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iSilo™ 3.35 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, and Windows® CE Handheld PC (July 9, 2003)

• In some instances when a table is enclosed within another block, when ignoring tables and adding horizontal lines between cells, the cells would be in the background color and hence appear invisible.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) On devices with the high-density API, spacing of left margins in lists would be too small.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) On the Tungsten T and Zire 71, the OS does not reset the auto-off timer when the five-way navigator is used.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) On a Jornada 568, when in autoscroll mode, pressing the rocker up/down causes autoscroll to stop.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) If any of the hardware buttons are assigned to an action, then when viewing a document and then switching to another application, the hardware buttons still have their iSilo™ assigned actions.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) When in full screen mode and switching to another application the display can become unsynchronized.

• Changed Table options to Layout options with the following choices:
  • Enable table layout (equivalent to old multi-column tables choice)
  • Disable table layout (equivalent to old single column tables choice)
  • Disable all layout (new)
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added tiny and small font capabilities for all high-density devices (e.g., including Palm OS 5 devices).
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Improved character spacing for tiny and small fonts on Palm OS 5 Sony CLIÉ devices.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added option for setting document list refresh to manual.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added document list Refresh command to the Tools menu.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) Added ClearType support with option for enabling it on a per document basis through the Options dialog's Display tab.

iSilo™ 3.3 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows®, and Windows® CE Handheld PC (February 1, 2003)

• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) If the silk screen area has been resized while a dialog is active, then upon returning from the dialog resize the view.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Using the Edit Bookmarks dialog, modifying document or global bookmarks of read-only documents may cause a crash.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Using the Edit Bookmarks dialog, moving a bookmark in a Palm Doc document stored on VFS media results in an invalid update of the displayed bookmarks.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) When sorting the document list by date, the list may repeatedly refresh even if nothing has changed.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC, Windows®, and Windows® CE Handheld PC) In iSilo 2.x documents, underlined subscripted text has the underline going through the text and underlined superscripted text has the underline too far beneath the text.
• (iSilo™ for Windows®) On systems that do not require a user login, the user name and user ID in the System Information dialog would be blank.

• Added toolbar button for jumping to the top of the home page. If a document was not converted with a home page specification, then a jump is made to the top of the first page.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS® and Pocket PC) Enhanced button configurability. In addition to the application buttons, now the directional buttons can be reassigned to different actions. The action list has been expanded so that all configurable buttons can be assigned to any of the following actions:
  • Screen up
  • Screen down
  • Line up
  • Line down
  • Screen left
  • Screen right
  • Line left
  • Line right
  • Top of page
  • End of page
  • Home
  • First page
  • Last page
  • Previous page
  • Next page
  • Back
  • Forward
  • Mark location
  • Jump to mark
  • Bookmarks
  • Autoscroll
  • Previous link
  • Next link
  • Hyperlinks
  • Smaller font
  • Larger font
  • Close document
  • Full screen
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS® and Pocket PC) For a button assigned to the Back action, if the button is pressed and the back history is empty, then close the document.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added support for wide/tall screen modes of AlphaSmart Dana.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) For the Tungsten™ T navigator control, in the document list view, Left moves the cursor up, Right moves the cursor down, and Select opens the document under the cursor.

iSilo™ 3.25 for Windows® CE Handheld PC (December 2, 2002)

iSilo™ 3.25 for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, and Windows® (December 5, 2002)

• When highlighting content with a non-zero top margin, the highlight may be offset vertically in the downward direction.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Tapping the application launcher/home silkscreen icon while in the password dialog results in a fatal error.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Documents in /Palm/Launcher may fail to be added to the document list.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Text displays cutoff on the NX60/70V.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) When using region screen up/down scrolling to scroll across page boundaries, the page number would not be updated.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) The application may become unregistered after a soft reset.
• (iSilo™ for Windows®) When returning from fullscreen mode, the scrollbar disappears.

• Added support for hyperlink mode for iterating through currently visible hyperlinks.
• Added support for starting on the home page of a document if the document was converted with the option for doing so if the document date differs from the document date the last time the document was opened.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) For Palm OS® 5, added ability to display an image at double the image's width and height.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added support for the Tungsten™ T navigator control, Left performs a screen left, Right performs a screen right, and an action can be assigned to Select using the Jog Push field in the Button Options.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) Added support for the Tungsten™ T Voice Memo button. An action can be assigned to the button using the Aux/Back field in the Button Options.
• (iSilo™ for Palm OS®) When using tap scrolling, decreased startup time for continuous scrolling.
• (iSilo™ for Pocket PC) When renaming files, if the original file name had a three letter extension, then add it to the new file name if it does not end with a period nor have a three letter extension.

