Release History ================ Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 6.00l =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 6.00l contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 8th of July 2023 Enhancements: 1. Allow ending PGV in long batch processes. 2. Upgrade PNG library to version 1.6.28. 3. Add elapsed time to status display of MPEG creation. Fixes include: 1. Handle IDAT errors in MPEG file creation using PNG images. 2. Fixed rounding errors in resizing images using batch processing. 3. Crash for large comments in PNG files. 4. Comment lost when writing PNG files. 5. Crash when decomposing animated WEBP files. 6. Incorrect offset in ANI files when using PGV64. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 6.00 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 6.00 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 4 of April 2018. Enhancements: 1. 64 bit version available. 2. Speed up or slow down GIF animation speed and change direction. 3. Change MPEG aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. 4. Read and write WebP and JFIF image files. Fixes include: 1. Overcome memory crash on images greater than 160 MPixels. Fixed in 64 bit version. 2. File not renamed correctly when Save menu used. 3. Crash when opening a Thumbs.db after viewing an EXIF thumbnail. 4. Fix error handling in a faulty Tiff-Jpeg file. 5. Fixed "Initialise to whole visible area" in "Crop Aspect Ratio". 6. Fixed crash on large text fields in PNG files. 7. ZAAP thumbnail may creep in Windows 10. Add an offset in preferences. 8. Rorate image in collage sheet crashed in 64 bit version. 9. Fixed PGV64 installation to setup correct desktop shortcut. 10. User name in About Box failed when opening from ZTreeWin 11. Restored Icon to About Box 12. Collage Script flags didn't work 13. Fixed creep in ZAAP window Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 5.05 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 5.05 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 23rd of March 2018. Enhancements: 1. Improved method for adding text. 2. Delete file added to File Menu. 3. Rearrange and simplify View Menu. 4. Increase size of comment field to 1K Byte. 5. Drag and Drop Fixes include: 1. Single step through animated GIF repaired. 2. Issue with collage sheets when loading an image to (0, 0) now fixed. 3. Overcome memory crash on images greater than 160 MPixels by shrinking image. 4. File not renamed correctly when Save menu used. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 5.04 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 5.04 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 30th of March 2017. Enhancements: 1. Allow user to modify the background on PNG files with transparency. 2. Replace the UPX compression with compression in the installer. 3. PGV now works with 64 bit version of ZTreeWin. 4. Allow automatic removal of comments when saving a file. 5. Allow rotation and resizing of images placed in a collage sheet. 6. Creation of borders around images. 7. Allow manual setting of ZTreeWin path for ZAAP functions. 8. Add text to images. 9. Allow abort of large animated GIF files when taking too long. 10. Allow user to specify label text in printing. 11. Create MPEG files from a sequence of images. 12. Update RAW file Decoding. 13. Add batch deletion of all comments from files. 14. Allow removal of images while building a collage file. 15. Display GPS information in JPEG Exif headers, if present. 16. Add optional borders in images for collage sheet. 17. Allow user to inhibit warning messages. 18. New default opening bitmap added. 19. Allow batch resizing to a specific width or height. 20. Allow insertion of one image into another. Fixes include: 1. Fixed screen staying inverted when left mouse click on image. 2. Fixed incorrect processing of 8 bit perpixel non-alpha PNG files. 3. Menu bug introduced with the change to a new compiler. 4. Fixed crash on very long filenames. 5. Fixed corruption of GIF files created by PGV. 6. Fixed error in selecting file type for extension combinations. 7. Fixed bug in PNG error handling. 8. Cleanup bugs in writing animated GIF files. 9. Fix bug in 32 bit cursor and animated cursor files. 10. Fixed Undo for dithering. 11. Fixed a bug in viewing animated GIF files. 12. Fix problem inserting text when image is zoomed. 13. Fix problems with "sticky" parameters such as SaveDate and DeleteComents. 14. Fix crash when resizing large images. 