Release Notes for Swiff Chart 4 - Refresh Version 4.1
Swiff Chart 4 is a maintenance release with numerous major upgrades and changes:
- Far better SVG format support, animated or static, mobile or desktop.
- Better compatibility with today's systems.
- Faster charts generation.
Detailed changes for Swiff Chart 4:
- NEW: The SVG format has be updated and is now the default format for Swiff Chart. Charts in SVG format can be exported as static or animated SVG objects.
- NEW: Using the SVG format, charts can now have a transparent background.
- NEW: Charts can be exported up to a 8000x8000 maximum resolution for high quality rendering.
- NEW: Swiff Chart supports Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
- UPG: zlib library has been upgraded.
- UPG: PNG library has been upgraded.
- UPG: JPEG library has been upgraded. It is also now faster than the previous version.
- UPG: Many internal components and compiler upgrades allow Swiff Chart to generate charts up to 50% faster.
- NEW: The updated SVG format is now the preferred format for exporting charts.
- NEW: Using the SVG format, charts can now have a transparent background.
- NEW: Charts can be exported up to a 8000x8000 maximum resolution for high quality rendering.
- NEW: Swiff Chart Generator is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit native modes.
- NEW: Swiff Chart Generator supports Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016 as well as modern Linux systems.
- UPG: zlib library has been upgraded.
- UPG: PNG library has been upgraded.
- UPG: JPEG library has been upgraded. It is also now faster than the previous version.
- UPG: Many internal components and compiler upgrades allow Swiff Chart to generate charts up to 50% faster.
Release Notes for Swiff Chart 3 - Refresh Version 3.2
Charting Engine (applies to all versions of Swiff Chart and Swiff Chart Generator):- FIX: Area charts, created in Flash format, animated with a "Scale" animation, with one single value were crashing the engine.
- FIX: Incorrect rendering problems when exporting 0/90/180/270 degrees shadows in Acrobat PDF format are solved.
- FIX: Area charts, not stacked, with min/max values of an axis not including zero, data series including an empty value : this case was leading to a draw overflow.
- FIX: Annotations containing a large amount of text could be displayed incorrectly.
- FIX: Setting very small custom major/minor units was crashing the engine when large data values were used.
- FIX: Area charts with drop lines could crash the engine.
- FIX: Axis titles were not animated.
- FIX: Transparent images are now correctly displayed in Flash format.
- FIX: Blank charts containing only annotations were not properly displayed.
- FIX: Export in PowerPoint format was not working properly with Office 2003.
- FIX: Import from an Excel Worksheet was not working properly with Office 2003.
- FIX: Improper detection of IE55 was disabling the left panel.
- FIX: Displays with 16 or 256 colors only were crashing the application.
- FIX: Loading external chart styles was erroneously changing the chart and axes titles.
- FIX: Successive images previews in file dialog are displayed correctly.
- FIX: The font list order with International fonts was incorrect.
Release Notes for Swiff Chart 3 - Refresh Version 3.1
Charting Engine (applies to all versions of Swiff Chart and Swiff Chart Generator):- FIX: Empty values with Column or Bar charts, used with a specific animation, were producing incorrect result or crash.
- FIX: Images were sometimes exported as red squares in Flash format.
- FIX: Interactive labels of Line/XY/Area charts were sometimes not correctly placed.
- FIX: The PDF exporter was sometimes generating an invalid PDF.
- NEW: Animation can now be enabled or disabled globally.
- NEW: Fonts can now be scaled easily directly from the Task Pane.
- NEW: Task Pane sections can be iconified.
- NEW: The Task Pane now issues a warning if Javascript is disabled.
- FIX: The Plot Area can now be dragged correctly.
- FIX: It was sometimes impossible to add a title to a chart.
Release Notes for Swiff Chart 2 - Refresh Version 2.5
Charting Engine (applies to Swiff Chart and Swiff Chart Generator):- IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to a compatibility fix with Macromedia Flash 5/MX, the chart labels are now displayed around 10% larger.
- NEW: Support of following fully localized formats: General, Number, Date, Time, Percentage, Scientific.
- NEW: Value Labels format and Axis value format can now be specified separately.
- NEW: a Line Chart can now be displayed in "Staircase", "Reversed Staircase", "Horizontal", "Vertical" style.
- NEW: Small slices of a pie chart were generating labels overlapping. A new option called "Auto Layout Slices" allows the Charting Engine to automatically change the order of the slices in order to minimize this problem.
