Blog: WhizFolders, Articles and tips

We have released a new version 6.1 of WhizFolder Viewer. The instructions to distribute the new viewer with your documents are included in the new tutorial of the viewer.

WhizFolder Viewer is no longer used for creating self-running exe ebooks of your documents. That feature has been integrated in WhizFolders itself, starting from version 6.1 (not available in trial edition).

We have worked hard to release the new trial edition of version 6.1. For the same reason, we could not update this Blog regularly. Now that the trial is out, we can work on new features and demos to help the users.

In the past, we have had problems with the trial where it used to expire if the user changed the system date or clock for any reason. Then, it was a problem to issue an extension and so forth. In the new Trial Edition, there is a built-in extension feature to deal with these problems even on the newer Windows Vista systems.

Here are some tips on using the trial edition effectively:

1. Trial period: The trial period runs for 15 days. When it expires, you can probably get one extension. The Deluxe Edition features are not included in the trial but we are adding flash demos to show them in the demos section of whizfolders.com. If you were using an old version 5.6.3 or 6.0 trial, note that this trial edition gives you a fresh 15 days trial period.
2. Purchasing: If you decide to purchase WhizFolders, please always do that from the Buy Now button that you see in the first trial screen. This gives us a chance to show you any promotional offers or give credit to the web site or affiliate who introduced you to WhizFolders.
3. The Tutorial: When you start the trial for the first time, a tutorial document comes up with some helpful hints. Both are important. You can start the hints or tutorials again from the help menu any time. Please go through the tutorial thoroughly as it demonstrates many features. If something is not clear, please take a look at the demos and this blog and finally the help file.
4. The flash demo movies: You should also go through the demos on whizfolders.com web site. Start with the introductory demos and then work your way through the more advanced ones.
5. This Blog: You will also find many useful articles on this blog. You can search the blog by using the search box on the right.

   If you still have some question unanswered, please feel free to write to us by email. We usually reply within a business day.

We have released a new paid version 6.1.4.2 that fixes a problem in the earlier version 6.1.4. The problem caused corruption of Jump links in certain cases. Paid version users can get the update from the user support area. Another improvement is that this version will not ask for portable codes if you use its “Tools–Copy WhizFolders..” operation to update a portable copy of WhizFolders that you had installed earlier.

In addition, the new version has a smart improvement on the text copied and pasted from Internet Explorer. It now resolves the links in the pasted text and also prefixes the location that the text is copied from. The location-prefixing feature works for FireFox browser too but the text copying remains limited to plain text due to the inability of FireFox to put RTF data on the clipboard.

WhizFolders 6.1.4 has been released. Both the Pro and Deluxe editions have been updated. If you are an existing customer, you can obtain the update from the paid user support area.

The new customers will get the above version automatically when they purchase from the Buy Now page of this web site.

Please click here to see a list of new features in version 6.1.

Trial version is still old: We have not yet updated the trial version of WhizFolders. But we are working on it and hope to release it later this week.

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We are glad to announce that a new version 6.1.4 of WhizFolders is in pre-release. It is only available to the paid users from the special user support area at support.whizfolders.com.

Please click here to see a list of new features in version 6.1.

The WhizFolders 6.1 (beta) released on January 23rd has been pretty stable. The only problem worth mentioning is that the Editor option to “also pick up para format” by the Pick Format button was not working. This has been fixed in the newer beta version 6.1.2 now available in the paid user support area. A link there also points to the list of minor fixes in this version. If you are already using the Beta, you need to decide whether you need this update depending on the fixes mentioned there. If those bugs do not really affect you, you may as well decide to continue using beta 6.1 till the final release.

We are now maintaing a better description of the new features on the following pages. The Deluxe version extra features are also included in the same lists.

• Click here to see the new features in WhizFolders 6.1.
• Click here to see the new features in WhizFolders 6 as compared to the old version 5.6.3.

We are now maintaing a better description of the new features on the following pages. The Deluxe version extra features are also included in the same lists.

• Click here to see the new features in WhizFolders 6.1.
• Click here to see the new features in WhizFolders 6 as compared to the old version 5.6.3.

As given in the previous news item, we just released WhizFolders 6.1 (beta) for both Pro and Deluxe editions. The new trial version will only be available after the final release expected in a few weeks.

The last big leap was from version 5.6 to version 6. It took considerable effort due to new Windows Vista compatibility issues not only in WhizFolders but in some other software that we are using for the development.

We moved to Delphi 2007 with version 6.1: After the last official release 6.0.8 in July, 2007, we had hoped to release a new version every quarter. However, we came to know that a major new release of Delphi (our development tool) was available. We have been using Delphi for developing WhizFolders. Version 6.0.8 of WhizFolders was developed with Delphi 7. The new Delphi 2007 itself was a big leap over its predecessor. So we decided to move on to Delphi 2007 so that we can get all the great benefits this has to offer in future. Moving to Delphi 2007 took considerable effort because this also meant that in addition to WhizFolders features, all the third party components were to be updated and thoroughly tested to confirm that they worked properly. We also had to change our licensing software for better Vista compatibility.

Finally we made it to beta 6.1. While WhizFolders 6.1 works quite the same or better, internally it is using new features and components of Delphi 2007. Naturally, Delphi 2007 is more productive, and we hope to release newer versions and fixes for WhizFolders frequently. We sincerely want to thank all the customers for their patience and for sending us valuable suggestions, bug reports, articles and encouraging comments from time to time.