast Adjustment Percentage
item on the Manipulations tab of Properties when balancing image
contrast.
- 16 bit per pixel Windows Bitmap files are now written to be compatible with the
restrictions of Windows 98.
- Various bug fixes.
PolyView Version 3.92
Release date: July 4, 2003.
- Added support for the newest Canon digital camera's CRW (raw) files, including the
EOS-10D, the G5, and several others. Note that all Canon CRW support in PolyView Version
3.92 requires a new download of the PolyView CRW Support
Library.
- Added Olympus C5050Z ORF (raw) image support.
- Added new resizing algorithms, including Bilinear, Cubic, and Lanczos. These algorithms
are available when resizing images and when manipulating images for display.
- Fixed a problem with the Auto Levels command that caused an incorrect gamma
compensation to be applied.
- Fixed a problem with the filename gathering dialog used for slide shows and batch
conversions that limited the number of filenames that could be selected at once.
PolyView Version 3.91
Release date: May 20, 2003.
- Improved Olympus ORF (raw) image color processing.
- Added Kodak DCS Pro 14n image processing. (Note: All processing for Kodak Professional
Digital Cameras has been upgraded with this release, requiring that the updated version of
the PolyView Kodak PDC Support Library be downloaded and
installed.
- Fixed resizing and positioning problems with fixed ratio selection frames.
- Fixed a problem on Windows 98 with transparency when pasting bitmaps into images.
PolyView Version 3.90
Release date: April 27, 2003.
- Unrestricted ICC Profile storage to JPEG 2000 JP2 files is now supported using the JPX
standard.
- ICC Profile handling has been extended to support 8 and 16 bit per pixel grayscale
images.
- The Camera Information dialog is now resizeable.
- Nikon NEF images are now processed using Nikon’s Software Development Kit DLLs.
Visit the Downloads page to download the NEF support library.
PolyView Version 3.89
Release date: April 5, 2003.
- Added the Magnifier command on the Copy submenu of the Edit
menu to copy the contents of the magnifier to the clipboard.
- The Fixed Size Frames selections on the Tools menu are now enabled
when a frame will fit into an image in only one direction. In this case the frame will be
reduced in size in the dimension that is larger than the image.
- The rectangular selection area aspect ratio is now shown along with the area dimensions
when a selection area is drawn or resized.
- Added support for 16 bit per sample CMYK (color separated) TIFF images. Previously
support was limited to 8 bit per sample CMYK.
- Camera EXIF information is now read from and written to JPEG 2000 JP2 format image
files.
- Fixed a problem that caused the saving of JPEG 2000 format images to fail when the
Windows language and regional selections were set to non US English.
- The compression rate applied to the saving of JPEG 2000 format images now better
reflects the actual compression result, up to the minimum compression limit available for
the lossy compression mechanism.
- Fixed some precision problems that caused inconsistent image sizes when using the Change
Image Size command on the Operations menu.
PolyView Version 3.88
Release date: January 20, 2003.
- JPEG 2000 processing has been significantly enhanced in this release
- Image reading speed has been increased by 2-3 times or more.
- Thumbnail rendering speed has been increased by 10 times or more.
- Support has been added for reading and writing embedded ICC Profiles.
- Support has been added for reading embedded IPTC information.
- Fixed a problem with merging comments into the JPEG image files created by some digital
cameras.
- Fixed a problem with the level adjustment operation not showing the correct histogram
after adjusting the levels of an individual color component.
PolyView Version 3.87
Release date: January 1, 2003.
- Image Format Enhancements
- Added Canon G3, S45, and EOS-1DS raw processing. Note that all Canon CRW support in
PolyView Version 3.87 requires a new download of the PolyView CRW
Support Library.
- Added JPEG 2000 JP2 and codestream processing.
- Added FujiFilm FinePix S2 Pro RAF processing.
- Added Minolta MRW processing
- Added Nikon E5000 and E5700 NEF processing.
- Added Olympus ORF processing.
- The Nikon NEF property tab has been changed to Camera Raw and enhanced
to include processing specifications for FujiFilm FinePix S2 Pro RAF, Minolta MRW, and
Olympus ORF image processing.
- Improved the performance when raising an image to full screen when the image resides in
a folder with a large number of files.
