What's new in Conversions Plus?
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| Last Reviewed: 8/14/2007
This document applies to:
Conversions Plus 6.6
Conversions Plus 6.054
Conversions Plus 4.0 to 6.001
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Question:
What's new in Conversions Plus?
Answer:
Conversions Plus Revision History
6.6 - Released March 12, 2007 - Current Version
With version 6.6 of Conversions Plus, MacOpener functionality has been removed. For reading Macintosh media on a PC, DataViz now sells MacDrive from Mediafour. This can be purchased as a bundle with Conversions Plus or is included with Conversions Plus for those upgrading to the latest version.
- Support for Windows Vista
- Dropped support for Windows 95, ME, 98, and NT
- MacOpener no longer bundled with Conversions Plus
6.054 - Released October 2001
New Translators:
- Word for Windows XP 2002
- Word for Macintosh 2001
- Excel for Windows XP 2002
- Excel for Macintosh 2001
New Features:
- Support for Windows XP
- iPod Firewire support
6.0 - Released August 2000
New Translators:
- WordPerfect 9.0 for Windows
- Word Pro Millennium (9.5) for Windows
- Lotus 1-2-3 Millennium for Windows
- Quattro Pro (Windows) 9.0 (Read Only)
- Appleworks 6.0 for Macintosh (Read Only)
New Features:
- Bug fixes
- Audio CD problem
- Conversions Plus showing up more than once in the right-click menu
- Name Doctor was not recognizing and fixing extensions on certain file types
5.0 - Released August 1999
New Translators:
- MS Word for Office 2000 (Windows)
- MS Excel for Office 2000 (Windows)
- MS Works 4.5 (WP and SS) for Windows
- AppleWorks/ClarisWorks 5 (WP and SS) for Windows and Macintosh
- WordPerfect 3.5 enhanced for Macintosh
New Features:
- Windows 2000 compatible
- Bug fixes
- ATAPI zip
- MacName conflicts with Excel & Access
- LS Drive problem (Now you can format a floppy and LS-120 disk as a Mac)
4.6 - Released February 1999
Version 4.6 of Conversions Plus discontinued support for Windows 3.x. It will run only on Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0.
New Translators:
- Word Pro for Lotus SmartSuite 96, 97, 98 (Windows)
- Lotus 1-2-3 for Lotus SmartSuite 97, 98 (Windows)
New Features:
- Y2K compliant
- Bug fixes
- Fixed issue when MacOpener will corrupt data when renaming a folder on a Mac disk
4.5 - Released August 1998
Version 4.5 adds features for more compatibility with Macintosh as well as tighter integration with Microsoft mail clients.
New Translators:
- Word for Office 98 (Macintosh)
- Excel for Office 98 (Macintosh)
New Features:
- Added support for Windows 98
- Support for reading Macintosh HFS+ (Mac OS Extended format) disks
- "Name Doctor" feature to automatically fix Macintosh file naming problems (such as incorrect extensions and illegal characters) when transferring Macintosh files over NT servers
- Attachment Opener version 2.0 and MacOpener 4.0
- Integrates with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange to automatically view attachments within the e-mail message
- Change preference for Batch Conversion (EPS files)
- Bug Fixes
- Fixes in the translators, and the device driver
4.0 - Released June 1997
Version 4.0 includes many new translators as well as a new transparent interface, taking advantage of the Windows 95 & NT 4.0 operating systems.
New Translators:
- Word for Office 97 (Version 8.0)
- Excel for Office 97 (Version 8.0)
- ClarisWorks 4.0
- WordPerfect 7.0 & 8.0
- Quattro Pro 7.0 & 8.0
New Features:
- New interface allows you to simply double click or right click on files and Conversions Plus will automatically open them - no need to use the two window interface.
- Added the capability to decode e-mail files - handles Binhex, uuEncode and MIME (Base64) - now you won't have problems receiving files via e-mail.
- Added decompression functionality - decompress files created using Gzip, Zip, Z, TAR and MacBinary.
- Added advanced viewing technology which allows you to get a WYSIWYG view of files and print them without launching any programs.
- Added a Windows NT 4.0 Macintosh Driver which provides transparent access to Macintosh disks as if they were PC disks. Access disks through the Windows Desktop, Explorer or any PC program.
- Bug Fixes
- Lots in the translators, and the device driver
- Many in the batch translation
3.5 - Released December 1995
Version 3.5 of Conversions Plus focuses on Windows 95 and Macintosh removable media.
New Translators:
- Word for Windows 95 (Version 7.0)
- Excel for Windows 95 (Version 7.0)
- Works for Windows 95 (Version 4.0)
- WordPerfect 6.1 (DOS)
- WordPerfect 3.5 (Macintosh)
New Features:
- Removable Media - Read, write and format Macintosh SCSI disks and hard drives and read Macintosh CD-ROMs on your Windows PC. Devices supported include:
- SyQuest Drives
- SyQuest EZ 135 Drives
- Bernoulli Drive (Iomega)
- Zip Drive (Iomega)
- Jaz Drive (Iomega)
- CD-ROM Drives
- Magneto-Optical Drives
- Macintosh Hard Drives
Other New Features:
- Added a Windows 95 Driver which provides transparent access to Macintosh disks as if they were PC disks. Access disks through the Windows 95 desktop, Explorer or any PC program.
- Added the ability to retain long PC file names.
- With Version 3.5, you can get important file information, such as the file format and size, before converting files.
- Added the ability to convert entire directories (including the sub-directories) at once without having to choose the individual files.
3.0 - Released June 16, 1995
With Version 3.0 of Conversions Plus, we added many new paths, including many graphic formats, as well as many additional features. Version 3.0 is designed to be Windows 95 compatible and will allow you to use Macintosh disks and convert files running under Windows 95.
New Translators:
- WordPerfect 6.1
- MS Works Macintosh 4.0
- ClarisWorks Mac & Windows 2.x, 3.x
- WordPerfect Works Windows 2.0
- GIF
- TIFF
- JPEG
- EPS
- BMP and PCX are now bi-directional
- Quattro Pro Windows 1.0, 5.0, 6.0
- Lotus WK4 (Version 4 & 5)
*All spreadsheet translators now have full 3D support
New Features:
- Added the DataViz FileView Utility - this feature allows you to extract the text from any word processing file and view it.
- Added the File Preview feature - this allows you to preview any graphic or text file before converting it.
- With Version 3.0, you can convert entire graphic images or select portions of a graphic to convert.
- You can convert graphics to and from the windows clipboard - this is helpful when you have an image within a file and want to use the image in another file.
- MacBinary Transfers.
- Improved font handling.
- Increased translation speed for word processing conversions.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem of not saving preferences
Version 2.5
New Translators:
- WordPerfect 3.0 Macintosh
- Excel 5.0 (Windows & Mac)
- Word 6.0 (Windows & Mac)
New Features:
Version 2.0
With Version 2.0, we added most of our translation paths. All Conversions Plus Version 1.0 users were upgraded to Version 2.0 at no charge. If you have Version 1.0, please contact us on how to get our latest version.
