EXP Version History
EXP 6.2.1
Released July 22, 2024
- The toolbar buttons are larger and have refreshed artwork that makes use of color.
- On high DPI monitors, EXP now uses a new set of higher resolution toolbar images. In previous versions of EXP, the toolbar buttons were too small on high DPI monitors.
- Changes have been made to the ruler to improve the display on high DPI monitors.
- EXP now has improved support for the high contrast theme called "High Contrast Black". EXP switches to a special set of toolbar images designed for white-on-black display.
In previous versions of EXP, many toolbar buttons were invisible when the theme "High Contrast Black" was used.
EXP 6.2.0
Released January 1, 2024
- The installer for EXP 6.2 does not require you to enter a serial number or an authorization code.
EXP 6.1
Released November 27, 2022
- EXP now requires either Windows 11 or the 64-bit edition of Windows 10. Earlier versions of Windows are no longer supported. Also, the 32-bit edition of Windows
10 is not supported. Note that EXP itself is still a 32-bit application.
- There is an entirely new installation system that does not use any physical media such as USB flash drives or CD-ROM discs. The full installer for EXP 6.1 can
be downloaded from www.expswp.com. Furthermore, all future improvements to EXP will be distributed as full installers rather than
as service packs.
- There is a new design for the EXP application icon and the .wxp file icon. The new icon uses 24-bit color graphics whereas the earlier icon used 8-bit color
graphics. The new icon provides renderings up to 256x256 pixels whereas the earlier icon only provided renderings up to 48x48 pixels.
- The default limit for the EXP graphics cache has been raised from 4 MB to 16 MB. This change provides better performance for higher resolution graphics.
- The EXP User's Guide has been completely updated for Windows 11 and Windows 10.
- EXP now uses the term "serial number" whereas EXP 6.0 and EXP 5.1 used the term "authorization code". The installer for EXP 6.1 accepts EXP 6.0 authorization
codes as valid serial numbers.
EXP 6.0 Service Pack 2
Released October 18, 2021
General Improvements
- EXP 6.0 now supports high DPI monitors. This refers to any monitor for which the Windows display scaling is set to a value greater than 125%. The EXP 6.0 screen
display is no longer blurry if the Windows display scaling is greater than 125%.
| Display Scaling |
Dots Per Inch (DPI) |
| 100% |
96 |
| 125% |
120 |
| 150% |
144 |
| 175% |
168 |
Traditionally, Windows applications have only supported screen resolutions of 96 DPI and 120 DPI. Note that EXP 6.0 does not currently support changing the Windows
display scaling while EXP is running. You should exit EXP, change the Windows display scaling, and then restart EXP.
- Service Pack 2 improves the legibility of the numbers on the ruler.
- Service Pack 2 expands the widths of the Style, Typeface, and Font Size controls on the Format Panel. Longer names and sizes are now displayed fully.
- Service Pack 2 expands the width of the Typeface list in the Character Formatting dialog box. Longer typeface names are now displayed fully.
- EXP 6.0 now behaves correctly if the Windows Taskbar is positioned at the top or left of the monitor.
- Service Pack 2 fixes a rarely occurring problem in which the EXP window would be positioned off the screen upon application startup, thus making it impossible
to interact with EXP.
- Service Pack 2 improves EXP's error reporting during application startup. Prior to Service Pack 2, EXP 6.0 would silently exit upon startup if the user's "Documents"
folder was inaccessible. EXP 6.0 now always displays a message if an error occurs during application startup.
Font Fixes
- EXP 6.0 now correctly fits together the pieces of the Hbrace delimiter box. Prior to Service Pack 2, a ClearType font smoothing issue could introduce tiny gaps
between the pieces of the expandable horizontal brace.
PDF
- When generating a PDF bookmark title for a heading, EXP 6.0 now supports the special spaces quad and qquad. EXP converts the quad space to three regular spaces
and the qquad space to six regular spaces.
LaTeX Conversion
EXP 6.0 Service Pack 1
Released December 9, 2020
Font Fixes
- At some point in the life of Windows 10, Microsoft made changes to the way that Windows displays TrueType fonts on the screen using font smoothing. Some EXP
symbols do not look good with the new Windows 10 font rendering. One of the most notable problems is that the mathematical minus sign sometimes looks like a faint
gray line. Whether or not this problem occurs depends on the screen resolution, the font scaling setting in Windows 10, and the document zoom level in EXP. Service
Pack 1 corrects these symbol display problems.
- In all prior releases of EXP for Windows (3.0 through 6.0), there has been a small problem in that certain scalable symbols that are composed of multiple pieces
do not quite fit together perfectly at all resolutions. For example, sometimes there would be a single pixel gap in between the pieces of the large parentheses.
Most of these problems are corrected in Service Pack 1. There is still one remaining problem caused by ClearType font smoothing in Windows when applied to scalable
horizontal symbols such as the Hbrace box. This remaining problem is corrected in Service Pack 2.
Windows 10 Compatibility
- If the file EXP60.msi on your EXP 6.0 USB flash drive is dated between 2008 and 2011, Service Pack 1 fixes a problem that sometimes occurs in which EXP 6.0
thinks it is not installed properly after Windows 10 installs updates. If the file EXP60.msi on your EXP 6.0 USB flash drive is dated 2016 or later, you already
have this fix.
