What's new in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.8.3
Mar 12, 2024
- With the release this week, we’re fine tuning the desktop experience further by allowing the mouse wheel to pan in the publication. You can turn this on and off in the “Toolbar & Navigation” section of the desktop publisher depending on if you want mouse wheel to scroll or pan in the publication.
- With this version, we’re also making it easier to access color and style settings inside the desktop publisher.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.8.2 (Feb 12, 2024)
- Exciting news! We’re thrilled to share that we’re rolling out another cool feature. We’re introducing a fantastic “zoom navigator” feature, showcased in the picture on the right. When you zoom into FlowPaper Flipbooks on your desktop PC, this handy tool will pop up, making it easier for you to navigate and read your publication.
- And that’s not all—there’s more to come! Keep an eye out for additional features throughout the year. The latest version will be ready for download in just a few days. If you’re eager to give the new “zoom navigator” a spin, simply click on the picture. Stay tuned for an enhanced experience!
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.8.1 (Jan 9, 2024)
- A new year provides new opportunities and we start this year by pushing the boundaries around the FlowPaper experience. To further the realism in FlowPaper, we’ve improved the initial experience that your readers will get as they launch your publication.
- In FlowPaper version 3.8.1, we are providing a number of templates like the one on the right. We hope these new templates will let you improve the experience for your readers. Keep an eye out in the coming week for this release!
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.8.0 (Dec 13, 2023)
- Ever sent out a publication and wondered if it was accessed by a particular part of your audience or not? with FlowPaper 3.8.0 you are now able to create multiple, custom links for the same publication and get notified when your visitors visits your publication.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.7.2 (Sep 1, 2023)
- Improved geusture sensitivity for the Zine template when dragging pages in mobile portrait mode
- Improved search in Zine with a new search forward button as well as a close button for better UX
- Fixed an issue where links would sometimes open in mobile mode while swiping/dragging a page
- Various smaller bug fixes to Zine, particularly in the mobile modes
- Much improved header detection for the mobile-first template
- Its now easier to turn on analytics via the publishing dialogue
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.7.1 (Aug 3, 2023)
- Improved gesture sensitivity for the Zine template when dragging pages in mobile portrait mode
- Improved search in Zine with a new search forward button as well as a close button for better UX
- Fixed an issue where links would sometimes open in mobile mode while swiping/dragging a page
- Various smaller bug fixes to Zine, particularly in the mobile modes
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.7.0 (Jul 10, 2023)
- Improved bottom navigator for FlowPaper elements so the slider now works on touch only devices
- Improved reading space utilisation in the Zine template when viewing portrait mode on a mobile device
- We have made the Zine mobile UI more minimalist with less controls that are shown per default and a transparent menu background which is less intrusive for small displays
- We have changed the default bottom navigator for Zine so it uses the same navigator as FlowPaper Elements. This provides better utilisation of the screen estate and better mobile accessibility across the Zine templates.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.9 (Jul 1, 2023)
- Improved support for RTL (Right To Left) reading order. The desktop publisher will now detect RTL language automatically and the bottom thumbnails are providing better support
- Good news for our creative license holders, we have increased the cloud quota from 50 to 75 for all cloud hosted publications!
- Improved stability for the replace/delete/add page functionality
- Improved pixel rounding accuracy for Zine resulting in improved overall sharpness
- Corrected a bug with the Elements tempalate where the accessibility mode would corrupt the background in some scenarios
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.8 (May 21, 2023)
- Added support for custom form fields on pages. Form fields that are part of the PDF will be imported.
- Updated our conversion and rendering libraries - this affects all areas with improved stability and rendering quality when importing and converting documents
- Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean languages
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.7 (Apr 24, 2023)
- This release of FlowPaper mainly improves accuracy in conversion throughout all templates as well as 3D performance in the Zine template for Windows. Certain configurations of Windows would perform differently than expected and this release addresses this. The performance and behavior will be more consistent across different Windows builds now.
- We are working on a number of larger changes which are due in the next few weeks. This release does not contain any of these changes but we still felt it was relevant enough to release before.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.6 (Mar 26, 2023)
- New detailed analytics available for your publications when you have analytics turned on
- 3D performance improvements to FlowPaper Zine
- Improved timing of flip sound that can be played when pages are turned in the Zine template
- Added “superscript” support via button to mobile-first editing
- Chrome performance improvements
- Various minor bug fixes
- Added a new shadow setting for the Elements template (Drop Shadow)
- Added page-level analytics for all publications to the account area
- Added audio started and video started events for in-page level analytics
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.4 (Nov 30, 2022)
- Updated the FlowPaper 3D rendering library providing improved performance and stability for the Zine template
- Improved handling for zoom keys in the browser (+/-)
- Improvements in positioning of the fisheye icons at the bottom of the Zine template to better accomodate different zoom levels when embedded in iframes
- Improved the functionality for renaming publications from the dashboard
- Improved handling of OCR documents to make sure text is always searchable via the “Export Invisible Text” setting
- Included “Generate Promo Video” on the sharing dialogue window accessible from the dashboard.
- Improved overall exception/error handling in the desktop publisher
- Various minor improvements to the interactivity editor
- Minor improvements to the flipbook video maker (promotional video generator)
- Bug corrections to the setting of image animations in Elements
- A new icon set for the Zine template!
- It is now possible to protect publications so that they are only displayed when embedded on your specified domain
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.2 (Oct 25, 2022)
- A number of smaller improvements in relation to animations for the Elements template
- Corrected an issue related to videos not playing as intended on some mobile devices after a image gallery had been clicked on
- Improved the video quality for publication previews
- Improved edit mode with easier to understand edit buttons
- It is now possible to animate images using the Elements template without the risk of breaking the layout when the image is “detached” from the PDF page
- Improved lazy loading of image thumbnails in very large reflow publications
- Spotlight images now available in FlowPaper Elements
- Hotspot links, images and videos are now available in Zine and Elements
- A number of corrections and improvements for importing image files as well as the ability to drop image files into the drop zone
- Fixed an issue where table of contents wouldn’t close properly on some mobile devices when using the Zine template
- Improved the look and behavior of the image/photo spotlight feature
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.6.0 (Jul 26, 2022)
- This version is mainly focused at providing the Elements templates with improvements in text rendering accuracy. The Elements template which is absolutely great at converting PDF documents to HTML5 and now combines SVG together with HTML5 for even higher text accuracy. It still provides the option of animating headers/body text as well as images, shapes and other figures inside of the imported PDF document.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.9 (Jun 6, 2022)
- It is now possible to import image files directly into FlowPaper to create a publication.
- We’ve added a number of bug corrections and improvements to the edit mode of the desktop publisher.
- Undo/Redo improved in edit mode for the Zine & Elements templates
- Improved performance when dragging and resizing objects in edit mode
- It is now possible to choose a ‘Flip-Horizontal’ page animation mode when choosing template under the Elements category
- Improved edit mode for the Zine template with a revamped properties box on the right-hand side of the editing window allowing easier modification of properties and sizes & positions of elements
- It is now possible to add ‘spotlight images’ to your publications. These will appear as clickable round links that can be placed inside pages to give an indication that something more is available to the viewer
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.8 (May 11, 2022)
- You can now apply animations to any major shape/vector illustration inside your publication. This is especially useful for charts, graphs and vector backgrounds backgrounds. Click on ‘Edit’ when you have imported your PDF using any of the ‘Elements’ templates. You will find the shape selections available in the editing area, which you then can apply animations to.
- Added support for PDF widgets when importing publications into FlowPaper
- It is now possible to use more generous link matching when importing Zine publications so that links without www. will be identified
- It is now possible to disable search engine indexing for your publications. This setting can be found in the settings section on the left
- A range of minor bug corrections
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.7 (Mar 16, 2022)
- This version of FlowPaper updates the rendering engine of the desktop publisher, which affects the aspects of document conversion related to things like output optimization, color and text accuracy as well as anything else related to PDF rendering. For most of you, this release just means that you’ll be able to import your documents and process them faster. Some of you might see slight improvements in things like color tables and font quality and some of you, will be able to convert your documents in a more optimized and more accurate manner.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.6 (Jan 10, 2022)
- Upgraded the electron runtime which powers the installed version of the desktop publisher to the latest version. This improves stability and performance to the installed version of FlowPaper Desktop Publisher
- Improved search loader indicator for Zine
- It is now possible to extract and animate image inside the Elements template
- Undo/redo now available in the reflow/mobile first template
- Adjustments to font scaling in FlowPaper Zine to optimize sharpness
- Adjusted video embeds to make sure they play without having to click them more than once. This had to be adjusted after Google changed their browser policy around autoplaying videos
- Improved page flipping speed in Zine
- Upgraded the Electron framework for the desktop publisher, improving overall stability and performance
- A fix was applied where the language of the UI wasn’t passed through properly to the text-to-speech functionality in accesisble elements documents
- Corrections for autoplaying video clips
- Adjustments to device pixel ratio for optimal image quality in Zine
- A number of improvements added to the mobile first template in both stability and accuracy
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.3 (Sep 9, 2021)
- It is now possible to adjust/add ALT tags to Elements publications for improved accessibility
- Quality improvements in output for the flatten/compress functionality
- The Zine & Elements templates now supports output in WEBP image format. The templates optimizes quality and loading time further while at the same time supporting old browsers which do not yet support WEBP
- Performance optimizations to the Elements template to be in line with the latest updates to the Chrome browser
- It is now possible to add and adjust the Zoom Read Snap areas in the Elements template via the edit mode inside the desktop publisher
- Added more settings to the GDPR form for the Zine and Elements templates
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.5.1 (Jul 26, 2021)
- Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai language in the Elements template
- It is now possible to share a publication workspace with another FlowPaper user (available for the installed version of the desktop publisher). This is available for Creative and Team license holders.
- Improvements to the ‘read on’ mode available in the Elements template
- Fixed an issue where added iframe content wouldn’t use the “maximize on click” functionality properly
- Fix for Right to left publications not loading properly in some scenarios when using the Zine template
- It is now possible to add and customize a GDPR/Cookie Consent message prior to showing your publication
- Compatibility corrections for Apple’s latest EPUB3 format
- Fixed an issue where downloading an Elements publication as compressed zip file for custom domain distribution failed in the web version of the desktop publisher
- A number of WCAG 2.1/Accessibility improvements added to the Elements template
- Improvements to text grouping which improves reading order detection
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.4.5 (Dec 13, 2020)
- Clicking anywhere in a publication when in miniature mode now expands the viewer into full screen
- Various fixes for heatmap data collection in FlowPaper Elements
- Heat maps are now available for re:flow publications
- FlowPaper now supports Google Analytics 4 via Google Tag Manager
- It is now possible to create publications from scratch via the dashboard using the Re:flow template
- You can now customize your cloud url via the account area
- It is now possible to add image galleries to Zine publications
- A number of issues related to dragging/dropping elements in the Re:flow template has been fixed
- It is now possible to make columns the same size using a new toolbar icon in Re:flow
- New block templates added to the re:flow template
- Electron framework updated (Desktop Publisher)
- User changes are now kept in Elements publications when using the “add pages” functionality to add new PDF pages
- FlowPaper Elements now supports custom page labels
- A number of fixes applied to the replace/insert pages routines
- Added the option of adding pages after a selected page in the page navigator
- Corrected a number of issues related to deleting and adding pages to existing publications
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.4.2 (Aug 17, 2020)
- Added the ability to customize the video preview for embedded videos
- Added the ability to remove PDF pages inside the desktop publisher
- Improved page/drag animations for FlowPaper Elements
- It is now possible to zoom in and out in the content editor in the desktop publisher
- General bug fixes and improvements in rendering accuracy following reports submitted to us
- It is now possible to add “expanded content” to pages in the Elements template
- Improved audio player (style and functionality)
- Heatmaps are now available in FlowPaper Elements publications
- Added popover support for Elements publications
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.4.0 (Jun 22, 2020)
- Features the ability to collect heat map data for your publications! First out with support for this is the Zine template, with the Elements and Re:flow templates to follow. Heatmaps provides a way of visualizing how people click, pan and zoom in and out of your publications by collecting data points that are later grouped together into a visual representation.
