Pear Note Changelog

Changes in version 1.4.2

Handle errors in recording and importing more gracefully
Improved first launch experience
Fixed crash that could occur in upon launch
Fixed crash that could occur when autosaving
Fixed crash that could occur when importing a recording

Changes in version 1.4.1

Handle errors when recording more gracefully, including automatically restarting recording where appropriate
Improved ease of entering license code when Pear Note expires
Added menu item to forget all slide changes
Fixed crash that could occur when Pear Note trial expires

Changes in version 1.4

Added image support, allowing images to be dragged onto the text area
Added Find in Slides support
Added RTFD as an additional export option when a document contains images
Added menu item to save default window position for new documents
Improved QuickLook generator
User interface improvements
Numerous reliability and stability improvements

Changes in version 1.3.6

Fixed bug that prevented reverting to a saved document

Changes in version 1.3.5

Added menu items for opening Video and Slides windows
Improved handling when errors occur during recording
Improved consistency of position within the timeline when opening a document
Fixed bug that caused reinstalling license into all accounts to fail
Fixed bug that caused navigation to fail in rare cases
Fixed bug that caused video to shrink
Fixed bug that caused video to disappear from video window in rare cases

Changes in version 1.3.4

Improved the process of importing slides and media
Added PDF service to make it easier to get slides from PowerPoint or Keynote into Pear Note
Modified jumping to a slide during playback to select the time the slide was up for the longest, rather than the first time it showed
Preserve whether slides or video window are visible when re-opening a document
Fixed bug that caused the total number of slides to disappear when the sidebar is resized
Fixed bug that prevented canceling exporting audio/video
Fixed crash that could occur when undoing highlighting or lists
Improved handling of windows that try to appear off screen
Improved robustness and stability

Changes in version 1.3.3

Changed slider to stretch with the window size
Improved error handling when importing media
Fixed bug in audio and options view that caused things to disappear when resizing
Fixed bug that could cause documents to never load when opened in limited circumstances

Changes in version 1.3.2

Added preference to disable highlighting characters
Added logic to notice when run from somewhere other than Applications and offer to move myself there if so
Improved robustness in slides switching
Fixed bug that caused crashes when recording on Snow Leopard
Fixed bug in Quick Lists that caused misbehavior when selection included a mix of lists and no lists
Fixed bug that could cause the wrong slide to show when rewinding
Fixed bug that caused the highlight well to not show selection when using menu or keyboard shortcut and no text is selected
Fixed bug that caused the adding slides dialog to pop up on the wrong screen
Fixed bug that caused Find Next and related menu items to fail
Fixed typo in slides tooltip
Additional bug fixes

Changes in version 1.3.1

Fixed bug that caused adding some Keynote or Powerpoint files on Snow Leopard to fail
Modified video recording to be more robust and create smaller recording files by utilizing QuickTime X on Snow Leopard

Changes in version 1.3

Added Quick List feature to quickly add lists/outlines to Pear Note documents
Added Highlighting feature to highlight important text within the document
Added preference for default font to be used when creating new documents
Fixed bug that caused window placement to be improper when multiple monitors are used in some cases
Fixed bug that could cause a document to become corrupted if not saved for several days
Fixed bug that could cause a document to become corrupted if undo is attempted during playback at the wrong point
Fixed a crash that could occur when an error occurs while recording
Fixed a bug that caused some videos to be unable to display
Fixed a bug causing misbehavior when jumping around while recording

Changes in version 1.2.3

Improved support for misbehaving UVC webcams
Properly handle quoted phrases in search
Fixed bug that could cause a document to become corrupted if a recording failed
Fixed bug causing video preview to sometimes not show
Fixed bug causing search indicator to sometimes not show
Improved error handling
Other bug fixes

Changes in version 1.2.2

Added new feature to support drag/drop of audio/video files onto document to auto-import
Added new feature to support drag/drop of audio/video or slides files onto Pear Note icon to auto-create a new Pear Note document with that files
Now listed in Open with... context menu for audio/video and slides files
Added new feature to support scrolling to, selecting, and highlighting text that was searched for when opening a new document from a search that searched for an exact word or phrase in the document
Added badges to preview in search for audio, video, and slides
Made moving the divider in the document window smoother
Fixed bug that caused video to stop playing if you moved your scrollwheel on the playing video
Fixed crash that could occur when presenting an Open/Save dialog

