What's new in Repeat Signage V4
Support has been added for Microsoft PowerPoint files (pptx and ppt) within
all the picture based controls. The way this works is that PowerPoint
slides are automatically converted to pictures and displayed. See
Using Microsoft
PowerPoint presentations in Repeat Signage for a walk through.
We have added two new options to our
Flash banner control. The
options are:
PAGE FLIPPER 01 - This allows you to select PDF files (or Pictures,
Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and displays them like a book with turning
pages.
ROTATOR 01 - This allows pictures to be scrolled across the screen
like they were on a conveyor belt. There are numerous sizing and
display options and you can mix portrait and landscape oriented pictures.
Our
touch screen presentation system has been updated so that you can use
our
Flash banner control options to select
pictures and text and automatically generates touch screen kiosk
displays that allow users to navigate through pictures, text and PDF
brochures. The two new Flash Banner options such as the PAGE FLIPPER 01
allow you to display a 'book' to users so that they can browser through PDF
product brochures:
Flash Banner pictures can now be individually rotated or colour effects
applied.
Standalone Edition now has the RTF control, all Flash Clock and Flash RSS
designs.
We will be continuing to develop the touch screen system through-out 2016.
We have reduced the load time of both the player and the designer by around
25%.
There is a new
Barcode and QR code control
which allows the display of QR codes in your presentations and in the
Repeat Pictures system.
You can also use
custom templates with
databases with our Flash Banner control, and this is also available with
our touch screen system.
Excel spreadsheets can now be connected to as databases, which makes it
easier to set up databases for use with Repeat Signage.
Our Picture and Flash Banner controls now collect the
images of website pages automatically
collected and display along side pictures, PowerPoint slides, PDF files,
etc. You can specify how long a website page is stored in our cache, i.e.
how often it is updated.
We have added a basic
logging system so that you can see what presentations
have actually been played. This can be accessed from the main screen
by clicking on the 'Utilities' menu and then selecting 'Presentation and
play list playing log'. The data can be exported to a CSV or an XML
file is required.
With Repeat Signage Standard and above editions, you can now schedule both
the
turning off of a
player computer and
turning off
monitors at specified times. The system has also been
updated so that it automatically disables the screen saver and power
management when presentations are playing.
The
Repeat Signage Manager system has
been added to allow remote monitoring of Repeat Signage player computers.
Improved
folder support now allows you to collect
files from websites (HTTP),
FTP sites and
RepeatServer.com folders.
RepeatServer.com now has a new File Manager
to allow you to create your own folders of files online and then use them
within Repeat Signage.
Upgrading to Repeat Signage V4
There is a paid upgrade from Repeat Signage 2010-2015 to Repeat Signage V4
on our
Buy
page.
Repeat Signage 2015 changes
The big new feature of Repeat Signage 2015 is
database support in our new
Corporate edition and in our Media Wall edition.
Most Repeat Signage controls (where applicable) can now collect and display
information from database. There is a new
Data grid control.
The
Animated gif control now supports SVG
(Scalable Vector Graphics) files.
The
Flash RSS control allows the display of
text from databases (Corporate and Media Wall editions). There is also a manual option so that you can
scroll text/news that you type in rather than using an RSS feed.
The
Flash banner control allows the
display of text from databases (Corporate and Media Wall editions). You can now remotely update the 'FADER
01' option from
www.repeatserver.com as well.
The
Web browser (and web widgets) control
allows collection of HTML from databases (Corporate and Media Wall editions). This control has had a major
update with the following features:
Zoom |
Zoom feature added so that you can set a zoom percentage if
required. This is on the Page tab of the properties screen.
