Release date: 2011-09-01

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Save comments without confirmation when switching items in hierarchical managers (e.g., ObjectExplorer)
• Set focus to primary document pane when loading a PD via drop-down list. This removes the annoying switch to the next PD when pressing the cursor up/down keys. Press the shift-key simultaneously if you want to use the cursor keys for browsing through the PDs.
• New code-by-list button in code manager lets you code the current selection with the selected codes (as an alternative to drag & drop)
• New bullet icons for the HTML export
• Wordcruncher failed when one document was not available
• Autocoding: Fixed anomalies when filtering or deleting codes while autocoding was processed with confirm.
• Crashes with some multimedia documents
• Startup failure due to missing code page in rare circumstances
• Family assigner bug

Release date: 2011-07-01

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Extreme Wordcruncher performance boost
• Streamlined workflow for creating Wordcruncher tables (default folder, automatic naming)
• Increased performance dramatically when opening family managers in large HUs (calculating the quotation count was the devil)
• Increased performance with super codes
• Reduce extreme click synchronization between tools (a single click in one window could easily destroy a selection in another)
• Import KMZ files more robustly (some were prematurely rejected)
• PDF: hefty scrollbar movement could cause crash
• Reject unloadable PDFs from Coding Analyzer procedure
• A-Docs F4 import
• Assign of documents with DBCS path failed
• Ensure valid path for GE 3D screenhots
• Create TRUNCATED code during survey import only when needed
• Adding SynchroSequences failed while merging

Release date: 2011-06-08

New, Fixed and Improved:

• During HU merge free quotation comments were ignored
• Self-repair for invalid supercodes
• XML export did not ask for including pds and quotations
• Exception in synchro-player when a multimedia document is not loadable and it tries to indicate a position.
• Coding-Analyzer did not work with PDF quotations when PD was not loaded before
• Surveys: extreme performance boost (from days to minutes)
• Storage optimized import for large tables
• Incremental column imports
• Truncation handling with native Excel files
• Display codes in quotation manager column
• XSL style sheet "codes with comments" now displays complete quotations

Release date: 2011-03-25

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Empty window for Word documents with non-ANSI characters in there filename
• Audio quotation could exist twice when created with different buttons
• Family Assigner threw an error
• Survey Import protection violation
• Merging HUs with A-Docs created a large number of redundant synchro lists (fattening the HU)
• Signed postprocessor.exe hopefully keeps Kaspersky calm
• Cleaned up and unified all textual reports
• Background info display for multi media docs much nicer ...
• Provision for starting ATLAS.ti in Safe Mode
• Cooc table label less Under Construction

Release date: 2011-02-22

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Enter document edit mode when creating an internal document
• Ctrl-A now selects ALL PDF pages when in continuous page mode
• Improved handling of missing ressources for comments and memos (USB stick removed during work, etc)
• Recognize and reject HU with manipulated file extension
• Autocoding on non-loaded PDFs
• Family Assigner faulted when changing items while tool was open
• Windows moved to a secondary monitor did not display (well, they did in the area of the other monitor ...) in primary monitor area when secondary monitor was detached
• Network editor: display fixes (PD names not displayed, links not drawn after creating codes within the NWE)

Release date: 2011-01-27

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Positioning certain WAV files failed
• Stack overflow error with A-Docs
• Survey import for CSV files failed
• Display of PD nodes in network views suppressed text with certain style combination
• Replace incompatible fonts in networks
• Save HU freshly created via shell menu
• Improved overall stability
• Delay creation of 3-D Google Earth views to not include the menu in the image

Release date: 2011-01-11

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Performance in network editors (nodes were updated rather slowly, e.g. when changing their color)
• Ressource problem in network editors (error occurred occasionally with many nodes)
• In-place renaming network nodes editor frame fixed
• XML converter problem: now hard-wired the encoding for XML output to UTF-8
• Error when double-clicking on some links in network editor
• Auto-coding first search error fix
• Save HU problem fixed (rare)
• New comments for existing entities did not set the HU modified so that you could leave the session without being forced to save the HU.
• PDF with specificly coded pages could produce a "divide by zero" error
• Significantly faster load times for DOC and RTF files.

