Changelog: Page 2

🎁 New Features

• App is available in Portuguese . Thank you, José, for your help!
• Header logo in Rich HTML. You can now add your logo to the rich HTML export, and it will nicely hover on the right.
• New Crop UI. Completely reworked standalone Crop UI for pixel-perfect crops 🤌.
• Bulk crop multiple images. Ability to crop multiple images at the same time. It saves you time!
• Fit image into width/height. By default, images are resized into max width/height during export so they all look the same.
• Grab mode. In the editor, press Space to grab and move the canvas.

⭐ Improvements

• Backup guides directly from the guides list by selecting multiple and choosing the Backup option.
• Import steps dialog now has search functionality
• Step numbers can be locked to preserve numbers, even if the previous step number has been deleted.
• Improved steps nesting experience; now UI visualizes nesting.
• New text blocks positions: before, after the title, and before, after the image
• Localized dates everywhere in the UI and exports
• Images are optimized when exported, so the final export is smaller

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Scrolling was happening when the spacebar was pressed.
• Clicking outside of the steps list doesn't unfocus the current step anymore
• OCR footer is not displayed mid-screen anymore
• Fix guide description for rich HTML so it is visible on smaller screens
• Make images in simple html respect alignment
• Hide empty titles in PDF

🎁 New Features

• Start screen, bye bye 👋 . You welcomed Folge users for almost 3 years, thank you for your hard work. From now on Folge opens the Guides List screen right away
• Step text blocks. Add more context, information or warnings to your steps with text blocks that can be created for each step and placed before or after the step description. How to use Text Blocks
• Automated backups. No need to manually backup guides anymore. Automated backups can be performed in the background, and backup all your work to local or shared locations. More about Automated Backups
• Shadow control. It is now possible to edit shadows, and not just enable or disable it. Color, distance, blur can be adjusted.
• Draw straight lines. Lines and Arrows can be drawn while holding the Shift key to achieve perfectness
• Separate Apple Silicon Build. From now on Folge will have a separate Apple Silicon build which makes Folge notably faster on new chipsets.

⭐ Improvements

• Show spinner when deleting/moving/duplicating multiple guides at once.
• Simple Capture mode now loads faster.
• PDF export template looks better.
• Actions with steps in the Step List now performed via right click and context menues.
• Reworked the watermark for free users.
• Markdown export: switched to using Markdown Extra to support more elements.
• Markdown export: headings are properly represented with each nesting level.
• Active window capturing is faster.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Properly display scrolling for a very long guides list table.
• Step image border color picker is displayed properly in the export settings.
• When drawing vertical lines or arrows they sometimes were changing angle.
• Copy pasting assets from one step to another was sometings buggy
• Adjust mark click area and cursor during capturing, sizes are now properly scaled
• Switching between region and active window modes works as expected.

⭐ Improvements

• Capturing dialog now has "Latest step details" groupped and collapsible.
• Add jpeg to the list of supported images.
• A bit of speed up for capturing.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Switching between region and full screen capturing was sometimes showing incorrect region.

🎁 New Features

• Reworked the Guides List screen. Refreshed the general UI, changed the layout of the buttons.
• Favorite guides. Click ⭐ icon next to the guide to put it into the fav list on the left and pin it in the Quick Actions menu ( read more below )
• Quick Actions. Press ⌘ + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows) in the Editor to access the Quick Actions menu, where you see favorited guides and can search and quickly navigate to the other guides.
• Active Window Capturing. A new capturing mode will automatically detect the window you are working with and only capture it. Currently in Beta
• Multi Image Steps. New Step Settings allows you to have multiple images per step. How to use Multi Image Steps
• Tooltip. New Shape can be found in the Toolbox. Create nice looking speech bubbles or tooltips with draggable pointers.
• Help Center. New floating icon in the bottom right corner to quickly access essential parts.

