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Version 2.0.3
September 10th 2024

Fixes
- Further improvements to the issue where images occasionally wouldn't load when dropped from a browser.
- Fixed an issue where colors of groups and notes occasionally would not be saved properly.
- Fixed an issue where groups would not contain their notes on load.
- Pasting groups should now retain their lock mode properly.
- Fixed clipped gifs when using the Auto downscale setting.
- Fixed restoring of partially corrupted legacy saves.
- After updating, the last open scene will now be automatically loaded on restart. (applies to the next update)
- Windows: Fixed pixel offset in images after pasting them into Photoshop.
- Windows: Fixed an issue where fullscreen wouldn't work properly when the Windows task bar was at the top of the screen.
- Windows: Fixed an issue where the window could become unresponsive after connecting or disconnecting screens, or waking a screen from sleep.
- Linux: Fixed an issue where typing accented letters was not working on some systems.
- Linux: Fixed hang in updater on some systems. (applies to the next update)

Version 2.0.2
August 26th 2024

Fixes
- Fixed issue where notes loaded from the legacy format would get lost when re-saving to the new format.
- Fixed crash when the open scene file was replaced externally with auto reload enabled.
- Fixed rare corruption when re-saving the legacy format.
- Fixed save warning not always respecting the always discard choice.
- Show the full scene name in the title bar even if it contains a dot.
- Fixed window title text and the "New scene" actions enabled state when opening an empty scene.
- Support loading 0 size .pur files.
- Mac/Linux: Fixed issue where auto save restore wouldn't always work after an unexpected system shutdown.

Version 2.0.1
August 18th 2024

Features
- Added Periodic saving setting as a replacement for the autosaving setting that was removed in 2.0.0.
- Added a new option to the Open files in setting: "Window with scene open" that avoids opening duplicate scenes.
Tweaks
- Slideshow: Replaced the "Randomize order" setting with Step order that has support for shuffle mode.
- Notes: Changed "Copy/paste formatting" and "Strikethrough" shortcuts since they blocked typing special characters on some keyboard layouts. (Alt+Shift+C/V & Alt+Shift+S)
- Saving: Improved the restoring capabilities of corrupt scenes and exposed more details of what's going on when restoring.
- Changed "Unsaved scene warning" to be a remember choice option, now called Unsaved scene behavior.
- Added downscale and image data size information to tooltips in the hierarchy.
- Mac: Changed the application icon to a more standardized design and fixed the support for custom application icons.
Fixes
- Fixed crash when pasting non-ARGB32 format images from the clipboard.
- Fixed text corruption when copying and pasting notes quickly.
- Loading: Fixed an issue where some missing images would never stop loading.
- Loading: Fixed an issue where loading old scenes with duplicate images would show empty images.
- Loading: Avoid an infinite load while loading specifically corrupt metadata.
- Saving: Fixed a rare issue where no error would be reported when loading legacy saves, causing missing images on the next reload if the scene was resaved in the new format.
- Saving: Now properly cleans up temporary files from crashed save attempts.
- Setting a comment to empty now properly clears the comment status of an item.
- Shortened timeout when importing images from the web to reduce long wait times when dragging images from a browser in case of network issues.
- Fixed a rare crash when importing images from a webpage URL.
- Avoid creeping when measuring with the coordinate picker.
- Export: Fixed missing file extensions when exporting images in some cases.
- Export: Fixed export of auto downscaled images; they are now exported in full resolution.
- Export: Fixed exporting images in original format not working the first time.
- Hierarchy: Sanitize line breaks in item names.
- Hierarchy: Show dropped items in the hierarchy after a drop.
- Notes: Better detection of URLs when pasting text.
- Notes: Fixed support for non-http URLs.
- Notes: Fixed an issue where a note could end up partly outside the pannable canvas during editing.
- Notes: Pasting plain text now uses the last used text color and font.
- Notes: Fixed changing the text color of newly added text in a new note.
- Notes: Don't focus on the note when entering edit mode if the note is visible in the viewport.
- Notes: Fixed the link color of pasted HTML.
- Notes: Improved rendering performance of notes.
- Fixed inconsistent behavior when undoing during color editing of text or a group.
- Windows: Retain file metadata on save, such as NTFS streams and desktop icon position.
- Windows: Fixed an issue where reinstalling or uninstalling with the option to remove the settings file wouldn't work properly.
- Windows: Fixed an issue where link drop actions from Explorer were incorrectly accepted, causing the dragged file to be deleted.
- Mac: Fixed an issue where screenshots would get linked to a temporary directory instead of being embedded.
- Mac: Fixed double clicking a .pur file to open it when "Auto open last scene on start up" is enabled.
- Mac: Fix keyboard shortcuts on "Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘" keyboard layouts.

Version 2.0.0
May 20th 2024

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Tweaks
- Notes: Shortcuts for editing multiple notes at the same time can now be bound in the shortcut settings.
- Notes: Made it possible to open links to local files directly or browse its location (Ctrl+click/Ctrl+Shift+click).
- Groups: When selecting children of a locked group, the "Select all" command now only selects the groups children.
- Groups: If a group is selected for export, all its child images will be exported.
Fixes
- Fixed issue where deleting an item while editing its color could crash.
- Fixed rare crash when unbinding a shortcut.
- Fixed the setting "Auto downscale" not always working correctly.
- Windows: Better handling of locked files during update.