Release date: 2010-12-09

New, Fixed and Improved:

• PDF fix for out of range legacy quotations
• display quotation count in family and netview browsers
• reset code label color to default by chosing black (all network nodes were black!)
• improved language locales display for Chinese under XP and improved sys report
• XML/XSL Converter ignored all stored XML files, always used the displayed HU.
• Fixed utf-8 coding issue with XML (BOM was missing) and XML/XSL generated HTML (missing utf-8 header)

Release date: 2010-11-29

New, Fixed and Improved:

• DOC converter optimization set to false as default (garbled text with "better" converter in some cases.
• Stop nagging admministrative users during update when this is their common account.
• Permanent resorting PDF quoations to text flow could create an error
• Volume type description added to sys report

Release date: 2010-11-19

New, Fixed and Improved:

• PDF fixed migration of page spanning quotations
• Survey import process Excel dates correctly
• DOC converter selection optimization led to garbled text in some cases. User can switch this off in Gen. Prefs.
• Margin area bracket display optimized again (modified color wheel, larger comment marks, improved gradient for selections)
• Correctly check for removed drives when trying to save a HU needing access to previous content
• Report Unicode file names correctly

Release date: 2010-11-11

New, Fixed and Improved:

• PDF converter dialog displays old selections correctly, improved handling
• Survey import checks for bad cell format
• Margin area bracket display optimized
• Languages offered by locales menu extended
• Improved reporting for installed text converters

Release date: 2010-11-05

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Survey import offset by 1 case
• Family Assigner double-click now loads PD
• Node rendering overlapping icon with text
• Remember gradient node rendering
• DBCS languages should now display the right font immediately
• Improved error reporting
• Fixed password bug that made HUs not savable in some rare cases

Release date: 2010-11-05

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Survey Import
• New PDF Engine
• Font Themes
• Embedded Documents
• Family Assigner
• XML refreshed
• New looks
• and much more: see here for details

Release date: 2010-08-09

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Some PDFs were not loadable
• Double-click on links in network editors popped up comments as one long ugly line
• Minor bugs

Release date: 2010-06-17

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Fixed: Problems that were introduced with 6.1.15
• Finally: A-Docs now synchronize correctly when a transcript PD was edited.

Release date: 2010-06-14

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Some HUs with A-Docs threw an error after updating to 6.1.14

Release date: 2010-06-11

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Updated QuickTour
• Fixed: A-Docs edit-session and synchronization patch
• Error handler for missing (required) PDF catalog type entry
• Miscellaneous bug fixes with doc converter, leaving doc edit session with discard

Release date: 2010-05-11

New, Fixed and Improved:

• opening the general preferences a second time was possible and resulted in ATLAS.ti not exiting cleanly
• weird state of the main pane when discarding changes after editing a primary document
• fixed a spurious memory problem when opening DOC files

Release date: 2010-04-27

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Display families in object managers: Switch to details view. The column with families will be the last column. You may drag it to a more appropriate position.
• PDF problem with freezing screen fixed
• fixed: issue when searching in a textless PDF
• calculating memory size more precisely

Release date: 2010-02-23

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Renumber quotations according to their document position (either from menu Documents|Miscellaneous or Quotations|Miscellaneous)
• Fixed significant performance bug when merging large HUs and rearranged the merge workflow (load source HU AFTER confirming the merge strategy)
• New samples (Jack the Ripper) matching the new quick tour: Open Help menu Quicktour
• Create merge report with non-proportional font for better alignment
• Code-PD table with total count = 0 created an error
• Improved feedback during Autocoding

Release date: 2010-02-04

New, Fixed and Improved:

• CopyBundle: select only current filtered PDs for a bundle (press CTRL when clcking the exclude docs button)
• Assign PD to A-Docs association fixed
• PDF compatibility test failed in some cases
• Cooccurrence Explorer error with quotationless PDs
• Processor cache problem (very rare)
• Misc stream optimizations
• Networks: spurious error when un/linking objects
• Preliminaries for new PDF engine to be released with 6.2
• Preliminaries for Smart PDs to be released with 6.2