⭐ Improvements

• Show the number of steps in each guide on the Guides List screen.
• During capturing, it is possible to toggle the Dark Mode to make the region selector and floating menu black color. Useful when capturing apps with dominating white UI.
• Change number of steps rendered during PDF Preview. Go to Settings -> Application to change it.
• Simple capturing can happen without clicking the Confirm button, which speeds up work. Go to Settings -> Capruting to change this setting.
• Steps can be nested for up to 5 levels.
• Text object on canvas now has the Text Alignment setting.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Shadow wasn't properly preserved for some shapes when copy pasting them.
• Deleting step wasn't always switching to the next step correctly.
• Duplicating the Export Settings Template with a header or footer was causing exports to fail when using this template..
• Both "Simple Capture" and "Stand and complete capturing" hotkeys if pressed inside the editor will add screenshots to the current guide

⭐ Improvements

• In the Simple Capture mode floating menu is always visible despite the selected region.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Sometimes cropped images were not displaying blurred areas correctly.
• Pretty annoying bug for Windows, when multiple external monitors are connected with different scaling options

🎁 New Features

• Import and export "Export settings templates". In the export dialog right-click any export template and export it into a `flgst` file to transfer to another copy of Folge
• Save original capture image. Click "Step Image Actions" -> "Save original image"
• Guide Folders can now be nested, and subfolders can be created.
• Add images on top of the step image. Click Toolbar -> "Add Image to Canvas" and select the image to be added.
• Per-step settings are introduced under the "Step properties" section in the right column of the editor.
• First "Per Step Setting" is "Force step to a new page" which will always push the step to a new page during PDF and Word exports
• Simple screenshot hotkey can now be found in Settings -> Hotkeys. While editing a guide, you can quickly add a new step from a simple capture by pressing this combination

⭐ Improvements

• Text objects can now have an outline. Outline Width and Color are introduced as object properties .
• Color Picker dialog has an eyedropper that can select any color from the screen.
• Guide auto naming ( Color + Animal ) is deprecated in favour of `Untitled + CURRENT_DATETIME`.
• Empty guide screen now has guide name edit field for quick editing.
• All dialogs for renaming things ( guides, folders, etc. ) are now prefilled with the original title.
• In the Guides List mode, one can use the Shift + Mouse click to select multiple guides.
• Custom HTML is enabled for the Guide' Description editor.
• Guides in the Guides List mode can now be sorted by title or creation date

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Refactored color picker dialog, now it is properly shown next to the color placeholder and is not overlapped or cut by UI.
• Guide details dialog is larger for editing convenience.
• Object properties are made a bit smaller for better UI.
• Folge works properly on OS X 13 Ventura.
• Mark click object's border color in Settings was not working properly for some users.

🎁 New Features

• Export settings templates - define multiple styling settings
• New export setting for PDF, DOC, HTML - "Include substeps in ToC".
• Color presets in color dialog - add, store and remove custom colors.
• Settings window is now fully independent, can be opened alonsideg with the editor

⭐ Improvements

• Image canvas history (undo/redo) was rewritten.
• Make number inputs in object properties incrementable using up and down keyboard keys.
• Editor remembers scroll position between steps.
• ToC in PDF has page numbers.
• Fonts & Colors option in Export Settingsfor ToC item in DOC and PDF to be underlined or not
• Settings -> Capturing -> "Mark clicked area" now supports border color
• Settings -> Capturing -> Show Cursor has two new mac cursors ( hand and pointer)
• When dropping images in editor to create new step(s) always switch to the first new step.
• Restore Guide modal now supports option to restore guide as a copy, not to override existing one.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• When moving shapes on canvas with arrow keys, drag handles were not moving.
• Substeps without parents in trashbin are properly displayed.
• Restoring substep from trashbin now restores step in root, and doesn't lose it as before.
• Multiple copies of the same guide can now be restored.
• Clicking Toc item in rich html now highlights current item.
• Custom CSS doesn't truncate spaces in class names.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• When exporting in JSON/Markdown always use / in image paths.
• Do not encode html characters in powerpoint slides
• Step title and description fields in Capture mode were not always working for some Windows users
• Add period after number in the step title

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Various bug fixes and improvements.

