Arles Image Web Page Creator: History File
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Version 4.3
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 - Layouts are a fast and easy way to apply 
   a predefined layout to your image gallery.

 - The text annotation tool has been 
   completely redesigned. Transparent, 
   anti-aliased texts with backgrounds can 
   now be added by clicking with your mouse. 
   You can even add your own user-defined 
   titles or other image information to all 
   your images with a single click.

 - Table color patterns option added. You can 
   now select to have horizontal stripes, 
   vertical stripes or checked color pattern 
   for the index table. 

 - Example on HTML page properties window now 
   shows the background image. 

 - Bug fixed: Banners were sometimes not shown 
   on the image pages.

 - Changed default thumbnail prefix 'tn' to 
   lowercase.

 - Some background images are now included in 
   the backgrounds subfolder. Just click the 
   browse button when adding a background. 

Version 4.2.1
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 - Slideshow can now be used in combination 
   with templates

Version 4.2
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 - Slideshow option for image pages.

 - Autosynchronize option added for gallery 
   styles using frames.

 - Bug repaired: Custom sorting did not work
   in version 4.1.

 - Check all and Uncheck all options added to 
   Arles Image Explorer.

 - Standard Browse Folder dialog now used for 
   browse source folder button.

 - Several other minor tweaks and bug fixes.


Version 4.1
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 - User friendly frames option. Just select the 
   desired Gallery style on the Index page tab 
   and click the All button. 

 - Full screen image viewer in Image Explorer. 

 - Completely redesigned thumbnail viewer. The 
   thumbnail viewer is now much much faster. It 
   also allows file management functions like 
   copy, cut, paste, delete, multi select, etc. 
   In addition, you can drag and drop images to 
   and from the Windows Explorer or any other 
   applications accepting files. 

 - Image titles can now also be edited directly 
   in the list view. 

 - New option to link directly to original images. 
   Non Internet enabled images, like TIFF files 
   will not be converted to an Internet enabled 
   format. 

 - Image pages HTML files can now be placed in a 
   subfolder. 

 - Several other features and bug repairs. 

 - Nice new icon, splash screen and about box. 


Version 4.0
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- Arles Image Explorer added. You can view, sort and 
  select images. In addition, two custom titles can 
  be set for each image file.

- Database support added. Image data edited in the 
  image explorer is now automatically stored in a 
  database allowing you to sort, select and provide 
  titles for all images on your computer.

- Support for 20+ image formats. These include:
  - AutoDesk (*.pic, *.cel) 
  - Compuserve Graphics Interchange (*.gif) 
  - Dr. Halo (*.cut) 
  - Jpeg images (jpg, jpeg) 
  - Kodak Photo CD (*.pcd) 
  - Paint Shop Pro (*.psp) 
  - Photoshop (*.psd, *.pdd) 
  - Portable Bitmap (*.pbm) 
  - Portable Graymap (*.pgm) 
  - Portable Network Graphics (*.png) 
  - Portable Pixelmap (*.ppm) 
  - SGI Black/White (*.bw) 
  - SGI True Color (*.sgi, *.rgb) 
  - SGI Wavefront (*.rla) 
  - Tagged Image File Format (*.tif, *,tiff) 
  - Truevision Targe (*.tga, *.win, *.vst, *.vda) 
  - Windows Enhanced Metafile (*.emf) 
  - Windows Icons (*.ico) 
  - Windows Metafile (*.wmf) 
  - Windows or Compuserve RLE (*.rle) 
  - Windows or OS/2 Bitmaps (*.bmp) 
  - Windows or OS/2 DIB (*.dib) 
  - Zsoft Paintbrush (*.pcx, *.pcc) 

- Title window. The title window has been completely 
  redesigned. You can either select a predefined titles 
  or take full control by using title tags in the title 
  definition fields. Use these title tags to insert 
  image file information like name, size, date in the 
  titles.

- Banners can be defined at the top and bottom and index 
  and image pages. 

- Custom HTML can be defined for the top and bottom of 
  the index and image pages. 

