Personal Knowbase™ Product Version History (Version 3.x)

Version 3.1.4
July 10, 2010

Maintenance Release. Includes the following new language dictionaries for the Spell-Checker:

• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish

Additional fixes:

• The Find dialog box's "Show Only Titles" setting was always unchecked after a Replace operation. The setting is now remembered correctly.
  
  
• Fixes a rare issue in the Article Content area which could cause Personal Knowbase to hang when the DEL key was used on the last line, the last line had zero length, and the paragraph attributes of the last line were inconsistent with the paragraph attributes of the second to last line.
  
  
• When an article with a blank title was detected during a Save operation, the error message was confusing if that article was not the current article. Now, when Save finds a blank-titled article, that article is brought to the front for a title to be added.
  
  

To Update:
Please see our Latest Updates page.

Version 3.1.3
November 27, 2009

Maintenance Release. Changes:

• Fixes a Spell-checker bug when an error was found in the first half of a hyphenated word. If that error was "Changed", the Spell-check lost its place on subsequent errors.
  
  
• Fixes an inconsistency in displaying hidden text. Normally, Personal Knowbase does not support hidden text and displays it as normal text. It was hiding hidden text which was pasted or dragged in. All hidden text is now treated as normal text.
  
  
• The Find dialog box remembers the "Show Only Titles" setting between sessions.
  
  
• You can drag keywords from the Preview Pane to an Article Window's Keywords list.
  
  
• During Export, a counter is displayed showing the number of articles exported.
  
  
• The file repair facility (invoked with the Compact command) includes an option to remove RTF control codes which are incompatible with the RTF module distributed with some Windows versions. This repair may be useful to users pasting RTF text from Lotus Notes into Personal Knowbase using Windows XP SP2 or earlier. For more information, see the FAQ item: Moving data from Lotus Notes to PK causes PK to crash.

Version 3.1.2
July 7, 2009

Maintenance Release. Changes:

• Fixes RTF printing bugs, including:
  • 1.5- or double-spaced paragraphs at top of page were printed incorrectly.
  • When the first line of a non-first page is right-justified or centered, the line width was incorrect.
  • Trailing spaces were included in width calculations with right-justified text.
  
  
• Fixes a display bug causing single-spaced paragraphs to be incorrectly shown as 1.5-spaced paragraphs in the Paragraph dialog box.
  
  
• Prevents crash of the Keyword Usage dialog box when running under Windows Server 2008 or Windows XP 64-bit. (This is a patch around a Windows issue which could potentially have affected any resizeable keyword dialog box in various Windows versions, so if you saw a crash opening a keyword dialog in any version of Windows, please try this update.)

Version 3.1.1
January 5, 2009

Maintenance Release. Changes:

• Resolves a bug when the Tools toolbar was displayed and an Article Window was shown which caused a CPU performance hit on some computers.
  
  
• Fixes a display problem with maximized windows when using Windows Vista with Aero Glass.
  
  
• Re-centers a Keywords dialog box if it is trying to display off the screen. This was possible when running in portable mode if a computer had a lower screen resolution than a previously-used computer.
  
  
• Installation program now installs all 3 language dictionaries by default. An option to install only 1 is included in Expert Installation mode.

Version 3.1
September 24, 2008

Major Enhancements:

• Spell-check your article text.
• Install Personal Knowbase on a portable drive, such as a USB drive.
• Change line spacing and first line indent on paragraphs in article text.
• Export article text to comma-separated files.

Other Enhancements:

• Select encoding type for exported HTML Files.
• Exclude headers from exported files.
• Convert hypertext links back to plain text.
• The number of hypertext links in an article is listed in Article Properties.
• The Index Window's Titles list optionally shows indicators for private articles and those containing hypertext links.
• The Keywords-type dialog boxes retain their height between user sessions.
• Re-hide private articles without closing and re-opening the data file.
• Turn off the splash screen at startup.
• The default range for exporting and printing corresponds to the articles currently displayed in the Index Window.
• Delimited Text File Import automatically detects column headers when possible.
• Hypertext links and article attachments now allow relative paths.
• A Tools Toolbar provides quick access to some advanced commands.

Version 3.0.5
January 14, 2007

Maintenance Release for users running Windows Vista. If you are not running Win Vista, you will see no differences with this version over 3.0.4. It fixes two problems found when running Personal Knowbase under Win Vista:

• Correctly saves the Index Window size when program exits.
  
