THE MARCH OF THE MARCH RELEASE

We are excited to announce that Photokeeper 2004 has cleared beta testing and is now available as a polished off release version!

The changes are as follows:

• improved autoplaying slideshow mechanism
• improved help manual
• added "Select All Slides" to Slides Popup Menu in Director View
• improved Resolve Broken Links mechanism
• optimized thread synchronization
• fixed quick info callouts don't appear correctly in Properties Dialog drop down lists
• fixed mouse flickers to hourglass in Print Dialog
• fixed anchor arrowheaded type never gets applied with theme
• optimized drawing of theme samples
• fixed anchor shadows do not appear in theme samples
• fixed selection highlight in theme list control makes samples look different colour (removed highlight from above sample)
• fixed last item in list control sometimes is shown partially and unable to scroll down further
• fixed quick info callouts don't appear separately for multiple identical photos on a page
• fixed opening an album with fonts causes failed assertions when using Properties Dialog (fonts now flagged as broken)
• fixed duplicating pages with photos linked with annotations doesn't duplicate their slide properties (especially the Include In Slideshow property)
• fixed disconnecting an anchor from an annotation, while keeping it connected to the photo, (as opposed to disconnecting it from the photo, while keeping it connected to the annotation) doesn't update the current slide properly
• fixed connecting an anchor to a photo, then to the annotation, (as opposed to annotation, then to photo) doesn't make formatted photo slide available to be used in slideshow
• fixed failed assertion in module cPkpPathServer.cpp on line 1948 and failed assertion in module cPkpStyleableObject.cpp on line 1933
• fixed issues with annotation being squished in formatted photo slides
• fixed soundtrack flagged as broken if in non-standard location
• fixed toggling View As Cropped in Photo View doesn't reload image if appropriate (now also greyed out if photo is not cropped on page)
• fixed failed assertion in module cPkpPathServer.cpp on line 48 and failed assertion in module cPkpFilenameLinkedObject.cpp on line 198
• fixed anchor sketched property does not duplicate
• fixed asks "Do you want to save album?" first time running
• fixed anchor elements and shadows not clipped to page slide boundaries
• fixed frames using crystallinity sometimes show black shadow anomalies
• fixed crash in sound library after large number of sound events played over long period of time
• fixed crash in Tip Of The Day Dialog on certain tooltips

To download the new release (minimal, 17 megs), click:
http://download.aephid.com/photokeeper_release.exe

To download the new beta (full, 19 megs), click:
http://download.aephid.com/photokeeper_release_full.exe

Note that you can just download the minimal version and install on top of any of the previous 2003/2004 betas (even if you installed the full version).

2004 CDS NOW AVAILABLE

If you have a slow download speed, or just want a nice cd with the Photokeeper frog on the cover, you can order a cd below:
http://www.aephid.com/photokeeper-get-cd.html

Over the next couple of months, we will be putting together a set of video / flash tutorials of Photokeeper. These will be available on the website (in minimal form) and also on the cd. You may wish to wait on ordering the cd until these are included.

Cheers,

Aephid Technologies Inc