• Native support for Image files: With QuickTime™ installed RealView can open and display the following image file kinds:
PICT, QuickTime Image, MacPaint, Photoshop (versions 2.5 and 3.0), Silicon Graphics, GIF, JFIF/JPEG, BMP, PNG, Targa and TIFF.
NOTE: More file kinds may become available with future versions of QuickTime.
• Drag And Drop 1: You can drag text and pictures embedded inside the text to the desktop or to another application window.
• Drag And Drop 2: You can open files by dragging them on to an open RealView window.
• New from clipboard (Edit Menu): You can open the clipboard contents in a window (and later save it to a file, if you wish) currently only text (plain or styled) and pictures are supported.
• Zoom in and out Images: You can view images at 12%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, 300% and 400% using the "Display/Zoom" menu.
• "Smart" file opening: When the default display mode is "Original" RealView will detect if the file is suited for display as text or image. If not then RealView will open it in Hex mode (which is very fast).
• Image Details: When clicking on the little triangle gadget at the top of an Image window RealView will display image information such as size (in pixels) resolution and color depth.
• Improved Window Redraw: Faster and better.
• Arrow key navigation: Pressing on the arrow keys scrolls the window by one line up, down, left or right.
• Native line feed line breaking: Apart form breaking the line at the edge of the page and at a carriage return RealView will also break the lines at a line feed. This speeds up RealView's performance when opening HTML, UNIX or PC files.
• Rotating Watch cursor: When performing time consuming processes that require a long time RealView shows a rotating wrist watch cursor.
• Bug Fix1: The splash screen will not show when launching RealView by dragging a file on its Icon.
• BUG FIX2: Fixed a bug that caused RealView to open files on top of a pending Error Message. RealView now waits until you press "OK" before going on.
• BUG FIX3: If the selection is styled text, RealView will also put the text styles on the clipboard and not only the text.
• BUG FIX4: "Save Selection" will also save the styles (if there are any) and not only the text.
Version history:
Version 2.5.1
• Improved line layout Speed: especially in Hebrew (2.5.1)
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused RealView not to respond when an uninitialized disk is inserted. (2.5.1)
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused RealView to sometimes not select the right word when double clicking. (2.5.1)
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused RealView not to print some documents. (2.5.1)
• Improved embedded pictures support: RealView now displays embedded pictures in "Text" display mode also. (2.5.1)
• 68k native: RealView2.5.1 comes also in a 68k (Classic Mac) version. (2.5.1)
Version 2.5
• PowerPC native: RealView2.5 was completely rewritten in C and compiled to PowerPC native code.
• Improved HTML to TEXT filter: The HTML->TEXT filter was rewritten and is now 'smarter'. The filter now converts HTML spacial character codes (such as ) into real characters. The filter also "unbreaks" the lines in the HTML code, removing unnecessary line breaks.
• Improved "Find": You can now Cut and Paste text into it.
• Finder integration: Just kidding, I changed RealView's windows to look like the finder windows.
• Better PICT Display: PICTs now scroll without flicker.
• Bug Fix1: Fixed a bug that sometimes caused text highlighting problems in plain text viewing mode.
• Bug Fix2: You can now perform HTML->TEXT conversion on any file even if it doesn't start with an <HTML> tag.
Version 2.4
• Fixed a bug that caused windows to appear as narrow slots when there was no printer selected in the chooser.
• Added 'Save' in 'File' menu.
• Added 'HTML -> TEXT' in the conversion menu.
• Added 'PICT' file support.
• Added support for Embedded pictures.
• Included style runs in file save.
• Included embedded pictures in file save.
Version 2.3
• Added an option to display and print Styled Text.
• Added the 'Preferences' option to toggle on/off the Document Details display.
• Improved Save, Save As..: Saves files as Type "TEXT" (some Apps. didn't see RV files before)
• Improved "Edit" menu: the menu is now the standard Apple "Edit" menu.
• Improved "Convert" menu: converts the whole file (no need to select a part to convert).
• Improved ugly menu 'blinking' (wiped out several AdjustMenus in several places).
• Improved Horizontal Scrolling: did not reset when scrolling horizontally with the selection.
• Improved menus: "Search" menu eliminated. It's options can be reached from the "File" menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused the appearance of an empty 'Not Enough Memory' dialog box while trying to open files that are too big for allocated memory.
Version 2.2
• Added Find feature (Text and Hex).
• Added Double click word selection.
• Added Shift-click to extend selection.
• Improved behavior of Windows: New windows now Auto-zoom to best location and size.
• Improved behavior of Windows: Window width is limited to page width.
• Improved: Smother and faster redraw
• Fixed a bug that caused default Page Setup settings to be saved even if the user choose "cancel" in the preferences dialog box.
• Fixed a bug that caused the selection to be drawn incorrectly in large documents.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a system crash after choosing the default font in the 'preferences' dialog box.
Version 2.1:
• Added support for 'Page up', 'Page down', 'Home' and 'End' keys.
• Added 'Zoom Box' in windows.
• Added Line breaking calculation based on page size instead the window size (You no longer have to wait a long time when you change the window size (like in 'Teach Text')).
• Added ability to change the font size.
• Added 'Save as' in 'File' menu.
• Added Default Page Size option in 'preferences'.
• Added Horizontal scroll bar.
• Added Simple 'Convert'' menu that includes UNIX -> MAC and MAC -> UNIX conversions.
• Added 'Windows' menu.
• RealView diet. (Version 2.0.1 was 180k Version 2.1 less the 60k)
• Fixed a bug that caused the menu titles to become garbled.
