Changes
Changes
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ActivePresenter 8.5.0 (2021.06.02)
Enhancements:
Improve text editing and rendering.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Video in the first slide starts again when clicking.
[HTML5]: Spotlight shows incorrectly on Chromium-based browsers.
Some minor issues when importing PowerPoint files.
Current language of Closed Caption is not shown in the language list.
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ActivePresenter 8.4.0 (2021.04.29)
Enhancements:
Support inserting YouTube with short links.
H.264 codec is used for recording video by default.
Improve German translation.
Bugs Fixed:
Inconsistent frames displayed on Canvas when moving playhead backward/forward
in Timeline in some cases.
Windows Azure text to speech doesn't work in some specified cases.
Can not select system variables in actions.
[macOS]: Canvas zoom function works incorrectly.
[Recording]: Can not stop audio recording on some specific machines.
[Recording]: Timing of recorded cursor paths are not correct.
[HTML5]: Prefix spaces are not accepted in Table of Contents.
[HTML5]: The program crashes when exporting some specific projects.
[Export PowerPoint]: Line shapes are not exported correctly.
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ActivePresenter 8.3.2 (2021.01.26)
Bugs Fixed:
Click sound effect doesn't work.
The program crashes when recording system audio in some cases.
The program is less responsive when editing long videos with many edited
points.
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ActivePresenter 8.3.1 (2021.01.08)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Line breaks are different between the editor and the output.
[HTML5]: One or two seconds of play audio action is cut off in Google Chrome.
[HTML5]: Audio and video don't play on Apple Safari 14 in some cases.
[HTML5]: Play audio action makes the presentation unresponsive on Apple
Safari.
[HTML5]: Loading slides which contain audio or video is slow on Apple Safari.
Show in mode property of child object is not correct in some specific cases
when opening version 7 projects.
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ActivePresenter 8.3.0 (2020.12.04)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Support On Ended event for media objects.
[HTML5]: Expose media player JavaScript functions.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Presentation time is incorrect when switching between tabs in recent
versions of Webkit-based browsers.
Active Window is not saved.
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ActivePresenter 8.2.3 (2020.11.25)
Bugs Fixed:
Cannot change audio volume when selecting range in the looped segment.
[Import PowerPoint]: Changing start time of child objects works incorrectly.
[Import PowerPoint]: The program crashes when importing some specific
PowerPoint files.
[Import GIFT]: Report IDs and names of radio buttons are duplicated.
[HTML5]: Score percentage is not reported correctly if the project contains
slides which are imported from PowerPoint files.
[HTML5]: Audio quality issue in edited videos when exporting to HTML5.
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ActivePresenter 8.2.2 (2020.10.20)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Audio/video plays without sound with recent versions of Chromium-
based browsers in some cases.
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ActivePresenter 8.2.1 (2020.10.08)
Bugs Fixed:
Preview is freezed when project contains motion path in some specific cases.
Preview is not smooth when project contains large blur area.
Spell checker doesn't work correctly in some cases.
Some text line breaks are changed when opening saved projects.
[macOS]: The program crashes when previewing or exporting video in some
cases.
[HTML5]: Audio doesn't play with recent updates of Apple Safari.
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ActivePresenter 8.2.0 (2020.09.14)
Enhancements:
Support for multiple monitors which have different scale settings.
Separate HTML5, SCORM, and Experience API exports.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Answers of questions are shown in slide thumbnails.
Amazon Polly Text To Speech doesn't work with some UI languages.
Webcam recording crashes randomly on Windows 7.
Exported XLIFF files are not read properly in some translation tools.
Some minor UI issues.
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ActivePresenter 8.1.1 (2020.07.24)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Default output location is incorrect.
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ActivePresenter 8.1.0 (2020.07.16)
New Features:
Publish to Moodle LMS.
Text to Speech: Intergrate Amazon Polly, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
cloud voices.
Hotspot: Added the option to limit the number of touches and support other
event types.
Support Italian for user interface.
Bugs Fixed:
The Accept List of Drag-n-Drop question is not correct when copying.
Events from theme are not reused when creating project.
Scrollbar in Timeline works incorrectly in large zoom scale.
Can not import some SVG files after switching UI to some languages.
Video blur effect is not accurate in small time scale.
[Import PPT]: Placeholder positions are not correct when changing theme.
[Export Video]: Format is changed if entering file name without extension.
[Recording]: Direct3D recording option doesn't work with AMD graphics cards.
[Recording]: Some webcam issues.
Deprecated Features:
Publish to YouTube.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.7 (2020.05.29)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Drag and drop works incorrectly on iOS when browser zoomed and
scrolled.
[HTML5]: Can not select text on slides that have transitions.
[HTML5]: Program crashes when exporting some projects.
Recorded camera frame rate is low on some computers.
Spell checker doesn't work correctly in some cases.
Can not export recorded audio to MP3 in some cases.
Audio wave colors in the Dark theme are not appropriated.
Hotspot objects lack some event types.
Can not import some PowerPoint files.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.6 (2020.04.28)
Bugs Fixed:
Fix an issue when capturing key strokes with modifier keys.
Exporting video doesn't finish in some cases.
Can not select SRT and CSV files in when UI Language is not English.
YouTube autoplay option doesn't work in HTML5.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.5 (2020.04.10)
Bugs Fixed:
Exporting video doesn't finish in some cases.
TOC entries are exported to XLIFF incorrectly.
Video recorded from webcam is flipped horizontally.
Korean text in equation doesn't display correctly.
Cropped and flipped images in PowerPoint are imported incorrectly.
Background music in template is not imported when creating project.
Some stability improvements.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.4 (2020.03.25)
Bugs Fixed:
Program crashes when opening some corrupted projects.
Webcam preview is flipped horizontally.
TTS text displays in formatted form.
Program crashes when stopping the recording session in some cases.
Can not import some PowerPoint files.
Image pasted from clipboard decreases quality.
[Video]: Frames are repeated when rendering video objects.
[Video]: Some variables don't update their values in the output.
[HTML5]: Audio is not unmuted when clicking in some cases.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.3 (2020.03.16)
Bugs Fixed:
Stability improvements.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.2 (2020.03.02)
Bugs Fixed:
Crashing issue when previewing on some specific hardwares.
Audio icon appears in exported video in some cases.
Some minor Import From PowerPoint issues.
