Release History

• fixed problem where the top of page description text would revert to its default text if emptied
• fixed problem with pictures opened in separate non-HTML windows so the scroll bars will not be turned on
• added support for iPhoto Library Manager when locating album information for importing from iPhoto
• fixed problem with inconsistent handling of the UI for output image size
• fixed problem where some movie files where not getting copied to the output folder
• removed 'full size image' links from individual movie pages, does not apply because movies don't get resized
• added standard font group choices to the font popup menus
• fixed problem where the rotation buttons where not initially available
• added image watermark feature to provide more capable image marking functionality
• added smooth mouse wheel scrolling support to picture windows
• added background image repeat (tiling) control
• fixed problem where image file name extensions were always lower case (even when the preference was turned off)
• fixed problem where caption text was not being imported from image files (even when the preference was turned on)
• changed the build process to re-use the current build folder if it is available
• added the Build in Different Folder command to allow selecting a new folder to build into
• fixed problem when trying to launch Camino to preview pages after building
• added CSS class to img tags on individual picture pages to allow customization via styles
• fixed a problem where image files with long names could fail to work in auto-advance slide shows
• fixed a problem where image size in the HTML tag was (way) wrong on individual picture pages
• fixed a problem where image files with invalid/unknown creation dates showed Jan 1, 1904

• added support for Growl notification at completion of web page build (OS X only when Growl is installed)
• fixed problem where the creation date text displayed was not propoer for non-English locales
• fixed problem where the picture files where not properly copied to the output folder when using 'Use orginal images'
• added preferences support for Camino and Firefox browsers
• modified the link (anchor) style to use underline when the mouse hovers over them
• changed navigation separators from vertical bars to bullets
• turned off 'Keep all rows the same height' by default - removes vertical white space
• moved the top and bottom description text inside a table row to constrain it horizontally
• changed UI for picture list columns to resize based on window width - gives more room for display of long file names
• added color for 'disabled' link text - used for page/picture links that are unavailable on a given page
• keeping web page build state to allow much faster subsequent rebuilds of the pages for an existing document
• added release date to What's New section of web page
• fixed problem where the New Window option in the Insert Web Link command created bad HTML code
• added support for Mozilla prefetching of the next picture (see here for details)
• modified the WebPics UTI to be true reverse-DNS form: 'com.splons.m3.WebPics'
• added WebPics document UTI declaration to support Spotlight meta data importer
• created a Spotlight meta data importer for Mac OS X version of WebPics
• modified auto-advance slideshows to wrap from last picture back to first (instead of returning to the gallery)
• improved the opening of old documents when the picture files they reference have moved
• change to display (scrolling the list as necessary) the last picture after a group add
• fixed problem where the order of pictures added via the Add Pictures button was sometimes random
• changed Launch Web Page command in File menu to Preview Web Page to be more consistent, shortcut changed to Cmd-P
• fixed the character encodings for the ellipsis, en dash and em dash
• removed the red WebPics logo from the bottom of the document window - time for a cleaner look!
• added preference to control importing captions from image files (iPhoto imports also)
• enhanced the iPhoto import logic to avoid importing captions that are the file name (without the extension)
• cleanedup the iPhoto import user interface, added scroll wheel support to album name list

• fixed problem where only the first selected picture was rotated
• fixed problems with JavaScript by removing apostrophe characters from file names
• fixed missing initialization for HTML file line endings
• added slide show auto advance feature
• fixed problem with background image files that were already in the build folder
• added reverse direction sorting for Sort Pictures menu item
• added new advanced field for CSS code to be added to Styles.css file
• added support to resolve an alias for the iPhoto Library folder
• added support for MPEG4 and 3GP movie file formats
• fixed movie link generation to have accurate movie dimensions
• added 'Reveal Picture File in Finder' command
• added full size picture link text field
• added control over image copyright location
• added 'Starting Point' feature for saving initial document settings
• reorganized centering tag on picture pages for better compatibility with older browsers
• added features to auto-insert web and email links in text fields

