Twixl Publisher 4.0.9 (16599) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Fixed a major performance issue in the reader code on some devices (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a crash when scrolling in the thumbnail grid view when reading a PDF (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the geolocation APIs from working in web content (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- When using "horizontal scrolling only", the entries in the table-of-contents viewer now link to the correct page (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused some interactive content to not load when opening a publication for the second time (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Nested interactivity is now loaded in the same order as non-nested interacivity (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Added support for callto: and tel: url schemes (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer, Android Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused master page items to be shifted when exporting (Plugin)
- The "Device Info" option in the kiosk is no longer shown in an appstore build as Apple might reject the app (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the download button in the issue popup in the kiosk to be missing on some devices (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- When showing a PDF file in the embedded web browser, only the filename is shown, not the full path (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused some long pages not to be scrollable (iOS Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- The Twixl specific "tp-" links are now also resolved when used in the WebResources (Web Reader)
- Fixed a crash when scrolling in a long page (Android Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- The web viewer is now honouring the setting 'Show Scrollbars' (Android Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- When nesting a movie in scrollable content or in a slide, you can now properly go to full screen (Android Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- If you are using a portrait only publication, you can now rotate to landscape when viewing a movie in full screen (Android Reader / SDK / Viewer)
- The Twixl Viewer now also mentions the device name (iOS Viewer / Android Viewer)
- Fixed a problem that caused an upload to fail when there were special characters in the zip file (Distribution Platform)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.8 (16362) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Fixed a number of small bugs in the plugin (Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused InDesign to crash during exporting (Plugin)
- Full screen images now properly maintain the InDesign cropping information (Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused buttons with a normal and click state to be exported incorrectly (Plugin)
- Returning from a full screen slideshow now shows the correct slide again (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Exiting a publication with background music now properly stops the background music (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed several bugs related to pagelinks not working (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Hyperlinks without the "http://" prefix now work as well (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, Android Reader, Android SDK)
- By appending "tp-open-in-web-browser=1" to the url in an info cell or info in a kiosk app now triggers the embedded web browser to open (iOS Reader, Android Reader)
- Fixed some bugs related to the full screen button for movies (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Go to previous state when you are on the last slide of a slideshow now works again (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Go to first page now properly loads the page content (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- The Twixl Viewer app now allows you to delete multiple issues at once (Twixl Viewer)
- The Twixl Viewer now uses the side menu for the options instead of the gear menu (Twixl Viewer)
- Clicking on OK in the preview sheet now properly saves the settings (Mac App)
- Fixed a bug in the check to see if the correct Java SDK is installed (Mac App)
- Android app builds with a keystore that contains special characters in the password now works correctly (Mac App)
- The reporting API calls now have the extra parameters for the start and end date (Distribution Platform)
- Improved the processing speed of PDF files after upload (Distribution Platform)
- Movies with autoplay now only start when the slide is becoming visible (Web Reader)
- YouTube movies now contain the icon to go to full screen again (Web Reader)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.7 (16077) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Fixed a bug in the plugin installer that prevented the plugin from running, resulting in error #2038 (InDesign Plugin, Mac App)
- Made some fixes to the Woodwing Connector on Windows (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed several bugs in the InDesign plugin (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused In-App Purchases not show up in the kiosk app (iOS Reader)
- Fixed some issues with the categories menu (iOS Reader)
- Made improvements on the loading of the thumbnails in a kiosk app (iOS Reader)
- Made the icon to open the side menu lighter so that it looks more slick (iOS Reader)
- Improved the preloading of the pages to make them appear faster (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Invalid pagelinks no longer crash the application (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- When you open a publication, the toolbars are no longer shown by default, only after a tap (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Double tapping on a slide show to open it full screen now no longer has a lag (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the "Report a problem" function in the viewer to do nothing (iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the incorrect file size of a publication to be shown (iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the user to swipe to the second page in an article (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed some rendering issues in the Android reader (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Slideshows with swiping disabled no longer disables swiping (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that cause double tap to go to the full screen view of a slide show to fail (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the movie controls to be missing when embedded in a scrollable content or a slide (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Movies can now be played full screen in the web reader (Web Reader)
- Improved the engine that converts PDF files to .publication file so that web and pagelinks are converted properly (Distribution Platform)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.6 (15981) - "The Port Ellen Release"
Proud to launch 4.0.6 "The Port Ellen" release on the Internation Whisk(e)y day. Slainte!
