Advanced CATaloguer: versions history ========================================= Legend ~~~~~~ [!] Important note [+] New feature [*] Bug fix and/or improvement Version 2.6 (Jul, 13 2006) [+] Bellarussian translation. [+] Turkish translation. [+] Croation translation. [+] Swedish translation. [*] ZIP module is revised. [*] CSV export filter now uses a list separator from Regional options. [*] Some optimization at scanning/synchronizing of network disks. [+] CDDB Protocol Level 6 (unicode) is supported. [+] Support ID3v2.4. [*] The file management is improved. [+] Module 'Microsoft Office documents' can obtain user-defined properties. [*] Now the search string 'file' is equivalent '*file*'. [+] Settings of the data shown after synchronization. (see Options|Advanced). [*] In some cases duration .WAV files was calculated incorrectly. [+] Description modules: - Rich Text Format files (*.rtf). [+] Graphics module. Import embedded thumbnails from CorelDraw files (.CDR,.CDT,.CLK). [*] 'CD Image' module now supports: - Standard ISO image (ISO); - CloneCD Image (.IMG); - CDRWin Image (.BIN); - Nero Image (.NRG); - Virtual CD Image (.VCD); - Media Descriptor Image (.MDF) - Extended Media Descriptor Image (.XMF). - Farstone Virtual Drive Image (.VCD). [*] Various small improvements. [*] Some bugs is fixed. Version 2.4 Beta (build 69) (9 Mar 2004) [*] The Preview pane can show: - images (module Graphics files); - text content (module Text documents, HyperText Documents, Rich Text Format files) - file version info (module Executable files); - document summary (module Microsoft Office documents); For change of supported file extensions open a settings appropriate description module. Version 2.4 Beta (build 68) (1 Mar 2004) [+] The easy synchronizing of removable disks. For this purpose simply add a disk in the catalogue. [+] Support of mixed CD. [*] Module 'HTML Document' is optimized and improved. The following charsets are supported now: Hebrew, Arabic, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, etc. [*] Added special item - User's Note. This item is intended for storage of the user's data, for example it can be used for data storage about books, videocassettes, etc. [*] Report generator and function 'Export to ...' are joined. Reports can be saved in the following formats: - HTML document (.html); - XML document (.xml); - Comma Separated Values File (.csv). Version 2.4 Beta (build 66) (7 Jan 2004) [+] Added Romanian language. [+] Copy/paste thumbnail to/from clipboard; [+] Feature - Remove unneeded description, allowing you to remove the unnecessary data and by that to reduce the size of the catalogue. [*] Rar archive: The bug at decoding a filename stored in unicode format is fixed. [*] Audio modules and Video module are combined. - The extraction of the pictures from structure ID3v2 is added. - Extraction of the information in unicode format. - Optimization on speed of processing of files. - Extraction of the additional information. The following formats are now supported: - Advanced Systems Format (.ASF); - Audio Visual Interleave (.AVI); - Free Lossless audio codec (.FLAC,.FLA); - Monkey Audio (.APE,.MAC); - MPEG Audio (.MP3,.MP2,.MP1); - Musepack Audio (.MP+,.MPC,.MPP); - Ogg Vorbis Audio (.OGG); - TwinVQ Audio (.VQF); - Windows Media Audio (.WMA); - Windows Media Video (.WMV,.WM); - Windows Waveform Audio (.WAV,.WAVE); [*] All modules can work with filenames in a format unicode. [*] The bug from for which program could not be started under Windows 95 is fixed. [*] New installer. [*] Minor bugs is fixed. Version 2.4 Beta (build 62) (16 Oct 2003) [+] Option 'Saving of contents of a Notepad'. [+] Extraction of the preview picture from MSOffice documents. Version 2.4 Beta (build 60) (3 Oct 2003) [*] The bug in the module 'HTML document' is fixed. [*] Search by wildcards was rewritten. [*] Support of unicode files with encoding UTF-8, Big endian. [*] Export of the data in XML is improved. [*] Old bug at which at opening the catalogue, created with ACAT 2.3, Notes were incorrectly imported was fixed. Version 2.4 Beta [*] The format of the catalogue was updated. [*] File Properties: The hotkeys are changed with +arrow on +arrow. [+] Contents of text and hypertext files is kept compressed. [+] Option: Always to update the descriptions. [+] Option: 'Autosave of catalogue after adding/synchronizing of disks'. [+] Special categories created on the basis of fields - artist, album, genre (audio info) - author, company, category (MS Office document summary) at addition/synchronizations of disks these categories are automatically