Photo Mechanic™ Version 4.3.8 History

Below is a list of changes made to Photo Mechanic for Version 4.3.8, released August 29, 2005.

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

  • Fixed problems reading palette-based TIFF files.
  • Save As command now correctly replaces illegal filename characters before saving.
  • In the FTP As command when saving as JPEG, if the source file is also a JPEG and no cropping, rotation, or scaling is applied, it will only be recompressed if the quality setting is less than maximum.
  • When dragging files from one contact sheet window to another contact sheet window on a different volume, the files will now be copied rather than moved.
  • Improved character encoding translations (e.g. the Euro symbol can now be entered and retained correctly). However, there are still differences between the characters that can be entered and retained on a Mac versus a Windows computer due to the character sets used by the different operating systems.
  • (Mac) Removing all favorites now works correctly, and canceling a rename of a top-level favorite no longer crashes.
  • (Mac) Fixed tab order of text fields in Send email dialog.
  • (Mac) The FTP Progress window now properly displays filenames with special characters.
  • (Mac) Added a Use Default button for Disk Cache path preference to reset the cache folder to /Users/username/Library/Caches to prevent Spotlight on OS X 10.4 (Tiger) from indexing the cache JPEGs.
  • (Mac) Added code to prevent occasional crashes in the Navigator or Favorites views when ejecting disks or finishing a copy operation.
  • (Mac) Fixed occasional crash when clicking on the edit photos button in the Preview window.
  • (Mac) Printing centered text now works correctly on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
  • (Win) Single key shortcuts for rotation were reversed.
  • (Win) Now correctly recognizes numeric keypad input (when NumLk is on) for color class tagging in single selection edit mode and in Preview window.
  • (Win) Added ability to clear out any bad Page Setup data. Hold down the Shift key while opening the Page Setup dialog to reset the Page Setup settings.
  • Disabled use of Photo Mechanic for well known hacked passwords.

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