PNGOUTWin Version History
1.5.0.100 7/31/2011
- Improved support for Windows 7
- Native 64 bit version installed on 64 bit Windows
- Unicode file name support
- Updated compression engine
1.0.1 Build 70505 05/05/2007
- Fix: Drawing issues on Windows Vista
- Added output option to force write of result even if it is bigger than the original file
- Added new multiple trials field that repeats randomization trials the specified number of times
- Paste now retains the folder and file name that is used to save a file.
1.0.1 Build 61229 12/31/2006
- Improved compression of PNG images with large number of Huffman blocks
1.0.1 Build 61206 12/11/2006
- Improved pruning of trials for RGB images
- Help file now in German for German version (many thanks, Andreas)
1.0.1 Build 61031 11/04/2006
- Windows 2000 Support
- List is now more results oriented
- Updates to German localization
1.0.1 Build 60924 9/25/2006
- First release of German localization (many thanks, zooloo)
1.0.1 Build 60826 8/26/2006
- New output setting to create files only when result is smaller
- Select file when folder is opened by Open Containing Folder context menu
- New toolbar and menu layout
- Documentation updates
- Fix: Issue with bit depth in palette color types and background color chunk
1.0 Build 60627 6/28/2006
- Fix: Update strategy names to reflect new defaults
- Fix: Missing DLLs issue on fresh OS installs
- Fix: Issue with block split and cancel code conflict
1.0 Build 60516 5/17/2006
- Display total bytes saved in the status bar
- Accept file names or folder name on command line to support "Send To"
- Paste of file that was copied from explorer adds file to list
- Fix: Issue with background chunks
- Fix: Don't accept 16 bit extended PNG images
- Fix: Issue with images having all transparent pixels
- Fix: Issue with pasted images and compression
- Fix: Issue with palette and grayscale images
1.0 Build 60417 4/19/2006
- Fix: Use new folder browse dialog box
- Fix: Drag and drop fails for some third-party file managers
- Fix: Can't delete a folder after file is chosen until app is closed
1.0 build 60411 4/11/2006
- Fix: Corrupt files created with longest match strategy
1.0 build 60407 4/7/2006
- Performance improvement for job completion file size check
- Fix: Batch limit not cleared until app close when registering from trial reminder
Release Candidate 4 4/3/2006
- Fix: Extension not added to some filenames that contain more than one "."
Release Candidate 3 4/1/2006
- Fix: Initialize CRC block for "No compression" strategy
Release Candidate 2 3/30/2006
- Fix: Click of Reset Defaults /w all filters chosen leaves all filter checkboxes disabled
- Fix: Background priority not set at startup
- Fix: Multiple trials, Initial Huffman Tables, Default always checked
- Fix: Smiley for Written and Smaller, not just Written
- Fix: Stop, Pause not available after drop of file
Release Candidate 1 3/27/2006
- Significant performance improvements for "Xtreme" strategy
- Happy face icon appears for winning jobs
- Added auto-size columns
- Show % of original instead of % compression
- Show change in bytes for each line
- New status for images that are written out
- Use gray text for trials that don't result in smaller files
- Save column widths on exit
- Prune multiple trials for redundant cases
- Prompt for result location and chunk settings on first run
- Make default palette option Optimize
- Make Xtreme! strategy the default
- Option for ZLIB 1.2.1 workaround
- Fix: overwrite only when result is smaller
- Fix: crash on shutdown during processing non PNG image
- Fix: multiple trials w/ output folder creates many, many files
- Fix: display string information for RGB color types
- Fix: initial Huffman tables setting not preserved
- Fix: auto resize of path name
Beta 2 Refresh 3/17/2006
- Significant performance improvements for "Xtreme" strategy
- Info tips for pending jobs
- Improve automatic filter logic
- Virtual list view yields roughly 50% less memory usage by main UI
- No restart required to change the number of worker threads
- Save last opened directory in open folder dialog box
- Resize column on header double click
- Multiple Trials Dialog: auto block split was always selected
- Fix for corrupted palette when compressing multiple files
- Memory leak fix for cancel during early image compression
- Memory leak fix for non PNG images with palettes
Beta 2 3/12/2006
- Multiple trials w/ image cache
- Option to preserve file times
- Default strategy property page
- Preserve chunks property page
- Full row select style added to listview
- All image types pick in dialogs
- Store result of choices and display to the user
- Remember file type setting in dialog box
- Drag and drop of file or folder on main window
- Subdirectories checkbox to folder browser
- Properties dialog box for completed items so that you can see what settings products the file
- Delete key cancels selected job
- Paste image from clipboard
- Context menu to open containing folder of the result or to open the resulting image
- Auto detection of filter type and block split threshold; default settings now work much better.
- Option to use randomized initial Huffman tables. If you run many using this, you can often save a few extra bytes.
- Slightly more efficient (on average) storage of Huffman tables.
- Fixed bug with processing of "bKGD" chunk.
Beta 1 2/27/2006