Photo Mechanic™ Version 4.4.2 History

Below is a list of changes made to Photo Mechanic for Version 4.4.2, released February 25, 2006.

This version is available as a free update for registrations good through November 2005.

• Added Lexar Active Memory features for Ingest. Ingest settings, including the IPTC Stationery Pad, can be saved into the Active Memory of Lexar AMS cards and later retrieved automatically by Photo Mechanic when the cards are inserted into a card reader. This provides for advanced workflows, especially in event photography with multiple photographers and memory cards.
  
• (Win) Fixed a bug in the Navigator that was causing instability and numerous crashes for some users.
  
• (Win) Fixed a bug in the Favorites that was causing multi-folder favorites to fail when there were more than two folders in the favorite.
  
• (Win) Fixed a bug in Favorites renaming that would not update the internal favorite name. This caused Photo Mechanic to open the parent folder of the favorite when double-clicking on the renamed favorite.
  
• Added a fix to preserve Canon DPP "recipes" that are appended to Canon RAW files (e.g. CR2). Photo Mechanic now places its image preferences (for tag, color class, rotation, etc) into Canon RAW files so that that they don't interfere with Canon's placement of recipe data.
  
• Photo Mechanic will now honor the XMP read preference when updating IPTC/XMP in TIFF-based RAW photos in order to provide for better compatibility with Adobe's Camera Raw (ACR) plug-in. If a TIFF-based RAW photo has an associated XMP sidecar file with ACR settings, and your IPTC/XMP read preferences are set to read XMP sidecar files before embedded XMP, then any IPTC/XMP updates to the RAW photo with Photo Mechanic will now transfer the ACR settings from the XMP sidecar into the embedded XMP so that ACR will find its settings when it reads the embedded XMP. You may need to change your IPTC/XMP read preferences for TIFF-based RAW files to make sure that XMP sidecar files are read before embedded XMP.
  
• Added an option to erase disks after Ingest.
  
• Added an option to "shield" (or darken) the area outside of the crop in the Preview dialog.
  
• (Mac) Aqua focus rings are now used in the Contact Sheet and Preview panes
  
• (Mac) Dialogs with Yes, No, Cancel, and Retry buttons now respond to keyboard shortcuts Command-Y, Command-N, Esc, and Command-R respectively.
  
• Improved Code Replacement parsing to better handle undefined codes.
  
• (Win) Fixed problem with Code Replacement preventing the addition of new strings to word lists.

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