Release Notes

Keep up with the latest features and improvements of SlideDog for Windows.

v2.3.6 - March 21, 2024

• [Update] Updated Chromium
• [Fix] Support for Adobe Acrobat new UI
• [Fix] Prevent accidental preview window focus
• [Framework] Updated to latest Harman AIR SDK

v2.3.5 - October 15, 2023

• [Enhancement] Added possiblity to disable Remote/Live Sharing features

v2.3.4 - October 5, 2023

• [Fix] Fixed a small license check issue

v2.3.3 - September 21, 2023

• [Bug Fix] Fixed Adobe Reader issue

v2.3.2 - September 7, 2023

• [Enhancement] Updated VLC, Chromium and internal framework

v2.3.1 - May 22, 2022

• [Bug Fix] Fixed top bar graphics glitch in one screen mode

v2.3.0 - February 18, 2022

• [Enhancement] Updated framework and graphics to support HiDPI screens

v2.2.9 - October 11, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed HiDPI & font scaling issue affecting Live Sharing

v2.2.8 - October 7, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed issue where the current slide index on PDF files would not appear correctly
• [Enhancement] Improved Live Sharing and Remote features

v2.2.7 - September 10, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed a scaling bug that occured when the primary display's font scaling was set to larger than 100%.
• [Enhancement] Updated VLC library to 3.0.16r

v2.2.6 - June 18, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where Web Pages would not open properly.
• [Enhancement] Improved support for Chrome based Edge Browser

v2.2.5 - May 19, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed a PowerPoint thumbnail issue.

v2.2.4 - March 18, 2021

• [Bug Fix] ESC didn't exit show in 2-screen
• [Bug Fix] "Next" didn't work when "looping forever"
• [Enhancement] Added "loop forever" icon in show mode
• [Feature] CTRL+SPACE acts as hotkey for START SHOW

v2.2.3 - March 3, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed another video looping issue.

v2.2.2 - March 2, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fixed issue where video would not loop.

v2.2.1 - February 18, 2021

• [Enhancement] Improved video playback on 4K displays

v2.2.0 - February 6, 2021

• [Bug fix] Fixed PowerPoint autoplay issue.

v2.1.9 - January 22, 2021

• [Enhancement] Fixed PowerPoint thumbnail issue.
• [Enhancement] Updated TurboActivate license libraries.

v2.1.8 - June 18, 2020

• [Bug fix] Live Sharing bug fix patch.

v2.1.7 - June 14, 2020

• [Enhancement] Improved Live Sharing.

v2.1.6 - May 30, 2020

• [Enhancement] Improved Live Sharing.

v2.1.5 - Mar 27, 2020

• [Feature] Added PowerPoint Presenter View option for 3-screen mode.
• [Enhancement] Improved error reporting with Sentry.io.
• [Enhancement] Updated TurboActivate license libraries.

v2.1.4 - Oct 16, 2019

• [Bug fix] Fixed issue where PowerPoint thumbnail generator would fail on certain systems.
• [Enhancement] Updated VLC to v3.0.8.1.
• [Enhancement] Updated YouTube streaming libraries.

v2.1.3 - Sep 24, 2019

• [Bug fix] Adobe Reader would not start correctly in SlideDog 64bit.
• [Feature] Bundled PDF Viewer available as alternative to Adobe Reader.

v2.1.2 - Aug 27, 2019

• [Enhancement] SlideDog is now available in 64 bit mode.
• [Enhancement] Updated YouTube streaming libraries.
• [Enhancement] Updated VLC and Chrome to latest versions.
• [Change] Free is now watermarked.

v2.1.1 - May 28, 2019

• [Bug Fix] Fixed HiDPI/scaling issues with VLC, Prezi and YouTube (via Chromium).
• [Bug Fix] Fixed issue that triggered Adobe Reader pop-up when displaying PDFs.
• [Bug Fix] Fixed issue where secondary screen would not be detected properly.

