Quantum Designer Prior Release Updates

0.2.2.6 ~ 8-26-2016  Current release version

0.2.2.4 ~ 6-10-2015

0.2.2.3 ~ 11-13-2014

0.2.2.2 ~ 09-09-2014

Quantum 2.2.2 updates video

1. Set snap to be able to snap to edge of repeat better when in repeat mode

2. Added ability to bring in another color palette and specify which position number to start placement

3. Added button to palette to Replace Color - this allows to replace the color with the other selected color but leave the now unused color in the palette - We left the original Merge button as commercial uses it

4. Made the tile horizontally and vertically show the designs better and allow to toggle between tabs and tiled - also referred to as mosaic display by some

5. Description box made longer for easier editing

6. Improved the snap to edge of design when if repeat mode

7. Added an automatic center grid option - this is under View and then Guides at the bottom of the list

8. A navigator box that shows you where you are in a design has been added.  This uses the thumbnail in the layers to show a red outline of where you are in the design when zoomed in - Similar to Texcelle and Photoshop

9. Added option in the Palette pulldown for Multiple Replace - this brings you up a windows that you can choose from and to colors for multiple replacements similar to Texcelle

10. Added a Zoom level notice at the very bottom right of the application.

11. Added Windows 8.1 compatibility

12. Added ability for Quantum to recognize a TIFF file that is in indexed mode to fill the palette

13. Gradient box size increased to help with large amounts of colors in gradient

14. Button added to gradient window so that it will automatically add ALL colors in palette to the gradient

15. Added ability to adjust spacing between rows on the color bar for printing.  Before it changed when you change the width spacing

16. Added ability to automatically enter center guidlines to show the center.  Button added to toggle it next to the guideline button toggle

17. Added percentages to small list color palette and expanded the text area

18. Ellipse tool with draw brush warp now automatically uses size of brush

19. Added flatten to carpet layer and flatten to image later to image menu

20. Ellipse outline make strange shapes on larger images fixed

21. Set color numbers in palette to change its color from light to dark for better visibility

22. Removed the word NEW in the palette when color reducing to exact palette

23. Added a shortcut button to export DES file to the tool bar

24. Added ability to do a tiled list of designs or a mosaic list of designs

25. Horizontal and vertical were swapped in the tiling.  This is fixed.

26. Added ability to rotate, mirror horizontally and vertically an image in the brush styles window.  Double click a brush to get the features

27. You can double click a brush and click a button to allow you to open the brush up in an edit window.

28. Added ability to paste into an existing brush in the styles menu

29. Added ability to paste from a selection in any document to a new brush in another document

30. Added ability to rotate, mirror horizontally and vertically an image in the PATTERN styles window. Double click a PATTERN to get the features - Added ability to paste into an existing PATTERN in the styles menu - Added ability to paste from a selection in any document to a new PATTERN in another document

31. Issue with circle selection not working with boundary snap on is resolved 

32. Fixed an issue with merging palettes on certain designs that would cause Quantum to get stuck in a loop

33. Added ability to paste from a selection in any document to a new brush in another document

34. Linking layers added.  You can choose more than one layer and choose layers that are not next to each other.  Just ctrl click to select the layers and choose the link layers button at the bottom.  On caveat, be careful on linking layers on huge designs, it can use a log more system memory.

35. Canvas resize issue resolved where the position of the image did not always stay where it was supposed to be

36. Swapping colors in the palette will allow the colors to stay selected after swapping so that you can swap back and forth.

37. Added ability to use alt key while drawing with brush tool to create straight lines from last point of the brush to click of mouse or tap of pen

38. Flipping a selection using the hot buttons at the top of menu work correctly now with the selection when rotating.  Used to go back to the original image before rotating.

39. Gradient now works with the 5 key to automatically put the nodes in the center of the color shape to fill.

40. Added dialog that asks if you want to open a file again if you already open it.  If you do open the file it adds ~1 or ~2 or ~3 etc to the end of the name

41. Added ability to color code layers - example is code all linked layers to one color for easy reference.

42. Fixed gradient issue where it was not working with uneven construction such as 7x9

43. Stroke selection is faster

44. Color palette box with independent labeling option - used to label common colors in the palette together - for example cabled yarns.

45. Added feature for the print routine to remember what was printed last time for Project Number and Collection

46. Added ability to print multiple pages at one time - Make all your changes to the print routine - click print or PDF and then choose from any open designs to add to the print

47. Added a function to print feature that allows you to select a coverage unit from a pulldown to display for example Square Yards in the design info

48. Added ability to put in 2 decimal places on scale and have the value in the text box auto update.  The auto update will not delete the collection or project name if you enter data in those two spots

49. Added ability to do a grid printout for production

50. Set ability to over ride the design name in the print function - useful for printing multiple repeats

51. Eliminate default text in fields on newly created Styles

52. Set color information fields to blank when mixing color

53. Increased speed on Selection Tools Freeform and Polygon

54. Ability to color reduce a Carpet layer further - use Color Reduction under Layers menu - Have to make sure you choose a layer that has all the colors you wish to pick from and then you can choose histogram or quantized

55. Color merge has been set to be global in the design instead of just in one layer

56. Sped up the export to DES files to network drive tremendously

57. Changed link on help pulldown and help topics to point to Training and Video section of Quantum web site

58. Fold button added to choose from 1. fold the corners into the center 2. Fold Horizontally 2. Fold vertical (You can fold entire design or just a selection)

