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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

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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).