iSilo™ 3.2 for Windows® (September 5, 2002)

iSilo™ 3.2 for Palm OS® and Pocket PC (September 5, 2002)

• A System Information dialog, accessible from either the document list view or while viewing a document through the Tools menu. The dialog displays the user name (e.g., owner name) and the associated user ID of the device.
• Support for iSiloX/iSiloXC generated password protected documents. The password protection is embedded into the document during conversion and can not be modified nor removed from the converted document.
• Support for iSiloX/iSiloXC generated registration code protected documents. The registration code protection is embedded into the document during conversion.
• Support for iSiloX/iSiloXC generated documents that include an expiration date. The expiration date is embedded into the document during conversion.
• Support for displaying Title, Author, and Publisher information messages through the Document Information dialog accessible through the Edit menu while viewing a document.

iSilo™ 3.15 for Pocket PC (August 1, 2002)

• When moving to from a page with content wider than the screen to another page that does not have content wider than the screen, remnants of the horizontal scroll bar from the previous page would remain in the left and right borders.
• Paragraphs within list items with outside markers would be aligned with the outside marker instead of inside.
• For iSilo 1.x/2.x, Palm Doc, and text documents, font appeared too big, so the base font size is now 10 points instead of 12 points.

• For short pages with tables, format immediately, resulting in immediate display of tables on such pages. A document must have been generated with iSiloX or iSiloXC version 3.15 or later to have this optimization.
• Added free mode, which has the following feature limitations:
  • Hyperlinks are non-functional.
  • Images do not display and in their place are gray rectangular boxes that show where the images would be.
  • Color is not available. All parts of a document, including text, backgrounds, and borders display in black and white.
  • Tables display in single-column mode.
  • Mixed font sizes are not available. All text displays in the same font size.
  • Copying text to the clipboard is not available.
  • Bookmarks are not available. Existing bookmarks can not be used, nor can new bookmarks be added.
• Added Scrollbar option Show + Full Screen to allow the scroll bar to also be shown in full screen mode.
• Optimized content display for noticeably improved textual display and scroll speed.
• Replaced standard document list control with custom implementation, resulting in the following:
  • Ability to set the iSilo folder with the My Documents folder as the top-level folder, and thus allowing for subfolders within the iSilo folder to be viewed
  • Ability to show and hide the file extension
  • Ability to show and hide the file date
  • Ability to show and hide the file size
  • Ability to set automatic or manual list update
• Added "Choose Folder" command to the document list's List menu for selecting either the "My Documents" folder or the "My Documents\iSilo" folder as the top-level folder.
• Added "Refresh" command to the document list's List menu to force a refresh of the document list.
• Added "List" tab to the document list options dialog for setting options for showing or hiding the file extension, showing or hiding the file date, showing or hiding the file size, and for selecting whether the document list automatically updates.
• Added "Mode" tab to the document list options dialog with options for Free mode and whether or not to show the trial period reminder (available only during the trial period).
• Added ability to reverse the sort order of the document list by selecting the same sort entry again.

iSilo™ 3.15 for Palm OS® (August 1, 2002)

• Paragraphs within list items with outside markers would be aligned with the outside marker instead of inside.
• Displaying a lower bit-depth image on a higher bit-depth screen, may result in a fatal exception.
• If the last time iSilo was exited while a document was opened and then iSilo is restarted then exited without returning at least once to the document list view, the category would revert back to all instead of to the last chosen category.
• Under certain interface settings, going to full screen mode would result in some portions of the screen being blank.
• When opening a new document for the first time and the default Location setting is set to Percentage, the percentage would show 99% instead of 0% even though the current location is at the beginning of the page.

• For short pages with tables, format immediately, resulting in immediate display of tables on such pages. A document must have been generated with iSiloX or iSiloXC version 3.15 or later to have this optimization.
• Added free mode, which has the following feature limitations:
  • Hyperlinks are non-functional.
  • Images do not display and in their place are gray rectangular boxes that show where the images would be.
  • Color is not available. All parts of a document, including text, backgrounds, and borders display in black and white.
  • Tables display in single-column mode.
  • Mixed font sizes are not available. All text displays in the same font size.
  • Copying text to the clipboard is not available.
  • Bookmarks are not available. Existing bookmarks can not be used, nor can new bookmarks be added.
• Added "Mode" to the Options menu for setting options for Free mode and whether or not to show the unregistered button and trial period reminder (available only during the trial period).
• Added "Register" to the Options menu as another way to access the registration dialog.

iSilo™ 3.11 (June 20, 2002)

iSilo™ 3.11 (June 11, 2002)

