New in Arles 7.2
The main new features in Arles 7.2 are the new Ground Reflection Effect, full XHTML support, a new title storage system and customizable toolbars. The new XHTML support can be selected in the Web Page Creator option window and allows you to create 100% valid XHTML pages.
Ground Reflection effect
A new Ground Reflection effect is now available for thumbnails and images. Click the image below to see the example gallery:
To add this effect to your thumbnail select in the Image Effects window the Add button > Ground Reflection. The mirror size and the transparency can both be tweaked.
Image titles now stored in the image files
For years Arles has made it possible to write titles for all your images. This information used to be stored in the Arles database. Starting from this version all title fields, Title 1, Title 2 and the Link field, will be stored in the image files itself. More specifically the Title 1 will be stored in the IPTC Caption tag, the Title 2 in the IPTC Headline tag and the Link in the Source tag. For images that do not support IPTC information the titles will still be stored in the Arles database.
For those who prefer the old situation, this change has been made optional. A new Titles tab has been added to the Image Explorer Options window, where you can tell Arles where to store the titles.
If you have stored a lot of title information in older Arles versions then you can move that data to the IPTC Caption field by using the new Data mover feature.
Data mover
The Data mover in the Image Explorer Tools menu can be used to copy data between Arles database fields and IPTC fields.
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Changes
Final
- Fixed: Title 2 and Link fields were sometimes not shown in web pages.
beta 9
- Web Page Creator > Advanced Image Pages Options: New image link option "Next image (last image links to index)" added.
- Web Page Creator > Image effects windows: Ground reflection options now have fast scroll buttons.
- Web Page Creator > Image effects windows: The transparent solid border can now also be placed outside the image.
- Web Page Creator > Image effects windows > Add text: Updated font tab with new font type selection, size spinbutton control and bold and italic checkboxes.
- Web Page Creator > Image effects windows > Add text: New font size box added with spinbuttons.
- Web Page Creator > Image effects windows: Several button and menu icons updated in interface.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Image effects windows: Border edges were sometimes cut off diagonally.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Titles were sometimes not added if images contained erronious EXIF data.
- Fixed: A range check error sometimes appeared when using the Ground reflection effect.
- Fixed: When duplicating an effect, the name was not copied.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: When disabling Right-clicking, the warning message was not shown in Firefox.
- Fixed: Arles Image Explorer: A range check error could occur in rare circumstances.
- Fixed: Arles Image Explorer: Titles were sometimes not save if the image contained multiple IPTC section of which the first one was empty.
beta 8
- Web Page Creator: Image effects windows: New ground reflection effect option added.
- Web Page Creator: Image effects windows: More responsive GUI as the example area is updated less often.
- Web Page Creator: Image effects windows > Add text: New Windows Cleartype anti-aliasing effect added.
- Arles Image Explorer: Data mover now supports moving data to and from the IPTC source field.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Image overlay effect sometimes had colors that were slightly off on transparent areas.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Line breaks <br /> where sometimes incorrect in XHTML mode.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Clicking Show did sometimes not work on Windows Vista if the path contained spaces.
beta 7
- Web Page Creator: New thumbnail link to "Image pages (with original images)" option added. Use this option if you only want to create webpages without changing the images.
- Fixed: The pixelformat was not set properly when saving images as transparent PNG images.
- Fixed: Grayscale images did have incorrect pixelformat information.
- Fixed: Bug introduced in beta 6: Image pages could be placed at the screen center when they should not.
- Fixed: Titles of files without IPTC support were sometimes not saved.
beta 6
- High resolution icons added for improved display on Windows Vista.
- Arles Image Explorer: The Title 2 field is now stored by default in the the image file IPTC Headline field.
- Arles Image Explorer: The Link field is now stored by default in the the image file IPTC Headline field.
- Arles Image Explorer > Options window: Title 2 and Link storage location options added to Titles tab.
- Arles Image Explorer: Image viewer keyboard shortcut changed from F11 to F12.
- Arles Image Explorer: F11 shortcut now toggles the image explorer between normal and full screen.
- Arles Image Explorer: Confirm saving to IPTC, EXIF rotation and JPEG Comment options are now off by default. This has only an influence on new installations.
- Web Page Creator: Several minor improvements to popup type galleries.
- Web Page Creator: New popup location option added. It allows to select Screen-center as popup location.
