Release notes

New Features

• Left and right keyboard keys to move the view horizontally
• Transparency option for fill
• Support for the Turkish language

• You can quickly reopen one of your recent files and return to the last view.

• You can now view two pages side by side to and view more of your document on a wide screen.

Improvements

• Removed storing local files and folders to avoid the broker eating up a ton of memory
• Draw circle shapes from the center
• Decreased the increment of the Up and Down Key to 50 instead of 200
• Avoid generating empty pages when appending imported files

Bug Fixes

• Inserting a new shape causes existing shapes’ colors to change
• When using the Up and Down key, the app was resetting the X offset to zero, causing the view to change unexpectedly
• The app was crashing when pasting from the clipboard while not in selection mode
• Newly added entities were not selected after cloning and pasting
• Added various try catch to address crashes reported from the Microsoft Store
• Changing the storage location to a new folder resulted in duplicated projects.
• In some cases, the default settings were not configured during the first launch, causing the note to be saved incorrectly.
• The pages were not loaded in the document area, although they were displayed correctly in the left panel.
• Using a dot as part of the name of a folder resulted in a crash.
• Documents longer than 100 pages were duplicated in the database.
• Scrble was showing nothing to print after loading a document from the gallery.
• OpenWidth was failing to load the pages of the document imported.

New Features

• A new widescreen page size was introduced to help create notes that best fit your full-screen monitor for presentations.

• Select a fill style and color for your shapes.

• You can select a custom font style for your text.

• The zoom value is visible and launches a flyout to increase, decrease or fit

• Tapping on the current page indicator shows a fly-out to edit the current page

Improvements

• Upon exit, allow the user to save or discard the last edits.
• Improvements to the user interface for the settings window.
• Improvements in memory usage.
• Tapping on the file name on the toolbar reveals the flyout below.
• Removed the flashing popup when loading a note.
• Set the min-zoom-value to be 25% fixed and not depending on the current view.

Bug Fixes

• Removed various memory leaks.
• When inverting the color of the paper, all the pages are now updated correctly.

New Features

• Recognize the freehand ink as a line while ignoring shapes.

• Undo of the recognition of ink to shape will restore the ink.

• Select a color using the eyedropper by touching a desired color on the screen.

• Added the 16:9 paper size to improve the import of PDF files created from PowerPoint.

Improvements

• Preview of pages now works on all devices.
• Memory improvements.

Bug Fixes

• This update will restore the code from the previous version (6.8.6) while investigating the bugs introduced in 6.9.1.

• The functionality of recognizing ink as a line only and the different generations of thumbnails will be removed. It will be re-introduced in the future release, once I solve the problem.

Bug Fixes

• Saving of Untitled note will create a unique file name, and not accidentally override previously saved files.
• Characters with accents are now saved correctly, even when selecting high-quality saving settings.

Bug Fixes

• All actions on the selected project in the gallery view now work correctly on all files without missing any of the files.

• Prevent restoring the page while another restoring operation is in progress.

New Features

• This release is implementing the vertical spacer to allow adding and removing vertical space among elements.

• You can add or reduce vertical space in the current page.

• You can add or reduce vertical space across two consecutive pages.

Improvements

• Ask to confirm the page’s deletion only if it is not empty.
• Auto-scroll behavior works better for all zoom levels.

New Features

• Added new highlighter pen with squared tip.
• Added new settings to disable double tap to zoom in and zoom out.

Improvements

• Tooltips to identify the different pens.
• Improved preview for the various pen types.

Bug Fixes

• Cloning a page doesn’t crash anymore when working on new documents.
• Removed the white strip on the top of the full-screen mode window.

New Features

• New algorithm for storing paper to allow running multiple instances without generating large files
• New paper style: homework (English only) and task list

Bug Fixes

• You can correctly select using the pen’s secondary button.
• The selected paper background is set as default for the next run of the app.
• Insert image works correctly.
• The fountain pen preserves its width when changing the selection’s color.
• The opening of the page configuration dialog doesn’t dirty the file unless something is changed.
• The note can save correctly, even when opened in multiple instances of Scrble.
• The app could return to ink mode after copying, pasting, and cloning.
• Arrow direction is preserved after an undo/redo of the move.
• Changing the paper is now applied to all pages.
• Can now select the custom paper without error.
• The app doesn’t crash anymore when canceling the selection of the custom paper.
• The borderline is now restored from the loaded file.
• The DPI configuration is used to compute the resolution for importing PDF files.

