Ramsete III V9.68 Release Notes
Index
Changes and additions
Version
9.60
- Now it is possible to select which colorway to import while
loading an area with the original colors. The background image must
already have colorways, otherwise the function is disabled. The
colorway selection is in the "Open file" window.
- While making colorways the UNDO e REDO functions are now
available
(till 50 actions).
- New functions are added to draw concentric regular polygons and
concentric stars.
- Now it is possible to load an area of any supported file format,
while you can load an area only from the XPF type if you are using
original colors.
Version
9.58
- During colorways the way the software select the next color has
been changed: now selecting the right arrow button the software will
advance to the next color up to the last, but will not change anymore
to the next colorways when it reach the end. To have the same behavior
as before you must select also the down arrow button
- Importing a colorways from a different design now keep the name.
If there is already a colorway with the same name a confimation window
will appear. Confirming the operation the colorway will be imported
with a progressive number added to the and of the name.
Version 9.56
- The toolbar of the color chart definition has been changed; now
there is a single icon to access to the menu for the various functions.
During the definition there is always an empty page at the end of the
chart that will be removed automatically if still empty at the end of
the definition.
Typing a name in the name field starting with the symbol '=' will
search that name into the color charts present in the system
Version
9.50
- The printing subsystem has been completely reviewed.
- Ramsete now automatically configure the system printers; you still
need to set the presets manually
- The "Printer Manager" has been mantained only to help the transition
to the new user interface. All the configuration steps are now done
into Ramsete.
- In the "Preferencies" window it is possible to setup the printer
directly managed by the internal Ramsete drivers.
- In the statusbar there is a new icon when there are some print job in
the que. Clicking on that icon open the printing que status window. In
this window there are also the printing job managed by the OS (Windows
and Mac only)
- In the printer window now is possible to customize the position of
the color chips, the remark line and the font size.
- In the printer window there is a new button to change the printing
settings. It open a new user interface to manage presets and
calibrations. The calibration can now be read in stripes using the
EyeOne.
- The calibration procedure now uses a new tecnology to get better
results on color reproduction.
- The "Color chart" user interface has been changed.
- In the toolbar now there are only the icons to get the options menu,
set the zoom level, find a code, find the next and previous code and
show the out of gamut warning.
- It is possible to zoom into the chart and panning with a simple drag.
- In the options menu it is possible to manage and print the color
charts. To load a color chart simply select the name from the popup.
- At startup the software reload the last selected color chart.
- The "Color Atlas" user interface has been changed to make it
similar to the "Color Charts" one.
- There are two new color atlas that can be selected from the options
menu
- It is possible to zoom in.
- In the Colorways manager it is possible to find a color of the
design into the color chart or the color atlas simply double-clicking
on it into the colorways panel.
- The "Technical chart" has been reviewed to make it more usable.
- It is possible to save images even multichannel in PSD format.
This options is under license and must be activated by request.
- In the files menu now there is the list of recent loaded files.
Version
9.26
- The menubar is now active during coloring.
- Loading of images is now faster.
- The color selection tool has been redisegned to make the color
selection easier.
- In the coloring tools an icon to call the color-selection has
been added (no more double-click needed)
- In the printer configuration it is possible to select the render
resolution for the Windows and MacOSX drivers.
Version 9.10
- It is possible to do coloring on Fullcolor images. The first time
you enter in the colorways function the software open an interface
similar to the "Layer separation" that let you select some groups of
colors. These groups can then recolored using the standard functions.
- Il the "New image" dialog it is now possible to select the image
type and the background color. If the image is in layers the color is
used for the first layer.
- In the colorways manager it is possible to save a small file that
contain only the color information.
- It is possible to read the .DES files (Dr. Wirth)
- The printing support has been completely revieved.
It is now possible to print an image directly from the main module
without saving the drawing and reopen it in the "Printer Manager". The
basic functionality are the same with the addition of the capability to
print 100 colorways (10 x 10) and print and image on multiple sheets
with an overlap of 3 mm for any page.
From the utility menu is possible to call anyway the standard "Printer
Manager"
- The F5 panel shows also the LCh values for the color entered with
this colorspace.
- The JPEG, PSD and TIFF files saved in CMYK will be loaded as CMYK
separation.
- In the Linux version the "set_wacom" command has been updated to
manage also the new X11 servers
- The Mac version is now "Universal binary" and can run nativeli on
both PowerPC and Intel.
- During the installation procedure the HASP key drivers is also
loaded.
- In the "Save thumbnails" window it is possible to select the
group of colorways to be saved.
- It is possible to search a color into a color chart like in the
color atlas.