updated. [+] User's categories. [*] Productivity of some operations increased. [+] Export the catalogue to XML, CSV. [*] Report generator is temporary disabled. [+] Added Serbian; [+] Added Makedonian; Addition of disks: [+] It is possible to choose a folder, where the disk will be added. Now is possible to add disks from any folder of the catalogue. [+] Option 'Batch addition' - this option can be convenient, if you add at once several disks [+] Simplified/enhanced mode of addition of disks. [*] Addition/synchronization of disks became much faster. Search: [+] Search on all textual fields in the catalogue. [*] The search for duplicates is optimized. [+] Search music files on the following fields: artist, album, title, comment, composer, content type, copyright, encoder, year, track number. [*] The search criterions after search are not reset. [*] Search of the duplicates is placed into a tab 'Search'. [*] Search of the duplicates at comparing ignores milliseconds. [+] The new criteria of selection of duplicates: 'in archives', 'not in archives'. Description modules: [*] Global changes. Now each module stores the data separately and displays them on the tab in Item Properties. [+] Description module 'Video files'. [*] Graphics module: the extraction the thumbnails is added. The following formats are now supported: - Windows bitmaps (*.BMP,*.RLE,*.DIB) - Windows icons (*.ICO) - Windows metafiles (*.WMF,*.EMF) - JPEG images (*.JPG,*.JPE,*.JPEG,*.JFIF) - Truevision images (*.TGA,*.WIN,*.VST,*.VDA,*.ICB) - Tagged image file format images (*.TIFF,*.TIF,*.FAX) - Encapsulated Postscript images (*.EPS) - ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.PCX,*.PCC,*.SCR) - Alias/Wavefront images (*.RPF,*.RLA) - SGI images (*.SGI,*.RGBA,*.RGB,*.BW) - Photoshop images (*.PSD,*.PDD) - Portable map images (*.PPM,*.PGM,*.PBM) - Autodesk images (*.CEL,*.PIC) - Kodak Photo-CD images (*.PCD) - CompuServe images (*.GIF) - Dr. Halo images (*.CUT) - Paintshop Pro images (.PSP) - Portable network graphic images (*.PNG) [*] Music module: The following formats are now supported: - Waveform Audio (*.WAV) - Windows Media Audio (*.wma, *.asf) - TwinVQ (*.vqf) - FLAC (*.flac) - Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg) - Monkey's Audio (*.mac, *.ape) - MPEGplus (*.mpc, *.mp+) [*] HTML module: [*] special symbols (such as & õ etc) now are converted to normal symbols. [+] The saving HTML of the document or its part in the catalogue is now possible (the saving without tags also is supported). [*] Support of a charset utf-8. [*] CDDB module was rewritten. Version 2.3 build 30 (29 Oct 2002) [+] Option 'Ignore the symbolic link at scanning (NTFS)'. Contents of symbolical links at scanning will be passed. It can be conveniently, if you have folders referring against each other. [*] Added Catalon language. [*] The possible problems at use the combo box 'Type of file' (tab Search) are eliminated. [+] The information on the translator is now shown. [*] Minor bugs is fixed. Version 2.3 build 29 (19 Oct 2002) [*] Optimization at work with the large lists of files. [+] Automation at a choice of the duplicates. Choice of the duplicates by - for specified folder; - in specified folder; - with later date; - with earlier date; - with larger size; - with smaller size. [*] 'Notepad' was restored. It can be useful when you want to execute group operations for files, which are in different folders. [*] Minor bugs is fixed Version 2.3 build 26 (23 Sep 2002) [+] Added support for ISO9660 (.iso) file format. ACAT also supports Joliet extension of ISO9660 and displays long file names inside of Joliet CD images. Also support for ISO9660 in next formats of CD image: .IMG, .BIN, .NRG. [!] In the evaluation version the opening only of first 10 disks is possible. For work with the catalogues containing more disks use ACAT Reader (http://www.evgenysoft.com/download.html). [+] The criterion of search on keywords (OR,AND) is added. [+] Function: Delete unassigned keywords. [*] 'VirtualFolder' is renamed on 'Group', 'FileFolder' is renamed on 'Disk' [+] Function 'Assign Keywords' (for assign/removal of several keywords on some files). [+] Added Polish, Czech, Danish language. [+] Added module for extraction Summary Information from Microsort Office documents(.doc,.dot,.xl*,.ppt,.pot, .obd,.vsd,.vss,.vst,.mpp,.msi,.msp etc). [*] Synchronization don't worked correctly - fixed. [+] Wildcards for addition of files(special characters AND, OR, NOT is supported). The history of wildcards also is accessible. [+] The management of files (copying, moving, removal, renaming) is