HTML5 Table of Contents is not saved.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.1 (2020.02.18)
Bugs Fixed:
The program crashes when inserting questions in some cases.
The program crashes when importing some PowerPoint files.
The error message appears when saving project in some cases.
Scrolling is not smooth in the editor.
Can not apply cursor effects for all videos.
Auto-generated slide names are not correct.
[macOS] The program crashes when exporting to HTML5 with the Embed Fonts
option selected.
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ActivePresenter 8.0.0 (2020.02.07)
New Features:
User Interface: Extensive enhancements.
User Interface: Support Dark mode.
Flexbox: A feature set allows managing layout and spacing consistently and
efficiently, especially in responsive projects.
New Fill-in-blanks question type.
New Hotspot question type.
Text animation.
New bullet and numbering styles.
Import questions from GIFT and CSV files.
Import PowerPoint slides directly without Microsoft PowerPoint.
Support multiple languages for Closed Caption.
Support embedding HTML packages.
Add Show-in-Modes property for slide.
Add Lock Size and Position options for objects.
Add Object Settings view.
Enhancements:
Improve video exporting speed (up to 40%).
Improve preview performance for 4K resolutions.
[Recording]: Improve recording simulation.
[Recording]: Prevent computer from sleeping while recording.
[Recording]: Detect device changes automatically.
[HTML5]: Add option to hide player bars automatically on mobile devices.
[HTML5]: Improve the display of Sidebar on mobile devices.
Allow adding Animations for child objects.
Allow grouping Audio, Video, Questions.
Add Text Scale option for Closed Caption.
Merge Export To HTML SlideShow into Export To Images.
Move cursor graphics and sound effects from Cursor to Cursor Path.
Move "Use Direct3D for recording screen" option to Recording Settings dialog.
Cursor effects now are off by default.
A lot of other improvements.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.12 (2020.02.05)
Bugs Fixed:
The program crashes when editing action.
The program crashes when using Find & Replace.
Some operations in the Image editor work incorrectly.
Text disappears in the Text To Speech text box when editing audio.
Message appears when saving a screen recording.
[macOS]: Small improvement in video quality of outputs.
Stability improvements.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.11 (2019.12.23)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Max point of partial score question is incorrect in Report Slide.
[HTML5]: Presentation is paused incorrectly if selecting "Pause to wait for
user input" for button in Slide Master.
The program crashes when editing action.
The program crashes when recording webcam on some specific computers.
Can not publish to YouTube in some cases.
Can not set hotkey for the Delete Multiple Objects function.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.10 (2019.11.08)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Can not click Web Object on Android devices.
[HTML5]: Transform of video is reset when advancing to the next slide.
[HTML5]: Sidebar expand button is hidden on mobile devices if Topbar is
hidden.
[HTML5]: Can not enter full screen mode for video on iPhone.
[HTML5]: Player Setting is not preservered when creating a project from a
theme.
[HTML5]: Custom Player Setting preset is not selected.
Import/Export XLIFF for Text To Speech audio.
The language menu is not displayed correctly.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.9 (2019.08.23)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Improve lesson resuming when integrating with LMS.
Bugs Fixed:
Duration of Text To Speech audio is not set correctly.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.8 (2019.06.27)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: List is not displayed correctly.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.7 (2019.06.24)
Bugs Fixed:
Text is not converted correctly when opening some version 6 - projects.
Bullet styling works incorrectly in some cases.
The program crashes when editing shapes in some cases.
Video saving issue when copying to slide pools.
Can not reset to default slide name by typing an empty value.
[Recording]: Empty slide created when dragging mouse.
[HTML5]: Some specific keys on Finnish keyboard don't work on Firefox.
[HTML5]: Question randomization is not even.
[HTML5]: The program crashes when exporting some projects.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.6 (2019.03.28)
Bugs Fixed:
Quality issue when exporting to MKV video.
Warning message appears when starting the program on some computers.
[HTML5]: Text box is not focused automatically on Internet Explorer.
[macOS]: Some video frames are blurry when exporting to MP4.
[macOS]: Recorded cursors are small when recording with Retina display.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.5 (2019.02.21)
Bugs Fixed:
[Windows]: The program hangs up in some cases.
[Recording]: Audio is not synced with recorded content when recording
simulation in some cases.
[HTML5]: Partial score works incorrectly in some questions.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.4 (2019.01.24)
Bugs Fixed:
Audio playback issue on some specific computers.
Text typing operation is not recorded correctly in some cases.
[macOS]: The program crashes when editing slide name.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.3 (2019.01.15)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Interaction auto focus doesn't work if slide has background image.
[HTML5]: Media player toolbar is under video on Google Chrome in some special
cases.
[HTML5]: Multiple blanks in review mode works incorrectly.
[HTML5]: jQuery in JavaScript doesn't work.
[HTML5]: CSS warning in Firefox.
[macOS]: USB Headset input device is not detected.
[macOS]: The program crashes when editing slide name.
[macOS]: Player skin editor doesn't work correctly when project name has
space characters.
The program becomes less responsive when editing short looped audio.
Timeline playhead is too difficult to manipulate in high DPI screen.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.2 (2018.12.14)
Bugs Fixed:
Program crashes when previewing in some cases.
[HTML5]: Audio and animation are out of sync in some cases.
[macOS]: Some icons show incorrectly in dark theme mode.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.1 (2018.12.08)
Enhancements:
[macOS]: Support macOS 10.14 and its dark theme mode.
[macOS]: Support exporting to PDF.
[macOS]: Better Retina display support.
[macOS]: Record System Audio with Background Music.
Bugs Fixed:
[Recording]: Text in target application is capitalized incorrectly.
[Recording]: The Recording Toolbar is reset after selecting Re-capture.
[HTML5]: Some player skins show incorrectly in old versions of Safari.
[HTML5]: Browser hangs up in some cases when using Drag-n-Drop with the
Shuffle Answer option.
Default project size is saved when selecting Cancel in the Preferences
dialog.
Event Editor is less responsive when project has many slides.
Can not select font name for shape which has no text.
Elements of formula are clipped in some cases.
Some other bugs fixed.
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ActivePresenter 7.5.0 (2018.11.21)
New Features:
Feedback Master: Easy to design, manage question feedbacks.
Advanced Action: Define and reuse a bunch of actions without hassle.
