Annotator Changelog
What's new in Annotator 1.2.1
May 23, 2023- New:
- Added Russian translation (thanks to @lenemter).
- Changes:
- Updated Italian translations (thanks to @albanobattistella).
- Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Heimen Stoffels).
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed translation string issues related to Zoom and Screenshot (thanks to @lenemter).
New in Annotator 1.2.0 (May 7, 2023)
- NEW:
- Added support for taking screenshots from within the application on X11 (screen, window and area).
- Added command-line options for taking screenshots.
- Added support for creating and saving custom arrows and shapes.
- Added support for showing and hiding an item's outline.
- Added support for reading an image to annotate from standard input on the command-line.
- Added support for inserting emoji when editing text.
- CHANGES:
- Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Heimen Stoffels).
- Updated Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella).
- Updated Flatpak SDK from version 6 to 7.2.
- Changed Flatpak manifest to enable home filesystem support by default.
- Modified .gitignore to ignore .swp files from anywhere in the codebase.
- Changed shape dropdown to display four shapes per row instead of two.
- Enhanced export UI and adding export options for PNG and JPEG types.
- Changed JPEG export to use both .jpeg and .jpg file extensions (defaults to .jpg now).
- Improved arrow icon in toolbar.
- Removed support for elementary OS contracts.
- Improved header bar to look better for non-elementary OS environments.
- Added confirmation dialog when pasting over an annotated image.
- Improved build system (special thanks to @jtojnar).
- Improved build system to not install @2 icon versions (special thanks to @xiota).
- Several UI improvements to editing text.
- When sequence numbers are manually changed, the next sequence number will now be one more than the new number.
- BUG FIXES:
- Improved ability to click on shapes that only have borders.
- Fixed issues with copying the contents of one shape into another.
- Fixed issue with displaying star and line icons in shapes toolbar for dark mode.
- Fixed issue with export that could cause the application to crash.
- Fixed sequence number resetting when a new image is annotated.
- Fixed placement of contextual menus when zoomed.
- Fixed selector display issue.
- Fixed the app script warnings.
- Fixed issues with translations with the Flatpak version.
New in Annotator 1.1.1 (Feb 17, 2022)
- NEW:
- Added keyboard shortcuts for creating annotation items, printing and displaying contextual menus.
- Added keyboard shortcut cheatsheet.
- Added keyboard shortcut support for non-English keyboards.
- Added Brazilian Portugese translation (thanks to Fúlvio Alves).
- Added Slovakia translation (thanks to @MartinIIOT)
- Added support for hitting the escape key to deselect all items on the canvas.
- CHANGES:
- Updated Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella).
- Updated German translation (thanks to Hannes Fritz).
- Updated zoom UI to make it more consistent with other elementary apps.
- Improved accuracy of the list of translatable files.
- Moved arrow annotation to its own button in the toolbar.
- Removed Accounts permissions from Flatpak manifest as it is no longer needed.
- Removed text grab selector when editing text.
- Changed behavior of Return key when text is edited to keep the text item selected.
- BUG FIXES:
- Fixed icons8_cup sticker issue (thanks to Jan Tojnar).
- Fixed issue where the toolbar state did not update to match the currently selected item.
- Fixed issue where dragging a blur rectangle outside of the image caused application crash.
- Fixed issue where a text widget could be deleted but remain on the canvas.