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Watch Folder Printing Software for Windows. HotFolder is a light weight utility that watches a folder of incoming images or videos, and then reformats them for automatic printing and new digital copies.

Release History
1.8.3
September 15, 2022
  • Added the ability to process video files by extracting a still image from the video
  • Fixed an issue with creating albums when using the SmugMug Uploader
1.8.2
July 12, 2021
  • Added optional background/overlay filename suffix to provide more flexible selection of backgrounds and overlays
  • Added the option to rotate the output to match the EXIF orientation of the first photo
  • Added {field2,n,sep,str} token which allows the field separator to be specified
  • Added {contains,str1,str2} token to test whether str1 contains str2
  • Fixed an issue with the print layout editor crashing if a previously selected printer is no longer available
  • BreezeViewer now supports PNGs as well as JPEGs and animated GIFs
  • Removed the Instagram Hashtag Monitor which is no longer supported due to changes made by Instagram
1.8.1
December 4, 2019
  • Added command line options to auto run and to load XML settings from file when running Breeze Gallery Uploader
  • Added command line options to auto login and to load XML settings from file when running the SmugMug Uploader
  • Breeze Viewer now supports the display of adverts in mosaic modes when displaying animated GIFsB
  • Improved error reporting if a hashtag is not found when running the Hashtag Monitor
  • Fixed an issue uploading MP4 videos using Breeze Gallery Uploader
  • Fixed an issue when auto copies printing when copies set to 0 and output set to print only in Hotfolder Prints
1.8
September 9, 2019
  • Added new Breeze Gallery Uploader for automatically uploading photos, GIFs and MP4s to online galleries
  • PNG logos and JPEG images can now be added to print layouts
  • Improved handling of login access tokens in SmugMug Uploader and added the option to save the settings to file
  • Added {dateLess8h} token today’s date less 8 hours
  • Added ({captionNoURL} token for extracting Twitter captions without the trailing URL
1.7
January 10, 2018
  • Added support for event name and event string tokens shared with other event software from Breeze Systems
  • Additional error checking of hashtags in the Instagram Hashtag Monitor
  • Updated the Instagram Hashtag monitor to work with the latest updates made by Instagram
  • More accurate playback speed of animated GIFs in Breeze Viewer
  • Fixed a problem with photos being auto-rotated using the orientation read from the EXIF shooting data
  • Added a workaround for a Windows bug that was preventing the {uid} and {uid2} tokens from generating random values
1.6
July 24, 2017
  • Added the ability to process PNG images as well as JPEG images in Hotfolder Prints
  • BreezeViewer now supports animated GIFs and adds “mosaic with flip” slideshow transition
  • Updated Instagram Hashtag Monitor following changes to the way Instagram works
  • Added SmugMug upload utility
1.5.5
August 27, 2016
  • Instagram Hashtag Monitor now downloads the high resolution copies of photos if available
  • Fixed a problem with loading saved settings via the command line when running Hotfolder Prints
  • Updated Instagram Hashtag Monitor following recent changes in the way Instagram works
  • Fixed a problem with timestamps using Twitter Hashtag Monitor in different time zones
1.5.4
September 30, 2015
  • Added Twitter Hashtag Monitor for downloading photos from Twitter
  • The “Crop image to fit photo area” option now applies to the custom layout. Unchecking this allows a photo to be resized to fit a bounding box instead of being cropped to fit
  • Now supports up to 12 captions in the print layout, options to change the caption display order and the option to right justify the caption text
1.5.3
August 17, 2015
  • Added the ability to load different overlay.png and background.jpg images according to the orientation of the first photo
  • Minor changes to the way progress information is displayed in Hashtag Monitor
  • Added workaround for Instagram “Unsupported size” bug
  • Fixed a problem which prevented Hotfolder Prints from monitoring folders with non-ASCII pathnames
  • Fixed a problem with Hashtag Monitor when setting the “Max age in hours” to a non-zero value
  • Fixed a problem with the stable time setting in Breeze Viewer
1.5.2
July 7, 2015
  • Added “Mosaic with zoom + bg fade” slideshow transition to BreezeViewer
  • Re-written Hashtag Monitor so that login screen can handle Captcha codes
  • Added {field,n,str} token to make it easier to extract values from strings
  • Fixed a problem with the “Match filename” option not working after adding unicode support in v1.5
1.5.1
February 19, 2015
  • Fixed problems with caption font sizes when using a custom output size in Hotfolder Prints
  • Fixed a problem with reading the hotfolder location when launching Hotfolder Prints with an XML settings file
  • Added configurable polling interval option for Hashtag Monitor (accessed via Configure.exe utility)
  • Added desktop shortcut for Hashtag Monitor for easier launching
  • BreezeViewer now accepts tokens for the date when specifying the folder to monitor
1.5
January 28, 2015
  • New Instagram hashtag monitor for downloading Instagram photos with a given hashtag
  • Added optional color management when printing
  • Added interactive editor for print layouts
  • Added the importing and exporting of photobooth print layouts
  • Added the ability to print QR codes on prints
  • Added unicode support for handling characters in most languages
  • Added the option to leave a space between images when using the mosaic layout option in BreezeViewer
  • Added captions in the mosaic transitions in BreezeViewer
  • Added mosaic zoom transition to BreezeViewer
  • Added the option to crop photos before displaying them in BreezeViewer
  • Added a user definable background color and an optional background image for the slideshow in BreezeViewer
1.4.4
October 18, 2013
  • Added the ability to email images using HTML formatting
  • Added the option to scan subfolders for images to the Breeze Viewer slideshow utility
1.4.3
April 19, 2013
  • Added the option to wait for the XML file and to read the filenames of the images from the XML file
  • Added auto color/B&W option which reads the color/B&W mode from the XML file
  • Added the ability to send emails to multiple email addresses read from the XML file by using the {user_data_emails} token
  • Added the ability to specify the caption text, font, color and placement to BreezeViewer slideshow utility
  • Added “mosaic”, “mosaic with fade” and “mosaic with dissolve” slideshow transitions to BreezeViewer slideshow utility
  • “None” and “mosaic” slideshow transitions in BreezeViewer optimized to run faster on graphics cards without graphics acceleration
  • Fixed a problem which could cause the folder being monitored changing after 60 secs when loading settings from the command line
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