Transcript Program History
New
- Support for reading multi page TIF images. The next and previous image
buttons will go to the next/previous page in the image.
- Transcript now accepts and opens rtf, txt, pdf* and image files when
dropped on top of Transcript's window. Note: pdf files are only accepted
when GhostScript (32 bit version only) is installed as explained on the
website and in this help file.
- Added the ability to use Ctrl+Shift scrollwheel on images to change its
brightness.
- Brightness combobox now also accepts user defined values.
- (Pro only) menu option to add the complete image into the text. Warning:
this can lead to large editor files causing slow loading, saving and editing!
In general it would be better to copy just a small selection of the image.
- Improved the way the interface of Transcript is translated making it
possible to translate more parts of the program.
- Check if locale folder containing translations is present and warn unless
user's language is English.
- Thanks to volunteers Transcript is now also available in Czech, Italian,
Spanish and Swedish.
- Some language updates to German, French and Dutch.
- Use default Windows system font for all our dialogs and forms which should
improve the looks on most systems .
- Remove the need for an extra copy of the image used internally by
Transcript and use an adjustment layer to support sharpen, grayscale,
autocontrast and brightness. This can save a lot of memory on large images
making it possible to load larger images than before. However this will slow
down moving images somewhat when using at least one of the above mentioned
adjustments.
- Proper detection of Windows 8 and 8.1. Though no other explicit changes
have been made nor am I aware that any are needed.
- More detailed system information available in About dialog and in case of
a crash in the crash report.
- Improved Ghostscript (PDF) error handling.
- Improved handling of twain scanning of images.
- Improved exception handling when loading images.
- Check if sqlite dll present and warn when needed (pro).
- More detailed error messages added when something goes wrong so that it
should be more clear what the problem is (out of memory, invalid or
unsupported file format, etc.).
- Increased width of several interface elements to be able to show longer
names and also useful for translations where they need longer words.
- Changed default e-mail address inside the program.
- Publish headingstyle toggle shortcut Shift+F11. I'm still evaluating if
Shift+F11 is the best key for this.
- Sort list of available languages alphabetically.
- Change: Remember text zoom option is now True by default.
- Change: Set default AutoSave interval to 15 minutes (but AutoSave has to
be turned on first, it is off by default).
- Change: Remember Picture Settings now set to True by default.
- Change: Move on Enter setting now set to True by default.
- Removed plugins since their usability was limited and after updating
Transcript older versions of plugins could cause problems. The separate image
window plugin has been integrated into Transcript, menu View.
- Add extra image window on the taskbar so we can find it back.
- Removed GIF as saving option for scanned images since jpeg and png are
both better formats for saving.
- Removed old style zoom mouse cursor option since hardly anyone used it and
using Ctrl+scrollwheel for zooming is a good alternative.
- Added links in Help menu to Transcript on Facebook and direct link to pay
for Transcript Pro.
Bugs fixed
- Many fixes and stability improvements in the image handling library and
other fixes related to handling images.
- Transcript application title and version were not showing in the titlebar
when using the unregistered version.
- Making a new project with an empty name was allowed.
- Reset to default picture settings (F4) didn't update all settings visually
even though internally everything was reset.
- Division by zero when for some unclear reason when the amount of pictures
in the folder of the current image seems to become 0.
- After changing Options (F11) the image file list didn't show pdf files
anymore.
- Don't turn cursor into hourglass when moving image and sharpen or
autocontrast is on.
- HelpFilename should be loaded/saved without path.
- Only make AutoReplace active when we have a valid database file.
- Don't delete unused items younger than the week limit because they have
date last used set to 0.
- New filename based on first line of text doesn't check for double quote
as illegal character. A double quote on the first line of text when the option
use first line of text as default filename was set made it impossible to save
a new file.
- The extra image viewer window didn't check whether an image still existed
before trying to open it.
- Uncommon crash when main window is not active and checking whether we need
to resume an paused timer.
- Detect pdf files where the pdf extension is not all lowercase.
- Images with a non standard file extension were not shown in the dropdown
image list and the previous/next image arrows also were not updated correctly.