PolyView Version 3.861
Release date: November 29, 2002.
- Corrected a problem which had turned off image browsing in full screen mode.
PolyView Version 3.86
Release date: November 28, 2002.
- Added support for Nikon NEF formatted images from Nikon E5700, D1H, D1X, and D100
cameras. NEF images can also have color compensation or ICC profile processing performed
when they are read into PolyView.
- Added support for ZIP compressed TIFF image format reading and writing.
- Added support for Windows ICON format files with 16 bits per pixel format.
- The editing of slide show scripts has been made easier with the addition of both Open
Slide Show Script and Play Slide Show Script commands on the Browse
menu. The Open Slide Show Script command now opens a script directly into the
edit window for modifications. Also, the script save operation no longer saves the timing
and transition effect information on each image that uses the default settings. This makes
it easier to cause a behavior change through the Browsing Properties and resave
the script with the behavior change applying to all images.
- The Web Page Creation dialog now allows images to be resized to fit within a
size limited by both the maximum width and height of the final web image.
- The default JPEG quality factor is no longer changed by the format conversion operation.
- Increased the thumbnail generation speed for Adobe Photoshop and Nikon NEF image
formats.
- The Copy Full Image command on the Edit menu now also copies image transparency
information.
- All images opened in PolyView are now placed on the Windows Recent Documents
list.
- Fixed a problem with writing 4 bits per pixel grayscale images with transparency
information to PNG format.
- Fixed a problem with canceling the JPEG Optimize dialog while closing an image.
- Fixed a problem with the image overwrite confirmation dialog showing the wrong image
names when an optional rename operation had been specified.
- Fixed an out-of-memory error that occurred if the Area Selection Tool was used
to select an area completely outside the bounds of the image.
- Fixed a problem with embedded ICC Profiles being loaded even when the Gamma/Color page
property had turned off this feature.
- Fixed a problem with processing images containing invalid dots-per-inch specifications.
PolyView Version 3.85
Release date: October 2, 2002.
- When an unregistered PolyView is started with a slide show script as its command line
argument the "unregistered reminder screen" will be suppressed at the end of the
slide show if the show is allowed to run without user intervention. This is helpful for
distributing slide shows on CD to people who have not purchased PolyView.
- Added the Rescale image after cropping option to the General tab of Properties.
When this item is selected an image will be scaled to fit the PolyView window area after a
cropping operation.
- Fixed a problem with invoking the Keywords command on the Edit menu
when browsing large folders in the folder browser or Thumbnail Explorer.
- Fixed a problem with renaming or moving an image while an album is open that contains a
thumbnail of the image. The album is now correctly marked as modified under these
conditions so that a subsequent save operation can be performed.
- Corrected a problem with an unresolved reference to the OLEACC.DLL system file. This
problem occurred with the 3.84 release on older Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems.
PolyView Version 3.84
Release date: September 21, 2002.
- Added Specific Size printing to an image’s Print commands. Images
can now be printed in any size from postage stamps to large posters.
- Original Size image printing uses the source (scanner) specified dimensional
information to print an image at its original size. If the size is larger than the
printer’s page size it will now result in a multiple page printout. Also, Original
Size image printing now uses the Page Setup command’s
margin/header/footer settings.
- Added a Fade effect to the Slide Show Transition Effects, and as a
method for dissolving a slide show image from the screen.
- Added text specifiers for the current page (%g) and the total pages (%t) for use in Headers,
Footers, and textual annotations.
- Added the Edge process red-eye removal option to the Manipulations tab
of Properties. This enhances the Red-eye Removal operation by optionally
using edge feathering and anti-aliasing.
- The Find Duplicate Images command on the Edit menu now ignores files
found in the Recycle Bin.
- The background color used for the Thumbnail Explorer in the non-framed case now
follows the current Windows appearance settings.
- The slide show window’s Play button is now activated if the file list
contains only a slide show script.
- The name of an image file printed from the Windows Explorer is now passed to the Windows
printing system for compatibility with some fax printers.
- Renaming image files from an album or from the Thumbnail Explorer now correctly
updates the keyword database.
PolyView Version 3.83
Release date: August 4, 2002.
