What's new in IguanaTeX 1.60.3
Oct 14, 2023
- (Win/Mac) Fixed bug where extracting a LaTeXiT display (or simply checking if a display was created with LaTeXiT) would replace the clipboard text
- (Win/Mac) Fixed bug that resulted in unnecessarily checking if every display in a slide is a LaTeX display. This resulted in significant slowdowns particularly when checking for potential LaTeXiT displays is enabled. Code will now only check when necessary, and when necessary will only check the first time it encounters a given display.
New in IguanaTeX 1.60.2 (Nov 18, 2022)
- (Win) Fixed bug occurring when using the Insert Vector Graphics File function with a presentation in a OneDrive/SharePoint directory
New in IguanaTeX 1.58 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Added Alt text to each shape, containing the whole LaTeX code. This is not a good ADA compliant substitute, but is better than nothing, and can also be used by people who don't have IguanaTeX installed and want to retrieve the code used to generate a display.
- Fixed bugs in mouse wheel support: mouse wheel was not working well on external displays with different DPI setting; cursor was moving too far, causing a silent error resulting in unresponsiveness until another mouse action reset processing
- Fixed bug where reloading the code after modifying in an external editor with external editor as default resulted in a crash.
- Fixed LaTeX engine selection Combobox style so that it is clickable (used to be possible to write text in, but this had no effect, so it was useless)
- Removed ability to use mouse wheel to select the LaTeX engine in the Combobox as it wasn't well supported (mouse wheel would remain active for that Combobox even when hovering over neighboring objects within the same frame, e.g., Bitmap/Vector selection, etc) and wasn't very useful.
- Added mouse wheel support in the template text box.
New in IguanaTeX 1.57 (May 31, 2019)
- Added option to make editing in external editor the default; IguanaTeX then automatically loads the relevant code in the external editor.
- Added option to directly generate code that was modified in an external editor without having to first reload it in the IguanaTeX edit window.
New in IguanaTeX 1.56 (May 17, 2018)
- Added option to preserve size of the original display when modifying a display (both for single and batch edits)
- Conversion between Bitmap and Vector now preserves the size of the original display. Because Vector generation is much slower than Bitmap, and scaling factors tend to be finicky, I strongly suggest first generating and editing displays in Bitmap, and at the end convert to Vector.
- New displays will now be placed at the same position as the first selected shape among currently selected shapes, if any, and will default to the usual arbitrary (200,200) position otherwise. This is useful when working with large slides (e.g., posters), avoiding the need to move the IguanaTeX display to the region currently being worked on. Note: Placing a display somewhere relative to the currently visible portion of a slide is surprisingly not straightforward in PowerPoint, so I'll leave that for now.
- Updated the Download link for ImageMagick
- Fixed some keyboard shortcuts
New in IguanaTeX 1.55 (Sep 28, 2017)
- Fixed bug in vector conversion by ensuring Freeforms have Fill set to Visible (Thanks: @flart; https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex/issues/2)
- Automatically use font size of text under cursor when creating new equation (Thanks: @itsuhane; https://github.com/itsuhane/IguanaTex/commit/ae4268b6a2a720dcdcc019e13c5c9df6bf6bb30a)
- Changed TeX2img link to version 2.0.2, as 2.0.1 was reported by some users as raising issues (Thanks: Andreas Herkle)
New in IguanaTeX 1.54 (Jan 23, 2017)
- Added option to set path to LaTeX executables (useful in particular with portable installations of LaTeX)
New in IguanaTeX 1.53 (Dec 26, 2016)
- Added mouse wheel support in editor window
- More robust vector graphics conversion
- Source code tracking:
- Added macro to export all modules/forms of the add-in to text files
- Uploaded source code of all versions since v1.31 to Github: https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex
New in IguanaTeX 1.52 (Nov 23, 2016)
- Added option to reset format when regenerating a display. This is particularly useful when a Vector display with various colors or a mix of freeforms with fills and outlines gets regenerated: without resetting the format, the formatting of the original display as a group or of its left-most character would be applied to all parts of the new display.
- Simplified some rescalings in vector graphics support. This may result in the need for recalibrating the vector scaling factors in Main Settings.
- Improved robustness of vector graphics conversion:
- Extended conversion of Lines into Freeforms to all Lines, not only vetical or horizontal ones.
- Added check for presence of a Fill before discarding Outline of a Freeform
- Added function to insert a vector graphics file (.pdf/.ps/e.ps/emf) into PowerPoint as a Shape:
- PowerPoint already "supports" inserting .eps and .emf files, but the result is quite ugly. This function transforms the image into Shapes and does some clean up.
