Picture Perfect Updates

Version 5.13s

This latest version was released on January 2, 2003.

• Easy Upgrade from Handango retail package.

Version 5.12s
January 17, 2002

• .albs files run as looping slide show .alb files (Mazingo extension)
• Installer adds .albs, .jpeg files as recognized extensions
• Changed open Album to allow for up to 250 folders on the device

Version 5.10s
August 19, 2001

• Nicer thumbnails view with borders
• Added Enlarge Thumbnails option
• Added 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 thumbnail views
• Disabled JPEG error messages for marginal files
• Package files can now be opened from File Explorer
• New easier to use interface for Open Album
• Added Help to menu
• Reorganized menu (adding Manage category)

Version 5.02s
June 5, 2001

• Panning and zooming are now much faster than before.
• Added Refresh Thumbnails option to redraw thumbnails.
• Thumbnails now start at current picture, not start of album.
• Sound now plays when picture is selected via the thumbnail view.
• The maximum duration for a slide is increased to 65 seconds.

Version 5.01s
April 29, 2001

• Random effects now always work properly.
• Text annotation now appears properly after selecting a thumbnail.
• Zooming in after a picture was zoomed already now shows the zoom-out icon.
• First sound in slide show now plays properly.

Version 5.0s Upgrade
April 20, 2001

This is an upgrade from earlier versions which you can order here.

Major Additions

• Added several cool transition effects (fade, wipe, dissolve, etc.).
• Implemented scale for best quality option.
• Added Packaging capability to easily share albums with other PicturePerfect users.
• Album files can now be put anywhere and opened anywhere.
• Albums and image files can now be moved to a different folder without breaking the album.
• Added functions to manually rotate bitmaps.
• Added Reduce Image function to resize pictures and save valuable memory.
• Added Text Annotation feature.
• Added the ability to automatically play .mp3 or .wma files with a slide show.
• Added custom hardware button mappings.

Minor Additions

• Added "Reset Zoom and Position" command to menu.
• Zoom and position are now saved with the picture.
• Reorganized Settings menu.
• Settings menu now has "transition effects speed" setting.
• Reorganized Picture Properties menus and dialogs.
• Deleted Set Slide Show Time For All setting.
• Added Album, Settings, Global Defaults.
• Slide show time of 0 in individual pictures now uses global default.
• Added scaling options to picture properties.
• Added Quick Delete Mode.
• Added Delete Album.
• Changed Album Open Interface.
• Added New Album options: Empty, From Folder, From Storage Card.
• Building Albums from a CF Card now supports IBM MicroDrive and non-English devices.
• Added Rename Album command.
• Moved View Full Screen and View Thumbnails to Picture menu.
• Inserting pictures from a folder now ensures no duplicates are added.
• Added Update Folder menu option (this removes deleted images, too.)
• Moved Album, Add All From Folder to Picture, Insert Folder.
• File Associations now shows which program is default image viewer.
• Ampersands now appears properly in captions.
• Smart rotate now only goes into effect when the device is NOT docked.
• Added Picture, Info dialog.
• Moved Fix Caption Position and Flip JPEG properties to More Properties dialog.
• Removed dialog entry of associated sound -- this is now a .wav file with the same prefix as the image file.
• Added Delete Sound menu item.
• Added Album, Close for privacy.

Version 4.08s
March 20, 2001

• The PicturePerfect executable file uses 100Kb less memory due to new registration mechanism.

Version 4.06s and 4.07s
February 10, 2001

• Cosmetic Enhancements. No new functionality was introduced.

Version 4.05s
January 15, 2001

• Opening images from File Explorer has been improved. You now have access to the menu bar, including the zoom and full-screen functions. Also, a bug where the image occasionally would not display has been fixed as well.
• Fixed problem where some AGFA JPEG images gave warning massage.

Version 4.03
December 21, 2000.

• Situations where image files are not present no longer causes repeated error messages in Thumbnail view.
• Enhanced detail of Zoom in some cases.

Version 4.02

November 30, 2000

• Added Preference to enable or disable Smart Rotate. (Select Album, Preferences from the menu.)
• Added Exit option to the Album menu.
• Added Sort options from the Album menu, including a special sort for PowerPoint slides.

Version 4.0
November 27, 2000

• Added Thumbnail view.
• Large pictures load twice as fast as before.
• Pictures are sorted by file creation date when making a new album.
• Add All Pictures From Folder now has an option to include subfolders.
• Added New Album from CF Card menu option to make it faster to view photos from a digital camera.
• Tapping .alb album files from File Explorer now opens PicturePerfect with the selected album.

Version 3.2
November 18, 2000

• Very large images now use 1Mb or less of memory. This fixes the out-of-memory problems in previous versions.
• Added Smart Rotate. Pictures now rotate automatically to best fit the display.
• Removed rotate functions from menus.
• Added Flip JPEG, Fix Caption Position options in Picture Properties.

Version 3.12
September 18, 2000

• Zoom in/out of photos.
• Loads large images using less memory than before.
• Improved image quality on iPAQ and Jornada. (Overcomes 12-bit graphics display shortcoming of these devices.)
• Rotate photos for landscape viewing.
• View images full-screen -- no menu bar or top bar is visible.
• Add images from ANY folder on your device.