We released today the version 1.2.4 of Banner Effect for Windows and Mac OSX.

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• HTML5 banner generation: Enhanced the way we handle paths internally: It means you can now move the banner's files anywhere and banner will continue to work (you just have to adapt the js path in your HTML code).

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.2.3 of Banner Effect for Windows and Mac OSX.

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• Fonts: On windows, fonts initialization is made before displaying the window to avoid an empty window displayed a few seconds.
• Clipboard: Better handling of a clipboard exception.
• HTML5 banner generation: When a filename was empty an error was displayed, fixed.
• [Mac] banner generation: Corrected a problem that may arise when interpolating pictures.
• HTML5 banner generation: Corrected a problem with shadows on images.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.2.2 of Banner Effect for Windows and Mac OSX.

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• HTML5 export: Corrected a problem when storing banners on banner-effect website and using shadows.
• Fonts: Previously, only fonts with regular/bold/italic/underline style available were used. No we use every fonts available even if a style is missing.
• HTML5 export: Javascript compression changed.
• HTML5 export: It is now possible to display several HTML5 banners on the same HTML page.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.2.1 of Banner Effect for Windows and Mac OSX.

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

Corrected a problem when importing old banners: Some effects were not correctly converted, resulting to plain blue banners.

Corrected a problem when previewing empty (templates) images: An error was thrown - now we just ignore empty images.

HTML5 export: It is now possible to display several HTML5 banners on the same HTML page.

Export Wizard: Size computation does not anymore use 100% CPU with big banners.

Background Image Preview: If images of width or height of 1 pixel are used and displayed as stretched, the preview was not correct.

HTML5 export: Corrected a problem when storing banners on banner-effect website and using colored particles.

HTML5 export: Javascript files are more compressed now.

FTP export: Added a default host directory to handle cases where FTP account does not match HTTP account.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.2.0 of Banner Effect for Windows and Mac OSX.

It is a major release with a lot of new features. Here are the main changes:

HTML5 export

Yes, Banner Effect is now able to generate the same banners in Flash format and in HTML5 (Javascript) format. It means you are now able to generate a banner that will work everywhere (Windows, Mac, Android, iPhones, iPads, ...) in one click.

We had to rewrote completely the player to be able to support both technologies... and there is one bad news: Banner Effect is not able anymore to display the 3D cube in this new version. As HTML5 is not yet as powerful as Flash we had to remove this effect.

We are sorry about that, really, but it was not possible to render the cube effect in an effective way using Javascript and we think HTML5 export is more valuable than 3D cube effect, so we had to cut this feature.

Anyway, the previous version of Banner Effect (1.1.2) with the cube effect is still available from the "Product Updates" section of our website if you really need this effect.

New customizable effects

Effects have been reworked with a lot of new Start/End and Animation effects. Effects are also customizable now, so you can change, for instance, speed, duration, color or amplitude of many effects.

You can also add a shadow or a reflection to every objects on the banner.

Texts effects and Unicode

The text engine of Banner Effect has been completely rewritten. It now supports Unicode fonts, it means you are now able to display texts in Chinese, Russian or Arabic.

You can also set the text as Bold, Italic or Underline.

You can add a gradient or/and an outline to the text to create nice titles.

You don't have anymore to use the "font importer" tool: Banner Effect will directly use the fonts installed on your system.

Background effects

The background tab of Banner Effect has been changed and now allows the following:

• Background Color: To set a background color. You can also create a gradient.
• Background Image: To set a background image. You can now set the position of the image.
• Border: To add a border around the banner.
• Background Effect: Using this feature, you can add a predefined animation effect running in the background.

New Help & German/French translation

Help has been completely rewritten and is now available in English, French and German (thanks to Lokaldo for the German translation).

The user interface is also now available in German.

Reworked export wizard

The export wizard is now more complete and allows to directly copy the banners to any server using FTP protocol or store the finished banners on Banner-Effect's server.

Clickable objects

You can now set any object as "active" and associate an URL, a Javascript call or another slide. This way you can create menus or interactive banners (a clickable text, for example or a button to go to another slide,...).

Mac version overhaul

We have worked a lot on the Mac OSX version to make it more pretty and more integrated to the OSX environment.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We are proud to announce we have just released Banner Effect for Mac OS X.


This version has been tested and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion).

Of course, project files are compatible between Mac OS X and Windows.

The Mac version provides exactly the same functionalities as the Windows version and future versions will be released on the same time for every platforms.

Please check the download page to download the trial.

We released today the version 1.1.2 of Banner Effect.

In details:

• Fixed a bug on preview: When a text with no characters was shown.
• Ring Transition: Fixed a problem in z coordinates when used several times.
• User Interface: User interface has been optimized in speed and memory usage.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.1.1 of Banner Effect.

In details:

• Error Handling: More information is displayed and sent when an error occurs.
• Copy Paste: Corrected a problem occurring sometimes when pasting a deleted object.
• Banner Size: Corrected 300x250 predefined size (was 300x225).
• Popup blocker problem: Corrected a problem with the popup blocker on Google Adwords preview.
• Slide Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now real thumbnails of slides and not anymore static pictures.
• Background Color: Better handling of background color to avoid artifacts.
• Settings: Target window for click is now modifiable (_blank,_parent,_self,_top).
• Fixed a bug on preview: when choosing a picture background without any filenames.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.1.0 of Banner Effect.

In details:

• Internal structure change: Changed the way data is stored to be more compatible with popular advertising systems (DFP in particular).
• IE8 Popup blocker problem: Changed the way we open clickTAG to avoid blocking in IE8.
• Version checker: A small popup is now automatically displayed if a new version is available.
• Browser: We now use default browser when opening a URL instead of Internet Explorer.
• Banner Output: Enhanced the quality of picture and texts on banners.
• Banner Output: Corrected a problem with flicking objects when changing slides.
• Italian Translation: Corrected some texts.
• Project Settings: You can now set the frame per seconds (FPS) for the banner.
• Project Settings: You can now change the width and the height of the banner.
• Main Tab: The size of the banner is now displayed on the main tab.
• Drift Effect: 3 Drift Start/End Effects have been added.
• Boing Effect: Boing Start/End Effect has been added.
• HTML Preview: When exporting a banner, a html preview file can now be displayed to see the banner and the according code.
• Fall Down Transition: Cleaned the fade effect, sometimes the text were not correctly displayed after this transition.
• Cross Fade Transition: Cleaned the fade effect: looks better.
• Ring Effect Transition: Fixed a display problem.
• General Output: Texts and images look less blurry.
• Ad Words Size: Added Mobile Leaderboard (300x50).
• Minimum time for a slide: It is now 1[s] instead of 0[s] previously.
• Effect List: List alphabetically ordered now.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).

We released today the version 1.0.2 of Banner Effect.

In details:

• Trial Limitation: It is not anymore possible to add more than 5 slides in the trial.
• Gradual Slowdown: Banners running for a long time have a FPS drop in time. It is fixed.
• Most Recently Used Files: Added 4 more recently used files in the file menu.
• Dutch Translation: Dutch Translation added.
• URL parsing issue: Banners were not correctly displayed on Google Adwords or on some other ads system: fixed.

Trial, and full editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page).