- Fixed: Tags in the image title1 and image title2 fields were not replaced when the image titles were used in the custom HTML section.
- Fixed: In Windows Vista: When pressing the Alt key in the Web Page Creator window sometimes made buttons disappear.
- Fixed > Web Page Creator: The Advanced Files Options window had a non proper working minimize button.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: scrollbars did not always work in popup type galleries.
beta 5
- Fixed: Beta 4 still sometimes showed a "Field XICaption not found" when editing titles. This time it really should be fixed.
beta 4
- Fixed: A "Field XICaption not found" was error was sometimes shown when editing titles.
beta 3
- Title 1 is now stored by default in the image file itself (IPTC Caption) if the image supports IPTC.
- Arles Image Explorer > Options window: New Titles tab added. It allows selecting where Arles stores the title information. Current options for Title 1 are: Arles database and IPTC Caption.
- Arles Image Explorer > Options menu: New Data mover. It allows copying Arles database titles to and from IPTC fields.
- Arles Image Explorer > Rename files: Duplicate filenames will now only have a number added and not brackets (e.g. [1]).
- Web Page Creator > Advanced Index Page Options window: New "Single Color (Cells only)" option added.
- Web Page Creator > Advanced Index Page Options window: Small User Interface changes.
- Help file updated.
- Arles Image Explorer: Auto-sizing a file grid column now limits it to 1000 pixels even if the text is longer.
- Image Explorer > Email images: "Extra Large" added to "Max image size" options.
- Image Explorer: Small changes to the Email Images window interface.
- Fixed: Email images window did not minimize on the Windows taskbar.
- Fixed: Image effects: Transparency setting could be negative.
- Fixed: An images out of range assertion error sometimes occurred when multi-folder processing.
- Fixed: Arles Image Explorer would sometimes freeze when a IPTC tag of more than 60,000 characters was entered.
- Fixed: Web Page Creator: Resetting a template sometimes failed.
- Fixed: The previous beta did not show thumbnails when the thumbnail title location was set to none.
- Fixed: The previous beta sometimes did not show subcategory thumbnails.
- Fixed: The previous beta sometimes did not show subcategory thumbnails at the correct position.
- Fixed: Sorting on the Arles -> Link in the Image Explorer showed an exception.
- Fixed: Opening a folder bookmark in a subcategory sometimes failed.
- Fixed: Folder bookmark categories were not indented.
- Fixed: The progress window did not always stay on top.
- Fixed: Minor resize interface errors in the Rename Files window.
beta 2
- Web Page Creator > Advanced Index Page Options window: New Thumbnail tab added. It contains the Thumbnail / Title layout (which previously was found in the advanced Title Options window). There are several new options like a "Title/thumbnail margin" and justify text alignment. It should make the Left and Right title location look better.
- Improved Diamonds style template added.
- Web Page Creator: A warning is now shown when the "Overwrite thumbnails and images?" option is set to "New and modified only".
- Web Page Creator: Small improvements in popup auto-sizing.
- Web Page Creator: More improvements to the popup auto-size. It now works with the Show scrollbars option.
- Fixed: The Advanced Index Page Options > Table tab > "All cells have same width" option did not work when generating a gallery the first time after starting Arles.
- Fixed: When moving folders in the Arles Image Explorer the sorting orders was not always maintained.
- Fixed: The image effect border color sometimes did not function correctly.
- Fixed: Reading IPTC information failed on images with a large amount of JPEG sections.
beta 1
- Web Page Creator: XHTML support added. You can select it in the Web Page Creator Options window > HTML tab.
- Web Page Creator: Toolbar can now be customized by right clicking it > Popup menu > Customize. Publish and multi-folder processing buttons can be added.
- Arles Image Explorer: Toolbar can now be customized by right clicking it > Popup menu > Customize. Rename and Crop buttons can be added.
- Web Page Creator: Small interface changes. The window is window is wider to make space for an additional buttons on the toolbar.
- Web Page Creator > Web Page Creator Options window: New "Use XHTML tag endings (e.g. />)" option added.
- Web Page Creator > Web Page Creator Options window: Two document type presets added to allow quickly selecting HTML 4.01 or XHTML transitional. You can still other types too if needed.
- Web Page Creator > Web Page Creator Options window: Several small GUI changes.
- Arles Image Explorer: Added "Arrange Images" item to thumbnail view popup menu.
- Web Page Creator > Publish window: New publish icon.
- Improved help file.
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