Quick update for Image Uploader 5.5

posted by Dmitry on 12 September 2008, 22:41

Three weeks ago we released Image Uploader 5.5 (version 5.5.1). During these three weeks a lot of our customers upgraded to new version. We have good references for new Image Uploader, users say that we have success with version 5.5 and Image Uploader works faster and more stable.

Unfortunately the world is not ideal and several problems were found in 5.5.1. Today we are ready to release updated version 5.5.6 which fixes some of them:

Fixed the problem with custom buttons in ActiveX version.
Fixed the issue with thumbnail size when they are created with high quality in ActiveX version.
Fixed the problem with uploading icons instead of thumbnails for some images on Mac platform with Image Uploader Java.
Now methods GoToParentFolder and GoToPreviousFolder works correctly in Image Uploader Java.

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Dimi 9/17/2008 7:11:49 AM

Hi,

We're using the new 5.5.1.0 uploader, and we indeed it's faster than the old one. However we have experienced some of the problems you mention above (a full ChangeLog would be great!), so we are upgrading to 5.5.6.0.

However, we've noticed with 5.5.1.0 _very_ slow (in like "unusable") when viewing a large folder (say 200-300 pictures) of high resolution photos (10 Megapixels). Similarly large folders with lower quality photos display much faster though.

I have investigated the photos with exiftool, and all of the seem to have a precomputed thumbnail in the JPG file. Are you guys using the that thumbnail, or are you just computing one from the large image?

Dmitry 10/4/2008 3:14:08 AM

Thank you for your post.

Image Uploader reads thumbnails from EXIF and can display them instead of generating thumbnail from scratch.

But there is a problem with high-resolution reflex cameras. Some of them embed thumbnails into EXIF that have proportions different from proportions of the original images. In that case we ignore EXIF thumbnail and create it from the image.

Now I feel that it is not the best solution. We plan to allow users to choose whether to ignore proportions check during creating thumbnails.

xavier 10/9/2008 1:39:36 AM

hi,
we've upgraded tot 5.5.6 but a non-administrator can no longer use (install) the activex control on a Vista PC. Even it is has already been installed by an administrator
please help

Dmitry 10/31/2008 11:34:23 PM

Hello,

Please, submit a case into support case system.

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