Equation: Insert math or any science equation into shape or question. Support
pasting equation from Microsoft Office.
Audio Normalization.
Publish To YouTube.
Animated Timer.
Icons: There are dozens of icons to choose from.
Add more themes and sound effects.
[HTML5]: New player designs, more decent skins and presets.
[HTML5]: Show author video and information in output.
[HTML5]: Add Text Scale option for responsive project.
[HTML5]: Customizable Pre-loader.
[HTML5]: Attach any resources to project.
[HTML5]: Support Course Review.
Enhancements:
Support editing points for preset shapes.
Improve performance.
Drag Source now supports Drop Accept and Drop Reject states.
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ActivePresenter 7.3.3 (2018.09.06)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Interaction is not automatically focused if Tab Order is set.
[HTML5]: Player tools disappear in Google Chrome at some zoom levels.
[HTML5]: Video initially shows as blank in Internet Explorer when the network
connection is slow.
[macOS]: Program crashes when re-capturing.
Program becomes less responsive if video/audio object has too many edited
parts.
Possible crashes in some specific cases.
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ActivePresenter 7.3.2 (2018.08.03)
Bugs Fixed:
Radial gradient is reversed when opening version-6 projects.
Program crashes when running on computers which have specific graphics cards.
Default shape of spotlight is rectangle (should be oval).
[Windows]: Program crashes when importing some specific PowerPoint
presentations.
[HTML5]: NaN error shows up when running content which has no graded
interaction in some LMSes.
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ActivePresenter 7.3.1 (2018.07.11)
Bugs Fixed:
Blur area becomes transparent in some cases.
Improve error handling when activating or updating.
[Windows]: Program crashes when exporting MP4 on some specific computers.
[Windows]: Program crashes when recording in some rare cases.
[Windows]: Program crashes when importing some specific PowerPoint
presentations.
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ActivePresenter 7.3.0 (2018.07.02)
New Features:
Add Auto Advance option for slide.
[Windows]: Built-in crash reporting tool.
Bugs Fixed:
[macOS]: Text looks smaller than its font size.
[HTML5]: apQuizPassed and apQuizPassedBool variables are not updated when
advancing slide.
[HTML5]: Issue when displaying cursor paths which have None-click sound.
[HTML5]: Issue when dragging player progress bar.
Line in PowerPoint presentation is imported incorrectly in some cases.
Space issue when typing East Asian languages.
Timeline is scrolled to playhead position when pausing preview.
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ActivePresenter 7.2.5 (2018.06.15)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Add 'Disable [Click or Tap to Unmute] Notification' option.
[HTML5]: Show slide name when hovering over player's progress bar.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Infinitive loading when viewing content on Apple Safari browser in
some cases.
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ActivePresenter 7.2.4 (2018.06.08)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Viewer may need to click to unmute sound of autoplay videos
depending on web browsers' autoplay policy.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Changing playback speed doesn't work on IE in some cases.
[HTML5]: Seeking doesn't work correctly if the Slide Markers option is not
selected.
[HTML5]: Play audio action doesn't work on Chrome if it is executed multiple
times
[HTML5]: SCORM 1.2 doesn't reset state in the next attempt.
Program become less responsive when hovering over a long JavaScript action.
Program crashes when importing XLIFF file if project is converted from
version 6.
Can not adjust slide duration if open a video file to edit.
Line-breaks are ignored in document outputs.
Audio decreases quality if it is too loud.
Video frame is incorrect when working with some files.
Update pt-br translation.
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ActivePresenter 7.2.3 (2018.04.20)
Bugs Fixed:
[Video]: Program crashes when exporting projects which have cursor paths.
[HTML5]: Send mail action doesn't work.
[HTML5]: 'None' cursor still shows borders in Webkit-based browsers.
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ActivePresenter 7.2.2 (2018.04.13)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Some keys don't work in Firefox.
[Video]: Project audio is not smooth when transitioning between slides.
Slide pools are not loaded properly when opening projects saved with version
6.x.
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ActivePresenter 7.2.1 (2018.04.04)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Performance issue for projects which have lots of slides and more
than one theme.
[Recording]: Recording with the Direct3D option doesn't work properly with
multiple displays.
[Recording]: Recording boundary shows incorrectly with some display scales
when recording full screen.
[Recording]: Program crashes when recording Webcam on some specific machines
(especially Surface Pro).
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ActivePresenter 7.2.0 (2018.03.20)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Improve preview speed.
[HTML5]: Improve TOC numbering.
[HTML5]: Add some player skin presets.
[HTML5]: Allow associating number variable to Text Box.
[HTML5]: Enable passed/failed status and detail report for interactions in
the Tutorial mode.
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Error when exporting to location containing Unicode characters.
[HTML5]: Text format doesn't show properly when selecting the Embed Web Fonts
option in some cases.
[HTML5]: Default floating value of number variable is truncated to integer.
[Windows]: Free-forms are exported incorrectly in Microsoft Office outputs.
[Recording]: Object settings don't work when recording additional slides.
Program crashes when editing projects which have lot of events and actions.
Media doesn't play automatically after converting version 6 or older
projects.
White turns to light grey in exported video.
Correct some typos in the UI.
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ActivePresenter 7.1.0 (2018.02.12)
Enhancements:
[Windows]: Super-fast recording speed (up to 60 fps when encoding with H.264
video codec).
[Recording]: More options for cursor path.
[Recording]: Add "Restore Defaults" button for resetting recording settings.
[TOC]: Turn off slide group when recording Software Simulation by default.
Improve button styles.
[Interactivity]: Add "On Click", "Drag Start" and "Drag End" events for Drag
Source.
[Interactivity]: Add "Drag Enter" and "Drag Leave" events for Drop Target.
Bugs Fixed:
[Timeline]: Slide duration cannot be shortened.
[Closed Caption]: Show Format tab when selecting closed caption.
[HTML5]: Exception when playing too many multimedia files.
[Text Editor]: Issue when typing Korean.
Project file is only updated when closing project in some cases.
Add solid fill with zero opacity when converting interactions which have no
fill and line in old-version projects.
Program crashes when using Drag-n-Drop in some rare cases.
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ActivePresenter 7.0.1 (2018.01.22)
Enhancements:
[HTML5]: Support jumping to a specified slide or timestamp via URL.