- Extensions can be longer than 3 characters!
- Extra image window always opens the current image instead of the selected
image.
- Several bugfixes and a few extra safety checks in the image loading code.
- When dragging/touching zoomed in/out image keep mouse cursor at same
position in image.
- Newer versions of Ghostscript need encoding set for accented characters.
- If pdf conversion fails set image back to the last one instead of the pdf.
- We need to check for GlobalSettings being initialized at startup or we
might get a crash in certain rare cases.
- Words consisting only of accented characters are handled wrong by the
standard Windows RichEdit control. We need to fix that ourselves.
- Highlighter zoom and brightness were reset after moving to another image.
- Catch exception when saving and file is in use by another program.
- When using the project timer and then changing the short date format in
Windows caused a crash and the inability to use Transcript.
- Image highlighter size and position were incorrect after changing projects.
- When changing projects and the image file for the new project is not found
the image of the previous project stays visible.
- Menu shortcuts could not be translated.
New
- Option to hide all toolbars including menu to maximize the working area. Turn
toolbars on/off by using Ctrl+Shift+F11 (ESC also works for turning them on again).
Menu: View, Show toolbars.
- Show image and editor Windows beside eachother instead of below eachother, switch
between both settings with Ctrl+Shift+F12. Only available in the Pro version.
Menu: View, Windows side by side.
- Added an optional image highlighter/ruler which can be turned on/off from menu
View, Show highlighter. Only available in the Pro version.
You can move and resize the highlighted portion with the mouse. Using rightclick
you will get a highlighter menu where you can set the default position for the
highlighter when loading a new picture and you can also change the Zoom and
Brightness of the highlighter.
The highlighter Zoom can also be changed with Ctrl+Scrollwheel up/down above
the highlighter and the highlighter Brightness can also be changed with
Ctrl+Shift+Scrollwheel up/down above the highlighter.
- Zoom in/out for images now centers the zoom around the mouse cursor when
using the mouse for zooming, or zooms around the center of the visible part of
the image when using the zoom keys, menu or toolbar zoom selection.
- Added superscript and subscript buttons to the editor toolbar.
- Add some info in About box of Transcript about the files and libraries that
are used by Transcript and their locations, and also some other useful
information, copy this if you want to report a problem. The same info is also
used for crash reports.
- Change editor background color when editor is in readonly mode.
- Remember separate editor/image window sizes for maximized and normal window state.
- Made a new Transcript program icon, I'm not a great artist so if anyone thinks
they can make a better one send me an example and I might consider using that. (Note
that it needs to have all the common sizes and you need to allow me to use it ofcourse.
If accepted by me you will get a free Pro license.) The idea behind my icon was:
the yellow at the top stands for the old document image, the white at the bottom
stands for the new document and the arrow is the transcription process.
- Finnish translation of the gui.
- Several new translatable strings added for better detailed messages.
- Changed how we set our program title and version in About and added a
specifier when we are BETA or RC.
Bugs fixed
- Improved Windows 7 support, both 32 and 64 bits.
- GhostScript couldn't be found on 64 bits Windows. Secondly only the 32 bits
version of GhostScript can be detected by Transcript so even if you are on 64 bits
Windows you should install the 32 bits version of GhostScript (which works
without problems on 64 bits Windows).
- When a pdf with images was the last file in a folder the next image button
did not get enabled when there was more than one image in the pdf.
- When changing languages and the timer was paused, the translation for
paused was not updated.
- Saving/restoring of quicktexts only worked when projects were used.
- Fixed first time loading position with dual monitor setup.
- After acquiring an image with a scanner the image reverts back to previous
image when changing brightness or other image adjustment.
- Zoom value showing 400 when entering 40 after closing combo. Fixed by
always adding custom zoom values to the list of zoom values. On request also
added 40% zoom to the predefined values in the zoom combobox.
- Make sure at least part of the editor window is shown when changing from
maximized to normal size (unless image window is only shown).
- Clarification: make it clearer that the exception can't allocate DIB handle
is in most cases due to not enough free memory. (Crash reports for this exception
don't need to be sent to me.)
