Transcript: New in version 2.3

Version 2.3.1 only fixes some bugs that were found in 2.3.0. For details see the Transcript announcements forum.

New

• AutoContrast: apply automatic contrast to images to improve their colors (see menu Image).
• Added option to visually see the progress of the amount of images you have done in the toolbar. The imagefile selection box will have a green background for the part that has been done based on which imagefile you are currently transcribing (default off, see general tab of Options dialog).
• In options you can now choose what name will be used as default when saving a new text file: you can choose between the first line of text in the editor, or the same name as the imagefile.
• Added a dialog to insert special characters/symbols. Only available for registered users.
• Resume manually paused project timer when typing option added: If you manually pause the timer and start typing when this option is set will automatically resume the timer. Only available for registered users.
• It's now possible to select a part of the image and copy that part either to the clipboard or into the editor. To select first press the selection toolbar button on the right side of the image toolbar (the mouse changes to a cross when above the image) and select the part you want. You can copy the selection to the clipboard with Ctrl+C (or used the rightclick menu) and you can copy the selection directly into the editor by using the rightclick menu of either the image or the editor. Only available for registered users.
• Copy image selection into a separate window which makes it easier to compare the way letters or words are written. Only available for registered users.
• Added paste special dialog which allows to choose in what format the text or image on the clipboard should be pasted.
• Added: in file open I added the possibility to open the file as readonly! You can also toggle the readonly mode of the current textfile using the edit menu at the top or the local rightclick menu for the editor. This setting is saved in the global Transcript settings, which means that when changing projects the readonly flag will be reset to false. Also when creating a new file or opening a file from the history list the readonly settings will be turned off if it was on. Notice that you can set a file to readonly which has already been modified but it will still be possible to save those changes! If you have set automatic saving in options those changes will still be automatically saved to file!
• By using F12 you can now select the stretch filter to be used when zoomed in or out. There are 7 filters, from faster/worst quality to slower/better quality: Nearest, Draft, Linear, Cosine, Spline, Lanczos, Mitchell. You switch between them by consecutively pressing F12 or by selecting the desired setting for the Image Menu.
• There are separate settings for zoomed in (< 100%) and zoomed out (> 100%) because zooming in is slower than zooming out. Note that when the image is not zoomed (100%) these settings have no effect.
• Now uses sqlite as engine for storing autoreplace information (instead of an ini file). This makes opening the autoreplacement dialog faster and also makes it possible to add new features in the future. The autoreplacement dialog will now also show the number of times a word has been replaced with its replacement. Only available for registered users.
• Removed menu item "Reload autoreplacements list" because it's not needed anymore now we're using sqlite for storing autoreplacements.
• Ctrl-Home/End support added in the autoreplacement dialog. Only available for registered users.
• Added options to delete unused en never used autoreplacement items (which are older than a settable number of weeks). Only available for registered users.
• Added option to reset usage count when changing the replace part of an autoreplacement item. Only available for registered users.
• Ctrl+Mouse scrollwheel can now be used to zoom image in/out.
• Added a link to the website on the Help menu.
• XP/Vista Manifest is now included in Transcript.exe instead of a separate manifest file.
• German is now recognized as language when starting Transcript for the first time.
• Several small changes of the working of the toolbars.
• Many small internal changes to the way the program works.

Bugs fixed

• Closing Transcript with the image window maximized (editor window not visible) caused Transcript to not show the editor window at next startup.
• When using the English language Transcript could often not find the location of the English help file.
• You could only paste text from the clipboard to the editor, not images.
• Trying to open a non rtf file in Open Text File (not Import) would do nothing and gave no error message. Now it uses Import file when it's not an rtf file.
• The newest GPL GhostScript releases were not recognized by Transcript so it could not let GhostScript convert pdf's to images.
• Opening a new textfile when the current text was changed caused the text zoom to be reset to 100.
• After opening another textfile or creating a new textfile the font name and font size boxes still showed the old values.
• Ctrl+Alt+B as shortcut for setting the text background color did not work.
• After using the back and foreground color buttons focus did not always return to the text.
• Hint in imagefile selection box was not updated after changing language.
• When using the Windows setting "large fonts", some parts of the autoreplacement and project management dialogs were not visible.
• Autoreplacement dialog: now the correct number of visible rows is computed so PgDn will stop at the end if everything is visible.
• In autocorrect options when setting the autocorrect filename without path then the path to AppData/Transcript will automatically be added.
• Ugly selected text in comboboxes should now be fixed.
• When using autoreplacement when some other text directly after the autoreplace word was selected, then that text was not replaced. Instead the autoreplacement was inserted before the selected text.