Sozi release 21.08.02

This release fixes a regression that was introduced in Sozi 21.08.01-1627813731.
Compared to the previous releases 21.02, this release introduces the following changes:

• Touch support in presentations.
• Keyboard shortcuts "A" (view all) and "=" (restore current frame) when playing a presentation (#495)
• Updated translations.
• Package in RPM format
• Bug fixes (#496, #514, #517, #535)

Under the hood, Sozi 21.08 is built with Gulp instead of Grunt. While most Sozi users are not directly concerned with this change, it is still possible that bugs have been introduced in the process.

This release is distributed only for 64-bit platforms. If you think you need a 32-bit version, please join the discussion #521 on this topic.

Sozi release 21.02

Since Sozi 20.05, the editor has undergone a modernization of its internal design. The affected features are related to file management (loading, saving and refreshing).

Compared to Sozi 20.05, this release comes with two new features:

• Custom stylesheets and scripts can be added to a presentation without manually editing the generated HTML.
• The export tool (formerly known as Sozi-export) has been migrated into the main presentation editor.

Sozi presentations can be exported to the following document types and formats:

• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (PPTX)
• Video (PNG image sequence, MPEG-4, WebM, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Video)

Exporting to PDF, PPTX, and PNG sequence should work out of the box. No additional software is required.

Sozi uses FFPMEG to export to other video formats. A copy of FFMPEG is included in the Windows and OS X releases below. Linux users must install FFMPEG using the package manager of their distribution.

Video export has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit, and Windows 10 64-bit. Feedback from users of OS X will be welcome.

Sozi release 20.05

Since the previous stable release, a lot of internal changes have been made to Sozi: code clean-up and refactoring, upgrade of Electron and JavaScript libraries, build process. Ideally, these changes should be transparent for users, but further tests are needed before considering this release as stable.

Sozi 20.05 introduces the following visible changes:

Presentation editor:

• Uses a custom notification system instead of native notifications.
• Simpler user interface to select and use an outline element
• Option to add all layers to the timeline (#453)
• Option to enable/disable the back button in the player (#458)
• Updated translations
• Using xz archive format for Linux and OS X results in smaller downloads
• Bug fix: workaround for issues related to text elements (#398)
• Bug fix: inconsistent state when moving the canvas using the mouse during an animated transition
• Bug fix: some preferences were not saved
• Bug fix: fields reset in the properties pane when hitting Ctrl-S (#472)
• Performance tweaks

Presenter console:

• Updated layout based on a proposal by @ejvindh, now with resizable areas for previews and notes.
• Keyboard support
• Bug fix: comply with same-origin policy in recent web browsers (#466)
• Bug fix: now works in Chromium-based browsers (#467)
• Bug fix: handle hyperlinks between the presenter window and the main window (#469).

Player:

• Show current frame title in the title bar of the browser (#459)
• Bug fix: frame number alignment in the frame list (#460)
• Bug fix: incompatible with older browsers and Sozi-export

Sozi Release 19.04

This release introduces the following changes:

• Presenter mode HTML output (#211).
• Hierarchical frame list (#64)
• Editor: manual save/reload available in preferences (#442).
• Editor: fixed performance issue when reloading the SVG repeatedly (#424).
• Player: fixed visible scrollbar when the frame list does not fit the window height.
• Media: added an option to hide controls (#347).

Under the hood:

• Removed the dependency to bower.
• Based on Electron 3.0.2

Sozi Release 18.04

This release introduces the following changes:

• Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
• Fixes: reset layer, clipping, relative zoom
• Updated translations: Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, French, Esperanto.
• Debian package can be installed in recent distributions.
• Sozi can be chosen to open an SVG file from Linux file browsers.

Sozi Release 18.01

This release introduces the following changes:

• It allows to preview transitions in the presentation editor.
• It fixes the UI freezing when reloading a document that was modified externally.
• It is based on a more recent version of Electron
• It comes with updated translations (Chinese, Danish, Brazilian Portuguese).

Zip/tgz bundles have been renamed with the common names of the target operating systems ("osx" instead of "darwin", "windows" instead of "win32").
Debian packages are provided for Linux distributions that support them.

Sozi 17.11

Bug fixes. Selectively enable/disable user actions in player. Updated translations.

Sozi 17.06

Bug fixes. Customizable UI font size. "Reset layer" and "copy layer". Install script for Linux.

Sozi 17.02

Blank frame (#146), more intuitive outline element selection, new translations, electron backend, bug fixes.

Sozi 16.02

Keyboard shortcuts in the editor, Chinese translation, and a few bug fixes.