- Fixed several bugs found during and after the refactoring especially when
the advanced setting "Use the same name for each image and its corresponding text file"
was set. Also improved the working of this setting and made the settings saved
separately for each project.
- With setting EachPhotoApart when loading an image and the edit file was
empty or new then it asked to save it.
- Exporting a text file not asking to overwrite when not explicitly specifying
an extension!
- Exporting a text file and setting an extension that's not the normal extension
for that file type didn't work: the file was saved as rtf.
- Exception when typing a space in an empty document.
- Checks if language file exists, if not gives a warning.
- Renamed the filename of the default English language file from "Default" to
the more logical name "English". Also updated the installer to take this change
into account when (un)installing.
- Made some changes to the key pressing code thats handling auto correction
and auto replacement in hopes that it will fix the bug that sometimes happens
but in an unreproducable way. Now when text is selected it will not look if it
needs to be autoreplaced. Also added an extra check that will throw an exception
when the text to be replaced has non alphanumeric chars.
- Added warning when Edit file is in use by another program instead of showing
an exception + added translation string for the warning.
- Removed old translator code from para and tab options.
- Updated the jvcl and jcl code libraries to their latest releases which made
code changes necessary in several places, also made it necessary to change to
my own language loader because jvcl removed the one I used.
- Updated several links in Transcript and language files.
- Refactored several parts of the code base for maintainability.
- Lots of other minor changes to improve the code.
- New files couldn't be saved when there was an invalid character for a filename
on that line and the (default) option to set the default filename to the first
line of text was on.
- Autoreplace/autocorrection: the correct text formatting was sometimes lost
after replacing a word, especially when some text formatting was just turned
off at the end of the current word.
- A few other small changes.
- The presence of GhostScript was not always detected and Transcript was
then unable to convert pdf files to jpg.
- When opening the autoreplacements dialog, then minimizing the main Transcript
window and then closing the autoreplacements dialog, there was an exception.
- In certain cases when switching projects the autoreplacements did not work
until restarting Transcript.
- In certain cases when pressing the alt key parts of the text in the options
and special character dialogs could disappear on vista.
- Updated the missing parts of the french translation with the help of google
translate. Please report any errors as my french is not very good.
New
- AutoContrast: apply automatic contrast to images to improve their colors
(see menu Image).
- Added option to visually see the progress of the amount of images you have
done in the toolbar. The imagefile selection box will have a green background
for the part that has been done based on which imagefile you are currently
transcribing (default off, see general tab of Options dialog).
- In options you can now choose what name will be used as default when saving
a new text file: you can choose between the first line of text in the editor,
or the same name as the imagefile.
- Added a dialog to insert special characters/symbols. Only available for
registered users.
- Resume manually paused project timer when typing option added: If you
manually pause the timer and start typing when this option is set will
automatically resume the timer. Only available for registered users.
- It's now possible to select a part of the image and copy that part either
to the clipboard or into the editor. To select first press the selection
toolbar button on the right side of the image toolbar (the mouse changes to a
cross when above the image) and select the part you want. You can copy the
selection to the clipboard with Ctrl+C (or used the rightclick menu) and you
can copy the selection directly into the editor by using the rightclick menu
of either the image or the editor. Only available for registered users.
- Copy image selection into a separate window which makes it easier to
compare the way letters or words are written. Only available for registered users.
- Added paste special dialog which allows to choose in what format the text
or image on the clipboard should be pasted.
- Added: in file open I added the possibility to open the file as readonly!
You can also toggle the readonly mode of the current textfile using the edit
menu at the top or the local rightclick menu for the editor. This setting is
saved in the global Transcript settings, which means that when changing
projects the readonly flag will be reset to false. Also when creating a new
file or opening a file from the history list the readonly settings will be
turned off if it was on. Notice that you can set a file to readonly which has
already been modified but it will still be possible to save those changes! If
you have set automatic saving in options those changes will still be
automatically saved to file!
- By using F12 you can now select the stretch filter to be used when zoomed
in or out. There are 7 filters, from faster/worst quality to slower/better
quality: Nearest, Draft, Linear, Cosine, Spline, Lanczos, Mitchell. You switch
between them by consecutively pressing F12 or by selecting the desired setting
for the Image Menu.
