LPub 3D 2.4.6 + x64 + Portable

Features, enhancements, fixes and changes
Enhancement - Add option to centre justify step group steps #333
Enhancement - Add pixel ratio setting to PDF, PNG, JPG and BMP exports #304
Enhancement - Add pointer grabber toggle off on 2nd pointer click #315
Enhancement - Add dialogue for additional renderer arguments #332
Enhancement - Add submodel instance count manual override #298
Enhancement - Bricklink XML config ignored, some tags missing #282
Enhancement - Expanded submodel instance consolidation #297
Enhancement - Native renderer save step image #327
Enhancement - Update and redraw save file to disk #336
Enhancement - Update Windows portable version from UI #324
Feature - 3DViewer Camera Configuration #331
Feature - Page items bring to front and send to back - first pass #244
Change - Abnormal image size when using Native renderer #323
Change - Abnormal pointer generation if no submodel file extension #326
Change - BOM annotation rectangle size setting seems to have no effect #293
Change - Callout divider messing with instance count margins #309
Change - Divider CUSTOM_LENGTH meta command not parsed for multi-step called out divider #340
Change - Fonts in generated instruction depend on system DPI setting #292
Change - Manually move rotate icon on multi-step page #300
Change - Missing api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll #296
Change - Refactor search dialogue and set focus to text field #295
Change - Submodel is displayed again on step 2 #334
Fix - Append page before a submodel, appends the page in the wrong location #330
Fix - Assembly margins setting works strangely #311
Fix - Custom arrow parts and missing PLI END #301
Fix - Default colour reset to highlight or fade colour #325
Fix - Do not show step nunber ignored on single step page #322
Fix - Drag PLI and CSI not working properly on single step page #302
Fix - Fade Previous Steps doesn't work in global mode #310
Fix - LDraw archive library update fail #305
Fix - Final model added to BOM page #328
Fix - No divider in callout #306
Fix - Placement of page attributes #307
Fix - PLI placement is invalid, when SHOW_STEP_NUMBER is FALSE #335
Fix - Resize handle on Parts List (PLI) has gone #339
Fix - Segfault in substitute part dialog #294
Fix - Strange behavior when resizing cover image #329
Fix - Submodel instance count not shown when Callout between instances #321
Fix - Submodel steps same as occurrence when consolidate enabled #291

New feature - Continuous page processing - GitHub ticket #76
New feature - Go Dark - Add dark theme - GitHub ticket #73
New feature - "Native" renderer based on 3DViewer (LeoCAD library) - GitHub ticket #71
New feature - "Native" POV file generation based on LDView library - GitHub ticket #77
New feature - Multi-segment page, divider and callout pointers - GitHub ticket #67
New feature - "True" part fade and part highlight - GitHub ticket #47
New feature - UI dialogue to set sub-model level color - GitHub ticket #69
New feature - Scene horizontal and vertical ruler and axis guides - GitHub ticket #68
New feature - Console commands - GitHub ticket #12
Enhancement - Default assembly orientation angles to Assembly Setup - GitHub ticket #72
Enhancement - Headless mode on Linux, macOS and Windows Platforms - GitHub ticket #56
Enhancement - Improved ROTSTEP entry from 3DViewer pane
Enhancement - Keyboard shortcuts for Edit commands - GitHub ticket #63 Enhancement - Respect relative and absolute paths for inserted images - GitHub ticket #61 Enhancement - Rotate Icon resize - GitHub ticket #66 Enhancement - Set renderer from project setup menu - GitHub ticket #70 Enhancement - Use an image for Rotate Icon - GitHub ticket #6262)
Change - Move LPub3D.ini file to application location for Windows portable distros - GitHub ticket #75 Change - Update 3DViewer to LeoCAD 18.2 commit 15d5e89
Bug - Go To page function broken - GitHub ticket #55 Bug -
Insert text on a sub-model insertion page gets placed in the sub-model instead of the parent model - GitHub ticket #53
Bug - Mixed-page orientation incorrect - GitHub ticket #59 Issue -
Abnormal program end on malformed CALLOUT - GitHub ticket #74 Issue - Automatically add assembled image of multi-occurrence sub-model to parent page - GitHub ticket #65, description
Issue - Landscape page orientation for .pdf export not working - GitHub ticket #58, cannot reproduce
Issue - LDView Multiple files single call rendering slow - GitHub ticket #54 Issue - LDView on macOS not loading - missing libraries - GitHub ticket #57 Issue - LPub3D renders very slow on Windows - GitHub ticket #60, duplicate

