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This build will not show up in a 'check for updates' in the FotoFusion user interface for another week or two; please download manually using the link above to get the update today.
This is a free update for all v4 users.
It is a paid upgrade for v3.X users - see the following link for v3.x upgrade pricing information:
http://www.lumapix.com?redir=UpgradeNow
Please post feedback to the 'v4 early feedback' forum.
This is a significant release, with hundreds of features and bug fixes including the following:
FEATURES
Form Factors
- Introduction of Form Factors - power tools that ensure that your layouts match specifications from album manufacturers
Revamped Canvas and Project settings editors [17265, 17441]
Support for user-defined Form Factors (supercedes canvas size presets) [17156, 17984]
Output
- Completely revamped output file naming schemes provides sensible defaults, useful presets and complete user customization
Crop marks drawn as thin black lines over white background for improved visibility [17517]
Improvements to Album themes in Output to the web [17697, 17698]
User Interface
- "Desktop" now appears at root of all file trees (organizer, image hover, autocollage, etc) [3511, 16373]
Organizer now immediately reflects changes made to folders and files [3140, 11594, 17212, 17922][/b]
Menu system reformatted for improved usability [16851, 17803, 18752, 17303 ]
Inline text-based search controls added to search hover [18191]
Pages hover contextual menu now includes "move to page..." option [18221]
Page Up/Down in multipage project controlled by Ctrl+mousewheel [17913]
Grid visibility and grid snapping exposed as separate controls [17302]
General
- Set of available text tags greatly expanded and organized into hierarchical menu in text editor, output options 13151, 15678, 17383
User Preferences dialog now available, providing:
Toggle for Organizer's advanced Search [18183]
Control over size of dropped images [16979]
Mousewheel direction option for zoom in/out [17912]
Overlay image info includes "filename" and "filename+file extention" options [17994]
Copied objects now available in dropper after new project created [17372]
Respect center line added to Autocollage options [17838]
Thin contrast line around frame border can now be toggled [13206, 18137]
Welcome screen tutorial shows now shows all videos on first run [18545]
Marketplace
- Bundled content downloads faster [17341]
Already-downloaded content now available in Marketplace even when offline [17440]
Clicking on content links on web pages (e.g. LumaPix.com) now launches FotoFusion and loads content [17915]
Search hover now supports 'From Any Publisher' option [9713, 16365]
Diplomas category now available [18610]
Yearbook Support (available only in YearbookFusion license)
- Organizer now offers "Add Student" button to import additional images into student database [15569, 17725, 18732, 17904, 18727]
Teachers can be brought to top of yearbook panel by prepending space to their last name [17189, 17201, 17246, 17455]
Publishers see list of their associated schools, can choose among them when importing PSPA database [16338]
Default form factors determined by publisher association [16893]
Publisher-specific form factors displayed for their clients only [16107]
Publisher-specific preset searches (clipart, papers, frames) now available [16961]
Yearbook Toolbar streamlined down to single button [17885]
Panel text can be protected from changes or unlocked for manual changes [16755]
Panel size/position can be protected from changes or unlocked for manual resizing, rotation, repositioning [17574]
Students can now be excluded from panels (e.g. witness protection programs) [16224]
Images with empty data fields at import time are now collected into named buckets for correction [15827]
Custom attribute sets can now be created (at import time, in Organizer, and when populating panels). [17587, 17586, 17587, 17642]
Custom text qualifiers now supported in PSPA import [17639]
Append option at import now prevents duplicate file names in database, simplifying conflict-free reimport [18660]
School and custom attributes now available from Text tag menu [17461]
Overlay image info now available for panel images [17594]
Publisher build includes Admin tab, giving access to rep admin web page [18671, 18645]
YearbookFusion trial now accessible from Run As dialog [17417, 17685]
FIXED BUGS
Editing
- Matte cutter once again available to Enhanced users [17382, 18017]
Edge/Gutter safe zones now swapping correctly on left/right album sides [16849]
Dropper order now respected when images added to canvas [17434]
Snapping to grid line now works with all units of measure [16493]
Smart frame dropped on top of regular frame now consistantly displays as expected [16528, 17227]