Bugs Fixed:
[Text Editor]: The position of highlight color shows incorrectly when
clicking Increase Indent.
[Text Editor]: The font name of text in Floating toolbar and Font section are
not consistent.
[Text Editor]: Replacing misspelled word doesn't keep formatting.
[Responsive Design]: Program crashes when inserting a too large device
layout.
[Responsive Design]: Size of the question in large layout is changed after
changing the position of answers in smaller layout.
[HTML5]: The position of drag source is incorrect after performing highlight
object action.
[HTML5]: Cannot view output on browser if user script has syntax errors.
[HTML5]: Custom cursor image doesn't show in HTML5 output.
[HTML5]: Shapes condition doesn't work on Slide Master.
[Import PowerPoint]: Program crashes when importing from some specific
PowerPoint files.
[Import PowerPoint]: Predefined layouts is missing when importing PowerPoint.
[Properties]: The Score & Reporting section don't show/hide immediately when
changing type of drag/drop.
[Properties]: Cannot set Report ID for drag source/drop target group.
[Windows 8]: Program crashes when closing Web Object dialog in some cases.
Operator list of variable condition is not correct.
Program crashes when exporting/previewing HTML5 if condition of action
contains a non existing variable.
Program crashes after updating variable name.
Program crashes while checking update when proxy is set.
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ActivePresenter 7.0.0 (2017.12.28)
New Features:
Webcam recording
Support Themes & Templates
New improved UI
Higher graphics performance by using Direct2D for rendering/previewing
More Transition & Animation Effects
Support multiple Timelines
Faster & better video compression
Support Variables
Conditional Actions & advanced Interactions
Multiple states for objects
Table of contents for HTML5
Support web fonts for HTML5
Instant preview when hovering over Themes, Colors, Fonts, and Background
Styles
Object Templates
Slide Templates
Drawing freeform shapes
Grouping & ungrouping object
Advanced audio effects: Fade In, Fade Out, Noise Reduction
Green Screen Effect for video
Responsive Design
Changing project size
Shuffle question answers
Redesign Event Editor
Object cursor & tab order
HTML5 preview
Enhancements:
Line spacing & paragraph spacing in text editor
Transparent text editor background
High DPI screen support
Inserting & styling Check Box, Radio Button
Report Slide
Improved JavaScript editor
Improve UI of Recording Dialog and Recording Toolbar
Improve Export To HTML SlideShow
Improve Import PowerPoint
Quickly open existing video file for editing
Allow to capture custom size for existing project
Improve slide background fill
Improve spell checker
Improve JavaScript API
Add more options for controlling media playback.
Slide Event property is superseded by Slide Load/Unload actions
Improve object settings
Options for changing HTML5 output hierachy
Deprecated Features:
Style library
Capture profiles
Mouse Hover object
Feedback object
32-bit OSes are no longer supported.
Windows XP, Windows Vista are no longer supported (Windows 7 requires SP1
with Platform Update).
Following HTML5 templates are removed: Ocean, Standard, Silver, Black.
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ActivePresenter 6.1.4 (2017.11.24)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Video is scaled incorrectly in some cases.
[HTML5]: Attached audio plays incorrectly when seeking and resuming.
[Windows]: File error when working with projects which have many edited
segments.
[macOS]: Program doesn’t run on macOS 10.10.
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ActivePresenter 6.1.3 (2017.08.19)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Text in question is cut off in some cases.
Can not export with some versions of Microsoft Word 2016.
[macOS]: Program crashes when clicking scroll button of toolbar.
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ActivePresenter 6.1.2 (2017.07.19)
Bugs Fixed:
[macOS]: XLIFF related functions don't work
[macOS]: Crash error when pausing and resuming recording session
[Windows]: Can't preview YouTube video when inserting YouTube object.
Show in Mode option of cursor path in recorded project is incorrect.
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ActivePresenter 6.1.1 (2017.07.04)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5]: Controls showing on the top project layer don't show properly
[HTML5]: Accessibility texts are not properly escaped
[UI]: Restore support for Chinese Traditional language.
[Tin Can]: Simplify Tin Can package identifier input.
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ActivePresenter 6.1.0 (2017.04.11)
Enhancements:
ActivePresenter for Mac is now officially out of beta. The free beta license
terms are not applicable anymore.
Bugs Fixed:
Error message shown incorrectly when editing slide background.
Drag & Drop issues with recent versions of Android Chrome.
[HTML5]: Can't enter characters which require key combinations into a text
box.
[macOS]: Fade in effect doesn't work when previewing and exporting to video.
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ActivePresenter 6.0.5 (2017.01.09)
Bugs Fixed:
Error message shows up when clicking Record audio button in Properties pane.
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ActivePresenter 6.0.4 (2017.01.05)
Bugs Fixed:
Memory issue when recording video (macOS 10.12).
Can not maximize/restore program window (macOS).
SCORM 1.2 package (HTML5) doesn't change to finish state when exiting
activity (lesson).
Preferences and Project Settings dialogs don't show properly.
Temporary files issue when working on some computers.
Deprecated Features:
Remove activation method via email.
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ActivePresenter 6.0.3 (2016.10.20)
Bugs Fixed:
Slight cracking noises when recording audio from Microphone on some specific
computers.
Video and cursor are out of sync when recording video on Retina display
(macOS).
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ActivePresenter 6.0.2 (2016.08.18)
Bugs Fixed:
Crashes when connecting drag source and drop target.
Memory issue when editing slide that has too many videos.
YouTube and Web Object options appear when setting options for other objects
in Preferences dialog.
Drag-n-Drop works incorrectly with some Snap Behavior options in HTML5
output.
Failed to initialize multimedia library on some machines.
Replace function doesn't work in some cases.
Show/Hide, Lock/Unlock functions don't work when editing slide in pool.
Add/Remove video blur keyframe function doesn't work when editing slide in
pool.
Objects which shown over multiple slides appear when editing slide in pool.
Color options of Closed Caption are disabled.
Can not manipulate objects which shown over multiple slides by using the left
section of Timeline.
Cropping Zoom-n-Pane works incorrectly.
Some minor user interface issues.
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ActivePresenter 6.0.1 (2016.05.31)
Bugs Fixed:
[HTML5/SCORM]: Output with option 'export each operation mode to a separated
package' doesn't work in LMS if there's only one mode selected.