Release date: 2009-12-11

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Fixed bugs that crept in with Google Earth 5.1 (3D Snapshots, navigating GE quotations)
• SPSS increased field width fixes restriction to amount of quotations
• Code-PD Table failed with totals = 0
• streamlined internal font management

Release date: 2009-11-20

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Fixed "last month" object filter
• Fixed load performance leak for HUs with large networks
• Swapped tool bar icons for horizontal and vertical centered alignment in network editor tools
• Visualize "rename" mode when in-place editing items in themargin area

Release date: 2009-11-13

New, Fixed and Improved:

• A-Docs tool now handles new F4 import format
• Fixed stack error with network views displayed in margin (nws containing nws as nodes crashed the system when trying to calculate their quotations)
• Inform network view manager and margin area about quotation changes - could still be better ...
• Draw networkViews and families correctly in NWE (didnt draw shadow when using GDI+)
• Draw NWE nodes in light paper back color
• New object filters: This month, Last month
• Extended Systemreport
• Prepared startup sequence for future server operation

Release date: 2009-10-23

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Modifying quotation bounds could result in corrupted HUs in rare cases: selecting a HU in one PD, then switching to another PD of another type (e.g., from PDF to plain text), then making a new selection and press Modify). This HU after being saved would not be loaded again.
• PDF rendering failed with certain underspecified PDF documents and created subsequent floating point errors.
• Cooc Table memory was not released when closing the browser
• Zoom menu from HU Editor status window now also pops up with right-click

Release date: 2009-10-09

New, Fixed and Improved:

• fonts set via preferences were not applied to network editor

Release date: 2009-10-02

New, Fixed and Improved:

• auto coding back again - failed after last update
• displayed co-occurrency calculations were too generous
• storage procedures revised for added robustness

Release date: 2009-09-18

New, Fixed and Improved:

• cooc table export Excel + ctrl key = best pairs report
• reduced number of decimal places in Excel export to 2
• XSD scheme based a-doc synchronization lists
• setting color scheme failed
• taskbar icon did not update number of open windows correctly
• inter HU memo drag & drop missed migrating the memo content under certain conditions
• resource leaks when processing large numbers of PDF documents (e.g. when auto coding)
• resource leak when opening multiple HU editors

Release date: 2009-09-18

New, Fixed and Improved:

• cooc table export Excel + ctrl key = best pairs report
• reduced number of decimal places in Excel export to 2
• XSD scheme based a-doc synchronization lists
• setting color scheme failed
• taskbar icon did not update number of open windows correctly
• inter HU memo drag & drop missed migrating the memo content under certain conditions
• resource leaks when processing large numbers of PDF documents (e.g. when auto coding)
• resource leak when opening multiple HU editors

Release date: 2009-09-08

New, Fixed and Improved:

• misspelled comp mode dialog when loading A5 HUs
• fixed instability in entity drop down buttons

Release date: 2009-09-04

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Mixed versions team support: allow users of A6 to exchange projects with A5 users
• PDF link navigation (internal and external links)
• A-Docs: Fixed import F4 word files
• Recognize Windows 7
• Launching Google Maps from a geo tagged image pd displays a flag at the exact position
• Storing HUs: Improved stability and performance
• a few more fixes ...

