Twixl Publisher 4.0.2 (15257) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Publication using one of the legacy publication styles is no longer complaining about missing alternate layouts during the preflight (Plugin)
- Items on different layers in InDesign are now exported in the correct order (Plugin)
- The TOC style is now saved properly to the publicatin again (Plugin)
- Previews on Android only publications to the Twixl Viewer now work properly again (Plugin)
- When starting a movie in the reader when another movie is already playing no longer crashes the app (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Background music now correctly resumes after a movie has been stopped (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused movies not start playing when clicking on them (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Prevented multiple sounds and movies to play at the same time so that the behavior is the same as in version 3.x (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- HPub publications now correctly return to the last visited page after closing and reopening them (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- When the publication should not show the TOC viewer, the bottom toolbar on phones is no longer shown (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- The info cell in the kiosk interface is now transparent (iOS Reader, Android Reader)
- Android kiosk apps now properly show the landscape background if configured (Android Reader)
- Improved the scrolling performance in the issue view of Android kiosk apps (Android Reader)
- The info cell height is now in device pixels to ensure the apparent size is the same, regardless of the resolution of the screen (Android Reader)
- The info cell now scrolls the same way as on iOS in a kiosk app (Android Reader)
- The cover of the publication in the issue detail view is now a lot bigger (Android Reader)
- Increased the height of the progress bars to make them more visible (Android Reader, Android Viewer)
- Buttons are now correctly placed on top of slideshows in the web reader (Web Reader)
- The preflight now correctly checks the artwork for tablet only or phone only builds (Mac App)
- Merge articles no longer fails when one or more articles contain image sequences (Mac App)
- The mac app now correctly saves the last selected iOS simulator device type (Mac App)
- Ensured that an enterprise kiosk build is only allowed on iOS tablets (Mac App)
- Previewing phone only publications now works correctly again (Mac App)
- Made several fixes in the build preflight logic (Mac App)
- When creating a build setting via the wizard, the dimensions of the startup screens for phones are now correctly checked (Mac App)
- The phone startup screen in the build settings is now properly saved to the build settings (Mac App)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.1 (15192) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Publications on iPhone 4 and 4s are now properly scaled (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Dismissing the embedded web browser now returns to the correct page (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Web viewers now honor the "transparent" flag again (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Made some fixes to the error handling in the app (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- The article url is now properly inserted into the sharing messages (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused black flashes to be shown when navigating from page to page (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused movies to stop prematurely (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed several bugs that could cause a crash of the app (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed some bugs that caused interactive content not to be loaded on some pages (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the grid view of a PDF file to show blank pages (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the store background to be distorted (iOS Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused the issue description to be placed incorrectly in the issue info popup (iOS Reader)
- The file size in the issue popup window in a kiosk app is now translated (iOS Reader)
- Reading an issue now resets the application badge (iOS Reader)
- When starting the kiosk interface for the first time, the drawer menu no longer shows a small bounce (iOS Reader)
- Nested pagelinks are now working again when using the "Horizontal Scrolling Only" option (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- The "inactivity timer" option is now also supported on Android (Android Reader)
- Launching an issue in a kiosk app no longer shows the splash screen (Android Reader)
- Fixed some UI inconsistencies in the kiosk interface (Android Reader)
- Previewing from the mac app now allows you to select the simulator device type (Mac App)
- The Mac app now enforces the correct version of the Java SDK needed for Android builds (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs that sometimes caused Android builds to fail (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs related to the build options that are available versus the publication that was selected (Mac App)
- Fixed a bug that caused the phone version of a publication to be missing in a single-issue universal app (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs that caused invalid artwork to be added to the generated apps (Mac App)
- When building an app for Google Play and Amazon in one go now create two separate apk files (Mac App)
- Changed the way the PDF are rendered for Android on the Twixl Distribution Platform so that it no longer shows the black background (Distribution Platform)
- Resending a notification now properly rechecks the list of devices it needs to send the notification to (Distribution Platform)
Twixl Publisher 4.0 (15065) - "The Port Ellen Release"
While there are too many changes in this release to list them all here, the major new features are the following:
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Support for Phone
Create an alternate layout for smartphones, then build a phone only or a hybrid phone/tablet app.
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Rendering of interactive elements
Rendering of interactive elements on a page has been completely rewritten and is now quicker than ever.
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HPub support
In addition to Twixl .publication files and PDFs, you can now also include HTML-based HPub files in a Twixl multi-issue app. Read more about HPub here.
For support, go to http://support.twixlmedia.com