🎁 New Features

• New capturing mode - take single screenshot. Just like regular screenshot tools. Just choose Add Step -> Simple Screenshot
• All export formats now support image border with defined width and color.
• When exporting, it is possible to define fully custom path and file names for images.
• Add title and description to the step while capturing to not lose any context.

⭐ Improvements

• Define file name format for backup files.
• Rich HTML improved for mobile devices.
• Word Document export correctly supports lists.
• Richt HMTML completion box will scroll you to the next step when checked.
• Do not export empty step title in PDF

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Replacing cropped image with clipboard image required manual resetting.
• Some actions on steps were causing reordering issues.
• PDF export was sometimes missing objects and shapes in images.
• During export progress bar shows real number of steps without hidden and deleted.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• For some users PDF exporting was stuck.

🎁 New Features

• New tool: Magnifier. Zoom into any part of screenshot, available in two shapes and can be customized
• App is translated and available in French 🇫🇷 ( thank you Christophe D. for your help!) and German 🇩🇪 languages.
• Hide or show cropper when pausing in capturing. You can now work with windows below capturing area, and resume capturing when needed.
• Editor sidebars are now resizable.
• Editor sidebars preserve size and opened/closed state.
• HTML and Rich HTML exports now have option to embed all assets ( JS, CSS, images) so single html can be shared without additional resources.
• When exporting, and in 'Save As' dialog specifying custom file name name, steps folder will also be named same.

⭐ Improvements

• Internal framework is updated to the latest verision.
• OS X: Navigate steps in editor with CMD+UP/DOWN.
• Windows: Navigate steps in editor with PageUp/PageDown.
• Improve no mouse mode in editor, step description toolbar not tabbale, switch from title to description with one press of TAB
• Export is now much faster for big guides.
• Update banner can be dismissed.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Object properties section is not shown when selecting multiple objects.
• Fixed long living random bug, when on certain Windows machines capture screen was black or white color, so sometimes app was not usable.
• Empty step titles in WORD are not exported and no space is taken.
• During export progress bar shows real number of steps without hidden and deleted.

🎁 New Features

• HTML export is now compatible with Confluence (via export options).
• Show progress bar during export.
• Edit step details directly from the editor ( click pencil next to the step title).
• Remove last screenshot from the capturing mode.
• In all exports put step description before or after step image.

⭐ Improvements

• Preserve zoom in editor when switching between capture mode and back to the editor.
• Import steps dialog properly shows nested steps and hidden steps.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Select all button in Backup modal now works properly.
• Long user email is shown properly in the user badge popup.
• Properly handle external links opened inside the app.
• Fixed critical issue where step data was lost if steps are switched too rapidly.
• [MAC] Step description doesn't get focus immediately after switching steps
• Fixed freezes when using "Show HTML" button in the step description.

🎁 New Features

• New Setting to specify delay between mouse click and capture.
• New Enable/Disable spellchecker setting.
• Select spellchecking languages in the step decription by right clicking.
• Step description toolbar has an edit html button, to manually edit HTML.
• Rename guide directly in the guides list.
• Folders for better guides organization, can be created in the guides list.
• Ability to select multiple guides in the guides list to delete or move them into a folder.
• Backup guide modal now has search inpur for quicker navigation

⭐ Improvements

• When entering very long step description make editor static, so toolbar is always visible.
• Autosave text on the canvas while typing.
• When replacing step with a new capture, app returns to that step, and not the first one.
• Optimize how steps rendering works, editor became faster.
• When making step hidden, overlay allows clicking through on the expand/collapse icon next to the step.
• Exporting wide image in PPT, makes text next to it properly resizes itself.
• Exporting step as image, filename should be either title of the step or untitled for convenience.
• Exporting guide as html, json and markdown rename images to step_{index}.png and not some random filename.
• When exporing in PDF, try to fit very long step images on the same page.
• When drawing a step number, and draw step number mode is selected you can still resize old step numbers.
• Adding a new empty step makes app switch to it

