Changelog: Page 2

⭐ 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