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Images to Ascii Art Changelog

What's new in Images to Ascii Art 1.1 Beta 2

Mar 13, 2015
  • Added draw mode
  • Crop and size options moved to draw mode
  • Added more crop and size options
  • Crop and resize are now arranged in a more understandable way
  • Added Grid toggle in draw mode
  • Added more FIGlet fonts
  • Added basic smushing to FIGlet fonts
  • Font smushing is now checked by default
  • Fixed: FIGlet dialog is no longer sizeable
  • Fixed: Icon dialog is no longer sizeable
  • Added font previews
  • Added cow previews
  • Source code - Created unit with auxiliary functions (aux_fns)
  • Added splitters to main tool bar
  • Added splitter color option in configuration file
  • Added more box models
  • Moved box button to main toolbar
  • Added box dialog to select different box models
  • Fixed: Cowsay texts untrimmed (Code was there, but didn't always work)
  • Fixed: Cowsay text boxes are now sizeable (Code was there but didn't always work)
  • Fixed: Some cows modified so they get interpreted correctly this is not Perl!) - www, vader, udder, tux, turtle, turkey, stimpy, supermilker surgery, skeleton, small, sodomized, stegosaurus, satanic, ren mutilated, sheep, moofasa, moose, milk, meow, kiss, kosh hellokitty, ghostbusters, head-in-cow, flaming-sheep, eyes elephant, dragon, dragon-and-cow, default, beavis.zen, bong bud-frogs, bunny, cheese, cower, daemon
  • Fixed: Removed some cows that are either not working or uninteresting three-eyes, telebears
  • Fixed: Removed empty lines created when using cowsay
  • Fixed: command line tool -i option not working in windows
  • Fixed: command line tool , filenames/ paths with dots not working
  • Fixed: command line tool accepts both '.' and ',' as decimal separator
  • Helpfile is now in html format, and it is shown using the system broser
  • New installer for Windows OS

New in Images to Ascii Art 1.0 Beta (Mar 13, 2015)

  • Fixed - Color is not clBackground anymore (Problems in win)
  • Fixed - Transparent background mixes images on Transformed image.
  • Transparent backgrounds rendered as black on Transformed image. (PNG transparency)
  • Fixed - Undesired borders on exported images.
  • Fixed - Forgot to disable new buttons during the render process in V. 0.9
  • Fixed - Select all text button now uses the clipbrd unit (doesn't need text selection anymore, works better in Linux).
  • Fixed - Comboboxes in cows window are now readonly
  • Fixed - Save as image won't work in html and emoji modes. Not really useful and may create huge bitmaps. A message explaining this will be shown instead.
  • Fixed - Copy text as image no longer works in html and emoji modes, as it creates huge bitmaps and it's not really useful. A message explaining this is displayed.
  • Cleared the working directory:
  • Moved cows to their own directory.
  • Moved test images to their own dir.
  • Moved documentation files to their own dir.
  • Moved Icons to their own dir.
  • Added demo images to their own dir.
  • Added help button (Displays README.txt or other helpfile)
  • Added Copy to clipboard as Image button.
  • Added config file with program options.
  • Language suport
  • Background color
  • Helpfile selection.
  • Added FIGlet fonts -> Incomplete / No smushing yet
  • Added a command line tool that converts texts to txt.
  • Modified cowsay button icon
  • The image load picture is now hidden
  • Added Emotes lib from Tango Icon Theme.
  • Updated and Corrected documentation files, added new documentation.
  • Added Clipboard background as in IM option.
  • Added text manipulation options:
  • Flip horizontal.
  • Flip vertical.
  • Rotate 90º
  • Indent (Left side)
  • Crop (Left side, right side)
  • Add frame
  • Added 0.2, 1.8 and 2.5 x/y zoom factors
  • Added language support.
  • Right now it is set to English by default, with the possibility to
  • change it to Spanish.
  • Added a button to view/ Edit configuration file.
  • Added a preview to HTML modes.
  • HTML table mode uses style instead of bgcolor in table cells, as bgcolor is
  • not valid in html5
  • HTML Text mode uses bold tags and style instead of font tags, it's Only 1 char per pixel longer, and font tag is (in theory) no longer valid in html 5.
  • HTML Short table has further optimizations to make it shorter. Not HTML5 correct, but seems to work.
  • HTML Colored text has some optimizations to shorten the generated code.

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.9.0 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • This version(s) include a lot of improvements:
  • Documentation translated into Spanish.
  • Added instructions to compile using Lazarus in the Documentation.
  • Switched to a more recent version of the compiler (from 1.0.4 to 1.0.12).
  • Reset Brightness/Contrast when clicking on Bightness/Contrast icons.
  • Luminosity method added for grayscaling.
  • Added a display Ascii table / Palettes button.
  • Added About window
  • Added a GPL V2 License text file in the file folder.
  • Fixed "Save as image" with the inverted display option enabled.
  • Added a 7 shades palette.
  • Added a detect-border text mode.
  • Added a text-lines mode.
  • Correction: 10 shades palette is really a 9 shades palette
  • Added larger than 1 aspect ratios (1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0)
  • Added progressbar on rendering process.
  • Changed window color to clBackground (Seems to work better on different platforms)
  • Size of the executable has been reduced (40mb --> 6mb mb)

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.7.0 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • Images can be dropped into the main window.
  • Now checks if there is a problem when opening the file.
  • Brightness & contrast adjust.
  • Fix: Some controls were still enabled while rendering.
  • Fix: Text doesn't move when redrawing (Selstart is put to 1).
  • Text is created in memory (Faster).
  • Readme file updated.
  • Working interface redone (Requires less space).
  • Corrected some project headers (Source code)

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.6.0 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Ions slightly modified.
  • Save as text and save as image icons are now different.
  • Window title now includes last file opened name.
  • Images don't need to be reloaded when settings are changed.
  • Fixed bug: Save as image button now gets disabled while rendering.
  • Hint added to Monospaced Fonts checkbox.
  • Inverted (White over black) display option.
  • Copy text to clipboard button added.
  • Fixed bug: 2 shades text.
  • Manual modified and slightly corrected.
  • Cowsay added! Still on experimental stage.

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.5.0 (Jan 26, 2013)

  • Width Control edit bug solved.
  • New widths added (16,48,64,80,96)
  • Y Factor control bug solved: Now it's readonly.
  • Palette control bug solved: Now it's readonly.
  • Tmemo component replaced by a SinEdit.
  • Now the output text displays warnings and errors.
  • Enabled hints on Y factor and Palette.
  • Corrected hints on main bar buttons.
  • Corrected bug on save dialog.
  • Separation lines are now thicker.
  • Added a 'show only monospaced fonts' option.
  • Save text as image added (Works fine with monospace fonts)
  • New version of the compiler used (1.04)
  • Updates to the README.txt file
  • Default font in memo is set to Courier New

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.4.0 (Jan 26, 2013)

  • Added Save text file button.
  • Added hints on components, now in English.
  • Minor text corrections on dialogs.
  • More complete palette descriptions.
  • Added a text editor that uses images as background.
  • Added html color text mode.
  • Added tags to html modes.
  • Controls are now disabled while rendering.

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.3.0 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Some minor modifications to the interface
  • Added some HTML modes.
  • Added binary (0-1) mode.
  • Added additional h/w ratios.

New in Images to Ascii Art 0.0.2 (May 28, 2012)

  • Version 0.0.1 Wouldn't compile in windows ¿Maybe some file was missing?
  • Problems using function strToFloat in Laz Versions V> 0.9.28
  • README.txt added
  • Window title changed