Arles Image Web Page Creator 8.2 released
Arles 8.2 introduces a New Images label, File Age support and a new full screen mode for the image explorer. On top of that it brings improved image loading speed, better animations and multi-touch zooming.
"New Images" label
The New images label makes it easy to identify new images. You can switch it on (and off) in the View Menu > New Images. In that menu you can also specify the image age for when you want the New label to show up.
Image Age
Also new is the Image age feature. It shows how long ago an image has been taken. Arles calculates the age on basis of the EXIF Datetime field. Or the File modified time if not EXIF info is available.
The Image Age can be used for sorting.
Image Explorer full screen mode
The Image Explorer has a new full screen mode. All toolbars will hide after 2 seconds. They reappear if you move your mouse to the top of the screen. This feature has been implemented due to the popularity of netbook computers. These small computers often have a limited screen size. The new full screen mode makes sure that all the pixels on the screen are used to show images and not buttons or toolbars.
Zooming improvements
Many new laptops and netbooks have a multi-touch touchpad. Arles now supports the zooming features on these touchpads. In the image viewer you can zoom in and out by moving your fingers apart or together.
A small update, but one I personally like a lot are improved keyboard shortcuts. The zoom shortcuts in the image viewer are now:
1: Zoom 100%
2: Zoom out
3: Zoom in
4: Zoom Fit
Because these are adjacent key, you can always let your left hand rest on the keys while your zooming in and out, without needing to move around or look at the keyboard. A full list of keyboard shortcuts is available in the help file.
Complete list of changes
8.2.1 final
- Fixed: "New label" feature did not work properly for folders.
8.2 final
- Fixed: Image Explorer Tools menu > Options did not work in previous beta.
- Fixed: Email images window showed New label.
- Fixed: Tab order was wrong in Folder and Image Info panel.
- Fixed: Title changes were not saved when renaming files.
- Fixed: When checking for an update twice, an error was sometimes shown.
beta 9
- Full screen viewer sometimes switched to the thumbnail viewer when Alt key shortcuts were selected.
- Image viewer now supports zooming on multi-touch enabled touchpads.
- Fixed: The error reporting tool was shown for "normal" errors.
- Fixed: An exception sometimes occurred when upgrading the database.
- Improved progress bar.
- Spacing of menu items tweaked.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Most recently used items in file menu had wrong spacing.
beta 8
- Image Explorer menu, toolbar and statusbar are now visible in full screen mode.
- Fixed: Removed New Images > "2 month" item from Layout toolbar button menu.
- Fixed: In XHTML mode the Javascript begin and end parts were missing the required CDATA tags.
- Fixed: New Images: "Show New Label" options was not remembered between sessions.
- Fixed: Folders sidebar was not visible when returning from full screen mode.
- Menu colors in Leopard skin updated.
beta 7
- Arles now automatically checks for updates at startup. You no longer need to go to the "Help" menu > "Check for Updates".
- Image Explorer: Default for "New Image" is now 1 month instead of 2.
- Fixed: Image Explorer: "New Images" time setting did not work properly.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator > Titles tab: Caption of "Fonts and Styles..." button on Titles tab was wrong.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator > Titles tab: Image title location drop down box had an empty entry.
beta 6
- Image Explorer: New "Image Age" field. It can be used in the grid view and in the thumbnail info texts. It indicates the age of an image. It calculates the age on basis of the EXIF DateTime field. If that it absent the File Modification time is used.
- Image Explorer: Images can now be sorted by "Image Age".
- Image Explorer: New "Image Age" field available in grid.
- Image Explorer: New "New Images" feature. It marks all new images with a "NEW" label.Image Explorer: Improved popup menu structure.
- Fixed: Thumbnail Info Text: Inserting the Image Width tag inserted the image height instead of width.
- Fixed: Rename Files: An error reporting dialog was sometimes shown when renaming files.
- Fixed: An error reporting dialog was sometimes shown when canceling a database restore.
beta 5
- Image Explorer: The full screen bar automatically hides after 2 seconds in the full screen mode.
- Image Explorer: The bookmarks and folders toolbars are now automatically hidden in the full screen mode. Move the mouse to the edges of the screen to make it reappear.
- Help file: Updated keyboard en mouse shortcuts section.
- Fixed: The error reporting tool was shown when no source folder was selected.
beta 4
- Image Explorer: New full screen mode where all toolbars are hidden.
- Image Explorer: The escape key can now be used to exit the full screen mode.
- Image viewer: Updated keyboard shortcuts to allow controlling
all zooming features with one hand.
1: Zoom 100%
2: Zoom out
3: Zoom in
4: Zoom Fit - Image viewer: Several small improvements in toolbars and toolbar auto-hiding.
- Fixed: Rotating images in the viewer did not work in the previous beta.
- Rotating images is much faster when the image viewer is open.
beta 3
- Improved RAW image support. based on DCRAW v. 1.423 (8.94)
- Improved animated loading of the previous/next image in the viewer. There is no large black area between the old and new images anymore.
- Fixed: The previous Arles beta could hang in an endless loop when exiting.
- Fixed: Arles sometimes failed to load tiff images which had a corrupt IPTC section.
beta 2
- Fixed: An cache error message was shown on some localized Windows versions.
- Web page creator desktop icon is now not installed by default.
beta 1
- Browsing images in the viewer is now faster due to a new cache mechanism.