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Rich HTML guide to work in IE 10/11 and Edge.
• Fix moving up/down steps with keyboard.
• Fix long guide name in editor's header.
• PDF ToC displayed properly for guides with many steps.
• When guide is loaded always select the first step.
• When removing steps, properly navigate to the previous/next one.
• Fixed editor freezes when editing a very long step description.
• Fix markdown image path that was not properly detected by some markdown editors.
• PDF and HTML exports are properly displaying lists, spacing and etc in step description.
• Fixed incorrect zoom on retina screens, when changing value manually.
• Replacing empty step image with clipboard was sometimes causing an error.
• Fixed single image export file name not having extension on windows

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Step number not displaying properly on line width changes.
• Cropped image was not always saved.
• Guide duplication not working in certain situations.
• Refresh guide list after restoring.
• No blinking on Restore button click.

🎁 New Features

• Create nested substeps to add more details to your guides.
• Select fonts and colors for PDF, DOC and PPT. Add your company colors and fonts to exports to make guides even more personal.
• Trash bin for deleted steps. Never again accidentaly lose step
• New export format - Markdown. Integrate guides into your knowledge base in no time

⭐ Improvements

• Internal database refactoring and improvements.
• PPT exports support new lines and lists.
• Help tool tip during capturing to remind how capturing is happening.
• Automatically renumber step numbers once one is deleted.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Properly reorder steps once they are deleted.
• Remove redundand information from JSON export.
• Various performance fixes.

🎁 New Features

• Mark click spot with either hand or pointer cursor.
• Click spot can also be highlighted with a circle or rectangle.
• Menu item in the sidebar to check for updates.
• Use custom CSS in simple and rich HTML formats.
• Drag and drop images directly on the editor to create new steps.

⭐ Improvements

• PDF preview mode now renders images instead of placeholders.
• Export dialog can be closed with a button.
• Hotkey inputs in settings are highlighted when changed.
• Rich HTML export now has hamburger menu when viewed on smaller devices.
• Image editor supports undo/redo actions.
• Resize handlers are now more visible in image editor.
• Very long images are properly handled in pdf exports.
• Mac top bar menu shows menu items.
• After export file location is opened straightaway.
• Custom CSS now supports base64 data, so images can be included.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Maked PDF preview unselectable.
• Fixed image alignment in PDF and redundand spacings in descriptions.
• Overlapping arrows in image editor are now correctly selected by clicking.
• App icon is no longer broken on non-retina displays on mac.
• Copy pasting arrows now works properly.
• Search input is not shown when there is no guides.
• When changing step number's font size, numbers are not misaligned.
• When cancelling capture, if it was initiated from any guide, navigate back to that guide.

🎁 New Features

• New export setting for PDF - "Step content Flow ". Keep steps together and do not break content.
• Search input in guides list, search your guides blazingly fast.
• Custom CSS injection for PDF exports.
• New type of arrow - expanding arrow. Find the "type" propety in the arrow settings.
• Export PDF and DOC in landscape and portrait modes.
• Preview PDF document before exporting.
• Rich HTML has an an optional floating ToC menu.
• Steps in rich HTML now have completion checkboxes.
• New help center. Soon to be filled with very useful information 🧠 🧠

⭐ Improvements

• Add new steps from multiple images from your compute at once.
• Step description can now have embeded videos. Include some cool music video from Youtube in your steps.
• It is possible to have guides with 0 steps. In this case welcome screen is shown.
• New Add Step button at the bottom
• Guide can now be created from the guides list or sidemenu
• Create Guide button has been removed from the start screen

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Font family wasn't stored for step numbers.
• Wide logo wasn't properly shown in pdf's header and footer.
• Fixed incorrect pagination for PDF.
• Fixed arrow keys handling in the editor. Move steps, move shapes and move cursor. All is working now!
• Step and guide description in doc now properly shows new lines.