New Features

• This release is all about customizing your paper background.

• You can now select your paper among dozens of options, and turn the border line on or off.

• Customize the background color of your paper, from a number of presets or pick your own color.

Bug Fixes

• When saving a blank page, the paper background could not be changed.

Improvements

• Ignore line recognition when the highlighter is active.
• Remember the last color used for text.
• The algorithm for moving the selection was improved.

Bug Fixes

• The erase button in the pen can again be used for erasing shapes.

New Features

• Can now import multiple files in the same document.
• Added a preference for higher resolution during saving.

New Features

• You can now duplicate a single page.

• Duplicate, export, mail or print multiple pages.

Bug Fixes

• The context menu is now operating on the correct page.

Bug Fixes

• The page scrolls correctly without jumping to the top edge

New Features

• The app recognizes and converts the hand-drawn geometry into geometric shapes dynamically.

• You can now select multiple pages, then delete or move them all at once.

Improvements

• Improved the representation of the current pen type.
• Show the preview of the color and the thickness of the selected pen.

Bug Fixes

• Point eraser now erases correctly ink that has been rotated

Bug Fixes

• Prevent crash in previous version of Windows
• Prevent crash during saving

Bug Fixes

• The paste button correctly pastes content from the clipboard.

Bug Fixes

• Optimized memory usage when working with a library with many multi pages documents.
• The usage of memory doesn’t increase anymore every time the user navigates to the library and back to the editor
• The Gallery’s operations are displayed in a dialog, which is not covered by the menu.
• When running Scrble multiple times, the changes made in one window will appear in the document loaded from the other window.

Bug Fixes

• The ink color is preserved, unless the paper background color changes
• The objects copied and pasted are positioned correctly
• Can import JPG images correctly
• If no handwriting recognizer is installed, the application works correctly, and show an error message only when trying to recognize a selection

Bug Fixes

• The highlighter now saves and it exports correctly to PDF

Bug Fixes

• The circle is saved and reloaded correctly without changing the size.

Bug Fixes

• Correctly add and remove pages from the current document; all changes show when the document is reloaded.
• The custom paper is cropped and scaled correctly.
• Removed the small circle that was displayed when erasing a portion of a shape using the point eraser.

Bug Fixes

• Export to PDF with the correct size and orientation.
• Selecting with the pen button doesn’t remain stuck in selection mode.

Bug Fixes

• Can successfully load all files in gallery, even when there are conflicted files as a result of DropBox syncing.
• Can correctly import PDF files which are password protected.
• Restored the correct behavior of going back to pen after deleting.

New Features

• Display a preview of all pages to quickly find the page you want.

• Refresh the preview on demand.

Improvements

• Optimized the opening of a large document to only open the first few pages. The additional pages are loaded when needed.
• The side panel with the list of all pages is opened by default when loading a document to provide an overview of the document and to jump to a specific page quickly.
• Display the progress of the export operation.
• Dramatically reduced the time required to save a PDF-imported document.
• Improved performance of save as.

Bug Fixes

• When pasting text from the clipboard the object is now sized correctly.
• After editing a text object, the document is now correctly marked as modified.
• Export and other actions are now disabled while the document is saved to prevent errors.
• The pages with pending changes are correctly saved during shutdown.

New Features

• Can now launch Scrble multiple times as separate windows

Bug Fixes

• Loading circle shapes is now compatible with all previous versions of Scrble.
• Does not crash anymore during startup on older versions of Windows 10 (OS build prior 18363).

Bug Fixes

• Rolled back the memory and performance improvements because they introduced too many instability.
• Eraser with the pen was causing the app to crash in some cases.
• Fixed the issue that prevented some pages to be loaded during scrolling.
• Fixed issue that caused pages not correctly loaded to be saved without ink or ink appearing on other pages.
• Fixed issue that caused notes to be duplicated when navigating back from a sub-folder.

New Features

• Merge multiple notes in a single note.

• Export multiple notes or an entire project to a single PDF file.

Improvements

• The app will load documents faster and using less memory.

