What's new in Smart Pix Manager 15.0
May 21, 2015
- Added: Now includes a Portable Devices (WPD) class for accessing content on connected devices
- Added 3D Book Flip and Cube Rotation transition effects
- Added five transition effects that can display text (e.g. a single character or cycle the letters of a word)
- Added six Pacman style transition effects
- Added five six other effects including jigsaw puzzle, random bars and rotational sweeps
- The style of sixty transition effects can now be further modified using TransitionsDrawAlternative
- Much optimization and improvement of transition code
- Fixed temperamental triangular wipe transition effect
- Improved EXIF compatibility with Picasa
- Added support for reading BigTIFF (>4GB TIFFs)
- Added support PSB format (large Photoshop PSD)
- Fixed: infinite loop reading some 16 bit gray scale BMP images
- Fixed: exception reading TIFF (jpeg-7 compression) and RGB color space
- Fixed: some Exif-GPS tags (out of Exif standard) cannot be read correctly
- Fixed: loading EXIF incorrectly set also GPS fields
- Fixed: bug reading EXIF tags
- Fixed: AV reading some (corrupted) PSD files
- Fixed: AV reading some CCITT encoded TIFFs
- Fixed: TImageEnView copes with animated GIF files without explicit delay intervals
- Fixed: infinite/long time loading reading TIFF with corrupted string tag size
- Fixed: bug writing uncompressed dicom images
- Fixed: AV loading parameters or counting TIFF frames when there is a ICC color profile embedded
- Fixed: cannot read some jpeg compressed DICOM images
- Improved DICOM reading speed and memory requirements
- Added: now DICOM decoder can read multiple sequence items (subtags)
- Added: now TIFF reader supports RGB color-mapped images with PlanarConfiguration
- Added: optimized CMYK to RGB conversion speed
- Fixed: corruption of EXIF Maker Notes
- Fixed: DICOM reader can correctly detect root images
- Fixed: DICOM/JPEG2000 9..15 bit gray scale images were not read correctly
- Added: Proc Previews dialog now supports AutoImageEnhance1 and AutoImageEnhance3
- Added: Save Parameters dialog is now resizable and has improved layout
- Fixed: TIFF-CCITT decoder may run infinite loop reading corrupted files
- Fixed: TIFF-CCITT (1D) encoder may corrupt image using TIFF_FillOrder
- Added: Pan Zoom effects are now much smoother due to frame blending
- Fixed: Loading jpeg2000 encoded DICOMs with BitsStored less than BitsAllocated may produce incorrect results
- Added: New EXIF tags: CameraOwnerName, BodySerialNumber, LensMake, LensModel, LensSerialNumber, Gamma, SubjectArea, SubjectLocation
- Added: DCIM acquisition now uses Portable Devices API (WPD) so it can retrieve from all connected devices
- Added: Now outputs XMP meta-data in file info dialog
- Added: Can now save to DICOM format
- Added: Now supports the most recent official list of nearly 5,000 Dicom tags
- Added: Larger Getting Started dialogs
- Added: Updated splash screens
- Added: Better default size for main window
- Removed: Office formats from default formats list
- Fixed: "Tip of the Day" dialog may clash with "Update Available" dialog
- Changed: Toolbars no longer float
- Added: Cooler styling for THistogram
- Fixed: 8965 Error: Index page buffers corrupt in table
- Added: Image auto-enhancement and gamma correction dialog
- Removed: Deprecated watch folder function
- Added: Now remembers default folder in Rename dialog
- Fixed: Dragging a file to copy it does not move the file reference from it
- Added: Confirmation details now more obvious, e.g. using "Yes to All" rather than "All"
- Added: Avoids showing tips on start if auto acquiring from a camera
- Added: Promoted image display quality option
New in Smart Pix Manager 12.0 (Apr 19, 2011)
- Mouse Gestures:
- Click and drag the screen to quickly navigate, view and manage your photos, e.g. drag left to show the next image, draw an X to delete or an upside-down U to rotate
- Double-size thumbnails:
- Need a better view of your photos? Use the new file display option for super-sized thumbnails
- Improved Maps:
- Better support for maps using the GPS fields added by your camera, including maps in the main window and display of markers for all selected files (Great for tracking your entire holiday!
- Powerful Encryption:
- Securely store your files within the media library with powerful "Blowfish" encryption and password protection
- Enhanced Styling:
- The User Interface has been overhauled with updated graphics, modern windows styled thumbnail grids and a new skin, "Chrome"
- New Transition Effects:
- 26 cool transition effects featuring hearts, stars, crosses and explosions have been added to spruce up your slideshow
- New Database Engine:
- Updated database engine for improved performance when searching, filtering, finding duplicates, etc.
- Autoplay Support:
- When inserting a disk, thumb drive or camera to your computer Smart Pix Manager is now offered as a view or retrieval source (including Windows 7 and Vista)
- Find Files without Descriptions:
- New search option to display all files for which you have not assigned a description
- Improved Performance:
- Optimization of many functions including image display using multicore processing
New in Smart Pix Manager 11.0 (Oct 2, 2009)
- Huge improvements in styling, wording and layout in the 80 most used windows
- Display a map showing the location of the current photo (if photo includes GPS field)
- Filter media library by date with bar graphs of photos taken for each month or year
- Display a histogram of your image color range
- 24 new transition effects
- Graphics enabling you to rapidly select motion and transition effects
- More image formats: Windows Media HD Photos (*hdp,*wdp), Multipage PCX (*dcx) files, enhanced DICOM and huge TIFF files
- New Advanced Options dialog provides access to 30 power settings
- Automatically clear the thumbnail cache when closing Smart Pix
- Improved desktop wallpaper features including instant "Undo"
- Paste a list of keywords directly from the clipboard to your files
- Automatically add the files you view to your media library
- Quickly reposition in file and keyword grids by clicking the first few letters of name
- Date keywords now display in chronological order
- Windows 7 support including progress display in the Windows Taskbar
New in Smart Pix Manager 10.2 (Jan 2, 2009)
- Fixed: Emailing may lock up when sending via Outlook Express
- Fixed: Smart Pix does not clear the IPTC description when the database description is removed
- Fixed: Some status bar items may not show when using large system fonts
- Added: Now remembers the password for all files in a zip
- Added: Animation on close about box
- Fixed: May not refresh database status for a multimedia file after adding folder to the media library
- Fixed: May not be able to see error message when a Find File fails (which disables the window)
- Fixed: Clicking some buttons in the Getting Started dialog may bring up a hidden dialog
- Fixed: May get slow start ups due to network access