What's new in Panotour Pro

Panotour Pro 1.6 and 1.7: top-notch customization of your virtual tours

Panotour Pro offers many new features incuding the embedding of Google Maps into the virtual tours and an improved iPhone / iPad compatibility. This update is free for all current users of Panotour Pro and does not require a new registration key. If you are new to Panotour Pro, discover it, try it and purchase an electronic license.

Main new feature

Google Maps in your virtual tours

Place the different views of your virtual tour on an embedded Google Map. If your panoramas include GPS data, they will be automatically placed on the map. If they don't contain GPS data, you can spot their location easily by typing the location name like on Google Maps website or by filling in their GPS coordinates. What's more, you can add a radar on the map and even customize the map's hotspots with a proper icon or image. Full customization of this plugin is possible through XML editing.

Interface

New light skin

You can now choose between the default dark skin and a new light skin for the application, in the application preferences.

Automatic rearrangement

No more superimposed panoramas in the main window: the images are added next to each other. Type Shift+R to automatically rearrange the panoramas. Type Ctrl+0 to see all panos and Ctrl+A to select them all and modify their properties at once.

8 languages available

Panotour Pro now speaks English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish and Portuguese.

Customization

Thumbnail stacks

If your tour includes several views, you can add a stack of thumbnails to enhance the navigation experience: the visitor clicks on the stack to expand it (vertically or horizontally) and clicks on a thumbnail to access another view. The thumbnails are automatically generated and you can choose their size and other parameters like the border color and thickness. You can also choose the display order of the thumbnails.

New graphic theme

There are now 4 standard themes available. The new one is simple and can be applied on nearly all tours. It is based on the KrPano default theme.

Multiple logos in a tour

Add your logo and the logos of your partners or clients with the new multiple logos feature: you can add a logo in each corner and one on the nadir.

Improved thumbnail sidebar

New parameters for the thumbnails allow more customization: border color and size, tooltip display. The thumbnail sidebar is now scrollable.

Improved auto-rotation

Panotour Pro lets you adjust the auto-rotation for each panorama: set the direction, the speed and the delay before the auto-rotation should start.

Improved maps

You can now add a radar on your custom map. Plus, the placement and size of open and closed maps are now independent: you can set the size of the closed map and choose its position no matter the position of the open map.

Change the projection on the fly

If you enable the choice of projection modes in the contextual menu, the visitor can make a right click on the virtual tour to access all available projections and switch them on the fly. Projection modes include: normal, fisheye, architectural, stereographic, pannini, little planet.

iPhone / iPad compatibility

iPad 2 / iPhone 4 gyroscope support

People can now navigate in your virtual tours by moving their tablet or phone! Panotour Pro now supports the gyroscope of iPad 2 and iPhone 4.

Improved iPad / iPhone export

You can now export a tour that will only run on iPad and iPhone. No more need to export the whole Flash® project if you don't need it.

Panorama list on iPad / iPhone

The list of the panoramas available in your virtual tours is now visible on iPad and iPhone.

Sounds now play on iPad & iPhone

If you set a global sound for the whole tour or a specific sound for a panorama, it will be played on iPad® and iPhone®. Directional sounds are currently supported on Flash®-enabled devices only.

Interactions

Automatic hotspot tooltips

Enter "%p" as a tooltip on a hotspot linked to another view and the tooltip will display the name of the target view.

Multimedia

Auto-played directional sounds

You can now set a sound as a Display Object on a hotspot. It will play as soon as the panorama is loaded and will fade as you move away from it.

Support for JavaScript functions

When clicking on a hotspot, you can now call a JavaScript function from the HTML page where the tour is embedded.

New Play/Stop button for sounds

In the navigation bar, a new button is available to let the viewers play or stop the sounds of the tour.

Other features

Direct FTP export

Build your tour in Panotour Pro and export it directly to your FTP server. Publishing virtual tours has never been so fast.

Reduction of distortion

The new "Reduce distortion" button in the Panorama Properties > Images tab computes the best dimensions to avoid distortions in the virtual tour.

Saving of the history

All actions done in a project can now be logged and saved into the project file (.kpt).

Import of orthoptic panoramas

Panotour Pro can now import orthoptic images created by 360 mirror-based one-shot cameras.