New Version 25.50

[Gerhard Huber]

Improvements

• Open file: If an open document has a different color space than the working color space, it can now be converted optionally.
• Layer List, thumbnail: Clicking with Alt creates an intersection with the existing mask.
• Layer List: Groups with “Pass Through”; for other blending modes, “Encapsulated Drawing” is set automatically.
• Layer List, thumbnails of transparent layers: There are various options for displaying transparency.
• Layer List, search: “&linecolor” and “&fillcolor” now also search in text layers.
• Layer List, search: “&color” searches for line and fill color.
• Layer Attributes: “Normal” layers with visible children can now be drawn isolated.
• Layer Attributes, channel settings: Alt+click for the usual toggle behavior.
• PDF import: Changes to improve recognition of fonts with incorrect names.
• PDF import: Annotations with AppearanceStream are loaded.
• SVG import, images: Now also reads images that are not embedded.
• TIFF import: Better handling of defective gamut data.
• AVIF export: Can now also save animations.
• Lighten/Darken tool: Now have separate presets.
• Gradient action: The “In active layer” status can now be changed by editing the action.
• Settings, Windows: “Extended > Language” now displays the available languages in a drop-down list.
• Settings: “Extended > Font replacement list” now has slash names instead of buttons for bold and italic.
• Layer > Merge Layers”: Applies the name of the active layer or the lowest layers with a name.
• “Edit > Paste,” Vector, Windows: SVG and PDF are now preferred for pasting in Windows.
• “Edit > Image,” Image: Similar to vector, PNG and TIFF data are preferred for pasting.
• Curve editor, undo: The curve editor supports undo.
• Docked dialogs: If a dialog that is too large is docked, its size is reduced accordingly.
• Text input, Windows: Improved input with, for example, the Japanese IME.
• macOS 26: Finder shows previews for PLD files in icon mode.
• Scripting: New operation “Change Channels”.
• Scripting: New operation “Convert”.
• Scripting, Windows: “Alert” no longer requires a button. “OK” is used instead.

Bug Fixes

• Fonts: Old Windows names (e.g., “Arial Black”) were not found correctly.
• Layer List, groups with ajustment layers, color profiles: The thumbnail could be incorrect for groups with adjustment layers and color profiles.
• Page List: The thumbnail could disappear after changing its size.
• Scripting, macOS: Pages could not be deleted.
• Layer tool, Lasso: If there was a Lasso, the document was marked as changed when the mouse was moved.
• Vector Lasso: When hiding the Lasso, handles outside the Lasso area were not erased.
• “Edit Vector Points” tool, vector with gradient: The gradient editor was displayed in the document even when the handles were turned off.
• Liquify, Warp subtool: Edge artifacts appeared when painting upwards out of the image.
• Quick Selection: Mouse pointer and brush display improved.
• Partial Transparency tool: Now uses the paint mouse pointer instead of a cross.
• Measurement tool: When clicking and dragging, “Setup scale” was not handled correctly.
• Image tools, Merged Copy or Source set to Active Layer: If there was an adjustment layer with a border (blur, liquify, etc.) before the active layer, the result could be incorrect.
• Clone Brush, Tool Preview: If the source was not the active layer, the preview did not work if the layer had a layer mask or an adjustment.
• Curves, Painting tool: After using Curves, the mouse pointer of the painting tool was no longer correct.
• Icons, macOS: Icons with fixed scaling were sometimes upscaled under Retina.
• macOS, multi-monitor: When maximized, document windows were sometimes maximized on the wrong monitor.
• Gradient editor in dialogs, Windows: Clicking in the color bar displayed a drop-down dialog instead of selecting a color/gamma or creating a new color.
• Line style editor, drop-down version: Creating multiple line segments closed the drop-down dialog.
• PDF export, path text with background effects: Problems could occur during export.
• PDF import: Text generation improved.
• TIFF import: Tiled images are read better.
• AVIF export: Gray images were not saved correctly.
• (Simple) Browse, recent files: An outdated thumbnail could be displayed.
• Docked dialogs: If a hidden dialog was displayed again in a miniaturized tab window, a crash occurred.
• Isolated groups, path effects/distort: Layer masks were ignored when path effects were applied to the isolated group.
• "Morph Marked Vector Layers": If a morph was created in the opposite direction to an existing morph, a crash occurred.
• Embedded placeholders, external program: Embedded placeholders were converted to file placeholders when edited in an external program.
• Preferences: After making a change in the Preferences dialog, the drop-down list selection was incorrect.
• Focus frames around custom text fields, macOS 26: Focus frames ware displayed incorrectly.
• Screen, resolution change (including hibernation at certain resolutions), macOS: Improved behavior with docked dialogs.
• Gray image with grouped adjustment layer and layer effects: The adjustment sometimes worked in RGB mode, even though grouped adjustments by definition work in the color model of the parent image layer.
• Color Editor, vector pattern: After changing the pattern size, the visible section could jump.
• Vector layers, curve, fill: Curves consisting of two points that formed a rectangle together with its control points were filled as rectangles.
• Preferences > Display > Grid and Guides: If values were changed in both sub-dialogs, only one of the changes was applied.

