Galaincha Version History
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  Galaincha was updated on March 28, 2011
 
  1. Visualization
    • Export Strikeoff retaining all design colors and sequence from the Strikeoff dialog
    • Reset all textures and pile heights with a button click in Visualization dialog
    • Rooms have been updated in Room View. Old rooms are available for download from http://galaincha.com.np/rooms
  2. Printing
    • Print Outlines features for tufted carpets has been added to Print Graph dialog
    • Print Graph dialog has been optimized and made more responsive for busy designs
    • Total carpet size can be specified in Print Graph dialog
    • Print directly from the Visualization dialog box
    • Print directly from the Strikeoff dialog box
    • Color numbering and pile heights have been added to the Print Design dialog box
  3. Colors
    • Send color to new layer implemented in right click menu of used colors
    • Apply colors from image has been optimized
    • Generate Color Combinations dialog has been revamped and it now supports history
    • Material Estimation now has an additional column for distribution calculated using Excess method
    • Several sorting options have been added to Color Sequence Editor
  4. Tools
    • The magic wand tool selects within selection be default to allow more fine grained selections
    • Border Selection tool added
    • Border Reflection tool added to Mirror
    • Selective Coloring tool added
  5. Interface
    • Improved Galaincha icon
    • Quick colors added to Window menu
    • Room view button visibility has been improved
  6. Usability
    • Single login for 32 bit and 64 bit computers
    • Fix: Bug that caused problems when updating registration of offline version of Galaincha has been resolved
 
  Galaincha was last updated on Nov 22, 2009
 
  1. Designing
    • Detailed mode added to resize options. This mode is better than normal mode or smart mode in preserving design details.
    • Better support for irregular knot line ratios (for example, 60 knot carpets)
    • Background layer is hidden by pressing Ctrl+Space. This is useful when tracing.
    • A design with irregular knot line ratio is saved as ctfx by default.
  2. Visualization
    • Strikeoff module added to Carpetools
    • Room View has been updated with the latest room sets
    • Carpets are always displayed in their actual proportion in room view
    • Fix: Room View buttons disappearing in Windows 7 have been fixed
    • Fix: Visualization Dialog now remembers the last pile height applied to a color
  3. Printing
    • Print Graph numbering is improved
    • Fix: It is now possible to print graph with minimum margin
    • Fix: Scale Error in Print Graph is fixed
  4. Colors
    • Automatic Color Selection improved in Art To Graph
    • Sort by Coverage added to Color Sequence Editor
    • ARS 1200 Color Database and Default Color database added to Colors Menu
    • Fix: Bug in displaying long color names in used colors has been fixed
    • Fix: Crash in Factory Color Manager with empty or incorrect color databases fixed
  5. Tools
    • Remove Islands has been improved
    • Connect Diagonals added to Remove Dots Effect
    • Edit Layer in Another Program added to Image Menu
    • Add/Remove Knots added to Image Menu, Ctrl+Click to draw straight line
    • Interlace Edges Effect added to Carpetools Menu
    • Ellipse select tool behaves the same as the ellipse drawing tool
    • Fix: Crash in Remove Islands has been fixed
    • Fix: Full Circle Select for 60 knot carpets
  6. CarpeTools
    • CarpeTect added
    • Quick Shapes added
    • Greek Key added
  7. Interface
    • Autohide all windows added to Window Menu
    • What's New added to Help Menu
A bug fix update for this release was posted on Dec 6. This update fixes the crash in Art to Graph and a few other crashes.
 
  Galaincha was updated on May 13, 2009
 
  1. Visualization
    • Ability to load custom rooms in Room View
    • Visualization now supports more than 25 colors
    • Fit in Screen works properly for 60 knot carpets
    • Room View supports irregular shaped carpets
    • Room View now has an option to lay carpets while maintaining its proportion
    • Perspective tool added. It allows you to lay carpets in your room
  2. Printing
    • Print Image added to file menu
    • Printing graph with solid grid prints thick rooms
    • Bug that prevented printing last page in Print graph has been fixed
  3. Colors
    • ARS 600 Colors added to Colors menu
    • Number of rows can be speficied in Factory Colors
    • Factory Color manager handles large color databases without error
    • Factory Color manager supports color reordering by dragging and dropping
    • Factory color manager facilitates finding colors by pressing initial alphabet
    • Factory color manager automatically substitutes duplicate color with slightly different color after confirmation
    • Color Sequence Editor added to Colors Menu
  4. Tools
    • Auto Select Circle and Auto Select Ellipse added to Auto Select Process
    • Multi ply shortcut added to Used Colors right click menu
  5. Interface
    • Custom Grid color can be defined from the status bar
    • Custom Grid size can be defined from the status bar
  6. Help
    • Help topics are now accessible from the Galaincha Interface
  7. Misc
    • Settings and Parameters now accessible from My Documents\Galaincha
    • CTF File format now supports transparent color. Transparent areas and areas with Cyan are saved as transparent
 
  Galaincha was updated on February 2, 2009
 
  1. Visualization
    • Visualization and Room view can save renderings at 300 dpi
  2. Printing
    • Small text in print graph has been made more legible
    • A bug with saving templates in Print Design has been fixed
  3. Colors
    • A new module "Apply Colors from Image" has been added to the Colors menu
    • Material Estimate dialog can now save estimation data in CSV format for processing in Excel
    • A bug preventing editing very large color databases in the Factory Color Editor has been fixed
  4. Tools
    • The fill tool now fills as you drag
  5. Misc
    • A bug that caused Galaincha to crash on some machines with the latest Windows Service Pack has been fixed
 
  Galaincha Software version 4.05 was released on November 17, 2008
 
  1. Visualization
    • Carving in Visualization
    • Support for one custom texture
    • Rendering is now optimized and speeded up by combining several consecutive operations in one
    • Room View added in Carpetools
  2. Printing
    • Print Design has been enhanced to include design name, size and scale
    • Print Design can print a black outline of the design
    • The plate in print design can be saved
    • Print Graph can print a color outline
    • Print Graph now allows alphabets for color numbers
  3. Colors
    • Color picker dialog has been enhanced to include several color spaces
    • Factory Colors Management Module has been enhanced
    • Factory Colors can be filtered, sorted, and displayed in a details view
    • Used Colors contains a context menu with useful functions
  4. Tools
    • Line tool can now draw in connected mode or disconnected mode
    • File Menu now contains a new tool, Browse Designs, that shows thumbnails and allows opening of all supported file types.
    • Edit menu contains a new tool called Select Layer Elements that selects all nontransparent pixels in the active layer
    • Colors menu contains a new tool called Separate Colors into Layers
    • The Move Selection and Move Pixels tools can be constrained to the design boundary by pressing Shift
  5. Misc
    • The CTFX extension is now associated with Galaincha on Windows Vista
   
 

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