| Date | Version | Description |
| April 29, 2008 | 4.30 | Windows Vista support |
| April 2, 2008 | beta | version 4.30 with Windows Vista support is in beta |
| March 2, 2008 | 4.20 | New option to create your own
card backgrounds from your own
pictures/images/photos (registered users) 70 new high quality backgrounds in new categories "Subtle Patterns" and "Images" |
| Jan 4, 2007 | 4.17 | Italic, right aligned
text was sometimes getting truncated when saving to high
resolution bitmap Adds a preview for cards saved as BMP files (but not jpg) |
| Nov 9, 2006 | 4.16 | The Callout control was not keeping proportions when zooming |
| Sep 13, 2006 | 4.15 | The multiline text item now supports greater than 254 characters of text. |
| Jul 3, 2006 | 4.14 | New: Added function to save card to a high resolution
(300 dpi) bitmap file (only for Windows XP or above) Fixed: In rare cases, symbol fonts have empty character slots and this would case a "divide by zero" error since the with of the character could be zero. |
| Apr 19, 2006 | 4.13 | Using some fonts, text
would have the bottoms cut off when printing or
previewing. When zooming in or out, right aligned text would not always appear right aligned. (this was an issue with the preview only) |
| Mar 28, 2006 | 4.12 | When multiline text is
right-aligned, if there is a trailing space character to
the right edge of the line, it will now be truncated,
caused the last actual text character to be aligned to
the right Added crop marks option, for use when printing on plain (not already perforated) paper |
| Jan 11, 2006 | 4.11 | Fixed an problem that
could result in the error message "Bitmap image is not
valid", especially when working with rotated (vertical,
portrait) orientation cards Fixed an error that, when printing or previewing, could cause a background image to not be rotated to suit a rotated (vertical, portrait) orientation business card, when the source background image was a .jpg or .gif type file |
| Nov 30, 2005 | 4.10 | Added ability to load JPG or GIF as background. This helps to accommodate smaller (less bandwidth) background sets to be made, and allow more flexibility in creating User Defined backgrounds (for more info on User Defined backgrounds, see "Can I make my own backgrounds? " in the help file) |
| Sep 19, 2005 | 4.08 | Fixed Callout so it
would resize proportionately when zooming in and out Made a change to the hints (tool-tips) so that the hint text shows fully within the hint bubble Corrected problem when error loading image where previous image would still show |
| June 29, 2005 | 4.07 | Corrected line item so
that if > 1 point it prints with square ends rather than
rounded. Corrected line item so that it prints more
accurately Corrected right aligned text with single-line text items Corrected typos in the help file |
| May 23, 2005 | 4.06 | Changes to image
printing that greatly increase quality in some cases.
Changed the way Multiline Text item prints text.
(Previously was causing cramped letters when printed
in some situations) |
| March 25, 2005 | 4.05 | Added menu item "Use Font Smoothing". Checking
this option will use font smoothing for Simple text, Multi-line
text, Symbol and Circle Text. This has no effect on printed
output. It does give a better idea of what printed text
will look like, and also creates clearer text when saving
to bitmap or jpg. It is checked on by default. Disallows anything but Solid outlines for SuperText and SuperShape if not Windows 2000 or above. Now use a different and more reliable method for Windows NT/2K/XP to draw dot/dash type borders. Modified so that backgrounds, when printed, will be resized to fit within a smaller or larger than normal card size (user defined layout less than or larger than the usual 3.5 x 2 inches) Fixes a problem when using 16-bit color in Windows, where the color palette would be slightly off. For instance white would appear slightly green tinted. (this is a variation on a similar problem fixed version 4.02) |
| January 31, 2005 | 4.04 | Feature added: Some programs such as Microsoft
Clip Organizer, do not allow saving clipart to disk, but
allow it to be copied to the Windows Clipboard. Added the
menu option Add > Paste image from clipboard
Fixed a problem where moving or resizing an item would
not trigger a change (the Save/Cancel buttons would
not show up) |
| January 26, 2005 | 4.03 | Fixes a problem where only the "symbol" type
fonts would be available to Visual Business Cards, when
using non-English Windows. |
| January 21, 2005 | 4.02 | Fixes a problem with loading some .JPG/.JPEG
files with high color where the color palette would be slightly
off. For instance white would appear slightly green tinted. |
| January 17, 2005 | 4.01 | Fixes a problem with loading certain images
in GIF format when they are larger in size (image width
x height, not file size) than a particular value - usually
the size of the Windows screen in pixels. [note: generally
we advise using smaller sized images that will fit into
the business card area - 336x192 pixels, as there still
could be problems encountered using extra large sized images,
either in dimensions (width x height) or in file size. Also,
converting the .GIF image to a .BMP is advised ] |
| January 16, 2005 | 4.0 | Major new release! Many changes and improvements
- read about them here |
| June 2, 2003 | 3.3h | - Corrected a bug with showing and using templates
in large fonts - Uses XP Themes - Improved user interface - Adds new layouts |
| 05-17-01 | 3.3f | Minor fixes for image browser. Also now recognizes
.JPEG extension. |
| 03-29-01 | 3.3e | adds support for the 'Exif' type jpeg image
files produced by modern digital cameras. |
| 01-23-01 | 3.3d | increases maximum number of cards per page
to accommodate custom cards. |
| 12-19-00 | 3.3c | fixes bug where File Printer Fine Tuning settings
were not being saved. |
| 10-19-00 | 3.3b | maintenance release - performance improvements.
No feature changes. |
| 07-25-00 | 3.3a | adds the ability to design vertical business
cards as well as the standard horizontal cards.
provides 62 new pre-formatted business card templates. |
| 01-27-00 | 3.2g | adds several additional business card layouts. |
| 08-16-99 | 3.2f | fixes problem where an empty Image object left
on the calendar would causing an exception error during
printing. |
| 06-15-99 | 3.2e | adds improved online Help. |
| 02-12-99 | 3.2d | adds new help > Configuration Information to help in tech support. |
| 12-31-98 | 3.2c | adds a new CircleText object. You can now create
text in circles or partial circles. Several options are
provided. You can set the number of degrees the CircleText
encompasses, the starting angle, whether angled or not,
mirrored or not, and of course the color.
adds the ability to flip and/or reverse clip art. |
| 10-16-98 | 3.1g | fixed bug where 256 color .bmp files did not print correctly on some printers. |
| 09-02-98 | 3.1f | fine-tuned the centering of text objects when large screen fonts are being used. |
| 08-28-98 | 3.1e | fixes minor bug. |
| 08-21-98 | 3.1d | adds SuperText and RichText tools. adds bonus art work. |
| 08-05-98 | 2.8 | adds support for .DIB, .JPG, .JIF, .PCX, .RLE, .TGA, and .ICO graphic formats to the existing support for .BMP and .WMF formats. |
| 11-25-97 | 2.2b | adds support for A4 and other international business card stock sizes. |