- Image quality can now be set separately for modified 
  images. 

- Image filters (Sharpen, Sharpen more, High pass, Blur, 
  Soften, Edge enhance, Find edges, Laplace and Emboss) 
  can now be set for thumbnails and modified images. 

- New resampling methods (Box, Triangle, Hermite, Bell, 
  B-spline, Lancos3, Mitchell) available for creating 
  thumbnails and modifying images. 

- Image height, image width and image color depth tags 
  available for image titles. 

- 8 bit grayscale jpeg images now create 8bit grayscale 
  thumbnails in stead of 24bit. 

- Target option added for home navigation links.

- New advanced File Location window allowing to specify 
  User Defined locations for navigation and background 
  images. 

- Several bug fixes. 
 

Version 3.3
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- Batch processing of subdirectories.

- Many new title options.

- Custom tags can be specified in titles file name,
  file size and file date, etc.

Version 3.2
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- Graphics option for links added. Image buttons can
  now be used as navigation items on the index and 
  image pages. Several example buttons are included. 

- A link to your home page can be specified on the 
  index and image pages. 

- "Crop image to fit width and height" option added 
   to thumbnail creation. 

- Background images can be specified for index and 
  image pages. 

- Table background color can be specified. 

- Quicklist option for index pages navigation added. 

- "Ask me" option added for thumbnail creation and 
   image modification. 

- Suffix option added for thumbnail filenames. 

- Table alignment option added. 

- HTML document encoding option added to enable HTML 
  page generation in other non-western languages. 

- Subfolder option added for the images. 

- Recently opened file list extended to 8 files. 

- Several other minor bugs repaired and issues added.

Version 3.1
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- Fonts can now be set for all text items, such as page 
  titles, thumbnail titles, image titles and navigation 
  items. 

- New progress window, which allows interrupting of 
  automatic tasks. 

- Color example preview in HTML design window.

- Different colors can be set for the index and image pages. 

- HTML title tag set to page title for index pages. 

- User selectable HTML file extensions. 

- Multiple browsers can be set to show generated HTML pages. 

- Illegal characters in links and image file names are 
  automatically converted to their hexadecimal values. This 
  allows use of spaces, which are normally illegal URL 
  characters, in file names.

- Version 3.1 provides more stability, uses less resources 
  and repairs several bugs.

Version 3.0.1
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- Repaired: 'List index out of range (#)' bug that sometimes 
  appeared when multiple folders with images where opened
  during one session.

Version 3
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- Multiple index pages. A maximum of images on each index page 
  can be specified.

- Support of jpeg, bmp and gif image formats.

- New quicklist navigation option for image HTML pages.

- For the Image pages the page title is automatically set to 
  the image label.

- New options available (e.g. File name without extension 
  and file size) for thumbnail and image titles.

- User definable thumbnail filename prefix and subfolder.

- Bug repaired: Arles did not notice when the case of existing 
  filenames were changed. This caused broken image links and 
  multiple showings of the same image.

- Bug repaired: Incorrect file sizes were shown in titles when 
  the image resize options was selected.

- Numerous other minor modifications and several small bugs
  repaired.

Version 2.1
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- Images can now be protected against copying by adding 
  a text label to the images. Users can use this to add, for 
  example, copyright information to the images.

- Arles now recognizes JPEG images containing errors. JPEG files 
  containing errors will be renamed with an '.error' extension.

- Users can now specify index and image file name prefixes.
  If you selected myfilename as an image file name prefix 
  then the image pages will be named myfilename0.htm,
  myfilename1.htm, etc.

- GUI has been reorganized to users wishes.

Version 2.0.2
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- Border option added for thumbnails and images.

Version 2.0.1
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- Index and image template radio buttons are automatically
  selected when a valid template file has been selected.

- Some minor bugs removed and modifications.

Version 2.0
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- Help file updated.

- Sorting feature added.

- Image width and height features added. Users can now add height
  and width information to the IMG HTML tag.

- Original images can be resized.

- Numerous smaller modifications.