- Added a search and display functionality for identifying duplicate images on a system.
See the Find Duplicate Images command on the Edit menu for further
information.
- The Fixed Size Frames and Fixed Ratio Frames popup menus can now be
customized. See the Tools menu documentation for further information.
- Added the Zoom to new window option to the General tab of Properties.
This option duplicates the Enable interpolated zoom functionality of PolyView
versions prior to Version 3.81.
- Slide show scripts now save the current setting of the Display slide show in window
option on the Browsing tab of Properties. Note that the PolyView Screen Saver has been updated to be
compatible with this capability. Download a new
one after upgrading to PolyView Version 3.83.
- When the main toolbar is floating (as opposed to docked to an edge of the PolyView
window) it now wraps at every fourth toolbar button.
- The startup time for the Thumbnail Explorer has been significantly improved for
large image collections.
- Corrected an AWD format rendering problem that resulted in a negative image display.
- Thumbnail albums now conform to the Prompt for file save on close option on the
Files tab of Properties.
- Fixed a problem with saving the last setting of the JPEG Image Quality selected
by the Optimize JPEG Quality dialog.
- Fixed a problem with image file name "tips" not appearing in thumbnail albums
under some circumstances.
PolyView Version 3.82
Release date: July 5, 2002.
- Improved the performance of the contrast adjustment functions.
- Fixed a problem with a slide show freeze introduced in version 3.81.
PolyView Version 3.81
Release date: July 4, 2002.
- All pertinent PolyView settings are now saved in the slide show script when a slide show
is saved, and the saved settings are used to control the slide show behavior when a script
is loaded and played. Note that the PolyView Screen
Saver has been updated to be compatible with this capability. Download a new one after upgrading to PolyView Version 3.81.
- Added the Continuous folder update option to the Browsing tab of Properties
to provide the capability of running a slide show that constantly displays the changing
contents of a folder.
- The window sizing algorithms have been updated to better utilize screen space when
images are displayed with one-to-one (100%) scaling.
- Windows XP specific EXIF items are now processed and displayed. These include the Title,
Comment, Author, Keywords, and Subject information that can be entered from the Properties
dialog displayed by the Windows XP Explorer.
- Non-image files are now passed directly to Windows for opening when they are
double-clicked from a browser or the Thumbnail Explorer. This includes multimedia
files (MP3, MPG, WAV, etc.) as well as any other document formats that can be opened by
the Windows Explorer. In addition, the Thumbnail Explorer now displays the
specific icon for such files in place of the Thumbnail not available notation
that is standard for image files. See the Open files through Windows property on
the Files tab of Properties for further information.
- The Filter by Name and Change Name Filter commands have been added to
the View menu for the folder browser. The settings for the name filter are shared
between the folder browser and the Thumbnail Explorer. In addition, the settings
are now saved between PolyView sessions.
- The current viewing scale and image position are kept constant when paging through
multipage image files if the page being changed to has the same dimensions as the page
currently being viewed.
- The Saturation Adjust command has been added to an open image’s Operations
menu. Saturation Adjust is a slider controlled version of the current Color+
and Color- commands.
- Added an Enhanced display mode to the General tab of Properties.
Enhanced mode provides the best accuracy when displaying large color or grayscale
images.
- The Enable interpolated zoom option on the General tab of Properties
now only controls the way zoomed displays are handled and does not create a new window
during zooming.
- Control+W has been added as a standard closing mechanism for PolyView windows.
- Flat toolbars: the default state of PolyView when running on Windows XP is to hide the
capability of selecting flat toolbars. If you are using the "classic" mode of
the Windows XP interface and want to use flat toolbars you must delete the file named
"polyview.exe.manifest" that is found in the same folder as polyview.exe. If
that file is not found then the Use flat toolbars option on the General
tab of Properties will again be available.
- Corrected some problems with exploring or browsing Favorites folders that exist
on network shares.
PolyView Version 3.80
Release date: June 11, 2002.
- The Keyword Entry Dialog, invoked from the Keyword command on the Edit
menu, now remains open as the currently selected image is changed in a browser, or as new
images are opened. As the current image selection is changed the dialog is updated to
reflect the keyword(s) of the new image or image combination.
