Added:
• 177 Sclera symbols
• Added advanced function in Picto sheet editor: Paste special – enables you to paste the clipboard multiple times
• Facebook button in the Print preview dialog. For easy sharing of you pictosheets on Facebook. See the Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/PictoSelector for more information and video. Many thank for the donations especially f...rom Kommunikationscentret Hillerød in Denmark
• Indonesian translation of 40% of the Sclera symbols, more to come. The translation is done by people from www.facebook.com/SukacitaFoundation

Changed:
• Improved check for network DB
• A lot of internal changes, not visible from the outside, but I’ve updated several components to newer versions and changed the way symbols sets are stored internally

I've created a video showing how some new functionality will work.

You will be able to upload your pictosheet very easily to your facebook wall:

http://youtu.be/UgtrDWNjR8E

It is based on some external components I wil have to buy before I can use it in Picto Selector, so please donate some money if you find this usefull.

Added:
  • 163 Sclera symbols
  • Convert a pictosheet to a pictopage, this is menu option in the pictosheet list
Changed:
  • Increased the size of the picto when the pictoname is printed within the border
Fixed:
  • Printpreview changes, this might help to prevend error messages about printers at startup of Picto Selector
  • Fix for saving pictolist pictos to a folder, it failed to save pictos with a ? in the name
  • Improved speed for detecting non available symbol sets
  • Renamed a few pictos which could not be properly downloaded when updating
1.6.16 (April)
Added:
1.6.15 (March)
Added:
  • 23 French Pictogenda symbols
  • 13 symbols used by the Dutch organization “Dit Koningskind”, based on the Sclera symbols
  • It is now possible to change the picto sheet background color (“Picto Sheet” > “Change page color…”)
  • New options to show the picto name in the picto, the picto will be shrinked to create room for the name. When the name is too big a smaller font will be used to make it fit. The selected picto text size is now the maximum size of the font used for the picto name. The picto name will be located inside the border of the picto
  • 27 Sclera symbols
1.6.14 (Februari)
Added:
  • 151 Sclera symbols
  • 2 new symbols created by Romana Malzer and available in the Picto Selector symbolset
Changed:
  • When selecting another pictosheet in the list with the cursor keys, the preview will now be updated
Fixed:
  • Storing email history (list of email addresses) was not done properly and resulted sometimes in errors

 

Picto Selector USB stick
You can still buy a USB memory stick with Picto Selector logo. This is a fast USB 3 memory stick with 8GB memory.
For more information visit: http://goo.gl/etK9f

Portable version!

Picto Selector could always be copied to a USB stick and would run as a portable version. But this has been improved now. Picto Selector can now be upated in portable mode and this makes the updates for a Picto Selector installation on a MAC much easier!

Picto Selector USB stick

You can now buy a USB memory stick with Picto Selector logo. This is a fast USB 3 memory stick with 8GB memory.

Added:

  • 430 sclera pictos
  • Added a layout template for Eelke Verschuur Stickers
  • For portable version: when not already installed provide an easy way to download and install the Arasaac pictos
  • Background color for text object in flexible picto sheets
  • A new option in the pictolist right mouse button menu: “Copy Transparent PNG File to Clipboard” - This will save the selected pictos to the temp folder with a transparent background and put the files in the clipboard. This way you can paste pictos with a transparent background into another application.

Changed:

  • Update mechanism. The update will be downloaded by an small installer and run directly. This allows much easier updates for portable and Wine(bottler) installations.
  • For portable version: allow picto set imports, user pictos and online updates

 

Get Picto Selector on a USB Stick and use it anywhere without installation!

This is very usefull for:

  • teachers and professionals who want to prepare their pictosheets at home and print them on school or work
  • people who work with computers without installation rights
  • people who want to use Picto Selector on different machines
  • people who do not want to worry about moving to a new computer and loosing their old pictosheets

Why you should buy this:

  • for the reasons above
  • because it is a nice USB stick
  • if you have trouble to download Picto Selector from the website
  • to support future development of Picto Selector
  • if want to use it on a MAC computer and creating a wineskin version is too much trouble

The looks

 

Detailed description

  • USB 3.0 pendrive with Picto Selector logo
  • 8 GB, enought room for future updates
  • This USB stick is up to 4 times faster than regular USB 2.0 sticks, even on normal USB 2.0 ports
  • Picto Selector portable version with over 16000 pictos
  • Ready to download and install the 8400 Arasaac pictos (The license of the Arasaac pictos only allow me to distribute it in a download)
  • Works on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (32 and 64 bits)
  • The portable version of Picto Selector can be updated when connected to the internet
  • The MAC version of Picto Selector. This is the same version as seen on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkwDNvr6us

You can buy this pendrive for 30 euros with Paypal:

Buy 1 USB Stick now

Or Visit a webpage were you can select the number of USB sticks

You will receive a email as confirmation and to verify the adress. This is a manual process and might take some time.