[pixel8tor]

Hi Hubers,

Thanks for the latest release, V25.50.

It's unfortunate that the issues with opening files with the ICC profile mismatch option active haven't been addressed at all. See this post:

https://www.pl32.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... 7ef#p54322

I don't see any change since it was first released back in August as a beta. Why? If you don't consider it important enough to fix why add it as a feature?

The 25.50 version looks like:

ICCmismatch.jpg

It would be great if you would resolve these issues. Thanks, and take care.

- Pixel8tor -

[Gerhard Huber]

what is your problem here?
The missing translation?
Sorry, I forgot this.
Unzip the appended file and copy it into your English folder and it will be translatet.

[pixel8tor]

Thanks for the English translations file. But somewhere along the line it seems the folders must have been renamed. The "Dialogs.stb" file goes into the "en" folder, not the "English" folder, as you said.

Another item that seems wrong is, if I press the "Cancel" button, the file opens. In all other apps I've used, when the "Cancel" button is pressed the action is canceled! It doesn't continue. So for the file to open either way, pressing "OK" or "Cancel", is inconsistent, and seems wrong to me.

I was wondering why you need an option to activate the "Profile Mismatch" dialog? Shouldn't that be automatically active if Color Management is active? And if you do need it for some reason, wouldn't it make more sense to put that option with the rest of the color management options, rather than buried in "Edit->Options...->File->Open" tab. But do you really need that option at all, just enable it when color management is active.

And how does the "Do not show this dialog again" option work? How do you reset that if you've turned it on? Why have that option at all?

Thanks again - take care

[der_fotograf]

And how does the "Do not show this dialog again" option work? How do you reset that if you've turned it on? Why have that option at all?

Preferences -> File -> Open -> Check the box

[pixel8tor]

Oh, I forgot to mention the lack of support for files with no embedded ICC profile. Currently they are completely ignored. Shouldn't the option to tag untagged files with the current working space ICC profile also be available?

[der_fotograf]

Use the "Profile Mismatch" dialog, and it will use the profile you have selected in the Preferences. Simple as that.

[shijan]

I was wondering why you need an option to activate the "Profile Mismatch" dialog? Shouldn't that be automatically active if Color Management is active?

Color Management is always enabled, it is not depends of this option at all. "Profile Mismatch" is just an additional (Photoshoppish) option. For my opinion it is useless and even dangerous and should be avoided in normal workflows, especially in PhotoLine which have lossless and non-destructive color management by default. But anyway, if someone for some unknown reason needs lossy convert of opened file to some color space, it is way simpler to create an action for this and so control it in better and safer way.

Oh, I forgot to mention the lack of support for files with no embedded ICC profile. Currently they are completely ignored. Shouldn't the option to tag untagged files with the current working space ICC profile also be available?

Untagged images by all web defaults remains untagged or assumed that they are in sRGB color space. Automatically tag untagged images with some random ICC profile is a bad idea.

P.S. Didn't we discussed all this stuff in beta version thread already? Also, for my personal opinion, it is better to spend development time to fix remaining "quality related" problems instead of adding and bugfixing kindergarden add-ons.

[Hoogo]

Oh, I forgot to mention the lack of support for files with no embedded ICC profile. Currently they are completely ignored. Shouldn't the option to tag untagged files with the current working space ICC profile also be available?

Idk...
Color management is complicated. It's better to go without it than to do something wrong, like convert sRGB to AdobeRGB because that's bigger and size matters.
Therefore I think that working without embedded profiles is a good thing, and I would bother users about that topic as little as possible.