15. Fix crash in animated GIF files if loading them too quickly. 16. Saving TNS files gave the wrong extension. 17. Fix display of YMCK JPEG images. 18. Allow negative values of height and process correctly. 19. Fix indexing fault in interpolation when resizing images. 20. Reset gamma to default when opening a new file. 21. Fix red eye reduction for tall images. 22. Fix crash when using SaveAs to create a GIF from a JPEG. 23. Suppress menu when in Red Eye reduction mode. 24. Fix another indexing fault in interpolation when resizing images. 25. Fix crash when saving a collage script. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 5.03 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 5.03 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 28th of February 2011. Enhancements: 1. Count the total number of colours in an image. 2. GIF files can be used as frames to assemble GIF files. 3. Update TIFF library 4. Update PNG library 5. Allow batch processing from within PGV. 6. Pad images to fit to an specified aspect ratio. 7. Create a collage from a number of images. 8. Add a script language to create collage sheets. 9. Improve internal logic to simplify code. 10 Change thumbnail files to PNG base to improve thumbnails. 11. Improve rotation by a variable angle by adding a preview window. 12. Add automatic Contrast and add this option to batch processing. 13. Upgrade filters to include 5*5 and 7*7 filters. 14. Add median filters to "despeckle" images. 15. Display XMP data. 16. Allow modification of minimum width to prevent double height menu. 17. Parallelogram distortion correction. 18. Spherical distortion correction. Fixes include: 1. Removed flicker from animated GIF files. 2. Fixed a crash when printing landscape images. 3. Loop count in animated GIF now set to infinite. 4. Dragging image now stops when centre mouse button is released. 5. Fixed a problem with red eye reduction. 6. Fixed scroll bar problem when changing view modes. 7. Allow multiline when writing a comment into a JPEG file. 8. Fixed error when saving autorotate image flag. 9. Fixed inability to read TNS file. 10. Fixed a fault in TIFF error handling. 11. Removed faulty code in TIFF processing. 12. Fixed animated GIFs broken when trying to implement transparency. 13. Trap error if all file types are disable and display warning. 14. Fix delay fault in creating animated GIF files when GIF images are used as a source. 15. Fix problems with PNG alpha channel translation. 16. Fix error handling when writing JPEG files. 17. Fix bugs with thumbnail generation. 18. Fix problems with decomposition of animated files. 19. Fix problem with comments in PNG files. 20. Fixed faulty SaveAs directory settings. 21. Fixed bug that prevents saving the ability to only work in a single instance. 22. Fix a problem in the Batch Processing dialogue box for resize. 23. Fix a crash when using /StartZAAP in the command line. 24. Fix history bug introduced in the last version. 25. Fix a bug in setting up the background colour. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 5.02 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 5.02 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 11th of September 2009. Enhancements: 1. Add white histogram to Contrast, brightness and gamma functions. 2. Rewrite some of he basic routines for improved robustness. 3. Simplified PGV registration process. 4. PGV.INI parameters can now be changed from PGV dialogue boxes. 5. PGV now reads multipage TIFF files. 6. Added "sticky" half and quarter size view modes. 7. Allow cancel from exit. 8. Allow correct display if JPEG orientation is not "normal". 9. Allow automatic fixing of orientation in the JPEG file. 10. Add fixed window size viewing mode. 11. Allow animated GIF files to be written. 12. Create basic animated GIF files. 13. Updated ZBAR driver software. 14. Decompose an animated file into single frames. 15. Add trapezoidal correction. 16. Add '.' key to invoke ZAAP for some European keyboards. 17. Allow direct save of icon file if same size as image. 18. Improved memory management. 19. PGV is fully Unicode-enabled. 20. Improved error handling in lossless JPEG transforms Fixes include: 1. Fixed ZAAP menu remaining after quitting ZTreeWin. 2. Fixed path corruption when loading files from a network. 3. Fixed printer name buffer overflow. 4. Fixed printer error on some printers if landscape mode. 5. Fixed logic of ZAAP errors. 6. Fixed caption error in non-animated GIF files. 7. Fixed save date if original date is to be maintained. 