New feature - Continuous page processing - GitHub ticket #76
New feature - Go Dark - Add dark theme - GitHub ticket #73
New feature - "Native" renderer based on 3DViewer (LeoCAD library) - GitHub ticket #71
New feature - "Native" POV file generation based on LDView library - GitHub ticket #77
New feature - Multi-segment page, divider and callout pointers - GitHub ticket #67
New feature - "True" part fade and part highlight - GitHub ticket #47
New feature - UI dialogue to set sub-model level color - GitHub ticket #69
New feature - Scene horizontal and vertical ruler and axis guides - GitHub ticket #68
New feature - Console commands - GitHub ticket #12
Enhancement - Default assembly orientation angles to Assembly Setup - GitHub ticket #72
Enhancement - Headless mode on Linux, macOS and Windows Platforms - GitHub ticket #56
Enhancement - Improved ROTSTEP entry from 3DViewer pane - GitHub ticket #- GitHub ticket #78
Enhancement - Keyboard shortcuts for Edit commands - GitHub ticket #63
Enhancement - Respect relative and absolute paths for inserted images - GitHub ticket #61
Enhancement - Rotate Icon resize - GitHub ticket #66
Enhancement - Set renderer from project setup menu - GitHub ticket #70
Enhancement - Use an image for Rotate Icon - GitHub ticket #6262)
Change - Move LPub3D.ini file to application location for Windows portable distros - GitHub ticket #75
Change - Update 3DViewer to LeoCAD 18.2 commit 15d5e89
Bug - Go To page function broken - GitHub ticket #55
Bug - Insert text on a sub-model insertion page gets placed in the sub-model instead of the parent model - GitHub ticket #53
Bug - Mixed-page orientation incorrect - GitHub ticket #59
Issue - Abnormal program end on malformed CALLOUT - GitHub ticket #74
Issue - Automatically add assembled image of multi-occurrence sub-model to parent page - GitHub ticket #65, description
Issue - Landscape page orientation for .pdf export not working - GitHub ticket #58, cannot reproduce
Issue - LDView Multiple files single call rendering slow - GitHub ticket #54
Issue - LDView on macOS not loading - missing libraries - GitHub ticket #57
Issue - LPub3D renders very slow on Windows - GitHub ticket #60, duplicate

Starting with LPub3D version 2.3.0, the README notes will present a short overview of the update (these paragraphs) along with the significant features, enhancements, fixes and changes as links to their respective LPub3D GitHub tickets. While this instance of the README will continue to be updated you should consult the hyperlinked version.

LPub3D 2.3.0 presents a few significant new features. Notably "True" fade, multi-segment pointers, console commands with headless operations, and, my favourite, continuous page processing - simply click and have a brew while LPub3D does the repetitive work of cycling through your model file.
Significant user interface enhancements include "Dark Mode" for the Night Owls, rulers and guides, and additional 3DViewer panes presenting properties and time-line. In addition to the existing menu button, the property pane also offer x,y,z dialogues to enter your ROTSTEP matrix. Enjoy, Cheers.

New feature - Continuous page processing - GitHub ticket #76
New feature - Go Dark - Add dark theme - GitHub ticket #73
New feature - "Native" renderer based on 3DViewer (LeoCAD library) - GitHub ticket #71
New feature - "Native" POV file generation based on LDView library - GitHub ticket #77
New feature - Multi-segment page, divider and callout pointers - GitHub ticket #67
New feature - "True" part fade and part highlight - GitHub ticket #47
New feature - UI dialogue to set sub-model level color - GitHub ticket #69
New feature - Scene horizontal and vertical ruler and axis guides - GitHub ticket #68
New feature - Console commands - GitHub ticket #12
Enhancement - Default assembly orientation angles to Assembly Setup - GitHub ticket #72
Enhancement - Headless mode on Linux, macOS and Windows Platforms - GitHub ticket #56
Enhancement - Improved ROTSTEP entry from 3DViewer pane - GitHub ticket #- GitHub ticket #78
Enhancement - Keyboard shortcuts for Edit commands - GitHub ticket #63
Enhancement - Respect relative and absolute paths for inserted images - GitHub ticket #61
Enhancement - Rotate Icon resize - GitHub ticket #66
Enhancement - Set renderer from project setup menu - GitHub ticket #70
Enhancement - Use an image for Rotate Icon - GitHub ticket #6262)
Change - Move LPub3D.ini file to application location for Windows portable distros - GitHub ticket #75
Change - Update 3DViewer to LeoCAD 18.2 commit 15d5e89
Bug - Go To page function broken - GitHub ticket #55
Bug - Insert text on a sub-model insertion page gets placed in the sub-model instead of the parent model - GitHub ticket #53
Bug - Mixed-page orientation incorrect - GitHub ticket #59
Issue - Abnormal program end on malformed CALLOUT - GitHub ticket #74
Issue - Automatically add assembled image of multi-occurrence sub-model to parent page - GitHub ticket #65, description
Issue - Landscape page orientation for .pdf export not working - GitHub ticket #58, cannot reproduce
Issue - LDView Multiple files single call rendering slow - GitHub ticket #54
Issue - LDView on macOS not loading - missing libraries - GitHub ticket #57
Issue - LPub3D renders very slow on Windows - GitHub ticket #60, duplicate

