Thumber What's New ================== Here's a brief list of some of the major new features incorporated into Thumber. Minor features, cosmetic changes and most bug-fixes are not listed. Version 3.12 (December 1999) =========================== Note: Removed editor's crop menu option. Not ready yet! Note: More changes to setup file trying to resolve MSVCRT.DLL when installing Thumber. If you still get this error just hit ignore and continue. Version 3.11 (December 1999) =========================== Bug Fix: Fixed Rename Current Image/File function. Note: Changed the setup file slightly. should remove error about MSVCRT.DLL errors. If you still get this error just hit ignore and continue. Version 3.1 (November 1999) ========================== Feature: Added image editor, with user-defined 3x3 filtering, sharpening, levels, brightness, contrast, gamma and resample capabilities. Feature: Added ability to save JPG files (user defined compression settings). Feature: JPG decoding now handled by Intel JPG library -- much better quality images. Feature: Added help file. Thumber finally has reasonable documentation! Feature: Save EXIF/APP12 data to file / Insert EXIF.APP12 data from file. Feature: Retain EXIF/APP12 data in resized/edited/saved images. Feature: Improved Thumber.ini. No more error messages for future updates! Feature: Thumber now determines focal length and ISO information from a file named cameras.txt. Can be updated/modified by user to add support for new cameras. Feature: Added batch lossless transformation using "marked" images. Feature: Ability to report times/dates in 24 hour format. Feature: Scale thumbnails by percent as well as size. Feature: Light Source (White Balance) and Program (Exposure Program) reporting. Feature: Added support for new cameras (see cameras.txt for details). Feature: Added "smart" EXIF/APEX decoding. Shutter speed and aperture can be displayed as "standard" values. That is, shutter speeds of 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, etc., ...and not 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc. (Still experimental.) Bug Fix: Comments now appear on web page, even if image contains no EXIF/APP12 data. Bug Fix: Fixed bug if no name specified for web page -- defaults to thumbs.htm. Bug Fix: Fixed bug in multiple directory renaming (error when renaming files with no image information). Bug Fix: ISO reporting fixed for Nikon 950. (See cameras.txt feature above) Bug Fix: Fixed brightness reporting for Nikon 950. Bug Fix: Improved accuracy of aperture reporting for a few (mostly) Sony cameras. Bug Fix: Aspect ratio calculation corrected for (mostly) Kodak cameras. Bug Fix: Fixed incorrect reporting of minutes in time data. Bug Fix: Fixed launching of HTML page in brower when page was not titled "thumbs.htm" Note: Significant re-write of Thumber's code. A lot of "under the hood" changes! Version 3.03 (August 1999) ========================== Feature: The "Mark All" button now ignores files that are thumbnails or resized images. Bug Fix: When making master index page, thumbnail images are now ignored in file count and directory size. Bug Fix: Stopped display of empty quality and picture number tags (on web pages) for images without information. Version 3.02 (August 1999) ========================== Bug Fix: Fixed information reporting on web page. Version 3.01 (August 1999) ========================== Bug Fix: Renamed files using 12 hour time format include leading zero for times 01:00am - 09:59am. Version 3.0 (August 1999) ====================== Feature: Added ability to generate thumbnails (of any size) from any JPG file, including those without embedded thumbnails. Thus, Thumber can now create web pages and thumbnails from any JPG files, including "rotated" thumbnails for images that have been rotated. JPEG quality setting can be specified by user. User can choose to extract embedded thumbnails, or generate new thumbnails for digital camera images. Feature: Added ability to create resized versions of the original images when making web pages. Image can be resized to specified dimensions (in pixels) or a specified percentage of original image. HTML page can be created with links to resized images or originals (resized versions do not replace originals) and can be of user-defined size and quality. Feature: Added "Create master index web page" option. This creates an HTML index page with links to all thumbnail pages generated in subdirectories. Feature: Added ability to 'mark' images individually as they are viewed, and then build a web page (and/or extract thumbnails) using these marked images. Feature: Added ability to update file time/date stamp for multiple files and/or multiple directories simultaneously. Feature: Added font face and color options to HTML page creation. Feature: Added "hide border" around thumbnail option to HTML page creation. Feature: Added user-defined start number for counter when renaming files. Number of digits in counter can also be specified. Feature: Significantly increased rename speed if the counter (%C) is the only variable used. Feature: Expanded program size to 640x480. Feature: Added/updated Support for Olympus 400, Olympus 2000, Kodak 240, Kodak 265, Ricoh 5000, Fuji 600 (Fuji 1500, 2900 preliminary suport), Nikon 700. Bug Fix: Fixed rotation problem ("File not found" error) on Windows NT systems. Bug Fix: Fixed multiple-directory renaming. Bug Fix: Eliminated 'Error 9' when generating web pages from multiple directories. Bug Fix: Eliminated 'Error 6' when extracting thumbnails from some Kodak cameras. Bug Fix: Thumber now uses the system temp directory for rotation. Bug Fix: HTML pages now correctly show exposure times of greater than 1 second. Bug Fix: Finally fixed ExposureEV/BrightnessEV reporting. Bug Fix: Fixed "zero" bug when renaming files by hour. Bug Fix: Fixed incorrect reporting of am/pm. Bug Fix: Fixed "am/pm" bug when renaming files by hour if filetime is between 12:00:00pm and 12:59:59pm. Bug Fix: Pressing the "Next File" button will display the first image in a directory if no image is currently loaded. Bug Fix: Removed the extra

