Altap Salamander 2.5 RC3 Changelog

Release date: April 13, 2007

Help system is finished and available online.
We have changed name from Servant Salamander to Altap Salamander to make it easier to remember and pronounce. Upgrade from Servant Salamander 2.0 to Altap Salamander 2.5 will be free of charge.
Final version of Altap Salamander 2.5 will be released during April 2007.
As soon as language translation support will be finished, we will release updated version 2.5 with language packs.

Initial support for Windows Vista. You can install, uninstall, and run Altap Salamander, import registration keys. Please report us all Vista related problems on discussion forum.
Support for Icons Overlays (Tortoise SVN and Tortoise CVS).
Transfer speed and time estimation is displayed in Copy/Move progress windows.
Transfer speed can be limited for Copy and Move operations.
Running operations can be queued using new option "Wait Until All Other Copy/Move Operations are Finished".
Salamander icon color (and main window title) can be changed using new configuration page Main Window or from command line.
Quick Rename: only name part (without extension) is selected.
We fixed almost 25 bugs and made another 10 improvements in the Altap Salamander core.

Added alpha-blending of 32-bit Photoshop PSD files
Added alpha-blending of non-interleaved 64-bit PiNG files
Fixed reading of PiNGs with 16 bits per channel
Fixed reading of bottom-left Canon Raw CR2 images
Added reading of RGB and CMYK TIFFs with 2 extra channels
Proper distinguishing of alpha-channel of 32-bit TIFFs from spot channels
Partial elimination of the "small vertical shifts" problem on partial repaint of zoomed images. It should now work in most common cases, often on the expense of CPU time.
Fixed interpretation of APEX values in EXIF JPEG marker
Pipette & statusbar now take RGB values and eventually also palette index directly from image data, no longer from HDC
Added support of Olympus Digital Camera ORF files
Added support of 24bit JPEG data inside Nikon & Adobe Digital Camera Raw formats NEF and DNG, if present

PostScript & PDF: Important stability fixes
PostScript & PDF: extended support & speed optimizations of rasters & fonts
DWG: Added support of hatches in R13/R14 files
HP-GL: Added support for custom line dash styles
HP-GL, HP-RTL: Rasters: fixed sizing & positioning & in some cases also R<->B swap
All formats: fixed polypolygon fill & outline styles
Office formats: improved support for Far East languages
RTF: added support for embedded DDB rasters
Added support for OpenOffice: PNG thumbnails, if present, are now extracted and shown by both the viewer & thumbnailer

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