- The open InDesign documents are no longer closed when creating a publication or article export (InDesign Plugin)
- The preflight results are now shown grouped by article name (InDesign Plugin)
- The Panorama VR settings now allow negative values (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused some buttons to be missing in the export (InDesign Plugin)
- Scrollable content is now correctly exporting it's Analytics Name (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused the preview device IP address not be recognized on Windows (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that caused some pages to be missing in the export when they were too big. The preflight now properly checks that your pages are smaller than the maximum allowed page sizes (InDesign Plugin)
- Changed the publication export so that the export is showing up correctly in a 3.x app (InDesign Plugin)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused purchased issues to show up as a new purchase (iOS Reader)
- Improved the performance of loading a kiosk with many issues (iOS Reader)
- The cover of an issue in the issue popup dialog is no longer clipped (iOS Reader)
- Reading an issue now properly updates the Newsstand cover art clipped (iOS Reader)
- Fixed some issue related to the handling of Newsstand push notifications (iOS Reader)
- Fixed some UI issues when rotating your device to landscape when in the kiosk interface (iOS Reader)
- The "Manage Issues" screen no longer shows publications that are busy downloading (iOS Reader)
- The "Manage Issues" screen no longer incorrectly shows the back button when using an info page on startup (iOS Reader)
- Provided better feedback when reloading the kiosk (iOS Reader)
- The separators in the side menu are now also shown when using a light color for the navigation bar (iOS Reader)
- >hen using a light color for the navigation bar, the download progress bar is now using the text color so that it's visible (iOS Reader)
- The subscriptions button is now showing up on phones if there are subscriptions enabled in the app (iOS Reader)
- Added support for Xcode 6.2 (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Playing a sound no longer stops the autoplay of a slideshow (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Image sequences are now loading correctly again (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed some bugs that caused pagelinks to go to the incorrect page (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Publications using the status bar were not always using the correct color for the status bar (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Ensured that the status bar is never shown on phones inside a publication (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a double-tap to change a slide show to full screen not be recognized(iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- You can now view a video in landscape in a portrait only publication (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the status bar in a publication to be completely white (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that prevented a full-screen slide to auto-play (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug in the looping with slideshows that have the option "tap to play" enabled (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused the page control was not always visible in a full screen slideshow (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused a movie to not go to full screen even when the option is enabled (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- When opening an HPub file without thumbnails, the TOC viewer now no longer shows empty thumbnails (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- When you disallow "Allow swiping to change states" now only blocks the swiping. It no longer disables taps and double-taps (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused slide shows no to remove the previous slide (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- When showing the PublisherController modally on phones, clicking on an entry in the TOC no longer dismisses the complete publication controller (iOS SDK)
- Made some changes so that very long pages don't result in an out-of-memory error (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Made sure the long pages are now shown in the same way as on iOS (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Made big improvements to the quality of scrollable contents in the Android reader (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- The TOC now shows the titles and taglines again for horizontal swiping only publications (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- YouTube movies on Android now support autoplay (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Tapping on a pagelink no longer results in a lores page (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Tapping on an email link no longer starts the background music (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Fixed some bugs that caused long pages to be displayed incorrectly (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused some issues to be missing from the kiosk (Android Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused a kiosk app not to load on a Kindle device (Android Reader)
- The "Prepare Publication" step when you run an Android test build now shows a proper progress bar (Android Reader)
- Changed the way the app is structured to make it a lot smaller (Mac App)
- The password for importing a keystore is now asked in a seperate dialog (Mac App)
- Building a test or Google Play build now includes the correct publication files (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs that caused the startup screens to be missing in tablet apps (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs in the Publication Composer that caused it to fail when combining articles (Mac App)
- The Mac app now allows you to install the plugin on any MacOS X 10.8 or newer machine. However, for building apps and using the preview in the simulator, MacOS X 10.9.4 is required (Mac App)
- Added the "Export Push Notification Certificate" option in the Tools menu that allows you to easily export the p12 file needed for the Twixl Distribution Platform (Mac App)
- During the conversion of a publication to PDF for Android, weblinks and pagelinks are now preserved (Distribution Platform)
- Simplified the application settings screen (Distribution Platform)
- Fixed a bug that caused push notifications to be never sent to phones (Distribution Platform)
- Improved the performance and reliability of sending push notifications (Distribution Platform)
- Added a verification to see if the notification settings are correct (Distribution Platform)
- Made various performance optimisations that result in faster page loading (Distribution Platform)