59. "In User Preferences - add a check-box ""Turn off automatic fast draw""

60. and a button in toolbar to toggle ""Turn off automatic fast draw"" for the user (next to fast draw button)"

61. Gradient across repeat crash fixed

62. Flood fill and flood select have had noticeable speed enhancements

63. Issue where a TPC file would not work if you used a dot . in the filename other than .tpc

64. Disabled Ctrl F shortcut for flatten layers as it was too easy to hit accidentally when hitting Ctrl D

65. Fixed a stroke selection error

66. Fixed issue with Undo leaving stray pixels behind

67. Rotate issue where the selection is off from the rotation has been resolved.

68. Fixed issue where manually entering position for a guide was wrong

69. Stroke selection not working on some selections like elliptical selections is fixed

70. Fixed an issue where duplicating a layer caused the new layer in the layer window to show as a big red X

71. Fixed an issue where clicking on a gradient in the styles menu could cause a crash

72. Fixed an issue when using the back slash \  in the text tool, the entire document minimizes.

73. Changed marching ants on selection border to not moving. Makes selection much faster.

0.2.1.5 ~ 03-26-2014 

1. Add return button to Colors dialog box - This helps make the color reduction process flow better for user created palette.  It returns you directly to convert to carpet layer.

2. Copy Paste with large file - Made improvements here.

3. Fixed an issue where after adjusting a guideline the + and - keys for zoomed stopped working.

4. Fixed an odd quirk where Quantum always asked if you wanted to save a file even if you just opened it and did not edit it.

5. Selection using fixed size issue would allow to move off of the design was fixed

6. There is a fix on repeating pattern where copy and paste would smear a color.  Fixes some repeat issues other than this.

7. Updated gradient.  Still doing some tweaking 

8. Stroke issue- fixed quality and speed - use instead of outline tool for now

9. Line tool Quality - issue with quality and thickness of lines resolved.

10. Color info change when exporting to DES.  Added an option that allows to keep color description AND color number and name to the export to DES dialog box.  Basically combining all three files into the one in DES file.

11. Added a warning when a color is going to be deleted in a lower layer where the light bulb is on just like the warning we get with delete all unused colors.

12. Fixed issue where ruler was not matching up

13. When adding a new color to the palette it does not add "New" it leaves all fields blank

14. New authentication by logging into Quantum when you start it using the same user name and password as Gmail and Web Help Desk

15. When you save a PDF using the PDF button on print routing it now opens the PDF in your default PDF application

16. When saving a PDF using the PDF button it remembers where the last place you save a PDF at.

17. Made changes in Stroke so that it does a true outline.  Speed has been increased as well.  

18. Added the ability to enter a decimal value for the DPI.  So working on products that that are not even pixels is easily done now.  Such as if working on a 5/16th gauge tufting machine it works at 5.33 per inch.

19. Gradient has been improved so that it is more like Texcelle but we also keep the fine gradient which is better than Texcelle.

20. Fixed issue where 0 in outline tool crashed Quantum

21. Drawing tool brush sizes isssue has been resolved.

22. Outline circle tool quality issue has been resolved.

23. Added an option that allows to keep color description AND color number and name to the export to DES dialog box.  Basically combining all three fields into the one in DES file.

24. When saving to a PDF in the print routine the PDF file name is made the same as the design file name

25. Warning added when trying to delete a color that is used but on a hidden layer.

26. When using "Extract Repeats tool"  the new document repeat is set to no repeat

27. Fixed an issue in stroke selection that did not keep the outline even all the way around.

28. Added ability for the Pencil and Paint brush tool to be able to hold SHIFT down to draw in a straight line, horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

29. Added the ability to swap colors in a selection.

30. Fixed a "Rectangle out of bounds" error

31. Inside and Outside Justification is backwards with Ellipse Tool outline issue resolved

32. Naming "transparant" color "no yarn" when exporting to .des file

33. Fixed an issue where we were getting unwanted marks on the edge of the design while using tools such as line, pencil and shape tools

34. When drawing with the Ellipse tool and constraining to a perfect circle using the shift key, If I change to a different color in the palette, while the shape is still active, the shape de-constrains.  This issue is resolved.

35. Rectangle is out of bounds error has been resolved.

36. Made color boxes in re order palette smaller to be able to work with more colors at one time.  Also added a maximiz and restore button to the dialog to make it full screen with one click.

37. Fixed an issue with the rulers in Quantum where the left side ruler was showing 12 decimal places.

38. Found one issue with the new decimal DPI where the Y would not accept a decimal.  It work fine now.

39. Resolved issue where some designs would not export to a JPEG

40. Spline curve tool issues were resolved.  One was that a single pixel line would have gaps and the other was that the number information would change if you clicked on a shape tool and then back on Spline Curve tool.

41. Made a change where the color number positions in the palette and the active color at the bottom right would change color from black to white depending on the value of the colors so that the number would be seen easily no matter what the color is.

0.2.1.4 ~ 03-26-2014  

1. Add return button to Colors dialog box - This helps make the color reduction process flow better for user created palette.  It returns you directly to convert to carpet layer.

2. Copy Paste with large file - Made improvements here.

3. Fixed an issue where after adjusting a guideline the + and - keys for zoomed stopped working.

4. Fixed an odd quirk where Quantum always asked if you wanted to save a file even if you just opened it and did not edit it.

