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Release Notes

Changes in flPhoto 1.3.1

• Image comments can now be shown on matted images.
• Selecting "any printer" automatically prints to a file.
• The slideshow would crash if an image didn't have a comment.
• Calendars used the wrong (too small) font for day-of- the-week and image comments.
• Multiple entries for the same day were not supported.
• Calendars now include the phases of the moon.
• Printing the front or back side of bound calendars did not work.

Changes in flPhoto 1.3

• Updated to version 8.42 of dcraw support code.
• Entering 0 in either of the custom aspect ratio fields caused flPhoto to crash.
• The default print quality is now "High".
• Updated Italian translation.
• Added file-based calendar date messages.
• The first line of comments is now shown under calendar images.
• Added multiple screen support for slideshows, along with the ability to specify the size of the slideshow window.
• Exporting an album now creates subdirectories for the image files to keep the number of files per directory down.
• The camera import dialog now remembers separate download directories for each camera model.
• The camera import dialog now automatically rotates images based on the EXIF orientation value.
• Updated EXIF support to handle incorrect 16-bit and 8-bit value alignments.
• Fixed the Linux desktop integration files/installation.
• Multiple images can now be dragged in the image browser.
• Fixed some HTML export quoting problems.
• Negative subject distances in EXIF data are now shown as "infinity".
• Added watermark option for exported slideshows.
• Fixed slideshow with new KDE.
• Added new "sort" function for album (sort by name or date)
• Updated translations.

Changes in flPhoto 1.2

• When printing from CUPS, flPhoto passed all of the saved options even if they conflicted with the print dialog options.
• flPhoto crashed when printing images in portrait format.

Changes in flPhoto 1.2rc2

• The credits page in bound calendars was upside-down.
• Updated the print dialog to support a separate "print to file" checkbox so that you can print output that is formatted for a specific printer to a file as well.
• Changed the default side margins to 0.25" and the top/bottom margins to 0.5".
• The "normal" output quality did not use an appropriate image resolution.

Changes in flPhoto 1.2rc1

• No longer scan the .xvpics directory when reading images from a flash card.
• Added new bound and folded calendar printing.
• The current album was not added to the previously open album list when saved.
• CTRL-X was bound to both Export and Crop Image. SHIFT-CTRL-X is now used for Export and CTRL-X for Crop Image.
• Fixed font encoding when printing accented characters.
• Fixed handling of non-JPEG images; previously, the EXIF support code would try to load EXIF data from a non-JPEG image, and the JPEG library would exit.
• Added a new --camera command-line option to display the camera import dialog.
• The crop dialog now displays the current crop dimensions.
• The crop dialog now provides some standard aspect ratios as well as the current image aspect, user-defined custom ratios, and no ratio.
• flPhoto would crash if you purged the last image in an album.
• The camera import dialog now supports downloading images from flash cards and other USB storage devices.
• The camera import dialog now purges its cached thumbnails when the dialog is closed or when the camera is changed. This prevents the wrong thumbnail images from showing up.
• Added a new mode toolbar for panning, zooming, and removing red-eye. Red-eye removal is now performed by clicking on the specific areas that need to be changed.
• Added separate options dialog for slideshow and image options.
• Added album history.
• Added support for an external image editor.
• The HTML export dialog now supports stylesheets.

Changes in flPhoto 1.1

• Added Dutch translation.
• More updates to the French translation.
• More fixes for Cygwin.
• Cancelling a download of images left an empty image file.
• flPhoto didn't protect against loading of empty image files.
• The message catalogs are now installed as non-country specific locales whenever possible.

Changes in flPhoto 1.1rc3

• The camera import dialog now allows you to cancel the download or deletion of files from the camera.
• flPhoto no longer displays each image when starting it with multiple image files on the command-line.
• flPhoto didn't recognize both .JPG and .jpg filename extensions for JPEG files in all cases.
• The gamma lookup table was not generated properly, resulting in output that was too dark.
• Updated the French and German localizations and added Italian, Portugese, and Spanish.
• The exported HTML did not offer a translation of the "Back to Thumbnails" string.
• The camera import dialog didn't check for an existing directory and make it if necessary.
• Dragging didn't work in the crop dialog preview image.
• The slideshow would crash if no image was selected in the current album.
• Fixed some more Cygwin compile problems.

Changes in flPhoto 1.1rc2

• The batch image "purge" operation deleted the current image and not the selected images (which were just removed from the album...)
• The batch image operation menu is now labeled "Selected Images" instead of just "Images" to avoid confusion.
• All batch image operations ask the user for confirmation before continuing.
• Non-image files are downloaded from digital cameras but are no longer added to the album (with a warning message to the user...)
• JPEG images can now be re-saved in progressive or non-progressive mode without loss of quality.
• Makefile fixes (install and message catalogs) plus a new RPM spec file.
• Compile fixes for Cygwin.