Release date: 2009-06-12

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Consolidates all add-ons, improvements and fixes since CD/Web Setup release (6.0.12)
• Brings back HU Merge with slightly modified merge dialog
• Fixed spurious quote duplication due to quotation merge

Release date: 2009-06-05

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Co-Occurrence Table Browser - Beta\n\nFixed & Improved:
• PDF selection anomalies with documents containing mixture of portrait and landscape oriented pages
• Some PDF documents failed to load
• prevent PDFs being dropped on memo manager
• Associated Docs: improved handling of A-Docs manager
• several other fixes

Release date: 2009-05-22

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Network Views Color tool menu:
• Use (colored label) as node (background) color
• Use high contrast label - use white instead of black for dark colors\n\nFixed & Improved:
• PDF speed increase (from last build)
• Print Networks with colored labels (also fixes metafile copy & paste & save)
• tabs in code family names could prevent opening any window
• several other fixes

Release date: 2009-05-15

New, Fixed and Improved:

• XSLT transformation did not work for some style sheets
• Reset HU pass word failed
• some PDF documents dispayed their print margins plus markers making the page look small
• with other tham 96dpi screen resolution PDFs were not displayed correctly
• auto coding did only assign quotation names for the selected PD
• some live update settings did not work
• several other fixes

Release date: 2009-04-30

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Does NOT yet include the co-occurrence table tool!-(
• Goto page number in non-textual paged documents (PDF and multi-page TIFFs) using the GOTO line/paragraph tool
• Display quote index with Display Coordinates option in the margin
• Use systems hand cursor in network views\n\nFixed:
• PDF search stopped at end of page in some cases
• PDF on DBCS systems caused spurious errors when moving the mouse
• several other fixes

Release date: 2009-04-17

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Compatibility test for PDF files during PD assigment
• Include code families in quotation reports
• Snapshot and 3D settings fot Google Earth
• New menu item to create 3D snapshot files (in PD Assign menu)
• rich code comments for network nodes were not converted to plain text, thus displaying the rtf tags instead
• 3D image creation failed
• show quotations at current cursor pos failed with PDF
• fancy toolbars sometimes threw a color error

Release date: 2009-04-03

New, Fixed and Improved:

• links connected wrongly when opening or refreshing network editor
• nwe rare problem with quotation nodes
• spurious errors when loading a PD
• SPSS export failed with PDF PDs (for now using missing values for quotation coordinates)

Release date: 2009-03-27

New, Fixed and Improved:

• use My Pictures folder for 3D Google Earth images
• new setting to disable multimedia key support
• Network Editor: cursor flicker in hand mode
• error with image PDs
• blank nodes (after linking or refreshing)
• inplace node rename rectangle was misaligned
• double-click on a selected node initiated an in-place edit which removed the comment tip immediately
• HTML embedded PDs (and replacement text for PDF docs)
• PDF: mouse over error
• PDFs with hybrid references failed
• documentHolder error
• memos report "y not understood" error

Release date: 2009-03-20

New, Fixed and Improved:

• network editor hand mode: scroll the network in ANY direction by holding down the CTRL and SHIFT key while dragging with the left mouse button.
• better resolution of path less file locators in a-doc associations
• improved import of F4 transcripts created with Word
• store code colors in HU XML outpput
• PDF: lost selection when scrolling
• PDF: fixed scrollbar anomalities
• PDF: error when moving mouse over certain areas
• Mac/Parallels: eliminated flicker in margin area (and informed Parallels to fix this bug in a future release).

Release date: 2009-03-06

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Zoom menu in status window
• Ctrl-P on selected text plays associated media section for A-Docs
• Persistent settings for new margin objects (Gen Prefs)
• Create 3-D images from Google Earth terrain (Hold ctrl-key during Create GE Snapshot)
• Import nodes in network editor failed
• Drag & Drop of families into a network editor failed
• Import neighbors ignored current filter settings
• PDF quotes did not show their textual contents when required (margin, network)
• Merging HUs ignored A-Docs specifications
• insetBy: error when embedding Google Earth

Release date: 2009-02-23

New, Fixed and Improved:

• New and revised toolbar/menu icons
• Code color propgation into network editor (see color menu)
• Performance tuning
• GoogleEarth quotations deliver textual output

Release date: 2009-02-20

New, Fixed and Improved:

• AssoDocs improved
• New and revised toolbar/menu icons
• Delete deleted from margin area
• Proximity comparisons of PDF selection (sounds trivial, is complex)
• Super things (QueryTool, etc.) failed
• User settings were not persisted (toolbar colors, etc)