5. Selection using fixed size issue would allow to move off of the design was fixed

6. There is a fix on repeating pattern where copy and paste would smear a color.  Fixes some repeat issues other than this.

7. Updated gradient.  Still doing some tweaking 

8. Stroke issue- fixed quality and speed - use instead of outline tool for now

9. Line tool Quality - issue with quality and thickness of lines resolved.

10. Color info change when exporting to DES.  Added an option that allows to keep color description AND color number and name to the export to DES dialog box.  Basically combining all three files into the one in DES file.

11. Added a warning when a color is going to be deleted in a lower layer where the light bulb is on just like the warning we get with delete all unused colors.

12. Fixed issue where ruler was not matching up

13. When adding a new color to the palette it does not add "New" it leaves all fields blank

14. New authentication by logging into Quantum when you start it using the same user name and password as Gmail and Web Help Desk

15. When you save a PDF using the PDF button on print routing it now opens the PDF in your default PDF application

16. When saving a PDF using the PDF button it remembers where the last place you save a PDF at.

17. Made changes in Stroke so that it does a true outline.  Speed has been increased as well.  

18. Added the ability to enter a decimal value for the DPI.  So working on products that that are not even pixels is easily done now.  Such as if working on a 5/16th gauge tufting machine it works at 5.33 per inch.

19. Gradient has been improved so that it is more like Texcelle but we also keep the fine gradient which is better than Texcelle.

20. Fixed issue where 0 in outline tool crashed Quantum

21. Drawing tool brush sizes isssue has been resolved.

22. Outline circle tool quality issue has been resolved.

23. Added an option that allows to keep color description AND color number and name to the export to DES dialog box.  Basically combining all three fields into the one in DES file.

24. When saving to a PDF in the print routine the PDF file name is made the same as the design file name

25. Warning added when trying to delete a color that is used but on a hidden layer.

26. When using "Extract Repeats tool"  the new document repeat is set to no repeat

27. Fixed an issue in stroke selection that did not keep the outline even all the way around.

28. Added ability for the Pencil and Paint brush tool to be able to hold SHIFT down to draw in a straight line, horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

29. Added the ability to swap colors in a selection.

30. Fixed a "Rectangle out of bounds" error

31. Inside and Outside Justification is backwards with Ellipse Tool outline issue resolved

32. Naming "transparant" color "no yarn" when exporting to .des file

33. Fixed an issue where we were getting unwanted marks on the edge of the design while using tools such as line, pencil and shape tools

34. When drawing with the Ellipse tool and constraining to a perfect circle using the shift key, If I change to a different color in the palette, while the shape is still active, the shape de-constrains.  This issue is resolved.

35. Rectangle is out of bounds error has been resolved.

36. Made color boxes in re order palette smaller to be able to work with more colors at one time.  Also added a maximiz and restore button to the dialog to make it full screen with one click.

37. Fixed an issue with the rulers in Quantum where the left side ruler was showing 12 decimal places.

38. Found one issue with the new decimal DPI where the Y would not accept a decimal.  It work fine now.

39. Resolved issue where some designs would not export to a JPEG

40. Spline curve tool issues were resolved.  One was that a single pixel line would have gaps and the other was that the number information would change if you clicked on a shape tool and then back on Spline Curve tool.

41. Made a change where the color number positions in the palette and the active color at the bottom right would change color from black to white depending on the value of the colors so that the number would be seen easily no matter what the color is.

0.2.1.3 ~ 11-18-2013

1. Issue with setting a selection size and it resizing to different results when snap is on was fixed. 

2. When adding a gradient to some files and causing a crash has been fixed. 

3. Can't get the circle placed at the edge of a file was fixed.

4. On export to DES there are two options indexed and true color.  DES should always be indexed so we took the option out.  Also there is a preview of the image.  No real reason for this other than sometimes it cause an issue.  Took this out.

5. The ability for all Jpeg images to be able to color reduce has been added.

6. If you are using the paintbrush and switch to a different brush, it will not keep your brush size issue resolved. 

7. Disable Flood Select tool on image layers is done to prevent crash.

8. Had crashes on copy paste from one image to another when using the palette matching.  It should work now.

9. Found a crash when using gradation on a solid color 10,000x10,000 pixel image.  Crash was fixed.

10. Gradation should take about half the time as before. 

11. Gradient now will do a fine gradient mix with as many colors as you wish.  The quality is much improved.

12. Rotating a selection 90 degrees was adding an extro row of pixels.  This issue is resolved.

13. Text tool difficulty with setting colos has been resolved.

14. Exporting a design to a Jpeg that had transparent backgroud did not set the proper color.  This  has been resolved.

15. Copy pasting from one design to another design into a new layer was causing a crash on the palette matching.  This issue is fixed.

16. Disabled the flood select tool on an image layer as it would cause a crash and was not intended to be used on an image layer.

17. Switching brushes does not keep size has been fixed.

0.2.1.1 ~ 11-18-2013

1. Curve tool smears when working in repeat fixed

2. Flood fill crashing issue has been improved, fixes issue if you try to fill a parked color.

3. Park working properly

4. Rotate issue resolved

5. Text will undo now

6. Continuous fill option has been added - just press down with the pen and hold it or hold mouse button down to continuous fill.

7. File will not export to DES issue resolved

8. Miter tools have issues.  Made sure all is working.  Change placement of icons so that common tools are grouped together.

