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PageSpinner 4.5.1 Release Notes
New features and enhancements in PageSpinner 4.5.1:
Links to JPEG 2000 images and MPEG Movies files can now be created by dropping the file onto the PageSpinner application icon
Support for rooted base paths when previewing Server Side Includes files
PageSpinner's Save to Web server command now supports uploading files to servers with the FTPeel FTP client from www.freshlysqueezedsoftware.com
Added support for previewing files with Netscape 7.1 (previews in Netscape 7.0.x are no longer supported in OS X)
Fixed a bug with Safari 1.0 locking certain preview files
Added support for executing AppleScripts saved in the data fork of a file (scripts compiled in Script Editor 1.9 and higher in OS X)
It is now possible to choose all of the files listed in the File : Open dialog window
Improved support for editing files on a server from within OS X FTP transfer applications, such as FTPeel, that supports the External Editor Protocol
Improved support for script syntax coloring of large text strings
Added iView Media in the Graphic Tools section of the Web Tools menu
Fixed a bug with the Save to Web Server command when using Finder to copy the files to a mounted volume or an iDisk
Automatic conversions of more special characters
PageSpinner can now be set as the creator of files without a proper Mac OS file type in the Set Filing Options… command
The JavaScript Event Handlers and JavaScript sub-menus (available in the JavaScript palette) are now again also available from the Tags menu
The Find and Replace in Folder... script will now work with files without proper Mac OS file types and files created by other applications
Fixed a bug with Undo/Redo not setting the document as modified
PageSpinner will no longer display a warning about the filename when creating .css files
Fixed a bug when trying to select a tag to delete using the Backspace or the Forward Delete key when the "Tag Selectable" mode is chosen in the Editor Preferences.
PageSpinner will no longer occasionally display a warning while selecting a tag using Backspace or Forward Delete when "Tag Selectable" is chosen in the Editor Preferences.
Other minor bug fixes
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PageSpinner 4.5 Release Notes
New features and enhancements in PageSpinner 4.5:
Editor improvements
Support for syntax color coding of CSS, JavaScript and PHP
New editor modes for CSS, JavaScript and PHP files for improved performance of the new syntax coloring
Support for viewing local files served by a web server with the Preview command. This may be very useful when working with PHP, SSI and CGIs that are processed on a web server. You can also specify the parameters to send to the server that processes the page.
Support for live scrolling
New Text Zoom buttons in the editor and Notebook window. You may press the Option key when clicking one of the Zoom buttons to return to the default font size set in the Font Preferences.
Faster restyling of text and HTML markup
Live resizing of the editor window in OS X
A new PHP menu that can insert basic PHP functions and control structures is available from the Tags menu
A Lookup PHP Function command is available in the Find button pulldown menu in the toolbar. The command lets you lookup the documentation for the selected PHP function in the editor in the Online PHP manual at www.php.org
The tag editing mode Tags Selectable will automatically become disabled in the PHP and JavaScript editor modes to prevent automatic selection of parts of scripts when typing < and >
New Commands
The new PageSpinner Starting Points dialog helps to create different kinds of files, to open files and to access PageSpinner's preferences
Repeat last command added in the Edit menu
Revert to last saved menu item added in the File menu
Open Recent Files menu added to the File menu
Remove double spaces command added in the Text Tools menu
A Run Selection as Command item in the Text Tools menu lets you run the selected text as a Unix command and inserts the results in the editor window on OS X
Better Preferences, Script and Plug-Ins management
All preferences, user tags, web site settings, user plug-in extensions, user aliases, user scripts, backup files and Notebook pages are now stored inside the new "PageSpinner User Data" folder inside your Documents folder. This change makes it much easier to keep your customized settings, scripts, aliases and plug-ins when upgrading to new versions of PageSpinner.
Settings for up to 40 web sites can now be stored in the Web Site Preferences
Support for choosing XHTML mode in the Default Editor Options. The setting will also be used in the CSS, JavaScript and PHP editor modes.
Added an option to set PageSpinner as the System's default ftp-editor in Preferences : Default Filing Options...
Enhanced OS X support and integration
Support for the Services Menu in OS X
New icons in the toolbar
Added Safari to the Web Tools menu
Added support for previewing files with the Mozilla browser
Sheets are now used in some dialogs on OS X
An OS X Tools Palette is available from the Window menu when running on Mac OS X:
The OS X Shell menu in the palette contains the following items:
Run Selection as Command executes text selected in the editor or Notebook as a Unix shell command and inserts the result directly into the editor window
Run Selection in Terminal executes selected text as a Unix command in the Mac OS X Terminal application
Run File as Shell Script will run the contents of the active document's file as a shell script in Mac OS X Terminal
The Telnet and the SSH (secure shell) menu items may be used to login in to the Unix-based shell on your Web server if your server or hosting service supports these options.
The OS X Apache menu contains commands that allows you to open folders used by the Mac OS X Apache Web Server and edit the Apache Web server settings with the pico editor in the Terminal.
Support for FTP and HTTP transfers
Built-in support for uploading files to servers via FTP
Support for downloading files from servers via HTTP or FTP
Other improvements
SpinPHP is an included tutorial with a collection of useful PHP examples that helps you to learn and master PHP with PageSpinner on your Mac. The SpinPHP package is located inside the Goodies folder (in the PageSpinner application folder).
Improved Frame support in the New Page dialog
Updated Open Special menu
The names of the selected browsers are now displayed in the pulldown-menu of the Preview button
Added support for extracting the width and height of PNG images in HTML Assistant's Image topic
Updated documentation containing introductions to HTML, XHTML and XML
Added support for the ™ trademark HTML entity plus support for conversion of more special characters into Unicode HTML entities when saving files in the ISO 8859-1 format
PageSpinner is now a packaged application
Updated PageSpinner Extensions format
The keyboard shortcut for the Non Breaking Space entity is now Control+Command+Space
There is now an option in the General Preferences to use Command+Option+ 9 and 0 to shift text to the left and right (to work around a bug with the non-functional Command+Option+8 keyboard shortcut in OS X 1.2)
The AppleScript property PageSpinner folder will now return the PageSpinner User Data Folder. The new AppleScript property App folder can be used to retrieve the folder of the application.
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