- There are separate settings for zoomed in (< 100%) and zoomed out (> 100%)
because zooming in is slower than zooming out. Note that when the image is not
zoomed (100%) these settings have no effect.
- Now uses sqlite as engine for storing autoreplace information (instead of
an ini file). This makes opening the autoreplacement dialog faster and also
makes it possible to add new features in the future. The autoreplacement
dialog will now also show the number of times a word has been replaced with
its replacement. Only available for registered users.
- Removed menu item "Reload autoreplacements list" because it's not needed
anymore now we're using sqlite for storing autoreplacements.
- Ctrl-Home/End support added in the autoreplacement dialog. Only available
for registered users.
- Added options to delete unused en never used autoreplacement items (which
are older than a settable number of weeks). Only available for registered users.
- Added option to reset usage count when changing the replace part of an
autoreplacement item. Only available for registered users.
- Ctrl+Mouse scrollwheel can now be used to zoom image in/out.
- Added a link to the website on the Help menu.
- XP/Vista Manifest is now included in Transcript.exe instead of a separate
manifest file.
- German is now recognized as language when starting Transcript for the first time.
- Several small changes of the working of the toolbars.
- Many small internal changes to the way the program works.
Bugs fixed
- Closing Transcript with the image window maximized (editor window not visible)
caused Transcript to not show the editor window at next startup.
- When using the English language Transcript could often not find the location
of the English help file.
- You could only paste text from the clipboard to the editor, not images.
- Trying to open a non rtf file in Open Text File (not Import) would do
nothing and gave no error message. Now it uses Import file when it's not an rtf file.
- The newest GPL GhostScript releases were not recognized by Transcript so
it could not let GhostScript convert pdf's to images.
- Opening a new textfile when the current text was changed caused the text
zoom to be reset to 100.
- After opening another textfile or creating a new textfile the font name and
font size boxes still showed the old values.
- Ctrl+Alt+B as shortcut for setting the text background color did not work.
- After using the back and foreground color buttons focus did not always
return to the text.
- Hint in imagefile selection box was not updated after changing language.
- When using the Windows setting "large fonts", some parts of the autoreplacement
and project management dialogs were not visible.
- Autoreplacement dialog: now the correct number of visible rows is computed
so PgDn will stop at the end if everything is visible.
- In autocorrect options when setting the autocorrect filename without path
then the path to AppData/Transcript will automatically be added.
- Ugly selected text in comboboxes should now be fixed.
- When using autoreplacement when some other text directly after the
autoreplace word was selected, then that text was not replaced. Instead the
autoreplacement was inserted before the selected text.
- PDF support added, but: you will also need to install
Ghostscript separately. For
testing I have only used AFPL Ghostscript but I expect that GPL Ghostscript
will also work without any problems. Here is a more direct link to the
downloads
of Ghostscript (choose the Windows exe). Note: there are some other
programs which also use Ghostscript, notably some pdf printer drivers, so
you may already have it installed on your system. If Ghostscript already
is installed then Transcript will automatically detect it when starting.
For more information see the usage of pdf images.
- When using the file open dialog to select another image all pdf's
will also be listed if Ghostscript was found. If not then pdf's will not
be listed.
- The following image file formats are now also supported: PNG, TIF,
PaintShop PSP, PhotoCD PCD, PhotoShop PSD and PDD, Portable map files PPM,
PGM and PBM. In some cases some subtypes of the above mentioned filetypes
may not be supported. (e.g. when layers were used).
- Added option to sharpen the image. Shortcut key: Ctrl+Alt+S.
- Added option to also move the image when the text wraps to the next
line (wordwrap), just like the option to move on "Enter".
- DOuble CApitals at the start of a word can be recognized and
optionally be replaced by only the first letter a capital. Only for
registered users.
- Added an option to make an exception for the double capital setting
for the "IJ" combination (especially useful in Dutch). Only for registered
users.
- Added option to replace a sEcond letter cApital with a Captial for
the first letter. Only for registered users.