9. Fixed numerous issues to on converting to carpet layer.  Sometimes stopped working was one issue fixed.

10. Scatter Tool commands were reversed, Coverage for amount and amount for coverage.

11. Find and Replace allows you to change color in the tool without closing it.  You can also select more than one color to find and replace.

12. Zoom to cursor was not working and is fixed now

13. Cropping to fixed size selections is set to not select ouside of the boundry of a design causing it to add blank pixels

14. File saving issue where some files were getting corrupted has been fixed.

15. Added measurement marks to print routine so it will show " for inches, mm for millimeter, etc

16. Added a second line ability for Title on print routine

17. Fixes issue with file that did not show percentages and cause system to be unstable

18. Issues with repeat mode fixed.  Undo problem, cursor offset from the tool.

19. Modified Reorder colors window to be able to drag it larger in order to make drag and drop of colors easier.

20. Fixed an issue where the original selection would sometimes dissappear when using multiply tool

21. Circle tool using outline would make unusual shape when you made a very large circle has been fixed.

22. Palette jumping when shift clicking park and protect has been fixed.

23. Added ability to cancel a flood fill.  You can hit cancel during the first two thirds of the routine.  After that you cannot cancel.

24. Line tool quality has been improved.  If you shift drag a line and make a 45 degree line the quality is good now.

25. Several tools that were not allowed in Image layer have been turned off for image layer so it will not cause a crash when selected:  Outline tool is one of them.

26. Installer modifed so that if Simplified Chinese is used then the DES thumbnail is not installed as this caused a crash with Texcelle.  Once we stop using Texcelle we can enable the thumbnail using Quantum Designer.

0.2.1.0 ~ 7-31-2013

Find and Replace Issue where finding in repeat mode would not zoom in to the color is fixed

Manually reordering colors had an issue where if your palette was larger than the visible area you could not scroll easily to move the colors.  This has been fixed where it will auto scroll as you move the color.

Mirror X and Y repeat mode crash when using flood select and then moving the selection across the repeat boundary was fixed

Palette Crash where if you cropped to a selection and then tried to add a new color was fixed

Deleted Unused Colors if you have an image layer crash was fixed

Measure tool would crash if you used the resize in the measure tool on an image layer.  Fixed.

Scatter in airbrush tool has been improved on radius of 5-10 pixels.

Issue when rotating the selection box was off a pixel has been resolved.

Gradient random had issues where the quality was off and it had strange results if you used more than 3 colors has been fixed.

Merging palette issues have been resolved.

Issue where we cannot add a color to a design even though you may have been only using such as 8 colors in the palette has been resolved.

Park and Protect icon issue where the icons would not toggle on and off have been fixed.

Color nodes on gradient screen changed to solid by default instead of transparent

Difficulty setting carpet size in resize because the number was getting jumbled up has been resolved.

Ellipse selection tool off by .5 has been fixed

Selecting stroke selection would cause a crash has been fixed.

Can not make a straight line because it would move between two pixels and cause a jagged line is fixed.

Arrow keys are not working correctly when holding them down to pan across the design.  Fixed.

Issue with the Mitre Tool activating when pasting to a new layer which would drop the design instead of making it a floating selection.

Guides lines have been improved.

Increasing and Decrease brush width had issues with the locking, aspect, keyboard shortcuts.  All have been fixed.  The brush also now retains its numbers properly.

Undo giving issue between layers has been fixed.

Color palette display order has been modified to look more like Texcelle where the colors go from top to bottom on first column of colors and then top to bottom on the next column in colors instead of left to right and then next row and left to right and so on.

Bucket fill issue of filling across a repeat has been repaired.

Sorting palette issue by percentages had been fixed.

Editing image layer problems have been fixed.  Some tools will not work on image layer for now.  Can still use [resize], [select/cut/copy and paste] and [merge image layers].   Gray out distort and skew(called Miter in Quantum) tool when image layer is active.

Keyboard shortcut for Stroke Selection works now.

Shortcut modifications for flood fill have been changed.  Now use the F key to toggle between first Flood Fill and then second tab Flood Select

When trying to draw an exact circle from a given point by holding down the CTRL and SHIFT keys, the circle is offset a couple of pixels has been fixed.

Airbrush size issue resolved.

Undo having issues again with leftover artifacts has been fixed.

Copy paste issue where pasting would place the design instead of making a floating selection has been resolved.

Cut and past issue where the number pad did not always work has been fixed.

Cursor issue where the cursor would be off from the drawing tool in repeat mode has been fixed.

Flood select had an issue where once you did the select you could not use the M shortcut key.

Park and Protect take a long time to turn on and off has been improved.  The issue can still be seen on larger designs.

Brush color issue on circle tool where you could not use a brush you could only use a solid color is fixed.

When putting designs side by side it was sometimes difficult to determine what is the active design.  We put a Blue star next to the design name in the tab for active and a yellow star for the non active design.

Gradation change so that if you have 3 colors they intermingle much more like Texcelle does.

File drop down dialog randomly disappears has been fixed.

Lock on brush not working has been fixed

Measure tool had an odd issue where when you moved your cursor up when moving to the right the measured area would be visually off.  This has been corrected.

Resizing with Canvas size issue resolved - When changing size by inches with the canvas size option, if the additional rows were intended to be added to the top, it adds to the bottom.

Added ability to make the selection nodes larger under Tools>Preferences>Drawing  Just change Nub size from Small which is the current size to Middle or Larger.