v2.1.0 - May 15, 2019

• 2.0.9 REPACK - Fixed issue where PowerPoint 64 bit would not be detected correctly

v2.0.9 - May 14, 2019

• [New Feature] A new setting under "Preferences" - "Web pages" that lets you use your default browser as viewer for web pages instead of the bundled version of Chromium. Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, Opera and Internet Explorer are supported (not Edge).
• [New Feature] Added the possibility to add a video stream from rtsp and http sources. You can also stream YouTube url's, but it will not work for all videos and might stop working if YouTube suddenly changes their implementation. Use with caution.
• [Improvement] Third-party application detection code (for detecting PowerPoint, Adobe Reader, etc) rewritten from scratch in .NET 4.6. Should make SlideDog start faster and not cause false positive anti virus warnings.
• [Bug Fix] Fixed issue that caused SlideDog to wrongfully think you were offline (not connected to the Internet), which would prevent activation of SlideDog Pro keys
• [Asset Update] Updated from Chromium 73 to 74. Fetched and updated from https://chromium.woolyss.com.

v2.0.8 - April 2, 2019

• [New Feature] A new setting under "Preferences" - "Web pages" that enables automatic moving and maximizing of new browser windows to the presentation screen (useful if you have links in your PowerPoint that needs to be clicked and you want to automatically show the opened browser window on your secondary screen).
• [Bug Fix] A fix for PDFs that have fullscreen as initial view, which prevented them from being properly loaded in SlideDog.
• [New Asset] Bundling of the latest stable version of Chromium instead of relying on the user to have Google Chrome installed. Will from this update and onwards be fetched and updated from https://chromium.woolyss.com.

v2.0.7 - March 19, 2019

• [Bug Fix] A fix for PDFs that have fullscreen as initial view, which prevented them from being properly loaded in SlideDog.

v2.0.6 - March 19, 2019

• [Bug Fix] A fix for PDFs that have fullscreen as initial view, which prevented them from being properly loaded in SlideDog.

v2.0.5 - March 18, 2019

• Fixed Prezi Next auto advance issue.
• Fixed continous loopback issue in single file playlists.
• Fixed MP3 file playback issues.

v2.0.4 - March 6, 2019

• VLC fix: Changed requirement from .NET 4.6 to 4.5 for better support on Win 8.1

v2.0.3 - February 18, 2019

• VLC fix: Changed requirement from .NET 4.6 to 4.5 for better support on Win 8.1

v2.0.2 - January 28, 2019

• Added Reset Timer button in Show mode
• Fixed issue with background images loaded from network drives
• Added email verification for FREE users

v2.0.1 - December 11, 2018

• Fixed bug where the Live Sharing channel id didn't get generated correctly

v2.0.0 - December 3, 2018

• The SlideDog Live Sharing Feature and the Remote app (web/iOS/Android) is now officially out of beta!

v1.9.18 - November 12, 2018

• Updated application framework (AIR 30 -> AIR 31).
• Repacked SlideDog ImageViewer because of reports of false positives from AV software.
• Minor optimizations and user interface updates

v1.9.17 - October 31, 2018

• Fixed image rotation issue in thumbnail and image viewer.
• Redesigned live sharing views.
• Major update of the SlideDog Live Sharing and Presenter Remote experience.

v1.9.16 - October 8, 2018

• Added Adobe Reader 19 support

v1.9.15 - September 3, 2018

• Fixed YouTube API error

v1.9.14 - August 29, 2018

• Added support for Prezi Next
• Fixed issue when using live sharing with 3 or more screens connected
• Fixed issue when trying to generate PDF thumbnails on some Windows 7 systems.
• Added links to SlideDog Remote apps for Android and iOS.
• Various minor user interface improvements and bug fixes.
• Updated SlideDog core framework files.

v1.9.13 - July 24, 2018

• Added support for new SlideDog Remote app for Android and iOS
• Added option to select presentation monitor when more than two monitors are connected to the computer.
• Fixed license activation issue with multiple user accounts on the same computer.
• Fixed videos not advancing when clicking "Next Step" using the SlideDog Remote.

