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Fotoxx 11.07

    Translation updates will be notified here when they are ready.
    The main image retouch functions can now be used in parallel.
    The last position of most windows is saved and restored within and across sessions.
    New function Match Colors: take a spot color sample from two images.
    The colors of the 2nd image are changed to match the first.
    New function Revise RGB: select up to 9 control pixels on an image and adjust their RGB values. All image pixels are adjusted to match, using weights based on distance from the control pixels. Use this function to make complex color adjustments that vary across the image.
    Brightness Ramp was revised to handle RGB colors. This is an alternative method to remove a color caste that varies across an image or image area.
    Tools > Show RGB: EV and OD units are output in addition to RGB values. Up to five points are shown, updated live as the image is edited.
    The Brightness/Color curves now have a range of +/-2 EV (F-stops) and the stepwise adjust buttons are calibrated in 0.1 EV steps. Steps 1/3 this size can also be used. Use this function with Show RGB to make calibrated color adjustments.
    Numeric feedback was added to the sliders in retouch edit functions.
    Missing gallery thumbnails are generated 2-3x faster (on multi-core processors) using multiple threads working ahead of need (usually).
    Clone (new window) now has two variants: share desktop 50/50 or open a new window of the same size, slightly offset for visibility.
    Open File now has two variants: use the same window or open a new window in a parallel instance of Fotoxx.
    New toolbar button: save file as a new version (immediate, no dialog).
    The current image and its edit history remain unchanged.
    Save-As menu and toolbar: new checkbox option to switch the current file to the saved file. The edit trail (undo/redo) is also retained.
    New command line parameters:
    -prev      open the last file viewed in the previous session (no longer default).
    -recent   start with a gallery of recent files (most recent at top).
    If the [undo] or [redo] button is pressed with the shift-key, they become "undo all" and "redo all". This makes it easier to compare an image having multiple edits with the original image.
    Select Area [Unfinish] button: put a finished area back in edit mode.
    Pixel Edit was moved from the Art menu to the Retouch menu.
    Hourglass cursor was replaced with a BUSY sign at the bottom of the window.
    Toolbar help is a topic help like F1. Menu help opens the user guide.
    Bugfix: warp functions were infrequently putting artifacts in the image.
    Bugfix: Edit Collections could crash if adds and deletes were mixed.
    Bugfix: Select Area Edge Calculation: if killed by user, the area was left in a half finished condition.

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Fotoxx 11.08

Jul 30, 2011 at 23:28

    An Italian user guide has been added. Thank you, Doriano.
    New function DRGB: change brightness and color balance using OD units.
    Revise_RGB: added delta mode (show +/- changes from original image).
    Show RGB: added EV and OD units, delta mode, and pixel labels on image.
    Slide Show: two image transition types were added, "radar" and "jaws".
    Slide Show: preferred image transitions can now be selected and are remembered.
    A single RAW file can now be opened like any other image file (only needs more time). Batch conversion remains an option to process many files automatically.
    Delete Area was renamed to Unselect Area (reduce ambiguity).
    If multiple dialogs are open, the F1 help topic is determined by the last dialog actually used.
    Bugfix: invalidate a select-area if Undo/Redo changes the image size.
    Bugfix: Create Blank Image was getting leftover EXIF data from a prior image.
    Bugfix: buffer overflow crash in Russian locale, due to a long translation string. Several other vulnerable places were indentified and fixed.
    Bug workaround: crash from GCC 4.5 optimization removing necessary code. Do-nothing code referencing the relevant variable was added to prevent this. 
    Annoyance fix: rapid repetition of prev/next buttons or arrow keys was sometimes causing a "function still active" popup message which had to be dismissed.
    Current bug: On Ubuntu 11.04 Fotoxx refuses to print with small paper formats (A5, A6). Ubuntu 10.10 works OK. I cannot fix this.

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Fotoxx 11.08.1

Aug 3, 2011 at 11:37

Broken menu installation was fixed (Makefile).
No other changes

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Fotoxx 11.09

DateSep 1, 2011 at 11:20

This release contains minor bug fixes and user interface improvements.