• When drawing the top part of a line, horizontal space of text would not be properly accounted for if the top of the text was below the part of the line that was being drawn, resulting in misalignment of horizontal regions of the line's content.
• On OS 3.5 and greater, for documents that do not specify default background colors or text colors, the system form background colors and field text colors were not being used.
• If the jog wheel is assigned to autoscroll, then when using the jog wheel to select a menu item, autoscroll will start and garble the displayed content.
• If iSilo finishes formatting the content while the menu is displayed, the display may become garbled.
• When the document list has numerous entries, on initial display, the document list scroll bar may not display the correct relative number of entries currently displayed.
• If the end of the page is currently displayed and then the toolbar is hidden, subsequently performing a page up may result in an invalid update of the content.
• Words at rare boundaries may wrap in the middle of the word.
• After having a sufficiently large page displayed continuously for a long while, the device may hang, requiring a soft reset.

• For the Sony CLIÉ PEG-NR70 and PEG-NR70V models, support for minimizing of the soft Graffiti® panel to extend the content display area.
• Added full screen mode, available in the Tools menu.
• Improved performance on copying documents to VFS media on Palm OS® 4.0 and later.

iSilo™ 3.1 (February 21, 2002)

• Documents whose names contained certain characters such as the colon character (':') would not beam in Palm OS 4.x.
• Alphabetizing bookmarks in Doc documents with more than several bookmarks would result in a "Chunk over-locked" message.
• Performing a page up would result in a fatal exception and a reset if the line before the current first line has a horizontal rule.
• Blocks with non-zero left or right margins and a non-zero top/bottom margin would draw with an incomplete background for the top/bottom margin in the left and right margin areas.
• The document list view would not be updated if a document was deleted through the Details dialog and the document was opened using the Information dialog.

• Hardware button configuration: The four hardware buttons (Date Book, Address, To Do List, and Memo Pad/Note Pad), pushing of the jog dial/wheel, and the auxiliary/back button can be individually assigned to perform any of the following actions:
  • Back
  • Forward
  • Line up
  • Line down
  • Scroll left
  • Scroll right
  • Bookmarks: Pop up the bookmark list
  • Autoscroll: Start and stop
  In the read view, go to the Options menu and tap the Button menu item to access the Button Options dialog to configure the hardware buttons, jog dial/wheel, and auxiliary/back button to any of the available actions.
• Autoscroll: This scrolls the content at any of twenty possible speeds.
  • In the read view, go to the Tools menu and tap the Autoscroll menu item to start autoscroll.
  • Use the page up/page down or jog dial/wheel to change the speed.
  • To change from smooth autoscroll to line-at-a-time autoscroll, go to the Options menu, tap the Scroll menu item, uncheck the autoscroll checkbox in the Smooth field, and then tap OK.
• Tool bar activiation: When the tool bar is hidden, you can now also activate it by tapping in the lower left of the screen.

iSilo™ 3.05 (January 1, 2002)

• Center or right-aligned preformatted text within table cells would disappear.
• Going back and forth numerous times between a page having a table resulted in crashes.
• Setting the text option to align right for iSilo 1.x documents would have no effect on aligning the text.
• On the HandEra 330, while viewing a document in landscape mode with the Graffiti(R) area maximized, the Details form would extend into the Graffiti(R) area.
• Scrolling horizontally on Palm OS 3.5 may result in corrupted display of content.

• The tool bar location indicator can be configured to display the location within the current page expressed as a percentage.
• The Interface options dialog gets a new Location field used to configure the tool bar location indicator to one of Automatic, Page, and Percentage.
• The Go To Page dialog has been renamed as Go To and now has new functionality for going to a percentage location within the current page, and buttons for jumping to the top and end of the current page.
• Version 3.05 of iSiloX and iSiloXC allow the specification of a default category for a document. When such a document is added to the document list, the document is added to the specified default category. If the specified default category does not yet exist, it is created unless there is no room for it.

iSilo™ 3.01 (November 24, 2001)

• Single character words at the end of a line would extend past the right edge of the screen.
• The software would hang when displaying a line that had left and right margins whose sum was greater than the width of the screen.
• On Palm OS® 3.0 and 3.1, copying text to the clipboard would sometimes report an out of memory error at consistent places in the document even though very little text was copied.
• If an inline image did not fit at the end of a line, the line would be at least as tall as the image.
• On Palm OS® 3.5, scrolling or dragging horizontally would occasionally result in a fatal exception.
• On Palm OS® 3.x, the top half of single italicized narrow characters such as 'i', 'l', and 'I' would be blank.
• The location before performing a find was not being stored in the history.

iSilo™ 3.0 (October 29, 2001)