Version 2.0 build 1 (April 9, 2009) - New Screen Layout setting, offering six different layout configurations of tree, list and details panel - Horizontal Split - Vertical Split - Full Width Details - Full Height Tree - Full Height Details - Classic Layout (the pre v2.0 layout) Standard vs Pro: these features are now PRO-only: (all owners of a v1 Standard license will get a FREE Pro Upgrade) - Filter screen - Saving Column, Sort Order and Folder field sets - Statistics screen - Changing Field Names - User Defined Fields Screen Fonts: - Photo Collector screens look much better, because they now use the Windows system font (Segui on Vista, Tahoma on XP) - Don't like it? Then use Tools/ Options / Screen Font to choose your own font for all screens. - Want larger fonts for your lists? Just use Ctrl-PLUS and Ctrl-MINUS to increase/decrease the main screen font size (or View / Font Size). - New toolbar icons - Many existing icons have been improved (smoother edges) Printing: - New Print screen with improved layout, making it more logical and easier to use, especially when printing simple lists New online manual: - The included Windows Help manual has been replaced by an online manual, on the Collectorz.com website, viewable in your favorite web browser. Check out the new manual here: http://www.collectorz.com/photo/manual/ - The complete contents of the manual will be rewritten to make it more useful and easier to understand. This is a work in progress though. - Searching your database: - Completely redesigned Filter screen - Build advanced filters using brackets, AND, OR, NOT, equal, not equal, greater than, less than, contains, starts with, ends with, wildcards - Save your filters and activate them directly using the Filter menu on the toolbar - Faster Quick Search - Sorting: - Save your sort order definitions and activate them directly using the Sort Order menu on the toolbar - Simpler Sort Field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want. - Columns: - Save your column definitions and activate them directly using the Columns menu on the toolbar - Simpler Columns selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want. - Folder selection: - Save you custom folder field combination and activate them directly from the Folder menu above the tree - Simpler Folder field selection screen, just use checkboxes to select the fields you want. - Automatic Capitalization of Caption - new AutoCap button next to Caption in Edit Photo Properties screen - use Tools / Options / Capitalization to configure auto-cap settings and exceptions - Edit Photo Properties screen: - Screen is now resizable (and remembers its size too) - Improved Links tab page: - Add links to websites by dragging & dropping from your browser - Add links to local files by dragging & dropping - Easier editing of links and their descriptions - The "..." buttons next to pick list fields have been removed and replaced by a new [Add ...] command inside the drop down list (tip: use F2 to edit!) - New entry boxes for easier adding of values to check list fields (e.g. Subject, Category) - Improved network support - New lock file system automatically prevents concurrent editing - When one user is already using a database in Writable mode, subsequent users will automatically open the database in Read-Only mode - in Read-Only all editing features are hidden and disabled, allowing viewing and searching only - Create Read-Only workstations by running a forced Read-Only installation (start the installer with the /readonly command line parameter) - Read-Only mode: new Tools / Maintenance / Reset Lock File command for resolving lock-file issues - Details View Templates: - New CSS Styles system - Template menu now allows selecting various "styles" for each template (using a submenu) - Styles can be created using CSS style sheets - Added several new styles for Full Details template - New Photo Collector 2 template, in 3 different styles (blue, black and Gray) - CSS Styles system also available for Export and Print templates - Export to HTML: - New Photo Collector v2 detail page templates - Improved look of List and Thumbnails index pages - Improved look of Next/Previous navigation at the top of exported pages - New "Paged by First Letter of Title" option; also allows choosing the Sort Order of items within pages. - Tools / Options: new setting "User Files Folder", for choosing the folder where column, sort and filter settings are saved (defaults to My Documents\Photo Collector) Fixed: - Export to HTML: Browser title bar wasn't showing the photo caption - Vista 64: Using the Images tab caused 'List Index out of bounds' error and Access Violations - In batch edit mode the "focal length" field was set to -1 What's new in version 1.2 build 2 (January 22, 2007) Fixed: - Edit Photo: Save as dialogs did not appear - Edit Photo: "tabbing" to date fields needed an extra tab key press - Edit Lists screen now shows user defined field names (only for lists that are not shared by multiple fields) What's new in version 1.2 build 1 (January 16, 2007) Fixed: - Check for update period was not taken into account - When using full images for previewing, the preview panel now also enlarges non-jpeg images - Performance problem when loading folder lists in Images View Vista compatibility/compliance: - changed default location of user data (database, backup, images and thumbnails) to: \My Documents\Photo Collector\ - User Templates can now be (optionally) placed in a user configurable location (Tools / Options), which defaults to \My Documents\Photo Collector\Templates\ - "System" Templates (the ones included with the program) are still in \Photo Collector\Templates\ - Fixed: program hangs when closing on some Vista systems Added: - Edit Lists: new "Merge Selected To" command in right mouse button menu, to allow selection of the merge "destination item" Updated: - The library for reading raw image files was updated to version 1.353 What's new in version 1.1 build 10 (September 25, 2006) Editing Lists: - New right-click menu with Add/Edit/Remove/Merge/Generate commands - Simplified Merge system: just multi-select items and choose Merge Selected - "Generate" functions can now be performed in batch on selected items in list (use Generate commands in right-click menu) - New "Auto Re-sort" checkbox on toolbar for enabling/disabling automatic resorting - Last Name column is now actually called "Last Name" (previously it was called "Name") - Next/Previous buttons in all Edit Item screens (e.g. Edit Location, Edit Camera, etc..) Added: - Sorting ontext fields now takes numbers into account (e.g. 