🎁 New Features

• Select multiple steps using Shift or CMD/Ctrl and delete or duplicate them.
• Add status to slide to reflect current work status: to-do, pending, done.
• Add footer and header to pdf and doc exports.
• Use any image as a logo for the headers and footers.
• New setting: Change color of the marked clicked area.
• Spell checker beta version.
• Change step list view between full mode and short

⭐ Improvements

• If export destination file is locked show warning message and do not show error.
• Export settings are saved as they are changed, not just after clicking "Export" button.
• All tools in toolbar now have a shortcut.
• Export non-latin languages in pdf

🔧 Bug Fixes

• After cropping was done switching to cropping restores image.
• Arrows and lines now have properly sized knobs.
• Guide list was showing incorrect created at date.
• When restoring guide, steps that were created after backup were not deleted.
• Sometimes step duplication or deletion was causing step list not show consequent changes.

🎁 New Features

• New export screen with settings to customze your guides: image size and quality, one/many steps per page, include ToC, localization, steps autonumeration.
• Arrow tool now has adjustable arrow head.
• Disable red rectangles that mark mouse clicks

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Very small images are not streched in pdf and doc exports.
• On Windows properly detect missing user paths.
• Arrow scaling was causing knobs to detach from the arrow.

🎁 New Features

• Text now has background color, useful when you want text to be readable on a colorful background.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• PDF generation was adding extra newlines to guide and step description.
• PDF generation was not properly displaying different headlines.
• Import backup guide button is now available when there are no guides.

⭐ Improvements

• Arrow and line tools were fully remade, now they have two knows that perform simple adjustment.
• Text box support proper rescaling, and word wrapping.
• Fill color can be cancelled with a X icon.
• Export dialog got a redesign, added icons and description about each format.
• Double click on title maximizes or restores window.
• Backup file now has timestamp in the file name.
• Double click on title maximizes or restores window.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Hotfix for backup and restore. Sometimes special characters like `é` were causing backup files to be broken.

🎁 New Features

• Backup guides into files and restore them. Collaborate and share your work between computers and colleagues.
• In guide editor you can navigate steps with up and down arrow keys.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Do not capture twice on double click.
• Fixed guides sorting in the guides list.
• Fixed a bug when after restoring cropped image nothing was selectable.

⭐ Improvements

• After deleting step you are switched to the nearest one.
• Deselect object by clicking on gray area around canvas.
• When switching between steps first object is not longer automatically selected.
• Remove `screenshotFullPath` field from the json payload to not expose sensitive data.

🎁 New Features

• Export your guide to a PowerPoint presentation.
• Import slides from one guide into another.
• Clone guide funcionality.
• New Brush Tool.
• New Highlight Tool to highlight important parts of your screenshots.
• Rectangles can now have rounded corners.
• Snapping and aligning for objects dragged on image.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Sometimes toggling full screen mode on and off was causing incorrect cropping.
• Fixed a bug when adding a new shape was causing another one to be dragged along with a new one.
• Fixed a bug when it was possible to drag crop area or shape outside the editor.
• Fixed a bug in step description when new url popup was being cut off.
• Fixed a bug when "restore cropped image" button was visible for already restored image.
• Windows monitors with scale bigger than 100% are now properly captured.
• Splash screen was causing memory leak. Now it doesn't .
• Blurring and cropping were off in certain situations.
• Fixed a bug on windows where min, max and close buttons where misplaced

⭐ Improvements

• Remember shape's settings, e.g. changing rectangle line color, new value will be used next time you draw a rectangle.
• PDF generation was rewritten from scratch.
• Objects in editor can be moved with arrow keys.
• Undo and redo button have been removed until they will be fully redone.