Change Assembly placement wrong in 2.3 #102
Change General standardization Correct spelling #116
Change Move EdgeThickness parameter to LDView ini #129
Change Page number placed outside page border #139
Change Renderer INI/.conf files have incorrect initial values #140
Enhancement Enable support for alternative LDraw libraries #132
Enhancement Add multiple next steps #136
Enhancement Improve LDraw Editor highlighting #133
Enhancement Save output with same encoding as input #127
Enhancement Set default part lookup category to 'Parts In Use' #121
Fix Bug: assembled callout has wrong rotation #135
Fix Delete custom parts cache deletes sibling folders #138
Fix Global Fade Color does not work correctly #128
Fix LPub3D LDView AntiAliasing settings incomplete #130
Fix LPub3Dspecific LDView settings still don't work #126

Features, enhancements, fixes and changes
------------

Starting with LPub3D version 2.3.0, the README notes will present a short overview of the update (these paragraphs) along with the significant features, enhancements, fixes and changes as links to their respective LPub3D GitHub tickets. While this instance of the README will continue to be updated you should consult the hyperlinked version.

LPub3D 2.3.0 presents a few significant new features. Notably "True" fade, multi-segment pointers, console commands with headless operations, and, my favourite, continuous page processing - simply click and have a brew while LPub3D does the repetitive work of cycling through your model file.
Significant user interface enhancements include "Dark Mode" for the Night Owls, rulers and guides, and additional 3DViewer panes presenting properties and time-line. In addition to the existing menu button, the property pane also offer x,y,z dialogues to enter your ROTSTEP matrix. Enjoy, Cheers.

New feature - Continuous page processing - GitHub ticket #76
New feature - Go Dark - Add dark theme - GitHub ticket #73
New feature - "Native" renderer based on 3DViewer (LeoCAD library) - GitHub ticket #71
New feature - "Native" POV file generation based on LDView library - GitHub ticket #77
New feature - Multi-segment page, divider and callout pointers - GitHub ticket #67
New feature - "True" part fade and part highlight - GitHub ticket #52
New feature - UI dialogue to set sub-model level colour - GitHub ticket #69
New feature - Scene horizontal and vertical ruler and axis guides - GitHub ticket #68
New feature - Console commands - GitHub ticket #12
Enhancement - Default assembly orientation angles to Assembly Setup - GitHub ticket #72
Enhancement - Headless mode on Linux, macOS and Windows Platforms - GitHub ticket #56
Enhancement - Improved ROTSTEP entry from 3DViewer pane - GitHub ticket #- GitHub ticket #78
Enhancement - Keyboard shortcuts for Edit commands - GitHub ticket #63
Enhancement - Respect relative and absolute paths for inserted images - GitHub ticket #61
Enhancement - Rotate Icon resize - GitHub ticket #66
Enhancement - Set renderer from project setup menu - GitHub ticket #70
Enhancement - Use an image for Rotate Icon - GitHub ticket #6262)
Change - Move LPub3D.ini file to application location for Windows portable distros - GitHub ticket #75
Change - Update 3DViewer to LeoCAD 18.2 commit 15d5e89
Bug - Go To page function broken - GitHub ticket #55
Bug - Insert text on a sub-model insertion page gets placed in the sub-model instead of the parent model - GitHub ticket #53
Bug - Mixed-page orientation incorrect - GitHub ticket #59
Issue - Abnormal program end on malformed CALLOUT - GitHub ticket #74
Issue - Automatically add assembled image of multi-occurrence sub-model to parent page - GitHub ticket #65, description
Issue - Landscape page orientation for .pdf export not working - GitHub ticket #58, cannot reproduce
Issue - LDView Multiple files single call rendering slow - GitHub ticket #54
Issue - LDView on macOS not loading - missing libraries - GitHub ticket #57
Issue - LPub3D renders very slow on Windows - GitHub ticket #60, duplicate

