Version history

2.6.0.1910 - May 18, 2010

  • Pressing "Skip" in file format selection dialog now prevents
    FineCount from adding file to the list
  • Export stats-> To clipboard now stores stats in
    both formats - HTML and TXT, so user can paste
    not only in the rich text editors, but also in the notepad

2.6.0.1908 - May 12, 2010

  • Fixed minor bug with TXT documents which contained NUL characters

2.6.0.1892 - April 24, 2010

  • By default Publisher alternative text is not analyzed
  • Excel redundant spaces are removed automatically
  • Fixed "Extract" minor bug in custom text analysis function
  • HTML analyzing engine reworked completely
  • Added possibility to choose content type for unknown file extensions
  • Added advanced XML format processing functions

2.5.1.1766 - January 15, 2009

  • Fixed bug with slide notes in PowerPoint format

2.5.1.1765 - October 7, 2008

  • Fixed bug with mixing of some column titles and values
  • Added rating type per "Words (MS Office)" (for Mario)

2.5.0.1759 - October 18, 2007

  • Some improvements in HTML processing

2.5.0.1757 - August 2, 2007

  • Fixed error which appeared when loading empty text document

2.5.0.1755 - May 9, 2007

  • Removed ability to customize column layout (until new version will be released)
  • Fixed bug with processing some shapes in headers and footers

2.5.0.1753 - March 20, 2007

  • Fixed minor bug - there was no possibility to turn off skinned border

2.5.0.1750 - March 20, 2007

  • Fixed minor bug - there was possibility to add same files in the list more then one time

2.5.0.1749 - March 19, 2007

  • Dramatically improved text files' loading speed. 20 MB text file now can be loaded in 1 second (excluding analysis time)

2.5.0.1747 - February 22, 2007

  • Ready for Microsoft Office 2007
  • Fixed small problem with PowerPoint 2007
  • Added option for PowerPoint files "Slide notes" for processing slides' notes (Thanks to elt for requesting this feature)

2.5.0.1742 - February 21, 2007

  • Removed options "Need space after" and "Use logic"
  • New feature - "Site grabber" allows users to extract text from webpages directly from embedded browser. Frames and inline frames are also supported
  • Added new option for MS Excel format - "Include hidden columns". Now users can turn off this option to exclude this text from analysis
  • Fixed minor bug with form resizing appearance
  • Fixed minor bug with paragraph separators (affected only builds later then 1632)
  • Tab "MS Office" renamed to "Formats"
  • Many other minor bugfixes and design enhancements

2.0.0.1641 - January 30, 2007

  • Updated reports' templates!
  • Fixed minor bug - exception when dropping files into FineCount while analyzing another files

2.0.0.1635 - January 3, 2007

  • Some improvements in API engine

2.0.0.1633 - December 19, 2006

  • Micro performance improvements in text analyzing engine
  • Default word connectors changed to "@_"

2.0.0.1632 - November 30, 2006

  • Fixed minor problem - Spell checker was not turned on by FineCount after processing Word files.

2.0.0.1631 - November 20, 2006

  • Fixed compatibility when running in restricted mode
  • Fixed minor problem - copying of text in Invoice and Report tag help window

2.0.0.1627 - November 17, 2006

  • Fixed bug with displaying overall statistics for "Characters" and "Characters and Spaces". This not affected "Amount", reports and other results

2.0.0.1626 - November 14, 2006

  • Fixed bug with Invoice generation

2.0.0.1625 - November 13, 2006

  • Minimized FineCount required privileges - now you can run FineCount with "User" privileges or with "Restricted mode"
  • Added Microsoft Windows Vista support