- When multiple images are selected, the Keyword Entry Dialog now shows the
combination of keywords that are common to all the selected images. Keywords that are not
common to all the images will not be affected by any changes made.
- The Keyword List Maintenance command on the Edit menu now invokes the Keyword
Maintenance dialog. This dialog provides methods of removing and changing keywords.
- The Create or Modify a Slide Show window is now resizable on systems with
screen resolutions greater than 800x600.
- The image preview area on the Create or Modify a Slide Show window now shows
the image preview with the rotation specified for that image.
- Added support for Canon EOS-1D and EOS D60 camera RAW (CRW) files. Note that all Canon
CRW support in PolyView Version 3.80 requires a new download of the PolyView
CRW Support Library.
- The Transparent Color command on the Operations menu is now enabled
for images with one bit per pixel.
- The Optimize JPEG Quality dialog now uses the previous optimization quality
setting as the starting point for optimization. Previously it always started with the
global quality value defined on the JPEG tab of the Properties dialog.
- Saving JPEG format images now uses a DCT Arithmetic Method with at least the
accuracy of the Accurate Integer setting on the JPEG tab of the Properties
dialog. This maximizes the quality of the saved image at a given quality setting without
increasing the file size.
- Added %s as a text substitution specifier when adding text annotations to an
image. The %s specifier is replaced by the file name of the image without the
file type extension. For example, "Mountains.jpg" will be output as
"Mountains".
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD) images with 16 bits per channel (48 bit color and 16 bit
grayscale) are now supported for both read and write.
- The Next In Folder and Previous In Folder commands on the View
menu are now enabled when the current image is an animated GIF.
- A warning dialog is now output when the thumbnail database size gets dangerously close
to the 2 gigabyte file size limit.
- Fixed a problem where sound file names were not being written in relative format when a
relative format slide show script was saved.
- Fixed a problem that resulted in the pages of an AWD FAX file being presented in the
wrong order.
- Fixed a problem with adding colored text to an image that was originally grayscale.
- Fixed problems with creating thumbnails for Canon CRW images.
- Fixed a problem with updating thumbnails in albums after rotation had been performed on
the images.
- Fixed a problem with the Add All button on the Select files for
<operation> dialog that prevented file types from the "Most
Images" file types list (Files tab of Properties) from being
processed correctly.
PolyView Version 3.70
Release date: April 23, 2002.
- Added a Red Eye effect removal tool.
- Added an Auto Contrast command to the Operations menu.
- The rotation information in Kodak Professional Digital Camera DCR image files is now
used to present images in their desired orientation.
- Added the Exclude file type from displayed name item to the Browsing
tab of Properties to show image file names during slide shows without including
the file type extension (JPG, PNG, etc.).
- Added compensation for the file date/time change that sometimes occurs after a change to
or from daylight savings time to prevent thumbnails from appearing to be out-of-date.
- Corrected a problem that prevented using the "c", "v",
"x", and "z" keys during file name and folder rename operations.
PolyView Version 3.69
Release date: March 22, 2002.
- Image resizing (Change Image Size command on the Operations menu) can
now be done using the print dimensions for the image. The New Image Dimensions
dialog has been enhanced with control over both the physical pixel resolution ("dots
per unit of measure") and the actual image pixels.
- The Optimize JPEG Quality command has been added to the Options menu
for an open image. The Optimize JPEG Quality command helps to determine the
optimum tradeoff between image quality and compression that should be used when storing an
image in JPEG format.
- Thumbnail album files can now be saved using relative file naming to make them
distributable on a CD.
- Copy (Control-C), Cut (Control-X), Paste (Control-V), and Undo (Control-Z) shortcut keys
are now handled correctly during in-place file and folder renaming operations in the Thumbnail
Explorer and Folder Browser.
- The Shift-Space key combination is now accepted as a shortcut to mark images.
- Images marked during a PolyView session are now properly tracked when they are moved,
renamed, or deleted.
- Corrected a problem that caused an image window to require two close operations if the
image had been modified and the "save modified image" prompt was answered in the
affirmative.
- Fixed a problem with initial position in Thumbnail Explorer and Folder
Browser when the previously selected folder was hidden at the Windows file system
level within another hidden folder.
