Version History
 Version 8.10
 Added possibility to change visible toolbar information: author, title, etc.
Added shortcut for speech dictionary
Fixed export WAV/MP3
Fixed import RTF footnotes
Some small fixes
Version 8.9.2
Added instant stop while ICE Reader speak
Added preventing resetting speak position after stop
Added command line parameter /NoScanLib
Fixed author list in book editor
Fixed exception if toolbar hide then application moved in tray
Fixed moving books in Vista mode if use command line parameter /books_path
Fixed storing cursor position in library after ICE Reader re-start
Updated memory manager
Some small fixes
Version 8.9.1
Added series visualisation in reader toolbar
Moved skins and speech dictionaries to "All users" section in Vista mode
Fixed tracking position in library after deleting some books
Fixed register normalization for complex surname
Fixed adding duplicates bookmarks
Fixed large font support for library statusbar
Fixed auto-switch author/category if there are multiple authors or categories
Fixed auto open previous file import directory
Some small fixes
Version 8.9
Added full Vista compatibility
Added compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007
Added compatibility with Open Office
Added new portable installation mode
Some small fixes
Version 8.8
Added export list of files in library to HTML
Added possibility to show in speech mode word or sentence pronounced
Added possibility to store exporting images in separated directories. Some DVD players support slideshow only for limited images per directory. Usualy not more than 200.
Added possibility to scale time (repeat every frame multiple times) in AVI export. It's allow to make automatical slideshow.
Added book autosave if ICE Reader minimized
Fixed color correction for video export
Fixed import some HTML/LIT files with wrong syntax
Fixed tracking current cursor position in library
Fixed speech dictionary processing
Some small fixes
Version 8.7.2
Added possibility to create video books as AVI files
Added command line switch /SAPI4_OLD using alternative way for access at SAPI4 interface
Now ICE Reader use system temporary directory
Fixed WAV/MP3 recoding in 8-bit mode instead of 16-bits mode
Some small fixes
Version 8.7.1
Added possibility to define constant page size
Added shotrcuts for increasing and decreasing font size
Fixed "Invalid argument to date encode" if there is file with wrong date/time
Fixed freeze if try to close then SAPI4 engine still speaking
Fixed find in library
Some small fixes
Version 8.7
Added export books to image sequence. May be usefull for making DVD books for reading as slideshow.
Added support for export image sequence using any book settings, like book view, font antialias, etc.
Added support for Plucker PDB files
Re-created list of books in library. Greatly reduced delays if there are more than 5000 books
Added possibility to move manually column order in library using column drag and drop
Added possibility to store in library database book preview. You can see first lines of book without opening it.
Added possibility to mount/unmount dynamically external library in read only mode as collection
Added possibility to mount/unmount dynamically library database (global.cfg or similar files) as collection
Added recent lists of external libraries and databases
Added new book field - Collection
Added export set of books to library database (similar with global.cfg)
Added automatical book copy from extern library if you try to open book for reading
Added possibility to copy selected books from selected external library to the main library
Added possibility to copy selected books from specified collection to any directory
Added automatical database generation if you copy books. This is greatly reduce mount time this is books as external library
Added new tree group items - Collections
Added new tree items - difference and duplicates with selected collection. This is allow compare books in main collection with any external collections
Added import <annotation> tag from FB2 books to comments
Added possibility to change sort mode for duplicates and duplicated name
Added possibility to show notebook battery status on reader toolbar
Added new alarm based on notebook battery status
Now is possible to change reaction of right and middle mouse buttons in library
Now book preview use the same font as all library controls
Re-arranged list of shortcuts
Increased limit for super scroll mode from 100 LPS (lines per second) up to 500 LPS
Fixed WAV/MP3 files splitting
Fixed FB2 author/title recognition
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.6
Added possibility to change
register case for author/title/... for multiple books
Added new categories in
library: read books and not read books
Added automatical bitrate/frequency
selection for WAV/MP3 export
Added possibility to shutdown
Windows after finish WAV/MP3 export
Added shortcuts (Ctrl-1,
Ctrl-2, ..., Alt-1, Alt-2, ...) for edit book info form
Added possibility to open
next book for editing automaticaly in edit book info form
Improved author recognition
for CHM files
Fixed changing font color
if text edit activated
Fixed failing initialisation
of some speech engines, like L&H TTS3000
Fixed zero MP3 file size
after export to MP3 on some computers
Fixed showing zero percent
if text was edited
Fixed author combobox drop
list
Some small fixes
Version 8.5.1
Fixed changing font size
in reader if text edit activated
Fixed popup menu color
selection
Version 8.5
Added possibility to assign
shortcut to any profile. You can create any new functions in the profile
and assign it to any keyboard shortcut, like change fonts, font size,
colors, speed or anything else
Added support for complex
shortcuts: allow to use any Shift, Ctrl, Alt key combinations
Added possibility to change/assign
shortcuts for almost any menu item in reader and library
Added profiles controlling
speech engines
Added possibility to save
book without closing it
Added possibility to hide
ToolBar permanently
Added manual wave scroll
mode
Added support manual wave
scrolling for book view mode
Added options, allow disabling
monitoring loss of the focus. This is allow to speak minimized or using
together with command line switch /multi to start simultaneously scroll
of the multiple books
Added new memory manager.