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.9 (May 19, 2020)
- Fixed so that links in footnotes are correctly navigating when clicked (Re:flow template)
- It is now possible to add in your custom tax/address details in the invoice section of the account area
- Improved the match similar functionality for EPUB3 font substitution
- Support for fallback-font added to FlowPaper elements for improved font accuracy
- Fixed an issue where some links were not always clickable in Elements
- Improved accuracy in text clipping when covered by images
- It is now possible to add popover images to Elements and Zine publications
- Fixed an issue related to self-hosted videos interfering with zoom in Zine
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.7 (Mar 17, 2020)
- This version introduces “Leads” which will allow you to collect visitor/reader information from your clients. You can find the collected data for your leads in the account area.
- It is now possible to add audio-only clips to your publications
- General stability and performance improvements
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.6 (Feb 24, 2020)
- A number of memory performance improvements as well as output optimizations for Elements and Zine
- It is now possible to add custom CSS rules to your publications
- PDFTk, which was used for some operations, is no longer installed together with FlowPaper on Mac OSX
- Minor improvements text animations in FlowPaper Elements
- TOC will now close on small screens to make sure the underlying content is visible after navigating
- It is now possible to add custom CSS rules to the publications (Elements & Zine)
- Fixed a memory leak which prevented very large publications from processing properly
- It is now possible to use branding logos up to 250 px wide
- Fixed an issue for Zine where the publication wouldn’t rescale in all cases when going into full screen from an iframed page
- Improved the accuracy in font rendering regarding italic/bold if the font has those properties embedded as part of the font.
- Fix to improve the download of multiple PDF files at the same time in Zine when using split mode
- Fix for self-hosted videos not showing when password was applied to the publication
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.4 (Dec 2, 2019)
- Chrome has changed its behaviour of custom bold fonts so FlowPaper has now aligned with the change to improve accuracy in font-rendering
- Animations now available in the reflowable template
- Dashboard rearranged to make it easier to distinguish which template that is Zine and Elements based
- FlowPaper Elements publications now support image and video animations
- Improvements to copy/paste in the Reflowable template
- Improved text rendering quality on low-resolution displays (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.3 (Sep 30, 2019)
- Various smaller corrections for the web page builder
- Fixed an issue where the thumbnail wasn’t being re-rendered when a page was replaced in a publication
- Fixed an issue related to corrupt TOC items not rendering properly
- Added a setting for allowing page interactive page corners to be turned on or off in Zine
- Improvements to handling of bullet points in reflowable publications
- Improvements to the optimization routine (flatten & compress) for Zine and Elements
- Improved ePUB3 compatibility for fixed layout
- Added the ability to switch tag type on elements in edit mode for elements publication
- Improved WCAG 2.0 compatibility
- Newly added columns now becoming equal size to the other columns in Reflow Fixed an issue where having RTL set in certain publications would render the font incorrectly
- Increased stability when editing publications in the web page builder
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.2 (Aug 7, 2019)
- Fixed an issue where swiping in reflow would be prevented in some scenarios
- Improved text-clipping optimizations for images with semi transparent image overlays
- The desktop publisher now supports saving elements templates
- Fixed an issue where the backgroud image wasn’t copied accross properly when saved as part of a template (Zine)
- It is now possible to disable mouse wheel zooming in FlowPaper Elements
- It is now possible to force continuous scrolling on touch devices when using the reflowable templates
- Improved support for search matching Japanese and Chinese languages in Zine and Classic
- Fixed an issue where binding a link to an image in reflowable publications wouldn’t work
- Disabling page shadows in Zine publications now also disables the ‘glow’-style shadow that normally appears around the publication
- Improved clipping tests for images covering texts in Zine and Elements
- FlowPaper Zine now using jQuery 3.4.1
- Fix for nav buttons in FlowPaper Elements where they were not showing/hiding properly at start/end of the publication
- Fixed an issue where mailto links were opening a new window/tab unnecessarily in Zine
- FlowPaper elements now support description in the meta data for twitter cards and facebook sharing
- Fixed an issue where video previews were not being displayed properly when using authentication/password protection in Zine
- Fixed an issue in Zine for iOS devices where the background would shine through some pages in deep zoom when compressed mode was on
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.1 (May 6, 2019)
- Fixed an issue where the imported, downloadable PDF wouldn’t be overwritten properly even though that option would be set (Zine)
- The elements viewer now supports a new ‘Snap Reader’ mode which lets the reader zoom in and snaps to a paragraph without having to zoom and pinch
- Fixed an issue related to printing on Windows where the page wouldn’t auto fit the page size automatically on Windows due to a change in Chrome
- Improved SEO output for the Zine template
- Fixed a few navigational glitches for the Elements/flip template
- Improved touch gestures handling in FlowPaper elements
- The elements template now supports ‘transparent’ as background colour
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.3.0 (Apr 11, 2019)
- PDF files attached to publications will now download instead of open in a new tab (Zine)
- Improved text accuracy for FlowPaper Elements Publications
- Improved error handling with network latency issues in Zine
- Fixed an issue related to tracking downloads in Zine
- Fixed an issue where some interactive elements would be slightly mispositioned in certain landscape publications (Zine)
- Enabled TOC for mobile and tablets in Zine
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.2.6 Build 20181212 (Dec 12, 2018)
- Links added with icons are now better represented with a round background
- Fixed an issue where dropping elements between images in re-flowable mode would not work accurately
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to use HTML4 format instead of HTML5 in the desktop publisher
- Hot-fix for Chrome 67 related to the full screen api changing slightly
- Graphical changes to the desktop publisher
- More video tutorials added
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.2.4 Build 20181101 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Improved device rotation adjustments in reflow mode
- Improved accuracy to the flatten/compressed import optimizations in the desktop publisher
- Fixed an issue where some page sizes would render incorrect thumbnail sizes in Zine
- A new ‘Social Media Story’ template has been added to the desktop publisher that allows you to export snippets from your publications into stories that can be shared on social media websites such as Instagram and Snapchat
- Fixed an issue where complex publications would run into a max callstack scenario when analysed as a reflowable publication
- Fixed an issue where the source page wasn’t referenced properly in the time spent analytics tracker
- Added support for right-to-left (RTL) reading to Zine in the desktop publisher
- Added support for opengraph to the Elements and Reflowable templates
- Converting PDF to Adobe Flash powered publications is no longer supported in the desktop publisher, resulting in a much smaller install file
- Added support for Twitter cards which improves the look of publication shared on twitter (Zine+Elements)
- Zine now automatically detects when shown in an iframe and will show a miniature instead of the full publication, allowing the user to view the publication in full screen for improved UX
- Now supporting popover texts in reflowable publications
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.2.1 Build 20180712 (Jul 12, 2018)
- Various smaller corrections to the new reflow templates
- Fixed an issue where Max Zoom wasn’t being saved properly for the Zine template in the Desktop Publisher
- Added support for oEmbed in the Desktop Publisher
- Improved header detection when the reflowing text in the desktop publisher
- Improved swipe support for reflowable publications with partial dragging
- Improved drag/drop support in the reflow template
- Fixed an issue where attached PDF files would fail to download if the publication had publication protection enabled
- Fixed an issue where the authentication would get re-triggered when navigating back on iPad after opening a link
- Improved size margins for tablets when using the Zine template
- The Zine viewer is now vertically centered in the middle when the bottom thumbnails are disabled
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications would get their images incorrectly positioned in the reflow editor
- Added a new EPUB setting for controlling spread (auto, none, portrait, both)
- Performance improvements for Android when pinching (Zine)
- Added the line-wrap style setting to the styles that can be modified in reflowable publications
- Fixed an issue where the fixed layout area background would turn black if selected outside of a page boundary in reflowable publications
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications wouldn’t extract fixed layout regions correctly in reflowable publications
- Increased prev/next nav button size for tablets (Zine)
- Various improvements to the security checks for the sample server-side scripts (Zine, Classic)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.2.0 Build 20180611 (Jun 11, 2018)
- The Zine viewer now supports downloading the original PDF file on iPad and iPhone and its toolbar has been made more responsive
- Fixed an issue where some publications with very, very, very large page sizes would fail to render in Zine
- Overall improvements to the flatten/compress output quality
- Fixed an issue where some resources were not being copied properly from the desktop publisher
- Switch to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as local test address as some OSX instances have shown issues to resolve localhost properly
- Fixed an issue where cloud publications with password wasn’t working in Elements publications
- Fixed so that the branding url follows the same opening logic as external urls (new tab per default)
- Fixed an issue where searching when zoomed in would fail in Zine
- Added the option to include an additional table of contents page to EPUB exports or not
- Fixed an issue where the Elements viewer was always assuming https for youtube even when running non-encrypted http sessions
- Fixed an issue where embedded vidoes in the viewers were not showing the close button properly in smaller devices
- Fixed an issue where the video aspect ratio of embedded videos would cause the video to obtain a “pillar box” around the video
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.8 (Mar 12, 2018)
- Its now possible to set background alpha colour for Zine
- Improvements to the Zine template that has the toolbar in the bottom
- The main UI has been updated and now hides some of the settings under a new left menu which gives more screen area to view the publications
- Improved font loading in the Elements viewer
- Overall stability improvements to the system libraries involved in the desktop publisher
- Improvements to section matching in reflow/vertical mode
- Improved error handling for broken bookmark links
- Exporting hidden text in Elements will now keep the text searchable but render invisible
- FlowPaper elements now compresses output in order to save space when transferred
- The desktop publisher now has a new dashboard screen where you can access your previous publications as well as a new template guide with easier access to the templates that are available
- Fixed an issue where the alternating lines animation was running incorrectly in Safari (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where some fixed-layout pages were incorrectly adjusted in the viewer when using Reflow
- Fixed an issue where some value sliders in the desktop publisher did not update when new values were set
- Fixed an issue where some fixed layout areas in reflowable publications were not scaling properly
- Fixed an issue where some reflowed texts were using header tags as opposed to body text when larger than the detected header
- Fixed an issue where the –proxy-server= argument was not being respected
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.7 Build 20180203 (Feb 3, 2018)
- Its now possible to change icon color for the icons in the Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications would not get their fonts exported entirely correct in some cases (Desktop Publisher)
- Corrected a memory leak in the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the zine template wasn’t being copied across properly in a specific scenario (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where search matches were sometimes not being highlighted properly when more than one word occurred in the same fragment (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where cloud publications would not upload properly when using Reflow (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some fonts would be missed when loading a publication at a high starting page (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the viewer would not load in some early versions of IE 10 in compressed/flattened mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved styling for the search abstract (Zine)
- Improved double click handling in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved support for devices supporting both touch and mouse pointers (like Microsoft Surface) in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved responsiveness rotation support for older Android devices (Zine)
- Improved accuracy in the FlowPaper elements viewer for header tags (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved accuracy in the FlowPaper elements viewer for bold/italic font tags (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved space injection accuracy for fixed layout areas and pages in re-flowable publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Performance improvements for very large publications (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.7 Build 20180129 (Jan 30, 2018)
- Its now possible to change icon color for the icons in the Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications would not get their fonts exported entirely correct in some cases (Desktop Publisher)
- Corrected a memory leak in the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the zine template wasn’t being copied across properly in a specific scenario (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where search matches were sometimes not being highlighted properly when more than one word occurred in the same fragment (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where cloud publications would not upload properly when using Reflow (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some fonts would be missed when loading a publication at a high starting page (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the viewer would not load in some early versions of IE 10 in compressed/flattened mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved styling for the search abstract (Zine)
- Improved double click handling in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved support for devices supporting both touch and mouse pointers (like Microsoft Surface) in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved responsiveness rotation support for older Android devices (Zine)
- Improved accuracy in the FlowPaper elements viewer for header tags (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved accuracy in the FlowPaper elements viewer for bold/italic font tags (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved space injection accuracy for fixed layout areas and pages in re-flowable publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Performance improvements for very large publications (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.6 Build 20180112 (Jan 12, 2018)
- It is now possible to password protect cloud publications via the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed a regression error related to the viewer not showing in full when the search abstract was visible (Zine)
- Zine in the desktop publisher will now produce binary JSON output which compresses output further and provides improved compatibility with more web servers (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the TOC was being lost when switching between 10 pages and all pages in Zine mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Enabled search in smaller mobile devices and improved search UX (Zine, Desktop Publisher)
- Improved error handling (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where clicking full screen again when already in full screen did not exist the full screen mode when using the Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved fixed layout selections in reflow mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved indent handing when reflowing publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to include/exclude specific images without making manual selections when editing page layouts in the reflowable mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved max zoom via pinching for Android devices (Zine)
- Improved max zoom via pinching for Android and iOS devices (Elements)
- Improved full screen compatibility for iOS devices in FlowPaper Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved font loading checks for Chrome 60+ to ensure all fonts are loaded before adjusting text sizes (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where fonts were not being converted properly when switching from non-flattened to flattened mode in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where bookmarks were not being resolved properly in some cases (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.2 Build 20171023 (Oct 26, 2017)
- Added support for YouTube’s short url variant (youtu.be) (Desktop Publisher)
- Added the ability to export invisible text for Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved rendering for Zine in Firefox (Desktop Publisher)
- Zine is now able to show the outline of a document when only providing a PDF file (Zine)
- Improved page loading to avoid pages being interrupted incorrectly on slow network connections (Zine)
- Improved output rendering quality for two-fold publications in flatten/compressed mode (Desktop Publisher, Zine)
- It is now possible to define where sections should start when using the Reflowable mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to go into full screen (simulated) in iOS when using Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Various improvements to the editing mode for Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Improvements to the reflow TOC menu that pops up from the top right corner (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved font loading for IE / Edge when using flatten/compress (Zine, Desktop Publisher)
- Zine now updates the #page hash parameter when navigating, making it easier to return to the last read page when returning to the viewer (Zine)
