Software update: FastPictureViewer 1.7 build 238

Version 1.7 has been released from FastPictureViewer. This program is aimed at the digital photographer and can be used to quickly and easily view and rate large amounts of images. There are no options to edit images, but the program does offer support for the raw format of more than 380 digital cameras. Separate downloads are available for 32bit– and 64bitenvironments, and the program is free for non-commercial use. Since the previous entry in the Meuktracker, the following changes have been made:

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.238:

• Fixes a tiny glitch in the Zenfolio publishing plug-in preventing the creation of new galleries without assigning them a category.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.237:

• Zenfolio publishing plug-in let you upload directly to your ZF account.
• Minor edge case bug fixes
• Default per image memory cap set to 256MB.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.236:

• Added 5 new preference options to the program settings
• Updated raw codecs to 3.1.0.53
• Folder watching on remote drives now off by default.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.235:

• SmugMug web publishing plugin was broken in build 1.7.234.0.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.234:

• Uses new-style folder picker user-interface on Windows 7
• Small enhancements
• Includes raw codecs v3.1.0.52 w/minor change to DNG codec

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.233:

• Adds SmugVault support to SmugMug web upload plugin
• Resolves occasional license activation issues encountered in some corporate networks.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.232:

• SmugMug web publishing plugin update, notably adds a “remaining time” estimation.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.231:

• Bug fix: small images shown at 100% were blurry when the option to smooth pixels above 100% zoom was set, in GPU accelerated mode

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.230:

• Updated SmugMug upload plugin again, to fix a tiny mistake that may have caused a hang when trying to upload a non-JPEG file to SmugMug.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.229:

• Updated SmugMug upload plugin to take advantage of the codec fix that shipped with build 228 earlier today.

What’s new in FastPictureViewer 1.7.228:

• Codecs 3.1.0.50
• Curing a color space issue encountered with some JPEG files
• Updated cheat sheet for v1.7 (mentioned Ctrl+P for publishing).