Version 2.0.0.beta10
May 7th 2024

Features
- Added "Lock group" button to the group toolbar to change how items in a group is selected. Read more here.
- Added browse button in note link edit popup.
- Added feature to open .pur link in new window with Ctrl + Shift + Click.
- Added setting for specifying default image sampling.
Fixes
- Fixed selecting parents and children with rectangle selection that broke in beta9.
- Fixed ungroup behavior when ungrouping groups within groups.
- Fixed issue where text and group colors would not apply correctly when changing the selection before pressing apply.
- Fixed issue where the title bar wouldn't fade out sometimes when the window was in the background.
- Fixed the setting "Scroll wheel functionality" set to "None".

Version 2.0.0.beta9
April 15th 2024

Features
- Added support for 3DConnexion SpaceMouse. (Windows/Mac)
- Added copy & paste text formatting commands. (Ctrl+Alt+C/V)
- Added color picker button to color selector dialog.
- Added setting to be able to disable trackpad gesture support.
- Support linking local files in text anchors and, if the link points to a .pur file, it will be loaded automatically when clicked.
- Support editing multiple notes & groups at the same time.
Tweaks
- Selecting items inside a group now requires double clicking the item to enter the group. Read more here.
- The export images dialog now always shows the option to export original format, and if selected exporting croppings will be automatically disabled.
- The current scene name is now used as the default file name when exporting a scene.
- Comment dialog now grabs input focus on show and can be closed with escape.
- A popup notification is now shown when save finished successfully.
- Disabled drag dropping items from child groups into a parent group. To achieve this use the Ungroup command instead.
- Added the full path of the open scene to the window title and added a tooltip to the scene name label in the window titlebar.
- Reset the unsaved warning setting to avoid accidental lost work on close after removing the auto save feature.
- Added a right click menu on the titlebar to quickly access titlebar settings.
- Apply brush color changes when starting drawing without closing the color selector dialog.
- Redesigned the crop gizmo to better vizualise when crop mode is enabled.
Fixes
- Fixed off by one pixel when copying images.
- Don't reset current text format options when deleting the last character in a note.
- Fixed issue where note text color wouldn't save correctly when saving to legacy format.
- Fixed drag & drop of images not working if it was dropped on top of a note.
- Don't allow setting "Resize border width" to 0 as it breaks window resizing.
- Make it possible to cancel stuck image loader network requests.
- Don't focus an image when double clicking it while in draw mode.
- Don't show window locked popup in overlay mode.
- Fixed issue where the titlebar wouldn't fade on idle when its visibility mode was set to "On mouse move".
- Fixed error message sometimes complaining about locked database when saving.
- Added more checks when saving to avoid corrupted save files when encountering drive errors.
- Fixed issue where the open scene would become corrupt when failing to force load a different, already corrupt, save file.
- Mice with touch capabilities should no longer react to trackpad gestures.
- Avoid moving the PureRef window when screens are connected / removed.

Version 2.0.0.beta8
February 26th 2024

Fixes
- Fixed copy & paste in notes.
- Fixed issue where restore default settings didn't always work.
- Fixed issue where double clicking while drawing would exit draw mode.
- Windows: Fixed rare crash when restarting after update.
- Windows: Added missing msvcp140_2.dll

Version 2.0.0.beta7
February 19th 2024

Features
- Drawing: Hold shift to draw straight lines.
- GIF: Make it possible to copy & paste or drag & drop a selected frame.
- Support panning and zooming with trackpad gestures.
- Make it possible to change the "Finish editing note" shortcut.
Tweaks
- Drawing: Better smoothing algorithm that should make it easier to draw small details.
- Hierarchy: Save the width between sessions.
- Hierarchy: Better copy & paste in the hierarchy.
- Border radius of groups and notes are now screen space relative.
- The unlock button now pops up above the clicked locked item to avoid accidental clicks.
- Added jpg and bmp as available output formats when exporting a scene.
- Move settings file to its own folder in config/roaming to conform better with standards.
- Added dialog to ask before removing missing file from list of recent files.
Fixes
- Fixed jittery pan when panning with keyboard shortcut.
- Normalize: Fixed "From first" not always selecting the first selected item.
- Normalize: Fixed "Undo" not always undoing correctly.
- Copying an image or multiple images now attempts to retain the original scale.
- Don't copy the background if only a single image is selected so that transparency is retained.
- Fixed issue where the title bar wouldn't always react to clicks.
- Fixed arrow key navigation in GIF frame view.
- Fixed issue where an image would display as black during gizmo cropping.
- Slideshow: Fixed positioning of loader circle when progress changes.
- Slideshow: Use randomization mode when stepping images even if slideshow is paused.
- Notes default text color now properly uses the "Text color" appearance setting instead of "Text hover color".
- Fixed issue where undoing a rename or comment operation wasn't saved properly.
- Don't change selection when hiding the hierarchy view.
- Fixed issue where drawings would move when cropping its parent image.
- Made it possible to undo note size changes while editing text.
- Fixed issue where a note would sometimes get selected when adding images to the scene.
- Fixed crash in transform command transitions.
- Fixed crash in resize to selection.
- Fixed rare crash when loading images.
- Fixed crash when disconnecting all screens.
- Windows: Fixed saving to network drive.
- Windows: Fixed saving to Dropbox folder.
- Windows: Fixed "Always on top of..." when connecting 2 windows to each other.
- Mac: Fixed unresponsive title bar.
- Mac: Fixed crash when closing a laptop with external monitors connected.
- Mac: Fixed rare crash when restoring window from minimized.

