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PECS for All visits since 2 February 2010: Version history 2011-09-15 Version 1.5.12 Additions: 184 new Sclera symbols 469 new Arasaac symbols 453 new black and white Arasaac symbols 2011-08-04 Version 1.5.11 A big addition are Custom Translations: translate the symbols in the pictolist, you can simply use in place editing in the list, go with tab to the next item in the list and enter your translations. With the right mouse button menu you can restore the original name or use Bing translate on the english name (or dutch / spanish if you are currently using the english language in Picto Selector) The translations are stored for each language seperately in the database and depends on the language selected in Picto Selector. Additions: 82 new Sclera symbols Translation status dialog - shows the available translations and the percentage translated (in the help menu) Custom Translations dialog - show the translations you have made so far. With a import and export option to transfer the translations to other people. Statistics dialog - see how many picto sheets are created and which symbols are used Arasaac Symbol Set Danish - contains symbols that are altered for the Danish language. Al those symbols are only available in danish for all languages Changes: changes in the dutch and english symbol names some changes in the translation dialog, added an option to send by email now using Bing Translate instead of Google Translate 2011-07-12 Version 1.5.10 Additions: 226 new Sclera symbols, translated to english, dutch, french Czech language, many thanks to Hana Kubíková Insert selected Pictos into Word, with a options dialog in the settings menu Network symbols. Almost the same as User Symbols, but you can only choose a network location and it is available for all computers in the network (using the same database) Changes: Now also possible to print the picto names above the pictos Fixed problem: In some situations a extra line was printed at the right side of the symbols In some situations a there was a problem with the language selection dialog, it made it impossible to change the language It was impossible to copy a original layout template 2011-06-13 Version 1.5.9 Additions: 107 new Arasaac symbols 108 new Arasaac black and white symbols 520 new Sclera symbols Tray icon with the option to hide the main screen of Picto Selector or Exit the application picto list - now possible to search for whole words ("car" will show all symbols with "car" but not "care" etc) 'set to default' buttons in clock and time timer property dialog to reset the colors category list dialog, which will show all categories in a list, double click to show the category in a picto list, multiple select + pressing button to show all selected categories in a list Danisch and Basque language. A large amount of Arasaac symbols are already translated Changes: picto list - you can now search different words (just put a space between them) you can now change the language of the symbols in the symbol list and use a priority for the languages to use. Especially usefull for languages which symbols are are not fully translated Fixed problem: Opening a empty picto sheet in Picto Board resulted in an error message When you only want to import the new black and white Arasaac symbols because you downloaded them before. Then you can use this file: New black and white Arasaac symbols After updating Picto Selector you can import this file to add the new black and white symbols (don't forget to login as administrator in Picto Selector) 2011-05-21 Version 1.5.8 Additions: Picto Board sounds Dialog to change the Picto Boards sounds 2011-05-5 Version 1.5.7 Additions: 13 new Sclera symbols add and remove buttons for columns in a dynamic pictosheet layout overwrite button, when enabled the selected picto will be overwritten when selecting a new picto Picto Board, a add on which brings picto sheets to the smart board / screen For more information about Picto Board visit this page 2011-04-15 Version 1.5.6 Additions: German translation is now complete Fixed: drag and drop of photo picto's was failing storing of (no longer) automatic updates was failing (it stayed on) 2011-04-8 Version 1.5.5 Additions: 605 Mulberry symbols, translated to nl, en and fr 204 Sclera symbols, translated to nl, en and fr a layout template for 2 symbols and 1 Text, used by school "De Ruimte" Fixed: problem with copied photo pictos on a network database storing the print cutting edge was failing (it stayed on) 2011-03-5 Version 1.5.4 Additions: The option to print cutting edges The option to change individual border settings for each picto in the sheet (previously for each sheet). Use the right mouse button menu in the pictosheet 115 new Sclera symbols 2011-02-24 Version 1.5.3 Additions: 5722 black and white arasaac symbols in all supported languages except hungarian. This is a black/white version of the normal Arasaac symbols and the donwload is optional. You can find more information on the website about downloading and installation More symbols are translated to Spanish The symbols are converted to a smaller format. Not important for