[HTML5/Drag-n-Drop]: Drag and Drop functionality doesn't work when the 'Allow
Select Text' option is enabled.
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ActivePresenter 6.0.0 (2016.05.24)
New Features & Enhancements:
xAPI (formerly Tin Can API) support for HTML5 output.
Slide pools and slide randomization (question pool and question
randomization).
Blur effect for video (for hiding sensitive information).
Survey interactions (no correct/incorrect evaluation).
Likert (Rating scale) quiz type.
New type of interaction: Button.
HTML iframe and YouTube annotations.
Auto layout mode for questions.
HTML5 Output Enhancements:
New template, Modern, with customizable buttons/colors.
Support for changing playback speed when viewing.
Options for showing/hiding player buttons.
Allow excluding WebM and OGG when export.
Improve quality and performance by utilizing CSS3 transform.
Improve quality, size, and loading time by using SVG.
Player tools/buttons are larger on mobile devices.
Large Resume button at the center when pausing in demo mode.
Option to allow selecting text in shapes.
New 'Pass Condition' - Number of visited slides.
Option for exporting each operation mode to a separated SCORM package.
Display viewer's responses and correct responses in report table.
Bugs Fixed:
Backup doesn't work when editing a new project.
The video won't play if the system's speaker is disabled.
The program is unresponsive when inserting a new cursor.
State (enabled/disabled) of Accept List button isn't set correctly for Drop
Area object.
Width/Height properties in Properties pane are not updated in some scenarios.
Floating Text Format Toolbar is shown at incorrect position in some
scenarios.
TTS function in the right-click menu is inconsistent between Canvas and
Timeline.
Deprecated Features:
Support for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 in HTML5.
Export To Flash Simulation.
Video preview section in Properties pane.
SCORM support for non-interactive outputs.
Option for restarting HTML5 presentation in Demo and Tutorial modes.
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ActivePresenter 5.5.2 (2015.10.05)
Enhancements:
- Improve the frame rate when recording with Flash Screen Video codec.
Bugs Fixed:
- The post installation page is opened when the /VERYSILENT parameter is specified
on the setup command-line.
- Can not export to PowerPoint if project has attached audio.
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ActivePresenter 5.5.1 (2015.09.11)
Enhancements:
- [HTML5 & Flash]: Play the background music (the audio object with Ignore Pausing
option selected) while buffering.
- Add the command line option for selecting UI language when starts, for example:
ActivePresenter.exe /lang fr.
Bugs Fixed:
- Some (rotated) images in the PowerPoint Presentation are not imported correctly.
- The audio wave of imported video doesn't display in Timeline.
- Quality problem (gibbering sections) when export to MP4 video format.
- Sometimes, Firefox displays "outdated Flash plugin" message while running HTML5
output.
- HTML5 output doesn't run if the slide/object text contain the line/paragraph
separator character (U+2028, U+2029).
- Volume slider displays the audio signal but the recorded audio is silent.
- Spelling error in Shrink Project dialog.
- Default language doesn't follow the language of the operating system if that
language is supported.
- Freeze frames in video don't work in the recent versions of Flash Player.
- The program is less responsive when editing a long recorded video.
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ActivePresenter 5.5 (release 2015.08.07)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Allow editing the cursor hilight, click sounds, and click effects of recorded
video.
- Support H.264 in MP4 and FLV video format using Cisco OpenH264.
- Allow changing playback speed of audio/video (audio pitch is not preserved).
- Allow customization of the Tabbed Toolbar.
- Improve video exporting speed (20-30% faster).
- Support lines in Timeline, one line can contains multiple objects which are not
overlapped in time.
- It is possible to rotate an object now, the rotation is not supported in IE7, 8.
- New program icon and welcome screen.
- Add a button to restore default capture profiles.
- Allow navigating through objects in a slide using Tab key.
- Insert Freeze Frame/Silence is superseded by Insert Time (Insert Freeze for
slide).
- Countdown timer with Stop hotkey hint before start recording.
- Add the Selection pane, the Timeline pane now only display top level objects
which are not show by events.
- Simplify the Cursor tab in the Capture Profile Editor dialog.
- Add more bitrates for Video Export.
- Basic API for scripting in the HTML5 output, add presentation and slide load
events.
- Move FLV Export into Video Export, exporting to FLV Video is now included in Free
edition.
- Update names and descriptions of capture profiles.
Bugs Fixed:
- 1px colored lines turns to black in lossy video outputs.
- Can not adjust the volume of USB Microphone in some cases.
- Size of title object in PowerPoint is not processed correctly while importing.
- Submit action is not shown in the action list.
- Merging slides which don't have background.
- Support media formats which have multiple frames per packet.
- Audio/video are not synchronized when previewing in some cases.
- Some cursor images have black pixels.
- Text in multi-line textboxes in the Properties pane is not updated when changing
selection.
- Incorrect mouse click position and auto-panning when working with muti-monitors.
- Timeline and Canvas display incorrectly if the primary dispaly has lower
resolution than the secondary display.
- Fix crashed error when exporting PDF on some specific computers.
- Mouse doesn't work correctly when working with some GTK+ based applications
(GIMP, Inkscape).
Deprecated Features:
- Viewing sub-objects or objects shown by events in the Timeline pane. (Please use
the Selection pane instead).
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ActivePresenter 5.0 (release 2014.12.24)
New Features & Enhancements:
- The user interface is completely revamped.
- Edit Closed Caption track directly from Timeline.
- More powerful Properties pane.
- Allow changing the Style of multiple selected objects at once.
- Edit Closed Captions directly in Canvas
- Selecting the dimension of video output is more flexible.
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix HTML5 audio loading issue in Firefox.
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ActivePresenter 4.0.3 (release 2014.11.24)
Bugs Fixed:
- Default UI language incorrectly set to Vietnamese.
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ActivePresenter 4.0.2 (release 2014.10.17)
Bugs Fixed:
- Audio loading issue in HTML5 simulation with Firefox 31 or newer.
- Incomplete message of Text Box is not shown if the submit key is pressed twice.
- Sequence Question doesn't work properly in Google Chrome.
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ActivePresenter 4.0.1 (release 2014.07.21)
Bugs Fixed:
- Save project bug when editing videos in a certain scenario.
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ActivePresenter 4.0 (release 2014.06.27)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Export To HTML5 Simulation.