- Improved bottom margin for Zine when using the viewer without bottom thumb nails (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the Elements mode so that fonts won’t need re-conversion when opening existing publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the TOC changes were not being saved when using the Elements viewer after reopening a existing publication (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the publication title was incorrectly escaped when publication preview was set (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some fonts went missing after changing output settings under Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where PDFs using non-embedded standard fonts where texts that had italic were not having their italic set properly (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the zine viewer would get 35px padding area at the bottom of the viewer after a resize occurred for some scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where uploading to the cloud service failed in some cases where the file got locked by the file system (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where disabling the bottom thumbnails in Zine would render a margin too small in some browsers (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where importing multiple files at the same time would import the files in wrong order in some cases (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where relatively positioned viewers were causing the text to be mispositioned in some cases (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where soft hyphens were appearing incorrectly in FlowPaper Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where uploading the same publication twice to FlowPaper cloud would fail to refresh the publication (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.1 Build 20170918 (Sep 18, 2017)
- Cosmetically improved the 3D page turn effect (Zine)
- The vertical reflow template will now scroll on devices with larger display width than 500px (Elements)
- Its now possible to deep link into reflowable vertical publications using the #section hash (Elements)
- Improved text quality when changing pages in Zine while rendering in 3D mode (Zine)
- Improved loading speed for WebGL in Zine mode (Zine)
- Improved height calculation for the bookmarks/outline panel in Zine (Zine)
- Improved the reflow template so that fixed layout pages are not shown until rescaled (Elements)
- Improved preview quality for sharing publications on Facebook / Twitter via opengraph (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved drawing accuracy for the drawing & selection tool (edit mode) (Desktop Publisher)
- Additional storage can now be purchased from the account/cloud publications page (Web)
- Improved support for iOS11 (Zine)
- Added support for Parallax pages (useful for pages with large backgrounds) to the vertical scrolling Reflow mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the Elements viewer further to avoid flickering in some cases when changing page and images were being loaded from cache (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the last page got duplicated incorrectly when using Elements after changing some of the settings (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some standard fonts were not having their bold/italic set properly when using the flatten/compress option in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where navigating using the hamburger menu with SEO optimizations turned on caused the viewer to freeze in Chrome (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where fixed layout areas were not being centered properly in iOS (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where some standard fonts were not being used properly when using flatten/compress (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where holding down left/right arrows and not releasing to navigate would cause graphical glitches (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some images were not being exported properly in the new reflow template
- Fixed an issue where vertical/reflowable publications were not using Google Analytics tracking properly (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.1.0 Build 20170831 (Sep 15, 2017)
- Improved the font loading in the vertical reflow template (Reflow)
- Now displaying source page when hovering over text while in edit mode in reflowable publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved progress information for two-fold publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the ePub3 output template (Desktop Publisher)
- Further ePub3 validation improvements for iBook store (Desktop Publisher)
- The Elements viewer has been further improved to handle scenarios with differently sized pages better (Desktop Publisher)
- The vertical reflow mode now allows swiping between sections as opposed to scrolling through all sections at once (Desktop Publisher)
- New page animation added for Zine (“3D, Bend”) (Zine)
- onCurrentPageChanged events now dispatched in vertical (reflow/fixed layout) mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved shadows in Zine 3D modes (Zine)
- Its now possible to change email in the account area (Web)
- Its now possbible to resize images in Adaptive and Reflowable editing mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Support for opengraph added to Zine to support preview images when sharing on Facebook / Twitter (Zine)
- Improvements to text clipping (Zine+Adaptive+Reflow)
- Improved page loading in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to hide/show the top bar in vertical reflow mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to change font size on text in Elements publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to change font color on text in Elements publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved performance for the desktop publisher when going into edit mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved sub-pixel rounding accuracy for Safari & iOS in the new reflow template (Desktop Publisher)
- Its now possible to start drawing into any direction when adding interactive elements (Desktop Publisher)
- WebGL 3D shadows for touch devices disabled to improve performance in flipping pages on low CPU devices (Zine)
- The desktop publisher now allows multiple domain names to be entered at the same time for Creative and Creative Team license holders. Separate the domains with semi colon (;) to generate keys for multiple domains at the same time (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the reflowable mode would fail on texts that were filled with patterns (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some image resources were incorrectly cleared when switching from 10 pages to all in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where links/videos/images added to two fold publications would have them duplicated in certain scenarios (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold Elements publications were not being adjusted when reopening them (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where unicode characters were incorrectly unescaped in the Zine bookmark list (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where differently sized pages would default to their unadjusted dimensions in some scenarios causing the annotations marks to be mispositioned (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the TOC background color wasn’t being set when using Zine in portrait mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the viewer wasn’t navigating to sections properly in vertical reflow mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some fonts were incorrectly repaired as part of the conversion when adding missing spaces (Elements, Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where phone numbers were incorrectly detected by Microsoft Edge browsers (Elements, Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.0.3 Build 20170806 (Aug 7, 2017)
- Huge overhaul over the reflow functionality with new machine learning algorithms in place for better text and layout analysis (Desktop Publisher)
- New template using a vertical layout introduced for reflowed publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the bookmarks were not resolved initially causing some of the reflowable documents to not use them correctly (Desktop Publisher)
- Additional metadata fields added to the EPUB3 export routine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where Vimeo videos would hide the cover after clicked when used with the maximise setting (Zine)
- Improved search matching when searching for partial words (Zine, Classic)
- Zine is now centering the mobile view vertically when no bottom thumbnails are visible to allow space to be better used (Zine)
- Improved handling of background images in Elements mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Outline/TOC editing now available for Reflowable publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved ePUB3 validation compliance for iOS book store (Desktop Publisher)
- Improvements in how rectangle and point annotations are drawn (Classic)
- Atom Electron framework updated to version 1.6.0 (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where missing background images in templates were blocking new publications from being created (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where switching between Two-Page and Portrait in Zine could cause the viewer height to collapse to 0 in some scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the –proxy-server setting wasn’t respected in the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where Google Analytics tracking wasn’t working properly when using multiple tracking codes (Zine, Elements)
- Fixed an issue where colors would be misrepresented in print when using some Firefox versions (Classic, Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some texts where being incorrectly stretched in when flatten/compress was turned on (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where search abstracts would not appear in Chrome for the first page in the Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where certain grouped & scaled texts would appear incorrectly in compressed mode and Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where two fold publications with overlapping text did not get their text adjusted properly in some cases (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where turning on accessible mode in Elements would not take effect (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the text would be visible twice if switching into portrait from two page mode after zooming in when using compressed mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where exported fonts were not being included in configuration in certain scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some file names received double dashes instead of single dashes when modified to a valid file name (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where small publications would fail to render thumbnails in some scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where it wouldn’t be possible to enable text select on pages in certain scenarios (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where clipped text in some documents would cause the publishing to fail in flatten/compress mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where clicking external links in miniature mode would cause the viewer to blank out (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where certain IE versions would fail to render Elements publications on FlowPaper cloud (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where the PDFTk path was incorrect in the ASP.NET set up scripts (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where using the SEO option with the Elements viewer and uploading to FlowPaper cloud could cause the first page url to be incorrectly updated (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where reopening Elements publication would cause added links to disappear (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.0.2 Build 20170511 (May 16, 2017)
- Here’s the list of noteworthy changes this release
- Improved cloud service publishing to make sure it doesn’t show previous versions from cache after modifications have been made (Elements)
- Improved the look for the Elements viewer including adding options for rounded borders options (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where search wasn’t closing properly on touch devices in Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue related to positioning of search matches when matching sub-strings (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to annotate text after performing a search (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where some CID characters were incorrectly exported in compressed mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where re-importing a PDF and turning on or off flatten/compression could cause fonts to be missing (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where type3 fonts were not rendered in flattened/compressed mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where rotated text with negative angle would get slightly mispositioned in some cases in flatten/compressed mode (Zine)
- Multiple style template improvements (Zine)
- Improved viewer size for Zine when toolbar is hidden or positioned in the bottom of the screen (Zine)
- Improved the ‘Rainforest’ theme in Zine with new icons and better positioning (Desktop Publisher)
- Switched to using .bin as mime type when exporting in flattened mode to avoid mime type issues in certain web servers (Zine)
- The publisher is now defaulting to use flatten/compression (Desktop Publisher)
- The publisher will now warn if the publication contains fonts that are non-unicode when exporting to ePUB (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where printing ranges were not returning the correct pages (Zine,Classic)
- Fixed an issue where some texts were classified as overlapping in compressed/flattened mode (Zine, Elements)
- Improved SEO export settings for consistency between Elements & Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Removed the PHP output settings as they were redundant with other settings and not compatible with our
- cloud hosting causing confusion (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the Cordova application wasn’t able to read its template properly (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.0.1 Build 20170404 (Apr 13, 2017)
- Changes in this release:
- In order to improve SEO, Elements is now using h1/h2/h3 tags instead of div tags for headers (Elements)
- FlowPaper Elements is now detecting and creating a table of contents for publications if they do not have one specified in the PDF (Elements)
- Improved font for the TOC in the Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved email detection and unicode output for compressed/flattened documents (Desktop Publisher)
- Zine now checks the proportions of the available area when deciding on viewing mode. If the viewer is very narrow but high then the viewer will choose to display a single page as opposed to two pages (Zine)
- Improved indexing (SEO) for Elements publications so that Google and other search engines are now able to index each section separately (Desktop Publisher)
- The rel=nofollow and rel=noopener tag added to external links in Elements publications (Desktop Publisher)
- The elements viewer now updates the #page=(page number) name tag in the url when navigating through the publication to make sharing and returning to a page easier (Elements)
- The Zine viewer is now able to start with TOC open if any is available (Desktop Publisher)
- Switched to using the new analytics.js tracker for all viewers (Zine, Elements)
- Improved pre-loading of fonts in flatten/compressed mode for Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved loading speed further by including partial content for the Elements viewer using the html5 compliant link rel=”import” tag (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved unicode support for Chinese &B Thai languages (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold Elements publications would have their fonts incorrectly adjusted (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the Elements viewer was attempting to use the computed font style incorrectly causing the wrong font to be used (Elements)
- Fixed an issue related to editing pages in the elements viewer where the editor would replace a page incorrectly in some scenarios. (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where setting a background image to Zine would cause an incorrect background color to the search abstracts (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where setting Zoom Interval to 0.4 or higher would cause the viewer to get the incorrect initial scale (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where self maximized hosted videos were missing the close button (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the search abstract would be mispositioned when going into full screen if already visible prior to entering the full screen mode (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the text for the last page would not load properly for the last page in certain pages when using the flatten/compress mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where small PDFs would get unessicariliy copied to the docs/ directory without being needed when using the flatten/compress mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some auto detected links for email addresses would be incorrect (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some animations were not being triggered in a timely fashion (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where some texts where incorrectly clipped when exported to an Elements publication (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications with uneven total page numbers were missing the last page (Elements & Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the viewer would not be initialized properly when starting at certain page numbers (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to use the full range of page numbers for two fold publications when adding new TOC items (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 3.0.0 Build 20170307 (Mar 9, 2017)
- Added a “speech to text” control button that reads out the current pages loud using text to speech synthesis (Elements)
- Added conversion profile to the import dialogue for Zine
- Improved the new flatten and compression mode so that fonts are now exported in separate files as opposed to one big base64 encoded style sheet (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved mouse wheel zoom speed for Zine (Zine)
- Improved Elements rendering accuracy where subtags where starting in negative x space resulting in incorrectly squished text (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved animation performance for Elements in slide mode (Elements)
- Improved performance and reliability in the flatten/compression mode for Zine
- Increased timeout for custom fonts when using the flatten mode so that fonts are allowed to load properly (Zine)
- Added a new ‘TouchZoomInterval’ parameter to the Zine viewer which allows you to let touch devices zoom in using double tap or the touch device tool bar in steps (default is 1.5)
- This also lets mobile users zoom deeper than before using the toolbar (Zine)
- Improved support for Safari 10.x on desktops. Safari 10 and higher now supports user input in full screen (Zine)
- Added a “?refresh” flag to exported resources to make sure uploaded publications are refreshed if re-uploaded.