v1.9.12 - May 9, 2018

• Fixed scaling issue with images on high res displays.
• Fixed issue where preview window would not select correct source.

v1.9.11 - May 2, 2018

• Disabled introduction videos.
• Fixed issue with updater re-downloading existing files.

v1.9.10 - April 23, 2018

• Fixed issue with SlideDog introduction movies not playing.
• Introduced new installer options (per machine or per user).
• Added option to disable automatic updates.

v1.9.3 - February 11, 2018

• Fixed end detection for YouTube.

v1.9.23 - January 17, 2018

• Added support for latest Acrobat Reader (v.18).

v1.9.1 - October 15, 2017

• Fixed a bug causing images to not be displayed correctly in two screen mode.
• Fixed error when exiting show mode without displaying files.
• Fixed a bug that happened when primary display was screen # 3.

v1.9.0 - July 5, 2017

• Fixed a bug that caused applications to not be correctly detected when running 32 bit versions of Windows

v1.8.9 - May 11, 2017

• Fixed positioning bug of Preview-window on High-DPI screens
• Fixed scaling bug of image viewer on High-DPI screens
• Added more reliable detection of Google Chrome
• Added more reliable detection of Adobe Reader
• Improved license detection code

v1.8.8 - March 11, 2017

• Fixed bug "Unresponsive PowerPoint after pause/resume"

v1.8.7 - March 03, 2017

• Fixed bug "Slides not advancing when using Office PowerPoint 2007"

v1.8.6 - February 16, 2017

• Support for High DPI screens and Windows font scaling above 100%
• Improved "Live Sharing" screen capture code
• Bugfix for PowerPoint slides with embedded videos that weren't displayed correctly
• Fixed issue where unlisted YouTube videos couldn't be added to the playlist
• Added feature to create a compressed zip file of a SlideDog playlist and its files

v1.8.5 - November 17, 2016

• Fixed issue causing slides not to appear in Live Sharing channel

v1.8.4 - November 12, 2016

• Fixed bug where YouTube videos wouldn't load correctly

v1.8.3 - October 25, 2016

• Added support for new Prezi Portable format

v1.8.2 - August 28, 2016

• Fixed bug where playlist with custom timings would skip ahead prematurely

v1.8.1 - August 14, 2016

• Fixed bug where PDF (Adobe Reader/Acrobat) would show toolbar in fullscreen mode

v1.8.0 - May 04, 2016

• Because newer versions of VLC sometimes give the wrong "current time" in a video, the older, but more stable VLC 2.1.2 is now bundled in new installations of SlideDog. Re-install if you want this update.
• Fixed a bug that caused videos to end too soon when looping was enabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused LiveSharing screencapture to fail on PowerPoints, PDFs and videos.
• NEW: Loop a single item in a playlist until you press "next". Right-click on playlist to enable.
• NEW: Jump directly to slide in other file (until now you had to resume where you left off).
• NEW: Autoload a folder on startup. Useful for digital signage use cases.
• Several minor bug fixes and improvements.

v1.7.9 - January 10, 2016

• Fixed bug where PDF would not jump to specified page
• Fixed bug related to resetting PPT slidedeck to initial slide in looping mode.
• Added option to force SlideDog to use PowerPoint Viewer 2010 instead of Office PowerPoint.

v1.7.8 - October 4, 2015

• Fixed bug in auto-advance/looping where videos would not play to the end.

v1.7.7 - September 27, 2015

• Added support for new Prezi file format

v1.7.6 - August 31, 2015

• Added support for custom timings for playlist elements (right click on playlist item to enable)
• Added support for separate Chrome sessions (Enable in Preferences menu)
• Added support for Office 2016

v1.7.5 - May 21, 2015

• Fixed bug that caused YouTube links to fail
• Fixed bug that caused URLs with GET-parameters to fail

v1.7.4 - April 28, 2015

• Added support for Adobe Reader/Acrobat DC
• Fixed bug where videos would not auto-advance/loop if there were only one video file in the playlist

v1.7.3 - April 21, 2015

• Improved latency of LiveSharing and remote.
• Added the possibility to add images to polls in LiveSharing.
• Added support for XLSM files.
• You can now export poll and feedback results to your desktop.