Features and enhancements
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LPub3D v2.2.2 continues the effort to improve stability and robustness. This release addresses, the last outstanding items introduced with the subsystem upgrades, image renderers integration and expanded cross-platform compatibility.

Change: Add OBS builds to 'check for updates'. Starting with v2.2.2, Linux Builds from Open Build Service will be available for update through the LPub3D user interface. Previously, only Travis-CI and AppVeyor generated builds were available.

Fix: LPub3D segfault on Enable Fade Steps. When switching LPub3D from not generating fade steps to generating fade steps via the Preferences dialogue window, LPub3D crashes. This behaviour only occurs on the initial model load with Fade Step set to On. Subsequent model loads execute as expected. #49

Change: Add resizeable MessageBox to preference dialogues. This capability enables the user to more conveniently read messages with details such as those possible when downloading or updating the application.

Change: Add LDraw archive libraries to Ubuntu AppImage. There were no LDraw archive libraries in the Travis (Ubuntu) AppImage. This causes the initial application load to prompt the user to select or download the official and unofficial archive library files. This behaviour has been changed. Archive libraries are now bundled in the Ubuntu AppImage #51

Fix: Renderers not set in AppImage build. No logic was place to adjust packaged 3rdParty renderer executables path taking into account LPub3D is running as an AppImage payload. As a result, at application load, the 3rdParty renderer paths were set to external system paths versus internal AppImage paths. This behaviour has been corrected. #50

Change: Run multiple instances of LPub3D on Win, macOS and AppImage. Starting with v 2.2.2, LPub3D supports the running of multiple instances on the same machine under the same user on Windows and macOS. Previously, all distributions of LPub3D on Windows and macOS used the same user settings location - Current User Registry Hive for Windows and PList file for macOS. This behaviour has been changed.

For macOS distributions, simply copy-paste and rename the .app bundle. For example copy LPub3D.app and rename the copied instance LPub3D_alt.app or whatever name you prefer. The settings plist file will be uniquely defined based on the bundle name, for example ~/Library/Preferences/com.lpub3d-software.LPub3D_alt.plist

On Windows, there are 2 options to achieve autonomous instances of LPub3D under the same user:

Just as with the macOS install, you can copy-paste and rename of the LPub3D executable to create a unique instance. However, installations under Program Files will require administrator access privilege to perform this action. Content written to the Current User Registry Hive will use the executable name as the Application Name so each unique executable will have its respective hive path and keys. For example Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LPub3D Software\LPub3D_alt.

Windows portable (.zip) distributions of LPub3D are now fully autonomous and portable. With this enhancement, portable distributions of LPub3D on Windows will write its application settings to an INI file located at C:\Users\"user"\AppData\Roaming\LPub3D Software\LPub3D_alt. Note that portable distributions also benefit from the same copy-paste behaviour available for installer-based distributions. #46

Change: Improve performance of Software Updater. Upgrade and refactor QSimpleUpater library.

Fix: Fade steps final model inserts multiple occurrences of the 0 !LPUB INSERT MODEL and 0 !LPUB INSERT PAGE when the model file contains a trailing 0 !STEP or BOM page at the end of the model file. #44

Fix: Remove file watcher on file close. This fix corrects the behaviour where when you edit a file that was recently closed in LPub3D, the message '...contents were changed by an external source' is displayed. The expected behaviour is to not receive such message.

Change: Add Fedora 28 to Open Build Service builds

Change: Starting with v2.1.0, LPub3D will no longer search 'C:\Program Files (x86)' on Windows and '/usr/local/ldraw' on Linux for the LDraw library folder

Enhancement: It is no longer necessary to manage renderer paths in the preference dialogue. LPub3D renderers (LDGLite, LDView and LPub3D-Trace) are now automatically configured at application start-up. As the renderers and now bundled with LPub3D, their locations are fixed and known to the application. Therefore, renderer location configuration is predefined and managed within LPub3D.

