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Product Manager & Developer Aaron McGranaghan

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Version 1.5.7 August 2017

• Improved support for handling Dedicon protected files.
• Fixed an issue with highlighting sometimes not highlighting correctly on some machines.

Version 1.5 April 2017

What’s new in  V1.5

• Compatible with the new Dedicon protection mechanism, going live April 2017.

Bug fixes

• Added some missing text localisations.
• Fixed an issue with the highlight colour selection box showing blank entries.

Technical Information

• The old ESDNow protection mechanism will soon be switched off (April 2017) as Dedicon are moving over to their own protection mechanism.

System Requirements

• Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.
• .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime.
• 1GB RAM
• 50MB hard drive space.
• An internet connection is required to activate new books and all books, once every 30 days.

Version 1.4.6 December 2016.

New features

• Highlight colours – you can now change the colour of highlight colour in BookReader.
• Quick voice language change – enabling the secondary languages feature allows to you set a voice for a particular language and quickly switch to that voice by selecting it in the dropdown menu on the main toolbar.
• New document open mechanism – files that are opened now only have to be converted once – the first time they are opened. This means instant openenings of documents, after you open them for the first time.
• The annotation toolbar is now enabled by default.
• The progress bar that shows when you are openeing a document for the first time, should be more responsive and not cause the app to hang.

Bugfixes

• Added some missing text localisations.
• Annotations should now be remembered when upgrading to a newer version of BookReader.
• Fixed an issue where annotations were only read out, if they were in the first document.
• Fixed some issues with the page number not being correctly updated.
• Fixed an issue with save dialogues inadvertently appearing when adding annotations to protected documents.
• Fixed an issue where the Print option was disabled for unprotected documents.
• Fixed an issue where the Accessibility settings were not being remembered.
• Fixed an issue where the Settings for BookReader were being corrupted and preventing BookReader from starting.

Known issues

• On very rare occasions, the Settings for BookReader may be reset. This will happen when they are corrupted and would prevent BookReader from starting.

Version 1.3.32 20 Feb 2015

System Requirements

• Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8.
• .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime.
• 1GB RAM
• 50MB hard drive space.

New features

• PDF files are now opened in tabs, allowing you to open multiple files at the same time.
• You can now close a PDF file without having to close BookReader.
• Comments and annotations are automatically saved for ESD PDF files.
• New Export menu item added.
• This option allows you to export pages to an image. For normal PDF files this is unrestricted.
  • For ESD PDF filesthis is restricted to the current page and is greyscale.
• New Annotations menu item added. This option allows you to import and export an annotations file.
• New Echo words option added to the Speech Settings menu.
  • This can be enabled to echo words that you type into PDF form fields and annotations.
• Window title has been updated to use a more accurate PDF file name.
• Annotations and form field content can now be spoken by selecting them and pressing the play button.

Improved features

• Should now interact successfully with ClaroRead and ClaroCapture.
• Fixed file associations.
• Updated the ClaroPDF.dll to be able to handle more ESD PDF files.

Version 1.3, 29 April 2013

Features

• Displays PDF files
• Opens ESDNow protected documents (e.g. from Dedicon)
  • Changes to protected documents cannot be saved
  • Does not open Adobe protected PDFs
• Allows reading with highlighting
• Allows commenting
• Fully compatible with ClaroRead 6.2 upwards

System Requirements

• Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8
• 1GB RAM
• 50MB hard disk space
• DVD drive
• Microsoft Office 2003 or later