- CDN’s usually cache based on resources query string values and adding this flag forces the CDN to use the latest version (Desktop Publisher).
- Fixed an issue where one of the fallback scripts for splitting the PDF wasn’t found properly (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue related to links not being triggered properly on mobile devices in some scenarios (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where the initial shadow on smaller devices would be incorrect (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where adding the download button to a publication which had been flattened would result in a incorrect output font file (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where swiping left or right on a link would cause the viewer to navigate away instead of changing page (Zine)
- Fixed a regression issue where jQuery was referenced using $ causing compatibility issues (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where slightly differently sized pages would cause mispositioned texts when using the flatten mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some publications were using the original PDF file as opposed to the split file when in two fold mode, causing errors to appear in the console (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where edit mode would show the unadjusted two-fold page if flatten and compression was selected for two fold publications
- Fixed an issue where some two-fold publications would have an unadjusted last page in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some flattened publications would unload some of the pages in the page animation incorrectly (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where old .pdf files were left in the docs directory when switching between using flatten/compression and standard conversion (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where MSIE (all versions) were delaying font loading in a way that slowed the loading of the document when rendering a flattened PDF (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the loader animation wasn’t being displayed on all pages properly (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the null character code was incorrectly exported from the desktop publisher in flatten mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where some pages would unload incorrectly in HTML4 mode as well as in flattened / compressed mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where loading from cache would sometimes render javascript errors in browser console preventing text selections to be made (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the print quality would be degraded when using the new flatten/compression mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the flattened/compressed mode would adjust its vertical position incorrectly for pages where the viewer appears further down on the page (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where ‘Elements’ publications uploaded with ‘Read Only’ mode turned on to our cloud service would fail to render after viewed on the cloud service (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to switch away from ‘PhoneGap Application’ once it had been selected in the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where loading documents in split mode would sometimes reposition annotations incorrectly due to an incorrect scale being used in re-rendering (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where rotation would not work properly in HTML4 mode using the classic viewer (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the elements viewer would misposition the content if going into full screen after being zoomed in (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where clicking another element quickly after hovering a corner in Zine would trigger a page to be turned (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys (left/right) in the page # input box would cause the page to change unintentionally (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where injected scripts would cause the elements viewer to fail to load on some CDNs (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.5.3 Build 20170201 (Feb 1, 2017)
- Here are the most important changes for this release:
- New import dialogue for Zine in the Desktop Publisher that presents a number of new options including the ability to overwrite previously imported PDFs and
- the ability to flatten PDFs file when importing them. The flatten mode reduces their size and improves speed dramatically, similar to how the Elements viewer already works.
- The flatten option is available to ‘Creative’ and ‘Creative Team’ license holders.
- The flatten import option also improves zoom for all mobile devices to infinite levels and stays sharp at all zoom levels.
- The Zine import mode in the desktop publisher will now ask if you want to overwrite existing publications if a PDF with the same name has previously been imported (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved rendering accuracy in flip book mode for Elements to avoid pixel rounding when flipping pages (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved accuracy for Elements in texts that are starting with negative x-adjustments (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved accuracy for measuring standard font (Helvetica, Times, etc.) widths in Elements publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Updated the video player for self hosted videos (Zine, Elements)
- Fixed an issue related to Safari not fitting some pages properly in Zine for differently sized publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications were coming through with the incorrect height specified causing added links to be mispositioned
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications were not adjusting their TOC (bookmarks table) properly (Zine, Elements)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications were not rendering the correct number of pages in Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed a regression issue related to two-fold publications adjusting their sizes incorrectly causing some images to appear in incorrect places (Zine)
- Fixed a few issues related to the cloud upload sometimes not providing feedback on progress (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the publisher would use the wrong standard font (Times, Helvetica etc) in certain cases (Elements, Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the search abstract would unnecessarily shrink the viewer (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where ‘Disable Mouse Wheel Zooming’ would still prevent the default event from firing (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where two-fold publications would not adjust their link targets properly in Elements publications (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where adding annotations to certain publications would cause the text on their subsequent pages to be missing (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where obfuscated/read-only publications would become corrupted when applying new import settings in the desktop publisher (Elements)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.5.2 Build 20161216 (Jan 19, 2017)
- This is a smaller follow-up build to version 2.5.1 that contains a few corrections and fancy new shadows for our Zine users. Please find a compacted version of our changes below:
- Fixed an issue related to textlayers not being enabled on iOS and Android devices for the annotations viewer (CLASSIC)
- Improved 3D shadows for Zine (Desktop Publisher, web server packages)
- Fixed an issue where TOC wasn’t reprocessed properly when re-opening publications (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where custom page labels were not being shown properly in the fisheye navigator (Desktop Publisher)
- Upgraded three.js to version 79 (Zine)
- Added additional checks for missing PDF files in the Zine conversion process (Desktop Publisher)
- Corrected various form validations and reported prcessing issues for the Desktop Publisher
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to click apply after rearranging the TOC items (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where user selections were causing the browser to jiggle when panning in zoomed in mode for Zine inside the desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- More cloud control functionality deployed the the commercial account area
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.5.1 Build 20161206 (Dec 9, 2016)
- Fixed an issue where the cloud upload was using the custom output directory instead of the source directory causing the upload to fail in some cases (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the ‘Show folder’ functionality in the desktop publisher so that it now brings the folder to front in Windows (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the font conversion cloud service wasn’t able to convert some documents with very large number of fonts (500+) (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue related to invisible text being incorrectly displayed in certain Elements publications
- Added social sharing to the FlowPaper Elements viewer (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved transition zoom animation for Elements so that it is smoother (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved zoom speed in Elements significantly (Desktop Publisher)
- Option to include download of the original PDF added to Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the ability to sign in to the desktop publisher even if our servers would be down (Desktop Publisher)
- Fix applied that prevents page from scrolling when mouse wheel zooming into Elements Publications (Desktop Publisher)
- FlowPaper account area updated (Web Site)
- Performance improvements for Zine related to Chrome 54 and its latest changes to will-change and the re-rasterization of transformed objects (Zine)
- New design on our web site (Web Site)
- Improved caching on our cloud services (Web Site)
- Further improvements to printing to make sure printed pages fit on one page size (A4, A3 etc) (Zine, Classic)
- Added the ability to add your logo to the viewer for commercial license holders (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where zooming into Elements publications when included inside an iframe would cause the parent window to resize (Elements)
- SSL support added for our cloud service
- Fixed an issue related to PDFs with uppercase “.PDF” which were not displaying properly in some scenarios (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue for desktop Safari related to zooming and defaulting to HTML4 for desktop Safari when available (Zine)
- Fixed an issue related to text selection having incorrect behaviour on IE11 edge (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.5.0 Build 20161027 (Oct 28, 2016)
- Here’s the full list of changes in this release:
- Fixed an issue where encrypted Zine publications would load corrupted images on some web servers
- Fixed an issue where the viewer was being show too early causing the size of the viewer to be incorrectly calculated (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the viewer would not fit its width after performing a search even if FitWidthOnLoad was set (Classic)
- Removed unintentional hover shadow on links (Zine)
- Increased max zoom factor for touch devices (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where sub pixel rounding would cause blurryness in Elements publications under Chrome on Windows (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where two fold publications were not being adjusted properly in Flash mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the last page of publications with odd page numbers would still show the nav bar (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the bottom (fisheye style) thumbnails would not resize back to their original size in certain scenarios (Zine)
- Added the ability to set page animation style to each Zine publication in the publisher (Zine)
- Annotations viewer now using the annotated PDF to trigger print for better printing quality (Annotations)
- Moved video snapshots, backgrounds and images into images/ for publications created for Zine in the Desktop Publisher for consistency and improved resource sharing (Zine)
- Improved cross domain image loading for Zine to avoid security exceptions being thrown if images are located on a different server (Zine)
- Fixed an issue related to differently sized pages (Classic)
- Added the ability to upload and share publications on FlowPaper cloud (Powered by Amazon Web Services) (Desktop Publisher)
- Added additional checks for the output size in Zine to avoid some publications from creating too large outputs when split into individual files (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved the way the Desktop Publisher processes the output formats to avoid reprocessing formats that are already created (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue for two fold publications which were using incorrect dimensions for their thumbnails (Zine, Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where all pages would not be republished properly on Windows in some scenarios (Desktop Publisher)
- Desktop Publisher now supporting proxy settings. Supply the “–proxy-server=user@password:address:port” parameter to the Desktop Publisher if you want to start it with proxy support (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where having the sharing dialgoue open would still cause the viewer to flip pages in some cases if corners were clicked (Zine)
- Fixed a few issues for Elements where it wasn’t possible to edit the TOC properly for publications with no TOC as start (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.4.9 Build 20160905 (Sep 8, 2016)
- Fixed an issue related to the color selector not withdrawing after changing annotations tool (Classic)
- Fixed an issue related to fitting the page horizontally when the page is rotated caused incorrect fitting (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where a rotated page with annotation marks would rotate the text inside the marks as well (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where clicking on text selection note multiple times after selecting color would cause misselection in selected color (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the zoom slider wouldn’t be re-enabled on touch enabled desktop browsers when switching to two-page and back to portrait (Classic)
- Small adjustments to the Elements viewer and its text spacing routine for evenly spaced out text fragments (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where going from 10 pages to all pages in preview when working with two-fold publications in Elements caused one of the pages not to render properly (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where one of the Zine styles (with the toolbar in the bottom) would misposition the toolbar (Zine)
- Updated our php sample scripts to use mysqli for PHP 7.x and higher (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where coming out of full screen using the toolbar button in IE11 would cause the viewer to be incorrectly resized (Zine)
- Mobile/Desktop and Tablet controls now have their own settings section under controls allowing further controls on which buttons that are visible (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved clipping pdfs imported into FlexPaper Elements
- More text animations added to FlexPaper Elements (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where the bookmarks (or outline) would not be resolved properly in Elements mode and EPUB mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some sub sets of standard fonts were not being converted (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where matching similar fonts didn’t produce matches in the final copy (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where mouse wheel scrolling would cause the page to scroll if the viewer was smaller than the viewport (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where searching using an empty string would generate an error in the viewer (Classic, Zine)
