Photo Mechanic™ Version 4.3.1 History

Below is a list of changes made to Photo Mechanic for Version 4.3.1, released January 20, 2005.

This version is available as a free update for registrations good through December 2004.

• (Mac) Fixed problems with the Preview dialog on some systems running OS 10.2 (Jaguar) causing Photo Mechanic to crash. This was due to problems with the graphics routines on Jaguar. The fix involves using slower scaling functions for drawing previews, avoiding the problems with 10.2. Camera Bits strongly recommends that users of OS 10.2 (Jaguar) update to OS 10.3 (Panther) due to improved stability and speed in OS 10.3. When Apple Computer releases OS 10.4 (Tiger), Photo Mechanic will drop support for OS 10.2 (Jaguar), meaning that any new features won't be guaranteed to work on 10.2. Photo Mechanic 4 will continue to support OS 10.3 (Panther).
  
• Fixed problems with Photo Mechanic identifying the ICC profile for Canon 20D JPEGs and CR2 files shot in AdobeRGB. The photos were incorrectly identified as sRGB. If you have Photo Mechanic configured to automatically apply the ICC profile during copy or ingest, then you need to use version 4.3.1 to re-apply the AdobeRGB profile to the JPEG photos to replace the incorrect sRGB profile.
  
• (Win) Fixed problems with invoking certain operations from the Preview window, and other problems with minimization of the Preview window to the Task Bar.
  
• Fixed problems with the default ICC profile set to "no default profile" internally using sRGB instead. This would cause photos with undefined profiles to be drawn using sRGB color space, rather than not being color managed (at least until the preference dialog was OK'd again).
  
• Fixed a problem with FTP when TIFF files are saved as JPEG and then transmitted. The transmitted filename was retaining a ".TIF" filename extension despite being a JPEG. Photo Mechanic now makes sure that photos converted to JPEG for FTP transmission have a ".JPG" filename extension.
  
• (Mac) Fixed a problem with Photo Mechanic crashing when non-directory items (such as applications and files) were included in the Finder's sidebar Favorites. Photo Mechanic now ignores all Finder sidebar Favorites that are not actual folders.
  
• (Win) When editing photos with certain image editing programs (Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements), Photo Mechanic would properly send the photos to the application. However, under certain circumstances, the editing application would not bring itself to the foreground thus making it look like Photo Mechanic had not sent the photos for editing at all. Photo Mechanic now brings the editing application to the foreground.
  
• (Win) Photo Mechanic now converts any IPTC fields displayed in the Image Info pane (or contextual menu) to the correct character set for display. Certain diacritical characters were not being displayed properly. However, the same problem may exist in Windows versions of Photoshop due to the IPTC specification lacking any definition of the character set being used (Photo Mechanic uses MacRoman)

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