What's New in Version 4

Click here for the complete of list of previous updates, from Version 4.4 and earlier.
YearbookFusion users will find a separate "What's New" list in the YearbookFusion manual

Updates for Version 4.5 (FotoFusion & earlier YearbookFusion)

Version 4.5 (build 66264)

QFE for general release

Bugs Fixed

• Fix for text not appearing on canvas [24605]

(Released May 23, 2010)

Version 4.5 (build 63495)

QFE for general release

Bug Fixes

• Output quality issues resolved. [23165]

• Custom page size will no longer resize without warning.[22535]

(Released January 29, 2010)

Version 4.5 (build 62295)

Bug Fixes

• PNG files display black on Windows 7 64 bit OS

• Cached items that are in database dating previous to build 60134 are not loaded

(released December 9, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 60134)

Bug Fixes

• Matte cutter overwrites original image. [20853, 20133]

(Released September 10, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 59268)

Bug Fixes

• Bevelled frames drop correctly [20259]

(Released August 6, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 58767)

Features

• User preferences option for external editor added (under Edit menu). [20104, 20108]

• User preferences options for copying images when sent to external editor added (under Edit menu). [18983]

• New form factors added to manufacturer’s list (AsukaBook, Albums Unlimited, Art Leather, Blurb, Color Portraits, Entourage, Georgia Printers, Graphistudio (US), Le Cartonnage, Picto Books, Roshan Group, Strawbridge Studios, The Icon Experience, Van Gogh School Portraits [18830,18893, 19099, 19952, 19910, 19864, 19766, 19790, 20064]

(Released July 15, 2009)

Bug Fixes

• Output to file using same name as existing file now prompts with warning . [18591, 19621]

• Output to file now correctly respects rendering preferences specified by manufacturer in Form Factor [19880, 19879].

• Bleed value for cover sheet gutters now correctly respected when rendering front/back separately.[19538]

• Support for custom exif tags restored. [19346]

Matte Cutter is applied to all duplicate images. [20133]

• Images do not autoupdate after red-eye & matte application [20136, 20170]

• Problem with bold/italic attributes corrected. [19954]

• Deleting two instances of a frame+text now problem-free. [20067]

• Multiple images sent to external editor does not prompt to make a copy for each image. [8222]

• Large form factors lists no longer delay startup. [19094]

• Manufacturer’s list sorts by product type in File > New. [18976, 19098]

(Released July 15, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 57600)

Bug Fixes

• Upload to Publisher - FTP error (YearbookFusion only) [19579]

• Thumbnail resolution of image rendered instead of high resolution [19616]

(Released May 28, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 57466)

Bug Fixes

Editing

• Matte cutter works on .png files. [11312]

• PNG mattes set to the correct channel. [19400]

• Matte cutter respects crop and position of image. [18981][19414]

• Matte channel preference respected after reopening project [19401] Convert text to matte repaired .[17034]

• Red eye removal tool works on .png files. [12756]

• Smart frames resize correctly. [13197][18173]

• .gif transparency respected. [13828]

• Autojumble no longer inflates images. [16286]

• Symbol fonts will render after project is saved. [18068]

• Background image copied when auto-duplicated. [14003] [16274]

• Mattes, fonts and tiles list will now respond to keystrokes to find item by name. [18923]

• Multi-selected small frames display handles correctly. [19166]

• Image editor will restore brightness to factory defaults [19447]

Installation, Licensing, Marketplace

• Installer will only run if administrator account is in use; activation will hold for all users [13145]

• Uninstalling FotoFusion does not cause issues with previously downloaded Marketplace content. [14485]

• One font warning for all fonts in a projects. [16011]

• Projects moved between machines will display missing font message. [16609]

• Font license warning message will never show again if disabled on a project. [19365]

• Missing font warning appears when older archived project reopens. [19440]

• "Download content from store" will bring entire contents down. [18838]

File & Project Management

• Projects opened on network will save, reopen on other machines on network as expected (no caching). [14609][19274]

• Issues related to photo caching on network projects resolved. [19172]

• Various issues with reconnecting images stored on a network resolved. [18930][18931][18932][18933][18936]

• Missing images reported correctly. [19321]

• Archives includes fonts. [14894][16425]

• Images edited in external editor will make image copy in same folder as original, and canvas is refreshed as expected. [18963][18972][19152][19423]

• Previously saved projects will no longer unpack when reloaded. [19086][19002]

• Changing shadow options will prompt save at close. [19226]

Output

• Output folder is remembered between sessions (really resolved this time!) [17386]

• Rotated group of images will render to psd correctly. [19021]

• Split cover pages render with front cover, back cover in file name. [19022]

• Preview rendering of a file does not require valid folder path to be specified. [19279]

• .jpg files cannot be rendered without file name specified. [19461]

General

• No crashes on single core machines. [18886]Print preview displays panel pages correctly [19227]

• File > New will display only 10 page thumbnails per page. [19490]

• Hover layouts persist between tab switching. [14649]

• Hover behaviour corrected when pinned or docked. [19325]

• Color management settings appear as button on toolbar. [19159]

• Color management settings persist between sessions. [12645]

• Page thumbnails refresh as expected. [19107]

• Form factor will persist between saves while running as trial. [19125]

• Memory leak fixed. [19398]

Yearbook

• School combo box is sorted. [19003]

• Accented uppercase characters do not break database. [19465]

• Add student to PSPA import will copy image to PSPA folder. [19087]

• Yearbook publishers can designate master archive password for all clients' archived projects. [19079]

• Yearbook Publishers have all tabs available regardless of user preferences. [19214]

• Yearbook panel pages will resave project correctly after missing images reconnected. [19133]

• Archiving issues with yearbook projects resolved. [19062, 19069]

• Incomplete FTP upload issues resolved [19188, 19272]

• DPI for projects uploaded to publisher is respected. [19275]

(Released May 20, 2009)

Version 4.5 (build 56280)

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]

• "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]

• 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 extension" 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 Features (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 pre pending 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 (clip art, 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 consistently displays as expected [16528, 17227]

• Z-order of selected frames now preserved after grouping [16575]

• Mattes now auto detect 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 auto-populate [15465]

• "Used" check marks 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 auto-rotate 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]

• 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]

Yearbook Features

• 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]

(Released April 3, 2009)