JPEG Saver 4.7.1
Published
This new version of JPEG Saver was supposed to be a quick bug-fix, but I ended up putting in a couple of things from the to-do list. I fixed the bug too.
One thing that has been on the list for a long time is loading of text files to display on the screen, and this version has a new “Text file” item available. I tested it by writing a Python script for randomly inserting quotations into a file every 20 seconds, but you can use it for anything you like. I've limited it to reading the first 50 lines from the file - if that is a problem for you, let me know and I'll increase the limit or make it an option.
One thing that was holding me back from adding the text file item was the lack of any text formatting options. Version 4.7.1 adds left, right and centre align options for all of the text items. Obviously this is only useful if your text item spans multiple lines.
Thanks to the ever-increasing resolution of digital cameras, images are getting bigger. My “bilinear” and “bicubic” resize methods produce some quite jagged edges when applied to really big images, so I've added in the imageresampler class. The class provides a load of antialiasing filters that are now available from the resize method drop-down box - I suggest trying each of them out to decide which you prefer.
Finally, I actually fixed the one bug that I knew I needed to fix - the pause icon was remaining onscreen after pause had been disengaged by pressing the “next” button. I also fixed a bug in the loading of logo image files, where a “n” at the start of a folder or file name was being converted into a carriage return and messing things up.
The updated installer is available from the downloads page.