8. Fixed memory error in paste from clipboard. 9. Greyscale JPEG files bug caused slow loading. 10. Fixed crash if restoring an image from a thumbnail. 11. Fixed path change when saving a file to a different folder. 12. Fixed display fault in multipage TIFF files. 13. Fixed a number of minor problems in writing GIF files. 14. Fixed resizing GIF file error introduced with creating animated GIFs. 15. Fixed issues with center button image movement. 16. Fixed a number of crop issues. 17. Fixed newlines and word wrap in image comments edit dialogue box. 18. Fixed crash on some processes on very small images. 19. Fixed a crash on JPEG lossless crop and transforms. 20. Fixed resize menu greyed out for valid image. 21. Palette fault introduced in 5.01r fixed. 22. Fixed an error in lossless JPEG transforms. 23. Fixed path error in batch processing. 24. Fixed cursor issue created when upgrading crop. 25. Fixed scroll position when cropping large images. 26. Fix PGV's ability to handle non-standard EXIF thumbnails. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 5.01 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 5.01 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 21st of December 2007. Enhancements: 1. Allow user to connect to the PGV website from within PGV. 2. Updated ZAAP handling to improve reliability. 3. Auto start slide show from the command line. 4. Display file position in the list of files or folder. 5. Allow stopping of the rotation through the file list. 6. Improve error detection in File Open and Save dialogue Boxes. 7. New PGV icon. 8. Warn user when opening a file if current image has been modified. 9. Added keyboard commands to PGV in ZAAP mode for lossless transforms and to allow suspend and resume of ZAAP. 10. Add a "boss alert" screen using ctrl+shft+F12. 11. Allow cropping from command line arguments. 12. Resize on animated GIFs and cursors now resizes all frames. 13. Simplify comments editing. 14. Send file via eMail. 15. Add a Save menu option for when there is no filename change. 16. Allow save file to have the same date as original file. 17. Upgrade to Vista working. Fixes include: 1. Fix a minor ZAAP bug when screen is refreshed. 2. Cropping failed on very small images. 3. Fixed display of filenames with spaces when cropping and resizing. 4. Fixed 256 animation frame limit in a GIF file. 5. Fixed Paste from clip board. 6. Remove redundant information from the displayed filename. 7. Fixed filename problem when choosing a folder from the history. 8. Fix scroll error when cente mouse button used to scroll image. 9. Kill animation timer if deleting animated GIF file. 10. OS/2 Bitmaps giving negative colours. 11. ZTreeWin Alt-V pathname not found. 12. Fix help to run on Vista. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.05 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.05 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 5th of July 2006. Enhancements: 1. Simplify reset crop mode from aspect ratio to normal crop. 2. Add a history of last files and directories visited, 16 of each. 3. Shift+Left Button Down is the same as centre button for laptops and two button mice. Allows large image scrolling. 4. Add support for RAW (CRW) files from digital cameras. 5. Red-eye compensation. 6. Histogram display for each colour channel. 7. Added Zoom using Mouse Wheel. 8. Improved scroll bars. 9. Set printer orientation as appropriate for the image. 10. Edit and copy comment field in JPEG files. 11. Improvements to the efficiency of the Exif and ZAAP modules. 12. PGV now autodetects the path for ZTreeWin for ZAAP mode. 13. Allows choice of short or long label on ZAAP thumbnail. 14. New TIFF and ZLIB libraries. 15. Allow forcing a single instance of PGV. Fixes include: 1. Fix crash if EXIF data contains tag 41487. 2. Fix problem with 24 bit icon files. 3. Fix scrollbars on small images. 4. Reduce small image creep. 5. Fix comment display from JPEG images. 6. Fix ZAAP startup bug if no startup image displayed. 7. Task bar no longer hides part of the image in full screen modes. 8. Fix Scroll Bar sensing with Mouse Wheel. 9. Fix Exif thumbnail processing errors. 10. Update filename in caption after doing SaveAs. 11. Fixed 32 bit BMP files. 12. Fix crash for long JPEG comments in ZAAP thumbnails. 13. Fix a memory fault in print routine when landscape detected. 14. Fix a minor window size bug. 15. Fix a display bug if GIF animation turned off. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.04 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.04 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 2nd of April 2005. Enhancements: 1. Lossless JPEG transformations. 2. New TIFF Library - still being developed. 3. Save EXIF data with JPEG option is now written to PGV.INI. 4. Improved setup program - better control over file associations. 5. Added image rotation through any angle between 0 and 360 degrees. 6. Added undo and redo fuctions to crop and resize. 7. Added JPEG Lossless Cropping. 8. Aspect Ratio for Crop Aspect Ratio saved to PGV.INI. 9. Allow immediate save of JPEG file and PGV exit after cropping. 10. User can now change the background colour of the ZTree thumbnail. 11. Add sort in file save date and file size order. Fixes include: 1. In ViewNextFile, Set to beginning of list did not always happen. 2. Handle stack overflow problems with corrupt EXIF data in JPEG files. 3. Fix reading TIFF files with very long filenames. 4. Fixes in Setup program that wrote spaces into the registry. 5. Filename in SaveAs truncated if more than one period (.). 6. Setup no longer overwrites pgv.dat (ZAAP thumbnail location). 7. Fix capture bug if not full screen. 8. Fix find pixel colour function in some view modes. 9. Fix view after cropping. 10. Fix view after resizing. 11. GIF file written to PGV.INI if last file viewed. 12. Fix crash if command line file name contains '%' characters. 13. Fixed problem with lossless processes on large JPEG files. 14. Fixed problems with small ZAAP thumbnails. 15. ZAAP thumbnail location not saved when ZTreeWin exits. 16. Case sensitivity removed from command line operation. 17. Turning off warnings also works for EXIF warnings. 18. Fixed unexpected Screen errors under Windows ME. 19. Fix minor ZAAP bugs and improved thumbnail operation. 20. Fix full path not written to last file info in PGV.INI. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.03 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.03 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 20th of May 2004. Enhancements: 1. Undo and redo options added to edit menu. (Still in image menu). 2. Improvements to random file operation of slide show. 3. Improved thumbnail setup dialogue box. 4. SlideShow and NextFile now start from current file, not beginning of the list. Manual forcing to beginning of file list is possible. 5. A warning is given if or is used to exit PGV. is still immediate. 6. Improvements in positioning of print in stretch mode. 7. Ability to save digital camera (Exif) data when saving JPEG files. 8. ZAAP (ZTreeWin Assistant Application Program) functionality to interact with ZTreeWin (after version 1.49.1). Initially this will allow a thumbnail to be displayed if ZTreeWin points to a file readable by PGV. 9. Crop Aspect Ratio to crop to 3:2 for printing on standard 6"*4" postcard paper. 10. Minor enhancements to crop dialogue box. 11. The open file path name can now be changed to saved path (Set in PGV.INI). 12. Toggle cursor on or off with the comma key (,). 13. User can now hide banner, menu and borders etc in SlideShow and NextFile modes. 14. Wheel Mouse support added for SlideShow and vertical scroll. 15. PGV.INI now saves user configuration. 16. Set crop aspect ratio. 17. Remember last file viewed. 18. SaveAs directory is last viewed directory or user defined. 19. Add a flag to force PGV to read images in the order presented in a list file (*.lst). 20. Add a setup menu. 21. Allow Exif data to be written to JPEG files in batch mode. 22. Update to PGV setup program to Inno version 4.2.1. 23. Substantially improved help file. Fixes include: 1. Continue processing animated GIF if faulty frame found. 2. Fixed GUI problems in thumbnail setup dialogue box. 3. Fixed file list bug. 4. Fixed bug in error reporting with very long filenames. 5. Error when pasting images captured via printscreen. 6. Fixed palette fault on obscure 5 bit per pixel TIFF files. 7. Image info fault in TIFF files and screen capture fixed. 8. Fixed bug in writing GIF files. 9. Cropping now works on single frames of animated GIF files. 10. SlideShow stuck on first picture if reset to beginning. 11. Fix bug in date of image. 12. Fix incorrect starting at second file in .LST file. 13. Warning messages no longer interrupt SlideShow. 14. Fix SaveAs file from externally pasted image. 15. Fix crash when 'System Information' key hit during SlideShow. 16. More GIF fixes. 17. Filename corruption in SaveAs operation. 