- Added an option to ignore double spaces. When you type a space after
another space that second space will not be added to the text when this
option is set.Added the possibility to let you hear a sound whenever
Transcript replaces text according to your autocorrection settings.
Only for registered users.
- The default sound can be replaced by a sound (wave) file of your
choosing. Only for registered users.
- For me one of the most productive extra's is the autoreplacement
feature. There is a dialog (Ctrl+Alt+C) where you can define words or
abbreviations which should automatically be replaced with other words
or (parts of) sentences. This is very useful when you encounter many
repeating sentences in you transcriptions. Just define an abbreviation
and Transcript will automatically replace it with the full sentence!.
Every project can have it's own set of autoreplacement definitions.
Only for registered users.
- All autocorrection and autoreplacement options can be temporarily
disabled by turning the Scroll Lock key on.
- Image zoom in/out shortcut keys added: Ctrl+Alt++ and Ctrl+Alt+-
(note: only the + and - on the numerical keypad can be used).
- In the project management dialog you can now also see the filenames
of the image and textfiles of the currently selected project.
- In the projects window you can now also add a description to a
project. Only for registered users. The description of the current
project can also be seen when you hover the mouse over the project
selection box in the main window.
- For every project it is now possble to register how long you are
working on a transcription (only for registered users). There's a new
button on the project toolbar which you can use to start or pause
project timing. Under the tools menu are some other timing options:
stop timing and reset time to 0. Whenever you switch to another program
the time is automatically paused and when you return back to Transcript
it resumes again.
- Several toolbar buttons and actions are now also available from
the menu.
- When you hover the mouse over the image file selection box on the
image toolbar the complete path of the current image will now be shown
and on the line below the number of the image within the current folder
and the percentage of images done will be shown (it assumes that all
images before this one in the current folder have already been transcribed).
- Added right-click menu to the image window which has the a number
of useful features:
- You can set the vertical starting offset of any new image to be
loaded to the vertical offset of the current image.
- A new feature is horizontal image positioning (when loading another
image). In the rightclick image menu you can choose between center image,
use same horizontal offset for all images, and use different horizontal
offsets for left and right pages.
- Why making a difference between left and right pages? Because when
photographing a whole book (using a tripod) it's often more convenient
to first photograph all leftside pages and after that the rightside
pages (or the reverse). In this case there will often be slight
differences in how the subject is centered in the image. By using
different settings for left and right pages you can load most images
directly in the exact starting position you want.
- In case you choose different left and right pages you can also
select from the rightclick menu whether the current page is a left
page or a right page. In that case Transcript assumes that left and
right follow eacht other.
- Some changes for better translation support.
- XP theme support: now the program will look more XP alike. When
testing this I encountered some problems related to theming which I
hope most got fixed.
- Important change: from now on the settings file Transcript.ini
will be saved in a folder called Transcript under the "Application Data"
folder. The location of this "Application Data" folder depends on your
Windows version. This change was made because as I understand it Windows
Vista will complain when trying to change settings files in the program
folder. At first startup your current Transcript.ini settings file will
be automatically copied to the new location. If you are a user of
Transcript autoreplace files (*.tac): those are not automatically copied
to the new location. If you have Windows Vista it is advisable to also
move those files to another location then the program folder.
- Several internal changes needed as a consequence of the above.
- All file filters are now also translated when changing between languages.
- Bug fixed: If Transcript is not the foreground window when starting
up and the project timer is running for the current project then the
timer will not (always) pause but start running which it should not do.
- Bug fixed: When using the option "scroll image entirely to the left"
is used, the image gets sometimes positioned incorrect.
- Bugfix: after pressing F4 (restore default image settings) the image
also got centered.
- Bugfix: import/export default directory now also the directory of the
current textfile.
- Bugfix: when changing between projects where the new project did not
have an image set, the image of the old project was not removed.
- Bugfix: in some cases the image window got so small that after a
restart of Transcript it got completely hidden.
- Bugfix: the "not found" message when searching text sometimes got
behind the search dialog.
- Bugfix: when trying to open a pdf file or other unsupported image
formats you didn't get an error message and after restarting Transcript
the menu and toolbar were hidden.