added. [*] Bug in module 'CAB Archive' at scanning multivolume archives (such as win95_xx.cab) is fixed. [+] Function 'Autosaving catalogue' [*] The optimization of opening of the catalogue is made. Now catalogue opens in 3 times faster! [*] The module 'HTML document' is rewritten. [+] Level of compression at saving catalogue (see tab 'Advanced'). [+] 'CRC32 checksum' is added. [+] The search of the duplicates supports criterion 'CRC32 checksum'. [+] Parameters the 'Capacity' and 'Free space' are added. [*] The algorithm of display of results is changed during search. [*] At some combinations of options the function 'delete missing files' did not work - fixed. Version 2.0 - 2.1.21 [+] Added module for extraction of the text from of textual files. [*] Bug with 'Check for new version' is fixed. [*] The catalogue opens faster. [*] The identification of graphics formats now works correctly. [*] The identification of archive formats now works little bit faster. [*] Changed in interface, the compatibility with all versions Windows is improved. [*] The settings by default are changed. [+] Extract title/track information for Audio CDs from CDDB/freedb (Internet CD database) (supporting the format cdplayer.ini) [!] In the evaluation version the restriction on time is removed, but are entered a number of restrictions: - Auto-open of last catalogue is disabled. - Unregistered message in reports - 'Import from Catalogue' is accessible only in the registered version. - Evaluation version has a limit of maximum 10 disks (filefolder) per catalogue. [+] Item in popup menu - 'Explore' [+] Added support ACE, ARJ, CAB, LZH, RAR archive (SFX supported) [+] Added support TAR, HA archive [*] The mode of localization is changed, now it occurs to 'OnFly' [+] Advanced setting available at Option|Advanced [+] New option - 'Always to synchronize structure of archives' - 'Create a backup copy of the catalogue at saving' - 'Minimize program on system tray' - 'Eject media after scan' [*] The changes in the function of search - for search are entered special characters AND, OR, NOT, now it is possible to set complex constructions such as (*.com OR *.exe) AND (so* AND NOT sort*) [*] At automatic change of the descriptions or notes (at synchronization), file the status not changed [*] Changed in interface: * All search pages are placed in the main window [*] The shell context menu for an item can be accessed by holding down the or key while clicking with the secondary mouse button. [*] Support of XP themes. [+] Extract description from JPEG and TIFF files [+] Extract keywords from HyperText documents (*.html, etc) [+] Extract description from executable files ('*.exe, *.dll, etc) [+] Extract description and keywords from *.mp3 files [*] The analysis of the contents of archives is optimized [*] Algorithm of encryption is changed and is improved. [+] Import from catalogue: - Advanced CATaloguer catalogue (*.acat) - Advanced Disk Catalog files(*.cat) [+] Export into HyperText document (*.html) [*] Some types archives [*] Scanning inside ZIP files a faster. [+] Added Alt+DblClick [*] The structure of a storage of the data is optimized!, The size of the catalogue is reduced by 30%. [+] History of dialogues [*] The show of contents of folders is accelerated [+] Search of the duplicates [+] Print preview Version 1.0 - 2.0 Release [+] Multilingual support [+] Reports: The margin of a paper are added [+] Added support ZIP files (get list files extract archive and files comment) [+] Added attributes: NTFS: Encrypted, Archive: Compressed,Encrypted [+] The author's data and passwords are added [+] Export in CSV format [*] Speed of saving became faster [*] Possibility dynamically to connect the reports [*] The speed of search enlarged [+] Extract description from file_id.diz, dirinfo, etc into FileFolder notes [+] Extract description from descript.ion,files.bbs, index.txt etc. into folder/file notes/comments (user choice) [+] Extract from Hypertext documents (*.htm,*.html,*.shtml, *.dhmtl): document into comments, meta tag 'description' into notes [+] Added option 'Display default icons' [*] Changed in toolbar's [+] Added option 'Recent menu count' [+] Added tabsheet 'Location' into file properties [+] Extract from graphics files (bmp,pcx,gif,tga,png) line of a type: 'Width x Heigth x Resolution' in comments. [+] Enable Synchronize for separate folder/files into FileFolders [+] The interface is improved [+] Added option 'Show hidden files' [+] Added 'move up/down' into files properties [+] Added Volume Info [+] Added Synchronizing [+] Added Search Area