v.3.8.3
Fixes:
The Web Browser asset no longer crashes (in rare occasions)
when using the virtual keyboard.
The virtual keyboard works again in all cases with the Web
Browser asset.
The virtual keyboard is now fully visible even if the Web
Browser asset window is small.
Selection of a space in the Presentation Tree no longer crashes
Composer.
Changing an Asset Grid collection into an Asset Flow collection
no longer crashes Composer if the Asset Grid contains a Web
browser.
The “Open Item” action works again for all
collections
v.3.8.2
Enhancements:
Greatly improved Composer and Player update download speeds
(following this release)
Ability for multiple users to type URLs into multiple Web
browsers simultaneously
Fixes:
Corrected presentation conversion issue involving Asset Grids
with height greater than width
Variety of stability improvements
v.3.8.1
Fixes:
Collection items displayed as thumbnails are now updated when
Replace Content function is applied to those items
Player and Composer no longer crash when a non-visible asset is
opened in a collection
Bug fixes in the white label Player
v.3.8.0
NOTE: Some of the collection types have been
renamed
Asset Browser is now the Asset Grid
Asset Conveyor is now Asset Flow
Flip Slide Show is now Flip Chart
Enhancements: Starred items (**) fulfill feature
requests submitted to our Ideas Community
For collections:
Collections can be nested inside other collections
** &
**.
Properties, behaviors, triggers and actions are now consistent
among all collections.
New Slide Show
collection, based on the Ken Burns effect. See an example at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTiyRDhlRY
Use tap or drag-and-drop to copy any asset out of its parent
collection. You can even copy out entire collections.
Directly manipulate assets inside a collection without first
having to copy them out
Optionally use thumbnails instead of real assets when
displaying a collection to optimize performance
Uses "progressive loading" algorithm to maximize performance
and minimize memory use
Includes new Scroll into focus action, causing
an item to move into an interactive display position within a
collection
Option to show or hide the visual tooltip displayed when a
collection first becomes visible
**
Folder-based collections will reflect updates to files in that
folder both in Preview Mode and in Player (requires space
refresh)
Improved Asset Grid: Supports multiple rows and columns for
vertical and horizontal scrolling, with additional configuration
options like scroll orientation and fill direction
Timeline collection has been completely reimplemented to add
greater stability and functionality - e.g. now you can change the
visible time span using More Properties panel
Bounce visual effect complements asset flow and asset grid
Option to have more than one collection item in focus. When an
item is in focus, it becomes interactive
Optional scroll animation is available for the asset flow and
carousel
Addition of vertical/horizontal orientation parameter for the
carousel
Improved memory management for folder-based collections
Enlarged touch zone for the controls in the Flip Chart
collection
Other improvements
Copy images from any external application (e.g. PowerPoint) and
paste them into the current space
White label option: the no splash screen Player can be
customized to show any image when launched
New Toggle Visibility action for assets will
flip visibility regardless of its current state
**
New Scale to action will increase or decrease
the size of a container relative to the original container
size
Flash assets have two new properties: Autoplay
and Play loop
**
Composer and Player update downloads are faster by a factor of
4
Document asset now as a property toggling whether or not to
display the scroll indicator
**
IntuiPad updates
Increased on-screen presentation size by introducing a drawer
for remote control and annotation controls
Saves history of computers previously identified by IP address
or domain name
On-screen annotation now available for phones
Improved method for retrying communication with a remote Player
unless user explicitly cancels the retry attempt
For WinRT: Automatic discovery of running Players on a LAN.