PolyView Version 3.68
Release date: February 25, 2002.
- Corrected a problem that occurred with the Paste Into Image command on the Edit
menu when the source bitmap included a non-rectangular selection mask.
- Corrected a problem that occurred with the Refresh command on the View
menu when a selection area was currently active.
PolyView Version 3.67
Release date: February 24, 2002.
- Added a Freehand Selection Tool to the Tools menu for selecting
non-rectangular areas of an image. The selection area can then be the target of various
image manipulation commands as well as the source of copy/paste and drag/drop operations.
- PolyView now registers itself as a "launch application" for the Still Image
system in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. With this change PolyView can now be automatically
launched to acquire images when a scanner or other Still Image compatible image source
initiates an image transfer operation.
- The current scale/zoom factor is now printed on the title bar of an open image.
- The Ctrl-S keyboard command will now start a slide show containing all the images in a
thumbnail album if no images are currently selected.
- Corrected the file type selection list in the Format Conversions window to
include AWD Fax and Canon CRW file types.
- Fixed a problem with reading certain variants of Apple PICT format.
- Fixed a problem with reading and playing embedded sound from Kodak DC290 image files.
- Fixed a problem that prevented drag/drop operations to the Desktop icon in the Folder
Browser and Thumbnail Explorer.
- Fixed a problem that caused PolyView to crash when a TWAIN Acquire operation
was performed directly after resizing an image to a new window.
- Fixed a problem with the Open With command on an image’s Context
(right click) menu not working correctly when the image file selected was a shortcut to
the actual image file.
PolyView Version 3.66
Release date: January 12, 2002.
- Added Color Management using ICC profiles. PolyView can now process embedded
ICC profiles in JPEG, PNG, PSD, and TIFF images as well as associate arbitrary ICC
profiles with any color image.
- The capture date displayed with the digital camera information available from the Camera
Specific Info command on the File menu is now displayed in the format that
is valid for the current locale. This individual preference can be set through the Regional
and Language Options applet in the Windows Control Panel.
- Corrected an "off by one month" problem in the capture date extracted from
FlashPix images.
- Corrected a problem with reducing images to 1 bit per pixel when the source image width
was an uneven multiple of 8 pixels.
- Corrected a problem with the %C (camera date) formatting option in text annotations.
PolyView Version 3.65
Release date: December 22, 2001.
- Supported Format Updates:
- Added the Export File Info command to the File menu of the browser and
Thumbnail Explorer. This command provides the generation of Comma Separated Value files
containing specific information from the digital camera and IPTC information found in
selected image files.
- Added a "Most Images" File Types item to the Files tab of
the Properties dialog. This item specifies the image file types to be displayed
when Most Images is chosen for the Files of type setting in the File
Open dialog displayed by the Open command on the File menu.
- The Esc key now closes an open image window.
- Removed the Alt-V keyboard shortcut to the Paste Into Image with Transparency
command on the Edit menu because it interfered with keyboard access to the View
menu.
- Added several updates to the TIFF image reader to read out-of-spec images.
- The One-for-One Mapping and Resize to fit main window commands on the View
menu now appear as a single command whose text changes to fit the circumstances. There are
still two buttons available on the Customize Toolbar command on the Options
menu, but they both toggle between the two actions as required.
- Corrected a problem with user registration handling that prevented its retention on
Windows 2000 and XP systems for users without administrative privileges.
- Corrected a problem with the Level Adjust command on the Operations
menu when applied to 16 bit per sample images.
- Correct a problem that prevented the Format Conversions operation from
converting images to X Bitmap format.
- Corrected the pixel dimensions in the Confirm File Replace dialog to display
the actual image dimensions, not the size of the thumbnail generated for the display.
PolyView Version 3.64
Release date: November 4, 2001.
- This version of PolyView removes all operation restrictions for unregistered users,
instead using a popup window to remind users of the demo nature of the unregistered
version.
- Supported Format Updates:
- Updated the Canon CRW library support to handle raw images
from the Canon G2 camera.
- Thumbnail albums can now contain multiple copies of the same image’s thumbnail.