- This function also extends support to .ps and .pdf files.
- requires TeX2img's pdfiumdraw function, already used for vector graphics support.
- The user can choose a zoom factor to be applied prior to converting into Shapes.
- Calibration scaling factors are provided, in case the inserted display's size does not match that of the file being inserted. This can occur on some machines depending on the resolution and dpi setting. The user can compare the original and inserted sizes, and apply the right scaling factors. These settings can be saved.
New in IguanaTeX 1.51 (Nov 1, 2016)
- fixed a bug occurring when vector graphics display includes Line objects instead of only Freeform objects
New in IguanaTeX 1.50 (Nov 1, 2016)
- Added vector graphics (EMF) support:
- requires TeX2img for robustness purposes
- vector graphics displays are groups of freeform objects; added ability to edit display both when clicking on the group, or when clicking on the left-most character (allowing clicking on all characters would make other things complicated)
- formatting will (should) be preserved through editing (bevel formatting will not but it does not behave well on these shapes anyway)
- editing vector graphics displays that have been further grouped should work as expected, except if there are groups with the same name (check the Selection Pane)
- Improvements to "Regenerate selection":
- added batch edit mode: selected displays or all displays on selected slides can be modified simultaneously (e.g., changing latex engine, size, DPI, vector/bitmap, transparency, and simple text search & replace)
- added progress window for batch modification, indicating "number of already processed IguanaTex displays / total number of IguanaTex displays to be processed" on each selected slide
- added shortcuts for conversion to vector and conversion to bitmap
- Improvements to Main Settings:
- added tunable "magic rescaling factors" in X/Y directions for vector and bitmap, to allow for the user to match exactly the size of text in a PowerPoint "Text Box". Particularly useful for vector output, which appears to be slightly warped by default. I typically use a 300pt display in Times New Roman to find a good rescaling factor, although the Bitmap output should be already pretty good, so it can be used as reference for the Vector one
- added clickable download links for ghostscript, ImageMagick, TeXstudio, and TeX2img
- Improvements to robustness:
- fixed rescaling issue occurring when using computers with various DPI settings. Caveat: this results in a one time resizing inconsistency for displays created on monitors with DPI other than 96. (Note: I tried very hard to make this backward compatible, but came to the conclusion that it was not possible. If anyone figures it out, I'll be glad to include a fix.)
- fixed bug occurring when using Debug option on PowerPoint 2016
- fixed bug occurring when selecting a group
- improved robustness of conversion from TexPoint template equations
- Improvements to edit window
- added per-display DPI setting
- added ability for each display to remember the size of its edit window
- added word wrap toggle, and ability for each display to remember its word wrap status
- modified text selection behavior to be character-based instead of word-based
New in IguanaTeX 1.47 (Nov 13, 2015)
- added global dpi setting (default value = 1200)
- added workaround to prevent crashes when editing/regenerating displays created on machines with a different locale: for example, displays created on machines with the German language pack installed will feature a transparency tag in German ("Wahr"/"Falsch"), which raises an error in previous versions of IguanaTex. This version defaults to "True" if it does not recognize the foreign keyword (and it will preserve the transparency setting if you use the same locale, even if it's not English)
New in IguanaTeX 1.46 (Nov 13, 2015)
- added basic support for TexPoint's "equation" displays. All TexPoint displays created using the "equation" function will be converted to inline equation, black text, transparent background.