Transparent color was showing a % in the design.  This has been fixed.  Only solid colors show a % of use or coverage.

Convert to carpet layer is supposed to reduce colors only when you click the update button.  This has been fixed.

Pre-populated info when adding new color changed to just new in the name.

Typo in print page Repeats Show: fixed to Repeats Shown:

Eye dropper tool in palette.  We have removed one of the icons.  The way it works now is click on the eye dropper button on the Colors dialog window and shift click on the design click adds the clicked on color to the palette.   Single click on a color in the design will change the selected color in the palette to the color clicked on.

Using incoming palette works now when you have to merge palettes

Cursor is not correctly identifying the colors it hovers over has been fixed.

Single pixel outline circle is not always connected. Sometimes it skips pixels. This issue has been fixed.

When creating a new file the pixel info did not work.  This is resolved.

Palette jumps around when trying to select colors issue has been fixed.

0.2.0.0 ~ 3-25-2013

1. The new docking system for designs and tool windows we already have. They have been modified so that they will retain their last position setups when you open Quantum the next time.

2. Fixed an issue where Spline Curve tool was missing the image on brush warp.

3. We added a new outline tool in the tool bar. So much easier to use!

4. Added the ability to find a transparency as a color. What was done was to make Color 0 in Quantum always be transparent. So if you delete color it is transparent or Color 0.

5. We change the default setting for Auto Save. Having it auto save over your existing design by default can be dangerous. So we disabled autosave by default - if turned on then prompt before saving is the default.

6. Issues with sprinke, scatter, shuffle global smooth don't render in real time. The real time was causing issues. What we did was to add a button in the tools named update. It basically updates the design with the setting you have chosen. If you do not like it then change the settings and choose update again. It will run the routines on the original image again. Once you like what you have then press OK and keep it.

7. There was an issue with Gradient where once you created a gradient you could not open it again to edit it. That has been fixed.

8. One of the best things in this release is the improvement on speed with Flood Fill. With a test file I had, I did a flood will with global setting and it took me 13 1/2 minutes to complete. After the new work it was reduced down to 25 seconds. That is right 25 seconds.

9. Also some dialog boxes were added so that when a routine it taking a little time to run it gives you a box giving status of the function or telling you it is processing. This way it does not look like Quantum has crashed due to it saying "Not responding"

10. Resolved issues were very old PAT files that CI had would not open. Now they open.

11. Gradient outline button had a tendency to crash and be very slow. This has been fixed and is much faster now.

12. Another item that was changed is the way the ruler works. Row 1, Column 1 used to be at the top left of the design. All other Textile applications show it at bottom left. We have changed Quantum to match.

13. There was an issue when using running cords option leaving pixels along the edit of the line being draw. This has been resolved.

14. We had an issue with Spline Curve tool on some systems where it looked like part of the curve was missing but when saving and opening it again it showed proper. This has been resolved.

15. We have modified the code so that installing on computers in other languages works properly. Quantum is only in English but installation needed to allow for other languages.

16. PAT files have been fixed to save the correct quality or paper format for Axminster.

17. Added a Collection line in the Quick Print feature for Commercial.

18. The BIGGEST item everyone will love is that extensive work was done on the palette. Now you can delete unused colors, move a color up and down or go to Palette pull-down and choose to reorder colors manually and these happen so quickly you will not believe it. I have tested with a file of 15,000x10,000 pixels and 24 colors and tried all of these items and it takes just a second for it to happen.

19. There is a Project Explorer window that is a replacement for Bookshelf. It is a combination of how bookshelf works and the shelves in Apso and then some other ideas we have put in it. You can import designs from TIFF, TPC, PAT, DES, you can create images in the shelves. You can open multiple project files. There will be a video on this as it is a completely different workflow. You can save entire collections in it. To edit a design in it you simply double click the image and it opens, you edit, you save. Easy.

20. Set the ability to save settings for individual tools. Example, Brush tool which was default to 10 x 10 now saves the last used values.

21. Improved the process for reducing to a custom palette.

22. We removed drag and drop colors in palette because of accidental moves of colors.  The process is to go to palette pulldown and then to reorder colors.  Then all you have to do is start moving colors.  Instand results.

23. Added an option so that Quantum will realize when a selection is getting very large and will be difficult to move by auto turning on fast draw so there are not accidental issues of wishing you had turned fast draw on before you moved a large selection.

24. Added the item that makes transparency a color in the palette.  Color 0 is designated as transparent.  Now you have the ability to search for transparent areas and replacing with color.

0.1.7.9 - 12-6-2012

1.  New Docking Windows interface allows windows to be docked to sides - Video to be provided on this

2.  Faster fast draw mode - makes moving selections much better

3.  Swap colors in design but leave palette alone has been added

4.  Print quality has been resolved - great quality now

5.  Does not print colors with 0% in the palette

6.  Drag and drop selection between designs has been added

7.  Cropping image does not retain size of the selection has been fixed

8.  Various issues with opening files fixed

9.  Drag and drop colors in palette added - This can be very slow on larger designs - It will complete but may take some time - we are still working to speed this up

0.1.7.8 - 11-26-2012

Color reduction using Convert to Carpet Layer has been changed so that you make your settings and then click update.  The routine will run and then you will get a dialog box that is has completed.  Click OK to use.