  
• Prevents program crash in Index Report Setup dialog box.

Version 3.0.4
May 16, 2006

Maintenance Release. Fixes:

• Fixes several related hypertext link bugs. These bugs caused hypertext links to migrate backwards or forwards in the article text when various keyboard controls were used to alter text before the hypertext link. Generally, the effects were rare and sporadic, not occurring consistently. The most common cause was using the Del key to delete at least a full paragraph of text, but also included typing in Overwrite mode, using the Del key to delete a block of text containing a hypertext link, and using 2-step keyboard shortcuts for menu commands (such as "Alt-o n" for Numbered List).
  
  
• Fixes a cosmetic toolbar corruption issue when changes were made to certain Windows settings on Windows XP systems using themes. The most obvious symptom was that the Indent and Unindent buttons disappeared.
  
  
• Fixes a minor bug which did not set the undo buffer correctly when undoing list numbering.
• Improves the error message displayed when PK is passed an invalid "parameter" in a shortcut's Target.
• PK continues running (no longer closes) when it is passed an invalid "parameter" in a shortcut's Target.

Version 3.0.3
January 17, 2006

Maintenance Release. Changes:

• Fixes a major hypertext link bug. This bug caused hypertext links to migrate backwards through the article text when keyboard shortcuts were used to format text when the edit cursor was before the link in the article text. Keyboard shortcuts which triggered the migration were bold, italics, underline, left-align, right-align, and centering.
  
  
• Prompts for the password when clicking on a hypertext link to a private article.

Version 3.0.2
November 14, 2005

Maintenance Release. Fixes include:

• Fixes a bug when pasting a large number of hypertext links which could cause slow updates of the article window.
• Fixes an article undo problem for new articles with hypertext links.
• Fixes a bug when the toolbar size was changed when a Report window was maximized.
• Adjusts column widths in the Keyword Usage Report for larger fonts.
• Fixes inconsistent indentation with bulleted and numbered lists when bulleting a group of lines containing both bulleted and non-bulleted lines.

Version 3.0.1
October 15, 2005

Maintenance Release. Fixes a bug in trial mode when opening old version 2 formatted files. This bug only affected version 2 users using Windows XP who had not upgraded to version 3, but were trying it out. When version 2 files were converted using the first conversion option ("Convert Data File to Version 3 Format"), the user would lose their trial period, and PK 3.0 would only run in Read-Only mode.

Version 3.0
October 12, 2005

Major Enhancements:

• Protect your data with passwords at the file or article level.
• Hypertext links give you the ability to link any piece of text within an article's content to a file, Internet address, or even another article.
• Import a list of keywords from a flat text file.
• Display the highlighted articles' keywords in the Preview Pane as an option to displaying article content.
• Create a new article by dragging a block of text into the Index Window from another Windows application.

Several new features for working with articles:

• New article text formatting options include highlighting text and creating text in any color.
• New article paragraph formatting options include numbered lists and text alignment.
• Saves both a creation and a modification date for each article.
• Optionally, display a time for each article as well as the date.
• An Article Property forces an article's title to stay the same as the first line of the article's content.
• When exporting articles, there is an option to export each article to a separate file.
• When exporting articles to a text file, bulleted lists are simulated with bullet characters.
• A preference lets you specify how you want newly imported articles to be titled.

Other Enhancements:

• The Catalog Window has been replaced by a command to hide or show the keywords columns in the Index Window.
• When you launch a file link, if the target file is not found, you have the option of searching for the file.
• You can change the background color for the Preview Pane.
• A preference lets you use larger toolbar buttons.
• The Formatting Toolbar now includes a Strikeout button.
• The Welcome screen now includes an option to select a recent file to open.
• An option has been added to the Compact command to revert a file to version 2.0 format.
• Personal Knowbase can check Bitsmith Software's web site for information about software updates.
• Personal Knowbase now has limited support for Import Plug-Ins.

Note on Hidden Text from Older Converted Data Files:

• Personal Knowbase 2.x stored RTF hidden text but did not display it. This happened only if you imported RTF files which contained hidden text or copied it from another Windows application. As of version 3.0, PK will display the hidden text as if it was not hidden. Therefore, when you convert 2.x files into version 3.0, you may suddenly discover text which you could not previously see. This is now normal text and can be treated (or deleted) as such.

Version History for Version 2.x