100% is the normal size. 50% zooms to make page half the size
and 200% makes the page twice as big. You can use any value
between 20% and 500%. |
Part
of page |
You can just display part of a website page. See the
displaying just
part of a website page help page. |
Widget wizard |
New 'Widget wizard' button which will help
you display your widget/HTML easier by embedding it into a complete
website page. This allows the top left position to the set and the
optional setting a background colour rather than the default white
one. You can preview the HTML/widget and set zoom options to
increase or decrease the displayed size of the widget. |
Login
URL's |
You can now use login URLs
to which allow you to login to certain sites and then display a
protected page. |
The
Picture control,
Text label control,
Text block control
all now support collection of information from databases.
There are now 4000+
Repeat Icons for you to
use in your presentations. These can be displayed by the
Picture control and the
Flash banner control. These are
available in the main Repeat Signage designer and also in the
Repeat Pictures system which can be
used to create adverts/pictures.
Repeat Signage V4 now uses
Microsoft .NET Framework
4.0 or above
rather than .NET Framework 3.5SP1 using by Repeat Signage 2014 and below.
Please remember if you use any of the new features of Repeat Signage,
including the
Repeat Icons or the new
Data grid control then your Repeat Signage V4 presentations will not display on previous versions of Repeat
Signage. So please upgrade all of your computers to Repeat Signage V4. The upgrade is free of charge.
There is a new
Spreadsheet control (released in June
2015) which allows you to display Excel .xlsx spreadsheet files and has a
built-in spreadsheet system so that you can build your own spreadsheet
from within a Repeat Signage presentation. This is ideal for creating
grids of information, including restaurant menus. The
Spreadsheet control is available all
editions of Repeat Signage and spreadsheets are remotely updatable view our
free
www.repeatserver.com service as well. This is also available in
the
Repeat Pictures system.
Repeat Signage 2014 changes
The biggest change is the introduction of play lists in the Standard
Edition. You can now schedule presentations on either a STANDARD, CONTINUOUS,
HOURLY, DAILY, WEEKLY or DATES basis. On the main Repeat Signage
screen, click on the 'Play lists' tab and press F1 for help to get more
information.
We have also added a Template Wizard:
and we are gradually adding more templates to this.
There are also now transitions in the
PDF/Document control
and
Text label control, as well as the
Picture control, so you can use effects such
as fade in play lists of pictures, PDF's and text.
The
Text label control and
Text block control have
text to speech
support for use with messaging and patient call systems.
The
Flash banner control can be remotely
updated via a free
RepeatServer.com account.
Close integration with our free
RepeatServer.com
service which allows remote files, presentations and play lists to up
updated. You can now link your free
RepeatServer.com
account to Repeat Signage and then select files and presentations hosted on
this service from a list.
FTP support has been added to all controls. You can even play Repeat
Signage presentations and play lists directly from
FTP sites.
Unicode character support has been added to allow Chinese, Japanese,
Russian, Greek and other character sets to be displayed in all controls.
See
Unicode support in Repeat digital signage
software for more details.
You can now display
Microsoft
Word and OpenOffice Writer documents in Repeat Signage with the
Picture control,
PDF/Document control
and
Flash banner control.
Cropping, both manual and automatic, can be made to pictures and documents
such as PDF files.
There are a large number of minor changes throughout the system.
Support for Microsoft XPS files added. An XPS file is the Microsoft
equivalent of a PDF file. Windows Vista, 7 and 8 have a built in
printer which is installed on all computers called 'Microsoft XPS Document
Writer'. You can use this to print your documents directly to a .xps
file and then use either the
Picture control,
PDF/Document control
or
Flash banner control to display these.
New
Controller control which allows
other control's play lists to be synchronised.
You can now design and edit pictures for use by the
Picture control and
Flash banner control, and as
background images for presentations.
Repeat Pictures are a picture format that allows you to use pictures,
PDF files, documents (MS Word and OpenOffice Writer), text files, RTF files,
shapes,
as well as manually entered text to create images. You design still images
and then save the file which has a .rpic extension. See
Repeat Pictures for more
information.
The
Flash RSS control now allows you to
filter RSS feeds, so that out of date information is automatically removed
and you can now also add the date/time to new item titles.