4.2
- Added IPTC support
- Improved speed for loading large images
4.1
- Donation dialog at startup can be disabled
- BorderMaker is open source, the project is hosted at code.google.com/p/bordermaker
- Some minor bug fixes
4.0
- Preview of text, borders/frames and watermark editing actions
- A drop shadow can be applied to text
- Numerical spinner elements replaced by handy sliders. Use mouse right click to position the slider on the exact value.
- Text, borders/frames and watermarks can be edited during addition, deletion and movement operations.
- The resize quality can now be set, this was not so good in the latest version. Now you can find the optimum value between quality and speed.
- Borders/frames can be made transparent! Examples will follow on the web site.
- The background of tranparent borders can be blurred.
- The blending mode of transparent borders can be adjusted.
- During preview, sharpness and JPEG quality can be changed to immediately see the result. The size of the JPEG file is visible.
- Images can be send by FTP directly from the preview screen to simplify the process for a single image.
- You can use the following styles for resizing:
- Keep aspect ratio; like BorderMaker use to work in the old days
- Crop image; BorderMaker cuts the image exactly this size, i.e. square thumbnails.
- Squeeze image; BorderMaker squeezes the image to the requested size.
- Files can be saved PNG format, no quality loss.
- By using relative size, text and borders/frames will be larger when the image is larger.
- BorderMaker now be started on the command line:
- BorderMaker <file.brd>; Starts BorderMaker and loads the specified file
- BorderMaker -start <file.brd>; Starts BorderMaker, loads the file and executes the action
- BorderMaker -start -stop <file.brd>; Starts BorderMaker, loads the file, executes the action and stops the program
- File date of the original image will be maintained.
- BorderMaker runs again on Mac (Java 5).
- Quick open and close buttons added
3.1
- EXIF information is retained
- Performance improved
- New color picker
3.0
- FTP support
- Fixed font load bug
2.6
- Native library works
- Available in italian
- Small GUI changes
- Replacement varaibles changed:
- %n: file name (caps are not changed)
- %a: file name (lower case)
- %A: file name (upper case)
2.5
- Native libraries are available for windows users, this speeds up
the processing time radically
- Fixed number of EXIF bugs (StackOverflow en wrong
shutterspeed, etc...)
- Quick search for fonts (Just type in font list)
- Dialogs are no longer to big with long texts
- Added an example file in installation (see File menu)
- Fixed bug for Mac with new Java version
2.4
- Improved GUI
- Context assist for variables at filename and titles
(CTRL + Space).
- Preview dialog also available for images.
- Totally revised font drawing and positioning for better
looking fonts.
- You can now choose if you want smooth (anti aliased) fonts.
- Border size can be adjusted all at once or per size
(Click checkbox label).
- You can now specify if you want the filename/extension in upper
or in lower case.
- You can now include a counter in your filename/titles using
%c or %C (leading zero's). Use %c[10] to start counting from ten
and use %C[12,4] to start counting from 12 and append leading zeros
to 4 positions.
Example:
%c: 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
%c[10]: 10, 11, 12, 13, ...
%C: 01, 02, 03, 04,...
%C[12,4]: 0012, 0013, 0014, 0015, ...
2.3
- Fixed bug that new borders
texts don't work.
2.2
- Borders also visible in preview window.
- French language add.
2.1
- BorderMaker now has a config file in the program folder.
- Recent file are shown in file menu
- Language menu
- Solved couple of bugs
- Auto color also for borders
2.0
- Added pause button.
- Solved bug: BorderMaker did't stop processing
- Auto adjust: Automatically adjust color based
on the background color of the text.
Makes the text darker or brighter if the
text blends in with the background.
- Auto color: Automatically determine the color
based on the average color of the image.
- .brd files are now in XML format. No more compatibility
problems with older versions of BorderMaker!
- IPCT is allso visible in the EXIF window.
- Preview when browsing for images.
- Thumbnails are also being rotated according to the EXIF
orientation.
- if/else possibility with EXIF:
- %x If the 'Iso Speed' Tag doesn't exist
nothing will be shown.
- %x If the 'Iso Speed' Tag doesn't exist
'No Iso' will be shown.
- %x If the 'Iso Speed' Tag doesn't exist
it tries to find the 'Iso Speed Ratings' Tag, if this doesn't exist
nothing will be shown.
- %x If the 'Iso Speed' Tag doesn't exist
it tries to find the 'Iso Speed Ratings' Tag, if this doesn't exist
'No Iso' will be shown.
- ... etc ... This way you can search for the right EXIF tag.
1.13
Preview window
- Grid as background
- Grid brightness adjustable
- You can show all text in the preview window
- You can parse the EXIF values in the preview window
(The EXIF from the example file is used)
- You can choose all other variables from EXIF dialog
1.12
- Preview window for text.
- Outlined, transparante fonts possible.
- Font preview can be turned off in de combobox, performs better with lots of font.
- Stack overflow bug solved (if I'm correct).
- Solved resize bug if "Resize" option is unchecked.
- Extra field validation.
1.11
- Fixed bug: when multiple exif tags are specified in a title it doesn't work.
- Images can be saved from the example dialog to make one-image processing easier.
1.10
- No image with border bug has been solved.
- You can choose EXIF tags directly from the titles dialog.
- If an EXIF tag wasn't found the %x will no longer show up
in the image, instead an empty String is inserted.
- You can specify some text in case the specified EXIF tag doesn't exist
in the image, example:
%x
if the Date/Time EXIF tag exists in the image it will show up in the title,
otherwise Unknown date will be shown.
1.9
- Layout changes
- Example dialog adjusts size to the image
- BorderMaker icon included
- (nl) BorderMaker in het engels beschikbaar, hij pakt standaard
de systeemtaal, mocht je een andere taal willen selecteren
pas dan de bordermaker.bat aan naar:
start javaw -Dbordermaker.language=[default|nl|en] -Xincgc -Xmx512M -Xms128M -jar bordermaker.jar %1
- (en) BorderMaker is avaiable in english. By default BorderMaker starts in the system language.
If you want to use BorderMaker in a diffirent language you can adjust the bordermaker.bat file.
start javaw -Dbordermaker.language=[default|nl|en] -Xincgc -Xmx512M -Xms128M -jar bordermaker.jar %1