This feature already exists for iOS and Android
Fixes:
Assets copied outside of a collection retain their properties
rather than inheriting default display properties
Assets placed in a Carousel now respect the predefined item
size
Items in the Asset Flow collection (formerly known as the Asset
Conveyor) are now properly centered
Video controls are no longer displayed when the video is in a
default or unpinned container
The Call URL action now recovers and can be recalled if the
remote server does not initially respond
Asset deletion no longer, on rare occasions, causes the entire
space to be deleted
Unnecessary lines situated above assets in a "flat-view"
Carousel are no longer displayed
Opening and closing the drawing tool now consistently turns
drawing mode on/off respectively
Visual states of layers and collections in the Space Content
panel are preserved when switching in and out of Preview Mode
Composer/Player update window no longer steals focus from other
running applications
More than 25 crashes conditions have been corrected
v.3.7.3 (no auto-update; download using online Account
Management website)
Enhancements:
improved speed and stability of the Web Browser asset
RFID tag IDs are written to a file by Composer (in Preview
Mode) and Player
Fixes:
Corrected Web Browser asset crashes represented by the
notorious blue smiley face
v.3.7.2
(recommended upgrade for 3.7 users)
Fixes:
Fixed memory leak when using the Deep Zoom asset
v.3.7.1
Enhancements:
Deleting a space in a large presentation is now almost
instantaneous.
Composer prevents assignment of the same name to two different
elements in the Content Library.
Annotation colors and brushes can now be modified through
IntuiPad.
Fixes:
Renaming 3D, Deep Zoom and Adobe Flash media in the Content
Library creates copies of the associated, underlying folders and
files, deleting the original folders and files when exiting and
restarting Composer.
The list of spaces displayed by IntuiPad has the same order as
the one found in the Presentation Tree.
Keyboard-entered changes to the Width and Height values of the
Web Browser asset are now stable.
Composer no longer creates unneeded files in the
<presentation name>_Files\Snapshots folder
when the user navigates from one space to another while in Edit
Mode. Users can safely delete these files in presentations
edited/created with Version 3.7.0 to reduce presentation size.
Occasional crashes occurring in Composer when navigating from
one space to another while in Edit Mode have been fixed.
Composer no longer crashes when the user replaces a remote
action with a local action.
v.3.7.0
Enhancements:
Major additions
Dynamic alignment guides: real-time visual feedback for
aligning asset edges and center points
Content renaming and replacement: rename or replace content in
the Content Library, impacting all uses of that content throughout
a presentation
Copy/paste between presentations: run multiple Composers at the
same time and copy assets and spaces between them
Format painter: copy formatting properties of one asset/space
and apply them to other assets/spaces
Right-click menu: context-sensitive shortcuts to commonly used
capabilities
Keyboard accelerators: keystroke combinations linked to
Composer capabilities
Other improvements
Removal of auto-update from Player, replaced by a manual option
in the Player start-up panel
New Player option – at a different price point –
eliminating the splash screen that appears during Player
start-up
Simplified left-hand access toolbar to accelerate presentation
creation
Automated save and restore of window state and positioning when
closing and reopening a presentation
New assets are now inserted into the middle of the scene rather
than in a random location
Ability to move the scene – using Space Bar +
Left-Click-and-Drag - beyond the limits of the screen, making it
easier to work with assets larger than the target display
Use of F12 to hide / unhide all panels
Improved performance for space load and display at runtime
Fixes
Several crash conditions have been resolved
The Visual tag Move and Release triggers are working again for
the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense
v.3.6.1
(recommended upgrade for 3.6.0 users)
Customers are advised to upgrade both Composer and Player to the
latest available version.
Fixes
Improved conversion of a Text asset with carriage returns when
upgrading presentations to Version 3.6
Web Browser supports URLs containing the pipe (|)
character
Fixed a performance issue when deleting a space or a sequence.
Deletion speed is relative to the size of a presentation so for
very large presentations – e.g. 500 spaces or 5000 assets
– deletion may still operate slowly.
Fixed a crash caused by the deletion of unused resources in the
Content Library
Fixed a crash caused by animated Carousels during a space
change
Fixed a crash caused by the Web Browser asset due to access
right limitations on user PCs
v.3.6.0
(**NOTE**: If uninstalling 3.6.0 in order to install a previous
version,
follow these steps.)
