December 23rd, 2011· CHANGED: After listening to peoples’ comments regarding the new interface we decided that it was too dark so therefore have brightened it up.
· FIXED: When auto update on startup is turn on, there are a few graphical glitches when switching button tabs.
· FIXED: When auto update on startup is turn on, if no newer version is found then it would stay on the update screen, now it returns back to the select profile screen having checked for updates and found no new updates.
· FIXED: Installer would not exit if Launch Photo Magician box was checked at the end of the installation.
August 1st, 2011· CHANGED: Watching the Input folder for every file change was return in accurate number of files to convert, completely re-written so that if just one change event is fired then PM with rebuild the list of files to convert just before conversion. PM only now monitors events for files created or renamed.
· ADDED: A new function for removing duplicates entries when building the list of files to convert.
· FIXED: When an input folder path had a trailing slash "\" and an output folder was specified, the images never converted into the correct output folder.
· FIXED: Progress bar, success, skipped, Time were never reset properly after the first conversion.
July 14th, 2011· Photo magician now has a skinned interface
· Seperate form windows that handle different functions in Photo Magician are now in Panels
· Custom Profiles are now stored in XML format. This makes the INI file module redundant and has been removed from Photo Magician. Photo Magician is fully XML relient. OLD PROFILES WILL NOT WORK WITH PM2.
· New PM icon
· Right click on a folder and you can convert images with Photo magician 2 - This adds the folder to the input folder box
· Apply effects to all images duing conversion, like Sepia, Negative or Grayscale. Even Rotate images 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Flip horizontal or vertical.
· Command line option "DEBUG" - This will build a log file of basic activity behind the scenes.
May 25th, 2011· FIXED: minor fixes to folder path searching when using local or UNC paths
· FIXED: Changes to allow folder paths in INPUT folder to carry trailing backslash, if desired.
May 23rd, 2011· FIXED: minor fixes to recursive folder searching
March 16th, 2011· Facebook Uploading is back! But only in English Translation only.
· (Will add Photo Uploading using Async method at a later stage so it is done in the backbround and the program will still have interaction. Will also add Proxy support, for all those running the software behind a proxy server, at a letr stage)
· ADDED: Also now when you right click on a folder you are given a context menu item to "Upload to Facebook"
· CHANGED: Monitoring folder changes for the folder being converted would carry on during the conversion process. This has now been stopped during conversion and restarts after conversion complete. This will speed up conversion when you are converting hundreds/thousands of images.
· CHANGED: Added references and logos to external libraries used in the About Window.
March 8th, 2011· CHANGED: EULA on installation was using GPL, which has been removed and replaced with SSSLA (Sheldon Solutions Simple License Agreement). In a nutshell "Free but closed source".
· CHANGED: Photo Magician has moved from VS 2008 to VS 2010 and the target .Net Framework has been changed from v2 to v4 (Full not Client). Please make sure you have installed the full version of Dot Net Framework 4.
· ADDED: Send converted images to anyone via Email (English translation only).
· ADDED: Russian Translation.
· FIXED: Few very minor GUI issues.
February 23rd, 2011· ADDED: Translations for TURKISH and SPANISH.
· UPDATED: FreeImage Library updated to 3.15.0.0
February 23rd, 2011· FIXED: Command line parameters were not working at all. Now fully working.
February 18th, 2011· FIXED: The EXIF data would slow down the whole conversion - New conversion setting to retain EXIF data or not. As changed the logic process on copying data so that a random error message does not now appear.
· ADDED: Conversion Setting Option - Include EXIF data
· REMOVED: Statusbar at the bottom of the application has been removed as it is not really necessary
· FIXED: About box resized to fit content in translation box and also is now not focused/highlighted.
February 9th, 2011· ADDED: FTP Client remembers last used address, username and password
· ADDED: Japanese Language
· ADDED: When in month of December, a Christmas tree appears on the main Photo Magician window.
February 3rd, 2011· FIXES: Update process always returned an error message after downloading the update
· FIXES: UK language spelling mistakes
January 31st, 2011· ADDED: JPEG EXIF data now copied to converted file (not all data is
· copied but basic data is)
· ADDED: Serbian Translation
· FIXES: Minor language bugs
December 9th, 2010· Facebook and Flickr plugins have been removed as development for the libraries I was using have ceased.
· ADDED: Exclude files by file size from conversion
· ADDED: command line options
· ADDED: Help section for command line options only (English)
· FIXED: textboxes that required numerical input only were allowing all types of characters
· FIXED: Cleaned up profile list to co-inside with command line and reduce number of profiles from 26 to 25
· FIXED: System Tray icon would not disappear until mouse over after application had exited
· ADDED: Danish Translation
November 5th, 2010· ADDED: Ability to upload converted images to FTP server (Beta
· version of FTP Uploader)
· CHANGED: Flickr Library updated to 3.1.0.0
· ADDED: Swedish Translation
October 2nd, 2010· FIXED: Facebook / Flickr Uploader would not receive converted folder from Photo Magician to load.
· FIXED: Removed obsolete text on Upload selection window.