Enhancement: View log files. It is now possible to view logged output for LPub3D and its integrated renderers - LDGLite and LPub3D-Trace. LDView does not produce any discernible logging so there's nothing to view for this renderer.

Enhancement: Detect and configure LGEO library including Damien Roux's (Darats) STL objects. LGEO is a library of high-quality POV-Ray object definitions which describes LDraw parts. In order to automatically detect the LGEO library it be placed inside the LDraw library - for example "LDraw Path"/lgeo. Furthermore, to include Darats' STL objects, they must exist in a sub-folder named "stl" - so an example for STL objects would be "LDraw Path"/lgeo/stl. With these settings in place, LPub3d will automatically detect the LGEO paths and include them in the POV-Ray configuration file settings.

Enhancement: Windows multi-user installation. Multi-user installation allows "per-user" (no admin required) and "per-machine" (asks elevation only when necessary) installations. Per-user installations install folder is located at %USERPROFILE%\Local\AppData and installation registry keys at HKCU Software\LPub3D and HKCU Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\LPub3D respectively. The per-machine inistallations install folder is located at Program Files [x86_64] or Program Files (x86) [i686] while installation registry keys are written to HKLM Software\LPub3D and HKLM Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\LPub3D. For both pre-user and per-machine installs, LPUb3D configuration registry keys are written to HKCU Software\LPub3D Software\LPub3D while configuration data is written to %USERPROFILE%\Local\AppData\LPub3D Software\LPub3D. See https://github.com/Drizin/NsisMultiUser/blob/master/README.md for technical details.

Fix: preference settings not preserved on macOS - When application is closed, the configured preference settings are not preserved. On subsequent, application launch, the preference revert to the default configuration. This behaviour no longer presents on macOS.

Fix: Step number placement - page metas (step number, pli, csi, callout etc.) are placed relative to one or more other metas. For example, the step number meta can be placed relative to the pli (default placement), the csi, page header, page footer or the page. If one were to move a meta depended on by another, the 'other' meta would also move which would lead to unexpected behaviour. The proper way to move a meta is to first move its dependant ma ta(s) to another dependency. Dependencies can be seen in 'Move...' dialogue available via the context menu. Use the 'Relative To...' drop-down dialogue to see the available metas the given meta can be placed relative to.

Fix: POV-Ray rendering with space in file name or path. LPub3D-Trace (customized version of POV-Ray) supports spaces in the file name or path.

Fix: POV-Ray very slow in version 2.0.19. Although I could not reproduce this behaviour, it is worthwhile to note that LPub3D-Trace, an updated and better integrated version of POV-Ray, consistently yields better performance that the Off-the-shelf version. Moreover, LPub3D-Trace offers automatic configuration with the capability to implement the full compliment of custom configuration available to POV-Ray.

Fix: Callout within a callout. This capability was not available when using 'single call rendering' - submitting all the images on a page in a single call to LDView versus a call for each image. The image marshalling logic has been redesigned to manage any level of depth between a page and it's elements. Thus, the new behaviour now supports virtually endless callouts within callouts.

Fix: 'Current Submodel' MPD-combo-dropdown current index not set when changed. This behaviour has been corrected.

Fix: Incorrect default install path shown when installing LPub3D. The LDraw library path is presented as the install to folder. This behaviour has been corrected.

Fix: LPub3D 'Check for Updates' function does not do anything when clicked. There is a brief flash of the progress bar but that's it. This behaviour has been corrected in v2.1.0; however, as the error is in the already released v2.0.20, users will still be impacted by this abnormal behaviour when they attempt to upgrade from within LPub3D. See Known Issues below.

Known Issue: LPub3D v2.0.20.0.645_20170208 check for updates function is broken. Therefore, it is not possible to upgrade from the within LPub3D. If upgrading from v2.0.20, you must manually download and install LPub3D v2.1.0 - https://sourceforge.net/projects/lpub3d/files/2.1.0.

Change: L3P 3rd party application removed. The L3P module which carried the function of preparing the .pov files for POV-Ray was removed from the LPub3D bundle. The .pov file generation functionality is now performed by LDView.

Enhancement: The entire DevOp process has been moved to a cloud and container enabled architecture allowing platform-independent development, build and release across all major operating systems including macOS, Linux, Windows and the newly available AppImage 'no-install' application bundle distribution. Following is summary of each meaningful application correction and or enhancement.

