Changelog of retypar - a tool to convert images into ASCII by Jens Heuser


0.9.4
- preview now only for GIF and JPEG, choose ASCII formats when saving
- added text video export to GUI, still no playback though...
- added out-of-memory warning
- improved, fixed and extended batch mode
- added preview field for selected font and size
- added popup menu to quickly perform operations
- path of last opened image is stored in .ini
- re-enabled preview component when opening images (fully working but still out of memory exceptions)
- re-enabled and fixed update module
- fixed minor glitch in multi language module
- added ugly 'about' window
- re-structured components to fit in a 1024 * 768 window (this is now minimum resolution)
- errors that occured in the core now pop up in the GUI
- added spanish translation
- added GIF export (with optional transparency)
- fixed crash because of empty .ini file
- introduced command line switch '-p' to set transparency

0.9.3
- added ANSI export (including SAUCE)
- disabled previewer in open-file-dialogue due to a severe memory issue
- added slider to adjust brightness, contrast and saturation (or the like...) before conversion
- fixed bug that prevented retypar from loading algorithms on a linux machine
- width and height of converted image are displayed next to its size
- the auto update module is temporarily disabled (check sf.net for updates) 

0.9.2
- created API to extend retypar with external algorithms
- added a button to get some info about the selected algorithm
- added "Options" button to set look and feel, enable / disable update module, remove algorithms and view the changelog
- changed values in "Options" get stored immediately in an .ini file (separate from .jar file)
- renamed command line switch '-m' to '-x' ('Export result as...')
- added command line switch '-e' to list all installed algorithms
- if System.getProperty("user.language") returns one of de, fr or it the corresponding translation is used. otherwise english.

0.9.1
- renamed project to 'retypar', was 'jITAC - Java image to ASCII converter'. that name was already in use by another developer...
- added preview component to open file dialog
- added french to available translations (now german, english, french, italian)

0.9
- added algorithm "Noise", old algorithm now called "M rules". both available, "Noise" features a magic threshold value!

0.8.7
- fixed problems with language module

0.8.6
- background color now choosable and taken into account when computing character colors
- result of JPEG compression now live viewable
- image size in kilobyte of original and converted image is shown. useful when altering JPEG compression.
- niced up and extended batch mode

0.8.5
- introduced batch mode
- all installed fonts available for rendering
- font size changeable
- creation of text videos (.txv, version 1) introduced. currently no playback though...
- GUI now exits, if screen resolution below 800 x 600
- many minor fixes and additions

pre 0.8.5
- integration of packages heuser.updater, heuser.multilang, heuser.simpleLogger
- no more changelog available...