Enhancements
Windows 8
support (all desktop versions and for x86-based tablets)
Extensive formatting capabilities for the Text asset
Implements HTML text formatting syntax
Includes bullet points, line spacing, super/subscript
Edit text directly in the active scene or by updating
underlying HTML
Copy/paste from Word, PowerPoint, etc.
Greatly improved free drawing tool
Draw on entire screen or select images
Choose from multiple brush and color options at runtime
Snapshot tool for saving annotation
Completely revised Web
Browser asset with improved stability and performance
Full support for HMTL5 and SVG
Editable whitelist for limiting users to authorized
websites
Support for non-trusted (eg autosigned...) certificates within
https
Correct rendering of dynamically loaded content for sites like
Facebook and Twitter
New interaction mode options enabling the use of embedded maps
like Google Maps
New international keyboard incorporating diacritics for
accented characters
Overall performance and stability improvements
Updated licensing and trial mechanism
Explicit licensing-related error messages with clear directions
for next steps
Improved PC identification algorithm
Transparent watermarks for trial licenses
Visibility of License ID in the Composer/Player start-up
panel
Usability improvements
Composer performance enhancements, including 30% improvement in
presentation loading time and 50% improvement in toggle speed
between Edit and Preview modes
Improved Player memory footprint and performance enhancement of
50% when loading a presentation
Redesign of the Property panel to simplify access to properties
like Visibility and Pin
Improved consistency for Tab key behavior
Spaces are now displayed faster and in a more fluid way in both
Player and Composer's Edit mode
Installation improvements
Enhanced design of the AutoUpdate panel to better display the
changelog
Installer directs user to install Flash if not already
present
Other improvements
Additional loading indicator options: no indicator and a
"universal" indicator without branding
Change Content action enabling designers to replace the content
of any media asset - image, video, document, audio, 3D model or
Deep Zoom image - at runtime
Interaction logging action enabling designers to write to a CSV
file at runtime
Flash asset now supports transparencies
Published API for enabling communication between any input tag peripheral - like RFID
readers and barcode scanners - and IntuiFace Presentation
Changed default value for asset shadows from Rectangular to
None
Button text supports vertical/horizontal justification and
margin specification
Portrait mode now works in 3M and TUIO based displays
Fixes
Improved management of deleted content in the _Files
folder
Selection of a button not centered in the Asset Conveyor now
centers the button instead of triggering the button's action
Elimination of sound when a space is changed while a video with
audio or just audio is playing
The "Scrolled' trigger is not tripped when the Carousel first
appears
Removed asset size restrictions when in the asset is in Static
mode
The "Initial focus item" property and the "Reached index"
trigger of the Asset Conveyor now work correctly
The color of the Sound asset's title can now be specified
Previews of images in the Content Library are once again
visible at the bottom of the Content Library panel
Deselection of "Accept remote actions" in the IntuiFace Player
Configuration Tool now works as intended
Player no longer crashes when Kinect for XBOX is used with the
Kinect plug-in
Color rendering improvements for the Image asset
The "Outline color" property for all media asset buttons (on
the container) now works in all cases
When editing actions, Undo now works again in all cases
Animation now restarts after the Rewind action is applied to
Flash animation.
Copying a space or a collection now properly copies their
trigger and action pairs
Copying Space triggers (gesture/timer/tag) to another space
works again
Various crash conditions have been fixed
For the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense: correction of
a performance issue causing Player to stop and improved speed of
presentation launch
Composer and Player can now install and run under the Guest
account for Windows
Power outages no longer corrupt the Player license
v.3.5.7 (no auto-update; download from your account
page)
Enhancements
The position of button text can now be adjusted
(left/center/right, top/center/bottom) with some margin
Fixes
Corrected crash when attempting to display XPS files using the
Document asset
v.3.5.6
Enhancements
Faster transition when toggling between Preview and Edit
modes
Decreased by a factor of 7 the loading time of presentations
containing many Web browsers
Additional performance tweaks to improve presentation loading
times in Composer and Player
Fixes
Eliminated runtime performance issues when moving between
spaces containing several collections
Corrected crash associated with the Asset Conveyor
collection
v.3.5.5
Enhancements
A new Audio Asset can play and control audio files (e.g. mp3,
wma, wav).