- Fixed an issue where navigating quickly next was not coherent with navigating quickly to previous pages (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where entering page numbers in the print dialogue wasn’t possible when text annotations were shown behind the dialogue (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the publisher was unable to open the publication in some cases and generating the error UnexpectedResponseException(0) (Desktop Publisher)
- Added the ability to move around text elements in the publisher (Elements mode)
- Added the ability to animate individual text elements (more animation settings and modes are coming up shortly!) (Desktop Publisher)
- It is now possible to export and distribute web publications as Adobe PhoneGap applications using Elements (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.4.1 (Dec 3, 2015)
- Fixed minor obfuscation issues related to the new desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Improved error logging for our new Desktop Publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to open publications located on a UNC path (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where start at page wasn’t working properly in fixed layout (Elements)
- Fixed an issue where text lost its sharpness when zoomed in (Elements/Adaptive)
- Improved quality of background images/lines in editable adaptive mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some fonts would not load properly in editable adaptive mode (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to scroll inside the desktop publisher when trying different device sizes in preview (Desktop Publisher)
- Editing mode moved from pop up to separate page in desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- New checks added for Metro mode (Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7) in order to better support Windows surface tablets (Zine,Classic)
- Upgraded to Atom Electron 0.35.0 (Desktop Publisher)
- Moved editing into its own screen as opposed to be in a pop up (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to create links to pages in the new desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
- Upgraded HTML5 rendering routine for Elements (v1.3.6)
- Corrected a number of issues related to adding and editing interactive elements in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Performed a number of improvements to search in FlexPaper Elements (Elements)
- Upgraded our compression libraries in Desktop Publisher as some files were causing the publisher to crash (Desktop Publisher)
- Added a new search hinter which uses PHP to speed up search when using static layout in Elements (Elements)
- Improve link visibiliyy for touch only devices by always highlighting link areas
- Changed touch only devices to open external links with document.location.href as some touch devices with block new windows from opening (Zine, Classic)
- Increased general link visibiliy by pulsing in links when navigating to new pages (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where switching into edit mode while in device emulation caused the editor to be of incorrect size (Desktop Publisher)
- New starting view mode added to Zine (“Flip-SinglePage”) which forces the viewer to display the publication as a single page. This is a great mode for landscape publications! (Zine)
- Improvements to detecting and adjusting two-fold publications in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
- Fixed an issue where some of the style settings would not be saved to tablets/phones in Zine (Desktop Publisher)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.4.0 (Nov 18, 2015)
- Major changes in this release:
- Two new publishing modes for our desktop publisher (static HTML5 elements and reflowable HTML5 elements)
- A completely new desktop publisher which is integrating Zine and 2 new viewer modes (Zine,Reflow). We will still be distributing our previous desktop publisher for the next 1-2 months as part of the transitioning into the new publishing platform.
- Other changes:
- Fixed a minor regression issue from our previous release related to webGL loading (Zine)
- Fixed a regression error related to printing where the viewer was trying to print in HTML4 mode instead of HTML5 in some cases (Classic,Zine)
- Fixed an issue related to having multiple viewers on the same page where the slider stopped working for the first viewer (Classic,Zine)
- Font obfuscation implemented in FlexPaper Reflow. This is part of our efforts in providing protection for documents in Reflow (Reflow)
- Pinch/Zoom now available in FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Content protection through font obfuscation now available in FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where IE was printing unnessecary blank pages (Zine,Classic)
- Added new parameter to Zine to customize the loader image which normally displays the front page of the publication. Set the ‘LoaderImage’ parameter to the viewer to set this image to any custom image.
- Speeded up the rendering routine for Zine and Classic when using single file mode (Zine,Classic)
- Fixed an issue where header warnings caused the Zine viewer to fail to render when using PHP with PDF encryption (Zine)
- Fixed an issue preventing the viewer to load a PDF document as a Uint8ARray (Zine,Classic)
- Fixed an issue where an incorrect margin caused some publications to misposition during flip transition (Zine)
- Allow documents to be loaded using URL.createObjectURL (Zine,Classic)
- Adjusted the margins for Zine as its middle container was being incorrectly sized in some scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where Zine wasn’t clearing its rendering area properly when used in WebGL mode with only PDFFile set (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where two fold publications were not being published properly on el capitan (Zine)
- General javascript performance improvements from changing our javascript encoding methods (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to Zoom into 1-page documents in Zine in some scenarios (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where links were incorrectly sized and positioned in Zine when only supplying a PDF file in HTML5 mode (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where text would be incorrectly scaled in Zine when zooming in if only supplying a PDF file in HTML5 mode (Zine)
- Improved rendering quality in zoomed out mode for Zine when only supplying a PDF file in HTML5 mode (Zine)
- Upgraded PDFTk to 2.02 (Desktop Publisher)
- Changed style from 'cover’ to '100% 100%’ for Chrome as it solves differently sized pages in two page view (Zine)
- Use HTML4 as default rendering mode for Seamonkey browsers (Zine,Classic)
- Updated HTML5 rendering routine for Zine, Classic (v1.2.56 build bc33ae2)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.7 (Aug 4, 2015)
- Increased the image quality for non-retina displays to improve the Windows 10 experience (Zine,Classic)
- FlexPaper Reflow now asks about collecting anonymous usage statistics when started up (Reflow)
- Improved the performance of the FlexPaper Reflow font conversion service, it should now respond quicker without risking being blocked (Reflow)
- Added a fallback mechanism for font conversion of true type to woff in the FlexPaper Reflow Publisher (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to open the final copy directory in FlexPaper Reflow on Windows (Reflow)
- Improved error reporting in FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Added a warning for opening FlexPaper reflow publications directly from the folder as opposed to via http:// (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where some directories were not being created properly during initialization of FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where switching back from portrait to two page would cause the zoom controls to be disabled in internet explorer (Zine, Classic)
- Improved performance in collecting statistics in FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Fixed an issue where pinching out on iOS caused the viewer to zoom back in again (Zine)
- Added adaptive layout as option to FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- A lot of performance improvements to FlexPaper Reflow (Reflow)
- Adjusted the initial page of the document so that it better fits when loaded in classic on a small device (single page mode) (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where the scroll bars would not be show initially on touch based devices in single page mode (Classic)
- Fixed an issue where entering a non-numeric value into the zoom factor would cause erratic behavior in the viewer when in flash mode (Classic)
- Updated Zine Desktop Publisher to be compatible with OSX El Capitan (OS X 10.11) (Zine)
- Fixed an issue where the search box was being populated incorrectly if multiple viewers were on the same page (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where dragging images and video clips when zoomed into desktop publisher caused the document to drag as well (Zine)
- Removed an incorrect statement disabling cache in Classic and Zine when running in HTML4 mode (Zine, Classic)
- Updated our PDF to JPG image library which should result in better publishing performance and accuracy when publishing from your Windows desktop pc (Zine)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.6 (Jul 23, 2015)
- Added a condition for safari above version 7 to try to use full screen with keyboard input (known Safari issue) (Zine, Classic)
- Fixed an issue where swiping on FlexPaper classic on a phone caused the new page to be positioned where the last one was instead of starting from top (Classic viewer)
- Added checks to avoid touch devices from pinching outside of whats nessecary to view a page on device screen (Classic viewer)
- Conditions added for single page view to avoid swipe left and right actions when zoomed into a document on touch devices (Classic viewer)
- Increased the number of memory placeholders for pages in the classic viewer to avoid flickering in some scenarios when zoomed out to low zoom levels
- Fixed an issue where PreviewMode wasn’t working correctly on IE
- The Desktop Publisher for Zine now checks if a document is significantly larger after splitting (the duplicating internal resources for some documents can cause this). If its significantly larger then Zine will now use the original PDF to render the document as opposed to the split. This should reduce the size footprint significantly for some documents with this problem
- Fixed an issue where the ASP.NET scripts were unable to detect publications that were already processed
- Fixed an issue in the Classic viewer where the number of active placeholders needed were incorrectly calculated causing some documents to flicker in certain zoom sizes
- Improved page fitting when rotating the classic viewer
- Improved pinch/zooming to the classic viewer
- Pinching with a touch device is now prevented when drawing is enabled in the annotations viewer
- The pdf flip book viewer is now preventing mouse wheel zooming when in preview mode
- It is now possible to save annotations from the annotations viewer back into the PDF using our php scripts. We will be updating our ASP.NET and .JSP scripts to do the same in next release
- Minor corrections to the zoom slider which was slow on responding in some scenarios
- FlexPaper Reflow is now launched in open beta! send an email to [email protected] to participate and try it out
- It is now possible to maximize the viewing area when adding Youtube and Vimeo videos to our flip book viewer
- Fixed an issue where Android devices were not resizing the Classic viewer properly on orientation change
- Fixed an issue where a border was added to the printout of documents when using annotations
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.5 (May 22, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where the flash viewer allowed rotation even if not in portrait mode
- Fixed an issue where rotation of pages were not aligning the pages in the middle properly
- Fixed an issue where the zoom slider was incorrectly enabled in flash mode of the annotations viewer
- Fixed an issue where fit width and fit height were incorrectly enabled in two page and thumb view when using the flash viewer
- Fixed an issue in FlexPaper Classic (HTML5) where fit height/fit width was using snapping incorrectly causing the fit width and fit height to be less expanded
- Native full screen now enabled for webbit based browsers on Android (HTML5/HTML4).Android previously had issues with native full screeen but as this seems to be resolved we have decided to enable this
- Fixed an issue where .rotate() was not exposed properly through the flash version of FlexPaper Zine
- Fixed an issue where differently sized pages had their annotations misplaced in the HTML5 viewer when MixedMode was turned on
- Speeded up the initial loading of the HTML5 viewer by smarter caching of files
- Regression issue fixed in relation to using the zoom slider for the annotations/classic viewer where it wouldn’t be reactive initially when used if fit page / fit height was used prior to zooming
- A number of pinch/zoom improvements for the Classic viewer
- Issue corrected where landscape pages would render incorrect marks in the annotations viewer
- Fixed an issue where hiding annotations would cause them to reappear if the user scrolled far away from the marks and then back
- Norwegian locale added to all viewers
- Japanese locale updated
- HTML rendering engine updated (#1.1.114)
- A regression error related to printing for our annotations viewer corrected
- Fixed an issue where one page documents caused an extra incorrect download of a non-existent page to pop up when trying to download the document
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.4 (May 22, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where the “+” character in file names caused documents not to open in desktop publisher
- Improved the ability to load images in Zine Flash version
- Improved desktop publisher stability with further fallback added for previewing documents
- Fixed an issue where unnessecary pages would be downloaded when printing in split mode under HTML5
- Fixed an issue where the toolbar wasn’t shown in full screen on IE9, IE8
- Fixed an issue where excess print margin was added to pages when printing in split mode using HTML5
- New preview option added for Desktop Publisher that gives you the option of using either vectors or bitmaps when previewing your publication. Some publications preview faster using bitmaps so we hope that having this option gives you greater flexibility
- Fixed an issue where opening the viewer in full screen using FullScreenAsMaxWindow wouldn’t close the window if clicked again. Clicking the Esc key will also exit the full screen mode
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to reply to marks in the annotations viewer even if the mark had been made read only
- Fixed an issue where pinching on Android in single page mode caused the viewer to sometimes get stuck while pinching
- Further improvements to the touch device pinching of the Classic viewer
- Fixed an issue where drawing in the annotations viewer on mozilla/firefox would cause the line to appear from the wrong end of the pen
- Fixed an issue where our modal window was causing warings or errors on IE8/IE9 when used together with jQuery 1.11
- Fixed an issue where the annotations viewer could not create marks using the asp.net scripts due to a missing column in the insert sql statement
- Additional checks added for MSIE to avoid panning on touch devices when using the drawing tools in the annotations viewer
- Fixed an issue where author name wasn’t being passed on from annotations marks properly
- HTML5 rendering routine updated (version 1.1.1)
- Fixed an issue where FlexPaper was stealing focus even if the control was outside of the browser window
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.3 (Feb 20, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where a gap was introduced between the pages in two-page mode after performing a search
- A number of issues related to full screen fixed for the annotations viewer
- 3D page turning animation speed adjusted slightly
- Minor page loader animation adjustments
- Fixed an issue where resizing the Zine HTML5 viewer when using WebGL caused pages to unload inproperly
- A number of minor regression issues corrected for the WebGL mode
- Fixed an issue where printing a page in HTML5 mode would download unnessecary pages
- Author field added to our HTML annotations viewer. Supplying UserCollaboration as false but setting the CurrentUser property will mark each annotation with the author.