Crash issue with Atomic Rotation fixed

Running Cords option added to Pencil and Pen tool

Undo issue with airbrush tool leaving transparent holes has been fixed

Running Cords option added to Brush tool

Quantum can remember size of program when you restart it.  Used to not remember if you went maximize on full screen.

Issue with Guidlines fixed where cropping an image caused an issue with guidlines.  This may have fixed other guidlines issues as well

Issue while working in repeating pattern where the cursor and where you actually draw did not match up.  This is fixed.

Fixed issue where if you multiply, Rpt manually, cut and paste to new document and rotate sometimes adds a voided row of pixels

Modified airbrush so that the lowest flow rate is very low instead of nothing being sprayed.

Fixed an issue where some TPC files would not open.

Gradient issue where the mix of colors did not flow close enough to each other has been worked on.

Delete unused colors in the palette menu will not delete a color if it is only on a layer that is turned off.

Crop to new image has been fixed

File save sometimes corrupted an image has been fixed

File open sometimes crashed has been fixed

All different compression types of DES files have now been verified to open

Running cords has been added to drawing tools as an option

Flood fill/Flood select has been fixed and is much faster

A lot of random crashes has been fixed

The ability to create huge files has been added.  Depending on amount of ram in a computer we can create files of up to 42,000 x 42,000 pixels

Airbrush used to say density and give a percentage.  This was incorrect.  It is actually just the spray rate.  There is a new slider that shows less and more.

0.1.7.7 - 2/2/2012

• Fixed an issue causing a crash if the spray width is less than the brush size. [783]

• Added Brush Height control to the Line, Curve, and Spline Curve tools. [784]

• Added Filled, Brush Warp, and Brush Copy options to the Spline Curve tool. [784] [785] [786]

0.1.7.6 - 12/30/2011

• Fixed a crash when copying or cropping to a new image. [779]

• Fixed a crash when opening certain small documents. [773]

• Fixed an issue causing the Curve tool to add a point when committing the shape. [774]

• Added Spline Curve tool. [764]

• Fixed an issue causing the Curve tool to add a point when committing the shape. [764]

• Improved the performance of the Curve tool's Tension control in Fast Draw mode. [764]

• Fixed an issued with Color Parking not working correctly with the Move Selected Pixels tool. [765]

• Fixed an issue causing the Rectangle and Ellipse tools to not behave properly when dragging points while constrained to center and square. [767] [768]

0.1.7.3 - 11/15/2011

• Fixed an issue when trying to open some files containing gradients. [757]

• Corrected an issue with some repeat configurations not writing DES files correctly. [758]

• Fixed an issue causing inaccurate selections when centering odd sized selections in even sized documents. [759]

0.1.7.2 - 11/02/2011

• Added Distribute Nodes button to the Gradient Style editor. [742]

• Added Diffusion Spread parameter to the Gradient Style. [742]

• Changing the Gradient Style is now faster in Fast Draw mode. [742]

• Changes to the Gradient Style now create Undo history. [742]

• Floating selections will now apply their transforms when copying to the clipboard, defining a custom brush, or defining a fill pattern. [747]

• Fixed an issue causing fill patterns defined from floating selections to have the wrong origin. [747]

• The Distort tool can now cut, copy, and define brushes and patterns without dropping the selection. [747]

• Images on the clipboard can now be pasted into the Multiply and Distort, and Miter tools. [747] [749] [750] [751]

• The Flood Fill tool will no longer commit an operation when trying to fill an area with the same color. [747]

• TIFF files saved in CMYK pixel format can now be opened. [747]

• Corrected an issue causing DES files to be saved with the wrong units. [747]

• Added an option to File Preferences to specify if DES files use Paper Format for construction. [747]

• Fixed an issue causing the Canvas Size dialog box to show the Carpet Height incorrectly. [747]

• Corrected an issue causing parts of the image to be deleted when pasting a selection. [751]

• Added an option to the Drawing Aids Preferences to allow snapping to the document's bounds. [747]

• Holding Shift will now constrain the Measure tool to orthogonal. [744]

• Fixed an issue concerning the floating tool windows losing focus when typing in a text field. [748]

0.1.7.1 - 10/12/2011

• Startup crash resolved 

• Issue with opening and saving files has been resolved 

• Crash with Flip button fixed. 

• Crash when using CTRL+A and then Flip button fixed 

• New Mirror Draw option added to Brush tool 

• Moved security and updates to new Logic Protect server 

• Undo issue resolved 

• Thumbnail preview of DES files 

0.1.6.8 - 08/24/2011

• Added Miter Selected Pixels tool to the Tools window.

• Added Atomic transforms to miter selection.

• Changed the behavior of the Atomic Transforms.

• The Distort tool now uses the Atomic Transforms.

• The Multiply/Replicate Selected Pixels tool not uses the Atomic Transforms.

• Added Measure tool to the Tools window.

• Palette Matching operations will now compare the Name, Number, and Description when matching palettes.

• The Match Palette Dialog box will now save the last used settings.

• Corrected some issues causing the loss of keyboard shortcuts.

0.1.6.5 - 07/11/2011

• Fixed a problem causing some files saved before version 0.1.6.0 to not be able to be opened.

0.1.6.4 - 07/08/2011

• Fixed an issue causing the Atomic Transform to be inaccurate.

• Fixed a crash caused by setting the Move tools' numeric entry for width, height, or scale factor to 0.

