Serendipity Blackmagic Changelog

What's new in Serendipity Blackmagic 5.4.03

• ew Features / Enhancements:
• QueueManager "Copy to Pagesetup" action now works with multiple Pagesetups selected.
• Client can export Adobe Photoshop files using the SoftProof or QueueManager "export" option.
• SoftProof application can load multi-channel TIFF files with correctly displayed spot colours.
• Removed "Demo Only" text from the Jobs application Add Tabs chooser to avoid unnecessary confusion for users.
• Added the ability to create, store and delete custom page sizes in various parts of the Client GUI that request page dimensions. Custom page sizes can now be set in the Studio application, Media and Signature Groups datatypes and in the C5 Printer panel.
• Studio application now has guides which can be created by click-and-dragging out from the rulers. Drag back to rulers or CMD(Mac)/CTRL(Win)+double-click to remove them. To move a guide, hold CMD (Mac) or CTRL (Win) then click-and-drag.
• Studio can now do tiling for roll (width only) paper as well as cut sheets.
• Calcheck Chart selection is now preserved in the Print Calcheck panel of Pagesetup when saved, even when the option is unticked.
• Press Agent has added additional filtering to the Prime Softproof Driver that ignores updates from the console when the page number does not change.
• A press console plugin for Goss Omnicon has been added to the Press Agent.
• A function to replace "/" with "_" in generated job names has been added to the Bookfilter. This allows a Job Genie to modify the job and publications names if required.
• IFRA Track Bookfilter driver can now handle pages with multiple editions.
• Unnecessary warnings that would show up when processing jobs on cluster nodes have been removed.
• More intelligent handling of Cluster Nodes going offline or coming back online.
• CMC(1:1) and CMC(2:1) are now supported for deltaE calculations in the Calcheck and Spectrophotometer applications.
• Lch values can now be displayed in the Spectrophotometer application.
• Added an option to Server Settings that disables the built-in web server.
• Asset jobs are now listed when filtering by "Completed Jobs" in the ServerLog window.
• Improved checking for compatibility between multicolour profiles during initialisation of the CMS.
• Improved Packbits compression algorithm, reducing the size of most print files.
• Faster imaging of RGB/Lab files with an embedded ICC profile.
• "Better LZW Compression" option added to the TIFF Image printer driver.
• Faster imaging of PDF files that contain a lot of transparency layers.
• 32-bit Server can now run on Mac OS X Mavericks.
• Improved Mavericks compatibility for the Serendipity Client.
• Software Updater now functions correctly when launched as a standalone application.
• Improved error messaging for jobs that fail due to cropping that results in zero width or height pages.
• Improved restoration of toolbar and list header sizes and visibility.
• Added support for the EIZO CG277 range of monitors.
• Better handling of unsupported EIZO monitors.
• Support added for iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad Air when using the Air Display and iDisplay apps as an extra display (for the Touch Console).
• Adobe Photoshop output driver added, allowing the software to drive grand format printers including models with device spot colours.
• Mimaki CJV30 printer supported for Windows. Printing via USB only.
• Added support for Epson SC-F2000/SC-F2080 T-Shirt printers. Setups for both white and black t-shirts are available on the Serendipity Software website.
• Added support for Epson SC-T3200/SC-T5200/SC-T7200 SC-T3250/SC-T5250/SC-T7250 printers. Includes HTM support.
• Added single bit version of the "Light Ink Separator" output driver. An additional output license is required to access Contone and 1-Bit drivers.
• Added support for the new HP Scitex FB10000 print resolutions.
• Improved over-network functionality for published DropFolders.
• DropFolders now filter out extraneous windows thumbnail files when present.
• Bug Fixes:
• Server would intermittently crash when a chart for the iOne Pro or iOne Pro 2 was attached to a Pagesetup.
• Jobs on cluster nodes would sometimes fail when the master networking stack was overloaded.
• Under certain conditions in Studio a content edit box could not be moved outside the page.