- Issue fixed which caused loading to fail for IE7 & IE8 in some scenarios
- New initial loader added for FlexPaper Zine when publishing in html5 mode. The new loader will show the first page of the publication
- Improved slider dot graphics in Zine HTML5 mode
- Fixed an issue where the book button in the toolbar for Zine in HTML5 mode wasn’t indicating the mode properly
- Fixed an issue where switching from Zine to Portrait in the Flash flip book viewer caused the zoom to be incorrect
- Swiping improved on phone devices for our Classic HTML5/HTML4 viewer
- Corrected an issue where css styles were too widely defined in the HTML5 & HTML4 viewer
- Fixed an issue where switching to full screen multiple times in IE11 would cause the full screen mode to fail
- Fixed an issue where the bottom border of the annotations toolbar was hidden on resize
- Fixed an issue where clearing annotatinos was not possible in some scenarios
- Fixed an issue where the sub folder parameter was not passed on to the flash viewer properly
- Fixed an issue where quotes (‘) in the file names of pdf files caused the files not to open in desktop publisher
- Fixed an issue where zoom transition wasn’t respected in HTML5 publishing mode for the flip book reader
- Improved responsiveness in the flip book viewer, it will now use one-page mode when viewing a publication in portrait on a touch device. The viewer switches to portrait on orientation change
- Fixed an issue where the size of the document viewer shrunk when switching between portrait and flip book multiple times
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to recreate the document viewer after calling dispose
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.2 (Jan 28, 2015)
- HTML5 rendering routine updated (version 1.0.1040 build #997096f)
- Improved native HTML5 rendering in iOS
- Corrected an issue where the Zine viewer would update the current page number incorrectly on the last page in some scenarios
- Our HTML5 flip book reader now features a enhanced hardware accelerated 3D mode that can be turned on from the desktop publisher. This 3D mode automatically measures the graphics card and will get turned off if the performance is too low (
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.1 (Dec 24, 2014)
- Added additional checks for documents that fail to preview in desktop publisher
- Issue fixed where it wasn’t possible to delete collaborative annotations in Chrome under the PHP set up if using collaboration mode
- Fixed an issue where navigating using the left/right buttons in html5 mode for our classic viewer, in zoomed in mode caused the page to unintentionally navigate to the left or right end of the page
- Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to publish Vimeo videos in offline mode
- Fix for publishing two fold publications where FlexPaper Publisher were adjusting the last page incorrectly in some cases
- New HTML5 based uploader added to our server packages
- Fixed an issue in desktop publisher where it wasn’t possible to remove links and videos in certain scenarios
- Fixed an issue related to entering the zoom value into the input text box of FlexPaper zine where the zoom position got miscalculated
- Improved initial zoom position in Safari when using Zine in HTML5 mode
- Improved page turning speed in Firefox for Mac OSX
- Improved rendering quality at high zoom levels for the HTML5 Zine viewer
- Tighter security checks against XSS spoofing attacks added for the Adobe Flash version
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.3.0 (Nov 21, 2014)
- Fixed an issue related to next / previous buttons getting disabled in certain scenarios under iOS
- Improved annotations support in full screen mode for iOS8
- Corrections to the HTML5 annotations viewer for loading differently sized pages in MixedMode
- A number of minor UI corrections for search abstracts in HTML5 & HTML4 mode
- Fixed an issue where links in iOS phone devices had their links truncated in certain scenarios
- Fixed an issue where links in iOS devices caused the pages to blur when zooming in in some scenarios
- Improvements for desktop Safari 7.1
- Improvements in desktop publisher for OSX Yosemite
- Ability to disable zooming into publications now added to Desktop Publisher
- Retina support added for desktop publisher and default rendering mode switched to GPU
- Artwork updated for our different viewers
- Correction for Windows Phone where it wasn’t getting the correct user interface for Zine
- Vimeo video support added to desktop publisher (Zine and Classic, both Flash and HTML5 mode)
- New flat material style icon set for Zine! We hope you like it!
- Issue fixed where links close to each other were not exported properly
- Big performance improvement in converting documents on Windows for Destkop Publisher
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.6 (Jun 2, 2014)
- HTML5 rendering routine updated (1.0.117 build #6a800eb)
- Issue fixed where the mouse wheel handler for flexpaper classic in flash mode caused repositioning issues
- Small corrections to the flat design of the annotations viewer
- It is now possible to adjust the flip speed for the page transition in FlexPaper Zine from desktop publisher (under Publication Settings)
- Issue corrected where cancelling the print dialog didn’t cancel the print when printing in flash using split mode
- Issue corrected where it wasn’t possible to select existing selection annotations in certain scenarios
- The annotations viewer in flash mode now adjusts the font size of notes so that they are always readable even when zooming out
- Our annotations viewer now supports collaborative notes. Setting the following parameters enables collaboration between users in notes
- UserCollaboration : true,
- CurrentUser : ‘Username’
- Issue fixed where printing using flash in some browsers caused the print dialog to stay after the print completed
- Issue fixed where the viewer would not resize to fill screen in full screen mode when using the FlexPaper classic customizable build
- Issue fixed where FlexPaper would steal focus incorrectly in IE11 and below
- PHP scripts updated to use readfile for binary files to avoid encoding issues for certain environments
- Fixed an issue where some annotations with associations were not deleting their associated objects properly in flash mode
- Added extra visibilty for the scrollbar in webkit
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.5 (Apr 30, 2014)
- A number of minor bug fixes. See changelog.txt included in each release for full details.
- Improved fallback on when failing to draw images with mudraw in desktop publisher
- It is now possible to configure the alpha level of links (from 0 to 100%) in desktop publisher
- Additional optimizations for disposing the viewer in all modes
- Improved retina icon set added for the flat UI design in mobile
- Additional checks added to avoid very complex documents from timing out when being opened inside desktop publisher
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.4 (Mar 29, 2014)
- Compatibility changes to the Flexpaper html5 & html4 viewers to make them fully compatible with Twitter’s bootstrap framework.
- Improved pinch/zoom support for Android devices in Classic viewer
- Issue fixed where IE 10+ would fail to use worker threads in some scenarios causing the viewer not to render properly
- Extra checks added to the Zine flash & HTML5 viewer to avoid texts from appearing in search abstracts that were not part of the visible area of a publication
- Korean and Japanese language translations added
- onDocumentLoaded event correction for Flash Zine viewer
- Additional security checks for search engine indexing scripts added
- Fixed an issue related to signing and password protecting documents when in flash mode
- Improved PHP version compatibility with our password & signing scripts for desktop publisher
- Social sharing now disabled by default. Can be enabled through the desktop publisher style menu
- Issue fixed where links were not repositioned properly when going into full screen in Zine when using HTML5 and HTML4 for some scenarios
- Issue fixed where onCurrentPageChanged was not fired properly in FlexPaper classic on touch devices when wiping left and right
- Regression issue fixed where IE9 would use an incorrect canvas library version in the annotations viewer
- Issue fixed in our classic viewer where the full screen mode would not resize the viewer properly if percent had been used in the style attribute of the viewer container
- Issue fixed where removing annotations would not work in some scenarios through the API if only id is supplied
- Further optmizations on how events are unbound when disposing the viewer
- Height adjustments to our UI customizable annotations viewer to better fit with actual specification
- Improved consistencies between flash and html5 for annotations when using Sticky Tools
- Improved positioning of controls in the customizable annotations viewer
- Print dialog in HTML5 viewer now defaulting to English if the locale isn’t found
- Size corrections for swipe detections on phone devices in our classic viewer
- onDocumentLoaded now fired in split mode accross the viewers. This should make binding annotations easier to handle
- Fixed an issue in our flash viewer where notes could not be dragged properly in split mode on some pages
- It is now possible to allow the image to be changed when a user is hovering an image in FlexPaper Zine. This setting can be done in dektop publisher (add image button)
- Issue fixed in desktop publisher where modifying an image in some steps would cause an extra image to be added
- Split functionality implemented for our java package (for the HTML5 rendering mode)
- Issue fixed where it wasn’t possible to annotate over links in HTML5 mode in some scenarios
- Link color corrected for Flexpaper Classic
- Issue fixed where the text layer was incorrectly unloaded when scrolling fast in some scenarios
- Issue fixed where firefox was firing an error when clicking on the highlight button in HTML5 mode when using annotations
- Issue fixed where clicking on the zoom slider’s slider did not result in zooming into the document
- Desktop Publisher now allows settings from old publications to be imported including link, video and image elements. It does not save these elements when saving settings as a template
- HTML5 rendering routine updated (0.8.1277 build #cebf783)
- Minor build issues corrected in the ASP.NET sample scripts for the customizable classic viewer
- Fixed an issue where some publications would be incorrectly cropped to include bleed in HTML5 mode and size optimizations for Zooming into HTML5 publications in MixedMode
- Fixed an issue where link highlighting would not highlight links when rolling away from them
- Fixed an issue where many links to a page could cause some links to be incorrect in size
- Improved support for Android pinching in FlexPaper Classic
- Safari 7 and above now uses zoom transitions. The early versions of Safari 7 had issues with this but this seems now to have been resolved by Apple and this can therefore be enabled again
- Our alternative flat design has been included in our customizable annotations build
- Fixed an issue where the viewer was unintentionally stealing focus in Internet Explorer
- Optimizations and fixes for highlighting (the .highlight method) in HTML5 mode
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.3 (Feb 17, 2014)
- Issue fixed where custom links, videos and images would appear incorrectly positioned in mixed size publications when viewing the publication in HTML5 mode
- Issue fixed where the Portrait mode would start on the wrong page in some scenarios
- Multiple viewer instances now fully supported in FlexPaper Zine
- New parameter added for enabling/disabling search abstracts (EnableSearchAbstracts)
- Printing the Current page in Zine now prints both visible pages. It was previously only printing one of them
- Mouse wheel scrolling area increased in the HTML5 and HTML4 mode for Zine
- Issue fixed where creating links,images or videos by creating selections from bottom to top were creating incorrect sizes for the elements
- Issue fixed added images would not appear in preview of the publication in Desktop Publisher
- Issue fixed where using strikeout and then the note tool would create unintentional strikeouts when having StickyTools turned on
- Issue fixed where it wasn’t possible to rotate the next to last page in the flash viewer
- Correction so that FlexPaper AdaptiveUI classic non-customizable uses the right toolbar in touchable laptops
- Adjustments to how the viewer is resized when reloaded using the $FlexPaper(‘documentViewer’).load() method
- Offline publishing now available to unlimited license holders. Commercial license holders will be able to register a key for offline publishing during February.