Version 2.0.0.beta6
January 12th 2024

Tweaks
- Auto save has been removed in favor of the new save system that saves every change to a temporary file.
- Notes: Break list when adding a new line after an empty point.
- Notes: Auto convert plain text urls to hyperlinks when pasting to notes.
- Notes: Most toolbar buttons now have a shortcut or can be assigned a shortcut in the shortcut settings.
Fixes
- Notes: Fixed text size discrepancies between Mac / Windows. This fix might slightly change the size of existing notes on Mac.
- Notes: Don't auto delete notes with just an empty bullet point.
- Notes: Pasting text to make a note made them too big.
- Notes: Fixed overlapping checkboxes when changing font sizes.
- Notes: Fixed issue where it was impossible to have an empty line in a note before a checklist.
- Notes: Don't abort text editing mode after saving.
- Groups: Ungroup now works correctly when ungrouping nested groups.
- Groups: Don't flatten hierarchies when dropping into a group.
- Groups: Fixed group sizes with rotated child hierarchies.
- Groups: Fixed crash that could happen after using the ungroup command.
- Fixed crash when focusing items after loading a new scene.
- Fixed rare crash that could happen when moving between differently scaled screens.
- Fixed crash on shutdown during loading.
- Fixed issues with selecting items with a tablet.
- Make it possible to align parent and child items again.
- Undo align actions should no longer break item transforms.
- Fixed issue where the locked window popup would show when clicking toolbars.
- Fixed positioning of pasted items when pasted through the right click menu.
- Fixed issue where images could go missing after undo and redo.
- Fixed loading of very big pngs.
- Fixed artifacts in hierarchy on mouse over on high dpi screens.
- The canvas should no longer be pushed to the side when opening the hierarchy.
- Made the unlock item button work better.
- Slideshow now remembers history when randomize order is enabled.
- Better positioning of the color selector dialog. It will now also remember its last position during a session.
- Add a better example in command line help output.
- Windows: Fixed artifacts when maximizing on Windows 10 on multi screen setups. This fix unfortunately disables window animations for snap layout but should still support all features.
- Windows: Window geometry should now be saved properly after snapping with FancyZones.
- Windows: Fixed missing VCOMP140.dll on some setups.
- Linux: Removed unused dependencies that made PureRef not run on some distributions.

Version 2.0.0.beta5
December 12th 2023

Tweaks
- Made it possible to move selected drawings by dragging anywhere in its bounds.
- Further improvements to the coordinate picker, made the name copyable and added source info fields.
Fixes
- Normalize actions now work on groups the same way Align/Arrange actions do.
- Align/Arrange/Normalize now works on notes again.
- Locked items in groups no longer display outside the group.
- Fixed copy paste not retaining note style.
- Fixed crash when rendering a specific type of GIFs.
- Fixed crash on shutdown while loading a scene.
- Don't save the last text color when moving the cursor to an anchor.
- Windows: Restore geometry properly after aero snapping then right click dragging the PureRef window.
- Windows: Fixed issue where the context menu would end up on the wrong screen on some setups.
- Mac: Fixed rare crash in "Always on top of...".
- Linux: Fixed auto updater not working when it would require root access.