• Fixed an issue causing the transform center to move after rotating the selection.

• Fixed an issue causing the document to not take focus after clicking on the image strip.

0.1.6.3 - 07/07/2011

• Fixed an issue causing the Atomic Transform to be inaccurate.

0.1.6.2 - 07/06/2011

• Improved the performance of the Flood Fill tool.

0.1.6.1 - 06/28/2011

• Fixed a potential crash when starting the application.

0.1.6.0 - 06/28/2011

• Fixed an issue causing selection to distort when scaling.

• Corrected issues concerning improper resizing of shape tools.

• The Rectangle tool now has controls for Brush Width and Brush Height in Outline mode.

• Corrected stability issues in the Distort tool.

• The Line tool now has controls for line type and arrow heads.

• Added separate units control to the Paint Brush tool.

• Fixed some issues with the Paint Brush Tool's Lock Aspect Ratio not working correctly.

• Defining Brushes and Patterns while using the Move Selected Pixels tool will no longer drop the selection.

• Crop to New Image function will now preserve the documents Brushes, Patterns, and Gradients.

• The Move Selected Pixels tool will now composite alpha on Image Layers when the Apply Transparent option is not checked.

• The Paint Brush tool now has an option to stipple points at a given distance.

• Fixed an issue causing the shape tools to stop working in Fast Draw mode.

• Added the ability to pick colors by keyboard to the shape tools.

• Added preferences to control the shape of the Airbrush tool's spray pattern.

• Added preferences to control the appearance of cursors.

• The Eraser tool now uses the active brush shape.

0.1.5.37 - 02/11/2011 

• Added a new quick print utility.

0.1.5.36 - 11/30/2010

• Fixed an issue with the source control module.

0.1.5.35 - 11/29/2010

• Fixed an issue with the Eraser tool effecting locked layers.

• Fixed an issue causing some color control to not emit history.

• Fixed an issue with the Move Selected Pixels tool not working correctly in some repeat configurations.

• Fixed an issue with the Define Pattern function not working correctly in some repeat configurations.

• Added Flood Gradient tool.

• Added Brushes panel to the Styles window.

• Added Define Brush and Brush Properties functions to the Edit menu.

• Fixed a crash when autosave happens when no documents are open.

• Ellipse tool now has the option to draw the shape as Brush Copy and Brush Warp.

• Shape tools are more responsive in Fast Draw mode.

• Improved the appearance of shapes' outlines in Fast Draw mode.

• Improved the performance of the shape tools.

• Added Brush Warp Quality to the Drawing Preferences to control the quality of the Ellipse Tool in Brush Warp mode.

0.1.5.34 - 10/22/2010

• Fixed an issue with the Fill Selection and Stroke Selection functions not working correctly with some repeat configurations.

0.1.5.33 - 10/21/2010

• Fixed a potential problem with the layer controls.

0.1.5.32 - 10/21/2010

• Fixed a crash when double-clicking on a layer.

• Added Auto Save to the File Preferences.

0.1.5.31 - 10/19/2010

• Fixed a crash caused by opening and closing documents.

0.1.5.30 - 10/16/2010

• Added Guides to the View menu.

• Added Apply Transparent, Fast Draw, and Snap to the View menu.

• Added ability to lock layers.

0.1.5.29 - 10/07/2010

• Stroke Selection now remembers the last used location.

• Fixed an issue with the multiply tool mirroring when it goes off of the document.

0.1.5.28 - 10/05/2010

• Changed the appearance and behavior of the New File, Resize, and Canvas Size dialog boxes.

• Fixed an issue with the Erase Selection function not working properly with some repeat configurations.

• Fixed an issue with the Flood Select tool not working correctly on mirrored repeats.

• Added Find and Replace Colors tool to the Tools menu.

• Multiply tool will now modify the selection when the pixels are dropped.

0.1.5.27 - 09/15/2010

• Fixed an issue causing the active color to change when typing numbers into the Colors window with the Color Picker tool active.

• Fixed an issue causing a crash when the Colors window is opened if the Preferences have never been accessed.

• Added Fill Type to Insert/Remove tool.

• Shift key will now flip the direction of the Insert/Remove command.

• Ctrl key will now switch between insert and remove mode in the Insert/Remove command.

• Fixed an issue causing multiple open documents preventing keyboard shortcuts from opening tool windows.

• Shortcut key for Reset Tool Window Locations is now Ctrl + 1.

• Alt + Number Keys can be used to switch between the first 9 open Documents.

• Fixed an issue causing the Erase Selection function to ignore color protection.

• Fixed an issue causing minimized windows to restore when the all windows are minimized.

0.1.5.26 - 09/08/2010

• Drawing Preferences have been added to the Preferences command.

• Drawing Preferences now control the visibility of the brush shape when using the drawing tools.

• Drawing Preferences now control how shapes are committed when using the shape tools.

• Clone Stamp tool now uses stylus pressure.

• Fixed a crash during Palette Matching.

• Color Box needs to be manually added to installations for now

0.1.5.25 - 09/07/2010.

• Fixed a crash caused by clicking on the Tools menu with no documents open.

• File Preferences option now controls the color of index 0 in exported files.

• Startup Preferences now control the default size of new documents.

• Some tools can set the active color with the keyboard.

• Changed the behavior of the New File dialog box and fixed the tab stop order.

• Added a tool to pick colors from layers.

• Changed the appearance of the Palette color icons to display correctly with some display settings.

