Known limitations and issues in Fab4 0.20 beta:

Planned improvements:

Some of the recent changes:


* Add document properties/metadata display (for JPEG)
* Fixes to the keybord response when typing annotations (focus system)
* Fixes to the multipage pdf file annotations, you can now annotate on any page
and jump to the selected page by double clicking on an annotation.
* Chenged the list display
* You can scroll multipage using pageup/down
* Fixed issue with deleting text
* Fixed Drag and Drop in Windows
* Added annotation properties dialog(right click on the note in the list)
* Many other small imporvements
* Identify visually selected span annotaitions (bold, italic hyperlinks etc.)
* Fixes to text entry in notes (accented characters)
* Notes are not updatable (changes to published note will not be updated in the server).
* Allow text span notes
* UI no longer hangs on publish/delete
* text spans are selectable
* images are zoomable
* fixed the media loader
* notes are size-relative (good for pictures)
* improved zoom (combobox) and handled memory constraints for images
* FIXED the zoom for PDF files!
* Fixed error conditions on network errors
* Added iamge metadata display
* Fixed issue when opening a doc with a note selected
* Fixed problem with empty note
* added SVG support (https://svgsalamander.dev.java.net/)
* selecing a note now scrolls to display the note, if not visible
* improved images performance
* fixes some issue when loading GZipped files

Older versions:

Changes:

b15.13 A big amount of bug fixes and improvements including PDF, zoom, multipage, fixed hyperlink notes, notes on images, image zoom ....
b15: Main redesign of the annotation system. See the VRE web pages for more details.
b14: Updates and bugfixes
b13: Updated to the latest MV release. Updated SRB library. Fixed icon loading during startup. Bugfixes.
b12: Enanched support for SRB URI Divided the SRB support to a
separate media adaptor (sbrma.jar) File type guessing from file content
(when needed)
b11: Faster font rendering, based on Multivalent release 8.4 Support
for background loading of pages (needs refinements) SRB URI support