A new Highlights presentation, accessible from the Composer
startup panel, demonstrates a variety of key IntuiFace Presentation
features and functions.
The Text asset has a new alignment property with four values:
center, left align, right align, justify
A new slide transition option - No animation - is now
available.
Timers now accept delays smaller than 1 second.
Use the Shift key with the mouse to constrain asset movement to
x and y axes.
The color picker now includes a check pattern to provide visual
feedback about the level of color transparency.
Video and Audio assets set to autoplay do not play while in
Composer's Design Mode
The Web Browser keyboard can now be displayed without exposing
the navigation bar.
The setViewport action of the 3D Model asset is now
animated.
It is now possible to display controls for background videos,
including the volume slider.
The wing span of the AssetConveyor collection has been expanded
from 0..1 to 0..2
Assets opened from within an Asset Browser or Timeline, or
assets imported at runtime via the Create action, now have a Pin
button to enable interactivity toggling.
A new triggers category, Visibility, has been introduced to
improve trigger organization.
Actions are no longer pre-selected by Composer when a trigger
is inserted for an asset
An enhanced online account management dashboard
improves license management capabilities.
An informative error message now appears when Player does not
have sufficient system rights (e.g. when installed using a Guest
account)
Fixes
The first image in a collection is now systematically displayed
in Flip Slideshow.
Free drawings are now correctly scaled in relation to image
size.
The "Play loop" property for a background video now works as
designed.
Triggers and actions are retained when an asset is moved from
one layer to another.
Composer no longer crashes if an asset name contains either a
forward or backward slash .
Composer no longer crashes when the file path to a resource
exceeds 257 characters.
Design Accelerator panel options are working again.
Drag-and-drop actions no longer retain a ghost image of their
movement.
The ESC key now exits Preview mode of the Composer in all
cases.
Slides are now displayed correctly when importing a PowerPoint
presentation.
The Content field has been removed from the Simple Button
property editor.
The image file associated with an Image Button is now removed
from a presentation repository when its associated content file is
removed from the Content Library.
The Maximized trigger for the Document asset is now working
correctly.
The Release event of a button is triggered only if the last
contact occurs inside the button.
The Save As function will work even if the .ip3 file name was
manually edited.
An error message is now displayed in Player if a presentation
cannot be loaded due to an incorrect/corrupted ip3 file.
On the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense, presentations
no longer crash after the first space change if they are launched
upside down via the Surface Mode launcher.
v.3.5.1
Fixes
Remote actions now work with devices identified using their
hostname in the Triggers and Actions pane of Composer
Player correctly displays PDF documents on x64 hosts
The Curtain Shadow effect for assets no longer appears in
Preview mode unless the Show Curtain Shadow option is checked
v.3.5.0
Enhancements
Triggers and Actions: Create cause and effect relationships
between the actions of users or external events with resulting
actions in your presentations.
Remote Actions: Presentations now communicate with one
another.
Remote Action Syntax: Control your presentations using third
party applications.
Remote Control with Visual Touchpad: Control your presentations
wirelessly using any iPhone, iPad or Android-based device.
IntuiFace Presentation Configuration Tool: To enable a PC to
accept remote actions.
Fixes
It is now possible for the buttons Exit and 180º Rotate to
have their own graphic design.
Design Accelerators now accept PDF and Office documents.
In the Content Library panel, Office documents appear with
their original extension.
It is now possible to change the style of Document assets
created using drag-and-drop from the Windows Desktop.
When removing an Office Document from the Content Library, it
is properly deleted from the associated presentation folder on the
Windows filesystem.