• Fixed an issue causing tool bar buttons to not show tool tips.

• Changed the appearance of the Pencil tool's cursor.

• Fixed an issue causing the Rectangle tool to always be drawn filled.

• Fixed a crash when using the Quantized Palette option when color reducing large images.

Planned Items for Release

1) Custom Brush

a) A custom brush shape will be able to be defined from a selection and will exist on the Brushes tab in the Styles window similar to patterns.

b) A brush can be selected as the active brush.

c) Drawing tools will have parameters for controlling the width, height, and rotation of the brush.

d) Drawing tools will be able to use the shape of the active brush or standard brush shapes, like round and rectangular.

e) Drawing tools will have the options to fill the active brush shape with either the active color/pattern; or the colors defined by the custom brush.

f) The Paint Brush tool will have an option to specify how quickly, or at what spacing it will place instances of the custom brush.

g) The shape tools will have options to specify the spacing or total number of instances of the custom brush to be placed along the shape.

h) The Line and Curve tools will have options to control the orientation and scaling of the brush along the shape.

i) The Rectangle tool will have option to control how the brush miters in the corners.

j) The Ellipse tool will have options to control the orientation and scaling of the brush around the ellipse.

2) Find and Replace Colors tool

a) A tool will exist for finding and replacing selected colors in the active layer, selected layers, or all visible layers.

b) When a color is found, the image fill zoom and pan to show the color area.

c) An option will exist to replace the found color with another solid color or pattern.

3) Multiply tool

a) The multiply tool will have an option to specify a repeat pattern.

4) Miter tool

a) A tool will exist to miter a selection of pixels by mirroring the selection about a given line.

b) Controls will exist to move the endpoints of the line and translate the selection.

c) The tool will work similar to the Move Selected Pixels and Multiply tools.

5) Distort tool

a) A tool will exist to distort a selection of pixels by moving four points around a rectangular frame of the selection's bounds.

b) Controls will exist to move the four corner points and to translate the selection.

c) The tool will work similar to the Move Selected Pixels and Multiply tools.

6) Save Reminder Notification

a) An option will exist in the Preferences to specify a time interval for which to notify the user to save any unsaved documents that are open in the workspace.

b) The function will present the user with options to save, not to save, and stop notification for each document that has unsaved changes.

c) The notification will cancel any tool or operation currently active and will resume the last active tool when it is dismissed and finished saving.

7) Shape tool preferences

a) Options will exist in the Preferences to control how shape tools are committed after creation.

b) An option will exist to commit a shape by the enter key or drawing a new shape.

c) An option will exist to commit a shape by pressing enter only.

d) An option will exist to commit a shape immediately after it is created.

8) Guides

a) Horizontal and vertical guidelines will be able to be created in the document for visual purposes.

b) The guides will be created by clicking and dragging off of one of the rulers within a document window.

c) A command will exist to create guides by specifying a numeric location for the guideline.

d) Controls will exist on the rulers to move the guides to a new position.

e) Guides will be deleted by moving them off of the edge of the visible document.

f) A command will exist to delete all guides within the document.

g) A toggle will exist to control the display of guides.

h) Options will exist in the Preferences to control the color and thickness of the guidelines.

i) Guides will be saved within the document and will persist between sessions.

9) Measure tool

a) A tool will exist to measure distances in the document by selecting two points along a line.

b) The tool will displace the distance between the points, the distance horizontally, the distance vertically, and the angle of the points.

c) The distances will be shown in the current display units.

d) Controls will exist to move the end points of the measurement line.

e) An option will exist to position the line by specifying distances and angles.

f) An option will exist to rotate and resize the document by specifying distances and angles. bnails in Windows Explorer and file selection dialogs when those dialogs have their view options set to show thumbnails.

10) Snaps

a) A toggle will exist to control how tools will snap to obstacles within the document.

b) Options in the Preferences will control if the snaps will be effective for snapping to pixels, guidelines, or repeats.

c) Drawing tools will be effected by causing the cursor to stick to the snap obstacles momentarily.

d) The Modifying tools will be effected by causing the edges of the selection's bounding box to stick the snap obstacles momentarily.

11) Insert/Remove tool

a) The Insert/Remove tool will have options to control how inserted rows and columns are created.

b) When inserting rows and columns, an option will exist to fill the new rows or columns with transparency.

c) When inserting rows and columns, an option will exist to fill the new rows or columns with the pixels of the selected row or column.

d) An option will exist to repeat a specified number of times the selected rows or columns.

e) An option will exist to scale by a specified amount the selected rows or columns.

12) Layer Locking

a) An option will exist to lock one or more layers of a document.

b) Locked layers will not be able to be drawn upon by drawing tools.

c) Locked layers will not be able to be transformed by Modifying tools.

d) Locked layers will not be able to be selected for multi-layer operations.

e) Locked layers will not be able to be deleted or merged.

f) Locked layers will not be able to be converted to other layer types.

g) Locked layers will still be effected by commands and tools which effect the entire document such as Resize, Canvas Size, Rotate, Flip, Flatten, Insert/Remove, and palette operations.

13) Merge Layers

a) An option will exist to merge multiple selected layers into one.

b) Selected layers must be contiguous sequentially and be all of the same type.

14) File Preview Thumbnails

a) DES and PAT files will show thumbnails in Windows Explorer and file selection dialogs when those dialogs have their view options set to show thumbnails.