Compatibility
Windows - Vista, XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows 98/ME/NT (should work on Windows 95 too).
Linux - On Linux you can run AndreaMosaic successfully with the free Wine Emulator.
Mac OS X - On Mac you can run AndreaMosaic successfully using Parallels or Fusion. Maybe it works also with CrossOver.
History
24 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.4
Changes:
- Added support for Windows 98, Windows Millenium, Windows NT (maybe it works on Windows 95 too).
General Known Issues:
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name for the main image if mosaic is splitted.
- improved Tooltip mouse handling.
Windows 98 Known Issues:
- Tool Tip available only on main windows.
- Select Tiles: Image Icon's are shown incorrectly.
Linux Known Issues:
- the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Drag&Drop from File Manager/Desktop works well on GNOME but not on KDE.
- Internet Web Link to AndreaPlanet web site in ToolTip and AboutBox works only with the Windows 98/ME version.
- Video Extraction from Movies (require VfW codecs). I tried without success the K-Lite codec pack.
16 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.3
Changes:
- Removed 'beta' from title Window.
8 October 2008 - New Release 3.30.2
Changes:
- Updated User Manual.
- Splitting Window is shown automatically if Mosaic is greater than the limits of the saved File Format
- Fixed minor bug when calculating the size of very large mosaics.
23 September 2008 - New Release 3.30
Changes:
- More messages, tooltips and minor fixes.
22 September 2008 - New Release 3.23.10 Beta
Improvements:
- Improved Mosaic Quality: Tile selection improved colour accuracy.
- Improved Black&White conversion.
- Improved Image Comparison algorithm
- Improved performance when loading large JPG files.
- DPI/PPI Resolution is now saved into the final Mosaic.
Changes:
- More messages, changes to existing messages and tooltip layout changes
- When selecting Black&White tiles the resulting mosaic will be automatically in Black&White
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs
Known Issues:
- Linux: the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Linux: Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- Linux: When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Linux: Drag&Drop from File Manager/Desktop works well on GNOME but not on KDE.
- Web Page HTML file has wrong name for the main image if mosaic is splitted.
- User Manual is not updated.
10 September 2008 - New Release 3.23.4 Beta
New Features:
- New 'High Quality' Mosaic Processing. It produces better mosaics.
- New 'Unique Variations' Mosaic Processing. It is useful for creating mosaics with real tiles.
- New Color Change Processing in the More Options Window
- Full compatibility for Pen Drive deployment. You can use the program on your Pen Drive without installing it.
- Rotation option is split between 90 and 180 degrees rotation
- Professional version allows to create mosaics up to 8 Gigapixels (this is a image made of over 24 Gigabytes)
- Select Tiles: Added Exclude and Required Folder. Required images are always included in a mosaic even if they don't fit well.
- Select Tiles: Added Drag&Drop for multiple directory selecting
- Select Tiles: A preview of all available Images for the Tiles is shown in the fourth list
- Mosaic Information is shown in custom measure units
- Full support for Linux Distributions
Improvements:
- Improved Mosaic Quality
- Improved Performance
- Reduced Memory Usage
- Improved Status Message
- Improved layout when XP Theme is not available (Windows 2000, Linux, etc)
Changes:
- The resulting mosaic is not shown but only saved
- Select Tiles Window: Removed Analyze button, it is done automatically at each Save.
- Parameter Tile Size: nnn Tiles x Row is calculated always on Rows even with Portrait images.
- New ToolTip layout
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs
Known Issues:
- Large bright images (over 3 Megapixel) in your Tile Archive are used when not needed.
- Linux: the ? button doesn’t open the User Manual, but there is a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.
- Linux: Web Page HTML file has wrong name of tiles, editing base folder is a workaround.
- Linux: When saving a collection the default file extension is not automatically added.
- Mosaic size is shown with a wrong conversion when switching to feet or meter
- User Manual is not updated.
21 August 2008 - New Release 3.23.0 Beta
New Features:
- New User Interface made with a simple and clear design
- Preview of how the original image is splitted into Tiles
- All input parameters are designed to be easy to understand and to insert
- It is possible to specify the parameters in any unit: pixel, inch, feet, meter, cm, tiles, tiles x row.
- It is possible to make mosaics looking like a wall, see Pattern option
- It is possible to specify individually the kind of variations to allow (Flipping, Rotating).
- It is possible to specify a custom color for the Border.
- Increased number of variations with AndreaMosaic Square Version when rotations is enabled.
- Two new Image Compare algorithm: Stronger and Weaker.
