What's new in QPix 3.6.2
Jul 27, 2012
- Compatibility with 4Dv13.
New in QPix 3.5.7 (Jan 12, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- The plug-in area now can operate in compositing windows (Mac).
- Improved threaded operation of certain TWAIN drivers (Mac).
- Bug fixes:
- Workaround to a 4Dv12 bug (fixed in 12.1) that prevented the display of video in the video acquisition dialog.
- Workaround to a Quickime bug where rotation of grayscale images by +-90 degrees would fail.
- Minor licensing fixes.
New in QPix 3.5.5 (Feb 19, 2010)
- Enhancements:
- Added the QPx_SetAreaBackgroundColor and QPx_GetAreaBackgroundColor commands for specifying and retreiving the plug-in area's background color.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a rare initialization crash on Windows.
- Fixed a couple of buffer overflows in Exif reading that could lead to a crash when reading badly formed Exif metadata.
New in QPix 3.5.4 (Oct 9, 2009)
- Fixed issues that prevented the plug-in from functioning properly when used with 4D Server running as a service on Windows.
- Fixed printing of a range of pages of multi-page images (TIFF/PDF) in the plug-in area.
- Remover a leftover debugging BEEP in the Windows version.
New in QPix 3.5 (Jan 30, 2009)
- Acquisition from multiple sources:
- Acquisition of photos from digicams (video clips too, on MacOS X), capture of pictures from webcams and camcorders, as well as traditional scanning using a wide range of personal or high-end document scanners with automatic document feeder, double-sided scanning and transparency option.
- JPEG transcoding:
- Lossless rotation of JPEG images and other operations.
- Multi-page TIFF/PDF generation:
- Combine a series of source image files or 4D pictures into a multi-page TIFF file (using PackBits, CCITT G3/G4, or no compression) or into a multi-page PDF file.
- Multi-page TIFF/PDF printing:
- Print any multi-page TIFF or PDf document directly from QPix's File menu without writing any code.
- Image metadata:
- Read access to several kinds of image tags: TIFF, Exif, GPS, IPTC, QuickTime.
- New formats:
- Kodak PhotoCD, Scitex CT, multi-page PDF (native on Mac OS X, with AFPL Ghostscript on Windows).
- Enhanced brightness and contrast filter:
- Escape's replacement for QuickTime's incorrect and buggy brightness/contrast filter (MacOS and Win).
- Extended information:
- Individual frame information: find out if an image frame represents a page, resolution, layer, or thumbnail.
- Color information: color space and color profile.
- Compressed picture information: find out if a picture is compressed by QuickTime, the codec used, and the compression depth and quality.
- Thumbnails:
- High-level commands to extract the embedded thumnail from images that contain one, e.g. EXIF JPEG and TIFF.
- New thumbnail commands create high quality thumbnails from image files, pictures, and graphic importers, using QT6's bicubic interpolation.
- Exporting:
- Source image tags and color profile can be copied from the source image into the exported image.
- Progress dialogs:
- Progress dialogs can be displayed during long importing, exporting, creating thumbnails, creating multi-page TIFF or PDF files, and acquiring images. The delay before a progress dialog is shown can be controlled by the developer through plug-in options.
- Plug-in area enhancements:
- Redesigned Advanced Properties Dialog
- Multi-page navigation widget
- Support for 4D's drag and drop
- Proportional scrollbars and live scrolling
- Direct commands for common filters
- Special zoom values (fit, fill)
- Image alignment control within area
- New "QuickTime information" dialog
- Miscellaneous:
- New, generic QPx_SetOption and QPx_GetOption commands provide access to various internal plug-in settings.
- 4D and OS compatibility:
- QPix 3.5 is compatible with QuickTime 6 or later (most recent version recommended) and 4D versions 2004.7 and 11.3 or later, on MacOS 10.4x and Windows XP/Vista.
- With 4D 11.3, QPix 3.5 works natively on Intel-based Macintosh computers.
New in QPix 3.5 Beta 6 (Dec 4, 2008)
- The QClientHelper component is no longer necessary.
- It seems to be safe to run QPix under 4D's native threading mode on Mac OS X, meaning that fiddling with 4D's Info.plist is not necessary.
New in QPix 3.5 Beta 5 (Aug 1, 2008)
- Implemented plug-in area scrolling with the mouse wheel.
- Added support for setting the scanning resolution of TWAIN drivers that only support TW_RANGE data for the respective capabilities (quite rare).
- Various minor fixes.
- Enabled license control. See bellow for installation instructions and a time-limited developer key.