New in IguanaTeX 1.45 (Jul 31, 2015)
- Fixed a bug occurring with grouped shapes with the same name on Powerpoint 2007 in the function that uniquifies shape names on slides
- Improved multiple display support: main window now opens on top of the current PowerPoint window, even when it is not on the primary display
New in IguanaTeX 1.44 (Jun 27, 2015)
- Platex support for Japanese input
New in IguanaTeX 1.43 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Fixed bug occurring when using "Edit LaTeX display" on a single Texpoint display
- Fixed bug occurring when inserting an IguanaTex display on a slide with a Content Placeholder of type other than text
- Fixed bug occurring when multiple shapes on a slide have the same name; IguanaTex will now first de-duplicate all names
- Fixed bug where using "Regenerate selected displays" to regenerate displays within a group actually regenerated all displays in that group, not only the selected ones
- Fixed bug where Transparency setting would be ignored for LaTeX engines other than LaTeX (DVI->PNG)
- Enabled Transparency setting to be inherited from Texpoint displays
New in IguanaTeX 1.42 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Fixed a bug that could occur when using multi-byte characters
- Fixed font size discrepancies in menus
New in IguanaTeX 1.41 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Added ability to launch an external editor from main window and when LaTeX compilation fails
- Added buttons to change the font size in the editor and template windows, and default font size setting in the Settings menu
- Added per-display and per-template setting for the temporary folder (defaults to the one set in the Settings menu)
- Added file/folder selection menus in Main Settings
- Prevented displays to be inserted inside content placeholders
New in IguanaTeX 1.40 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Added option to select between absolute and relative path for temporary folder (Warning: any file starting with "IguanaTex_tmp" in the temporary folder will be deleted, unless in debug mode)
- Added option to read code from .tex file
- Added template feature: code can be saved as template for future use, templates can be modified/removed
- Added ability to convert Texpoint displays into IguanaTex displays
- Added ability to regenerate multiple displays, or all displays in multiple slides, in one click (useful to convert many Texpoint equations at once, or if several IguanaTex displays include code from a separate file via \input{}, e.g., for font/color settings in the preamble)
- Simplified Settings window, merging choice of "PDF->PNG vs DVI->PNG" with choice of LaTeX engine
- Added per-display and per-template setting for the LaTeX engine (defaults to the one set in the Settings menu)
- Added progress indicator
- Size of edit window saved through "Make default"
- Remember Transparency setting on a per-display basis
- Added scrollbars in edit window
- Keep temporary files when in debug mode
- Commands copied to clipboard in debug mode (Warning: the clipboard content will be overwritten)
- Fixed display size issue when using dvipng on high-dpi displays
- Changed "Create"/"Modify" to "Generate"/"ReGenerate" so that Alt-G is always the keyboard shortcut to create the display
- (minor) improved resizing behaviour
- (minor) fixed bug where time-out time was not properly indicated in message box
- (minor) some code clean up
New in IguanaTeX 1.37 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Added option for choosing between pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex (only for PDF->PNG conversion; DVI->PNG uses pdflatex with the dvi output option)
- Cursor position automatically set to where it was in the LaTeX code when creating display, as well as in the template saved through "Make Default"
New in IguanaTeX 1.36 (Jun 26, 2015)
- Added new conversion process through PDF to create displays, ".tex -> .pdf -> .png", using Ghostscript for the main conversion, and ImageMagick's convert to change the DPI. Default is left to the original ".tex -> .dvi -> .png" using dvipng, as it does not require installation of extra tools. The PDF route is required for Tikz support, for example.
- Added ability to set paths to Ghostscript and ImageMagick's convert, as well as a "Reset to default" button
- Added UTF-8 support for input (now default), and added option to revert back to old ANSI input. This should in particular enable the use of non-latin characters, e.g. to display Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
- Added option to "reset" to a given point size an existing display when editing it; changes to size and aspect ratio are then obviously lost, but rotation is preserved (as well as all other formatting)
- improved error handling
- Added modifiable time out interval for latex/conversion processes to allow PowerPoint to recover from hangs in the subprocesses
- Added keyboard shortcuts (Alt+...) in the main LaTeX form
- Improved order of buttons when using Tab
- Fixed/improved positioning of buttons in the main LaTeX form
New in IguanaTeX 1.35 (Jun 26, 2015)
- reset the default size when creating a new display to be in "points" and to correspond to the font size in PowerPoint (the correspondence is approximate on high-DPI monitors)
- fixed a one-time bug where the first time a display is created after loading the add-in, the form to create the display does not use the default values
New in IguanaTeX 1.34 (Jun 26, 2015)
- fixed a bug that could set a wrong width to the display
- enabled the new versions to modify displays created with old versions of IguanaTex without changing the size
New in IguanaTeX 1.33 (Jun 26, 2015)
- fixed the ribbon tab code in order not to raise an error on PowerPoint 2003
New in IguanaTeX 1.32 (Jun 26, 2015)
- fixed bugs with "Make Defaults"
- size textbox now hidden in Edit mode instead of greyed out
- fixed bug where "X" button would not close the window when loading/unloading the add-in
New in IguanaTeX 1.31 (Jun 26, 2015)
- added ability to set the temporary folder through a button in the IguanaTex tab of the ribbon
- made the add-in able to create registry keys if they do not exist, thus avoiding the need for an installer
- fixed issue with menu items in the Add-Ins tab when loading/unloading the add-in