Version 2.0.0.beta1-4
November 27th 2023

Features
- Refreshed UI design.
- Added a simple drawing tool. (Ctrl+D)
- Support for animated GIFs with playback controls to step individual frames.
- New rich text editor for notes with support for interactable links, checklists and more.
- Added support for groups (Ctrl+G/Ctrl+Shift+G) and arbitrary hierarchies that can be viewed in a tree view through the menu option Hierarchy.
- Support for embedded image color profiles.
- Added "Always on top of..." that will show PureRef on top of a specific application. (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A)
- Support for more image formats.
- New image streaming system that supports caching images on disk to reduce RAM usage. When the setting "Performance mode" is set to "Cache on disk", RAM usage should be drastically lower than before. This replaces the setting "Zoom quality".
- Saving and loading speeds have been improved (this does not apply to already existing scenes unless they are converted).
- Improvements to save and backup restore. It should be a lot more robust against losing any unsaved changes in the case of a crash or unexpected shutdown even without autosaving.
- Added option to show a titlebar on the main window. By default it is set to show the titlebar on Mouse over.
- Added menu entry to start a new PureRef instance.
- Added a new setting "Open files in" which can be changed to "Same window" to make PureRef operate in "single application" mode.
- Added setting for changing size source for the normalize actions, through a toggle in the right click menu.
- Transform multiple images individually with the transform gizmo. (Hold Alt+Shift)
- Added slideshow controls with navigation buttons and options for randomizing the slideshow order.
- Improved the coordinate picker to show a selection and print the pixel measurements of said selection. It will also show the name of the hovered image.
- Added "Export selected as scene" (Ctrl+Shift+E)
- External changes to a loaded scene will now be detected and you'll be notified to reload.
- There's now a search bar in the settings dialog.
- Added a command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or typing in the context menu)
- It is now possible to restore all settings to their defaults.
- Added functionality to import and export settings.
- Image export now supports exporting the original format. (Only supported for new scenes)
- Added setting "Double click image to focus" to be able to disable the default behavior.
- Added opt-in support for sending anonymous usage statistics and crash reports.
- Support drag & drop of images that are encoded in data urls.
- Added setting to disable rounded window corners.
- Added command line option to set a setting (-S).
- Added setting to allow updating to new beta versions.
- Added cut command (Ctrl+X).
- Added "Arrange by path". (Ctrl+Alt+D)
- Added "Arrange by order". (Ctrl+Alt+A)
- Added "Toggle locked" function to lock individual items in the scene. (Alt+L)
- Added "Comment" function that can be used to add hidden text info to an item. (Alt+C)
- Added "Crop image" function as an alternative to the rectangle crop. This one works by using the gizmo to mark the crop area. (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C)
- Added "Zoom in/out" shortcuts. (Ctrl +/-)
- Windows: Added an Explorer thumbnail provider. It can be installed with the installer or through the settings dialog.
Tweaks
- Toggle bilinear sampling changes all images if nothing is selected.
- When binding "Move item" to a keybinding that does not share the binding with "Select items", you don't need to hover the selected item for it to work.
- When exporting images without a source name they will now be named "Untitled" instead of nothing.
- Enabled state of actions are now reflected in menus.
- Default keybind to close the window is now Ctrl+Q.
- Made it so that mouse transparency is disabled automatically when you give the application focus and added a setting to disable this behavior.
- Removed the first time setup dialog as auto saving is no longer a critical user choice due to the new save and backup handling.
- PureRef will now report why images failed loading.
- Improved performance and UX of copying large number of images and of exporting scenes and made them cancelable.
- Pasting images can now be canceled and shows progress.
- Changed default shortcuts for increasing/decreasing application opacity (Ctrl+Shift +/-).
- Added default alias for increasing application opacity (Ctrl+Shift+=).
- Update design of export dialogs and added some more name override substitutions.
- Added missing menu entry for slideshow.
- Added missing menu entries for flip horizontal/vertical.
- Made the toggle action for grayscale and bilinear only disable the mode if the entire selection has it enabled.
- Exported images are now numbered in hierarchical order when using sequence number.
- Space now focuses all items if nothing is selected.
- Added LAB and CSS color value support to the color selector.
- The color picker now uses the same widget as the color selector to display color values in different formats.
- "Arrange by" actions now reverse the sort order if triggered a second time on the same selection.
- Added warning when overwriting a read only file.
- Added description tooltips for actions, will be displayed in the keybinder.
- Added description tooltips for settings.
Fixes
- Fixed issue where the order of images would change after the first save.
- Fixed issue where arrange by name would fail ordering correctly in some cases.
- Fixed freeze after aligning notes and child notes.
- Fixed issue with the transform gizmo where the scale cursor would get reset during scaling.
- Fixed issue where the scene rect wouldn't update after maximize with "Scale scene on window resize" enabled.
- Fixed resize to selection with "Scale scene on window resize" enabled.
- Fixed placement of note when mouse is outside the window.
- Fixed issue where double tap on track pad would not work well for editing notes.
- Fixed incorrect behavior of resize to selection when the selected image was outside the screen.
- Fixed issue where the relink dialog didn't hide if a different scene was loaded.
- Fixed issue on high dpi scaled screens where there would be artifacts on background images and notes when moving another item over it.
- Fixed issue where memory consumption would become high if zoomed in close to the transform gizmo.
- Fixed so that the export images action don't export duplicates if there are copies in the scene.
- Fixed issue where the selected images would become fullscreen when toggling overlay mode.
- Fixed keyboard navigation in most dialogs.
- Fixed camera state handling when using focus shortcuts during slideshow.
- Fixed buggy snapped move when having child notes.
- Fixed issues with having multiple instances of PureRef with the same scene open.
- Fixed issue where clicking an action in a menu while another submenu was open would need 2 clicks.
- Fixed issue where latin based keyboards with keys in different places were not working correctly with keybindings. (If you worked around this by rebinding the shortcut this might need to be restored to default).
- Fixed issue where successive calls to distribute would creep the images.
- Fixed duplicate note created when dropping text into an existing note.
- When open source fails an indication will be shown instead of nothing happening.
- Any canceled exports now properly cleans up any partially created files.
- Scene export that will overwrite an existing file now only does it if the export is completed successfuly and not canceled.
- Better permission handling in the auto updater.
- Windows: Fixed so that aero snapping shortcuts work.
- Windows: Fixed taskbar progress not always working.
- Windows: Fixed global keybindings with only mouse buttons or modifiers.
- Mac: Fixed freeze when trying to use the save as dialog.
- Mac: Fixed auto save restore dialog getting blue lines after clicking restore.
- Mac: Show modeless dialogs as always on top instead of forcing them to be modal.
- Mac: Titlebar buttons are now in the left corner.
- Linux: Fix the background color of the file browse dialog.
- Linux: Use static fuse runtime for appimage builds so they works on Ubuntu 22+ without having to install libfuse2.
- Linux: Fixed the unmaximize on move setting.
- Linux: Remove use of sudo in deb and rpm packages.

Version 1.11.1
August 7th 2020

Fixes
- Crash on startup when "Number of recent loaded files" was set to something else than default.
- Some keybindings would not work on all keyboard layouts.

Version 1.11.0
August 6rd 2020

Features
- Slideshow selection. (Alt+S)
- When enabling auto save PureRef will now auto save to your temp directory until you have decided where to save the scene. Any auto saved scenes that are lost during unexpected shutdowns will be restorable from a new dialog on startup of PureRef.
- Added a transform gizmo that can scale and rotate the selection by dragging handles. (Can be disabled in the settings)
- Distribute Horizontal / Vertical functions (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up/Down).
- Option to invert the scroll wheel.
- Escape now clears the selection.
Tweaks
- Moved the open save file name to the start of the window title so it is easier to see in the task bar.
- Made snapped rotate snap to the closest 45 instead of the next 45.
- The Save As dialog now uses the current save file name as a suggestion instead of "NewScene".
- Added warning when saving scenes that originates from newer versions of PureRef than the one you're saving with.
- Selected text now has a background.
- Windows: Added always on top toggle button to the windows taskbar preview.
Fixes
- Issue where toggling maximized would stop working if it was toggled off during loading of a scene.
- Some keybindings would not work on all keyboard layouts.
- Bug where disabling "Select and pack new" would not add undo actions when adding new images.
- Fixed incorrect image transform after zooming in multiple croppings.
- Maximized pan should now work while canvas is locked.
- Issue where stepping with arrow keys would miss one image and instead reset the camera position.
- Issue where Reset Camera Zoom needs to be toggled twice to actually reset the zoom level correctly.
- Issue where setting one keybinding alias to System Global would make all of that action's keybindings System Global as well.
- Rare issue where copies of linked images would become broken after relinking.
- Crash when trying to relink deleted missing images.
- Resizing the window from the top or left edge now doesn't move the canvas.
- Changing colors in settings is now a lot smoother.
- Windows: Modernized the installer.
- Windows: Maximize no longer covers the taskbar on secondary screens.
- Windows: Fixed warnings about an invalid signature of the executable.
- Windows: Taskbar thumb buttons would sometimes not show.
- Mac: Crash when shutting down through the menu bar.
- Mac: Issue where PureRef would become unresponsive.
- Mac: The context menu should now be a bit more responsive.
- Mac: Issue with black screen after unmaximizing when using "Show maximized in its own space" setting.