Integrate 3rd party renderers - LDGlite, LDView and LPub3D-Trace (POV-Ray). To well deliver this capability, LPub3D 2.1.0 implements a major 'build, packaging and deployment' redesign to maximize use of cloud infrastructure and services. The end-to-end build, packaging and deployment process is now fully automated and 100% cloud enabled - using Travis-CI for Linux and macOS artefacts, and AppVeyor for Microsoft. All Linux distro are built via Docker containerization on Travis-CI.

Along with the core LPub3D source, LDGlite, LDView and LPub3D-Trace (POV-Ray) are compiled from source during the build process. While this approach adds material time to the build process, it ensures all dependencies are properly addressed during Linux and macOS builds. The end result is a complete and consistent solution package across all supported Linux, macOS and Microsoft platforms where a single install will account for all the required LPub3D components needed to deliver the full compliment of LPub3D capabilities.

In addition to tight integration, the LPub3D renderers have been adapted with additional capabilities specifically designed to work with LPub3D. Enhancements were carefully designed to allow maximum compatibility with their original upstream source to ensure upstream enhancements, fixes and progressions are efficiently integrated into the LPub3d-specific branches.

LPub3D is available as an AppImage distribution. AppImage is a format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application.

LPub3D is now at GitHub. Distributed version control and source code management will allow better collaboration, contribution, issue management, and continuous release updates. The LPub3D GitHub repository is https://github.com/trevorsandy/lpub3d. I did not forget Soruceforge.net. we are also still there at https://sourceforge.net/projects/lpub3d.

Features and enhancements
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Fix: Introducing LPub3D ports for Linux (Debian, Red Hat and Arch based distros) and Mac (OSX). [0853680]
* LPub3D is now available across Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. The LPub3D package can be accessed via direct download from sourceforge.net and is available in .dmg (OSX), .rpm (Red Hat)
.deb (Debian) and .pkg.tar.xz (Arch) formats. Additionally, LPub3D can be built directly from source with the provided .spec, Debian configuration files or PKGBUILD build
configuration files. LPub3D source for building Linux distros is available at https://github.com/trevorsandy/lpub3d; LPub3D source also remains available at http://sourceforge.net/p/lpub3d/code/.
Fix: When the preferred renderer is manually typed into the preference dialogue, it is not validated upon exit of the preferences dialogue. [44548f4]
* This behaviour has been corrected. Manually entered preferred render path is validated when the preference dialogue is closed.
Fix: Automatically load LDraw archive libraries on initial application launch. [ff06bc9]
* To further improve the user experience at initial application launch. When LPub3D is loaded for the first time, it there are no archive libraries in at the user's application data path. LPub3D will automatically install the libraries packaged in the distribution.
Fix: Update QuaZip library to v0.7.2
* Improve robustness.
Fix: Enable and correct menu shortcuts. [48ca363]
* LPub3D menu item keyboard shortcuts have been repositioned to allow both Editor, and 3DViewer's short cuts to reside on the main menu tool-bar. This redesign allows for more seamless integration on OSX and some Linux distros - e.g. Debian.
Additionally, all available LPub3D menu item short cuts are now enabled. Here are the new mappings:

Main Page Design
Open = Ctrl+O
Save = Ctrl+S
Print File = Ctrl+T (Currently Disabled)
CloseFile = Ctrl+X
First Page = Ctrl+P
Last Page = Ctrl+L
Previous Page = Ctrl+E
Next Page = Ctrl+N
Export Bmp = Alt+B
Export Png = Alt+N
Export Pdf = Alt+F
Export Pdf Preview = Alt+P
Export Jpg = Alt+J
Fit Page Width = Alt+W
Fit Page Visible = Alt+V
Actual Size = Alt+A
Redo = Ctrl+Y (Also affects LDraw Editor Menu)
Undo = Ctrl+Z (Also affects LDraw Editor Menu)
Exit Application = Ctrl+Q

LDraw Editor Menu
Cut = Ctrl+X
Paste = Ctrl+V
Copy = Ctrl+C
Select All = Ctrl+A
Redraw = Ctrl+R
Find = Ctrl+F
Delete = DEL

Parameter Editor Menu
Cut = Ctrl+X
Paste = Ctrl+V
Copy = Ctrl+C
Select All = Ctrl+A
Save = Ctrl+S
Find = Ctrl+F
Undo = Ctrl+Z
Redo = Ctrl+Y
Delete = DEL