    Print Image File now allows print margins to be set.
    The Portuguese translation was brought up to date.
    Show RGB: labels on monitored image points were made optional.
    Gallery: larger font for file names is used when large thumbnails are used.
    Edit Captions and Edit User Comments were combined into one function.
    File Open will discard a preceding search result or named collection.
    The user is notified and may proceed or cancel.
    File > Open (menu and toolbar) can now open a RAW file (as tiff-16).
    The batch conversion function remains available.
    CPU load monitor on status bar now includes subprocesses.
    Smart Erase: improved algorithm gives better results in some cases.
    Panorama: image overlap requirement was relaxed.
    Minor source code changes were made for better BSD compatibility.
    Bugfix: Flatten: fix uneven conversion of pixels with max. brightness.
    Bufgix: crash if Tools > Add Menu is started and then canceled.
    Bugfix: minor memory leak.

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Bugfix: crash if slide show is started without the last image transition mode (jaws) included in user preferences.

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Fotoxx 11.10

Oct 1, 2011 at 16:26

    New function: classic gamma curve edit for brightness and individual RGB colors.
    Applicable to the whole image or a selected object/area.
    Printing was revised to work better with recent changes in HPLIP that made printing on small paper sizes more difficult. The paper size must be specified in the Printer Properties dialog (the printer admin function) and not in the application program - otherwise the print fails with a "paper mismatch" error. This changed between Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04.
    New function: convert a "tetragon" image area into a rectangle. Useful for gallery paintings photographed from the side to avoid reflections, buildings photographed at an angle, etc.
    At startup, check for new files and advise if synchronization is needed.
    New option: warn if overwriting an original (non-versioned) image file.
    Slide Show: stop strange behavior when multiple monitors are used.
    Slide Show: option to show only the most recent version of each image.
    Slide Show: use spacebar to pause and resume slide show.
    Pixel Edit: transparency adjustment steps were made finer.
    Code cleanup for new compiler warnings from GCC 4.6 (Ubuntu 11.10).

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Fotoxx 11.11

DateNov 1, 2011 at 11:33

    Creating and editing collections was made easier and more intuitive.
    Synchronize Files now runs automatically at startup. Image navigation and viewing is immediately possible but editing is blocked until synchronize is finished (normally a few seconds).
    Straighten Image: fix less than optimal results for images needing a large correction. Menu was renamed to Keystone Correction.
    New menu: Help > User Guide Changes: summary of changes to reduce effort to keep up.
    New menu: Help > Edit Functions Summary: a one-page "quick reference" summary of all the image editing functions.
    New user guide topic: organize a large image collection to reduce effort and optimize image searching.
    The status bar now shows if a dialog is waiting for input (possibly hidden under another window).
    New keyboard shortcut: N = Rename Image File.
    Transform and Retouch menus were rearranged to follow typical workflow.
    Rotate and warp dialogs have convenience buttons to the grid setup menu.
    Grid setup: the grid lines can be moved around over the image using sliders.
    New utility: update collections if the top image directory was moved.
    The package build method was updated to improve Debian packages and include dependencies on non-library executable programs. The RPM packages have library dependencies only because the package names and contents are different from Debian.

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Fotoxx 11.11.1

DateNov 5, 2011 at 07:06

Fix some problems in v.11.11 released a few days ago:
+ Bugfix: crash in vertical panorama.
+ Bugfix: crash after moving images to trash followed by "Open Recent Files".
+ Restore lost user feedback for functions running more than a few seconds.

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Fotoxx 11.12

Date Nov 30, 2011 at 17:40

    New function Auto-Trim: automatically trim unused edges left over from panorama, warp and unbend functions.
    New function: Find bright or dark "stuck" pixels (camera sensor defects - 1x1/2x2/3x3 blocks) and fix them by interpolating neighboring pixels. Pixel locations can be saved and applied later to other images.
    Select Area was extended to both select and unselect by matching colors, and the pixel search range was made adjustable 1-20 times the mouse radius.
    Batch Resize/Export function now supports output of JPEG, PNG, TIFF. This can be used to select and convert files to a different format.
    Convert RAW Files now supports output of JPEG, PNG, TIFF-8, TIFF-16 (was TIFF-16 only).
    Warp Area algorithm was made a bit easier to control.
    GUI language translation procedure was simplified.
    Bugfix: some lost translations of dialog buttons were restored.
    Bugfix: Trim dialog mouse ownership was sometimes misleading.
    Bugfix: WarpArea did not reset itself if the selected area was changed.
    Bugfix: crash if parallel instances of fotoxx are editing images and using undo/redo.