- FIX: Slices colors of a pie chart are now rotating in an reserved way. Instead of {C1,C2,C3,C1,C2,C3,...}, the are not rotated as {C1,C2,C3,C2,C1,C2,C3,...}
- FIX: The thousands separators was sometimes displayed as a square (no-break space). The problem was due to a bug in Swiff Chart or an incomplete TrueType font.
- FIX: Legend is not displayed if data series have no title.
- FIX: Gridlines were sometimes not displayed correctly when min/max values were speficied.
- FIX: Axis min/max value fix for Time format
- FIX: Major unit for Time format
- NEW: a new Format Number dialog box provides easier access to the following fully localized formats: General, Number, Date, Time, Percentage, Scientific.
- NEW: Better support of Date format: the format can be chosen in a predefined list or can be customized. The correct Locale (location) information can be specified.
- NEW: Better support of Time format: the format can be chosen in a predefined list or can be customized. The correct Locale (location) information can be specified.
- NEW: Better support of Number format: A prefix as well as a suffix can be specified.
- NEW: Support of General format: the General format automatically displays the correct number of decimal places required by the current value.
- NEW: Support of Scientific format: Scientific format displays the value as "1.23E+12"
- NEW: When saving the chart as a JPEG image, the JPEG quality and Progressive Flag can now be specified.
- NEW: When saving the chart as a PNG image, the PNG compression level can now be specified.
- NEW: the Decimal separator and the Thousands separator can now be directly specified into Swiff Chart. These two parameters can be separately specified for value parsing (in the Data step) and number format (in the Format Number dialog)
- FIX: the same directory was selected when multiple "Save Style" operations were performed.
- FIX: Macromedia Flash MX import: incorrect labels were appearing in the imported SWF chart
- FIX: Macromedia Flash 5/MX import: the chart background was disappearing
- FIX: Macromedia Flash 5/MX import: font size was incorrect. Due to a compatibility issue, the chart labels are now displayed 11% larger in Swiff Chart.
Release Notes for Swiff Chart 2 - Refresh Version 2.4
Charting Engine (applies to Swiff Chart and Swiff Chart Generator):- Support of Flash MX format: compress SWF files by 50% in average.
- Memory Optimization: now uses far less memory (more than 60% less).
- Performance Optimization: Swiff Chart Engine is 90% faster for generating static charts and 20% faster for generating animated charts.
- Tick Marks support for Line and XY Charts
- Value Labels support for Line and XY Charts.
- Series Styles and colors now cycle through the values. Benefit: it allows a chart style designed for 2 series to be immediately and safely used for 5 series for instance. Same advantage for the Pie Chart slices style.
- Axis labels have now their own format.
- Axis title support.
- The number of categories between labels and ticks can now be automatically determined.
- XY Charts can now be drawn even only one data series is specified.
- Fix: error when a subtitle was specified but no title.
- Fix: axis labels are now drawn on top the chart itself.
- Fix: labels of horizontal axis were sometimes drawn too tight.
- Fix: small layout fixes in axis labels
- Fix: incorrect horizontal axis of Bar Charts when a max value specified.
- Fix: issue when dates specified as X values in a XY graph where the X axis has min/max values.
- Fix: invalid labels of vertical axis of Bar charts when the number of categories between labels was specified.
- Fix: nothing was drawn when one data series speficied with one single value.
- Fix: gridlines were incorrect when a number of categories between ticks was speficied.
- Fix: vertical gridlines in XY Charts were not correct
- New predefined Chart Styles available.
- Charts can now be saved as JPG/PNG/BMP standard images.
- Ctrl-S can now be used to save the project.
- Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) now works inside the data sheet itself.
- Drag and Drop in the data sheet has been disabled. Now use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V to move data.
- Axis settings are now swapped when switching from columns to bars (for instance).
- Axis Min/Max/Cross values now support dates.
- New "View in Browser" button in the Save step.
- Fix: New Blank now correctly erases the name of the project.
- Fix: memory leak fixed in the user interface.
- Fix: use less resources on Windows 98/Me.
- Fix: pasting from clipboard was erasing the title.
- Fix: values import with comma as decimal separator was not correctly working.
- Fix: checkbox controls in the Import Text Data dialog box.
- Fix: major unit was modified whether min/max was speficied or not.
- Fix: controls show/hide was now correct in the Animation step.
- Fix: color dialog box was incorrect if started from a gray/white/black color.
- Fix: Tab can now be safely used for entering R, G, B values in the color dialog.