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PureRef (64-bit)

PureRef 2.0.0 (64-bit)

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    PureRef 2.0.3 (64-bit)

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11

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  • Filename

    PureRef-2.0.0_x64.exe

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    9cbfac8974555ff16e7f6c46c9f8b50e

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What's new in this version:

Features:
- Refreshed UI design
- Added a simple drawing tool. (Ctrl+D)
- Support for animated GIFs with playback controls to step individual frames
- New rich text editor for notes with support for interactable links, checklists and more
- Added support for groups (Ctrl+G/Ctrl+Shift+G) and arbitrary hierarchies that can be viewed in a tree view through the menu option Hierarchy
- Support for embedded image color profiles
- Added Always on top of... that will show PureRef on top of a specific application. (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A)
- Support for more image formats
- New image streaming system that supports caching images on disk to reduce RAM usage. When the setting Performance mode is set to "Cache on disk", RAM usage should be drastically lower than before. This replaces the setting "Zoom quality"
- Saving and loading speeds have been improved (this does not apply to already existing scenes unless they are converted)
- Improvements to save and backup restore. It should be a lot more robust against losing any unsaved changes in the case of a crash or unexpected shutdown
- Added option to show a title bar on the main window. By default it is set to show the title bar on Mouse over
- Support panning and zooming with trackpad gestures
- Added support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse. (Windows/Mac
- Added slideshow controls with navigation buttons and options for randomizing the slideshow order
- Improved the coordinate picker to show a selection and print the pixel measurements of said selection. It will also show the name and source of the hovered image
- Added Comment function that can be used to add hidden text info to an item. (Alt+C
- Added Toggle locked function to lock individual items in the scene. (Alt+L
- Added Export selected as scene (Ctrl+Shift+E
- Added a command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or typing in the context menu
- Added cut command (Ctrl+X)
- Added Arrange by order. (Ctrl+Alt+A
- Added Arrange by path. (Ctrl+Alt+D
- Added Crop image function as an alternative to the rectangle crop. Use the gizmo to mark the crop area. (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C
- Added "Zoom in/out" shortcuts. (Ctrl +/-
- Added setting for changing size source for the normalize actions, through a toggle in the right click menu
- Transform multiple images individually with the transform gizmo. (Hold Alt+Shift
- Added menu entry to start a new PureRef instance
- Added a new setting Open files in
- External changes to a loaded scene will now be detected and you'll be notified to reload
- There's now a search bar in the settings dialog
- It is now possible to restore all settings to their defaults
- Added functionality to import and export settings
- Image export now supports exporting the original format. (Only supported for new scenes
- Added setting Double click image to focus to be able to disable the default behavior
- Added copy & paste text formatting commands. (Ctrl+Alt+C/V
- Added color picker button to color selector dialog
- Made it possible to change the "Finish editing note" shortcut
- Added setting for specifying default image sampling
- Added opt-in support for sending anonymous usage statistics and crash reports
- Support drag & drop of images that are encoded in data urls
- Added setting to disable rounded window corners
- Added command line option to set a setting (-S)
- Added setting to allow updating to new beta versions
- Windows: Added an Explorer thumbnail provider. It can be installed with the installer or through the settings dialog

Tweaks:
- Enabled state of actions are now reflected in menus
- Default keybind to close the window is now Ctrl+Q
- Made it so that mouse transparency is disabled automatically when you give the application focus, and added a setting to control this behavior
- Auto save has been removed in favor of the new save system that saves every change to a temporary file
- PureRef will now report why images failed loading
- Pasting images can now be canceled and shows progress
- Changed default shortcuts for increasing/decreasing application opacity (Ctrl+Shift +/-)
- Added default alias for increasing application opacity (Ctrl+Shift+=)
- Added missing menu entry for slideshow
- Added missing menu entries for flip horizontal/vertical
- Toggling bilinear sampling changes all images if nothing is selected
- Made the toggle action for grayscale and bilinear only disable the mode if the entire selection has it enabled
- Update design of export dialogs and added some more name override substitutions
- When exporting images without a source name they will now be named "Untitled" instead of nothing
- The current scene name is now used as the default file name when exporting a scene
- Exported images are now numbered in hierarchical order when using sequence number
- Improved performance and UX of copying large number of images and of exporting scenes and made them cancelable
- Copying an image or multiple images now attempts to retain the original scale
- Space now focuses all items if nothing is selected
- Added LAB and CSS color value support to the color selector
- The color picker now uses the same widget as the color selector to display color values in different formats
- "Arrange by" actions now reverse the sort order if triggered a second time on the same selection
- Added warning when overwriting a read only file
- Added description tooltips for actions, displayed in the keybinder
- Added description tooltips for settings
- Moved the settings file to its own folder in config/roaming to conform better with standards
- Added dialog to ask before removing missing file from list of recent files
- When binding "Move item" to a keybinding that does not share the binding with "Select items", you don't need to hover the selected item for it to work

Fixed:
- Fixed issue where the order of images would change after the first save
- Fixed issue where arrange by name would fail ordering correctly in some cases
- Fixed freeze after aligning notes and child notes
- Fixed issue with the transform gizmo where the scale cursor would get reset during scaling
- Fixed issue where the scene wouldn't update after maximize with "Scale scene on window resize" enabled
- Fixed resize to selection with "Scale scene on window resize" enabled
- Fixed placement of note when mouse is outside the window
- Fixed issue where double tap on trackpad would not work well for editing notes
- Fixed incorrect behavior of resize to selection when the selected image was outside the screen
- Fixed issue where the relink dialog didn't hide when a different scene was loaded
- Fixed issue on high dpi scaled screens where there would be artifacts on background images and notes when moving another item over it
- Avoid moving the PureRef window when screens are connected / removed
- Fixed issue where memory consumption would become high if zoomed in close to the transform gizmo
- Fixed so that the export images action don't export duplicates if there are copies in the scene
- Fixed issue where the selected images would become fullscreen when toggling overlay mode
- Fixed keyboard navigation in most dialogs
- Fixed camera state handling when using focus shortcuts during slideshow
- Fixed buggy snapped move when having child notes
- Fixed issues with having multiple instances of PureRef with the same scene open
- Fixed issue where clicking an action in a menu while another submenu was open would need 2 clicks
- Fixed issue where latin based keyboards with keys in different places were not working correctly with keybindings. (If you worked around this by rebinding the shortcut this might need to be restored to default)
- Fixed issue where successive calls to distribute would creep the images
- Fixed duplicate note created when dropping text into an existing note
- When open source fails an indication will be shown instead of nothing happening
- Any canceled exports now properly cleans up any partially created files
- Scene export that will overwrite an existing file now only does it if the export is completed successfully and not canceled
- Better permission handling in the auto updater
- Fixed crash when disconnecting all screens
- Windows: Fixed so that aero snapping shortcuts work
- Windows: Fixed taskbar progress not always working
- Windows: Fixed global keybindings with only mouse buttons or modifiers
- Mac: Fixed freeze when trying to use the save as dialog
- Mac: Fixed auto save restore dialog getting blue lines after clicking restore
- Mac: Show modeless dialogs as always on top instead of forcing them to be modal
- Mac: Title bar buttons are now in the left corner
- Linux: Fixed the background color of the file browse dialog
- Linux: Use static fuse runtime for appimage builds so they works on Ubuntu 22+ without having to install libfuse2
- Linux: Fixed the unmaximize on move setting
- Linux: Remove use of sudo in deb and rpm packages