- Issue fixed where last page was inaccessible in SinglePage mode when using HTML4/HTML5 rendering
- Issue fixed where the search marker in Zine HTML4/HTML5 mode would be appended and widened if the search result was clicked more than once
- Improved ability to allow Google to index your publication from within Desktop Publisher. Expand the advanced settings in the “Publish & View” dialog to access new options for controlling this
- Printing quality improved for printing in HTML5 mode
- Small corrections to the signing php scripts to avoid mishandling headers on certain configurations
- Small corrections for how touch based devices use Portrait or SinglePage mode when starting up in HTML4/HTML5
- Small corrections to the asp.net set up package
- Hint text for Download PDF added
- Fixed an issue where getCurrPage() wasn’t returning the correct page when using Zine in HTML4/HTML5 mode for some scenarios
- Social network sharing dialog added to FlexPaper Zine. Publications can now be easily shared to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and LinkedIn and embedded on any site
- Progress info added to the print dialog when printing in split mode using Adobe Flash
- Fixed an issue where the onCurrentPageChanged event would not fire in Zine when using HTML5 mode in portrait
- New method (“getCurrentRenderingMode”) added for Zine returning either flash,html or html5 depending on what is being used
- Mouse wheel scrolling improved for Zine & Classic in webkit based browsers when using the Flash rendering mode
- Improved zooming motion into Zine flash publication so that it zooms into where the user clicks
- Issue fixed where searching when in zoomed in mode on touch devices caused pages to render incorrectly in some scenarios for FlexPaper Zine
- Tweaks to mobile browsers as to which uses native scrolling and which that does not
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.1 (Dec 11, 2013)
- Issue fixed where performing a search in FlexPaper Zine flash followed by switching into a different view would cause the viewer not to show the document
- Improvements to the annotations build making the note widget easier to resize on touch devices
- Issue fixed where a selection from a lower point to a higher point would create an incorrect annotation mark in the Classic Annotations viewer
- Issue fixed where it wasn’t possible to select text inside annotation notes on iPad
- Issue fixed where annotations would not be repositioned properly on resize of the browser window in HTML5 mode
- Regression issue fixed where the annotations viewer would not resize on rotating a device
- Fixed an issue related to external urls missing the leading “http://” which would not work in the flash mode of Zine
- Optimizations for landscape documents in Flash mode within FlexPaper Zine
- Issue fixed where publications with their thumbnails hidden in Zine would in some scenarios not show in IE10
- Fisheye thumbnails improved for Zine in IE9 and IE10 when using FlexPaper in flip book mode with rendering mode set to HTML4 or HTML5
- Mouse wheel support added for Zine (when viewing your publication as a flip book)
- Issue fixed where fisheye thumbnails in Zine would appear in full screen even if turned off if the viewer was using PreviewMode. This was affecting the flash viewer only
- Validation of documents containing non-JSON (non printable, control characters) compatible characters further improved in Desktop Publisher
- Improved accuracy of selections in HTML4 and HTML5
- FlexPaper in HTML5 mode now allows documents to be loaded from a Uint8Array. An example of how this is done will be posted on our blog.
- Improved android pinching support in FlexPaper flip book mode
- Rendering quality further improved for Android devices in flip book mode
- Rendering quality further improved for iOS retina devices in flip book mode
- Issue fixed where Zine would zoom unintentionally when dragging the corners of the pages in HTML5 and HTML4 mode
- Links will now give a link hint when hovering a page in Zine in both Flash and HTML5
- New Zine style property: Link color. Use this to set the desired link color in your publications
- Issue fixed where the mobile preview in Desktop Publisher would respond to single clicks as opposed to double clicking which is what mobile devices do
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.2.0 (Nov 25, 2013)
- Search abstracts added to the FlexPaper Classic viewer
- New flat design implemented for FlexPaper Classic customizable build
- Page loader position corrected in FlexPaper Classic
- Touch/swipe regression issue corrected for FlexPaper Classic
- New init view mode added for touch devices. Supplying “TouchInitViewMode” will use the supplied view mode for touch only devices such as tablets, phones. If nothing is supplied then the viewer will assume “SinglePage” for tablets/phones
- Touch/wipe improved in SinglePage mode for FlexPaper Classic
- buttons now zooming on touch devices too, were previously using fit width/fit height
- Pinch/Zoom for SinglePage mode on touch devices improved
- Margin adjustments to annotation tool bars
- Mixed Mode (optimized HTML5 loading) added to modes: ‘Portrait’, ‘TwoPage’, ‘BookView’ and ‘ThumbView’. Split mode is required to take advantage of MixedMode.
- Issue related to loading document files across domains in Flash split mode fixed
- Issue fixed related to loading different size documents in Flash (Portrait mode) where the resulting page would be too large (causing extra white space around the page)
- Issue corrected where pages were not being unloaded properly in some scenarios for the HTML4 portrait and single page rendering mode
- Fixed an issue where the selectable text would not be added properly when using split mode in TwoPage and SinglePage for the HTML4 rendering mode
- Minor corrections for the HTML4 mode when using the Flip Book mode.
- PDF2JSON updated to version 0.66 improving with the ability to fully describe external links
- Issue fixed where link hints (hovering over a page) in HTML5/HTML4 mode would not be removed when rolling out of the page
- New publication preview mode added which shows the front page of the publication with a clickable arrow. Set the ‘PreviewMode’ parameter to ‘FrontPage’ to use this new mode. The parameter ‘PublicationTitle’ can also be set in conjunction to this which will display a title for the publication if set.
- Issue fixed where onCurrentPageChanged was not being fired in Portrait when using Zine (the turn page/flip book) in flash mode
- Retina rendering mode for iPad in Zine improved further in performance in particular as to how dom elements are created
- Publication preview can now be configured in the style section inside FlexPaper Desktop Publisher
- Fixed an issue where certain links would not be clickable in very specific scenarios when using FlexPaper flash in flip book mode
- Various performance optimizations
- Improved dispose method for Zine in HTML5/HTML4 mode as some references to events were still undisposed after calling dispose
- Reduced memory footprint on the flip book in HTML5 and HTML4 mode
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.9 (Nov 5, 2013)
- onDocumentLoadedError now supplying error text in HTML4 & HTML5 mode
- CSS performance improvements from removing unnessecary > * selectors
- Improved security restrictions for how documents are loaded in our PHP/ASP.NET/JAVA examples
- onInitializationComplete event added which fires when the viewer has initialized
- Issue fixed for the annotations bottom toolbar on touch based devices
- Issue corrected related to not being able to draw on visible pages on iOS7 devices in some scenarios
- Slight corrections in relation to touch support for iPad (HTML4/HTML5) mode when viewing the document in portrait mode
- Issue fixed where certain user defined links would not appear properly in Zine (HTML4/HTML5 mode)
- Fixed an issue where the Zine viewer in HTML4/HTML5 mode would shrink too much when resizing the window
- FlexPaper Desktop Publisher now escapes all non-ascii characters (for example, ‘å’ becomes ‘\u00e5’) when exporting JSON files which will help in making more PDF files IE7 compatible when using the HTML4/HTML5 modes
- Issue fixed where PDF files would not be downloadable in Zine flash version even if the download icon had been included
- Issue corrected in a scenario where setting MaxZoomSize caused viewer not to be able to zoom when using Zine in HTML5/HTML4
- Issue corrected where slider input controls in desktop publisher were not initialized properly
- New style property added to FlexPaper Zine: ability to turn stretching of background on or off
- Fixed an issue where custom background color was not being set properly for tablet devices in Zine
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.8 (Oct 28, 2013)
- FlexPaper Zine enhanced to support higher resolution for touch devices when zooming into the document (requires PHP & GTK2)
- Issue fixed relating to certain links where they would be incorrectly broken up into sections causing the links to be incomplete when clicked (HTML4/HTML5 mode)
- Issue fixed for annotations in IE9 when using the HTML rendering mode
- Last/first navigators added for Zine in HTML4/HTML5 mode
- FlexPaper Zine Icons added for retina/HD desktop displays (labelled [name]@2x.png)
- Corrections for hidden text and control characters in exporting to HTML4/HTML5 from desktop publisher [on Windows]
- Correction for shading in Zine for HTML5/HTML4 (regression issue from 2.1.7)
- Fixed an issue relating to drag-turning pages in HTML4/HTML5 where the viewer would zoom in unintentionally in some specific scenarios
- Fixed an issue related to links being created multiple times causing performance degradation in HTML4/HTML5 mode for Zine
- Performance improvements to sliding and dragging in Zine HTML4/HTML5
- HTML5 Fisheye thumbnails performance improvements
- The Viewer is now giving the clicked/tapped page in Zine rendering priority to improve performance while reading
- Links and custom links made more visible in HTML4/HTML5 mode
- Regression issue corrected for Zine in relation to loading new documents through the load({PDFFile : ‘filename.pdf’}); API
- Fixed an issue related to thumbnails showing up incorrectly when in Zoomed in mode in HTML5 mode and resizing the browser window
- Desktop Publisher now tries to repair PDF files that it fails to publish on first attempt
- Youtube videos when played in HTML5 viewer will now stop if playing when navigating away from the page
- Desktop Publisher now able to sign documents and add password protection for your PDF documents to prevent them from being downloaded
- Issue fixed related to searching for two different phrases causing the search abstracts not appearing the second time in Flash mode for Zine
- HTML5 PDF rendering routine updated (0.8.633 build # fa03a77)
- Full screen support added for IE 11 to our HTML4/HTML5 pdf viewer
- Support for Android in pinch and zoom plus navigation improved for Zine in flip page mode
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.7 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Issue fixed related to disabling/removing the number of pages field in FlexPaper Zine (flash mode)
- Fixed an issue related to the new PreviewMode where thumb nails would not appear after going into full screen
- Quality and performance improvements for the HTML5 MixedMode
- Fixed an issue related to IE and the fisheye thumb nails in Zine HTML mode
- Improved shading in Zine HTML4/HTML5
- Improvements to the wordpress plugin to be fully compatible with the latest version
- Issue fixed where videos and links would not rescale when going into full screen for Zine in HTML4/HTML5 mode
- Desktop Publisher has now been set not to copy FlexPaperViewer.swf to output directory if the flash has not been selected as output format.
