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Being unsatisfied with the current prints of the puzzles, the main focus of this update has been a redesign of the puzzle prints.

New Features

Our logo on the prints
Maarten redesigned the layout of the print page, which now has the PuzzlePicnic logo on top.

Multiple puzzles per page
In the new design, it is possible to put multiple puzzles in the same genre on one page. The BatchPrinter (e.g. the printing-applet on the puzzles page) now automatically assigns puzzles to pages. Up to four puzzles of the same genre are now printed on the same (face of a) page, unless the puzzles themselves are too large. This is sometimes the case with nonograms.

MyPuzzles page
The MyPuzzles page now uses paging within each section, so people with many puzzles won't have a very slow page anymore.

Inactive genres
Judges now have the right to create puzzles in inactive genres. Furthermore, there is a new possible genre state "in development" to indicate that a genre is not yet finalised. The genre portal and studio are changed accordingly.

About page
We now mention the forum as the place to ask questions, and we thank our judges.

Links
There is a new link to cut-the-knot.

Current page
The links in the lower right for puzzles, genres and users (e.g. puzzle | edit | remove | stats) are now shown as normal text for the current page, and only as links for other pages.

Fixed Bugs

Printing from design applet
There were some problems with scaling when printing from an applet in design mode, which have hopefully been resolved now.

Correct number of pages
The print dialog now shows the correct number of pages (instead of 1~9999 as it was before).

Ability to specify page format
The user can now specify the page format (e.g. A4 instead of letter) before printing.

Printing multiple puzzles
There was a bug with the new communication that caused puzzles not to show up when printing multiple puzzles.

Printing cogwheels
Cogwheels on prints now appear correct (no grey square over the wheels).

Thumbnail images
We now use a better scaling algorithm, so the stored images will look nice no matter what resolution image you feed to the server (as long as it's at least 80x80, of course). We also store the images as png instead of jpeg now.