Brain Tickling Software

Version 4.1 is a free update for all SnapWeb users who purchased a SnapWeb 4 license or update in the last 12 months.

Optimized for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.4.x (Tiger) systems
SnapWeb was in an endless loop during startup on many Leopard/Intel machines, producing high cpu load
Safari bookmarks and Safari and Firefox history lists are now displayed in foldable trees
The creation of text PDF files on Leopard machines was not possible
Very long text PDF files on Tiger systems were truncated
Text PDF files now behave faster in Preview
The PDF meta data is now also written into image PDFs
There were problems with some Unicode characters in file names
Some pages with wired framsets were producing white (empty) snaps
The license code field is now readable as long as you enter the license data
Some minor user interface fixes

Version 4.0.1 is a free maintenance update for all SnapWeb 4 users. In addition to many improvements and fixes it has a new parameter to set a fixed page height for a snapshot...

New features:

The "Fixed Height" parameter defines the absolute height of the resulting snapshot. This function is useful, if you want to check how your web page looks on systems with limited screen resolution or if your snapshot should fit into a given layout.
Added a new AppleScript command to set the "Fixed Height" parameter.

Improvements:

Snapshots in PDF Text mode are now including background graphics.
On some systems, where Firefox was used a lot, the "spinning beach ball" was blocking SnapWeb for long periods. We changed the threading mechanism which caused this misbehavior.

Fixed bugs:

When a "Minumum width" was set, SnapWeb calculated a wrong height for the snapshot.
The URL field of the browser window wasn't accepting any input, after a page with form fields was snapped.
In some cases PDF Text snapshots were truncated.
A "/" character in page titles crashed SnapWeb, when the title was used as file name.
Some AppleScript commands were not working on Intel Macs.
On slow systems SnapWeb was creating blank snapshots from time to time.

New features:

3 new image formats: You can store snaphots as GIF, Photoshop file and TIFF (beside JPEG, PDF and PNG).
3 new text formats: You can store web pages as original HTML, resoloved HTML and as human readable text file.
A snapshot can directly be copied to the clipboard, to use it in other programs without storing it first.
The new parameters "Minimum Width", "Fixed Width" and "Maximum Height" are giving more control to the snap process.
The Browser menu now supports Firefox (beside Safari). You can directly access the actual page, the history and the bookmarks of the browsers.
SnapWeb now writes the URL of the web page into the comment field of the snapshot. This is very useful for archiving and searching snapshots in the Finder.
You can use SnapWeb as a tool from your Unix shell. (Professional license needed!)
12 new AppleScript commands. All SnapWeb features are now scriptable! (Professional license needed!)
A new command to clear the SnapWeb history on demand.
A new Help menu to directly access the manual and the BTS web site.

Improvements:

The natural web page size is now calculated much more exact (e.g. web pages with frame sets).
SnapWeb is now faster when you snap more than one file format at once.
Safari isn't starting anymore if you choose "Safari Actual Page" by mistake, without having it open.
SnapWeb prompts the user when no output format is selected.
SnapWeb has now a time-out value of 4 minutes, if very big web pages are overwhelming slow computers.
The "mouse flickering" during a snapshot is reduced.

Fixed bugs:

SnapWeb can now load https-URLs, which are directly typed into the URL field of the browser window.
During a snapshot SnapWeb was activating the left top active screen corner by mistake. Now it temporarily disables the active screen corner during runtime.
The Browser menu was crashing SnapWeb when the Preferences window was open.
SnapWeb sometimes crashed when you snapped more than one file format at once in evaluation mode.
Fixed a bug which occured on slower Macs (timeout during process).
SnapWeb crashed when the natural height of a web page was greater than 22767 pixels. Now SnapWeb supports heights of 32767. Taller web pages are truncated.

Fixed a nasty bug on Intel Macs, which caused page titles to be displayed in cryptic signs.
Reduced the size of the distribution file from 1.8 to 1.4 MB.

The snap process of huge web pages is now faster on slower PPC Macs (< G4 800 MHz) and Intel Macs.
Version r3 is a free update for all users of SnapWeb 3.1.

SnapWeb is now an Universal Binary with native support for Macs with PPC and Intel processors.
The new "Snap History" shows the last URLs you snapped.
Better Safari integration: "Safari Current Page" opens the actual Safari web page in SnapWeb.
Fixed a crash which occured when you went back to a non-existing web page.
Implemented the AppleScript command "snap" to use SnapWeb in automated processes.
A new AppleScript command "switch" to modify SnapWebs output preferences.
Fixed a bug which occured on slower Macs (timeout during process).

SnapWeb now supports Flash animations and other browser plug-ins like additional video codecs. With SnapWebs browser interface you can freely choose the snapshot time, to get the best scene of an animation or interactive content.
Better Safari integration: Now you can open your Safari bookmarks and your Safari history within a SnapWeb browser window. This provides fast access to frequently used web pages.
Some web pages with special characters in the title caused SnapWeb to crash.
Opening local documents via a file chooser dialog was broken in version 2.0.1.
The JPG quality is now restored after a program restart.SnapWeb crashed when the destination path was not existing.

Version 2.0.1 r1 crashed on Mac OS X systems before 10.3.9
SnapWeb crashed when the destination path was not existing

Optimized for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
Fixes a problem which caused black areas in the browser display

The new pro feature "On open direct process" allows automated SnapWeb tasks
Implements basic AppleScript support for automation tasks and browser integration
Adds a powerful SnapWeb command to the Services menu which processes almost any possible input. This provides a system wide, easy and fast access to SnapWebs functionality
Open HTML documents from the Finder with the contextual menu command "Open With..."
Drag & Drop HTML documents onto the SnapWeb icon in the dock or in Finder windows
Improves the automatic URL completion

Optimized for Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"
Solves several display bugs
Improves overall performance and stability
Tested with WebKit 1.1 and 1.2
Reduced application size (from 2 MB to less than 1 MB)
Supports multiple browser windows
Drag & Drop of URLs directly to the browser window
"Open ..." command to open local files
Snapshots are visible in Finder windows or on the desktop immediately after creation
A comprehensive manual unsolder the "read me" docs
Fixes the non working "Register here ..." button (Panther bug)
Fixes the broken menu item "Save"
Fixes some problems with web pages containing Flash
Fixes the application hide problem (disappeared browser window)
Fixes the bad window redrawing when the color depth was changed
Fixes problems with the usage of multiple screens

Fixes a JPG quality problem
PNG file format support
PDF "Text" mode
PDF metadata support
Automated URL completion

First public release