This is allow ICE Reader to prevent error message "Not enough RAM",
if use very large library (more than 20000 books)
Added possiblity to change
visual format of the author with surname on the author tree
Added support for sort
hyphenation in RTF files
Added new field in library
- date of the last modification of the book tags made by user
Added new field in library
- total time spend for reading a book
Added new tree item - show
list of books where were made last modifications of the book tags
Added controlling SAPI4
engine initialisation. It's allow to prevent system hang if some speech
engine fail
Improved MS Word/RTF format
recognition
Now for text editing will
use the same font as used in reader
Now Escape close program
windows everywhere
Fixed marking selected
text in edit form
Fixed surname detection
Fixed list of authors in
combobox
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.4
Greatly decreased startup/close
time for large library
Now author with surname
marked as bold
Added selecting text, selected
for editing
Added hyphenation support
for speech mode and export to WAV/MP3 modes
Added possibility to reset
surname for group of the books
Added possibility to change
compression for group of the books
After changing book compression
all text modification become permanent
Added possibility to rename
files for group of the books
Added possibility to change
initial read position (percent) for group of the books
Added new rules for creating
book and export filenames
Now category in tree include
all sub-categories
Fixed surname recognition
Fixed reaction on TAB key
in the main window
Fixed editing marked lines
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.3.1
Greatly improved surname
recognition
Fixed bug with appear duplicates
of authors on the tree
Some small fixes
Version 8.3
Added support for surname
of authors
Added automatical language
independed surname detection
Added auto normalisation
of author name. Now author name always start from surname
Added auto register normalisation
for author names, if surname is detected
Added auto update files
without surname if new surname is entered
Added blocking auto update
files without surname if the same surname appear as name
Added manual surname edition
(symbol & at beginning surname words)
Added possibility to change
font in the library
Added different colors
for treeview
Added possibility to speak
pronunce before adding to dictionary
Added new command line
switch /MULTI allowing to start multiple instance ICE Reader
Fixed compatibility with
some speak engines
Fixed restoring speech
engine settings
Fixed find if book has
beed edited
Fixed editing books with
more than 32768 lines
Fixed removing hyphenations
Fixed import from CHM files
created by CHMBookCreator
Fixed import from RTF files
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.2
Added possibility to edit
ICE Reader books
Added possibility to edit
text coloring
Added editor for pronunciation
dictionaries
Added MS Word document
detection by file content
Added possibility to delete
books to recycle bin
Added possibility to close
book in the reader
Added possibility to change
dictionary order
Changed image up-scale
algorithm (skin resize)
Fixed list of the active
dictionaries
Fixed bug appear if shutdown
Windows and ICE Reader is minimized
Fixed stop text reading
on minimize
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.1.1
Fixed export to WAV/MP3
Fixed library and export
filename processing
Some small fixes
Version 8.1
Added MP3 book creation
function
MP3 book creation not need
to store temporary multi megabytes WAV files before MP3 encoding
Due to using multithread
engine ICE Reader provide fastest way for creating MP3 books. Multiple
SAPI engines can "talk" simultaneously, decreasing creation
time of MP3 books
Added automatical MP3 file
splitting. Is possible to do time split or paragraph split
Added support of pronunciation
dictionaries including patterns search
ICE Reader allow process
huge pronunciation dictionaries (millions of words) without visible
delays
Added possibility to apply
more than one pronunciation dictionaries at specified order
Allowed to speech then
ICE Reader is minimized
Added preventing to go
to suspend under WinXP SP2 during scrolling
Fixed speech mode for some
old SAPI4 engines (Digalo)
A lot of small fixes
Version 8.0
Now ICE Reader is TTS application.
Added full support for SAPI4 and SAPI5. Of course full Unicode support.
Added new fade text mode
for both scroll and book modes
Re-designed panel of options
New installer
Added possibility to rotate
Author/Title text in edit dialog
Added possibility to apply
rotate/register change only for selected text
Added rules for creating
books filenames or export filenames: transliteration, limit of filename
length, do not use spaces
Added selecting text witch
has been found
Now transfer ICE Reader
with library to another computer do not cause full reindex of the library
Fixed exporting files in
Win format
Fixed using category tag
%C in filenames
Fixed scroll jerking under
double CPU systems
Fixed splitting to words
groups of not textual letters
A lot of small fixes
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