18. Fixed bug in resize from command line. 19. Removed duplicate mnemonics in menus. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.02 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.02 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 25th of January 2003. Enhancements: 1. Updated PGV.INI. 2. New simplified setup. 3. Uninstall. 4. Set file associations for extensions used by PGV. 5. Display animated GIF frames on or off. 6. Display any extended digital camera information found in JPEG files. 7. Add option to crop to move or resize the selection region. Fixes include: 1. Fixed bug in Paste to PGV from clipboard if PrintScreen used. 2. Restart GIF animation if flag changed in GIF animation dialogue. 3. Minor bug fixed in GIF animation dialogue box. 4. Fix ResizeTo bug in batch processing. 5. Fix inconsistency in order forms. 6. Fix path problems with SaveAs option. 7. Fix TIFF CCITT FAX3 and FAX4 format files. 8. Crash in some operations performed on captured screens. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.01 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.01 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 23rd of March 2002. Enhancements: 1. Contrast and brightness added. 2. Resume GIF animation from single step mode. 3. User defined filters added to batch processing. 4. Multiple levels of Undo and Redo added to certain operations. 5. Added crop to full screen zoom modes. 6. Resize without maintaining aspect ratio. Fixes include: 1. Setup sometimes installed PGV.INI with the read-only flag set. 2. Finally all known bugs in GIF animation files are fixed. 3. Refresh preview screen if covered. 4. Setup sometimes had faulty source file path. 5. Undo, redo now reset if changing size or cropping image. 6. Correct functioning of Thumbnails, Mosaic and Get Pixel Colour if scrolling. 7. Fixed minor sizing bug when "Full Screen if Big" is used. 8. Fixed minimum print margin. 9. Improved default view in PGV.INI plus other cleanups. 10. Fixed some cropping errors. 11. Fixed mosaic errors for many zoom modes. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 4.0 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 4.0 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 26th of October 2001. Enhancements: 1. Added 24 bit true colour ICON support. 2. Added full screen view option to only display full screen if bigger than available screen. 3. Copy current image to wallpaper facility added. 4. Default file open is all supported types. 5. User defined Gamma Correction. 6. Preview window Gamma, user defined Gamma, HSV, colour adjust and monochrome. 7. Copy hex RGB value for any pixel. 8. Improved setup program. Fixes include: 1. Fixed WORD alignment problem in 16 bit BMP files. 2. Restored GIF animation frame display. Lost in 3.18c 3. Fixed unable to read opening bitmap with space in filename. 4. Fixed icon write size. 5. Fixed crash in building ThumbNails if file error. 6. Fixed SlideShow sometimes went in reverse order. 7. PGV Searches all possible known locations for registration key. 8. Bug fixes in setup.exe. 9. Quotes " are now stripped from filenames. 10. Fixed missing marker error message in JPEG file. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.18 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.18 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 3rd of April 2001. Enhancements: 1. Looks for PGV.INI in same directory as PGV.EXE if not found under Windows directory. 2. Allow SlideShow sort order default to be changed in PGV.INI. 3. Installation program added: SETUP.EXE. Setup will update PGV.INI and preserve all the settings including the registration key. 4. Variable ThumbNail size and ThumbNail sheet size to allow more versatile thumbnail sheets and to format for printing a number of images on one page. 5. Upgraded PNG to version 1.0.8 and ZLib to version 1.1.3. 6. Added BMP, 16 bits per pixel, bit fields compression type. 7. Set up Thumbnail Sheet to match printer paper. 8. Display number of ThumbNails generated in caption bar. Fixes include: 1. Removed a bug in SlideShow when run from a FileList. 2. SlideShow and ViewNextFile now start at the first file in the list. 3. Corruption of filename for Icon build. 4. Scroll bars lost if DefaultView=B and other view options selected. 5. Don't get printer info each thumbnail sheet. 6. Missing '\' in path for ZTreeWin in Setup program fixed. 7. Incorrect filenames entered into subsequent ThumbNail sheets if more than one sheet. