What's new in PubCoder 1.4.0.2.117
Dec 27, 2014
- Import images from the Noun Project:
- Search among thousands of creative commons and public domain icons in the Noun Project and download them into your project, without leaving PubCoder!
- Support for SVG, GIF and PDF:
- You can now insert images as SVG, GIF and PDF format.
- New Objects: Counter, Button and Ellipse:
- Keep trace of the user interections by increasing a counter object and trigger a sequence of actions the target value is reached. Easily insert buttons with formatted text. Design vectorial ellipses directly on the stage.
- One Click Android SDK install:
- Android SDK is now automatically downloaded and installed upon creation of first Android app.
- Add CSS Classes:
- New “CSS Classes” property to add user custom CSS classes to any object
- Easily identify the objects in your layout:
- Moving the mouse over the stage highlights the bounds of the object underneath and displays its name near the mouse coordinates
- New Objects Panel:
- New objects panel divided in Basic Objects, Widgets and description below of each object.
- New Actions Panel:
- Allows a quicker look at all events that are bound to an object and makes switching easier between them
- New Actions: Run Javascript, Switch Text:
- Allows advanced users to execute custom code as a PubCoder action
- Improved Quick Preview:
- New thumbnails and debugger panels
- Color Overlay:
- Quickly give color to your images, without modifying the original asset
- Improved EPUB Validation:
- Better explanation and localization of errors, both in your project and in the generated code of your publication. Improved feedbacks when something goes wrong while building your Android App.
- Many other minor User Experience improvements.
- Improvements in iOS and Android Apps:
- Lots of improvements for readers too! When readers use your app made with PubCoder they can now:
- Search the contents of your app and quickly jump to pages containing results
- Display the Table of Contents of your publication.
- Optionally view links to remote web pages inside the app without leaving it.
New in PubCoder 1.2 (Oct 6, 2014)
- iOS App Export:
- Export your eBook as native iOS App and distribute your content through App Store.
- An iOS native app supports Retina and Retina HD displays, multiple formats (e.g. optimized for the screen size of iPad and iPhone and iPhone 6 Plus), localized contents, different contents for portrait/landscape orientations or facing pages in landscape mode.
- Improved Android App Export:
- Like the new iOS export, now also supports multi-format, multi-language and portrait/landscape contents plus facing pages in landscape.
- High-Definition displays support:
- PubCoder now allows Pixels Density control for your outputs, so your contents will shine on Apple Retina and Android xxhdpi displays.
- Faster Project Export:
- PubCoder is now capable of unleashing the power of all the cores of the processor of your computer, resulting in dramatically reduced time to export your project.
- Cascading Format Workspaces:
- A format workspace can now be based on any other format workspace in your project, inheriting all of its custom contents
- Added Italian Localization:
- (Ciao MAMMA!) More localizations coming soon.
- Many other improvements and (some) bug fixes:
- We did a lot of work under the hood to improve both the authoring tool and the exports: faster undo/redo and project loading, better editing in external applications, improved publishing issues report, content scrolling with inertia, UI tweaks and a lot more.
New in PubCoder 1.1 (Aug 6, 2014)
- Now with new Code Editor with draggable assets, objects and more code snippets.
- Quiz editor and coloring game widget.
- Include assets in package from the assets panel
- Improved Text Editor insert images, internal links, choose color from color picker.Float-Left, Float-Right, Vertical-Align-Middle, Add-Margin styles
- New Color Picker with support for transparent colors, recent colors and project-level favorite colors
- New Read Aloud Style to allow even more customization for Read Aloud highlighting
- Many more UI, stability and performance improvements
New in PubCoder 1.0 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Offline mode
- Kindle Region Magnification (Pop-Ups) to enlarge and zoom specific content at touch
- Google Fonts Browser and Importer
- Download preview using QR code
- Support for preview in AZARDI and Firefox
- Support for Web Inspector in Quick Preview
- Text Editor, various improvements and fixes
- Kindle Compiler: All images are converted in JPEG format with user-defined quality, background image created only if needed, check image filesize limit (5 Mbyte)
- Various User Interface Improvements and bugfixes