Storyboard Tools Release notes

Bug fix: The RED CODE that appears on the registration window should be exactly four digits. Owing to the fact that ST was rebuilt when I moved it all to a new PC, I accidentally rebuilt it with an older version of the Delphi component that does the registration window etc. This meant that that an old bug got re-introduced (see release notes for Storyboard Tools v1.7) whereby very rarely, some people had a red code that was not exactly four digits long, causing problems with the serial code not working. This has now been fixed.

Software is now TRIALWARE
Separate tabs for each scene
Improved text-handling when printing storyboards (the caption no longer gets truncated, but wraps around onto the next line)
Print continuity information option
Print selected scenes
Scene renumbering
Scene swapping
Drag & drop clip-art drawing-tool
Extended Help-menu with website-link, link to online forum and e-mail-creation
A couple more panning/tracking arrows in the drawing tool.

When saving, the previous .SBD file is renamed as filename.SBD.BAK, also the old .EDL file becomes filename.EDL.BAK
More meaningful error messages telling you if you haven't got a default printer driver attached.
Saves the INI file in the same directory as the Storyboard Tools executable, rather than the Windows directory. If you've been using an earlier version you may want to move your existing Strybord.INI file over to the directory in which Storyboard Tools was installed. This modification was made to (hopefully) overcome problems running Storyboard Tools under Windows XP. Let me know if it works or not!

This version allows you to use the Load Bitmaps option to load .JPG files as well.
Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.3 which produced an error "JPEG error #52" when you tried to use Load Bitmaps for loading .BMP files.

Previously, when looking for an MPEG file to associate with an image, the program would only list filenames with the extension .mpg. Now, it also recognises the following file extensions: .mpeg, .m1v, .mp2, .mpa and .mpe. This feature has NOT BEEN TESTED, as I have no example files of any of these types.
To overcome problems when exporting the web-page files of a project to servers with case-sensitive filenames, the JPEG image filenames are now all in lower case. It seems that Windows 95 has the peculiar tendency to translate filenames given in upper-case to lower-case, except for the first letter. But the filenames given in the HTML file were all in upper-case. This worked when, say, you viewed the web-page locally under Windows 95, because Windows 95 is not case-sensitive as regards to filenames. However, upon porting the files to a UNIX server, the discrepancy meant that you couldn't view the images. Anyway, this problem SHOULD have been overcome. Let me know if you have problems.

The drawing tool is now part of the viewer. Hence there are now only two executable applications instead of three. Because of this I've had to make alterations to the way in which some of the other features work. From now on the viewer will stretch/compress images which are not standard size, to the nearest standard size available. If you've been using the drawing tool all along, this will not affect you.
Within the viewer the "magnifying glass" feature has been removed, and replaced by the drawing tool. So if you now hold down CTRL and click on an image it brings up the drawing tool instead.
Within the drawing tool you can no longer resize the image at any time. You select the size and aspect ratio when you click on "Begin new image".
The "Image | Image settings" feature in the viewer allows you to specify a colour resolution which is then applied to ALL the images in the project. If you reduce the colour resolution to, say, 4-bit colour, this will drastically reduce the file-size of the project when you come to save it. However, BEWARE because using this feature can have unpredictable results and there is no undo. So you should SAVE THE PROJECT first, before you use this feature.