SVGmaker Standard Version History

SVGmaker for NT/2000/XP

V2.01.5B30.32 - 30 Nov 2005: Compatible with FireFox 1.5; Added px units to text styles and path elements; Multipage Javascript now recognizes URL parameter "#page=n"

V2.01.4B18.32 - 18 Nov 2004: Variable bitmap downsampling; SVGHardCopy utility included for hardcopy printing and preview; Virtual port fixes error "failed to print" for machines that have no physical port; Registry interface added for programatic control; Fixed Adobe Acrobat text height error; Fixed Adobe Acrobat spurious lines error

V1.10.4428.32 - 28 Apr 2004: Support for butt line ends; Fixed missing outlines when printing from Adobe Acrobat; ASV6 compatible page navigation script

V1.10.2C14.32 - 14 Dec 2002: Support for international font names eg Japanese

V1.10.2626 - 26 Jun 2002: Detection and conversion of rectangular gradient fills to linearGradient commands

V1.10.2604 - 4 Jun 2002: Image storage in external files or embedded directly in SVG; WYSIWYG text output with selectable positioning accuracy and character width matching; Improved bidirectional text handling; SVG font format change to overcome Batik problems; Rectangle detection to convert suitable polygons into rectangle commands; Gradient fill display improvements; "Winding" fill support; Improved symbol encoded font handling; Support for semi-transparent fills commonly used in Microsoft PowerPoint

V1.00.2107 - 7 Jan 2002: Bug fix for Windows XP that caused OpenType fonts to always be drawn

V1.00.1C17 - 17 Dec 2001: Bug fix for corrupted images produced when the "Print directly to printer" scheduling option was selected; Bug fix for incorrect drawing of Type1 fonts

V1.00.1C07 - 7 Dec 2001: HTML wrapper to fix print problems due to incorrect fitting to page on Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later; HTML based Index and Frame multipage formats with one SVG file per page; Crop output to size of inked area plus selectable margin; SVG font embedding support; Unicode Private Use Area characters embedded as SVG fonts to overcome possible font availability and viewer problems; Color associations capable of transforming text color; Installer update capability; Bug fix for Adobe InDesign that caused it to crash during printing

V1.00.1921 - 21 Sep 2001: New property options to set initial view and multipage format of output

V1.00.1905 - 5 Sep 2001: Bitmap processing performance improvements; Reduction in size of image files produced; New option to zip all output to a single file; Superior display based control of multi page document viewing; Unicode Private Use Area characters drawn as outlines to overcome possible font availability and viewer problems; Printer Property change on Windows 2000 to correctly display all options; Bug fix to avoid a possible loss of bold text attibute

V1.00.1504 - 4 May 2001: Improved interpretation of vector drawing commands involving logical raster operations; Printer emulation type change to avoid incorrect bitmap positioning requests from some Microsoft Office applications; Bug fix for Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000 that caused it to stop responding after printing

V1.00.1428 - 28 Apr 2001: System font text support; Multi page document viewing support; Bitmap processing performance improvements; Rectangle merging

V2.01.5C30.16 - 20 Dec 2005: Compatible with FireFox 1.5; Added px units to text styles and path elements; Multipage Javascript now recognizes URL parameter "#page=n"

V2.01.4B18.16 - 18 Nov 2004: Variable bitmap downsampling; SVGHardCopy utility included for hardcopy printing and preview; Virtual port fixes error "failed to print" for machines that have no physical port; Fixed Adobe Acrobat spurious lines error

V1.10.4611.16 - 11 Jun 2004: Support for butt line ends; ASV6 compatible page navigation script

V1.10.2626 - 26 Jun 2002: Detection and conversion of rectangular gradient fills to linearGradient commands

V1.10.2604 - 4 Jun 2002: Image storage in external files or embedded directly in SVG; WYSIWYG text output with selectable positioning accuracy and character width matching; Improved bidirectional text handling; SVG font format change to overcome Batik problems; Rectangle detection to convert suitable polygons into rectangle commands; Gradient fill display improvements; "Winding" fill support

V1.00.1C07 - 7 Dec 2001: HTML wrapper to fix print problems due to incorrect fitting to page on Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later; HTML based Index and Frame multipage formats with one SVG file per page; Crop output to size of inked area plus selectable margin; SVG font embedding support; Unicode Private Use Area characters embedded as SVG fonts to overcome possible font availability and viewer problems; Color associations capable of transforming text color; Installer update capability

V1.00.1921 - 21 Sep 2001: New property options to set initial view and multipage format of output

V1.00.1905 - 5 Sep 2001: Bitmap processing performance improvements; Reduction in size of image files produced; New option to zip all output to a single file; Superior display based control of multi page document viewing; Unicode Private Use Area characters drawn as outlines to overcome possible font availability and viewer problems