Birthday version!
This updated version is very much like earlier updates, but on 8 November, I hope to be 40 years :-)
You can give this an extra festive touch by considering to giving a donation if you have not done this before. Or just a "Like" on facebook, a message about Picto Selector on your blog, newspaper or anything you could imagine!

Added:

  • On the website an Frequently Asked Questions list (in the Downloads menu)
  • An option to hide pictos in the pictolist
  • An easier way to import user pictos
  • The following menu items in the help menu:
    • Frequently Asked Question – visit the website
    • Ask for Help – send an email
    • Propose an Improvement – send an email
    • Donate – visit the website
  • The following options in the preview right mouse button menu:
    • Print Current Page
    • Delete Page from Preview
    • Print Multiple Times
  • Border options for a text object in the flexible pictosheets

Changed:

  • When copying pictos in the flexible pictosheets, the order will be remembered. Before the order was changed to put the last added picto at the end of the inserted pictos, it will now depend on the position in the pictosheet.

An option to hide pictos in the pictolist

When you login as administrator in Picto Selector you can now use the following right mouse button options:

  • Show Hidden Pictos
  • Unhide All Pictos
  • Unhide Selected Pictos
  • Hide Selected Pictos

You can now use the “Hide Selected Pictos” to hide them from the picto list. They will no longer be shown in the list. Unless you toggle the “Show Hidden Pictos”, if this option is checked then the hidden pictos will be showed with a bold pictoname.
Selected hidden pictos will be made visible again when using the “Unhide Selected Pictos” option.
If you want to forget all hide information then you should use the “Unhide All Pictos”. This will delete all known hide information, so you should take care when using it.

An easier way to import user pictos

If you have a folder with images you want to give to somebody else there is now a very easy way to give it.

  • Create a zip file of this folder. For example: Flowers.zip
  • Rename the file to Flowers.pspictos
  • Send it to someone else with this version of Picto Selector (or newer)
  • After downloading/saving the file the file can be double clicked and the images will be imported as user pictos automaticly (or network pictos when picto selector is installed on a network drive)

The imported pictos will have the “Flowers” category. The category that is used depends on the filename of the zip. The category name is the filename of the imported file until the first dot.

Flowers.pspictos will be put in the Flowers category.
Flowers.v2.pspictos will also be put in the Flowers category.

The images will be extracted to the “Picto Selector\User Pictos” folder.

Some recommendations about the images you want to use in the import file:

  • Use a maximum size of 283x283 (a great tool for this is: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/)
  • Do not hesitate to put them in subfolders if it helps you.
  • jpg, png, black and white svg, emf and wmf files are accepted

You can remove user pictos in the Settings>User Pictos dialog.

Attention!
The user Pictos symbol set has to be turned on to see the newly imported pictos!

Added:

  • 241 Sclera Pictos
  • 416 Arasaac Pictos
  • 369 Arasaac black and white Pictos

Changed:

  • Increased the maximum columns and rows in the pictosheets to 25 instead of 10.

The new black and white Arasaac symbols can be downloaded and imported from here (you need to login as administrator):

http://pecsforall.com/downloads/ARASAACSymbolSetBW_4.zip

 

The people of Modem in Belgium have created a Dutch manual for Picto Selector. If you want to know what is possible and how it works you can take a look at their website and read the PDF's:

http://modem.kinsbergenvzw.be/materiaal/167-communicatie-en-visualisaties.html

We have created some YOUTUBE videos to show you how easy it is to work with Picto Selector

Video 1 Introduction Picto Selector

Video 2 Clock Picto's

Video 3 Time timer Picto's

Video 4 Maak je eigen templates voor pictobladen

Video 5 Introduction to Picto Board

Video 6 Using the Picto Creator

Video 7 Meet the developer of Picto Selector

Video 8 Add your own images

What is Reward Cards

With Reward Cards you can create your own reward cards or stamp cards.

  • Single or double sided
  • 3 or 6 cards on each print
  • Room for 15, 25 or 50 stamps
  • Landscape or portrait print
  • Pick your own header text.
  • Select a graphic as background
  • When needed move the front or back page to adjust them properly while printing

Usefull when you want to reward children for their work or need to track consumptions.

 

 

Changing the background

 

How do I get Reward Cards

Reward Cards is freeware.Download Reward Cards

Just copy the contents of this zip file to your system and start it, no installation needed.