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Application Menu changes:

- MonitorCalibrator has been renamed Displays

- Spectrophotometer has been renamed Spectro

- ClusterManager has been renamed Clustering

- Archiver has been renamed Archives

Serendipity Updater is now integrated into Megarip and standalone Serendipity Clients. The Updater tracks your current software installation status and automatically checks for available software updates, bug fixes, maintenance patches and new drivers. Settings for automatic update checks are located in Update Options in Help Menu of the Server and Client.

User accounts can be configured to receive an Email Notification when new Updates are available.

Jobs application added to the top of the Applications menu. Jobs is a new streamlined variant of the Monitor Application. It has a set number of tabs stored in a Tab Library each is pre-configured to display a particular set of Server information - Jobs, RIP, Logs, etc. The Modules within each Tab can not be changed, however the Jobs window can be resized, with each Module with auto-scaling to fit within the new window size.

Jobs is the new default monitor window and will be suitable for use by the majority of users. Monitor may still be used in locations that require specific information layouts and for existing workflows.

SoftProof has been improved and has a new interface with tools and viewing functions accessible via buttons. Additional features include:
- new borderless full screen mode showing only the softproof image all the way the edge of the display
- a Status bar showing the Calcheck status of the display in relation to the currently selected Press config
- Press configs can be changed instantly via a drop-down in the Status bar
- RGB (Camera) profiles are now selected for viewing RGB jobs and can also be changed via a Status bar drop-down

SoftProof and FlipBook now recognise and display Page 0 in Publications.

Displays application now performs all monitor calibration and verification (Calcheck) functions, and can now perform complete hardware, software and/or self calibration of proofing displays - configuring screen whitepoint, Gamma, and Brightness when available. Manual brightness, whitepoint and ambient measurement option are also available.

Calibrated profiles are automatically saved as the native operating system display profile.

New Displays support options include:
- full support for current model Eizo Monitors (including the new CG275W and CG245W models with built-in Eizo Swing spectrophotometer). Displays is able to calibrate Eizo displays directly without the need for the Eizo ColorNavigator software.
- ability to calibrate Just lightbooths.

Calcheck application now has an updated, more user friendly interface. Delta standards, summary and detailed views are now easily selected via buttons. Monitor calcheck features been moved to the new Displays app.

Studio application now features:

- improved cloaking and locking and the ability to auto-arrange new assets around cloaked/locked images

- The Studio workspace is now saved with all images, frames and cloak/lock status retained until removed by the user
- Step-and-repeat now images and renders only once if all frames in the step-and-repeat grid are the same asset.
- Canvas Wrap mode
- Custom Markers can now be created and saved as part of a template
- Convolution Matrix, Mirror, Negative and Watermark Render Effects can now be applied to jobs submitted via the Studio application
- Screenprinting mode and Colour Keys are now supported for jobs nested using Studio
- Choice of regular or space-saving cropmarks (default)

Application Menu subdivided - it now contains only Applications (and Quit option on Windows).

Submit options are now in the Submit Menu.

Server options and System Settings are now in the Server menu.

System Settings Server and Client functions have been separated.

Server Settings remain in renamed options in the Server Menu.

Client Settings are now available via the Preferences option in the Serendipity Client menu on Mac OS X and the Client Settings option in the Application menu on Windows / Linux.

Server and Client 'units' preferences are now separated.

Resume / Pause Processing have been added to the new Server Menu. This option pauses and resumes ALL processing and print queues after the current tasks are completed.

Serendipity Client - Windows Menu has added a new 'Cycle Through Windows' option with hotkey.

Auto Queue Order has been added as an option in the toolbar of the QueueManager. When ticked on, the QueueManager displays all finished and pending jobs from all Queues. This option is turned on by default for new installs.

ICC target without Colour Correction has been added to the new Submit menu. This option submits an ICC target disabling all colour correction options (including linearisation and correction curves).

Supported added for Grayscale Output ICC profiles.

Press Ink names and L*a*b* are now extracted from multicolour Press ICC profiles. Incoming jobs with corresponding plate names have plates automatically matched and reordered according the ICC press inks. Remaining plates are treated as spots as per normal.

Note - a Press Ink set assigned manually to a multicolour match ICC profile will take precedence over the automatically extracted ink set.

Thumbnails are now configurable to 3 sizes, a new Small size plus Normal and Large.

Nest option has been added to the Publish panel of Pagesetup. Functions as the option in the Submit window - nests any jobs published directly to the Pagesetup via the Megarip PPD or placed in a drop folder according to the nesting parameters configured in the Output. Used when nesting is not desired as the default option set for the Output.

Mirror render effect has now been added to Slugline, activated via a tickbox in the Slugline effect Edit pop-up. This is useful for jobs being submitted using the Pagesetup Mirror tick (which occurs at imaging) for reverse-side proofing to clear film media.

Fotoba Cut Marks and Registration Marks render effects added to Pagesetup. Both effects are configurable.

Serendipity Blackmagic Image and Serendipity Remote Proof formats now use Packbits as the default compression option.

Improved RGB image detection.

Improved PDF spot colour detection.

Support for Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files to both the Server and Cient. PSD files can now be submitted for processing to the Server, or loaded directly into the SoftProof application using the open file menu option.

Duotone, multicolour and alpha channel support for Adobe Photoshop (.psd) files.

Support added for grayscale JPEG files.