• Fixed a bug where the frame border in Studio gets hidden under the content edit box.
• Reorder plates in VirtualPress did not work.
• Switching solo channels in the SoftProof application did not trigger a loupe update straight away unless the HUD was on.
• Linux now correctly identifies the physical number of CPU cores instead of including both physical and hyper-threaded cores.
• Under certain conditions on Mac OS X and Linux, PDF and Postscript files would fail imaging with a "timeout waiting for RIP to connect" error.
• Certain Barco Len files would fail to image.
• Rendering 16-bit greyscale files to RGB with ICC disabled would cause the right half of the page to be filled with random data.
• The Server would crash on exit when safe mode was enabled, causing any database changes to not be saved.
• Bookfilters did not pick up changes to planning files.
• Certain "Agfa Arkitex Publication Builder" Bookfilter files would not separate into sections even though planning file contained them.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when Fujifilm Workflow XMF databases contained corrupt data.
• Postscript files containing images wider than 65535 pixels would fail to image.
• LUT based monitor ICC profiles would produce incorrect output on screen.
• Various fixes to the Studio guides tool.
• A Server crash would occur during polling if the software was unable to find the old rip queue database file.
• If too many popup windows were opened in sequence, the last one would refuse to pop to the front of other windows, making it inaccessible.
• Fixed multiple Server crashes that could occur when registering a Pagesetup with Bonjour/Zeroconf and a timeout occurred.
• PDF files that used encryption would sometimes have missing elements.
• Self-calibration (swing) sensor of EIZO monitors would not be detected when running under Windows and connected to a DisplayPort interface.
• Fixed various crashes that could occur when trying to process bad or damaged Adobe Photoshop files.
• Spot colours from Adobe Photoshop files could have their opacity value set incorrectly.
• Switching from a SoftProof tab with deimpose-on-the-fly enabled to a tab with a normal job and then back again resulted in all deimposed-on-the-fly pages being selected.
• Attempting to select a previously selected duplicate job for a previously selected page number failed.
• Various fixes relating to custom Ncolour printer setups.
• Absolute colourimetric rendering intent was incorrect for certain ICC profiles.
• Fixed a Client crash that would occur when using Press setups with multi-colour ICC profiles.
• Fixed a bug that caused transparent spot colours to be rendered incorrectly when using absolute colourimetric rendering intent.
• White was not being automatically added to Paper Profile density charts printed on clear media for the Epson SC-50600 and SC-70600 printers.
• Fixed an issue with the Mimaki CJV30 printer driver and blank lines.
• Fixed MRL16 errors that could occur when printing to Mimaki printers using the Mimaki destination driver.
• Fixed a bug where Calcheck Chart editor fails to import X-rite CXF files on first open but imports OK after switching from Lab to CMYK mode and back to Lab mode again.
• Fixed bug where Workbench printing of database items with images (dotgain, LUT curves and signatures) had broken images.
• A popup dialog would sometimes get stuck behind the VirtualPress window.
• An output driver associated with a job can now be edited by right-clicking on a job regardless of which queue it is in.
• Fixed a bug where selecting densitometers repeatedly in Lineariser application eventually caused a crash.
• Fixed a race condition with Job Genie setups that include multiple tasks. Under certain conditions a plate that should have been processed by the first task falls through and is processed by one of the other tasks. This caused jobs to have missing plates.
• The gripper size was incorrect when importing JDF signatures from Fujifilm Workflow XMF.
• Local Print Queue destination on Windows can now handle queue names which include multibyte characters.
• Fixed a bug where Paper Profile editor crashed when saving with a patch edit field visible.
• Fixed a Studio bug where changing the orientation of grouped frames resulted in a group that only responded to the mouse in the pre-changed area.
• Fixed a Studio bug where auto-arrange with rotation moved the contents of cropped frames incorrectly.
• Fixed a Studio crash caused when changing the Step-and-Repeat spacing for grouped frames.
• Fixed a Studio crash when ESC was used to cancel the Step-and-Repeat dialog window.