- Support Drag-n-Drop:
+ Add Drop Area interaction.
+ Add Drag-n-Drop question.
- Add lines, arrows, and various shape types.
- Preview multiple slides on Slide Canvas.
- Improve the capture frame rate (FPS) in full motion recording (about 25% faster).
- Add an option to show an object or play an audio/video without blocking
subsequent actions.
- Find and replace text in slides objects.
- Add MKV container format (uses Flash Screen video codec, 16-bit PCM audio codec)
when exporting to video.
- Add 16-bit PCM audio codec when capturing for highest audio quality.
- Add three levels to set the height of the audio waveform bar in Timeline.
- Allow setting Project Language.
- Support Right-To-Left languages:
+ Support editing RTL languages in editor.
+ Support RTL languages when exporting to Images, Videos and HTML5
Simulations.
+ This feature also works when exporting to MS Office (Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint) but not officially supported yet.
- Enhance Quiz/Question editing functionalities:
+ Add quick tools on the right side of selected question for quick editing.
+ Change the way to interact with sub-objects in a question.
- Add an option to allow displaying sub-objects and objects started by event in
Timeline.
- Allow exporting/importing the library and configurations of ActivePresenter
to/from an external file.
- Allow capturing/editing/exporting the Active Window area.
- Replace the slide backgrounds by capturing or using slide backgrounds from
another project.
- Allow editing output texts (name of tools in toolbar, messages) in HTML5/Flash
Simulation so author can create the content for any languages even they are not
officially included.
- The Slide Titles window displays slide names which use HTML tags in formatted
text.
- Start editing annotation text by clicking the text area instead of double-
clicking.
- Resources in the Image/Media library can be shown either in list or thumbnail
view.
- Support recording audio from Speakers (System Audio) in the Audio page of the
Properties dialog.
- Option to allow pasting HTML copied from other applications as plain text or HTML
format.
- Add 14 common gesture effects.
- Option to generate the index page when exporting To HTML5/Flash Simulation or
not.
- SCORM 2004 raw score is stored as percentage value if Pass Condition is in
percentage. Otherwise, it is stored as an absolute value.
- The quality range of audio/video is changed to [1...100]. Either quality or bit
rate option is available depends on selected codec.
- Use JSON format for storing the configurations.
Bugs Fixed:
- Text in shape is not saved when the editor lost the focus.
- When pasting an interaction from other slides, the shape in current slide may be
disappeared because it is added to the actions list of interaction.
- SCORM 1.2 raw score is not scaled in range [1...100].
- Incorrect default file name and location in the Save As dialog.
Deprecated Features:
- AJAX Simulation is now superseded by the all new HTML5 Simulation and so got
removed.
- Drop support for Microsoft Office 2000.
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ActivePresenter 3.9.5 (release 2014.04.08)
Bugs Fixed:
- Audio and video are not synched properly if the audio sample rate in settings is
not the same as sample rate of input device.
- Noise in recorded audio if the computer is overloaded while recording.
- Record System Audio checkbox is not enabled with some settings in Speaker in
Windows Vista or later.
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ActivePresenter 3.9.4 (release 2014.02.12)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Support recording system sound and microphone simultaneously (Windows XP is not
supported).
- Redesign the New Capture Project dialog.
- Add Russian translation
- Update French translation.
Bugs Fixed:
- Crash error when editing or exporting if the project contains a video with many
edited points
- Incorrect text format bug in importing XLIFF if XLIFF file contains some empty
elements.
- Blank video object in slide when double-click the project file to open.
- Classic style file dialog when opening a project.
- Export to Flash Simulation doesn't use localized string in PO file.
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ActivePresenter 3.9.2 (release 2013.08.16)
Bugs Fixed:
- Crash error when encoding MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 videos at some resolutions
- XLIFF "x" tag uses incorrect attribute "restype"
- Capture Preset Sizes cannot be deleted
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ActivePresenter 3.9.1 (release 2013.07.08)
Bugs Fixed:
- Recorded video stopped at 2 GB boundary.
- OGG audio not seakable in low bitrates.
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ActivePresenter 3.9.0 (release 2013.06.19)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Accessibility support in Ajax simulation:
+ Slides and slide objects support accessibility text that can be read aloud
by screen readers when they appear
+ Support keyboard shortcuts and navigation
+ Visual focus indicator
- Project Translation:
+ Export texts to XLIFF 1.2 format for easy translation
+ Import translated texts in XLIFF format
- Click effect for cursor path
- Fade in, fade out effect for spotlight
- Better synchronization when editing audio/video
- French and Taiwanese language localization.
- Ajax Simulation:
+ New templates: Black and Silver
+ New Slide List design
+ More options in Template Parameters dialog: show/hide slide group title,
navigation in Practice mode...
+ Option to use Silverlight for audio/video playback
+ AutoFit browser window
- Flash Simulation:
+ New templates: Black and Silver
Bugs Fixed:
- Licensing issue that does not recognize activation when running with normal
privilege on some computers
- Various minor bugs fixed
Deprecated Features:
- Remove Aluminum template when exporting Ajax and Flash simulation
- Remove Close button in Ajax and Flash simulation
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ActivePresenter 3.7.2 (release 2013.01.02)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix hang up issue when reading MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 videos on some computers
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ActivePresenter 3.7.1 (release 2012.12.24)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix translation bug (always display Japanese) on the index page of exported Flash
simulation
- Improve Chinese translation
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ActivePresenter 3.7.0 (release 2012.12.18)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Support Windows 8
- Support capturing Command Line Interface (CLI) Applications
- Lots of improvements for screenshot functionality:
+ Capture full screen, application, region, windows (including child windows,
menus), and accessible objects
+ Additional processing when capturing top level window (application window
or dialog):
* Capture shadow (Windows Vista or later)
* Process rounded corners
* Translucent/Opaque window
+ Convenient window/object finder for selecting child window/object to
capture
+ Remove "Insert Screenshot" item from Slide menu
+ Add new "Insert Screenshot" submenu to Annotation menu
+ Change Screnshot tool in Insert toolbar: click dropdown button to select
different capture type or change options, click tool icon to do the last capture
- Simplify audio recording by merging input devices and input sources, user will
only need to select input device when recording audio
- Reduce the number of default visible tools in the Insert toolbar, user can still
customize it if desired.
