December 20th, 2011· Made changes allowing to increase significantly speed of gallery creation and duplicate finding, made the other functional changes, fixed petty bugs. The update is recommended to all the users.
· Changed shareware restrictions of the program. Multiplied by four the maximum size of the gallery in the unregistered trial version (4000 images). Added the thumbnails "Evaluation version".
· Changed the algorithm for finding duplicates. As a result it is possible to omit some part of duplicates whose level of difference is more than 10%, but search time is reduced 2-5 times approximately. It is highly essential for huge galleries (>50,000 images)!
· Slightly changed mechanism of grouping the duplicates as well as the method of calculating average difference level in the group (backlash comes to +-1% as compared with the method previously used).
Added four predefined templates to specify the concept of 'series' in the dialog for merging series of images:
· Ser0 - a set of no less than 3 images with exclusively numeric suffix, its width is less than width of a text part that must be no shorter than 5 symbols;
· Ser1 - a set of no less than 3 images with arbitrary suffix, its width is larger (but no more than twice) than width of a text part that must be no shorter than 5 symbols;
· Ser2 - a set of no less than 3 images with exclusively numeric suffix, widths of a text part and suffix are arbitrary;
· Ser3 - all the files in a directory.
· Added the new rule in the editor of rules for automatic marking the improper duplicates: "mark the image if its path = than the selected path" (< - doesn't belong, > - belongs). It allows to filter the images according to their location in a certain directory.
· Priority of image reading in the background mode (idle) is essentially reduced. As a result the procedure for creation of a gallery does not delay the other executed tasks.
· Added the optional feature to save intermediate results in a temporary file located in the application directory when creating a gallery. If the gallery is created with success this file is automatically deleted. In case of abnormal program termination you will be suggested to create a new gallery by the kept intermediate results when restarting the prorgam.
· In case of abnormal program termination the options "Try to accelerate and read BAD files" and "Fast reading of the large JPEG files" are forced to be unset.
· Accelerated loading of some large images.
· Added optional output of image text description from the file 'descipt.ion' into the window for comparison of two images and the dialog for series merging.
· Fixed bugs detected since the previous version has been released
December 20th, 2011· Fixed startup bug into unregistered version.
December 20th, 2011· Fixed small bugs. The update is recommended to all the users.
December 20th, 2011· Added new fuctions, changed old ones, fixed bugs. The update is recommended to all the users.
· Added the special tool for merging series of images that can help picture-hunters to systematize the collected images (downloaded from Internet, taken by a digital camera, etc.). Sense of series merging consists in moving the images of one series to the directory of another one together with possible assigning the new names to moved files (or to all the files of both series). For more details see here.
· Added the special tool "Wizard" for novice users of ImageDupeless as well as those of who need carry out rapidly the whole program cycle: create a gallery, find duplicates in it, mark improper images and delete them. For more details see here.
· Added displaying tips of the day when the program starts and statistics at the end of program session.
· Made changes in the window for comparison of two images: added highlight of lines with file parameters by different colors (the best parameter is highlighted by blue color, the worst one by the standard color (usually black), if the parameters are equal both are highlighted by purple color); lines with file names can be scrolled and copied now; added the button for running the dialog for series merging; added displaying the series indicator (controlled by the option "show series indicator"); added displaying positions of the images in the groups of duplicates containing more than two images (controlled by the option "show position in the large group"); moved a set of options to the separate dialog "Additional parameters".
· Made changes in the editor of rules for automatic marking the improper duplicates: added the rule for comparison of names (in alphabetical order); renamed the old rule for comparison of names as the rule for comparison of name length; added the standard rule for automatic deletion of duplicates with equal widths, heights, and names into the list of default rules.
· Made changes in the main window: added the possibility to minimize the application window when it scans images, finds duplicates or refreshes galleries; added items "Run Wizard" and "Clear window of unlike images" into the main menu ("Tools"); added the tool button for running the Wizard; added items "Clear window of unlike images", "Clear window of duplicates", "Show current image in the gallery list" into the contextual pop-up menu; optimized drawing the image thumbnails and their scrolling in the left pane.
· Made changes in the dialog for editing values of program parameters: in the section "Creating/Comparison" added the option "Fast reading of the large JPEG files" accelerating reading of large JPEG images during working with the gallery; in the section "Viewing" added the option "do not consider the case of names in the gallery" affecting upon sorting the list of gallery files by names as well as the group of options "Parameters to show the images in the groups of duplicates" allowing to restrict "noise" effect when working with the large groups of duplicates; added the new section "Messages" in which a set of options from the section "Working" was moved as well as new ones were added: "Show tips of the day", "Display statistics at the end of the session", "Generate the list of problematic images"; added the new section "Series of images" including the parameters controlling the process of series merging.
· Fixed bugs detected since the previous version has been released, in particular: wrong displaying the date of last modification for image files, wrong comparison of the date of last modification during gallery refreshing, wrong search of duplicates for single image, bug where defective images were locked for the session after their reading, wrong processing of non-ASCII symbols in the files "descript.ion", wrong scrolling the main window after one of the images has been deleted, bug where tooltips were not displayed in the window for comparison of two images, bug where status of the options set in the dialog for comparison with new images was not stored, bugs in the dialog for deletion/moving of the images and more.
December 20th, 2011· Fixed bugs: a slow search after saving.
· The Czech and Spanish version of ImageDupeless version 1.5.4.2 has been published.
December 20th, 2011· Fixed bugs under Win98
December 20th, 2011· Implemented the function to export/import the lists of duplicates and unlike images to/from an external text file. The function can be called from the contextual menu of the main window or from the section "File" of the main menu.
· Changed reading mechanism and gallery file format (backward compatibility works). A part of the data (in particular, thumbnails) is not loaded into memory when opening gallery, and is read up if necessary. This essentially reduces the gallery size in memory (approximately three times smaller than occupied disk space for galleries with the thumbnails stored inside and by 20% smaller for other galleries). WARNING: saving of a gallery file by the command "Save" now occurs through a temporary file, which requires additional disk space. Complete data storing in memory will take place in process of gallery creation until its first saving and next loading.
Expanded the dialog for editing values of program parameters. Added a set of parameters previously hidden from an user, in particular:
· Added optional possibility to display full file paths (as far as possible) on thumbnails in the left pane of the main window (the option "with full path" in the section "Main window");
· Added possibility to set size of thumbnails displayed in the left pane of the main window (the option "Icon size" in the section "Main window");
· Added a parameter improving quality of the thumbnail displayed in the dialog for creation/comparison/refresh of the gallery (the option "good image quality" in the section "Creating/Comparison");
· Made optional check-up of accessibility of source files during gallery loading, which has an essential effect at working with large on-line galleries (the option "Check accessibility of images during gallery loading or refreshing" in the section "Working").
· Modified the algorithm for reading image files. The new mechanism is more efficient (advantage is about 10-20% when creating gallery), but less stable. It is turned on by the option "Try to accelerate and read BAD files".
· Essentially modified, optimized (in memory size) and accelerated the function "Refresh gallery".
· Added progress dialogs and bars for most of operations (reading, writing, etc.).
· Added items "Mark automatically" and "Delete selected images from gallery" to the main menu.
· Added possibility to input directly a directory name in the dialog for directory selection.
· Fixed petty defects and bugs.
December 20th, 2011· Fixed the petty defects and bugs.
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