What’s
New in QST Browser
Kok
Chen, W7AY [w7ay (at) arrl net]
Last updated: March 21, 2010
NOTE: As of 2008, the ARRL has started to discontinue selling QST View CD-ROMS. The CD-ROMS are still available from the original publisher (Radio Era Archives, http://www.radioera.com/QST-VIEW.asp) and Radio Era's distributors.
Version 0.20 (March 21, 2010)
(Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 compatibility)
The TIFF renderer in Mac OS X has again changed in Snow Leopard 10.6, causing some images to invert the black and white levels. I.e., some articles appear as white text in a black background.
I have added a "Force Invert" menu item under the Article menu
If an image appears inverted in the preview window, just
select the Force Invert item. The inversion is also applied
when the article is transfered to the larger viewing
window.
Version 0.18 and 0.19 (July 25, 2008)
There is a bug in the Cocoa framework (at
least up to Leopard 10.5.4) when reading some TIFF images.
As a result, certain articles from QST will not render. QST
Browser works around the problem by using the Quicktime
import and Quartz to render into a Cocoa image. TIFF pages
that did not render due to the bug should now display
properly, albeit a little slower.
The Export function used to only allow you to export the
currently selected article from a browser interface into a
multipage TIFF file. It now allows you to also export from
any Full Page View window -- you can keep multiple pave
views opens and activate a page view window and select
Export from the Article menu to export the selected
article.
Version 0.17
Increased the max article count in the
ListView to 256 articles per issue. The original max count
was 64 and some issues of QST (especially where there were
many letters to the editor) were truncated in the ListView
(the list at the lower left of the window).
Version 0.16
The unzip utility that was called
BOMArchiveHelper had changed to Archive
Utility in Leopard. QST Browser v 0.16 has been
updated to look for both programs..
Version 0.15
QST Browser can now read the NCJ Collection
(1973-1998).