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.17 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.17 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 17th of September 2000. Enhancements: 1. Batch file processing using command line arguments. 2. Wild cards added to command line processing. 3. Colour Depth added to command line processing. 4. Zoom % displayed if viewing width is not 100%. 5. Animated Cursors can now be viewed. 6. Default view can be setup in PGV.INI. 7. TIFF files: CCITT FAX and RLE can now be viewed. 8. Warning messages are off by default but can be turned on in PGV.INI. 9. CMYK colour space in TIFF and JPEG images now work. 10. Random sequence has been added to ViewNextFile and SlideShow. 11. Crosshairs to assist cropping. Fixes include: 1. BigEndian (Motorola) TIFF files now work. 2. Error messages in batch mode are written to stdout. 3. Picture restored correctly if cancelling out of crop. 4. Fixed PGV Icon generation crash when file opened from command line. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.16 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.16 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 28th of May 2000. Enhancements: 1. Finally Thumbnails have been added. Including ThumbNail sheets. 2. Write PNG files. 3. Improve resize dialogue box to allow size, height or width to be varied. 4. Full path can be printed in the filename label. 5. Upgraded PNG Library from v1.0.1 to v1.0.5. 6. Upgraded ZLIB Library from v1.1.2 to v1.1.3. 7. File specification for FileOpen now shows "supported files" as well as "all files". 8. More information on System Resources and File Info (right button click). 9. Batch file processing using the .lst file. Fixes include: 1. Use floating point arithmetic to improve resize interpolation. 2. All 32 bit per pixel files now transform, filter and rotate correctly. 3. More PNG fixes for Alpha Channel files. 4. Another minor GIF animation bug fixed. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.15 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.15 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 20th of February 2000. Enhancements: 1. Add view previous file, view 5th file, view file back 5 files. 2. Sort files alphabetically or on file extension. Reverse sort available. 3. Add user defined filespec for load next file Fixes include: 1. Fix crash if file list is an empty file. 2. Very long filenames are no longer corrupted if SaveAs used. 3. Help automatically closes on exit. 4. Help file points to contents, not index when first opened. 5. Bug in interlaced PNG files fixed. 6. The 32 bit PNG files now display correctly. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.14 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.14 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 25th of October 1999. Enhancements: 1. Single step through GIF animated files. 2. Filter on individual colour channels (R, G, B). 3. Compressed executable to reduce PGV.EXE filesize. 4. Add Cursor files and the ability to display the 'Hot Spot'. 5. Add memory status display. 6. Turn all types on or off for SlideShow. 7. New Help File format. Fixes include: 1. Flicker removed from some animated GIF files. 2. Other cleanups on GIF animation. 3. Improved filter arithmetic. 4. ClipBoard paste now works for non-true colour images. 5. Fix display of monochrome ICON files. 6. Bug when cropping a zoomed image. 7. Characters such as % in filename now accepted OK. 8. Search for PGV.INI in Windows directory first. 9. SaveAs BMP from captured screen failure fixed. 10. Fixed ICON generation if cropping beyond edge of image. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.13 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.13 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 26th of July 1999. Enhancements: Fixes include: 1. Nasty Crash when making ICON from an animated GIF. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.12 =================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.12 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 18th of July 1999. Enhancements: 1. PGV now generates ICO files from images. 2. Resize by fractional values. 3. Several new print options. 4. GIF Animation now runs continuously until another image is required. Fixes include: 1. Gamma Correction greyed out for opening bitmap. 2. BMP write fix for 16 colour files. 3. Label fixed after quantisation and crop. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.11 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.11 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 14th of June 1999. Enhancements: 1. PGV SlideShow can now be started from script commands in the *.lst file. 2. PGV.INI allows setting of the default JPEG Save quality. 3. Transform an image or part of an image to a mosaic. 4. Change Colour Depth to 2, 16, 256 Colours. Floyd-Stienberg, Diffuse Floyd and Bayer dithering available 5. Save BMP files in 2, 16, 256 or True Colour modes. 6. Save TGA files in 256 or True Colour modes. 7. Save GIF files in 2, 16 or 256 Colour modes. Note that no LZW encoding is used and PGV GIF write does not infringe the Unisys patent. The files are not compressed but can be read by any GIF viewer. 8. Gamma Correction using SIN, TAN and Power functions. Fixes include: 1. Another small memory leak fixed. 2. Small images now appear correctly (WINDOWS NT and 98). 3. SaveAs now always selects correct extension (I hope). 4. Minor GIF read bug fixed. 5. JPEG marker 0x46 now handled. 6. Most RLE4 files now load correctly and can be filtered etc. 7. PGV will now work with 256 and 16 colour video modes. (Also monochrome but as yet untested). 8. GreyScale Targa files now display correctly. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.10 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.10 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 5th of April 1999. Enhancements: 1. Upgraded JPEG library to version 6.2b 2. Allow Hue, Saturation, Value type colour adjustment 3. Additional batch files for generating ASCII file lists. Fixes include: 1. Fix cropping problems if image zoomed or scrolled. 2. Allow screen capture and image pasting during opening bitmap. 3. Fix fault if capture during opening bitmap. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.9 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.9 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 31st of January 1999. Enhancements: 1. Resize images with linear interpolation between pixels. 2. Crop image. 3. Rotate image through 90, 180, 270 degrees. 4. Improved Menu layout. 5. Accelerator keys added for Clipboard support. 6. Screen capture to PGV. 7. Several improvements to GIF animation. Fixes include: 1. Fix a variable allocation problem. 2. Fix palette handling for filters when used in 256 colour modes. 3. Fix full screen handling bug. 4. Fix crash when trying to manipulate opening screen. 5. Fix GIF file header validation bug. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.8 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.8 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 16th of September 1998. Enhancements: 1. PGV can be driven by a file list which can be invoked as a slide show or manually. This is excellent for presentations and for the SlideShow option. 2. A batch file to generate file lists for PGV has been added. 3. Registration from within Australia ORDER_AU.FRM has been added. Fixes include: 1. Restore palette when 256 colour mode used. 2. Fix a problem with SaveAs saving as a BMP instead of JPG file. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.7 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.7 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 11th of August 1998. Enhancements: 1. Filters now work on all bit levels: 1, 4, 8, 24 bits per pixel. 2. Add accelerator keys for some common filters. 3. Improved GIF animation. Fixes include: 1. Fix non-true colour pictures being displayed on some video cards in true colour mode (32 bit). 2. Fix a couple of memory leaks. 3. Fix cancel in JPEG write quality dialogue box. 4. Disable BMP RLE4 filter and transforms. 5. Remove scroll bars when view next file in full screen mode. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.6 ================================== Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.6 contains new facilities and bug fixes and was released on 11th of July 1998. Enhancements: 1. Added the picture format Portable Network Graphics or PNG. Fixes include: 1. Fix bug in View Next File option. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.5 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.5 contains new facilities and bug fixes: This version was released on 3rd of May 1998. Enhancements: 1. Upgrade JPEG to V6.1. This allows reading of progressive huffman encoded files. 2. SaveAs now supports JPEG for saving pictures. 3. Several ICON files now work including 256 colour and a variety of sizes. 4. GIF file animation can now be displayed a specified number of times. 