- Allow exporting Image, Audio & Video objects to external files by adding "Export
To File" menu item to the context menu of Image, Audio and Video objects (on Canvas
& Timeline)
- Resources panel:
+ Allow exporting resource items (both physical & logical resources) to
external files
+ Change tab name: Image -> Images, Style -> Styles
+ Toggle button to show/hide deprecated images in the Images tab
- Add Facebook/Twitter/Youtube links to the Welcome screen
- Holding Alt while dragging Shape's boundary will preserve its anchor position
- Rename "Project Information" menu item and dialog title to "Project Properties"
(in Project menu)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix occasional issue with input devices/input sources when recording audio on
some computers
- Occasional error when recording very long session video (>2GB video file size)
- ActivePresenter becomes less responsive when splitting videos to more than 10
parts
- Reddish color issue on some videos when exporting to Ajax, Flash and Powerpoint
- Double-click interactions aren't properly recognized and processed in Ajax
simulation
- Shape's anchor is changed when choosing "AutoFit Text" command on context menu
- Other minor bugs fixed
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ActivePresenter 3.6.0 (release 2012.10.16)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Capture:
+ Add 2 new lossy video codecs for encoding full motion video: MPEG-1 & MPEG-
2 (Capture Profile Editor -> FMR/Audio tab)
+ Easily format and style auto-generated annotation text using HTML tags
(Preferences -> Auto Annotation Text)
+ Option to copy settings from current capture profiles when creating new
capture profile
+ Option to disable the use of OLE Automation when getting size and location
of captured interactions when capturing MS Office (Capture Profile Editor ->
Annotation)
+ Remove the options to capture based on mouse or keyboard events. AP will
now always capture on any key/mouse events. The Annotation tab is also rearranged
to allow selectively insertion of key/mouse interactions or annotations
- Support logical segmentation of audio and video: You can now split, merge, copy,
cut, join audio and video objects instantly, the actual splitting/merging will only
be done when exporting final project
- Easily adjust volume for audio and video objects: This is useful when there are
many overlapping audio
- Lots of improvements in the Timeline:
+ Cut/Copy/Delete selected range
+ Crop to selected range
+ Split/Join audio/video objects
+ Split slide
+ Show/Hide, Lock/Unlock all objects at once
+ Record audio narration while previewing: Easy to sync narrated voice with
other audio/video
+ Render actual audio waveform for easier and more accurate manipulation of
audio
+ Insert objects at editing timestamp by pasting clipboard or dropping
external files (image, audio, video files)
+ Allow to edit hidden objects (in earlier versions, editing hidden or locked
objects is not allowed. From version 3.6, ActivePresenter only prevents editing
locked objects)
+ Changing start time and end time of a closed caption node does not affect
next nodes in the same closed caption
+ Scroll horizontally using Shift + Mouse wheel
+ Select contiguous objects by holding Shift + Mouse Click on the left column
+ Select range by holding Shift + Mouse Click
+ More convenient editing with many new hotkeys and object timing display:
Refer to the User Manual for more details
- Audio & Video Editor dialogs are now deprecated: Audio/video editing will be
performed directly on the Timeline
- Improvement in the Audio Calibration dialog: Allow changing the volume of
currently selected recording device
- Reduce Canvas Preview loading time
- Display slide duration in Slide Thumbnail panel
- Insert audio/video directly from file when using icons in Toolbar or using Menu
- Canvas & Timeline Snapping:
+ Turn on/off: View menu -> Snapping
+ Turn off temporarily: Hold down Ctrl key
- Improvements in Resource panels:
+ Allow user to select all unused resources with one click
+ Smoother scrolling while viewing image/video thumbnails
- Better shrink project functionality:
+ Shrink function is now moved to Project menu for faster access
+ Option to remove unused resources automatically
- Ajax Simulation:
+ Reduce preloading time
+ Reduce flickering when changing slides
+ More options in Template Parameters dialog to set initial state of: closed
captions, audio, show/hide slide list
+ New index page design
- Flash Simulation:
+ More options in Template Parameters dialog to set initial state of: closed
captions, audio
+ New index page design
- Usability Improvement: More convenient hotkeys for common operations in the
Canvas
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix a bug in Manual Proxy Configuration dialog
- Various minor bugs fixed
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ActivePresenter 3.5.1 (release 2012.06.11)
Bugs Fixed:
- Slide background does not zoom with Zoom-n-Pan
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ActivePresenter 3.5.0 (release 2012.06.07)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Capture:
+ Onscreen feedback/status: elapsed time, frames per second, input audio
signal meter, quick buttons...
+ Support capturing with keyboards which use dead keys for entering
diacritics like German, French, Spanish, Latvian...
- Obfuscation/Blur tool in Image Editor: easily erase sensitive information in
captured images
- Transition Effects for Objects: Entry-Exit transitions: Fade, Fly, Peek, Wipe
- Slide Transition Effects: Fade, Fly, Wipe
- Shadow Effect: allow objects to have 3D shadow effect
- Video Freeze-Frame: Allow user to temporarily pause a video for a specified
duration so additional explanations/annotations can be added to explain the video
in more details
- Spell Checker: check spelling while editing shapes and closed captions: Support
multiple languages: English (US), English (UK), English (Australia), German,
Spanish, Czech, Polish and Vietnamese
- Text To Speech: Convert text to speech using Microsoft SAPI, user can use any
SAPI TTS engine installed on their computer to convert text to speech easily
- Action Feedback Control: displays detail information about action being performed
(clicking, typing)
- Audio calibration before recording
- Editor:
+ Save slide as image at current timestamp
+ Re-arrange the menu system for quick and easy access
+ Save panel position customization across all projects
+ Change "Library" panel to "Resources" panel; Change the term "Template" to
"Library"
- Improve Video/FlashVideo Export:
+ Generate separate subtitle file (using SubRip SRT format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip) for both Video and FlashVideo export
- Improve Player for Ajax & Flash:
+ Customizable player skin
+ Make language selection when exporting Ajax like when exporting Flash
- Various audio/video quality improvements
- New Language: Polish
Bugs Fixed:
- Password field not working when export to Video/FlashVideo
- Various bugs fixed
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ActivePresenter 3.2.0 (release 2012.02.28)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Change "Balloon" to "Shape"
- Enable dragging from Library to Canvas to create slide object:
+ Dragging image, audio, video
+ Dragging style to create shape
- Enable dragging image, audio, video files from computer to canvas
- Preview a range in Timeline: User can select a range in Timeline to preview in a
loop
- Add a "Zoom all" button to Timeline which will automatically adjust zoom factor
to fit the longest bar in the available width.