Bug Fixes

• Removed memory leaks.
• Email as Text was not using the user language when recognizing text.
• Prevent crashes if the user changes the storage folder outside the app.
• Store the version number on any page to avoid re-saving.
• The triangle fill wasn’t rendering the fill anymore.
• The app was crashing on some versions of Windows when navigating to the gallery.
• Prevent flickering when zooming out the page to display the page navigation panel.

Bug Fixes

• PDF images were not imported in the correct size

Bug Fixes

• Recognizer was showing an error when launching if the Ignore Capitalization option was selected

New Features

• Resize and rotate, ink, shapes, images, and text

• 2nd pen button to select or Shift+Right mouse to drag

Improvements

• The custom paper will adjust to selected size and orientation without distorting the image.
• F11 to toggle full screen.
• Added a link to the help dialog to download more custom paper.

Bug Fixes

• Custom paper selection wasn’t prompting for a file selection the first time.

Bug Fixes

• On some machines, saving of the first page was failing when using custom paper.
• Changes to prevent crashes during startup.

Enhancements

• Preserve the value of PDF Import Quality.
• Set English as the default language for Tamil and Malay.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes issue that caused older versions of Windows to fail when pressing Browse.
• Modified the saving algorithm to be compatible with GoogleDrive.

Bug Fixes

• Update saving to try solving issues with Google Drive

Bug Fixes

• Application can’t run in certain version of Windows 10.
• Custom paper selection isn’t working anymore.

New Features

• 3 different sized erasers to erase a portion of a stroke or of a shape.

• Added setting to ignore or preserve capitalization.

Improvements

• Added keyboard shortcuts for export and print.
• Added indicator for buttons with more options.
• Added labels to the buttons’ menus.

Bug Fixes

• The app was crashing when pasting an image copied from a different document.

Bug Fixes

• The ruler kept resetting the default position when scrolling.
• The ruler kept showing up when the protractor was selected.
• Occasional crashes after using the eraser in selection mode.
• The eraser in selection mode did delete other entities.
• When undo a text insert, it deletes all the other texts.

Improvements

• Keyboard shortcuts for all main modes: Ink, Ruler, Protractor, Text, Geometry, Erase, Select, and View.
• Add a link to the full list of all available shortcuts.
• Added a setting for ignoring pen pressure.
• Allow to type text also when using black paper.

Bug Fixes

• The eraser was not always working correctly

New Features

• Ruler.

• Protractor.

Improvements

• Added icons to the align menu.
• The align menu is displayed only for compatible selections.

Improvements

• Added links to release notes and wish-list.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected crashes when deleting pages and saving.
• When saving during text editing, the text wasn’t saved.
• The text wasn’t visible when working with black paper.

Bug Fixes

• The application language was accidentally set to English

Improvements

• Default name when exporting to PDF.
• Setting to turn off auto-save.
• Tap the counter of the page to show navigation panel (when space is available).
• Tap the title to show the rename popup (when space is available).
• Added prompt to select saving folder, to prevent users to lose their notes when uninstalling the application.

New Features

• Align and distribute geometric shapes, text regions, and images

Improvements

• Adaptive layout to allow viewing more pens on various screen sizes

New Features

• Import PDF password-protected documents

Improvements

• Limiting the number of colors displayed to prevent note titles to be cut off

Bug Fixes

• The application crashes occasionally when using the pen eraser

New Features

• Insert Text.

• Format Text.

Improvements

• Increased the maximum number of pens from 5 to 10 (space permitting).
• Prevent the error of out-of-memory after selecting and scrolling a document many times.

Bug Fixes

• The list of available projects was duplicated after each saving.
• Could not copy the selected entities when the page was not completely visible.

Bug Fixes

• Thumbnail in the gallery changed size only in the English version of the application

Improvements

• Adapt PDF import quality based on DPI.
• Added a setting to import PDF files in higher quality.

Bug Fixes

• PDF was exported to the wrong size

Improvements

• Enable interrupting operations of load and import

Bug Fixes

• The application wasn’t working properly after opening a file from Windows Explorer.
• Resolved various minor errors.

New Features

• Email as text.
• Support for multiple languages.
• Right click drag to delete.