This feature complements the album’s Paste command (Edit menu) that
can be used to add a new or existing image thumbnail to the album. Also, the Paste
command now inserts the new thumbnail(s) into the album just before the first selected
thumbnail, or at the end of the album if no thumbnails are currently selected.
- Added a Cut command to a Thumbnail Album’s Edit menu.
- The action taken when a folder name is double-clicked in the Favorites window
can now be set to either open a Folder Browser or the Thumbnail Explorer.
- When the Text Tool is selected, holding down the Shift key will temporarily
convert it to an Object Move Tool.
- Text annotations containing blank lines are now represented correctly.
- The Open command on the right-click menu for a thumbnail now opens the images
for all selected thumbnails.
- Thumbnail album creation commands now appear on the Thumbnails menu as well as
on the New submenu of the File menu.
- Corrected various compatibility issues with PolyView running on Windows XP.
- Corrected a problem that caused ampersand characters to be removed from the name tips
provided by the Thumbnail Explorer.
- Corrected a problem with reading PNG images that contain a color table larger than can
be addressed by the image’s bits/pixel ratio.
- Corrected a problem that caused an embedded comment to be discarded when saving a JPEG
image after applying appearance changes.
- Corrected a problem with reading PSD files created by Adobe Photoshop 6.0 when the Use
composite view of PSD images item had been selected from the General tab of Properties.
- Corrected a problem in the histogram window caused by the absence of any information for
a specific color component (red, green, or blue).
PolyView Version 3.63
Release date: August 22, 2001.
- Added image rotation at arbitrary angles between –359.99 and 359.99 degrees.
- Added the Deinterlace command to the Operations menu to remove
interlacing effects from images acquired through video capture devices.
- When comments are modified in JPEG format images through an image’s Properties
dialog then the comment records in the original image file will be updated without
incurring any additional JPEG processing distortion.
- Corrected a problem that caused incorrect X Bitmap files to be saved from some specific
width images.
PolyView Version 3.62
Release date: August 4, 2001.
- Canon CRW image file handling changes
- The noise (false color) filter used during Canon EOS D30 raw image processing can now be
suppressed by an option on the Canon CRW tab of the Properties dialog.
Turning off this filter speeds up D30 image processing significantly.
- Canon EOS D30 raw images now retain the full 12 bit per color component resolution of
the original image.
- Note: this version of PolyView requires an upgrade to the PolyView CRW Support
Library. Click here to
download the library upgrade.
- Adobe Photoshop PSD images containing adjustment layers are now processed with a
technique that displays the non-adjustment layers correctly. Previously only the composite
image was displayed when adjustment layers were found.
PolyView Version 3.61
Release date: July 25, 2001.
- Added read/write support for Psion MultiBitMap format.
- Added the Use composite view of PSD images item to the General tab of Properties
to modify the way Adobe Photoshop PSD images are processed.
- The Create Multipage Image command on the File menu now asks for
permission before appending to an existing file.
- Corrected a problem that left the main toolbar hidden after viewing an image in full
screen mode.
- Corrected a problem on Windows ME with positioning to the proper folder during Open
command processing (File menu).
- Corrected a problem with the PSD reader handling image layer masks incorrectly when the
layer origin extends outside the picture borders.
- Corrected a problem that caused files to disappear from the Thumbnail Explorer
when a name filter was active and a change to the current folder occurred.
PolyView Version 3.60
Release date: July 5, 2001.
- Added the Magnifier tool for enlarging portions of an image.
- Added Favorites List functions for remembering and quickly visiting your
favorite files and folders. Use the Favorites items on the File menu to
access the Favorites List.
- Copy/Paste operations have been added to the Browsers and the Thumbnail
Explorer.
- Added password protection. Use the Password command on the Options
menu to set a password that will subsequently be required in order to run PolyView.
- Added an optional memory footprint limit to the Limits tab (formerly the Undo
tab) of the Properties dialog to prevent the loading of very large images.
- 1 bit/pixel images with color maps containing only black are now adjusted to contain a
black/white map.
- An option is now available on the Browsing tab of Properties to use
the S key in a file list or folder tree to scan for name matches instead of open a slide
show. Ctrl-S now always maps to the slide show functionality.
- Fixed problems with reading some AWD images.
- Fixed a problem with reading 24 bit/pixel ICO images.
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