'title 10' sorts after 'title 2' instead of before) Fixed: - Sorting of listfields now works similar to sorting of string fields. - Quick Search did not work after having done a Filter earlier using the "EXCEPT" option - Export to HTML: some settings were not remembered correctly between sessions - Automatic version update failed during installation if the automated 'check for update' detected a new version - Progress bar during lengthy operations is no longer visible outside the program - Program icon now looks much better - Displaying the caption in slideshows now enlarges area for long captions What's new in version 1.1 build 9 (April 25, 2006) Added: - More RAW formats are supported, for example .dng files - Automatic update option in Check For Update screen, which downloads and installs the latest version automatically - Show caption and / or a details summary in slideshows options - Reading of EXIF Description supports more specific field formats - Added support for XP information Fixed: - Printing Photos only printed the first and last photo when printing more than two photos - Printing and Export to HTML: Text fields now show HTML tags correctly in list reports (e.g. the tag is shown as bold text) Changed: - Exporting photo details generates higher quality images What's new in version 1.1 build 8 (January 11, 2006) Fixed: - Thumbnail generation of 800x800 images What's new in version 1.1 build 7 (January 11, 2006) Changed: - Dropdown lists of year fields are now sorted in descending order Fixed: - Performance improvement for scrolling through large (day/month/year) lists in large collections - Fixed unwanted overwrite of existing data when adding files What's new in version 1.1 build 6 (December 1, 2005) Added: - EXIF User Comment and User Comment Code are now being displayed in the EXIF/IPTC properties screen Fixed: - Writing of EXIF User Comment Code now writes the encoding correct - Reading of EXIF Description supports more specific field formats What's new in version 1.1 build 5 (November 23, 2005) Fixed: - E-mail photo did not work with some specific e-mail clients (a.o. Outlook 2002 and 2003) - Changed demodatabase specific checks What's new in version 1.1 build 4 (October 18, 2005) Added: - Main Screen: size of all image panels is now stored between sessions Fixed: - Export to HTML: images that do not need processing (eg. scaling) are now copied instead of loaded and saved - Improved startup time by removing demodatabase specific checks What's new in version 1.1 build 3 (September 6, 2005) Added: - Acquire From Removable Media: added an option to only acquire files from the selected folder (i.e. without acquiring from subfolders) - Acquire From Removable Media: added an option to remove the original files Changed: - Design of Acquire screens Fixed: - Edit lists: selecting File Location List does not crash anymore - Reset to Defaults with small menu icons now does not crash - Images were not exported to html correctly if the filename contained a "#" - Add files: '.tif' extension for Tiff images is now recognized as well (previously only '.tiff') - Edit Photo: Aspect ratio is displayed when selecting - Main Screen: size of image panel is now stored between sessions What's new in version 1.1 build 2 (August 24, 2005) Added: - Edit Photo: Added 4 : 3 and 3 : 4 fixed selection ratios Fixed: - E-mail photo did not work with some specific e-mail clients - File location form did not show Drive Type and Label - Edit Photo: after saving the File Location was blanked out - Export to Html: cancel during export did not work - Stream-errors in some specific jpeg images What's new in version 1.1 build 1 (August 16, 2005) Added: - new Email Photo(s) feature: automatically attach selected pics to a new email (uses MAPI) - support for raw image files (crw, cr2, nef, pef, raf, x3f, raw, bay, orf, mrw, srf, dcr) - Rating field can now be used as a folder field, which lets you rate photos by dragging and dropping between folders - new field Orientation ("Portrait" or "Landscape"), can also be used as folder field - Export to HTML: both max Width and Height can now be set for scaling images - Export to Folder: both max Width and Height can now be set for scaling images - added 'Open with External Editor' option to "double-click" setting in Options screen - Preview panel in main screen is now resizable and optionally uses full image instead of thumbnail (Tools / Options / Use Full Image for Preview) - Edit Photo Properties: Keywords field now works with one keyword per line (making it possible to use multiword keywords) - IPTC support: improved compatibility of Keywords field Fixed: - when using Enter key in main screen to View a photo, the View screen skipped to the next photo - Details View goes blank while editing in Thumbnails View - In some situations Details View goes blank after editing Photo Properties - Next/Previous in Edit Properties screen is faster now - Add Folder: "Include subfolders" option did not work on Win2000 - photos with incorrectly formatted EXIF dates were added with an empty date (now the file date is taken) - Edit Photo: when using ellipse selection the Remove Red-Eye and Deselect options were not enabled - after Edit Photo Properties the thumbnail was always regenerated which is not necessary - Print List: Event and Location columns did not show values - Rotate: when rotating multiple photos, the Cancel button did not work - After customizing the toolbar, the Buy Now button kept reappearing, even in licensed editions - Adding the "Details View template" command to the toolbar did not work - In some situations, choosing a different Details View template cleared the templates menu - Problems clearing the Quick Search box on the toolbar (text kept reappearing) - Cleaned up Customize Toolbar screen - Toolbar icons had a slightly "faded" look - updated some toolbar graphics What's new in version 1.0 build 2 (July 11, 2005) Added: - Export to HTML: new "Show Captions" option for displaying the Caption value under thumbnails Fixed: - Batch Edit Properties: it is now possible to set/clear the Photo Date and Photo Time separately - View and Export templates: Filesize is now being displayed in Kilobytes - Add to Database screen: now displays correctly when using large fonts - Updated some toolbar icons - File Location folder did not show icons - Printing lists: Filename, Photo Data and Import Date values did not show up - Main screen: Image Preview in the bottom left corner is now being updated when Details View is closed - Add Folder: disk scanning now skips zip files and shortcuts to folders Version 1.0 build 1 (July 5, 2005) - Initial release