🎁 New Features

• New type of step - empty step. Just add title and description to the guide.
• Two new modes for capturing: capture only when pressing a key and clicking, and do not capture when pressing a key and clicking.
• Capturing code was rewritten from scratch, now it is fast and furious ⚡ Capturing takes 70% less time.
• Add multiple new steps from capturing to the existing guide.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed selected area message's position jumping during resize.
• Fixed a bug when an external screen was causing delays in capturing.
• Fixed a bug when skipped steps were overlapping sidebar menu.

⭐ Improvements

• App speed improvements, navigation is now faster
• Zoom and scroll positions in editor are preserved when switching between steps
• Now when pausing capturing you can not only change the region but also switch to fullscreen and back
• Capturing dialog was improved
• When you are importing or exporting anything, your last chosen folder will be preserved
• New "Add new step" menu

🎁 New Features

• Capture screenshot with a hotkey combination. No need to click anymore. ⌨️
• If you have external monitor connected, Folge will ask which monitor to capture.
• Reset your password right in the app.
• Export your guides to Word .docx format.
• Export your guide to JSON format. Very useful if you want to convert Folge's guides into something else, or use it in your workflows.
• Move capture area with arrow keys ( up, down, left, right)

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Sometimes taking a screenshot of a full screen mode was not properly working.
• Fixed a bug when steps reordering was not working properly after deleting some steps.
• Fixed a bug when on very wide screens toolbar was hiding behind steps list. Now it behaves.

⭐ Improvements

• Default blur value is 4 now.

🎁 New Features

• ✂️ ✂️ ✂️Crop an image, and revert to the original one.
• Menu to quickly access features and start new capture.
• When capturing show the thumbnail of the lastest screenshot and allow to hover on it.
• Replace step screenshot with any image directly from your clipboard.

⭐ Improvements

• Added a message crafifying that capturing area is the part of screen that is being captured. See it when capturing.
• When you don't have any new guides, there is a message suggesting you to create one.
• Zoom in using Cmd/Control + -/+.
• Step title and description can be opened in a new tab now.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where navigating between parts of the app was glitching.
• Fixed Windows installer not working with some of the Windows 7 machines.
• Fixed a bug when on Mac first click in capture area wasn't propagated to the foreground app.
• Fixed a bug when some of the windows had incorrect size.

🎁 New Features

• Zoom can be changed using Ctrl/Cmd+mouse wheel.
• Choose font family for text and step numbers.
• Folge recognizes and lists all your local fonts.

⭐ Improvements

• Step title and description moved to the right column where they are more easily discoverable and accessible.
• Step numbers now auto increment on insert and inherit the style from the previous step number.
• Shapes in editor now have minimum dimensions.
• Zoom pop up now closes when new value is chosen.
• Toolsbar now has tooltips for each tool.
• Object properties can now be collapsed/incremented.
• Made scrollbars thinner.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a major bug with Windows 7 not capturing screenshots.
• Fixed a bug when canvas shape's width was incorrectly changed on scaling.
• Fixed a bug when step number was off in the title.
• Fixed a bug where capturing on external monitor wouldn't work.
• Fixed a bug when on Windows minimal dimensions were not preserved.
• Fixed a bug when on Windows with ourdated Nvidia drivers screenshooting was failing.
• Fixed a bug with incorrect step numbers in pdf and html.

🎁 New Features

• PDF is now available as one of the export option.
• Settings window has been added
• Capture area remembers its position and restores it on the next capture
• New hotkey combination: start and finish capture with your keyboard. See Settings -> Hotkeys
• New hotkey combination: pause and resume capturing with your keyboard. See Settings -> Hotkeys

⭐ Improvements

• Clicks outside of the capture area can no longer trigger captures. See Settings -> Capturing for a new setting

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where full screen mode in pause didn't allow to reselect capture area
• Fixed a bug that was causing a broken screenshot to be captured