Transcript versions

v2.5.9.107 [Feb 24, 2015]
- Support for reading multi page TIF images. The next and previous image buttons will go to the next/previous page in the image.
- Transcript now accepts and opens rtf, txt, pdf* and image files when dropped on top of Transcript's window. Note: pdf files are only accepted when GhostScript (32 bit version only) is installed as explained on the website and in this help file.
- Added the ability to use Ctrl Shift scrollwheel on images to change its brightness.
- Brightness combobox now also accepts user defined values.
- (Pro only) menu option to add the complete image into the text. Warning: this can lead to large editor files causing slow loading, saving and editing! In general it would be better to copy just a small selection of the image.
- Improved the way the interface of Transcript is translated making it possible to translate more parts of the program.
- Check if locale folder containing translations is present and warn unless user's language is English.
- Thanks to volunteers Transcript is now also available in Czech, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
- Some language updates to German, French and Dutch.
- Use default Windows system font for all our dialogs and forms which should improve the looks on most systems .
- Remove the need for an extra copy of the image used internally by Transcript and use an adjustment layer to support sharpen, grayscale, autocontrast and brightness. This can save a lot of memory on large images making it possible to load larger images than before. However this will slow down moving images somewhat when using at least one of the above mentioned adjustments.
- Proper detection of Windows 8 and 8.1. Though no other explicit changes have been made nor am I aware that any are needed.
- More detailed system information available in About dialog and in case of a crash in the crash report.
- Improved Ghostscript (PDF) error handling.
- Improved handling of twain scanning of images.
- Improved exception handling when loading images.
- Check if sqlite dll present and warn when needed (pro).
- More detailed error messages added when something goes wrong so that it should be more clear what the problem is (out of memory, invalid or unsupported file format, etc.).
- Increased width of several interface elements to be able to show longer names and also useful for translations where they need longer words.
- Changed default e-mail address inside the program.
- Publish headingstyle toggle shortcut Shift F11. I'm still evaluating if Shift F11 is the best key for this.
- Sort list of available languages alphabetically.
- Change: Remember text zoom option is now True by default.
- Change: Set default AutoSave interval to 15 minutes (but AutoSave has to be turned on first, it is off by default).
- Change: Remember Picture Settings now set to True by default.
- Change: Move on Enter setting now set to True by default.
- Removed plugins since their usability was limited and after updating Transcript older versions of plugins could cause problems. The separate image window plugin has been integrated into Transcript, menu View.
- Add extra image window on the taskbar so we can find it back.
- Removed GIF as saving option for scanned images since jpeg and png are both better formats for saving.
- Removed old style zoom mouse cursor option since hardly anyone used it and using Ctrl scrollwheel for zooming is a good alternative.
- Added links in Help menu to Transcript on Facebook and direct link to pay for Transcript Pro.
Bugs fixed
- Many fixes and stability improvements in the image handling library and other fixes related to handling images.
- Transcript application title and version were not showing in the titlebar when using the unregistered version.
- Making a new project with an empty name was allowed.
- Reset to default picture settings (F4) didn't update all settings visually even though internally everything was reset.
- Division by zero when for some unclear reason when the amount of pictures in the folder of the current image seems to become 0.
- After changing Options (F11) the image file list didn't show pdf files anymore.
- Don't turn cursor into hourglass when moving image and sharpen or autocontrast is on.
- HelpFilename should be loaded/saved without path.
- Only make AutoReplace active when we have a valid database file.
- Don't delete unused items younger than the week limit because they have date last used set to 0.
- New filename based on first line of text doesn't check for double quote as illegal character. A double quote on the first line of text when the option use first line of text as default filename was set made it impossible to save a new file.
- The extra image viewer window didn't check whether an image still existed before trying to open it.
- Uncommon crash when main window is not active and checking whether we need to resume an paused timer.
- Detect pdf files where the pdf extension is not all lowercase.
- Images with a non standard file extension were not shown in the dropdown image list and the previous/next image arrows also were not updated correctly.
- Extensions can be longer than 3 characters!
- Extra image window always opens the current image instead of the selected image.
- Several bugfixes and a few extra safety checks in the image loading code.
- When dragging/touching zoomed in/out image keep mouse cursor at same position in image.
- Newer versions of Ghostscript need encoding set for accented characters.
- If pdf conversion fails set image back to the last one instead of the pdf.
- We need to check for GlobalSettings being initialized at startup or we might get a crash in certain rare cases.
- Words consisting only of accented characters are handled wrong by the standard Windows RichEdit control. We need to fix that ourselves.
- Highlighter zoom and brightness were reset after moving to another image.
- Catch exception when saving and file is in use by another program.
- When using the project timer and then changing the short date format in Windows caused a crash and the inability to use Transcript.
- Image highlighter size and position were incorrect after changing projects.
- When changing projects and the image file for the new project is not found the image of the previous project stays visible.
- Menu shortcuts could not be translated.