Surfulater Version 1.93, B0.0 Release Notes - 13 December 2005

This release includes Text highlighting, Creation of articles from the Clipboard, a new Article menu and various other updates.

What's New

• Text can now be highlighted to make important fragments easy to find. A new toolbar button immediately to the left of the 'Text format Styles' dropdown list, sets the background color for the selected text and also lets you choose a different color. Selected text can be highlighted without having to switch to edit mode. Ctrl+T also highlights the selected text. To remove text highlighting, select the highlighted text, then right click in the selection and choose "Remove Highlight Color" from the menu. You can select more text than is highlighted and this will still work properly. See the Help topic Power Features|Highlighting text
• You can now create new articles from content in other Windows Applications besides your Web Browser. For example you can create a new article containing text and images from an MS Word document or a PDF file. This new feature works via. the Windows Clipboard. Copy what you want to be in the new article to the Clipboard then press the Surfulater Clipboard Capture Hotkey, and a new article is created with whatever is in the Clipboard. See the Help topic Power Features|Creating New Articles from the Clipboard for more information.
• You can now Paste text plus images from MS Word Documents into Surfulater.
• A new Article menu lets you create new articles, access search, use the history list etc.
• View|Hide Search Highlights has moved to Article|Hide Search Highlights.
• The New Article submenu now uses the images for the matching article template.
• Alt+Left moves back in the Article History list and Alt+Right moves foward.
• Surfulater has been updated to the latest version of the 3rd party User Interface Library that it uses. Any menu or toolbar customizations you may have made, will need to be redone because of this update.
• The Knowledge Tree image used by "Code Snippet" articles has been updated.
• Various error messages have been updated.
• The Help has been updated.

What's Fixed

• Content can now be captured from CHM files using: Surfulater: Add New Article from the CHM Viewer right click context menu. At present CHM file images can't be captured. We hope to address this in a future release. Complete CHM Pages cannot be attached to articles. Instead use Edit|Select All then right click and choose Surfulater: Add New Article. Thanks to Jørgen Ibsen for reporting this.
• When you switch Knowledge Bases (KB) and one KB has the All Folders view and the another has the Normal view, the normal view tree now displays the folder +/- buttons.

Surfulater Version 1.92, B0.0 Release Notes - 10 November 2005 This release includes Printing, Articles Sorting and various other updates.

What's New

• Printing has been implemented. The File menu now includes Page Setup, Print and Print Preview. Buttons for Print and Print Preview have been added to the Knowledge Base Toolbar. Read the Help topic Power Features|Printing for important information on printing.
• Articles can now be sorted by their Title. The Knowledge Tree right click context menu for Folders now includes "Sort Articles". All folders except the "All Records" folder can be sorted. See: Sorting Articles
• The Knowledge Tree context menu item "New Article" now uses a sub-menu for the article templates menu, instead of a separate pop-up menu. And the template names are now sorted alphabetically.
• The context menu for the "New Articles" folder now includes "Move new Browser Article here".
• Some main menu items have been updated.
• "Visit our What's New Blog" has been added to the Help menu. This opens the "What's New in Surfulater" web page on our Blog.
• Various Help topics have been updated and new topics have been added.
• Code which helps us isolate bugs has been updated.
• The Surfulater Firefox Extension has been updated to work with Firefox 1.5 RC1. The Surfulater images used by the extension have also been updated. The Extension is now at Version 1.5

What's Fixed

• Paste can now be used in the Help|Activate License dialog.

Surfulater Version 1.90, B0.0 Release Notes 16 August 2005 This release includes standard File|Open, New & Close commands, making it much easier to work with multiple Knowledge Bases. Yes I've relented.

What's New

• New commands to Create, Open and Close Knowledge Bases have been added. These are File|New, File|Open and File|Close. A new Toolbar has also been added for these commands. It can be activated using View|Knowledge Base Toolbar. When Surfulater starts it will open the Knowledge Base files which were open the last time it was used, unless a KB file is specified on the Surfulater command line or you open a Surfulater file via. Windows Explorer, in which case only that file is opened.
• The File menu now includes a History of the last six Knowledge Base files opened. Selecting one of these either opens the Knowledge Base if it is not already open, otherwise it becomes the current Knowledge Base.
• Help|Help Topics now opens the Help file if it has been closed.
• File|Set As Default has been removed.
• The Status Bar displays the full Knowledge Base filename when you switch to a different Knowledge Base.
• The Help has been further updated, including a new topic "Backing up my Knowledge Base".
• The "New Surfulater Release Available" dialog has been updated.
• Some more debugging code has been added to assist with problems should they arise.

What's Fixed

• Fixed various spelling mistakes in the Help. Thanks to Chris Kinata.

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Neville Franks,
Author of ED for Windows and Surfulater