V5.2 release notes


1.      Stitching speed is improved on Mac, bringing it closer to the (single-threaded) performance of the Windows Editions.

2.      Japanese, Norwegian and Turkish translations were added in V5.2.2748 (June 5, 2008). The Catalan, Chinese-Traditional, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian and Turkish translations were updated in V5.2.2760 (January 12, 2009).

3.      As of January 12, 2009, some translations are incomplete:
               Norwegian is 63% complete,
               Slovak is 81% complete,
               Spanish is 98% complete,
               Turkish is 24% complete.
Other translations supplied with V5.2 are 100% complete.  Untranslated commands and messages will be displayed in English.  Updated translations will be released as they become available.  We are seeking additional translators and reviewers for these and other languages.  Please visit
http://www.panoramafactory.com/call_for_translators.html if you would like to help translate or provide feedback on existing translations.

4.      99 new cameras were added to the camera library in V5.2.2748 (June 5, 2008) and 84 more in V5.2.2760 (January 12, 2009).

5.      When exporting to QTVR format, The Panorama Factory now automatically converts the projection to cubic or cylindrical if it can determine that one projection will produce a significantly smaller output file than the other.  Otherwise, it will convert spherical panoramas to cubic and leave cylindrical panoramas unchanged.  However, cubic projection is always used if you have selected the Add top and bottom caps to saved image on the QTVR settings dialog box.

6.      V5.2 adds several new customer support features.  For more information about these, please refer to http://www.panoramafactory.com/support_extras.html.

7.      The following trouble reports are corrected in V5.2 2747 (June 5, 2008):

TR 822   Some QTVR files show a broken film strip icon

TR 982   Abnormal termination when exporting QTVR that contains polygon hotspots

TR 985   Could not write abcd.mov. Is the disk full or write protected?

TR 986   It is not possible to enter the letter 'd' into the Hotspot properties dialog box

TR 1105 "Cannot convert from the charset windows-utf8" when selecting a language

TR 1112 Abnormal termination immediately after starting the application

TR 1113 "Bookmark" type hotspots do not work

TR 1114 "http://url#bookmark" notation doesn't work for QTVR images displayed by Internet Explorer

TR 1115 Double-clicking a PFP file from Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) sometimes causes abnormal termination

TR 1145 Does not work properly if installed into a folder with extended characters in its name

8.      The following trouble reports are corrected in V5.2 2760 (January 12, 2009):

TR 1170  Quitting the program sometimes shows a message saying PFactory quit unexpectedly

TR 1206  Starting the program by double-clicking a PFP file from Finder sometimes causes abnormal termination

TR 1346  Double-clicking a PFP file from Finder (Mac) when a dialog box is open sometimes causes subsequent abnormal termination



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