- Several other small bugs fixed and other internal changes.
- Increase and decrease indentation buttons and shortcuts added.
Shortcuts: Ctrl+D and Ctrl+Alt+D. The amount the indentation will be
increased or decrease can be set in general options.
- Added a ruler for the editor. The ruler can be enabled/disabled using
menu View, Show/Hide ruler or shortcut Ctrl+Alt+R. Using the ruler you can
change the paragraph margins and add or delete tabs. By pressing the right
mouse button on a tab you get a menu where you can set the tab alignment.
Only available in the registered version.
- Automatically incremented counter added as an option for the autotext
specification (previously called insert image filename) You can choose
between a page/numbers counter and a "folio" counter. Everything can be
set to you wishes on the advanced options tab.
Only available in the registered version.
- Quicktext (using Alt+0 - 9) are now settable on a project basis.
- Shortcut keys added for inserting the last selected background color
(Ctrl+Alt+B) an text color (Ctrl+Alt+T).
- The dialog for opening a new image now shows a preview of the images.
- Bug fixed: In Windows XP it could happen, depending on your settings,
that Transcript in full screen mode (Ctrl+F11) was shown too far down.
On the top of the screen there was empty space and at the bottom part of
the editor was invisible.
- Bug fixed: when starting Transcript and going back to a position with
bold or italic text was interpreted as if the text had been changed.
- Bug fixed: when using Transcript for the first time on fast computers
with a Dutch version of Windows it could happen that the first time you
used it it was not translated into Dutch and/or that pressing F1 or
selecting help from the menu didn't work. Starting Transcript a
second time always fixed this. I think I have this now also fixed
for every first time start but if you encounter this problem please
let me know.
- Bug fixed: when switching between projects where the target project
was a project with a "new" (empty) textfile, the textfile of the old
project stayed visible.
- Bug fixed: changed the memory manager because the old one could cause
a AV in certain situations when waking the computer up after a sleep.
- Bug fixed: the help file could not be found when the program directory
was not the same as the directory where the program was started. This
could happen when using a desktop shortcut.
- Bug fixed: after importing a file the textzoom was reset to 100.
- Bug fixed: when maximizing either the image of editor window the
program sometimes forgot to remember the position of the divider in the
non maximized state. Because of this it could happen that after restarting
Transcript the image or editor window was invisible.
- A number of other small changes and improvements.
- Help is now available in HtmlHelp format. Every topic now has its own help
page which makes it easier to find the information your're looking for. As
English is not my native language there may be errors. Please report
those so I can correct it.
- Added an optional installer for those who have difficulties installing the zip
version. This zipversion is still available for those who prefer the program
without installer.
- Added program registration functionality. Registered users can now open
up the program to get some extra functionality.
- Added projects. A project contains all settings of importance like
edit and imagefile and the curent working positions in those files etc. You can
switch between projects by choosing another project from the list besides the
menu. Very handy for everyone who works occasionaly or often on different
transcriptions at the same time. It is also possible to start the program
with a specific project using the commandline option -p<projectname>. There
is a project management dialog where you can rename or delete projects and
where you can make a desktop shortcut to start the program with a specific
project. Only available in the registered
version.
- Added an option to automatically insert the image filename into the editor
when you go to the next image file. You can specify in which format it will
be inserted. It can temporarily be disabled by setting Scroll Lock to on. It is
also possible to insert it manually by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F. Only available in the registered version.
- A (probably) temporary plugin interface added. This interface will most
likely change in the future because it's not flexible enough. At the moment
there is one plugin available: an exif viewer which shows the information
added tot images by digital camera's.
- You can now choose between old and new style mouse handling of the
mouse above the image window. In the new style default is moving the
image when pressing the left mouse button and moving the mouse. The
old style means pressin left/right mouse buttons means zooming in/out of
the image. Pressing the Ctrl key together with the mouse button switches
the functionality.
- Added an option to automatically switch focus back to the editor after you
release the mouse button above the image window. Normally the image
window will have the focus after releasing mouse button which means you
wil first manually have to go back to the editor.