Version 9.00
- The software now support up to 16 million of colors. Images created with more than 8 million
colors cannot be loaded with the previous versions.
- Support for Gretag
SpectroEye and Eye-One Display has been added.
- The interface for the layer separation has been completely
reviewed.
- During layers separation the option "Display density" change the
visualizzation.
- An error messages is shown if the system cannot find the
spectrophotometer during the configuration.
- The loading of an image with a lot of colors has been speeded-up
- In the colorways it is possible to enter colors in LCh adding a
"*" before the numbers.
- In the printout LCh color appear with an "*"
- Color atlas subpages has been changed to match the ones found in
MatchPrint
- It is possible to use an ICC profile for the conversion of the
color from Lab to display
- The interface of the definition of the color chart has been
changed.
- In the film generation it is possible to enable the repeat during
the sepearation.
- In the film generation it is possible to save the image before
processing and save all the information related to the color separation.
- The multiprocessor support on the Mac version has been enhanced.
- It is possible to print up to 36 colorways on a single page.
Bug fixed
Versione
9.68
- In the selection of the area to import, the colors of the
selected colorway were not displayed.
- During the color chart definition the toolbar shown was wrong.
Versione 9.66
- The PSD file import sometimes rounded the image resolution to an
incorrect value.
- The list of the recent files was not updated importing non-XPF
images.
- In the rare case of a not accessible or empty fonts directory the
software closed as soon as the text function was selected.
Versione
9.64
- In some cases the area distortion failed closing the program.
Versione 9.62
- The printer panel failed when system printers with a very long
list of paper formats (more than 100) were used.
Versione
9.60
- Loading a colorway the software lost the Name parameter.
- The color chart list has not updated after saving a new color
chart.
Versione
9.58
- Doubleclicking into the colorways window without the color chart
opened the software crash. Fixed.
- In the Mac version sometimes the software lost the release of the
SHIFT, CTRL and ALT keys.
- In the color chart if a single name was too long all the other
names disappear. Now codes are shortened.
- In the color chart the font used sometimes was not readable.
- In the Linux version not all the directories were showed in the
"Destination directory" dialog.
- Using the "Printer Manager" it was not possible to print more
than 32 color chips.
- The Windows installation procedure did not install correctly the
hardware key driver.
- In the Windows version the printjobs was displayed twice when
using system printers.
- Using the system printer the printjob owner was not displayed.
- In the Windows version the "Printer Manager" did not save the
parameters when exiting.
- The "Undo" function was not available after a cut if the image
had more than 65000 colors.
- In the Windows version the number of removed colors was not
showed in the "Coverage" dialog.
- The printing sharing did not work correctly between Intel and
PowerPC machines.
- It was not possible to load PSD images with more than 24 channels.
- In the Windows version doubleclicking on an ".xpf" file give an
error.
- It was not possible to print the color chip inside the image when
put on the left or on the top.
- In the Linux version starting from "Fedora Core 5" the text tool
did not work.
Version
9.56
- In the Linux version the "File Manager" cannot be started from
the "Utility" menu. Fixed.
- In the Windows version the "save dialog" does not appear if the
image was loaded from the "Browse" function.
- During the color chart definition the current color was not
hilighted if empty.
- The "Repeat are" function often does not work correctly.
- In the printout of the color charts and atlas some text can
overlap. Now the text are truncated.
- The print panel did not remember the last selected printer if
some printer was hidden.
- Installing the version 9.5x it was not possible to create films
with older version. Fixed.
- The LCh color search was wrong.
Version 9.54
- Starting from version 9.50 the resolution value was les precise
than before.
Version 9.52
- Due to an extensive image compression optimization the software
was changing the image type automatically to get better compression
results. This happen too many times and annoying the user and so it has
been removed.
Version
9.50
- Some JPEG were displayed in the preview window but was not
possible to load them.
- In the linear shading function with more that one control point
the noise was not applied correctly.
- Choosing to print more than one repeat of an image without
colorways put the system in a unstable state.
- The "Repeat" option during the films generation sometimes was not
working.
- Using Windows Vista the software randomly crash. Fixed.
- Using Windows Vista some configuration files are now in a
location visible to the user. Actually the files are still there but
set to be hidden.
- The CMYK-TIFF files were not imported correctly.
- Some PSD files (with alpha planes) were not imported correctly.
Version 9.26
- In the Mac and Windows version it was not possible to run the
"Files Manager"
- It was not possible to close the "Change resolution" dialog
- The current color panel sometimes was not updated correctly.
Version 9.22
- The monitor calibration gamut was not saved correctly.
- During the color chart definition the "name" field was not
updated.
- Any color code with a "-" symbol result in a black color.