2.0.0.1623 - November 10, 2006

  • Updated documentation
  • Added OpenOffice and StarOffice files' support (professional version only)
  • Added Microsoft Publisher files' support (professional version only)
  • New feature - "MetaChanger" for changing files' meta information
  • Added report's "Convert to PDF" functionality (needs additional freeware software from http://www.cutepdf.com)
  • Template file was not reloaded when refreshing report (inconvenience when designing templates)
  • Improved MS Word 2000 compatibility (many users' requests)
  • New design of default report and invoice template
  • Minor files' rate enhancements: now when changing "Rate" in "Report" window FineCount changes rate for all files in list - not only default rate for next files
  • Improved compatibility and performance of MS Word invoice generation engine
  • Minor bug fixed - FineCount restores incorrect form layout after closing it in "Full screen" report mode
  • New feature - you can add files without analyzing them by holding left Alt button (in this way you do not need to check/uncheck "Automatically analyze file statistics" every time). Thanks for users who requested this feature
  • Minor error handling interface enhancements
  • User complaints considered - changed registration method and now PC Code is independent from Windows user and installation. All free clients and also owners of commercial editions will receive new serials

1.5.2.1470 - October 19, 2006

  • Documentation updated to current release
  • Business version is ready and will be soon available for purchasing
  • Enterprise version is in progress

1.5.2.1466 - October 4, 2006

  • minor bug fixed: "Minimize to tray" button was not accessible in default theme mode
  • New feature - XML document processing (only in professional version and higher)
  • New feature - FineCount basic functions' OLE automation (API interface) for business version and higher
  • Now FineCount have new type of license - "Business", which provides access to OLE automation functions. (Some functions are also available in Free edition!)
  • Soon will be added new type of license - "Enterprise" with advanced OLE automation

1.5.0.1439 - September 6, 2006

  • Visual improvements: "Registration" and "Custom text analysis" forms' layout.

1.5.0.1438 - September 6, 2006

  • Fixed bug - user was not able to add new profile in some situations.

1.5.0.1437 - July 25, 2006

  • New feature - batch custom text analyze! Now user can program "Custom text analysis" function and perform multiple tasks in one.

1.5.0.1430 - July 24, 2006

  • Corrected visual bug - "Advertising" text was displayed always on Statistics panel
  • Fixed minor bug: File count value was incorrectly displayed in FineCount build 1424
  • Added new shortcuts

1.5.0.1424 - July 21, 2006

  • Added function "Open clipboard directory" in "Tools" - opens directory where FineCount temporally stores clipboard content.
  • Fixed major bugs with "Custom text analysis": now all permutations of setting ("Start", "End", "Analyze line by line", "Extract" and "Remove") works correctly

1.5.0.1416 - July 19, 2006

  • Fixed some minor bugs

1.5.0.1415 - July 10, 2006

  • Add new report templates
  • Improved "Custom text analysis" - now line break symbols are not only "Carriage return" and "Line feed", but also Paragraph separator and Line separator (useful when analyzing MS Office documents and PDF)
  • Fixed bug: column editor worked incorrectly - when pressing "Edit columns" columns were restored in state before "Show all columns" or "Hide all columns" command
  • Fixed bug: column editor sometimes moved columns incorrectly (using "Up" and "Down" arrows)
  • Added new feature: "Modify rate" for selected files
  • Added new tag "%document_rate%"
  • Added new feature: Every file can now have own rate (Professional version)
  • Fixed minor bug: File amount sometimes displayed incorrectly
  • Fixed bug: "Export without numbers" didn't work correctly
  • Fixed bug: "Export without numbers" ignored "Count words with numerals as numbers" setting
  • Added new list columns
  • Updated documentation for "Custom text analysis" and list's columns

1.5.0.1399 - June 29, 2006

  • Fixed minor bugs with Registration form

1.5.0.1397 - June 27, 2006

  • Improved "Custom text analysis" function. Added "Analyse line by line" and improved performance

1.5.0.1385 - June 22, 2006

  • Improved PDF files' analyzing in Professional version. (In standard version FineCount simulates Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C key pressing in Adobe Reader and then gets Clipboard content)