5. JPEG files with the extension JPEG are now accepted by PGV. 6. Long filenames passed in as an argument now handles correctly. Note that ZTreeWin uses %2 in batch files to give a long filename. 7. Control of GIF animation defaults are now in PGV.INI. Fixes include: 1. Nasty bug caused by very long filenames writing past end of filename buffer. 2. Local colour maps now supported in GIF files. 3. Escape key now works on file open abort confirmation. 4. Fix palette crashes which occur after 150 palette based files viewed. 5. PGV.INI will now be found under windows no matter what the directory name is. It will also search the path as pointed to by the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT. 6. GIF images with no global colour map are now displayed correctly. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.4 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.4 contains mainly bug fixes to PGV.INI. This version was released on 22nd of February 1998. Enhancements: 1. Add a fit to screen viewing option. Fixes include: 1. PGV correctly displays *.ICO for extension=*.ICO in PGV.INI. 2. OpeningBitmap=none in PGV.INI now allows registration key to work and allows extension= to work. 3. Default file type in PGV.INI not splattered by new OpeningBitmap file type. 4. Remove scroll bars from full screen slide show. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.3 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.3 contains more enhancements. This pre-Christmas version was released on 9th of December 1997. Enhancements: 1. Eight bit files can now be filtered. 2. Slide Show now allows pictures to be displayed full screen. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.2 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.2 contains bug fixes and more enhancements. This version was released on 20th of October 1997. Enhancements: 1. Printing of pictures. 2. Slide Show including file mask and view delay options. 3. View first/next file. 4. Flip vertically or horizontally. 5. Maximum width of a picture is now only limited by memory. 6. RLE Windows compressed bitmaps added. 7. Colour options now work for 1 and 4 bit colour files. 8. A default extension can be set up in PGV.INI. Fixes include: 1. Colour scroll bars go up for increasing colour. 2. RLE file problems fixed. 3. TIFF palette problems fixed. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 3.1 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 3.1e contains bug fixes and more enhancements. This version was released on 13th of September 1997. Enhancements: 1. Paul's Graphics Viewer is now a full 32 bit application. Long filenames are fully supported. 2. Copy and paste to and from clipboard. 3. LZW TIFF files now supported. 4. Maximum width of a picture is now 2400 pixels. 5. 32 bit colour files now supported. Fixes include: 1. The picture remains where it is moved when reloaded. 2. Inappropriate menu options greyed out. 3. TIFF greyscale fixed 4. Memory leaks identified and fixed. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 2.3 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 2.3f contains bug fixes and more enhancements. This version was released on 18th of August 1997. Company Logo or whatever. 2. Registration is now done via a key removing the need to ship software. 3. Palette used for 24 bit colours in 256 colour displays. Fixes include: 1. Palette fixes for TIFF files. 2. If file not found - bug. Fixed. 3. Old file now stays until new one loaded. 4. Filters now work on JPEG when displayed in 256 colour modes. 5. OK / Cancel buttons work from User Defined Filters. 6. Version 2 JPEGs now work (all seen so far). Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 2.2 ================================= Paul's Graphic Viewer version 2.2b contains bug fixes and a couple of enhancements. This version was released on 12th of May 1997. Enhancements: 1. A new 'Aussie' opening screen. 2. Percentage of file load displayed. 3. Compressed BMP files are now displayed. Fixes include: 1. 'Save as' options only show BMP as a valid format. 2. 'Save as' on some 4 bit pictures could not be viewed. 3. 'Save as' had pictures shifted by 1/3 of width. 4. BMP loading bug if data offset from palette. 5. JPEG GPF when some files were displayed using 256 colour drivers. Paul's Graphic Viewer Version 2.1 ================================= Version 2.1c was the first commercial release of Paul's Graphic Viewer on 8th of April 1997.