3D Viewer Menu
Insert ROTSTEP = Shift+O
ROTSTEP Absolute = Shift+B
ROTSTEP Relative = Shift+E
Select = Shift+S
Zoom = Shift+Z
Zoom Region = Shift+G
Rotate Camera View = Shift+T
Pan = Shift+P
Select Invert = Ctrl+Shift+I
Save As = Ctrl+Alt+S
Find = Ctrl+Shift+F
Copy = Ctrl+Shift+C
Select All = Ctrl+Shift+A
Hide Selected = Ctrl+H
Hide Unselected = Ctrl+Shift+H
Unhide All = Ctrl+U
Unhide Selected = Ctrl+Shift+U
Undo = Ctrl+Shift+Y
Redo = Ctrl+Shift+Z

Features and enhancements
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Fix: Callout not displayed and part count incorrect when loading a model using multiple and separate ldr-format files (r877)
* These behaviours were introduced in LPub3D 2.0.0. The immediate work around is to merge the files into a single MPD-format file. However, these behaviours are now corrected.

Features and enhancements
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Fix: Instance count placement when page number not displayed (r874)
* Instance count is placed relative to page number by default. When page number is not displayed, LPub3D will re-assign the instance count to any or the four page attributes, url, email, copyright, and author (default) displayed at the left bottom area of the page. If no page attributes are displayed, the instance count is assigned to the bottom left inside corner of the page.
Fix: Fade part not displayed in assembly image (r872)
* The faded part is not rendered or displayed in the CSI step image. The non-faded part occurrence is rendered successfully and the faded part is displayed in the viewer.The problem persists after regenerating fade parts and clearing the cache. In some scenarios, particularly when LPub3D is launched with fade=Off and then fade is set to fade=ON using the Preferences menu after a model file is loaded, it is possible that the fade directory is not communicated to the renderer so no fade part image is rendered. This behaviour has been corrected.
With the updated behaviour, the fade search directories are updated on any change to the Fade Step check-box in the Preferences General tab. If the fade step is set to ON, fade directory with part file content will be added to the search directory. When fade step is set to OFF, the fade directory will be removed.
Fix: True page background transparency (r871)
* When the page background is set the true transparent, it is not possible to display the background context menu so many page functions will not be accessible. To accommodate true transparency and enable the available page editing functions, when a page background is set to "none(transparent)" by the user, the page is set to white with alpha=1 during page editing but switched to true transparent for exporting/printing. This way, the user will have the ability to manipulate the page components while editing the document.
Fix: Previewing the current page (single page) produces a blank page (r870)
* This behaviour has been corrected.
Fix: Page size precision to 4 decimal places (r869)
* When using some page sizes (e.g. A4), there was a thin white band at the right/bottom edge of the generated PDF pages when the background is set to colour or image. This issue resulted from using incorrect page sizes. The correct page size in inches sometimes require 4 digits of precision but were rounded to only 1 digit. All page sizes have been set to 4 digits of precision.
Fix: Border meta automatically updated to LPub3D format (r868)
* LPub3D will automatically detect and update a LPub border meta to the LPub3D format which adds a line type attribute to the meta command. The previous behaviour would display an error format message prompting the user to correct the meta. The default line type set during automatic update is 1=solid.
Line types are 0=none,1=solid,2=dash,3=dot,4=dashDot,5=dashDotDot. An LPub meta line like this:
0 !LPUB PLI BORDER GLOBAL ROUND Black 0 15 MARGINS 0.472439 0.07 will be automatically updated to this:
0 !LPUB PLI BORDER GLOBAL ROUND 1 Black 0 15 MARGINS 0.472439 0.07
Fix: Find button in LDraw editor (r867)
* Find button added to LDraw editor. The find dialogue will open with the word currently under the cursor. Therefore, an efficient use pattern is to place the cursor above the word you wish to search and click the search button.
Fix: Display message for mixed page size and orientation (r866)
* When previewing a pdf export, the user has to option to present or suppress the message indicating there are different orientations and/or sizes in the preview. The Qt print preview does not play well with mixed pages sizes. This message informs the user of this fact. Additional Cleanup.
Fix: Misplaced submodel occurrence (r865)
* When a submodel ends with a single step and the next to the last step is a multi-step, the submodel occurrence number (if used more than 1x in the parent model) is placed both at the multi-step and the last step in the child model. Under this scenario, the corrected behaviour places the occurrence number only at the last step.