1.5.0.1380 - June 6, 2006

  • added Help->Check for updates function
  • added Text statistics export feature - use context menu on words' and sentences' lists in "Text statistics" tab [Requested by Helena]
  • improved Text statistics analysis - now text statistics resets only when you remove or uncheck files from list

1.5.0.1373 - May 18, 2006

  • FineCount Standard now is freeware, but with registration
  • added information/advertising banner
  • fixed bug: replacing multiple same tags in MS Word template
  • fixed bug: Exporting statistics to HTML didn't work
  • added two buttons in the Report preview tab - "Copy" and "Invoice"
  • added feature - customizing of "Export Statistics" templates for text and HTML export
  • improved column sorting performance
  • improved drag & drop appearance (now it happens asynchronous)
  • fixed trivial bug with scrollbar in "Template tags" and "Invoice tags" help windows
  • some other minor bugs fixed

1.4.1.1309 - May 5, 2006

  • improved: "Custom text analyse"
  • some other minor bugs fixed

1.4.1.1302 - April 13, 2006

  • fixed bug: "Remove trailing spaces" did not work correctly
  • fixed bug with processing some RTF documents
  • fixed minor bug: Cancel button responds slowly while processing files

1.4.1.1300 - March 30, 2006

  • fixed bug: "Text statistics" did not work after some build of FineCount
  • fixed minor bug: main form can become disabled after some external applications' errors

1.4.1.1298 - March 23, 2006

  • improved "Invoice" function: MS Word window now will not be invisible while updating invoice data
  • corrected "Standart" to "Standard"

1.4.1.1296 - March 22, 2006

  • fixed bug: "Custom text analysis" could return negative result for "Characters & spaces"

1.4.1.1295 - March 22, 2006

  • fixed finally bugs with FineCount registration
  • some interface improvements: button "Export" was removed - it is available from "Tools" menu; on the "Text statistics" page words and sentences now are sorted descending by repetitions
  • fixed bug: incorrect link for "Help->Purchase online"
  • added "Preview" button for "Report templates"
  • added "Advanced" button in toolbar

1.4.1.1289 - March 20, 2006

  • enhanced FineCount registration - now FineCount registers for all PC users

1.4.1.1285 - March 9, 2006

  • fixed minor bug when FineCount doesn't save columns' widths for file list
  • fixed bug with sentence counting - Unicode paragraph separator and line delimiter now are considered as sentence delimiters
  • added new invoice and template document and totals' tags for following objects: spaces, Han ideograph and hangul syllable, unique words, unique sentences, MS Office statistics columns (characters, spaces, characters with spaces, words, lines, paragraphs, pages)
  • added new file list columns: unique words, % of unique words, unique sentences
  • enhanced template creating form
  • updated user guide

1.4.1.1274 - February 15, 2006

  • fixed minor bug with empty HTML files processing or which used JavaScript for redirecting to unavailable pages

1.4.1.1270 - February 9, 2006

  • fixed bug when user was able to drop files to FineCount while it was analysing files
  • some performance improvements in PDF text extraction process

1.4.1.1268 - February 8, 2006

  • fixed bug when pasting text from clipboard after exporting report to clipboard
  • fixed bug, when sentence repetitions was not calculated with "Automatically analyse repetitions" option - only when option "Automatically calculate text statistics" was turned on
  • "details" window is active immediately after opening error reporting form
  • fixed some user interface spelling mistakes

1.4.1.1266 - January 27, 2006

  • some minor visual bugs fixed
  • error reporting form improvements - very intellectual handling of exceptions
  • some program security routines added

1.4.1.1265 - January 24, 2006

  • fixed bug with "Remove spaces" in "Custom text analyse" dialog
  • optimized performance in "Custom text analyse"
  • text export and clipboard processing now is using Unicode text documents in place of RTF documents for better performance

1.4.1.1260 - January 16, 2006

  • "About" and "Registration" forms' design enhancements
  • fixed "Can't open document!" error with MS Office 2000
  • fixed tax and rebate calculation errors in reports