- Drop shadow effects added to Zine in HTML4/HTML5
- Issues fixed for Windows 8 based touch PCs which were using the mobile user interface incorrectly
- Memory optimizations for Zine in HTML5 mode
- Rendering flickering reduced in HTML5 for Zine in Chrome browsers
- Dual rendering mode disabled when using MixedMode as it has been concluded that split mode works better together with MixedMode to deliver the sharper focused file as quickly as possible
- Issue related to mouse origin when using zoom slider in Zine HTML5 mode fixed
- Issue fixed for Zine in HTML5 mode where documents which are wider than they are high would render their ‘fish eye’ icons incorrectly
- Major update to our Wordpress plugin with automatic conversion of documents
- Issue fixed for publisher to avoid keyboard handlers to interfere with user input
- The ability to save style settings as new templates in Desktop Publisher added
- Caching improved for various scripts in the HTML5 viewer
- Pinch to zoom support added for Android devices in Zine
- Issue fixed for resizing Zine in Portrait on iPad devices where extra margin was added to the bottom of the viewer
- Tablets and phones now have their own configuration sections in UIConfig so that icons can be better added in regards to the display
- Corrections default phone vs tablet icons in Zine
- Initial position for page 1 corrected for Zine in HTML5/HTML4 mode so that it starts in middle when in two page view
- Fixed an issue related to printing split PDF documents where unnecessary pages were being loaded
- Fixed an issue related to hovering and dragging lower corners when fisheye is activated in Zine (HTML5/HTML4 mode)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.6 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Issue fixed related to scrolling in portrait on mobile devices where page number was not being updated properly in some scenarios
- FlexPaper Publisher now better optimizes output of image files and converts PNG to JPEG for better compression. Sizes of publications will be greatly reduced because of this
- FlexPaper Publisher now automatically splits two-fold publications into individual pages.
- Changes to “image quality” now also affects the output of the HTML mode
- FlexPaper now supports a “dual” mode for rendering documents in HTML5 mode. This mode uses either split mode or single page mode for HTML5 depending on if the server and the browser supports range-requests or not. The following example shows how to use the dual mode manually (please note that JSON file needs to be supplied for the split mode to work in HTML5):
- PDFFile : “pdf/Paper_[*,2,true].pdf”,
- HTML5 PDF rendering routine updated (0.8.335 build # 6c6719e)
- The HTML5 rendering mode now supports worker threads when using the HTML5 mode in single file mode
- Major performance improvements for the HTML5 rendering mode
- Zine loader animation updated and improved so that it shows up more quickly when turning a page
- Issue fixed (regression) related to selecting text in portrait mode for the flash rendering mode when loading in split mode
- Issue related to using StickyTools and annotations on iPad corrected
- Issue related to opening the classic customizable viewer in full screen using IE older than version 10 fixed
- Adjustments to the thumbnails in Zine for the HTML4/HTML5 rendering mode
- Issue Fixed for true full screen in some webkit browsers
- Improved performance for the HTML4 rendering mode
- New introduced “MixedMode” parameter allowing the HTML5 rendering mode to use images when the zoom scale is small enough for the image to deliver better quality faster. Currently only available in Zine but will be propagated to Classic as well.
- New miniature mode parameter “PreviewMode” added for Zine allowing the viewer to be displayed in a miniature fashion without toolbars and thumbnails. The viewer will go to full screen when clicked on in this mode.
- Issue fixed for FlexPaper Zine Flash to make thumbnails rerender in larger size when entering fullscreen
- Issue fixed for FlexPaper Zine HTML4/HTML5 mode where thumb nails would be unresponsive to mouse over after resizing the control in firefox
- The clicked “Zoom in” position improved for Zine HTML4/HTML5
- Issue fixed for Zine related to the StartAtPage parameter in HTML4/HTML5 mode
- Hardware acceleration now enabled for Safari on desktop for Zine in HTML4/HTML5 mode
- Issue fixed for Zine where a user background image would not be visible when going into full screen
- Issue fixed related to Zine flash where the viewer would be incorrectly sized in some scenarios when starting on a specific page
- Issue fixed where going into full screen on iPad/iPhone would render a too large device view port
- Transitioning smoothness improved and a issue related to flickering on Chrome fixed
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.5 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Fixed an issue related to Safari and opening Zine in full screen
- Fixed an issue related to switching back and forth between Zine and portrait and having images and links on the same pages
- AdaptiveUI now supports printing in HTML5 split mode
- Issue related to hiding/showing annotations fixed
- Issue related to using the load method in flash mode for the annotations build fixed
- FlexPaper Desktop Publisher now allows the alpha to be changed on panels
- Random number added to the url for the resource files when publishing documents through FlexPaper Desktop Publisher, to avoid cache problems
- Zoom Panning in Safari for the HTML5 and HTML4 rendering modes further improved
- Issue related to text/link sizes in zoomed in mode for Zine on Safari fixed
- Previewing documents in FlexPaper Desktop Publisher improved in stability
- Mobile preview now available in Desktop Publisher (click on publish/view and then mobile preview after publishing has completed)
- Fixed an issue where images/links/video would disappear when zooming into content for FlexPaper Zine. This was affecting webkit based browsers
- Fixed an issue where printing in split mode for in Chrome (Pepper Flash) would not print all pages due to an issue in Pepper Flash’s sandboxing limitations
- Fixed an issue related to mouse wheel & two finger scrolling in Mac
- Fixed an issue related to printing in HTML5 and the page not utilizing the full width of the print
- Print progress added for the HTML5 rendering mode
- Fixed an issue where the background image would not be visible in HTML5 mode for Zine
- Fixed an issue where the background image would not stretch in some scenarios when using flash mode
- Fixed an issue which prevented Flexpaper from being used in multiple instances when using the HTML5 rendering mode
- Fixed an issue where annotations on page 2 would not be visible initially in some specific scenarios, for the HTML5 viewer
- Optimizations for the upcoming version of iOS (version 7)
- FlexPaper Classic now supports adding links, images and video on top of documents using the API as well as from Publisher!
- Fixed an issue related to starting youtube videos from the portrait mode
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.4 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Fix applied for onExternalLinkClicked which was not triggered properly from the HTML/HTML5 rendering mode.
- Panning accuracy when dragging Zine in flash mode improved
- Fixed an issue related to adjusting certain page sizes in IE 8, IE 7 for FlexPaper AdaptiveUI
- Corrected an issue related to iOS 6 and above which were not loading pages in zoomed in mode for Zine in scenarios where the document contained spaces
- Issue corrected where the print dialog would cause zoom right after clicking cancel or print for FlexPaper HTML/HTML5 mode
- Issue fixed releated to nav panels showing in 1-page documents for Zine in HTML/HTML5 mode
- Regression issue related to showing certain links in Zine HTML when supplying both a PDF and JSON file fixed
- Issue fixed related to even numbered documents not displaying the fisheye thumbnail on last page
- As the Safari browser does not support range requests, FlexPaper no longer tries to impose this on the Safari browser
- Issue fixed related to ‘BookView’ where the initial scale would be wrong and cause the page not to fit properly initially in some scenarios
- Issue fixed in java package related to locating the config file after saving
- FlexPaper Publisher changed to use split mode for the preview to keep memory down and provide further consistency between preview the published copy
- Zine in flip book and Portrait mode for HTML/HTML5 adjusted to take page number into account when switching mode so that the viewere stays on the current page
- Issue fixed for Zine in flash mode where zooming in using mouse down would not work for landscape documents in certain scenarios
- Android now defaults to 1-page mode if the phone or tablet is in portrait mode when entering the publication
- Fixed an issue where the full screen button wasnt bound on mobile for the FlexPaper classic viewer
- Fixed an issue related to text input fields in IE7 For FlexPaper Classic
- Issue fixed related to not binding the enter key to search in certain scenarios, for the customizable version of FlexPaper Classic
- HTML5 PDF rendering routine updated (0.8.187 build # 59f2e71)
- Fixed an issue related to white space being added to different size pages in Zine flip mode
- Added hash listener which makes the viewer navigate to a desired page through the use of #page in the url.
- For example http://www.mydomain.com/flexpaper/viewer.php#page=5 navigates to page 5. This also works as a starting parameter instead of using StartAtPage in your code. This works across all technologies (html/flash/html5)
- Corrected an isssue where the dispose method would not be exposed externally properly
- FlexPaper Publisher now asking for license key on startup to simplify the publishing process
- Bug related to resizing the flip book viewer in HTML/HTML5 mode corrected
- Added options for rasterization and text quality for FlexPaper Desktop publisher
- Added button to publishing dialog for viewing the folder where files were published
- Publications in FlexPaper publisher now get their own folder per default
- FlexPaper Publisher now supports optimizing for PHP to provide JPEG and sliced high res JPEG images when PHP is available
- Support for Google Analytics added to all builds through the “TrackingNumber” parameter. It currently tracks each page view together with the document name
- Performance improved greatly in FlexPaper Publisher
- Zine now auto hides the toolbar to save space when viewing publications in single page mode on mobile devices
- Zine flash mode adjusted when hiding the thumbnails to allow the viewer to maximise the available area
- Support for background images added to FlexPaper Zine through FlexPaper Desktop Publisher
- The FlexPaper PHP examples now support sub folders
- FlexPaper Desktop Publisher now supports adding images and video (Youtube videos)
New in FlowPaper Desktop Publisher 2.1.2 (Sep 24, 2013)
- Bug fixed for IE in HTML mode when zoomDragMode (FlexPaper Zine) was set to false
- Fixed an issue related to ‘BookView’ and recreating annotations
- Issue fixed related to the text not being sharp when opening Zine in full screen for the HTML5 mode
- Improved script and css directory detection to better support moving the flexpaper js and css files
- Corrected an issue related to using the HTML5 split mode on touch devices
- Preloaders for the flip book aligned (html/html5/flash)
- Bug fixed for IE 8 and IE 7 in HTML mode for Zine when using customizable user interface
- Zine flash mode now displays search abstracts in split mode using a supplied JSON file
- Bug fixed for FlexPaper in flash mode where printing was causing extra margin to the left and AutoAdjustPrint wasn’t working
- Annotations (flash mode) now supports different colors for notes (with a colorpicker)
- Zine flash mode in search mode optimized further for higher performance
- Corrected an issue where IE 8 and other HTML5 unsupported browsers would try to use the HTML5 rendering mode
- A few extra checks for the ASP.NET package added to verify that pdf2swf and pdf2json can write to disk
- Corrected an issue related to drawings in flash mode which were created in html mode
- Corrected an issue related to drawings being created without ‘#’ in front of color causing them to turn black
- Zine for iPhone now showing white background properly when displaying flip book in single page mode
- Issue corrected for Zine in single page mode (iPhone mode) where page number wasn't being displayed properly
- Zine now supports thumbnails (with zoom effect) in HTML mode for IE 9, IE 10
- PHP scripts for FlexPaper Zine updated to support loading sliced high resolution images.
- Offset issue corrected for the fisheye icons in Zine (HTML/HTML5 mode)
- Size margins adjusted for Zine in HTML mode, as the horizontal scroll bars did not show in portrait mode while using Zine
- Issue fixed where the Zoom scale wasn’t updated properly when navigating out of Zoomed in mode with nav buttons (in HTML/HTML5 mode for Zine)
- HTML5 rendering routine updated (0.8.75 build # ff616c8)
- FlexPaper Publisher Installer updated for Mac to include third party executable utilities. Mac OS X 10.6 or higher required. The third party executables can also be downloaded from https://code.google.com/p/flexpaper-desktop-publisher/downloads/list or using MacPorts (as previously mentioned) with the following command
- sudo port install swftools pdfjson pdftk mupdf
- The HTML5 rendering mode now supports progressive loading when range request headers are supported by the web server except when using an iOS device. Range requests are not supported by iOS.
- Issue corrected for the annotations asp.net setup package where wrong connection string was used to set up the sample database
- PHP scripts now updated to use JPEG as opposed to PNG for Zine in HTML mode
- Corrected an issue for ‘BookView’ where it wasn’t possible to add notes on top of text
- Issue corrected for FlexPaper Desktop Publisher where previewing a document with more than 10 pages caused some of the pages to render incorrectly in preview mode
- Major performance improvement for Zine in HTML mode making it possible to render very large publications on low memory devices
- Fixed an issue with links and HTML5 running split mode
- FlexPaper Zine now features the ability to add links to URL’s and pages through its config file. FlexPaper publisher for Zine has been updated to support this