CHanged in flPhoto 1.1rc1

• The auto-adjust touch-up item no longer does red-eye reduction, since the red-eye reduction does not work well yet.
• The main window now shows the number of images and the total size of the album in megabytes.
• The export functionality now supports inclusion of the original image files.
• The .album extension is now added when saving to a new file.
• Image comments now default to the date/time information from the image (EXIF data from digital cameras only...)
• The slideshow now shows the image comments at the bottom of the screen.
• The GUI is now localized using gettext-compatible message catalogs.
• The slideshow link wasn't shown if all of the thumbnails fit on one page.
• Added a display calibration dialog and now color correct images to the sRGB colorspace (used by most digital cameras and scanners...)
• ALT text and comments were not always quoted when exporting to HTML files.
• flPhoto would crash if you exported to a non-existent directory.
• Fixed the JavaScript TYPE attribute to use "text/javascript" to conform to the HTML spec when exporting albums.
• The exported slideshow delay is now controlled by the slideshow dialog delay.
• The raw image header (Fl_CRW_Image.H) was not portable.

Changes in flPhoto 1.0

• Matted images can now be printed with a blank matting gap.
• Exported albums are now fully conformant to the HTML 4.01 specification.
• Exported albums now include a Javascript-based slideshow page which can be displayed to loop through the images.
• Album files now save images using filenames relative to the album file directory.

Changes in flPhoto 0.9

• Now support matting widths of 0 to allow for printing images at arbitrary sizes, and solid white matting to space multiple images for later framing with the real matting board.
• Fixed a JPEG save bug when saving images without EXIF or comment information.
• The mat color field could not be edited manually.
• The "import directory" function now only imports images that are not already in the browser.
• Added DESTDIR support to make RPM building easier from RPM.
• The configure script now adds the compiler options (include directories, etc.) for FLTK, so that the C files can find the JPEG library as needed.
• Added support for saving images in PNG format.
• The print dialog crashed flPhoto if no printers were available.
• The print dialog now remembers the print format for images and albums.
• Now support printing via lpr.
• Portability fixes.

Changes in flPhoto 0.8

• Added calendar and matted image printing modes.
• Added "Yes to All" as an image save option when closing an album with changed images.
• Added Alt key shortcuts for image operations.
• Custom page size selection fix for CUPS printing.
• Added pulldown menu to image browser to do batch operations on selected images in the browser.
• Slideshow now supports space/leftmouse and backspace/rightmouse to advance or rewind the show.
• 4-up and index page print fixes for some printers.
• Portability fixes.

Changes in flPhoto 0.7

• You couldn't delete a modified image.
• The print dialog media chooser wasn't always initialized.
• The print dialog paper_dimension and imageable_area methods didn't fallback to non-PPD operation.
• The "delete" function in the camera dialog removed the images from the main window.
• Implemented slideshow options dialog.
• Implemented export functions.
• Implemented album and image properties, including EXIF information.
• The file chooser now allows multiple file or directory selections when opening albums or importing images or directories.
• The Import->Directory function now imports raw (CRW) files.
• The left and right arrow keys now selects the previous or next image in the album, and shift-left/right extends the selection left/right.
• Added "Auto Open Images" and "Keep Image Zoom" options.
• The slideshow would still be running in the background (but invisible) after you pressed Escape...

Changes in flPhoto 0.6

• Fixed thumbnail generation
• the 0.5 code would overwrite the original image!
• The camera import directory is now saved so that the camera window can show "new" images that haven't been downloaded yet.
• The camera import dialog no longer keeps the camera connection open when not accessing the images.
• When downloading pictures from a camera, flPhoto now converts the filename to lowercase.
• Implemented crop, rotate, and scale transforms.
• Implemented raw image support.
• Implemented image saving, including lossless JPEG rotation.
• Enabled "delete image" command in camera browser.

Changes in flPhoto 0.5

• Implemented digital camera interface.
• Implemented CUPS printing interface and printer-specific options.
• Implemented reading of PhotoCD images.
• Implemented the red-eye removal filter.
• The image browser would crash if the image directory was read-only.

Changes in flPhoto 0.4

• The printer list contained duplicate printer entires when CUPS instances were present.
• Implemented the auto adjust, brightness/contrast, sharpen, and blur touch-up operations.
• Implemented the revert operation.
• The images that got rotated when printed were mirrored on the X axis.

Changes in flPhoto 0.3

• Initial public release.