ActivePresenter 3.2.0 - Changelog

What's new in ActivePresenter 3.2.0:

March 1st, 2012

New features & Enhancements:
· New Zoom-n-Pan mechanism which supports multiple Zoom-n-Pans in one slide
· Insert object at specified timestamp
· Click Sound for cursor path and interaction objects
· Allow slide objects to have attached audio
Enable dragging from Library to Canvas to create slide object:
· Dragging image, audio, video
· Dragging style to create shape
· Enable dragging image, audio, video files from computer to canvas
· Preview a range in Timeline: User can select a range in Timeline to preview in a loop
· Add “Zoom all” button to Timeline which will automatically adjust zoom factor to fit the longest bar in the available width
· Add edit Gradient button to Properties panel for easy editing the gradient stops
· Show object preview when selecting Show/Hide Object in Event Editor
· Display slide name in “Go To Slide” dialog
· Small icons below the slide thumbnails to allow user to know at a glance which types of objects (audio, video, cursor and question) are there in the slide
· Improve cursor path editing with curve or straight cursor path
· Change slide by clicking in timeline (when showing all slides)
· Balloon” object is now named “Shape”
· Display number of slides and total duration in project properties dialog

Bugs fixed:
· Sequence question in Ajax: can not drag & drop answers on IE 9
· No toolbars displayed when creating new blank project
· Open projects from older versions: text of shapes are overflowed
· Some other minor bugs

What's new in ActivePresenter 3.1.0:

January 14th, 2012

New features & Enhancements:
· Add context toolbars for faster and easier editing
· Add ‘preserve aspect ratio’ option for image and video
· Add ‘play when waiting for user input’ and ‘loop’ option for audio and video
· Show more details when hovering mouse over objects in editor
Object Style:
· Style Preview when editing
· Clone style from existing one
· Create new style from selected object
· Update object to style
Text Editing:
· New hotkeys: increase/decrease font size
· Auto Fit to Text: Auto expand/reduce object size once editing completes to fit to new text
· Incremental search for font name in font selection box
Quiz:
· Make editing easier (add/edit answer, button, message…) using context toolbar
Object Event:
· Enable showing image by event
· Add ‘End Presentation’ action
· Add new action after, not previous selected action
Timeline:
· Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
· Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
Audio Editor:
· Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
· Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
· Allow to seek when playing/pausing
Properties Grid:
· Auto save property value when user clicks outside properties panel
Ajax, Flash Simulation:
· Better synchronization among cursor path, audio, video, zoomed and normal objects
· Flash Simulation: Add slide list window
Capture/Record:
· Auto pan is now off by default
· Allow to add hint messages when recording
· Allow to select captured application when inserting new slide by capture
· Lower default video frame rate for FMR in Smart Capture to 15 fps -> Smaller video size, don’t need smooth transition
Image Editor:
· Allow to copy and paste image as image object into slide
· Allow to select rectangle using mouse dragging from bottom to top

Bugs fixed:
· HTML editing issue: crash error when editing balloon’s text on systems with RoboForm installed
· Crash error when saving capture profile on systems with no audio input device

What's new in ActivePresenter 3.0.0:

October 21st, 2011

Capture:
· Full motion recording with crystal clear video quality.
· Record audio narration while recording.
· Record and highlight mouse cursor.
· Automatic panning recording area, record multiple monitors.
· Easily editable Zoom-n-Pan.
· Support Windows XP, Vista and 7 - x64 now.

Editor:
· Instant slide preview.
· Can insert (one or several) video into slide now. This will make your demonstration becomes more attractive.
· Support many types of annotation shape with flexible hotspot, Zoom-n-Pan, Closed Caption.
· Customizable mouse cursor path.
· Support object styling (fill, line, text). You can easily create more beautiful presentation with our predefined styles or your own styles. Just imagine and realize it with ActivePrensenter.
· Support more event and action types allow creating a unique tutorial that never seen before.
· Create interactive simulation and training materials with 7 types of questions: True/False, Multiple Choice, Multiple (scoring is also available).
· Clear and easy to use user interface.

Export:
· Export to WebM format, which is comparable to H.264 and supported by Youtube.
· High quality and editable output document (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
· High quality AJAX and Flash output

What's new in ActivePresenter 2.2:

May 26th, 2010

· Built-in image editor with many useful features
· Built-in HTML rendering engine and editor for rendering and editing balloon's content
· Support user defined template when generating MS Word documents
· Converting program's annotations to native auto-shape objects when generating Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint. Now you can edit the content of annotations after generating document
· Lots of improvements for AJAX and Flash simulation
· Allow choosing color resolution and quality when creating outputs.
· You can reduce the output size of AJAX or Flash simulations remarkably while keeping acceptable quality
· There are also unspecified bug fixes and lots of minor improvements

What's new in ActivePresenter 2.1:

December 14th, 2009

· Fully localized for Spanish
· Background preloading technique for AJAX player: resources will be preloaded simultaneously in the background
· Lots of improvements for AJAX and Flash simulation.
· Customizable visibility of balloon object. The balloon object can now be set to display on every simulation modes or only visible for specified modes.
· Expand the resource template with new shapes for balloons and hints.
· There are also unspecified bug fixes and lots of minor improvements.

What's new in ActivePresenter 2.0:

October 19th, 2009

· Timeline panel for managing objects&apos - timeline visually
· Insert multiple objects at once easily
· Enhance user interface for productivity
· Export: optimize output size with PNG image optimization
· Enhance video export: reduce generation speed and vastly improve the output quality.
· Flash Simulation: an easy online distribution and access format, based on industry leading Adobe Flash platform.
· SCORM Support: Export to SCORM compliant package. Supports both
· SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004.

What's new in ActivePresenter 1.1.25:

July 7th, 2009

· Export slides to image series
· Import from MS Powerpoint slides
· Export to MS Powerpoint presentations (requires Microsoft
· Powerpoint 2000 or later)
· Ability to automatically insert or delete multiple annotation
· objects
· There are also bug fixes and lots of minor improvements