- The installation of the versions 9.10-9.12 was not correct.
- Selecting a film from a fullcolor image sometimes crash.
- Depending on the size of the drawing it was not possible to
select the right colorways to print.
- The printing dialog crash with images with more than 64 colors
and with remarks with more that 40 characters.
- In the Mac version moving the main window result in useless
docked windows.
- Getting a color from the drawing during colorways put the system
in an unstable situation.
- Printing of a colorchart larger than paper size crash.
Version 9.12
- The gamut of the monitor calibration was not saved correctly.
- During the color definition the color name was not updated
correctly.
- Using any sequence of characters with the symbol "-" as color
atlas name the result was a wrong black color.
- The installation procedure of versions 9.10-9.12 does not startup
correctly the printing services under Windows.
- Making a film from a fullcolor image sometimes fails.
- In the printing window of the main module sometimes, depending of
the image size, it was not possible to select the colorways.
- Opening the printing window with a color image with more than 64
colors the software crash.
- Always in the printing window the software crash using a remarks
with more than 40 characters.
- In the Mac version moving the main window makes the docked
windows useless.
- In some situation selecting a color from the drawing in the
coloring function will make the software unstable.
- The software close trying to print a color chart bigger than the
paper size.
- In the Linux and IRIX version the software locks opening and
closing a docked window while some areas are prensent on the display.
- Deleting pages or color from the color chart sometimes crash.
Version 9.12
- In the Linux and SGI version the Files Manager was not able to
display more thar 1024 directories. Now the limit is 2048.
- Loading a flat image after having used the "Operations" tools the
software crash.
- Due to a limitation present in the older revisions the 9.10
creates some unreadable files. This revision correctly read and write
file compatible with all the versions 8 and 9.
- The "LastSaveOnKeyError.xpf" file was not saved in the correct
location.
- In the new printer interface the nubers was displyed as integers.
This create some errors in the size of the print-out
Version 9.10
- With some security policy under Windows it was not possible to
use remote licenses
- Some texts appears always black on the printed color chart.
- The colors of the image was not correctly updated when saving the
file from the colorways manager.
- The "File Manager" for Windows and Mac does not use the
prefeerences settings for the unit of measure.
- Selecting the option "Read/Define colors" int the docked color
chart the software locks.
- If the F12 panel the memory buttons from 12 to 16 was not
hilighted correctly.
- Some images in layers were printed with wrong colors.
- The background color of the imported PSD files appear black.
- In the Windows version the "LastSave.xpf" file was not updated
correctly.
- Using the "Undo" after a regeneration the image appear damaged.
- After a regeneration the protections on layers could give
unexpected results.
- Load an image from the "Browse" window does not update the
filename.
- Calling the "License Manager" from the utility menu the licenses
were not released.
Version 9.04
- The toolbar in the "Layers definition" function was not displayed
correctly.
- Sometimes on the Windows system the "Rotate area" fails due to
not enough memory. Now an error message is displayed.
Version 9.03
- The file browser could close selecting a white space on the file
list
- Depending on the current color the "Regenerate" function could
fail.
- In the color separation the system close choosing the curve tools
with no color selected.
- The version from 9.00 to 9.02 creates some incompatibilities with
the older version installed.
We suggest to remove the version 9.00-9.02 after installing 9.03
Version 9.02
- The installation for Linux and SGI does not have the support for
TIFF files
- On the windows system it was not possible to rename ore delete a
file if the preview was not completely displayed.
Version 9.00
- Some PSD files were not imported correctly.
- The first page of the atlas was not prined correctly.
- Sometimes the LastSave file dissappear.
- The color reduction function has been fixed.
- Enabling the remove oprtion in the film separation the layers
with two tones becames empty.
- In case of error it was not possible to remove the item from the
separation que.
- Showing the separation que window sometime the software crash.
- The Mac version was extremely slow on some functions.
Known Problems:
- Due to an intrinsic limitation in the Windows OS it is not
possible to manage image bigger that 1.7 GB of memory regardeless the
amount of RAM installed in the system. With the same hardware the Linux
version works fine even with bigger images.
- Color choosed from a Pantone in the .PSD files are loaded as
black.
- In some cases the formats Zed, Grt, Sep are not precise.
- For Linux Redhat version 7.0 the visualization / view in
"Fullscreen" is not correct.
- When removing the visualization / view in "Fullscreen" in Linux
Redhat versions 6.X the position of the window is different from the
one
set before. Sometimes the window even disappears (outside the screen)
so
that it becomes impossible to use the menus. In this case, in order to
shift
the window, keep the ALT key pressed and select the window in any point.
- During the rotation of the area with the option "2/3 points" the
border disappear.