• added support for toggling the use check mark with the space bar
• fixed the select background image dialog to allow selecting any JPEG or GIF
• fixed problem with dropping movie files without type information into the picture list
• cleaned up the field labels in the Preferences to be more clear
• improved the handling of corrupt image files during the web page building process
• cleanup of main window graphics for 10.3
• added line ending choice support
• remove some vertical space on individual picture pages
• fixed problem where the document file could not be found for save
• fixed problem with JPEGs from Photoshop CS were not loading correctly
• fixed crashing problem with some iPhoto albums
• fixed problem with captions on photos imported from iPhoto

• fixed bug with iPhoto album names that did not show in the list
• added support for viewing full size original pictures
• added support for importing Photoshop caption information
• added option to turn off lowercasing of file names
• added option to remove spaces from file names
• transition to eSellerate generated serial numbers
• fixed a bug with background image files that have long names
• worked around a problem with Safari 1.0 and background images
• fixed and improved caption import from iPhoto
• added default guide text to top description field
• added 'updated on' date option for bottom of gallery pages
• added control over thumbnail row height uniformity
• adjusted the individual photo window size for Safari
• added support for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image file type
• cleaned up caption and thumbnail positioning on gallery pages

• fixed a problem with Check For Updates where it sometimes displayed extra characters in the latest version field
• fixed a crashing problem in iPhoto import feature (Carbon/Mac OS X version only)

• added new iPhoto album import feature (iPhoto 2.0 or later required)
• added multipage title text editing capability
• modified the vertical alignment of photos and captions for better readability
• changed to use sheet-based standard file dialogs on Mac OS X

• fixed support for Netscape (Chimera) browser on Mac OS X
• added support for Apple's Safari browser
• added 'Use original images' choice in the Output tab
• added support for original picture creation date from EXIF data
• added support to preserve EXIF data in generated photo files

• completed AppleScript support
• fixed a bug that resulted in no links at the bottom of the last picture page
• added control for navigation link location (top/bottom/both)
• fixed a bug that caused the serif/sans-serif/monospace font selections not to work
• modified to not generate extra bottom margin whitespace when the body end advanced field is used
• fixed a problem with table data tags for thumbnails not quoting their sizes properly
• added ability to search for missing pictures when opening documents
• modified to remove any '/' characters from picture file names

• added home/prev/next/page links above thumbnails in gallery pages
• fixed the FTP file copy feature to work with 10.x and 9.2
• added 'No captions on thumbs' feature
• enhanced the caption editing area with a smaller font and more lines of text
• added Check for Updates to check current release version of WebPics
• modified link for clicking on last individual picture to return to gallery
• added support for AVI movies
• modified to save last selected output folder for each document
• fixed a bug in scroll wheel support - it should always work now
• began adding AppleScript scripting support (more to come)
• fixed a problem where the main window obscured the enter registration code dialog
• fixed a problem where '- page 2' was displayed when the title field was empty
• modified to allow full anchor tag in the home page field of the preferences

• added support for MPEG movie files with extension .mpeg
• fixed crash that occurred with cmd-arrow keys while caption editing
• added typing keys for quoting characters in documentation
• added better support for special characters (' " &) in file names
• fixed problem where changing the copyright text did not cause the image files to be regenerated
• fixed problem when dropping an empty folder on the picture list
• fixed problem so that files dropped into picture list are sorted alphabetically
• added home page link feature for gallery pages
• temporarily disabled the FTP transfer feature

• using the image quality setting for thumbnail quality also
• fixed bug where break tags where being generated in XHTML style
• moved to Cascading Style Sheets for all style information
• added link hover (roll over) color control
• changed to use the title field on individual pictures pages
• added gallery page count display in the Thumbnails tab
• added support for using PhotoShop documents
• added support for using MPEG movies
• fixed crash bug when closing movie preview windows
• added keyboard control for movie preivew windows
• added support text overlay on generated image files (typically used for copyright information)
• added clicking on individual page picture links to next picture