- The fresh installs report now properly lists phones as well (Distribution Platform)
- Android devices are now properly listed in the list of test devices for push notifications (Distribution Platform)
- When editing an issue, the entitlement data is now properly saved when using the "Sections" scenario (Distribution Platform)
- Push notifications can now be deleted after they have been processed (Distribution Platform)
- Added an Admin API function that allows you to share a publication or article (Distribution Platform)
- You can now install/update/replace your license key in the account details screen (Distribution Platform)
- The merge_articles script now supports both Python 2.x and 3.x (Integration Tools)
- Fixed a bug that caused sometimes caused images not to shown up in the web reader (Web Reader)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.5 (15561) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- In the preferences, you can now opt to skip warnings for preview or export (Plugin)
- The preferences window now has a button that allows you to clear the export cache (Plugin)
- All files are now properly reopened again after export or preflight (Plugin)
- Full screen images now only export the image instead of exporting a crop of the page (Plugin)
- Fixed some bugs in the reader when using the zoomed mode on iPhone (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Scrollable content is now correctly scaled on iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- tp-pagelinks now work properly in a web viewer (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- tp-pagelinks now work properly when using horizontal swiping only (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed some more bugs that caused black flashes when going from page to page (iOS Reader, iOS SDK, iOS Viewer)
- Fixed a bug where some users were not properly seeing the item they previously purchased (iOS Reader)
- The OpenSSL libraries are now shipped as separate .a files (iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the scroller background to have the wrong color (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused the kiosk app to crash when there is no internet connection (Android Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused the icon to reveal the side menu in a kiosk app was not shown (Android Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused some pagelinks on Android combined with horizontal only swiping to not work (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused long pages to sometimes have the wrong scale on Android (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Fixed a bug that caused all pages to appear in the TOC when using horizontal swiping only (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Full screen movies embedded in scrollable content now works correctly again (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Made some fixes to ensure interactive elements are positioned correctly (Android Reader, Android SDK, Android Viewer)
- Optimized the previewing from the mac app to an Android tablet (Mac App)
- Fixed a bug that caused the phone splash screen to be missing in an iOS build (Mac App)
- Fixed a bug that caused the iPhone builds to be rejected by Application Loader (Mac App)
- Fixed some bugs in the mac app that caused the Android OBB file to be missing parts of the publication (Mac App)
- Made a change to the Twixl Distribution Platform so that the Admin API can be used from an AJAX request (Distribution Platform)
- The progress of the PDF to publication conversion is now shown (Distribution Platform)
- The conversion of PDF to publication files for Android now uses the PDF bookmarks to construct the TOC (Distribution Platform)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.4 (15432) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- Fixed a bug that caused iPad builds to have the default Twixl icon (Mac App)
- Fixed a bug in the Web Reader were full screen slide shows were sometimes shown underneath the small version of the slideshow (Web Reader)
- Fixed a bug where disabling user interaction on slideshows would cause buttons to no longer work (Android Reader, Android Viewer, Android SDK)
- Fixed a bug where the publication info dialog would sometimes clip it's content (Android Reader)
Twixl Publisher 4.0.3 (15412) - "The Port Ellen Release"
- The preflight in the plugin now checks for missing fonts and images again (Plugin)
- Preflighting an article without a book open no longer fails the export (Plugin)
- Fixed some small bugs in the Importer plugin (Plugin)
- Fixed a bug where the page image would first be shown in lores before being shown in hires (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug where background music would continue to play when exiting the publication (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug where the action "Go To Previous Page" didn't work (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug where a webviewer would still load links inline even when the option is disabled (iOS Reader, iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug where the incorrect views were loaded for a page (iOS SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused the side menu icon in a multi-issue app to be invisible (iOS Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused an Android multi-issue app to crash when opening a landscape only publication from a portrait kiosk (Android Reader)
- The side menu in an Android multi-issue app now only shows the archive option when there are downloaded publications (Android Reader)
- The top bar in an Android multi-issue app now behaves the same way as the one on iOS (Android Reader)
- Added the option to configure a logout button for entitlements (Mac App, iOS Reader, Android Reader)
- The grid text color in multi-issue apps is now configurable (Mac App, iOS Reader, Android Reader)
- Previously purchased items now correctly show up as free in Android multi-issue apps (Android Reader)
- Fixed a bug that caused a pagelink to incorrectly show that it was linking to a non-existing article (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused scrollable contents to be shown incorrectly on Android phones (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Fixed some scaling problems in the Android reader (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Pagelinks are no longer case-sensitive (Android Reader, Android SDK)
- Fixed a bug that caused the splash screens not to be shown correctly for iOS apps (Mac App)
- Mixed case app identifiers are now allowed again for Android builds (Mac App)
- Uploading a publication with special filenames in the WebResources no longer fails the upload (Distribution Platform)
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