- Closing of image file and text file commands added. Closing text file is the
same as opening a new empty text file..
- Added commands for maximizing the image window (Ctrl+F12) and text
window (Shift+F12). When maxmizing the image window you are still able
to enter text in the editor. For these commands an new menu was added:
the view menu.
- Added a full screen mode (Ctrl+F11). In this mode the menu and toolbars
(including the standard Windows traybar) will be hidden.
- You can now use Shift+F5/F6 to jump to the top of the left or right "page"
of the image, assuming that it's an image of two pages. Using
Shift+Ctrl+F5/F6 you can go to the left or right side of the image without
going to the top.
- Added an option for two page images. When set going to the next or
previous image will automatically position it on the left (using next or
fileopen dialog) or right (previous) part of the image.
- The history of last opened files gets better updated now. When you select
a file from this list it will be moved to the top of the history list instead of
staying at its current position.
- The Home, End, PageUp and PageDown keys now also work inside the
image window. Within the image window it is not necessary to use those
keys together with the Ctrl and Alt keys, though those combinations do
also work.
- The text and image zoom dropdown lists contain now more available
zoom values to choose from.
- When opening a text or image file the file open dialog will now always start
in the directory where the current text or image file resides. The same
holds true for saving files.
- The horizontal scroll percentage used to compute the amount to move the
image to the left or right was decreased from 10 to 5%.
- The toolbar and menu images were given a more modern look.
- The usage of the text and backgroundcolor buttons has been slightly
changed in order to conform to the way Microsoft Office uses these
buttons. The color on the buttons now signifies the color that was last
selected (was previously the color of the text or background on the current
position in the text). When pressing the button that color will be applicated
to the curent text or background. Pressing the arrow will still let you select
another color.
- A change in one of the components used in this program makes it
necessary that you need to set the default font when you want something
else than Times New Roman als default (menu tools, default font...).
- Bug fixed: space characters at the beginning and at the end of text
fragments inserted with Alt+0 to 9 were not saved properly in the ini
configuration file. When restarting Transcript and using those keys to
insert a fragment with space at the beginning and/or at the end the text
was inserted without those spaces (though the rest of the text was
inserted normally).
- Bug fixed: opening a file by double clicking on the filename when that
position was above the image window caused the image to be zoomed in
when using the old style cursor.
- Bug fixed: after zooming in/out on the image the horizontal image position
was reset to horizontal center.
- Bug fixed: text zoom was reset to 100 after loading another text file but the
zoom percentage on the toolbar displayed the old value. Now the zoom
value stays the way it is..
- Added checks to see if the program starts from cd-rom: in
that case the configuration file directory is set to the Windows
directory.
- Searching for the configuration file now first looks in
the program directory and then the Windows directory.
- Standard increment values in options changed in some cases.
- Bug resolved: changing the value of the vertical starting
position didn't work until the program was restarted.
- Bug resolved: when the vertical starting position was 0 it
was not reset to 0 when loading a new image but stayed at
the position it was previously.
- The component that was used internally to view the images and
everything related tot that (JvSpecialImage) was replaced by
an adapted version of TImageView32, part of Graphics32 (see
https://graphics32.org). Especially zooming has
speeded up dramatically and also uses far less memory.
- Added option to rotate successive images alternately to the
left (270 degrees) and to the right (90 degrees).
- Scrolling the image using the mousewheel should now work
in all cases.
- Zooming uses now standard a linear filter which should
improve readability.
- When scroll the image further to the left is checked it is
now also possible to scroll further to the right.
- Bug resolved: 90 and 270 degrees were exchanged.
- Bug resolved: Automatic saving did not read in the number
of minutes from the configuration file.
- The program can now be translated in any western language (no unicode).
Standard language is English. The only other available language at the
moment is Dutch (Nederlands). When starting the program for the first
time it looks for the language Windows uses. If it is Dutch the Dutch
language will automatically be set, otherwise it will stay English (but
you can always change it in options). Volunteers are welcome to send me
translations in other languages. I will put this as separate downloads
on my website.
- The name of the program was changed from Transcriptie to Transcript.