August 20th, 2010· ADDED: Flickr Uploader (Can be used as standalone (Access via windows start menu) or
· integrated with Photo Magician)
· ADDED: Facebook Uploader (Can be used as standalone (Access via windows start menu)
· or integrated with Photo Magician)
· CHANGED: Removed Error Log window to replaced it with a Tabbed option within the main
· program window, when available
· ADDED: Minimise button on main interface window
· FIXED: Installer now supports removing old version first before installing new one
· FIXED: Optimized the File Watcher for changes in the Input folder so that it updated
· with the correct number of files/folders
· FIXED: Invalid input paths that were typed into the textbox were not updating
· correctly
· CHANGED: New application icon
· ADDED: New Translation: Norwegian & German
· ADDED: TIFFs now saved as either compression NONE or LZW, Combobox added to select
· method of compression on OPTIONS TAB
· FIXED: When a different tab is selected process image button would not work
· FIXED: "Select Language" label never changed when selecting a different
· language
May 26th, 2010· FIXED: More cleanup done to convert image code
· FIXED: Profile list was too long and flowing over program window - Reduced number of items visible at any one time from 15 to 13
· ADDED: Obfuscation to protect the source code from being used elsewhere
· FIXED: Minor issues relating to the saving deleting of custom profiles
· ADDED: Language translations added (French, Dutch)
· FIXED: Minor changes done to the programs interface to accommodate different languages
· FIXED: Profile Editor had minor issue with saving but wont compromise existing custom user profiles.
· FIXED: Output previous folder would sometimes display blank entry
· FIXED: number of dialogs from being maximised
· FIXED: Profile combobox was not resizing when selecting a different language
· ADDED: System tray icon with option to show / hide main window
· FIXED: Cleaned up duplicate code on convert function by half to make it easier to update in future
· FIXED: Inserted try catch exception where ever possible to suppress all possible errors that may occur
· FIXED: Quick Convert message box never appears on top of all other applications
· FIXED: Exception would be occur if image to convert was to large to go into RAM
April 7th, 2010· FIX: Input folder watch didn't start when using previous input path right click
· option
· ADDED: Most Common RAW formats to convert
· ADDED: Other file formats to convert to supports RAW formats
· FIX: Timer used to give total process time was incorrect. If a file took longer than necessary to convert then the timer would tick when finshed, so therefore never accurate. Created a custom timer that runs in a seperate thread (Background Worker) so that the time still runs without anything stopping it, to give an accurate time.
· ADDED: Photo Magician will watch your selected INPUT folder for changes to it
· (rename, create, delete, add, files and folders) and dynamically update number of photos to convert.
· ADDED: Added more input formats: DDS, PSD, PCX, WBMP with the inclusion of FreeImage.NET
· FIX: Changed TAGRA Library from Poloma to FreeImage.NET
· ADDED: Ability to select what output formats for file types that cannot be converted back to there original format
· ADDED: Custom Profile Editor: Now you can create you own custom profiles (Per User Basis)
· ADDED: When conversion is complete, the form now displays the time it has taken to convert, previously it was just number of successful / skipped conversions
· FIX: About screen to reflect the new inclusion of the FreeImage.NET Graphics Library
· FIX: cleaned up and removed redundant code
· FIX: output files and folder names are now in sentence case instead of upper case
· FIX: Optimised code in QuickConvert
· FIX: Small problem with memory management when trying to release images from memorystream
March 22nd, 2010· ADDED: Two new profile options. Width Only (Maintain Aspect Ratio) and Height Only (Maintain Aspect Ratio) as requested by Geert.
· FIX: Importing WMFs would by DotNet Framework default, set any background layer to black, now have changed to white
· FIX: Skipped files counter not reporting correct number of skipped files on the
· converting dialog window
· FIX: Exporting to WMF is not supported so all images that are told to overwrite themselves will convert to PNG, will try and source a new library for this in future
· FIX: Importing of WMF files was not working
· ADDED: Error logging and error log viewer now implemented, available only when an error occurs, accessed via the menu bar at the top of the main application
· FIX: Scale factor % profile on quick convert on subsequent runs after the first would not change from previous one
· FIX: Custom profile not accepting values typed into to width and height box
· FIX: (New to 1.0.0.3) Not accepting value in profile % box when clicking on Convert images
· FIX: Images in quick convert all converted to JPEG but now convert to original format
· ADDED: Web address now on about page and new email address
· ADDED: W and H on profile text boxes to make clear which one is which
· FIX: Quick convert subsequent runs not working as progress bar never gets reset
· FIX: Quick Format no longer asks on every drop to select an output folder. On first drop it will ask but on subsequent runs, a new button has been added to change the output folder.
· FIX: Quick Convert now allows you to drag drop multiple items on the hat, files and folders, ignoring anything else inside like other file types e.g. txt files, pdf files etc
· ADDED: Reading of TGA (Targa Image) is now supported but saving automatically defaults to PNG
· ADDED: Auto Update feature, can be turned off
· FIX: Check for new version wasnt picking up major/minor build differences correctly
· FIX: Convert file to one format (BMP) wasnt working correctly.
· ADDED: Ability to use a pervious directory from a successful conversion. Input and Output by right click on textbox and select path.
March 15th, 2010· FIX: If image previewing is turned off on a second run of conversions it would
· display the last image processed
· FIX: On a second run or further runs of conversions it would throw up errors or not display the progress bar correctly
· FIX: Typing of input and output folders is now allowed
· ADDED: Drag and drop allowd on OUTPUT folder
· FIX: When no profile had been selected and conversion still began and subsiquent error messages may appear
· FIX Image conversion by percentage
· FIX: 'Exclude images under certain size' not working when outputing to different folder than input
· FIX: 'Scale image to' width and height boxes accepted blank values or 0 which throws up an exception. Blank boxes and 0 are now not accepted values
· FIX: Quick Convert now works with the ability to select a profile to use on the main screen
· FIX: Update now uses new url to check for updates via the official website. (Will be active 20/03/2010 when new domain goes live)
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