• View mode and laser pointer

• Rectangular selection

Improvements

• Enable to interrupt load or import operations.
• Improved memory usage for PDF import.
• Import from PDF sets the best paper size and orientation.
• More robust handling of paper sizes and orientations across documents.
• Version alignment with Scrble and Scrble lite, to better track changes across versions.

Bug Fixes

• Open With didn’t allow to navigate away.
• Paste of external clipboard was not working after ink was copied.
• Saving was getting stuck if an error occurred and any further changes was lost.
• Crash during export when page was empty.
• Various minor bug fixes.

Improvements

• Text recognition is now working independently from the high of the text.

Bug Fixes

• Removed default access to libraries in settings, causing crashes on some devices.
• Check on project text value when saving a note to prevent crashes with empty strings.

New Features

• Added setting to enable/disable auto-save

Improvements

• PDF import was supporting only files with lower case pdf extension

Bug Fixes

• Selection stopped working when start and end point of selection were too close, and previous selection got deleted when switching to pen.
• Deleting pages keeps the same number of pages by adding duplicates at the end.
• Landscape documents got wrongly sized when reloading them during startup.
• Import wasn’t saving until the file was saved with a given name.

Improvements

• Zoom to top of the page when creating new document

Bug Fixes

• Clone folder wasn’t working.
• Open With was crashing.

Bug Fixes

• File become Untitled in certain circumstances, which triggers for assigning a name.
• Untitled file crashes when saving while document was scrolled beyond page 5.
• Saving was failing when new pages were created while saving was in progress.
• Moving notes in gallery could hang the app when a page was missing.
• Title box setting was ignored for file auto-naming.

Improvements

• Keep shape mode when changing pen color.

Bug Fixes

• Add check to make sure only one auto-save is active to avoid saving to fail.

Improvements

• Add counter for selected entities.
• Save button appears always enabled for unnamed documents.
• Right click to select items in the gallery.

Bug Fixes

• Captured photo was working correctly only on page one.
• Select all was not working if a selection was already in progress.
• Page number text was not updating on load.
• Disable share which is not supported on earlier Windows 10 builds (v 1.3.1 for 15063-16299 ).

Improvements

• Added auto-save progress bar.
• Disable save button during auto-save.
• Convert Scrble Ink version 1 file to version 2 to remove duplicates and restore compatibility with Scrble.
• Performance Improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved crashing of Share.
• Duplicate note in gallery would crash if a page was missing.
• When performing an undo/redo all strokes were duplicated in the current page.
• Save button shows up to date, even when the document was not fully saved yet.
• Dismissing the Save Fly-out was stopping auto-save.

New Features

• Share

Improvements

• Separate document settings from user settings.
• Save the image in the new format only if it is cropped.
• Selected images get semi-transparent to allow viewing the image below.
• Import PDF was not clearing the document and resetting the file name.
• Export from the gallery will export all selected documents, not just the first.
• Keep the scroll position, selecting full screen.

Bug Fixes

• PDF save was producing a distorted image.
• PDF import allowed selecting background image.
• It didn’t prompt to select custom paper the first time.
• Out of memory for long documents during loading, saving, and selecting.
• Zoom and pan when the shape was active were deleting strokes.
• The writing pane didn’t show landscape orientation.
• The title box was reappearing when Scrble started up.
• When first activating the pen, the second page was still touch-enabled.
• Prevent crashes with a missing recognizer.
• PDF export was saving the paper only for the first page.
• Saving was also triggered when nothing changed.

Improvements

• Title Box to indicate area for auto-recognized name.
• Added setting to enable/disable Title Box.
• Help button goes directly to help flyout.

First Release

Scrble ink offers all the functionality of Scrble plus adds several important improvements.

• Smooth pressure-sensitive rendering.
• Two additional pens, including a beautiful pencil effect.
• Zoom out to view full page and page navigation panel.
• New notes organization.
• Custom colors.
• 40 width levels.
• Custom paper.
• Edit color, pen style and pen width of selected ink or shapes.
• Crop images.
• Insert, delete and reorder pages.

Bug Fixes

• External clipboard paste was always working on the first page.
• The duplication of shapes was broken.
• The text box pasted from the clipboard was not sized correctly.
• PDF and PNG images showed only ink for pages after page one.