existing users but a complete download is now 134MB instead of 240MB 2011-2-13 Version 1.5.2 Additions: 773 arasaac symbols in all supported languages except hungarian Portuguese translation of Picto Selector and website Fixes: Getting the google translation will result less times in a time out 2011-2-4 Version 1.5.1 Additions: 91 Sclera symbols, translated to Dutch, English, German and French A few buttons in the layout template editor to copy entered information like position and width of symbols to all other pictos in the template Fixes: Photo symbols in the network situation were not properly saved, they only worked on the system they were created and not on the other systems in the network. Resaving such sheet will fix this now. 2011-1-27 Version 1.5.0 This version is now using a database system to store it's information. Initially it will work just like before. But it is possible to put the database on a network server. Some documentation (in english) is included to tell what is needed if you want to use Picto Selector from multiple systems at the same time. This version includes: database phase 1: local database - no need to install a database system, it is included in Picto Selector itself database phase 2: network database - see documentation how to make this work database phase 3: manual and semi automatic synchronization - use a local database and put a database on a network, you can synchronize your information to this database. Very usefull for laptops which are regulary connected with a network. portable: put the complete installation (including images) on a removable disk to run it in portable mode svg image support, the nounproject svg files (http://www.thenounproject.com/) can be used as user pictos, thanks to Nils Haeck M.Sc. of www.simdesign.nl who donated the source to enable this. More information about the Picto Selector database is available at: Picto Selector Blog about database Additions: usermanager, all sheets are now owned by a user. Only the Administrator is allowed to: Synchronize the database to another network database Import Symbol set package Change Picto Folder Hide Categories (this is no longer stored in the registry) Configure Database User Pictos which are only active for the current computer, on other systems they need to be added again. This works this way because the location can be different for each computer Manage Layout Templates Changes: menu structure has changed to reflect the possibility to reload and save picto sheets and some options are moved to a configuration menu Good to know: The administrator can not be removed When a password is given to the administrator then all users can enter a password The startup time of Picto Selector has improved a lot (except for the first time) 2011-1-10 Version 1.2.15 Additions: 162 Sclera symbols, translated to dutch, english, french and german 2010-12-07 Version 1.2.14 Additions: 201 Sclera symbols Most of the Arasaac symbols are translated to portuguese brazilian and portuguese. Poruguese is also added to the installer and as a selectable language in Picto Selector. Picto Selector it self is not yet translated 2010-11-06 Version 1.2.13 Additions: 87 Sclera symbols Spanish sign language images. A total of 3615 images with spanish names. This is an optional download. See website for more details. 2010-10-23 Version 1.2.12 Additions: 367 Sclera symbols 990 Arasaac symbols Hongarian translation of the application + 1500 symbols, every help to translate them is welcome! Changes: A lot of internal changes to support right to left reading (Bi-directional support) I'm now using the latest Delphi XE version for the development of Picto Selector. 2010-10-02 Version 1.2.11 Changes: Instead of simple text, Rich Text is now used in the text picto's Improved the drawing of the border of text picto's when using a different width and height The picto list is no longer always on top of Picto Selector, picto lists will have their own taskbar icon Fixed: the check whether the computer is online sometimes failed and waited for a long time, the result was a grey screen on some computers at startup. the check whether all symbols were available on the computer sometimes resulted in exceptions when closing Picto Selector 2010-09-07 Version 1.2.10 Additions: 260 Sclera symbols, currently translated to dutch, english, french and german 167 Sclera symbols, currently translated to dutch, english and french the copyright line will now also show the use of user symbols and photos as having a unknown copyright status it is now possible to save the symbols to a folder using the picto names of Picto Selector Changes: More space between picto and picto name in the layout templates and dynamic layout the copyright line as used in layout templates is now also used in the default dynamic layout double clicking a symbol in the pictolist will insert that picto after the first selected one and not after the last picto in that sheet as before 2010-08-15 Version 1.2.9 The German translation is now complete. A group of volunteers has worked on it for 4 weeks on the 14000 symbols! Thanks to: Matthias Aigner (1500), Wolfgang Schaible (1500), Vanessa Becker (1000), Elisabeth Lechner (1000), Carola Tänzer (1000), Timo Lüke (500), Bärbel Trauthig (500), Vera Kessler (500), Tim Tengler (500), Barbara Schwarzenberger (500) and Matthias Lunz (1650) 2010-08-01 Version 1.2.8 Additions: german translation of the symbols, now at 77% 300 Mulberry symbols a Rounding option to the border of symbols. (see border settings) Improved: the print quality of the Mulberry Symbols Fixed: when the current version is newer than the version on the website it will still continue to check the symbols for new / missing symbols the pdf creation to a new library, no longer the need for dspdf.dll, the problem with the pdf export not exporting all images is now solved Orientation of paper when exporting to image or pdf is solved now. It will properly use the last orientation of that sheet 2010-07-16 Version 1.2.7 Known issue: on some systems the creation of PDF's is failing (the last line of images is missing). Currently the only workaround is to use an external pdf-printer like cute pdf writer (http://www.cutepdf.com/) Additions: Added german translation of the application Added 1500 Sclera.be symbols. Those are translated to dutch and english Added commandline option -programdir, see explanation at the bottom of this message Added automated update check every 30 days, which can be disabled Commandline parameter: -programdir When using this parameter when Picto Selector is started some files are stored in a settings folder in the application directory, this is instead of the my documents and application data folders. Use this if you want to use Picto Selector from a network drive with as much data on the server as possible: PictoSelector.bin: see below for details about its contents pictolist.package: downloaded and containing the latest picto updates from the internet pictolistuser.package: list of user pictos LayoutTemplates.txt"list of user layout templates The following information is stored in the PictoSelector.bin file: Language PrintTitleFont, PrintPictoNameFont, PrintPictoTextFont: for new picto sheets, updated when changed in a picto sheet CustomPictoDir, UseCustomPictoDir PictoGood, PictoGoodColor PictoWrong, PictoWrongColor LastVersion, LastVersionDate, LastVersionNeverCheck GroupFrom, GroupNameCreator EmailFrom, EmailTo, EmailToHistory SelectedSets: The symbols sets used in the picto list PictoClockColors: for new picto sheets, updated when changed in a picto sheet PictoTimeTimerColors: for new picto sheets, updated when changed in a picto sheet BorderColor, BorderWidth: for new picto sheets, updated when changed in a picto sheet The settings file is overwritten when one of these settings is changed. This can cause strange behaviour when multiple users change those settings after each other. The last user saving his settings will win. The pictosheets and the photos used in them will remain in the local my documents folder. The best way of using this commandline option is to change the shortcuts of Picto Selector. The settings file will not be saved when the file is locked against writing. (without (error) message) 2010-06-10 Version 1.2.6 Added Layout Templates Manager and Editor. Create and edit your layout templates. This is advanced functionality, not easy... Add Layout Template Wizard which will be used when you create a New layout template. You can now change the border width and color for the pictos in a sheet. Use the "Border Settings..." function in the "Picto Sheet" menu. You can now send a email with a picto sheet as PDF attachment. moved some menu items from pictosheet menu to file menu last used paper orientation of picto sheet will be used for the next time it is previed or printed the categories in user pictos are now easier selectable when adding and removing them Newly created templates are stored in "my documents\Eendsoft\PictoSelector\LayoutTemplates.txt" 2010-05-28 Version 1.2.5 Some shortcut keys are redefined to make it more logical RMB and LMB was swapped in the description of the clock and time timer picto saving as PDF or image file is now also possible from the main menu saving as PDF is now without the message 'This is a demo' the background and the alignment of a text picto is now adjustable Layout Templates added: you can choose between several layouts of 'known' cummunicator tools as Go Talk, Supertalk etc. Also added some templates for general use. 2010-05-12 Version 1.2.4 Time Timer Picto. A new picto type that represents a time timer. Add a time timer picto, set the time and change it's appearance and ready. 140 new Arasaac symbols german and italian translations of the Arasaac symbols added an option in the RMB of a picto in a picto sheet to reset the name to it's original value added a new wrong bitmap, a forbidden cross as used in road signs (see movie) i've made the good / wrong pictures less transparant, this improves it visibility Time Timer picto on youtube 2010-04-17 Version 1.2.3 Clock Picto. A new picto type that represents a clock. Add a clock picto, set the time and change it's appearance and ready. double click on a picto in the picto list will add that picto on the top picto sheet (if one of them is opened) Clock picto on youtube