v1.7.2 - January 13, 2015

• Fixed bug where the playlist wouldn't advance automatically if a YouTube clip was selected. Fixed bug where some PNG files wouldn't render correctly.

v1.7.1 - October 14, 2014

• Live Sharing now supports https. In addition to increased security, Live Sharing should now work behind most proxy servers

v1.6.9 - October 7, 2014

• Improved Live Sharing performance
• Fixed bug that caused Live Sharing to throw an exception
• Fixed bug that affected YouTube videos with special characters in title
• Fixed bug that occurred when a non-file playlist-item was started as first item in show
• Improved close and clean-up routines for 3rd party viewer apps when ending a show

v1.6.8 - September 23, 2014

• Live Sharing now works for all file types
• Fixed YouTube end of file detection
• Updated the licensing system

v1.6.6 - September 1, 2014

• This release adds support for mp3 music files along with some other minor improvements

v1.6.5 - August 20, 2014

• This is a bug fix release addressing some minor issues

v1.6.4 - August 20, 2014

• You can now edit Polls and Feedback items by right clicking on them in the playlist
• Fixed an issue with YouTube items not displaying properly when loaded from a playlist file
• Some other minor fixes

v1.6.3 - May 20, 2014

• Added an option to autostart the last saved playlist on startup. This is suitable for digital signage and can be activated in SlideDog Preferences
• Fixed a bug where the "please watch the screen" dialog in Live Sharing would appear incorrectly when running interactive elements
• Instead of checking for installed programs on every startup, SlideDog will now autosave this information to a file for better performance

v1.6.2 - May 9, 2014

• You can now add interactive elements directly to the SlideDog playlist, such as polls, feedback and chat sessions
• SlideDog will now autosave your playlist when exiting and load it automatically on next startup
• Fixed a bug where the "!" character in file names caused the preload routine to halt
• Better error handling of Live Sharing sessions

v1.6.1 - April 4, 2014

• Better and more robust YouTube playback (Requires Google Chrome installed)
• Live Sharing: Improved handling of network dropouts
• Preferences: Added new option to use PgUp/PgDn keys as next/prev on all file types
• Preferences: Added new option to disable automatic file switches (useful for events with several speakers)
• Fixed bug related to Chinese character encodings in file paths

v1.6.0 - March 7, 2014

This is a bugfix release adressing some minor issues. More specific;

• The presenter now has a green color in Live Sharing Chat
• The open file dialog will now remember the current folder
• Remote navigation is now disabled during preloading

v1.5.9 - March 7, 2014

This version contains for the most improvements related to the Live Sharing functions. More specific;

• You can now share SlideDog with your friends and receive one free month of SlideDog Pro
• More intuitive controls for Live Sharing and Web Remote
• Live Sharing and Web Remote features will be free during beta
• A few other minor adjustments and updates

v1.5.2 - Jan 10, 2014

We've issued a small update to the SlideDog Installer that gives you an option to use the stand-alone/portable version of VLC to play videos in SlideDog. This is good news for people wanting to run SlideDog on corporate computers with restricted accounts.

Choosing "VLC Portable" during installation will download the latest version of VLC and extract it into the SlideDog folder under "/VLCPortable". SlideDog will look for vlc.exe in this folder by default, and secondary check your computer for a valid VLC installation.