- Add edit Gradient button to Properties panel for easy editing the gradient stops
- New Zoom-n-Pan mechanism which supports multiple Zoom-n-Pans into one slide
- Support Click Sound for cursor path and interaction objects
- Allow slide objects to have attached audio
- Show object preview when selecting Show/Hide Object in Event Editor.
- Add Slide Name to "Go To Slide" dialog
- Insert object at specified timestamp.
- Add small icons below the slide thumbnails to allow user to know at a glance
which types of objects (audio, video, cursor and question) are there in the slide
- Improve cursor path editing with curve or straight cursor path
- Change slide by clicking in timeline (when showing all slides)
Bugs Fixed:
- Sequence question: can not drag&drop answers on IE 9
- No toolbars displayed when creating new blank project
- Open projects from older versions: text of shapes are overflowed.
- Some other minor bugs
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ActivePresenter 3.1.0 (release 2012.01.12)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Add context toolbars for faster and easier editing
- Add 'preserve aspect ratio' option for image and video
- Add 'play when waiting for user input' and 'loop' option for audio and video
- Show more details when hovering mouse over objects in editor
- Object Style:
+ Style Preview when editing
+ Clone style from existing one
+ Create new style from selected object
+ Update object to style
- Text Editing:
+ New hotkeys: increase/decrease font size
+ Auto Fit to Text: Auto expand/reduce object size once editing completes to
fit to new text
+ Incremental search for font name in font selection box
- Quiz:
+ Make editing easier (add/edit answer, button, message...) using context
toolbar
- Object Event:
+ Enable showing image by event
+ Add 'End Presentation' action
+ Add new action after, not previous selected action
+ Title header theme for XP
- Timeline:
+ Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
+ Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
- Audio Editor:
+ Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
+ Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
+ Allow to seek when playing/pausing
- Properties Grid:
+ Auto save property value when user clicks outside properties panel
- Capture/Record:
+ Auto pan is now off by default
+ Allow to add hint messages when recording
+ Allow to select captured application when inserting new slide by capture
+ Lower default video frame rate for FMR in Smart Capture to 15 fps ->
Smaller video size, don't need smooth transition
- Image Editor:
+ Allow to copy and paste image as image object into slide
+ Allow to select rectangle using mouse dragging from bottom to top
Bugs Fixed:
- HTML editing issue: crash error when editing balloon's text on systems with
RoboForm installed
- Crash error when saving capture profile on systems with no audio input device
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ActivePresenter 3.0.1 (release 2011.11.15)
Bugs Fixed:
- Capturing causes system to lag/freeze when press and hold down multiple keys on
64-bit systems.
- Ajax typing simulation:
+ Error not typing in IE
+ Support pause, resume, seek
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ActivePresenter 3.0 (release 2011.10.15)
New Features:
- Support 64-bit OS.
- Full motion recording: Allow user to record full motion video
- Allow user to record audio while capturing
- Automatically set slide duration based on user's recording time
- Support multiple monitors: Allow user to capture on multiple monitors
- Auto panning capture area: Allow capture area to be dynamically moved around with
mouse cursor while capturing
- Allow user to record mouse movement while capturing
- Allow user to customize the text which is inserted automatically for annotations
when capturing
- Support capture profile: User can easily manage capture settings using separate
profiles
Enhancements:
- Lots of minor improvements and bugs fixed
Deprecated Features:
- Remove support for Internet Explorer 6.0
- Remove support for Windows 2000
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ActivePresenter 2.3.4 (release 2011.07.28)
Changes from 2.3.3:
- Enhanced: Better corrupted project repair functionality, allow user to replace
corrupted objects with new ones directly.
- Enhanced: Allow user to continue exporting Ajax and Flash simulation even with
corrupted slides
- Enhanced: Adding user's operation manual document
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ActivePresenter 2.3.3 (release 2011.03.18)
Changes from 2.3.2:
- Added: Allow user to hide closed caption when generating to Flash.
- Fixed: Changes to balloon options (font name, font size...) are not applied to
auto generated balloons when capture and batch insertion.
- Fixed: Batch slide object insert dialog does not fully show all text (and not
resizable).
- Fixed: Fix some minor memory leaks which related to XULRunner (the HTML Engine
used to render note contents).
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ActivePresenter 2.3.1 (release 2010.12.07)
Changes from 2.3.0:
- Fixed: Activation problem on some computers.
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ActivePresenter 2.3.0 (release 2010.09.24)
Changes from 2.2:
- Added: Digitally sign the Installer and all EXE and DLL modules of
ActivePresenter. This will increase customer's confidence and prevent some security
warnings from Windows in some cases.
- Added: Add corrupted project repair function.
- Added: Not allow user to open a project created with newer version file format
and notifying user if program could not open it. For example: user can not use
ActivePresenter 2.0 to open projects created by ActivePresenter 2.2.
- Added: Options to choose using HTML or image for annotation objects's content
when exporting to Ajax: Balloons can be exported as images or HTML text.
- Added: Enable choosing arbitrary video ratio between 10% and 150% when export.
- Fixed: PDF document is marked protected by reader even when no password is set.
- Fixed: Missing table of contents when export to MS Word in some cases.
- Fixed: Wrong display of Unicode font name in HTML editor.
- Fixed: Some translations in export dialogs.
- Fixed: Losing trail of audio in exported output in some cases.
- Fixed: Audio with unusual bit rate can't play when export to Ajax.
- Fixed: Remove unsupported keys when capture. These are some special keys on
Japanese keyboard: Hangun mode, Convert, Non Convert, Alphanumeric, Katakana,
Hiragana, Roman, Non-Ronan, Kanji.
These special keys are also not supported by Adobe Captivate.
- Enhanced: Text laying out when export to MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
- Enhanced: Text laying out when export to PDF (fix long empty space between two
words)
- Enhanced: Thumbnails rendering.
- Enhanced: Pen, fill, highlight, and text color icons in image editor and HTML
editor.
Know issues:
- Capture: Capture wrong keyboard event for numpad keys when both Num Lock and IME
mode is on.