- The Image Collection support multiple Folders
- Improved Memory usage.
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Improved Performance in several situations.
- Improved Mosaic Quality.
- Option to Split the final Mosaic in different pieces.
- Option to create automatically a Deep Zoom Composer project file to publish your mosaic on the web using Microsoft Silverlight Technology. Here a sample image.
- Option to save the resulting mosaic as a Windows BMP file for maximum image quality (no compression).
- Support for internationalization. Soon AndreaMosaic can be translated into any world language. Translators Wanted.
- All the produced files are saved in a subdirectory
Bug Fixes:
- Old algorithm used to rotate the tiles even if Flipping was disabled.
- Fixed bug when updating the collection and some images was removed.
- Several minor corrections
12 August 2008
- Updated the User License, AndreaMosaic is now creditware.
- Added List of Artworks created with AndreaMosaic to the home page..
8 May 2008 - 3.22.0
- Updated User Manual.
8 March 2008 - 3.22.0
- Raised limits of the maximum size of your mosaic to 200 MegaPixels.
- Improved Performance and Memory Usage.
17 September 2007 - 3.21.0
- Option for to use all Images in your Collection.
- Option to specify Quality of saved JPG Mosaic.
- Improved Memory Usage.
- Improved Performance.
- Added Progress Bar.
- Smoother User Interface through Multithreading support.
- Improved limits on maximum mosaic size. Maximum 32000 Tiles. 50 MegaPixels Image size.
- Status line for detailed processing information.
- It is now possible to stop the mosaic process at any time.
- Fixed the preview window of the original image, sometimes not working well..
18 July 2006 - 3.20.0
- Added option for specifying the size of the created Web Page.
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The Web Page now zoom automatically the image while moving the mouse
(Thanks to 'aeracryon' ).
- Fixed some bugs.
- Updated the Donation List in the AboutBox!
10 October 2005 - 3.19.0
- Added option for saving an image to Bitmap Format.
- Improved quality on saving the final mosaic.
15 August 2005 - 3.18.5
- Added Sample Image Collection made with over 500 tiny sample images
1 August 2005 - 3.18.3
- Added some Photo Utilities for advanced users only.
- Minor fixes in the Text Report File and Updated User Manual about the Text Report File.
- Change: The Tiles X Row parameter is no longer used as Tiles X Col if Height > Width.
6 July 2005 - 3.17.6
- Updated User Manual
- Image Preview is centered to the Desktop Screen.
- Added Buttons for User Guide and Online Help.
- Added Usage Count in the About Box.
- Improved Mosaic Total Size and Total Tile count.
- Added Quality parameter in the support for very Big Mosaics.
- The Total Size and Tile Count was replaced with two new parameters TileWidth and Tiles per Row. So it is possible to give an exact size for the final mosaic/single tiles.
- New
parameter Maximum Number of duplicated tiles. Together with the parameter Minimum distance between every duplicated tile it is possible to customize tile duplication.
- Minor fixes.
25 May 2005 - 3.16.5
- New release 'AndreaMosaic NTSC' in order to create photographic mosaics with tiles in NTSC video format.
- Drag & Drop Support. If you drag and Image from Windows Explorer to AndreaMosaic it will be added to the Image List.
- The Sequence Algoritm will work only on directories/files of the Image Collection that contain the name "FRAMES".
- Minor improvements for the Square version & flipping problem.
- BugFix: Fixed position of the tiles in the Map of the HTML File.
- BugFix:
The Movie Extraction function now write correctly the JPG files.
- BugFix: When the parameter duplicated tiles was set to 0 then the Sequence Algorithm did not worked.
- BugFix: When creating an Image Collection also images with JPEG and JPE extensions are included.
7 November 2004 - New Release 3.15
- New release 'AndreaMosaic Portrait' in order to create photographic mosaics with tiles in portrait format.
- Now it is possibile to use images files (JPG) in CMYK format
in addition to RGB and Grayscale formats.
1 November 2004 - New Release 3.14
- Now it is possible to save a Report as a Text file or Web/HTML file.
11 August 2003 - New Release 3.13 for Cinescope and Square
- Now it is possible to create mosaics with Cinescope tiles (aspect ratio 16:9) or Square tiles (same width and height of every tile)..
11 August 2003 - User Manual in English
- Finally I wrote some pages on how to use the program!
12 April 2003 - New Release 3.13
- The Extract from Movie window have now a preview feature of the extracted frames.
8 April 2003 - New Release 3.12
- The progress indicator is now more smoother and I added some more information in the About Box. |