What's new in FuturixImager 6.0.3
Oct 11, 2011
- Bug-fix for occasional crash when saving some images with color management enabled.
New in FuturixImager 6.0.2 (Jun 20, 2011)
- Bug-fixes in colour management, file navigation, and UI.
New in FuturixImager 6.0.1 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Support for raw formats from more than 30 new digital cameras
- Speed improvements for raw camera formats plug-in
- Minor bug-fixes for Windows 7 Service Pack 1
New in FuturixImager 6.0 (Apr 14, 2010)
- Unicode support throughout the program
- Reworked plug-in system with major performance optimisations
- Improved UI on Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- Speed improvements in file format support and UI
- New simpler “Options” dialog
- Support for media keyboard keys, mouse wheel click, and side mouse buttons
- Smarter zoom behaviour
- Support for saving 32-bit images with alpha channel
- Support for auto-rotating images based on EXIF data
- Improved printing
- Rewritten file format associations code (with support for “Default Programs” API)
- Support for individual icons and descriptions for file format associations
- Removed support for animation
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 6 (Mar 22, 2010)
- Speed improvements
- Support for auto-rotating images based on EXIF data
- Improved printing
- Finalized plug-in system
- Moved all options to the new “Options” dialog
- Minimized number of UAC pop-ups
- Separate installer for non-essential plug-ins
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 5 (Feb 22, 2010)
- Smarter zoom behaviour – no more unexpected changes when navigating between images
- Overhaul of keyboard and mouse shortcuts
- Restored support for 32-bit .bmp images
- Fixed TWAIN scanning support
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 4 (Feb 16, 2010)
- Restored/rewritten support for localization (with about 25% of strings available for translation)
- Restored support for toolbar themes
- Fixed some issues with icon libraries
- Added support for new official extension of JPEG XR format
- Broke scanning support – to be restored in Beta 5…
- First glimpse of new SDK is available (to be updated often)
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 3 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Support for individual icons and descriptions for file format associations
- Performance improvement on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
- New category of plug-ins – icon libraries
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 2 (Jan 12, 2010)
- Support for “Default Programs” feature on Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- Rewritten file format associations code
- Converted major plug-ins to the new plug-in system
New in FuturixImager Splash Beta 1 (Jan 7, 2010)
- More than 50 bug-fixes in file format support
- Imager now looks better on Windows 7
- Partial introduction of new localization
New in FuturixImager Splash Alpha 3 / Stable 5.9.4 (Sep 8, 2009)
- FuturixImager now correctly works with alpha channel in 32-bit images (except some filters in the editor) – for example now you can convert 32 bit PNG to 32 bit BMP and keep the transparency intact
- Added support for 32 bit JPEG XR photos with transparency
- Plug-in system changes: removed support for animation, reimplemented support for multi-page images (with quite noticeable speed up)
New in FuturixImager 5.9.4 (Aug 24, 2009)
- Added read/write support for JPEG XR format (also known as HD Photo or Windows Media Photo)
- Added Photoshop (PSD) write support and improved read support
- Faster loading of several rare TIFF variations
- Reworked support for writing WBMP images (aka wireless bitmaps)
- Improved “View as Wallpaper” plug-in
New in FuturixImager 5.9.3 (Feb 26, 2009)
- Improved compatibility with faulty HP printer drivers
- Added workaround for menu localization issue that was present in versions 5.9.x for some languages
New in FuturixImager 5.9.2 (Jan 12, 2009)
- Set of seven automatic image enhancement filters: auto crop, auto equalize, auto fix, auto gain, auto glow, auto sharp, auto white
- Experimental lossless JPEG crop
- Yet another fix for full-screen mode switch
New in FuturixImager 5.9.1 (Jan 2, 2009)
- - fix for a nasty full-screen bug
New in FuturixImager 5.9 (Dec 25, 2008)
- Support for embedded colour profiles in JPEG and TIFF images
- Reworked raw camera formats plug-in
- Visual style update: 32-bit bitmaps in themes, some new icons, icons in menus
- Added several options for customizing viewer's background style: gradient, solid color, checkboard pattern, etc
- Bug-fixes: solved minor glitches on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, better support for DWM, many others
- Windows 2000 is no longer supported
New in FuturixImager 5.9 Beta 1 (Jan 11, 2008)
- Added experimental support for OpenEXR format
- Switched file format support for PNG, JPEG2000, and single-page TIFFs to the new experimental code
- Restored support for localization and custom toolbar themes
- Lossless JPEG transformations can be done without forced backup
- Speed up for "Image Information" dialog
- Update for raw camera formats support
- Fixed window title updates that could happen too quickly
- Updated plug-in, localization, and themes SDK is now available
New in FuturixImager 5.8.7 (Oct 24, 2007)
- Restored and updated rare formats plug-in
- Major updates in bundled libraries
- Update for raw camera formats support
- Minor bug-fixes and speed improvements
New in FuturixImager 5.7.1 (Apr 18, 2006)
- Added option to change smoothing filter for image display (see "Options" dialog)
- FuturixImager now works fine in limited user accounts (I've made a lot of tests and fixed all found bugs)
- Improved multi-threading for several GUI operations
- FreeImage and e-mail plug-ins rewritten in C (sources available in SDK)
- Reorganized and improved FuturixImager SDK (now including better documentation and complete source of 12 plug-ins)
New in FuturixImager 5.7 Beta 1 (Mar 22, 2006)
- WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) support
- themes (custom toolbar and menu graphics)
- new "Options" dialog that integrates most FuturixImager settings in single tabbed window
- simplified installation of localizations and themes
- file formats association with FuturixImager simplified and rare or incompletely supported formats are now hidden by default (this affects only file formats association dialog)
- all localizations now are Unicode-based internally
- new XP style theme available (separate download)
- fast previews for raw camera files in the "Open" dialog
- optimized PNG loading
- fixed issue with delayed localization on program start-up
- plug-in system enhancements: plug-in configuration interface, not recommended extensions interface
- probably starting from this release FuturixImager will no longer run on Win9x
New in FuturixImager 5.6 (Feb 28, 2006)
- new histogram in information dialog
- new graphics for most toolbar buttons
- more then 20 new toolbar buttons available for toolbar customization
- added optional toolbar buttons for several most popular plug-ins (screen capture, scan, send by e-mail, etc)
- editor and print preview windows now embedded into main window
- new color selector in editor
- new editing tools: pencil and flood fill
- update for raw camera formats support
- fixes: keyboard shortcuts issues, support for EPS thumbnails, rare modal dialog issue, wireless bitmaps support, start-up crash on machines with several rare CPU types, printing problems, saving big images as ASCII text
- several plug-in system additions
- restored extra plug-in pack with automated installer