2008 May, 27: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2260. Bug-fixed release: some bugs in CorelDRAW X4 files filter have been fixed. ST Thumbnails Explorer is shareware (Try Before You Buy) application. You can download full-function trial version and try it 30 days absolutely free. 2008 May, 27: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer 1.5 Beta build 1120. Thumbnails viewer & File manager & Cataloguer (30-days free estimate version). Buy v1.2.2260, and you may register v1.5 Beta already now!

Features:
•.Full support of newest CorelDRAW X4 CDR, CDT, PAT, and CSL v5 files. The app provides displaying thumbnails for all file pages, displaying the metadata (keywords, notes, fonts, etc.) and entire file texts. The search possibilities (including XMP, IPTC, Exif, Adobe IRB data sets) for these and other files now is under development, and will be published as soon as possible.
•.Display magnificent thumbnails (up to 600x600 pixels) for many vector formats and other complex formats. For the majority of these formats there were no till now adequate viewers and navigation means. Among these formats AI, AIT, CCX, CDR, CDX, CMX, CPT, CLK, DES, FH7-8, CGM, SVG, DRW, EPS, PDF, PS, MDI, WPG, WI and other complex formats. It is achieved at the expense of use of the external engines for thumbnails generation (CorelDRAW 10+, Ghostscript, MS Office 2003+). Using of external applications is completely transparent and doesn't affect in any way usual use of these applications.
•.Display thumbnails for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, and Xara X / Xara Xreme files. Using OLE, the app can extract and show amazing thumbnails and previews for DOC, RTF, WRI, XLS, XLT, XLW, PPT, POT, and PPS files (requires Microsoft Office 2000+), DOCM, DOCX, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLTM, XLTX, PPTM, PPTX, PPSM, PPSX, POTM, and POTX files (requires MS Office 2007), VSD, VSS, and VST files (requires Microsoft Visio 2000+), VDX, VSX, and VTX files (requires MS Visio 2007), XAR and WEB files (requires Xara X / Xara Xtreme). Except it, the app is capable to receive full texts from majority of these files.
•.The internal one-file database allows to minimize time expenses for thumbnails generation at repeated viewing. The database can be common database for several computers/users, and also can be copied to other computer (on which, for example, is not installed necessary external applications).
•.Offline file system (My Images Space) allows to look through the files which are located on removable/disconnected drives without access to these drives.
•.Background scan for any part of the file system (up to 250 scans simultaneously) for thumbnails extraction from the files located outside of the current folder or at work in other application. The flexible priority planning minimizes the braking caused by background scans at work in other applications. Supported "Computer Shutdown" option can turn off computer automatically after finishing of all scans. It allows to scan all file system during computer idle time.
•.The Preview and the File Info windows have been added.
•.The file filters by name and date have been added.
•.Favorites Management has been added. Favorites can be files, folders and applications with appropriated actions which can be assigned to a favorite.
•.The powerful folders navigation technology has been added. It allows to find a folder which has been visited even several months ago.
•.New multi-function statusbar was been added.
•.The app color palette adjustment was been implemented.

2008 May, 14: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2250. Bug-fixed release: some bugs have been fixed. 2008 February, 18: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2240. CorelDRAW X4 CDR, CDT, PAT, and CSL v5 formats support have been added. 2007 September, 24: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2230. (Bug-fixed release: some bugs have been fixed in AI/AIT, JPEG, and PCD filters). 2007 July, 27: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2220. Adobe Illustrator AI/AIT CS3 and Adobe InDesign CS+ support have been added. 2007 May, 21: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2210. Check for Update service has been added. 2007 May, 2: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2200. MS Windows Vista support has been added. 2006 November, 13: Published ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2195 (bug-fixed release). 2005 October, 4: Released ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2190. New features: •.Support of MDI (Microsoft Office 2003+ Document Imaging, MODI) files. MDI filter supports multi-page processing and optical character recognition (OCR, this feature requires MODI installation). •.Ghostscript-bazed processing for EPS, EPSF, EPI, EPSI, PS, PRN and PDF files. The filter supports multi-page processing for PS, PDF and PRN files. •.Support of JPEG-2000 (JP2, J2K, JPC, J2C) files. •.Shell support for PNG files was changed to internal support. New PNG filter supports alpha blending, transparent colors and interlacing. •.Support of Sun Rasterfile Image (RAS), Portable Anymap Image (PNM), Portable Bit-Map Image (PBM), Portable Grey-Map Image (PGM), Portable Pix-Map Image (PPM) files. •.Support of ZIP, Pixar and LogLuv codecs for TIFF files. •.Interface improvements (quick thumbnails scaling and mirroring, thumbnail sizes are increased up to 600x600 pixels, copying of the keywords and file notes to Clipboard, displaying image sizes in infotips, displaying file info under thumbnail image, etc.). 2005 August, 2: Released ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2180. Main changes: •.The Animation Engine is implemented. The Animation Engine is used for support of plural animation in the browser window. •.Shell support for GIF and GIF-related formats was changed to internal support. New GIF filter supports animation and multi-page processing. •.Shell support for Windows BMP and BMP-related formats was changed to internal support. New BMP filter supports all types of Windows Bitmaps (including with any bitfields schemas), Windows Icons and Windows Cursors. For icons and cursors multi-page processing and alpha channel are supported. •.OS/2 BMP filter has been added. The filter supports all types of OS/2 Bitmaps v1.x and 2.x (including RLE4, RLE8, RLE24 and Huffman 1D compressed and with OS/2 Bitmap Array structure), OS/2 Graphic Array (.BGA), OS/2 Icons (.ICO) and Pointers (.PTR) files. For OS/2 Bitmap Array, OS/2 Graphic Array, icons and pointers is supported multi-page processing. •.PCX/PCC filter for PC Paintbrush Bitmap files has been added. •.DCX filter for ZSoft IBM PC Multipage Paintbrush Image files has been added. The filter supports multi-page processing. •.BMF filter for Corel Gallery files has been added. The filter can extract from BMF files built-in thumbnails only. •.PCD filter for Kodak Photo-CD Multiresolution Image files has been added. •.Support of Adobe PhotoDeluxe (PDD) files has been added. •.Shell-based thumbnails extract from HTML, AVI, MPG and some similar files under Windows XP SP1+ is restored. 2005 June, 1: Released ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2170. In this release are implemented: •.Support of displaying the multi-page files in the thumbnails browser window. •.Support of multi-page TIFF files. •.Support of JPEG codec for TIFF files. •.Thumbnails rotation. •.Support of copying of the selected files parameters into clipboard for use by other applications. 2005 February, 22: Released ST Thumbnails Explorer v1.2.2160. New features: •.Network Installations Management (provides easy installation, registration and update for plural copies ST Thumbnails Explorer in local network; for corporate users). •.Support of the multiuser configurations (support of MS Terminal Server solutions). •.Support of simultaneous launch up to 255 application instances by one user. •.New PSD filter (thumbnails extracting and partial file parsing (without layers processing) for Adobe Photoshop images; extracting of the IPTC-NAA data and Annotations from PSD files with show of these data in the file infotips). •.New feature of the EPS filter: processing of not pixel-bazed Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) files without built-in previews but with built-in thumbnails. •.New feature of the AI filter: processing of Adobe Illustrator Artwork (AI) files v7-10 created by Adobe Illustrator CS.