Version 1.10.4
April 16th 2020

Features
- Focus canvas action. (Ctrl+Space)
- Normalize Scale function. (Ctrl+Alt+Down)
- Setting to disable finishing note editing with enter.
- Setting to disable selecting all text in a note when starting editing.
- Button to manually check for updates in settings.
Tweaks
- Lock icon in lower right corner when canvas is locked, and a setting to change its placement or to disable it completely.
- Improved the force load option to have a better chance at recovering corrupted scenes.
Fixes
- Window would sometimes get stuck outside the screen.
- Drag dropping of URLs to load all images of a web page. It will only work for sites that doesn't rely on javascript.
- Incorrect scaling when pasting notes parented to notes.
- Paste or add notes was possible while the canvas was locked.
- Issue where auto save would trigger the Save As dialog if the scene filename was changed externally.
- Notes now support input methods, for example Chinese Pinyin.
- Double clicking an image to focus now works even if Select is not bound to Left click.
- Dragging text in notes would create a new identical note.
- Pre-focus zoom is now retained even after using the arrow keys to step between images.
- The text in the empty canvas should now refer to the correct help keybinding even if it was changed.
- Editing notes in overlay mode.
- Crash when removing key binding aliases.
- Incorrect undoing of transforms for parented notes.
- Background option wouldn't work when exporting a scene.
- Scale creeping when executing subsequent normalize size actions.
- Mac: Window transparency was lost after minimize.

Version 1.10.3
March 7th 2020

Fixes
- 1 pixel artifacts while moving images on screens with fractional high-DPI scaling values.
- Crash on load of some scenes.
- Images with rotation in their metadata should now show the same rotation in PureRef.
- Crash on load when having "auto load last scene" enabled.
- PureRef would sometimes hang when cancelling loading.
- Adding multiple items now only creates one undo action.
- Undoing and redoing a note paste would make the note lose its parent connection.
- Changing color of a note is now undoable.
- Undoing a text change would still show the old text, but squished to the new size of the note.
- Stop note editing when new items are added.
- Pasted notes now gets the default note color.
- Packing a selection that contains a child note behaved strangely.
- Copies of missing linked images would not show up after load.

Version 1.10.2
February 26th 2020

Fixes
- Crash when editing notes on some setups.
- Mac: Minimizing would sometimes close the window completely.

Version 1.10.1
February 23th 2020

Tweaks
- When saving as, the current save path is used instead of the last browsed path as initial path for the browse dialog.
Fixes
- Rare issue that would happen on specific hardware setups where different parts of PureRef would lock up, look strange or even crash.
- Regression where snap rotating a single image was not relative to world.
- Auto save triggers even if there was no change to the scene.
- Pack sometimes didn't work.
- Resaving older save files would sometimes lose one image.
- The shortcut for arrange actions wouldn't work when no images was selected.
- Creeping of subsequent arrange actions.
- Resize to selection works a little bit better now if the selection is outside the screen.
- Crash on shutdown.
- Windows: Incorrect backup error message when saving to a subst drive.
- Mac: Crash when changing window state on some setups.

Version 1.10.0
January 29th 2020

Features
- Upon load of a .pur with missing linked images a new re-link dialog will be shown, providing easier mass re-linking for folders, it also has the option to remove any unresolved missing images from the scene. (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R)
- Added support for EXR, SVG and improved support for TGA.
- Added popup notifying window mode changes. It can be disabled in the settings "Show popup when window state changes".
- Added setting "Default window mode".
- Added option to completely disable the frame of the main window "Main window border".
- PureRef will now first try to load settings from within its own directory before looking in the user configuration directory. This can be used to use PureRef completely portable.
- Added some basic command line arguments, for more information run PureRef with the command line flag -h.
Optimizations
- Added caching for notes, this improves rendering performance significantly in scenes with many notes.
- Improved image rendering on downscaled images at the cost of RAM usage, added an option to switch back to the old rendering "Zoom quality".
Tweaks
- Missing local images are now displayed as a question mark and can be double clicked to re-link them.
- The Pack action now tries to pack all images within a rectangle with the same aspect ratio as the PureRef window.
- Renamed "Clear Canvas" to "New Scene" and moved it to the root in the right click menu.
- Made it possible to save an empty scene.
- If a backup that is newer than the current save file exists when loading ask if the user wants to load that the backup instead.
- Trying to move PureRef while it is maximized will now restore the window to normal by default. There is a setting to bring back the old behavior called "Lock window while maximized".
- Better checking for out of disk space when saving.
- Added check mark to check boxes.
- It is now possible to close dialogs with escape.
- While editing notes pressing Return now finishes editing, to add new lines use Shift+Return.
- Resize to selection now doesn't creep and tries to move the PureRef window around the image to avoid it visually moving.
Fixes
- Stability of saving and loading has been improved and in the rare case anything goes wrong more options will be provided to the user to recover any partially saved data.
- Improved speed of loading scenes.
- Improved scaling on high-DPI screens.
- Fixed a lot of issues when zooming out or in very far, also added a message when max/min zoom is reached.
- Fixed rare crash when deleting images.
- Fixed bug where closing PureRef from the task bar would not warn for unsaved changes.
- Fixed name overriding during image export if no arguments are provided.
- Fixed jittery per image opacity change controls.
- Fixed so that "Pan while maximized" and "Pan while locked" can have the same key binding.
- Fixed issue where the "Warn before closing unsaved scene" check box would show the wrong value.
- Fixed issue where auto downscaled linked images would not be downscaled upon load of a .pur.
- Fixed rare case where the scene would be marked not dirty even if it was and not warn before closing it.
- Fixed color picking on high-DPI scaled screens.
- Fixed jumping notes when editing notes outside the view.
- Fixed linked images on windows not working on other platforms.
- Fixed memory leak when using auto save.
- Fixed focus bug when having multiple instances of PureRef with always on top enabled.
- Windows: Maximize should now work when enabled from the Windows taskbar.
- Windows: The windows installer should now support silent uninstalls and display an icon in remove programs.
- Mac: PureRef should work better on retina screens now.
- Mac: Fixed overlay mode.
- Mac: Fixed issue where keys would get stuck after minimize.
- Linux: Improved Gnome support.
- Linux: Fixed permission issue of application metadata on KDE.