After adding unsupported video streams (e.g. rtmp), a bang (!)
is displayed and there is no longer a crash.
Removed the black frame around the Web Broswer asset that
appeared with some webpages.
The Web Browser asset now adopts Flash preferences (e.g.
privacy) as configured on the host computer.
Player and Composer no longer create new temporary files on
each launch.
After Save As, all deleted documents are correctly removed from
the newly saved presentation, not from the original
presentation
Auto-Update will now correctly install both the PDF renderer
and remote action capabilities
v.3.1.1
Fixes
Some Adobe Flash animations failed to run in the Web Browser
asset. This has been fixed
Some YouTube URLs were not correctly loading in the Web Browser
asset. This has been fixed.
The Check for Updates option in the Help menu no longer causes
Composer to crash.
The Visual Tag Up event now works properly on the Samsung SUR40
for Microsoft Surface
The Player does not require a change in user rights when run in
Surface Shell mode on the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface
v.3.1.0
Enhancements and fixes
The Video asset now supports server-hosted videos compatible
with progressive download and streamed videos through MMS and RTSP
protocols. Please see the documentation for details.
The Document asset now includes a native PDF renderer.
The Document asset now directly imports Microsoft Office
v.3.0.3
Enhancements and fixes
Introducing Remote Actions:
Presentations can now communicate, enabling one presentation to
trigger actions in a separate presentation - even when running on
different machines
Third-party applications can trigger actions in presentations
over a network
Other features:
Support for new RFID reader
New action for calling URLs without requiring a Web browser
(useful for calling Web services)
Major performance improvements in Composer when going to and
exiting from Preview Mode
Video asset now has a progress bar and volume control
Bug fixes and minor improvements:
Slideshows now display items in the correct order in all
cases
Better management of items removed from the Content Panel
Minor graphic bug fixes in Collections
DeepZoom component now supports images with transparencies
Web Browser asset now properly manages proxy information
v.3.0.2
Enhancements and fixes
Full mouse support for all the assets and collections in
Composer
Improved compatibility and integration with Samsung SUR40 for
Microsoft Surface
Improved performance in Composer through optimized detection of
unused content
Better support for Adobe Flash content
Added support for DZI files generated by Microsoft Deep Zoom
Composer
Solved latency issues when using more than 6 contact points on
some touch devices
Graphic fixes in the Assets
Fixes for crashes reported since last release
v.3.0.1
Enhancements and fixes
Design Accelerators
Visual indicators in the Content Library for unused and missing
content
Improved start-up panel to simplify access to "Getting started"
resources
Stability Improvements
Various bug and crash fixes in Composer
v.3.0.0 update
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Enhancements and fixes
IntuiFace Presentation Feature Showcase can now be downloaded
at Composer and Player startup
Trial is now possible even when not connected on or blocked
from the Internet
Display improvements in the Web browser asset
Software installer handles cancellation more elegantly
Auto-update improvements:
Increased download speed
Network proxy support
Handles unstable Internet connections
v.3.0.0 GA
Enhancements and fixes
This major version introduces over a hundred new features and
feature tweaks, extended hardware support, improved performance and
even an enhanced set of online support documentation and
video illustrations. Key improvements include:
Support for Microsoft Kinect: Enables remote gesture
interaction with any application created using IntuiFace
Presentation. Complements existing interactive support for touch,
RFID, NFC, and
tags. This is a preview feature �
available today but with periodic updates to come as Microsoft
continues to update their pre-release Kinect SDK.
Support for Microsoft Surface 2 : Ensuring upwards
compatibility for existing presentations.
Enhanced built-in Collection widgets: Out-of-the box support
for advanced graphical display techniques such as carousels, flip
books, page turns and flip charts.
Extended asset configuration capabilities, including for the
new Bing Maps asset: Content can now be rendered even more
reactive, more configurable, and more flexible for advanced design
techniques.