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Fotoxx 11.12.2
DateDec 3, 2011 at 15:43

The Italian GUI translation was updated. The method for finding translation files was made more flexible: a locale of 'lc_RC' will look for this .po file first, and if not found look for a .po file for 'lc' alone.
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Fotoxx 11.12.1
DateDec 2, 2011 at 11:47

Fix startup crash due to incorrect inheritance of top image directory from the previous Fotoxx version

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Whats new: >>

    New function Search Metadata: search and report image metadata (EXIF/IPTC/etc.), using a combined image and text display format.
    Synchronize Files is 2x faster for an initial installation or after importing a large number of new photos (>1000/min. on a fast PC).
    The "my mouse" checkbox was removed from all edit and selection dialogs. The mouse belongs to the last widget clicked. The main window can be zoomed and scrolled during such dialogs by using CTRL + mouse click or drag.
    Mouse wheel can do zoom-in and zoom-out.
    Zooming an image re-centers it on the mouse position, and the mouse position follows the zoom center to the middle of the window.
    Zoom ratio is configurable: choose 1-4 zooms for each 2x increase in size.
    DRGB (print color adjuster) can save corrections to a file for re-use.
    Some user settings in various menus were collected together in the new menu function Tools > User Settings.
    Bugfix: Search Image was finding false matches for images with very large caption or comments.
    Bugfix: cannot escape file open dialog if open previous or open recent is attempted when there are no previous files (initial installation).
    Bugfix: interactive GUI translation function failed to initialize.

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Whats new: >>

The Italian user guide was updated.
The Swedish translation was updated.
Fix a serious bug. The program loops if zoom is attempted.
(I failed to test with a virgin parameters file)

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Whats new: >>

    Fotoxx was converted to use GTK3 and Cairo. It will no longer build or install on older Linux releases lacking these libraries. For Ubuntu this means Fotoxx installs on 11.04 or later.
    Multiple (up to 10) top image directories are now supported.
    The gallery thumbnail size preference is saved and restored across sessions.
    Bugfix: crash if an image is present 2+ times in a collection and is then removed.
    Bugfix: crash in slide show "jaws" transition.
    RPM packages are now built using Fedora and rpmbuild instead of alien.

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Whats new: >>

    Mouse-driven area select and edit functions respond much faster.
    The internal image format was changed from int-16 to float-32 per RGB color. This simplified the code and made some edit functions slightly faster. There is no visual impact. The main memory needed to edit a 20 megapixel image has grown to about 800 MB.
    The exiftool program is started as a server process and left running. This eliminates a significant startup delay for every image opened.
    Indexing of new image files found at startup was made faster.
    A toolbar button is used to change the mouse-drawing color for select and edit functions. Similar buttons on many dialogs were removed.
    The pixel edit function was made easier and faster to use.
    An edited file can be saved in the additional formats .bmp and .ico.
    Setting the zoom ratio was simplified: 1, 2, or 3 zooms (clicks) for each 2x increase.
    Create Blank Image: the file type can be .jpg, .tif, .png, or .bmp.
    The E-mail function was removed because Thunderbird and Evolution do not work (or no longer work) with the "standard" xdg-email protocol for attachments. Use Tools > Batch Convert to select images, export, and reduce size (if wanted) for attaching to e-mail or uploading.
    Bugfix: If the top image directory was set to /home/<user>, thousands of unwanted files in /home/<user>/.thumbnails/* were being indexed.
    Bugfix: Stack/Noise image alignment was poor if there was significant camera movement between photos.
    Bugfix: Progress monitoring for some functions was very inaccurate.
    Bugfix: some .gif files produced empty thumbnail images.
    Bugfix: file synchronization at startup was sometimes wasting time with unnecessary updates.

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Two minor bugs were fixed:

    Select Area: cancel button did not kill the Finish process, but waited for it to complete.
    Retouching a zoomed image caused a change in aspect ratio which self-corrected afterwards.


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