Version 1.9.2
June 10th 2017

Tweaks
- Added settings for adjusting the right click move threshold and the width of the resize border handle to make it easier to use with tablets on high res screens.
- Added setting to auto load the last opened scene on startup.
- Mac: Delete is now properly mapped to backspace by default.
Fixes
- Pressing delete with nothing selected no longer adds an undo command.
- Fixed issue where PureRef wouldn't restart propertly after an update.
- PureRef now asks for save before updating when having unsaved changes in the scene.
- Pasting from external sources ends up under the cursor again instead of the center of the scene.
- The text in message and error dialogs are now selectable and copyable.
- Windows: PureRef should no longer look for config files on the D: drive on startup.

Version 1.9.1
May 27th 2017

Fixes
- The Always On Top and Always On Bottom features should now be saved properly between restarts.
- Fixed issue where PureRef could get stuck outside the screen when the desktop geometry changed.
- The color picker now only closes when focus returns to PureRef.
- Fixed size calculation of right click menu when it is close to the screen edge.
- Paste now propertly retains the Z-value of the copied selection.
- Fixed color picking outside of PureRef on multi monitor setups.
- Mac: Fixed so that PureRef works on OS X 10.9+ instead of 10.11+.
- Mac: Fixed pasting, including pasting between PureRef instances.
- Linux: Fixed issue where PureRef would get wrong permissions after using the auto updater.

Version 1.9.0
May 6th 2017

Features
- Toggle grayscale on selected images(ALT+G).
- Toggle grayscale mode on the entire scene(CTRL+ALT+G).
- Added Reset Camera Zoom.(CTRL+SHIFT+G)
- Paste now works properly between PureRef instances, all image data and metadata is now sent to the receiving instance.
- Color picking now works outside the PureRef window.
- Dragging html or pasting an url will now try to load all images on that webpage or html snippet.
- Added option Normalize Size which will normalize the scale of images depending on their orientation.(CTRL+ALT+UP)
Tweaks
- Better neighbour snapping when alignment padding is set to a high number.
- Better scale that does not invert the image sometimes.
- Added a "copy to clipboard" button in the color picker.
- The color picker will now automatically select the color when the mouse button is released.
- Cropping an image now also rotates the bounding box.
- Pressing escape while editing a note will now finish editing.
- PureRef will now show a lock icon when the window is attempted to be moved while locked.
- Drag drop from firefox now support transparency the same way as chrome does.
- "Resize to selection" now moves the PureRef window to where the selection was before the action.
Fixes
- The depth value of images should now be properly saved and undoable.
- Fixed so master opacity works in overlay mode.
- Fixed issue where cancelling a load would sometimes crash.
- Fixed issue where the save warning wouldn't pop up sometimes.
- Fixed a bug where loading local images would fail if the file ending of the image was incorrect. (png instead of jpg for example).
- Fixed issue with images being deselected when transitioning from an edit command.
- Packing a selection with child notes no longer moves the selection every time pack is triggered.
- Undoing add / delete does no longer add the item to the current selection.
- Fixed so that it is possible to perform Save As directly after a load again.
- Re-added missing shortcut text in warning dialogs.
- Fixed issue where PureRef would not instantly move when click-dragged, which resulted in a strange move offset to the cursor.
- Global keybindings should now work more reliably.
- Fixed an issue where a PureRef window with a size bigger than the screen would be moved outside the screen instead of into it.
- Fixed a crash when rebinding move window to left mouse button.
- Fixed issue with num lock blocking input.
- Fixed issue with "Select New" setting not being saved correctly.
- Fixed issue where moving the window would sometimes not work when quickly transitioning to the window from another application.
- Fixed issue where notes rotation would sometimes not reset correctly on undo.
- Allow saving even if no change has happened, to be able to save the current camera position.
- Fixed super sensitive controls for changing image opacity when zoomed out.
- Made it possible to undo note text changes.
- Canceling loading a lot of images from a webpage now works correctly.
- Fixed issue where the window size would sometimes be saved incorrectly after maximizing the window.
- The setting "Scale scene on window resize" will now work properly along with maximize on all platforms.
- Improved the way PureRef windows are moved into the screen area if it for some reason is located outside all screens.
- Windows: Fixed issue where global keybindings would stop working after locking windows.
- Mac: Fixed wrong order of global mouse buttons.
- Mac: Fixed pinch zoom.
Known bugs
- Mac: Overlay mode has been disabled on OS X due to issues making it not work properly.

