Simple Comic Changelog

What's new in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 252

Apr 7, 2010
  • 64bit
  • New icon courtesy of Martin Andersson
  • Redesigned User Interface:
  • Customizable toolbar
  • Dock style, auto-hiding fullscreen bezel
  • Simplified preferences
  • Quicklook plugin for cbz and cbr files
  • Create and soft crop thumbnail icons for cbz,zip,cbr, and rar archives
  • Extract individual pages
  • Option to open nested archives
  • Can view text release notes (.txt, .nfo, .info)
  • Many

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 251 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • Release Candidate 3
  • Fixed problem with set page as icon
  • Fixed extract page command
  • Changed window re-size code
  • Text documents now wrap text
  • Now gives enough vertical space for text documents

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 246 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • Release Candidate 2
  • Fixed issues with Leopard users
  • Fixed loupe resizing with a scroll-wheel
  • Fullscreen window can no longer be resized
  • Improved page turn experience for scroll-wheel users
  • Fixed various bugs with the page selection interfaces
  • Changed window auto-resize to keep height static
  • Improved the Jump to Page UI

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 243 (Mar 12, 2010)

  • Release Candidate
  • Fixed issue where Set Page as Icon command had irregular behavior when selected from the menu
  • Added document UTIs for ComicBookLover and Springy to fix Quicklook for some users
  • Fixed page order button in the fullscreen bezel

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 241 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • Nested folders and archives now work with auto-save
  • Close window command works while the fullscreen bezel is visible
  • White border no longer appears around the progress bar at times
  • Toolbar items now have tooltips
  • Exit fullscreen button on the fullscreen bezel now works

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 238 (Nov 30, 2009)

  • 64bit
  • Lower profile user interface
  • Three finger swipe moves between pages
  • [Bugfix] Moving between spaces and toggling fullscreen now works better

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 233 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • Text pages are now treated differently from images.
  • Cropping is now possible during quicklook page selection.
  • Create icons for archives that are not quicklook compatible.
  • Added cb7 to the list of supported file formats.
  • New help document.
  • Text files are now viewable outside of archives.
  • [Bugfix] Pageup and shift spacebar now scroll to the correct location.
  • [Bugfix] Missing rotate left keyboard shortcut. Loupe shortcut is now command U again.
  • [Bugfix] Disabled rotation while in page selection mode.
  • [Bugfix] Disabled ability to set text pages as icons.
  • [Bugfix] Adding a toolbar item now works more consistently.
  • [Bugfix] Fixed error with filename encoding.

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 223 / 1.6.1 (Jul 27, 2009)

  • Page removal now uses selection interface.
  • Quicklook thumbnail rendering now much faster for large archives.
  • Toggling toolbar properly re-sizes the page view.
  • Fixed various problems with filename encoding.
  • Page turn menu and toolbar items disable when user is at the beginning or end of a session.
  • Removed the nested archive option from the advanced preferences pane.
  • Improved tab stop support for text rendering.

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 220 / 1.6.1 (Jul 6, 2009)

  • Page capture/extraction command added
  • More accurate interface for icon selection command added
  • Toolbar items for page capture and icon selection added
  • Loupe now hides when window is not frontmost

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 217 (Jun 7, 2009)

  • New XADMaster archive handling framework.
  • List of supported archive formats has been streamlined (zip/cbz, rar/cbr, 7zip, lha).
  • Archives now open faster.
  • Solid RARs and 7zip archives are now much faster.
  • Removed page turn delay associated with arrow keys when scrollbars are disabled.
  • Page-up/down now scrolls horizontally upon hitting vertical page limits.
  • Added vertical scroll-wheel support for page turns.
  • Fixed bug where the open file dialog could only open archives and folders.
  • Text file reading is no longer limited to archives.
  • Enclosing folders now affect page sort order.
  • Loupe size can now be changed by holding option+shift+scroll-wheel instead of relying on the availability of a horizontal scroll wheel.
  • Removed the keyboard shortcut prefs pane. Redundant due to keyboard system prefs.
  • Size of app has decreased.

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 211 (Apr 1, 2009)

  • Return of loose image support
  • New document icons that better reflect the application icon
  • Text reading is now monospace for ascii art
  • Changing the size and power of the loupe is now smoother
  • Fixed dragging of files into an existing session
  • Fixed various minor graphical glitches

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 208 (Feb 16, 2009)

  • Fixed a nasty bug where deleting an archive could cause SC to hang on launch
  • Properly ignores hidden files starting with a period
  • UTI changes
  • Compiled with 64bit support

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 206 (Dec 15, 2008)

  • Added ability to view text release notes (.txt, .nfo, .info)
  • Fixed bugs with "Jump to Page" modal
  • Fixed bugs with progress bar
  • Better quicklook support for users of Betterzip and Zipeg
  • Partial return of loose image handling. Directories of images now open.

New in Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 202 (Oct 13, 2008)

  • Much improved and simplified preferences
  • New icon courtesy of Martin Andersson
  • New auto hiding, dock style fullscreen bezel
  • Under the hood changes for future bookmarking system
  • Improved quicklook thumbnail generation speed
  • Ability to select which page is used by quicklook for the thumbnail
  • Regression: Loose images are not currently compatible with Simple Comic

New in Simple Comic 1.6.1 (Nov 14, 2007)

  • Fixes to French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, German and Tradition Chinese localizations
  • Added Simplified Chinese localization
  • Added a "Jump to Page" menu item. Shortcut is enter
  • Added pref that allows users to disable the fullscreen page name bezel
  • Background color of sessions now immediately reflect changes in the preferences
  • Fixed crash bug where closing a window too soon after opening an archive crashes the app
  • Fixed bug where window could resize below minimum size when auto-sizing

New in Simple Comic 1.5.4 (Oct 22, 2007)

  • Fixes to all non-english localizations
  • Fixed issue with fullscreen thumbnail view

New in Simple Comic 1.5.3 (Oct 20, 2007)

  • Added Italian Localization
  • Fixed intermittent crash when closing newly opened windows
  • Fixed crashes related to incorrect password input on protected archives.
  • Page up/down now causes page turns
  • Speed up in archive loading speed
  • Added hidden pref to disable session saving
  • Added hidden pref that enables access to beta builds

New in Simple Comic 1.5.2 (Oct 6, 2007)

  • Fixes to Korean localization
  • Fixed bug where directories within archives were not respected during page sorting.
  • Fixed crash bug with certain PNGs
  • Fixed bug where turning the page with the spacebar in "original size" scaling mode could result in the wrong page being centered in the scrollview
  • Added file representation icon to title bar
  • Fixed a bug where the last page was not displayed in expos� mode
  • Fixed bug that caused pages that where smaller than the window to not scale up when "Constrain image size" was unchecked

New in Simple Comic 1.5.1 (Sep 28, 2007)

  • Fixes to Japanese localization
  • Added Korean localization
  • Added Portuguese localization
  • Bug fixes

New in Simple Comic 1.5 (Sep 20, 2007)

  • Introduced full screen thumbnail view
  • Added image loupe
  • German localization
  • Bug fixes