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JPEG Saver 5.33.1
Here's a quick update to fix the false positives that some virus scanners were reporting for the last couple of versions. I wasn't expecting it to be this easy to fix, which is why this update is coming so soon after 5.33.
Failure to launch
The virus warnings were not caused by the main JPEG Saver screensaver, but by the small utility I included for launching it in desktop helper mode. I've fixed it by removing the utility - the installer now installs a second copy of JPEG Saver that checks its own filename and uses that to decide whether to run as a screensaver or the desktop helper.
Why the trojan identification?
As far as I can make out, the launcher is flagged as a trojan because it starts the screensaver and passes in an argument.
JPEG Saver 5.33
This new version took longer than I wanted and has less new stuff in it than I wanted too. But here it is anyway.
Flipping HEIC
Support for loading HEIC images was really easy to add using the libheif library. It still took me two weeks though, because I thought it would be a good idea to use a package manager for a change. Until now I have been manually compiling the libraries that JPEG Saver uses, which can be quite a pain.
Enter vcpkg
vcpkg is a simple, easy to use package manager that works with Visual Studio and makes it easy to add, update and manage dependencies.
JPEG Saver 5.32
This new version of JPEG Saver is mostly concerned with improving metadata support. Plus there are a few bugs fixed.
Metadata everywhere
Until now metadata support has been mostly limited to reading Exif metadata, IPTC metadata and ICC colour profiles (ICCP) from JPEG images. For version 5.32 I wanted to support reading from more file types and more types of metadata.
JPEG Saver 5.31
Here's another JPEG Saver update, this time mostly improving things that were already there.
What, nothing new?
OK, there is a new option - in the interactive options dialog there is now an option to write deleted files to a specific folder instead of using the recycle bin. This is for people who use network shares or some other kind of filesystem where there is no recycle bin. Or for anyone who wants to use the delete option for moving files somewhere else.
JPEG Saver 5.30
There are a few improvements and some fixes in this version. Nothing spectacular though.
More slideshow options
JPEG Saver has had the option of displaying as a slideshow via the Windows Explorer folder context menu for quite a long time now. For this version I have split the slideshow options out into a new dialog available from the main tab.
The new dialog has the options that were previously in the interactive
options dialog, plus a new one to display the slideshow as a window on the
desktop. This is the same as passing in the /g command line
option to set the window size and position, and the dialog contains the
relevant inputs for the window width, height, X and Y offsets.