Version 1.8.0
September 3rd 2016

Features
- It is now possible to bind mouse buttons in the keybinder.
- Entries in the keybinder can now have multiple keybindings assigned to them using the +("Add alias") button.
- Optimal packing has been improved with a new algorithm and can be retriggered for a different result.
- Neigbour snapped move(SHIFT+SPACE+LMB).
- It is now possible to zoom inside the cropping of an image.(SHIFT+V+LMB)
- It is now possible to pan inside the cropping of an image.(V+LMB)
- Added a search field in the keybinder.
- Added commandline interface.
- Added commandline option, --settings to specify a custom settings path. This can be used to run multiple instances of PureRef with different settings.
- Added commandline option, --brute-force. This can be used to brute force load all images in a corrupt .pur file, skipping all metadata.
- Added setting to toggle bilinear sampling on a per image basis.(ALT+T)
- Added setting to disable automatic bring to front when selecting images.
- Added send to back and bring to front.(UP/DOWN ARROW)
- It is now possible to batch rename images when exporting them from PureRef.
Tweaks
- The setting for MMB functionality has been removed from the preferences and can now instead be set in the keybinder.
Fixes
- Fixed issue with corrupt save files on failing/full disks or bad network drive connections.
- Packing subnotes now behave less strangely.
- The "Export All Images" action now works again.
- Fixed crash when editing note colors.
- Setting the "Maximized above taskbar" setting should now save properly.

Version 1.7.1
November 21st 2015

Features
- Added Reset Transform(CTRL+SHIFT+T) action.
Tweaks
- Copy/paste to another program will now use the source resolution if only one image is selected.
- Greatly improved the responsiveness of the touch controls.
- Better scaling of gui elements for desktops with gui scaling enabled.
Fixes
- Fixed issue where maximize would save its size until next start up.
- Saves with missing linked images will now overwrite the old save file correctly.
- Images with a faulty filename suffix will now load correctly.
- It is no longer possible to reset camera position in overlay mode.
- Fixed issue with saving through the warning dialog before a load or clear.
- Fixed issue with color picker on transparent images.
- Improved accuracy of zoom.

Version 1.7.0
October 3rd 2015

Features
- Added Overlay mode(CTRL+Y). A mode which makes PureRef even more slim, letting your images float around on your screen freely, without a background.
- Added option to set the behavior of the scroll wheel between zoom, pan or nothing (for users with mouses supporting x and y scrolling like the mac magic mouse).
- Added zoom canvas option to scroll click settings.
- Added "Arrange By" option in the arrange menu to arrange images by name or addition.
- PureRef now supports SSL(HTTPS) image sources.
- It is now possible to add global notes.
- Added Always On Bottom mode(CTRL+SHIFT+B).
- Added Auto Downscale option to downscale large images and avoid excessive RAM usage.
- Added option to set the arrange method used when adding items to the scene.
- Added option to set if the scene should scale when the window is resized.
- Windows: Implemented support for the Windows taskbar, showing progress and buttons for settings and toggling mouse transarency/overlay modes.
Tweaks
- All loading operations have been greatly improved by making them threaded. This also makes it much more intuitive to abort operations.
- Save and load progress has been improved. Loaded images will now pop in as they are loaded.
- It is now possible to move PureRef and navigate the scene while images are loading.
- Notes are now a bit easier to handle and multiple notes can be selected and transformed at once. They will also no longer be affected by form changing transformations to the parent.
- Restructured the right click menu to make it more compact.
- If nothing is selected when an arrange option is selected PureRef will arrange all images.
- Flipping now always flips horizontally or vertically independent of rotation.
- Added the Select All option to the right click menu.
- The Open Source action now works on the current selection.
Fixes
- Locking the canvas no longer clears the selection.
- It is no longer possible to edit unselected notes when in text editing mode.
- Snapped drag no longer glitches depending on where you start the drag.
- Fixed issue where saves would always be fully resaved after setting to not embed local files.
- Copy & paste now works between PureRef instances again.
- Resize to selection is now blocked in maximized mode.
- Notes now longer accepts rich text, which wouldn't be saved anyway.
- Fixed issue with glitchy zoom after focusing images with the arrow keys.
- Fixed so that the border of PureRef is visible against the canvas background.
- Fixed rare crash after multiple saves.

Version 1.6.0
February 14th 2015

Features
- Added auto save functionality.
- Added option to not embed local images into .pur save files.
- Added first time setup dialog.
- Added axis aligned movement(SHIFT+Drag).
- "Resize To Selection" action added(CTRL+SHIFT+R).
- Added hotkeys for changing master opacity(CTRL++/-).
- Added option to lock window position and size(CTRL+W).
Tweaks
- Copy & paste within PureRef has been improved and will no longer increase RAM usage or combine pictures into one.
- The minimum size of PureRef is now 50x50px.
- Keyboard + mouse zoom now also considers the mouse start position when zooming.
- The color selection for notes now remember the last selected colors.
- Better touch screen navigation.
- More navigation allowed in locked mode.
- The currently open .pur filename will now show in the window title / taskbar.
- Better initial placement of notes.
- Added option to save the scene in the unsaved warning dialog as well as a "Don't show again" option.
- Better progress display and cleanup in case of aborted loading.
Fixes
- Small memory leak when deleting images.
- Fixed issue where the unsaved warning would show up right after load if you only had one image.
- Fixed issue where rebound global hotkeys would not work.
- Windows: Fixed issue where it sometimes would not work to "open with" in windows.
- Mac: Fixed buggy context menu on mac.
- Mac: Fixed broken resize in OS X 10.10.