tag in page title. Buf Fix: Add/Append/Remove comments to multiple file menu items work again. Buttons always worked! Version 2.6 (February 1999) =========================== Feature: Added option to create tab-delimited image info reports with selected information for spreadsheet import. Feature: Added ability to merge image info reports into a "master report". Feature: Added "Append comment" option. Feature: Added ability to work with comments in multiple files simultaneously. Feature: Added "Jump 10 forward", "Jump 10 backward" buttons. Feature: Added open image in default viewer button. Feature: Added open web page in default browser option. Feature: Added option to retain file time/date stamp when adding comments or transforming image. Feature: Added "Fix time/date stamp" option, to apply image's internal time/date stamp to file. Feature: Thumber defaults to open next image in destination directory after transferring files. Bug Fix: Fixed error that occurred when reading files from a root directory. Bug Fix: Fixed incorrect reporting of ExposureEV, BrightnessEV for images that were taken with exposure compensation. Version 2.5 (February 1999) =========================== Feature: New information reported: Exposure, brightness, ISO speed, metering mode, make/model, and software version. Feature: Added support for Minolta 1500 Digita OS 1.1. Feature: Added support for Nikon 950, Olumpus 2000, Fuji 2700 and others. Feature: Added support for comments in EXIF files. Feature: Thumber remembers last directory. Feature: Added image rotation bottons. Bug Fix: Rewrote internal string handling routines for consistency. Bug Fix: Improved routine for determining image dimensions. Bug Fix: Removed inaccurate reporting of Macro data from EXIF files. Bug Fix: Corrected reporting of shutter speed data from Ricoh 4300 EXIF files. Bug Fix: Corrected reporting of zoom setting from Kodak DC 220 EXIF files. Version 2.41 (January 1999) =========================== Bug Fix: Corrected reading of certain variables from EXIF files. (e.g. exposure compensation from Fuji 700 files.) Bug Fix: Corrected reporting of flash setting data from EXIF files. Version 2.40 (January 1999) =========================== Feature: Added image transfer capability. Transfer files between removeable memory card and hard-drive. Feature: Auto-transfer files on program startup. Feature: Added option to display exposure compensation on HTML page. Feature: Refresh display button. Feature: Full install routine. Smaller executable size. Thumber now written in Visual Basic 6. Feature: Added more "tool-tip" help. Bug Fix: Improved error handling for image display. Bug Fix: Corrected reporting of exposure compensation data (and other EXIF "ratio" variables). Version 2.31 (January 1999) =========================== Feature: Added option to open image links in new browser window. Feature: Added rebuild HTML option. Rebuild web page without extracting thumbnails. Bug Fix: Improved ability to detect image dimensions for rotated images. Bug Fix: Fixed was in which Thumber displays "portrait" orientation images. Bug Fix: Thumber now reads image dimensions from JPG header not EXIF data (more accurate for transformed images). Bug Fix: Fixed text formatting on Thumber's interface. Version 2.3 (December 1998) =========================== Feature: Added additional navigation controls -- jump to first and last files in directory. Feature: Added alphabetic sorting routines. Thumbnails are placed on web pages in alphabetic order, files are viewed in alphabetic order, etc. Feature: Added extra option for handling images that don't contain thumbnails -- Thumber assumes that the thumbnail exists, and creates HTML code for a thumbail. Note: You'll need to supply the thumbnail. Feature: Added option for constraining thumbnail to arbitrary size in HTML code -- Can be selected for Thumber-created or user-created thumbnails. Feature: Removed limit on the number of images per directory that Thumber can process (used to be 1,000) Bug Fix: More reliable extraction of thumbnails from multiple directories. Bug Fix: More reliable renaming. Bug Fix: Thumber now remembers page name when saving options. Version 2.0-2.2 (Summer 1998) ============================= Feature: Added support for 'EXIF' images produced by cameras such as Nikon 900, Kodak 260, Fuji 700, etc. Feature: Added lossless JPEG image manipulation. Feature: Added file renaming capabilities. Feature: Added capability to process multiple directories simultaneously. Feature: Added capability to generate image information report. Feature: Added capability to read and insert comments in JPEG files. Bug Fixes: Many! Version 1.0-1.6 (Spring 1998) ============================= Feature: Read image information contained within digital camera JPEG files. Feature: Extract Thumbnails from JPEG files. Feature: Create HTML page using Thumbnails.