Features and enhancements
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Fix: Inconsistent page size/orientation transition (r862)
* Size and orientation transition is inconsistent between the editor and export for mixed orientation output. Editor and export page orientation corrected to behave the same. Here are some notes to describe how to use the different metas:
- Use the page context menu to set size and/or orientation to ensure proper meta command syntax.
- GLOBAL (e.g 0 !LPUB PAGE ORIENTATION GLOBAL PORTRAIT) meta keyword should only be used at the header of the top level model file - if you are manually adding meta commands in the LDraw editor.
- LOCAL (e.g 0 !LPUB PAGE ORIENTATION GLOBAL PORTRAIT) meta keyword will scope the meta command to only the current step - if you are manually adding meta commands in the LDraw editor..
- When the LOCAL keyword is absent (e.g. 0 !LPUB PAGE ORIENTATION PORTRAIT), the meta command takes on the same behaviour as if the GLOBAL keyword is used - i.e. the meta command takes on a global scope from the point where it is used - unless it is superseded by a new meta command.
- When manually setting size and/or orientation on a child submodel (i.e. using the LDraw editor), place your command in the child submodel instead of placing it in the parent model. For MULTI_STEP(s), place the size orientation at the bottom of the MULTI_STEP - just before 0 !LPUB MULTI_STEP END.
Fix: Empty output after export to pdf or images (r861)
* The page size was not captured during export (pdf or images) unless an explicit definition of the page size meta command is present in the model file (e.g. 0 !LPUB PAGE SIZE GLOBAL 8.5000 11.0000 Letter). This behaviour is now corrected.
Fix: When page number is not displayed, the submodel instance count is also not displayed (r860)
* Instance count is by default placed relative to page number so, by default, if page number is not displayed then instance count is also not displayed. This behaviour is now changed to automatically set the instance count relative to the page if the page number is not displayed. As a result, the instance count will display regardless of the display status of the page number.

Features and enhancements
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Fix: Prompt to download LDraw archive when archive not provided (r856)
* When a portable distribution of LPub3D (e.g. when distributed in AIOI) does not include the LDraw archive libraries, LPub3D will prompt the installation user to download or select the LDraw library archives if they are not detected. This update allows portable distributions of LPub3D to exclude the official and unofficial LDraw library archive files. Note that if a portable distribution includes only the official LDraw library archive (complete.zip), LPub3D will automatically build the library archive (lpub3dldrawunf.zip) file from the LDraw\unofficial directory; however, subdirectory parts and p will be ignored so the build unofficial library archive will NOT contain the default unofficial library parts. To update the unofficial library archive file under the scenario, select Tools/Refresh LDraw Unofficial Parts from the LPub3D menubar.
Fix: Cover page attributes displayed outside of page (r853)
* Page attributes placed outside of page when displaying individual attributes. Attributes on both front and back cover pages were experiencing this behaviour. The behaviour is now corrected. Refer to features and enhancements for LPub3D 2.0.11.816.2 to review additional details on manipulating page attributes.
Fix: Refresh open model file when preference changes (r852)
* Refresh open model file when "display all page attributes" and "generate cover pages" preference settings have changed.
Fix: Unable to create a new line in text items - e.g. Model Description (r851)
* It is now possible to split text in text boxes and all editable page attributes - e.g. model description, LEGO disclaimer etc... When you select a text item, the cursor is placed at the very beginning of the dialogue. Use your arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired position of the dialogue.
To split a line simply hit the "enter" key on your keyboard. It is also possible to create a new line by inserting inserting the newline characters \n.
One can also add "quoted texts" in test items. Just like adding a new line, simply type " before and after the content you wish to quote. It is not necessary to enter an escape character \ but entering an escape character before the \" is also supported.
Fix: The step number is slightly off of the page when using default settings (r850)
* Page header and footer width is now matched with the size and orientation of the displayed page. One can also change the "Relative To" settings from header/footer to page using the context menu/Move Step Number dialogue. For example, the step number on single step pages default placement is relative to the invisible page header - which can be managed in the page setup dialogue. Alternatively, step number placement on a single step page can be set relative to the page using the context menu as described earlier.
Fix: Page movable and selectable in the graphics scene (r849)
* Page is now fixed and cannot be selected within the graphics scene.
Fix: Drag and drop model file (r848)
* Open model file using drag and drop. Note that only one file at a time can be opened so dragging and dropping multiple files will only open the first file in in the list of selected files.