If you want to use another version of VLC than the one SlideDog Installer automatically downloads and installs, just overwrite the contents of the "/VLCPortable" folder in your "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Preseria\SlideDog"-folder.

v1.4.7 - Dec 20, 2013

• Office Word and Office Excel Support (BETA)
• Updated Live Sharing feature (BETA)
• Invite friends to use SlideDog and get a month of PRO for free!
• Prezi start and end detection

v1.3.3 - Oct 18, 2013

• New and improved update mechanism for small pathces (smaller download size)
• Playlists with many items now uses less resources (CPU and RAM)
• Fixed issue with YouTube links
• Fixed GUI issue with scrollbar and slide thumbnails
• Fixed an issue with PowerPoint Viewer that prevented SlideDog to advance to the next file in the playlist

v1.2.3 - Aug 09, 2013

• Better quality of generated thumbnails for slides (PPT and PDF)
• Faster thumbnail generation (PDF and PPT)
• Fixed bug where SlideDog wouldn't accept video files with certain file extensions (that normally played fine in VLC)
• Fixed bug where SlideDog would throw an error if a folder was added to the playlist
• Fixed bug where the preview window wouldn't show correctly on Windows Vista and 7
• Fixed bug where SlideDog would skip files in the playlist when using PowerPoint Viewer

v1.2.0 - Apr 29, 2013

In this latest release of SlideDog we've added a feature that makes it possible to stream YouTube clips directly and without showing ads or the YouTube user interface. To add a YouTube clip click on the "+" sign (add file button) and choose "YouTube". Enter the URL in the dialog that pops up and you are good to go. SlideDog will pre load a few seconds of the video, but not the whole clip. You should be careful when using this feature on low-speed internet connections as video stuttering may occur. SlideDog will by default fetch a low-res version of the video clip. If a HD version is available and you think your internet connection can handle it, you can tick the check box next to "HD stream" in the "Add YouTube" dialog.

Additionally we've added support for Office PowerPoint 2007 and 2013 including 64-bit versions. You can still use PowerPoint Viewer 2010 to view PPT/PPTX files in SlideDog.

v1.1.2 - Apr 16, 2013

SlideDog version 1.1.1 would sometimes stop pre-loading the playlist when it contained web pages. This is now fixed. Everyone should update to version 1.1.2.

v1.1.1 - Apr 10, 2013

A Preferences Menu where you can configure things like:

• Automatic advancing through files
• Speed of fading transitions between files
• If a video should jump to next file when it ends
• If web pages should open inn full screen/incognito mode
• Anonymous usage reports and feedback form

PowerPoint:

• Fixed issue where the famous "black screen after last slide" showed up a split second causing a short flash
• Slide thumbnails are now correctly updated on Windows 8
• Notes from previous slides are cleared when switching files in the middle of a PowerPoint

Prezi:

• Fixed bug that prevented Prezi to go into full screen mode
• Fixed bug that caused Prezi to not start at first position

Movies:

• Fixed issue where movies would not start after being played to the end
• Movie time now correctly shows up when seeking

v1.0.7 - Jan 20, 2013

In this latest update we've added the possibility for SlideDog Free users to try out the Pro features. When going Pro you'll be able to play with the added features for fifteen minutes before SlideDog reverts back to "SlideDog Free" mode. This lets you see how the Dual Screen Setup works and how a custom background image will look for your presentation playlist.

• Improved PowerPoint handling for a more seamless experience (the short flash of the black end of presentation slide when switcing from PowerPoint is gone)
• Fixed a bug causing PowerPoint notes to be displayed on the wrong slide
• Added support for the new version of Prezi files
• Fixed a bug causing the preview-window being displayed behind the main GUI.
• Fixed a bug caused hard switches between files instead of the fading effect

v1.0.1 - Oct 26, 2012

• Support for Office PowerPoint 2010 for viewing PPT files (PowerPoint Viewer is still supported)
• Support for Adobe Acrobat for viewing PDF files (Adobe Reader is still supported)
• Fixed a bug related to reordering of files in the playlist
• Various UI flickering bugs fixed on Windows XP
• Improved performance when dealing with large playlists
• Optimizations for better performance on low-end computers
• Improved preloading dialog