GenScriber Changelog

What's new in GenScriber 2.4.3-5 Beta

• Image marker option:
• A red image marker is available. A button in the image toolbar toggles the marker on/off. Extra tools appear on toolbar for adjusting marker size and position. The marker is a visual guide only. It is not connected to the synchronization.
• Marker buttons left to right. open/close marker, left, right, up,down, expand vertical, shrink vertical, expand horizontal, shrink horizontal, auto width.
• Using the marker:
• Click the 'open marker' button and the marker will appear. The toolbar will expand to show the control buttons.
• You can also use control keys:
• Shift+Ctrl+PageUp = Move up
• Shift+Ctrl+PageDown = Move down
• Shift+Ctrl+CursorUp = Decrease height
• Shift+Ctrl+CursorDown = Increase height
• Shift+Ctrl+CursorLeft = decrease width
• Shift+Ctrl+CursorRight = Increase width
• If the height is adjusted to minimum the marker becomes a line. Reduce the width to minimum for an upright line.
• Option to synchronize image with movement in worksheet.
• The option to enable synchronization is in 'Preferences > Worksheet'. Once enabled it can be turned on/off in 'edit' menu. It will work with or without the marker visible.
• When sync is enabled, an extra button is available in the image toolbar.
• This button will open the sync editor for synchronizing the horizontal(columns) and vertical(rows) movement.
• When using the sync editor, it is best to use the marker as a visual aid for positioning the image.
• Synchronizing columns:
• 1. Select a column
• 2. Drag the image to the horizontal position to move to when you later select the column.
• 3. Click on the sync button.
• It does not matter which order you sync columns, and it does not matter if the image columns are in a different order than the worksheet titles.
• The image horizontal position is synchronized with each selected column. So when you are adding data into the worksheet, the image will step forward or backward to match the column you are editing.
• Important: You must set sync on the first worksheet column. The first column is used later when setting the offset. If the first worksheet column does not match anything in the image, sync it to the leftmost column in the image.
• Synchronizes the horizontal position of the image to the currently selected column. The column name will be added to the list.
• Removes synchronization from the current selected column.
• Removes synchronization from ALL columns.
• This button will show/hide the a row height indicator.
• This is just a visual indicator of the vertical movement (row height)
• The row height is the amount of vertical movement in the image for each row in the worksheet.
• Synchronising the start row
• After closing the sync editor, the start row needs to be selected. This is to tell GenScriber the vertical position of the first row starts in the image.
• 1. Select column1 of the row you want to set as the start row. If you are starting a new worksheet this will be the first row. If you are adding to an existing worksheet, I guess it will be the next empty row.
• 2. Drag the image so that it is in the correct vertical position to match the worksheet row.
• 3. Right click in any cell in the row and choose 'Sync current row as start'
• If you are transcribing a batch of the same type of image. You will need to repeat the above for each image. Your start row will be the next empty row in the worksheet.
• Horizontal offset.
• When working with batches of images it is possible they were not centered exact when filmed.
• To set the image horizontal offset...
• 1. Left-click in column1.
• 2. Drag the image to the correct horizontal position for column 1
• 3. Right-click in column1 and select 'Set column offset'.
• GenScriber will add the new offset to the original column sync settings.
• Turning sync off.
• Right-click in the worksheet and select 'Turn sync OFF'
• Saving sync settings
• Synchronization is automatically saved in the template when you save the worksheet. When the document is next opened it will have retained your sync settings.
• You will however need to set the start row (see above).
• If you create a master template from a worksheet containing synchronization,
• The master template created will also have the sync settings.
• Character map option:
• Opens system charmap. There is an option to set path to charmap in preferences.
• Alternative layout option:
• Side-by-side layout option added.
• Can be set in 'Preferences>Global' or SHIFT+CTRL_F12
• Image left/right can only be set in 'Preferences>Global'.
• New mouse functions in image area:
• Mousewheel scrolls image up/down
• CTRL+ mousewheel scrolls image left/right
• SHIFT+mousewheel zooms image in/out
• SHIFT+CTRL+mousewheel stretches images.
• Click any of the zoom toolbar button to cancel stretch.
• Find and Replace now has Regex:
• Regex patterns should be grouped using brackets (). The 'replace' text groups should match the Regex pattern.
• Importing help files:
• Help files can now be imported into the help menu. Choose 'Import Help Files' from the help menu.
• Pages on genscriber.com have an option to save as PDF. These can be imported.
• Starting a new row before reaching the end of the current row:
• When entering data in the worksheet, you can start a new row before reaching the end of the current row, by pressing 'CTRL + ENTER'. This will return to the start position, on a new row.
• The default start position is column 1, but it may be set to any other column.
• To set the start column:
• When in edit, and in the column you wish to set as start, press 'CTRL + >'.
• This will set the current column as the start position.
• Now when you're entering data, you can press 'CTRL + ENTER', and you will be returned to this column, on a new row.
• To reset the column start to 1:
• To reset the start column press 'CTRL +