Version 1.5.3
September 14th 2014

Fixes
- Resolved a bug where the canvas would not be redrawn properly in some cases.

Version 1.5.2
September 14th 2014

Features
- It is now possible to load images via the right click menu.
- Added option for exporting the current selection.
- Added additional arrange option "Stack".
- Added option to select and pack new images as soon as they are dropped into PureRef, enabled by default.
- PureRef now also supports DDS, ICNS, MNG, JP2 and WEBP image formats.
Tweaks
- Added rough initial support for touch controls.
- Increased the thickness of the resize border.
- Keyboard panning and zooming as well as color/coordinate picking is now allowed while the canvas is locked.
Fixes
- The saving / loading is now more robust.
- A case where the packing would miss an item has been fixed.
- Next / previous image does no longer select text items.
- It is now possible to copy values from the color/coordinate picker.
- PureRef should no longer fall behind windowed fullscreen applications when in Always On Top mode.

Version 1.5.1
July 3rd 2014

Fixes
- Bug where the save files would get corrupted in some cases when using notes and cropping.

Version 1.5.0
June 26th 2014

Features
- Notes: It is now possible to add notes in customizable colors and sizes to an image(CTRL+N).
- Added setting to change the behavior of scroll click; delete or pan.
- Reset cropping(CTRL+SHIFT+C).
- Option to open image location, both for local and remote files(CTRL+SHIFT+O).
- Color picking(S+Mouse).
- Image coordinate picking(D+Mouse).
Optimizations
- Rewrote saving: Added image compression within the save file.
Tweaks
- The "Export Images" now has an option to export the images with or without cropping.
- Pasted images now end up under the mouse or where the right click menu was opened.
Fixes
- Improved detection of actions which had no effect and should not be saved in the undo stack.
Build
- Windows: PureRef is now also available as a 32bit version for Windows.

Version 1.4.1
May 20th 2014

Features
- Arrange menu: Alignment options for aligning the current selection left/right/up/down(CTRL+left/right/up/down).
- Arrange menu: It is now possible to normalize the height/width of the current selection(CTRL+ALT+left/right).
- Arrange menu: Packing can now be applied on the current selection, called "Optimal" under the align menu(CTRL+P).
- Added shortcut for selecting all items(CTRL+A).
Tweaks
- The customize window is now a bit larger.
- Moved the default shortcut for always on top mode to(CTRL+SHIFT+A).
Fixes
- Improved drag & drop support for Chrome.
- Drag & drop .pur files now works again.

Version 1.4.0
May 1st 2014

Features
- Cropping(Mouse+C).
- Packing functionality(CTRL+P). Automatically stack images as close together as possible.
- Reset camera(CTRL+G).
- Mouse transparency mode(CTRL+T). Enabling this mode will make mouse events fall through PureRef. Can be used to paint through a transparent PureRef window.
- Zooming with the mouse(Z+Mouse).
- Key bindings for changing color presets(ALT+0, 1, 2...).
- It is now possible to bind the keys for drag actions.
- Added "Recent Files" quick access menu under the load menu.
- Key binding to load the most recently loaded save file(CTRL+SHIFT+L).
- Double clicking an empty canvas will now open load.
- Color settings for the selection rectangle.
- Master opacity settings.
- Glass theme preset.
- Option for locking the canvas.
- Option for disabling image borders or show borders only on selected images.
- Option for setting how many actions to save in the redo history.
- Option to set whether PureRef should take focus after dropping an image or not.
- Option to set whether PureRef should be on top of the taskbar in maximized mode or not.
- Export scene now has a settings window. Because of this the export view action has been removed.
- Pan with only right mouse button if PureRef is in fullscreen mode.
Tweaks
- It is now possible to pan outside the canvas a bit.
- Focusing on an image that was already focused will return to the camera position before the first focus.
- Background color now only affects the main window, the help/about/customize window gets their background color from the menu background color and shares it with the right click menu.
- New, less bloated color picker.
- New, more relevant help dialog after key bindings was added.
- The .ini file for PureRef will now be stored in the AppData folder to avoid permission problems.
- Fullscreen mode is now remembered between sessions.
- Drawing performance optimizations.
Fixes
- Actions that made no change to the scene will no longer be saved.
- Transformations will now work correctly even after optimize canvas.
- The focus next/previous image actions now continues from the last selected image.
- Resize arrows will no longer show up when a window is maximized.

Version 1.3.3
September 6th 2013

Tweaks
- Pasted images now end up on the position of the last click instead of in the middle of the canvas.
Fixes
- Better drop support for chrome.

Version 1.3.2
August 21th 2013

Fixes
- Minimize is now working as it should.

Version 1.3.1
August 18th 2013

Fixes
- Crash that would occur after clearing the scene and then using the "Focus Next Image" feature.
- The export menu can now be seen again.
- Lots of bugs in the key bindings.

Version 1.3.0
August 17th 2013

Features
- Functionality for cycling through images with the arrow keys.
- It is now possible to customize all key bindings in the customize window.
- Support for global key bindings.
Tweaks
- The border of a selected image is now slightly thicker.
- The auto updater is now slightly bigger.
Fixes
- Scaling to fast will no longer sometimes invert the image.
Known bugs
- After minimizing the window the gui will now longer redraw, this is a bug in qt which is fixed in an upcoming release.

Version 1.2.4
July 4th 2013

Features
- Option for disabling automatic update-check.
Fixes
- Bug where the program would not exit cleanly sometimes.

Version 1.2.3
June 30th 2013

Features
- Support for Adobe Photoshop files (.psd)
- Changelog in the updater.

Version 1.2.2
June 29th 2013

Fixes
- Always on top now works again.
- Memory leak when deleting images.