- Import and export from and to other filetypes added using the Microsoft
Word/Office import/export filters (only available when present).
- BMP and GIF file support added.
- A number of image transformation options added: rotation, inverted colors
and grayscale.
- Direct image scanning from within the program using TWAIN. This is still
a bit experimental. You may get an "EOutofResources" error when scanning
large images in high resolution (also dependant on Windows version and
available memory).
- Zoom in/out on the text. This works the same as in Microsoft Office: use
Ctrl+mousewheel up/down to change the zoom or use the combobox on the
Image toolbar to select the desired zoom. You can also set in options
that this zoom value should be restored when starting the program.
- Added paragraph margins, space before and after, linespacing and
alignment (F8). These settings can be saved for use as default for
new documents. Heading styles are now also available but their
use is limited because these styles cannot be changed (a limitation
of the RichEdit dll).
- Tabs can be set using a dialog (Shift+F8). Different tab alignment and
tab leaders are available.
- Bullets and numbered lists added. At the moment numbered lists can
only be set using the toolbar button menu.
- Superscript and subscript added to the Format menu.
- Textcolor and backgroundcolor can be set using two toolbar buttons
on the image toolbar. The popup color windows can be moved to
stay visible all the time.
- Toolbar button and shortcut key (Ctrl+T) added for strikethrough text.
- Besides undo now also redo available (Ctrl+Y).
- Default font for new documents can be set (see menu Tools).
- Using the popup menu in the editor (rightclick with the mouse) you
can set and insert quick text fragments instead of having to type
it over and over. To set a quick text fragment use the popup menu
or use Alt+Shift+<a number between 0-9>.The insert a previously
set text fragment use the popup menu or type Alt+<0-9>.
- Added resizable editor window. On the left and right side are
splitters which you can drag to the desired position.
- Added some advanced options in combination with equal names for
image and textfile: save without asking and different directories
for images and text now possible (default is the same directory).
- Hint visibility options now selectable in options dialog.
- Measurement selection. You can now choose between centimeters
which is default and inches.
- Added option to make a backup copy of the old rtf file when saving.
- Extended the menus.
- Help now available in all dialogs except in About.
- The INI configuration file now by default in the same directory
as the program. If you want to put the program on cd you can copy
the INI file to the Windows directory.
- Buttons for next and previous image are now disabled if there is
no next/previous image available.
- Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/Down added: move image one page up/down.
- Clicking on a hyperlink in the editor or helpviewer now opens
the standard browser.
- Searching for text which is not found now gives notice of that.
- Bug resolved: image files without any attributes were not added
to the dropdown list of images.
- Bug resolved: zoomcursor on the scrollbars.
- Bug resolved: after maximizing or resizing the main window the
editor text looked sometimes scrambled.
- Increased price for non personal use to 10 euro because of all
the new features I added and the amount of time I put in this.
- Autosave feature added (you can choose between 1 and 60 minutes).
- You can now move the text in the editor window up or down using
Ctrl+<arrow up/down>.
- Added option to move the image a settable number of pixels down
whenever you press "Enter" in the editor. Espescially useful when
you use one line of text for every line in the image.
- Added advanced option to always use the same name for the textfile
as the name of the image (request of Henri Roodveldt).
- Standard visibility of Hint ballons is now 4 seconds.
Changeable by editing the configuration file.
Add under [TMainForm] the following line
HintHidePause=4000
The number is the amount of milliseconds of visibility (1 second is
the same as 1000).
Note: since version 2.0 this option can be set using the options dialog.
- You can now use Ctrl+Alt+Home and Ctrl+Alt+End to view the top or
bottom of the image.
- Added a beep when trying to go a previous or next image when there
is no previous/next image available.
- Bug resolved: Helpfile now always found even if the program was
started form another directory.
- Bug resolved: Ctrl-X can now be used for cut and paste.
- Zoom in/out on the image.
- Changing brightness of the image.
- Using the tab key in the editor now possible.
- Name of the image now always visible and selection of the image
to view added to the toolbar.
- Default name of the textfile now the same as the name of the image.
- Added option to scroll the image further to the left.