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Below is a list of all Perler releases and the changes in each version. The latest version is at the top.
2015-11-14-1005 - download
New features
- Added mouse-over color identification. Thanks to Jaakko Lindvall!
Known bugs
- Packaged with the wrong internal version number; said there was an update, even though there wasn't.
2010-10-24-1032-c - download
New features
- Added german translation. A big thank you to Wolfgang Raus!
- Added french translation. A big thank you to Syméon Carle (and sorry for the incredibly long delay)!
2010-10-24-1032-a - download
New features
- Added italian translation. A big thank you to Noemi Cugudda!
2010-10-24-1032 - download
Bug fixes
- Fixed an error in the build script that made Perler-2010-10-23-1737 think there was always a new version to download.
Known bugs
- Some color names are truncated in the GUI
2010-10-23-1737 - download
New features
- Translations! English, Swedish and Spanish. I would love some help with adding new languages.
- New chain file extension: .plr instead of .xml. Old .xml files should still work, though.
- When creating a new chain, you'll get to choose an image to start with.
- Checking online for new versions.
- Added a window icon
- Minor palette change for Hama and Nabbi (improved grayscales), courtesy of Kaptenen
Known bugs
- Some color names are truncated in the GUI
- Wrong internal version number made Perler think there was always a new version available
2009-12-13-2027 - download
New features
- Cropping: you can now set the aspect ratio to be used when Shift-dragging.
- Shrinker will now show the actual size of the resultant image.
- UI tweak: the rotation filter's preview will no longer be auto-magnified.
2009-12-11-2028 - download
New features
- New filter -- Edge Detect! It's a very, very, very fancy filter... but not necessarily useful. :)
- Improved cachers -- should speed things up when performing multiple rapid changes, like dragging a slider
- Added "About" tabs to all filters, with some basic help
2009-10-23-1110 - download
New features
- You can now choose width/height separately when exporting bead sheets
- File dialog improvements - it will remember your last directory
- Automatic zoom in (most) image previews - zooms up to 4x.
2009-08-31-1259 - download
New features
- Added preview pane when browsing for images.
- ThreadedCachers now share a thread pool; this could speed up some use cases
2009-08-27-1304 - download
New features
- You can now export a 'bead sheet' from the Reduce colors filter.
- Anti-flicker: rapidly changing settings should now be easier on the eyes. :)
- You can now move the cropping area by holding any one of the Control, Alt or Meta keys
- New filter: Color balance
- New Hama palette
- Added support for tiles in Upscaler. Use it to see how many peg boards your image will take up!
- Added a checkbox for 'smooth scaling' in the Shrinker filter (the old versions always used smooth)
- The application will now ask you to save before closing
- Various small performance enhancements
- Added some memory usage info in the status bar
Notes
- The new Hama palette won't affect your old saved chains, since the color values are stored in the chain file.
- In this release, you'll only be able to have one window open at a time. This is because of the Java maximum heap size. If you want more windows open, start multiple instances of the application.
- Some of the performance enhancements have changed the way the Image Loader works in the background. Old saved chains may be a little slower in this version (only when changing settings before the first cached filter).
Bug fixes
- Better handling of OutOfMemoryErrors - Now the program will probably not become useless when encountering such an error.
- Hopefully fixed a race condition in change notifications/fetching images: When doing many quick changes, image previews would sometimes (very rarely) get stuck on one of the intermediate images.
- If several colors were used the exact same number of times, only one of them would be shown in the Color Usage dialog. That was a pretty embarrasing bug. :)
2009-08-15-1220 - download
New features
- New built-in Nabbi palette (Thanks, Ensten!)
- Built-in Help menu choice (opens in a web browser)
- Hold shift while cropping to make it square
- Removed the startup dialog; added "new" and "load" menu choices
- Added "Save as" menu choice
- Easier-to-understand info when the palette is empty
- "About" dialog
Notes
- The new Nabbi palette won't affect your old saved chains, since the colors are stored in the chain file.
Known bugs
- If several colors are used the same number of times, only one will be shown in the color usage dialog.
2009-07-27-0948 - download
New features
- Java 5 compatibility! Welcome, Mac users!
- The program now tries to use the system's native Look-and-feel.
- The project is now licensed under GPLv3. This means you can copy, share and change the program as much as you want, as long as the GPL license notice isn't removed.
Notes
- I still think you should use Java 6 if you can.
- Linux users: There is a compatibility issue with Java 5 and Compiz, where resizing windows will not work properly. Use Java 6.
- Linux users: The native Look-and-feel in Java 5 is not as pretty as the one in Java 6. Use Java 6.
Known bugs
- If several colors are used the same number of times, only one will be shown in the color usage dialog.
2009-07-26-2050 - download
New features
- Drastically improved palette settings.
- Built-in palettes: Hama, Nabbi and Perler Beads.
- Add custom colors.
- Select subsets of palettes and mix different palettes.
- Import palettes from saved chain files or special palette xml files.
- Improved "Used colors" dialog UI.
- Used colors tab's background is now a histogram.
- Added an Exit button to initial new/load dialog.
Bug fixes
- Crop settings are now loaded properly.
- Fixed small bug in dithering implementation (and a huge bug that I accidentally caused when fixing the small one.. :P)
Known bugs
- If several colors are used the same number of times, only one will be shown in the color usage dialog.
2009-07-22-2154 - download
New features
- Flip - vertical or horizontal
- Rotation
- Images are updated continuously when dragging sliders (this was previously disabled for performance concerns)
- Merged Upscaler and Perler filters
- Upscale with grid - a great help!
- Color usage - which colors were used by the Reduce filter, and how many times was each color used?
- Improved internal system for saving/loading chains
Notes
- Saved chains using the Perler filter will not work anymore. The fix is simple: Open the xml file with a normal text editor and replace all occurences of "perler" with "upscaler".
Known bugs
- Doesn't load crop settings properly.
2009-07-22-0434 - download
New features
- Save/load filter chains
- Export images
- Fancy XML parsing with XSD/Schema validation