Z-order of selected frames now preserved after grouping [16575]
Mattes now autodetect alpha-rgb settings [17040, 17056]
Cover sheet now draws gutter line even when spine width = zero [17114]
Mattes now correctly applied to existing frames when dropped on them, instead of creating new frame [17387]
Background canvas frame now cannot be split [13444]
Mattes can now be applied to canvas correctly [17010]
Jpg file can now be dropped as canvas background if png graphic already on same layer [17370]
Output
- Several PSD export issues resolved [14861, 14915, 16413, 16971, 17058, 17866, 18058]
Occasional mismatch between render size reported on output tab and actual file now resolved [17705]
Tag with sRGB now works as expected [18501]
Several issues with Page numbering at render time now resolved [17311, 16884]
Artifacts in PNG files at higher resolution renders have now been removed [17366]
Render options no longer default to rendering overhang [17657, 18002]
Output to the web now creates appropriate thumbnails, info, extensions, etc. [18560, 18561, 18563, 18147, 18148, 18149]
Output to a file now remembers last-used folder [17309, 17386]
Data Management
- Appending a project no longer clears current bucket contents [15662, 15465]
Buckets no longer emptied on autopopulate [15465]
"Used" checkmarks now correctly shown on images on remote drives [18823]
Images located on a removed external drive now give warning message on project load [17959]
Thumbnails in file/open dialog now updated correctly when project has been saved over [17868, 17869]
Browse for Images remembers last visited folder, even if image is not opened [17388]
Illegal characters do not cause File > Save to fail [17510, 17850]
Occasional crashes when loading v3.x projects fixed [18568]
Inserting a project now appends instead of replacing current project [17238, 17715]
Restoring projects (.scrap, archives) uses caches if available [17746, 17951, 18644]
Restored archive does not require resave if no changes made [17750, 17752, 17791]
Item removed from database are now also removed from bucket [17410]
Multiple sequential keyword search no longer crashes [16789, 16850]
Page numbering attributes now correctly reconstructed on load [17454]
General
- Memory leaks fixed [17276, 18764]
Crash on single-core machines fixed [18886]
Loaded templates are unlocked during trial use [18854]
Essentials license no longer able to create unrenderable projects by appending kit templates [14953]
Run As... now respects evaluation, not paid, license limits [14213]
Images with autorotate EXIF flag no longer slow FotoFusion down [2417]
Users with passwords containing non-alphanumeric characters can now reactivate normally [17277]
Thumbnails containing high-res png images no longer display artifacts [17373]
Various language/translation issues resolved [17041, 17525, 17864, 18051, 18046]
Email support option now requires valid email address [17769]
User Interface
- Refresh issues with large thumbnail previews in Marketplace resolved [16709]
Toolbox no longer gets stuck in invisible state [17169]
Start Zone no longer gets stuck in blurred-out mode [16932, 17008]
Shopping cart button now showing "unpurchased content" notification only when necessary [17195, 17240]
dotScrap items launched on canvas no longer creating ghost frames in the Tree view [16888, 17160]
YearbookFusion (available only in YearbookFusion license)
- Panels sometimes hang off safe area [17666]
Publisher's build now stores list of known schools, enabling offline work [18136, 18222]
Importing new PSPA data now clears previous imports [17108, 17274, 17352, 17353, 17355, 17630]
Restoring yearbook archive now replaces current database [17076, 17079, 17096]
Modifications to student database now correctly reflected when project opened by different users [16954]
Project save is now forced prior to upload to publisher [16411]
Reconnected missing images for panel images remain reconnected when project is reloaded [17950, 18009]
Database modifications made in Trial mode persist after activation [17963]
Changes to student information mark the current project as dirty [17180]
No longer possible to create duplicate column headings when importing PSPA files [15250]
Turning off header at PSPA import now correctly affects number of records imported [15747]
Grades now sorted as numbers, not strings (grade 9 comes before grade 10) [17376, 17439, 17466]
Default size of text under panel frames improved [17675, 17646]
Application of two-page spread to yearbook panel now handled more gracefully [17967, 17968, 17969]
Projects with no PSPA database can now be uploaded to Publisher as expected [18047, 18049]
Legibility of text in Panel Wizard improved [16738, 17542]
Enjoy!
--The LumaPix Team—