• modified sorting of files in added folders to match Finder list name sorting
• fixed a corner case bug where the index.html file did not get created
• updated the about box art copyright
• remove breaks <br> from between title and description text
• modified to convert returns in description text to breaks <br>
• modified to use caption text settings for file name, size and creation date
• cleaned up drawing of file name, size and creation date in the preview area
• fixed problem where GIF files were being converted to JPEG when it was not needed
• added Advanced Fields feature for doing a number of advanced things to the generated HTML
• added support for generating XHTML 1.0 Transitional code (not currently used)
• added support for the 'ø' character (&oslash;)
• added an even smaller thumbnail size - 'Tiny' is now 32 pixels
• the combination of 'open in a new browser window' and not 'make HTML page for each picture' now opens the pictures in a window without all the browser controls
• changed HTML version to 4.01 Transitional for Java 'onclick' support

• changed message box facility to use StandardAlert
• fixed bug so that caption and title font selections are used in picture pages
• added support for image quality setting
• migrated web pages for use on Server Central and eSellerate
• fixed problems with multiple selection and drag re-ordering
• increase maximum thumbnails per row to 10

• added support for multiple selection in the picture list
• fixed bug where thumbs per page UI was not setup correctly when opening a document
• added support for previewing in OmniWeb (in Mac OS X)
• cleaned up file type/creator settings on Mac OS X
• changed Use All Pictures and Use No Pictures menu items to Use Selected Pictures and Don't Use Selected Pictures that operate on the selection
• fixed bug that prevented the background image from being used on the individual picture pages
• moved carbon builds into executable bundles
• added support for Image Capture sending pictures directly to WebPics
• picture caption now displayed above picture in individual picture windows
• added Window menu for Mac OS X
• made main window a bit wider
• fixed a bug so that quoted HTML now works in the title
• change Make Web Page to Build Web Page and the short cut to B to avoid the conflict with Window/Minimize using M
• added proxy icon to document window title bar
• added Open Recent item to File menu for re-opening documents

• added support for fixed (non-scrolling) background images
• fixed bug in undo for remove all pictures
• modified 'return to gallery' links to have anchor name for better positioning of the gallery page at the corresponding thumbnail
• fixed bug that kept the maximum picture file size constraint from working
• improved the missing picture file handling considerably
• added low memory handling facility
• modified link text and title fields to support quoting features
• set title from dropped folder (if not title yet)
• put in support for opening pictures in a new browser window
• moved picture and picture HTML files into 'pictures' folder
• renamed 'webpicsthumbnails' to 'thumbnails'
• added direct gallery page links for multi-page galleries
• added support for embedding QT movies in Windows IE 5.5 SP2 and 6.0
• added Set Text Styles to set all text attributes at once

• added support for skipping pictures/thumbs that are already built
• added support for embedded movies in generated HTML pages (thanks Rick)
• added prev/return/next links above picture on pages
• changed to use extension from index page on all html pages
• added active link color setting to graphics tab
• added warning for bad maximum image size or image scale percent
• added support for displaying image creation date
• changed sorting option from mod date to creation date
• added Use All Pictures and Use No Pictures item to Edit menu

• started adding long file name support for Mac OS X
• more Mac OS X text drawing support
• added Sort Pictures menu item
• added mono-spaced meta font choice
• Remove All Pictures is now undoable
• fixed problem where 'serif' and 'sans-serif' where reversed
• fixed problem where the file name would over write the caption

• fixed bug for dropping pictures into picture list
• cleaned up the picture list high lighting

• added support for virtually all accented characters
• added facility to edit previous/next picture link text
• added facility to edit gallery page link text
• added facility to edit previous/next page link text
• added initial font choice support for title, descriptions and captions
• all text drawing in Mac OS X now CG/anti-aliased
• changed all generated HTML tags to lower case

• stopped using Installer VISE Lite
• added resources to aid save/open dialogs

• turned on the stationery aware bits in the SIZE resource
• fixed problems in building movie thumbnails

• even better support for picture files based on file name extension
• added support for folder drops in Mac OS X

• fixed build problem with 2.2.1 (hard dependence on KeyChainLib and URLAccessLib)

• added support for picture files based on file name extension
• fixed a bug that sometimes occured when a folder was dropped on the picture list

• Carbonized build to run native under Mac OS X

• modified main window to be resizable
• minor cleanups

• the first public release of WebPics

• version 1.0 of WebPics was never released to the world...