Changes in version 1.2.1

Pear Note will now show video when not playing
Added new zoom capabilities to slides and video windows (under View menu)
Record current timestamp even when not recording or playing
Fixed bug that caused slider not to work if no characters had been typed
Fixed crash that could occur after exporting audio/video
Fixed bug that caused slide changes to not undo properly
Fixed bug that caused underlining to stick around occasionally
Fixed bug related to search window activation
Fixed bug related to video and slides window activation
Fixed bug that caused cropping to sometimes fail
Fixed crash that could occur when importing media
Fixed bug in slide display when adding slides to a pre-existing recording
Fixed bug that caused the wrong slide to sometimes show
Fixed bug that caused slides to flip around during playback
Fixed bug that caused recording menu controls to be disabled sometimes
Fixed bug that caused clicking at the end of the text to not work
Fixed bug that caused timeline to jump every time a character was typed
Fixed bug preventing undo of cropping from working properly

Changes in version 1.2

Support for a large variety of video devices, including DV cameras and cameras requiring third-party drivers
Support for high quality video recording
Support for Keynote 09 slides files
Support for crash log reporting (thanks to UKCrashReporter)
New feature to allow auto-scrolling during playback
New feature to allow exporting slides
New feature to support auto-recovery of documents if Pear Note crashes/dies
New feature to support configurable amount of time before a character at which to start playback
Improved highlighting to provide longer-lasting blue underline to indicate location in the recording
Improved slides user interface, including total slides display
Improved time user interface, which when clicked now shows the total time
Improved feedback when finishing recording
Changed behavior of placing characters on the timeline if they are typed while recording/playback is stopped to now give them timestamps at the same time as the character before them
Updated search icon to something that actually looks like a search icon
Fix to bug that caused changing slides in one window to change the slide in all windows
Increased stability when handling broken slides files
Fix to bug causing systems with iWork 09 installed to display slides incorrectly
Fix to bug in interface for Saving preferences
Fix to bug in undoing video import
Fixed bug preventing drag/drop of text from working
Fixed bug that prevented audio from playing back in some cases
Fixed bug that prevented video preview from working in some cases
Fixed bug that could corrupt the timeline after an undo operation
Fixed crash that could occur if document was closed during playback
Fixed crash that could occur if Pear Note was left alone for some time
Fixed bug that caused highlighting to not catch the first few characters when crossing recording boundaries
Fixed bug that caused crash if a document was closed while previewing audio/video or recording audio/video

Changes in version 1.1.3

Fixes to license validation code to make it more reliable
Fix to bug related to switching between using betas and not
Fix to bug that caused Pear Note to silently proceed when recording failed in the background
Fix to bug that caused Pear Note to hang in certain cases when recording failed
Workaround a bug in QuickTime that causes some video cameras to occasionally fail to record on the first try
Fix error messages when recording fails
Handle typed characters while recording is still starting up more cleanly
Fix to preserve toolbar state
Fix to bug that prevented exporting audio/video
Added slide content to search metadata
Improved support for exporting large audio/video files
Fix to search window to ensure old contents go away

Changes in version 1.1.2

Fix to bug introduced in 1.1.1 that caused a crash when recording hours of medium quality video

Changes in version 1.1.1

Fix to bug in text editing when not recording
Fix to bug that caused crash when switching users during recording
Fix to bug that caused crash when playing too quickly after recording finishes
Minor improvements to the GUI
New preference to prevent auto-expanding the audio and video sections
Add ability to zoom slides in slides window
Fix to bug that prevented keyboard shortcuts from working when slides or video window was frontmost

Changes in version 1.1

New feature to import external audio and video files
New feature to export text as plain text or RTF
New feature to export audio and video to QuickTime .mov or AAC .m4a files
Major overhaul to saving functionality to save as much as possible while in the middle of recording
Added list support to document text
Added link support within document text
Added support for formatting spacing of document text
Added table support to document text
Added Recording menu for accessing recording controls from the menu bar
Sidebar can now be hidden by double-clicking it
Numerous stability improvements
Numerous UI clean ups
Several performance improvements
Improved undo support
Note - 1.1 includes a new file format that is not compatible with previous versions of Pear Note. Consequently, any documents saved in 1.1 will not be able to be opened by previous versions. Pear Note 1.1 has no problems opening older files, however, so this should not pose a problem for most users.

Changes in version 1.0.1

New feature to allow removing slides from document
Improved handling of insertion/removal of devices
Improved handling of adding slides
Fixed a saving bug that occurred when closing a document during recording
Fixed bug to handle saving during recording more gracefully
Fixed numerous saving bugs
Fixed display bug in QuickLook plugin
Improved license handling
Miscellaneous user interface improvements