Percentage based scaling added to the C5 Client Effects options.

Speed and responsiveness improvements made to both Server and Client. This update significantly reduces Client memory use and reduces response time when the the Server is under heavy load. Server startup time also been reduced due to more efficient verification of both existing and pending queued jobs.

Improved Client/Server communication efficiency, making the Client more responsive. Minimum Broadcast Interval default is now 2 seconds. On higher specced systems, optionally set to 0-1 seconds for fastest response times - trial and error may be required.

Minimum Broadcast Interval and Polling Service Refresh in Server Settings no longer require a server restart to take effect.

Default PS RIP memory allocation now 512MB for 32-bit systems and 1GB for 64-bit systems.

System speed-ups for various tasks including rendering and SoftProof zoom/resize/rotation times.

Warning/confirmation message now displayed before changing Server Working Paths.

Asset Queue now functions as a Published Pagesetup on TCP/IP port 9104. Remote computers and third party applications can now print to the Asset Queue using a system print destination set up to print to port 9104 via the Megarip PPD.

Bonjour / Zeroconf network protocol has been added as a connection method for Output destinations

Pagesetups and the Asset Queue are now Published as Bonjour/Zeroconf destinations for Mac OS X / Linux installs, enabling easy network discovery and printing from third party applications.
- Asset Queue publishing is automatic. Displayed as - asset drop@computer name
- Pagesetup publishing is activated using the Printer: Mac tickbox in the Publish panel. Displayed as - pagesetup name@computername.

Note: When adding a New Printer through System Preferences on Mac OS X, select the Bonjour address as the printer and Serendipity Megarip PPD as the driver.

Pagesetups Published using the Printer: Mac tickbox are now available as IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) print destinations. (Mac OS X and Linux only)

Bonjour published Pagesetups (Mac OS X / Linux installs only) are now available as Apple AirPrint destinations for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch devices running iOS 4.2

C5 Printers are now automatically Published as Bonjour/Zeroconf destinations in addition to auto-publishing to drop folders.

Note: Bonjour/Zeroconf publishing in C5 occurs at Printer creation, so existing C5 Printers must be removed and re-created if Bonjour publishing is desired.

32-bit Serendipity Client is now correctly able to generate all instrument target charts for supported spectrophotometer instruments when connected to a 64-bit Server.

USB destination driver in Output now recognises vendor/serial/model number field for connected devices.

Epson XIO destination driver removed from Output.

X-rite EyeOne IO support added for linearisation and Calcheck functions (Windows and Mac OS X only).

X-rite EyeOne support added for Windows 64-bit installs.

New media types added to Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 printer:
Epson ClearProof Thin Film
Epson ClearProof Adhesive Film

Epson Spectroproofer inline spectrophotometer now supports connection via Bonjour / Zeroconf.

Borderless Print support added to the following Canon drivers:
Canon iPF5000 / iPF8000 / iPF9000
Canon iPF6300 / iPF6350 / iPF8300 / iPF8310
Canon iPF6300 / iPF6350 / iPF8300 / iPF8310 (printer's screening)
Canon iPF650 / iPF655 / iPF750 / iPF755 (printer's screening)

Support added for Canon iPF6300s / iPF8300s / iPF8310s printers.

Canon Printer's Screening module support added for Canon iPF6300s / iPF8300s / iPF8310s printers.

Print & Store and Print & Delete options added to Canon printer drivers for printers with an internal hard drive mailbox.

Support added for HP Designjet T1200 / T770 / T620 printers.

Oce Arizona 350GT and Fujifilm Acuity 2545 now supports new modes and white layered printing.

Serendipity Printer Drivers added for Mac OS X. Included are drivers for use with Serendipity Blackmagic, Megarip and Veripress, all with unique printer icons. The printer drivers are installed to and select from the list of Mac OS X printer software. These replace the megarip.ppd driver for creating system print destinations for publishing Pagesetups.

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Fix for CMYK Calcheck Chart error caused by CMYK chart patch values not being converted and saved with corresponding Lab values. The result was extremely large ΔE values when measuring the Calcheck Chart due to L*a*b reference values registering as 0,0,0 in the Calcheck application.

Fix for a Studio application bug where one copy of the job was always being printed regardless of the number of copies requested by the user.

L*a*b* mode RGB linearisation chart for the Gretag Eye-One has an extra printed bar after the 100% (white) patch enabling the instrument to read the chart correctly.

Windows LUT based display profiles containing only a perceptual intent table are now recognised as valid display profiles.

JPEGs output by Adobe Photoshop 5 now image and render correctly.

Lab Density Patch values imported into Paper Profile using the Lab text file (Lab Sample order) instrument option now import correctly.

Fixed a bug causing the Server to periodically shut down when under heavy load, falsely reporting a dongle removal.

Fixed a rendering error in which jobs with spot colours submitted to a setup using screen printing mode and logo box would produce spot colour plates of a smaller size, in turn causing empty space to print with noise/random data.

Hour and Minute fields for Polling Refresh Interval in System Settings are now in the correct order.

Fixed a problem causing PDF and Postscript files containing elements using a DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK or DeviceGray colourspace to render incorrectly under certain conditions. Images defined in these colourspaces now pass directly through imaging and are rendered with more accurate colour.

PDF files containing Optional Content Groups (OCG) now image correctly. Optional content (PDF 1.5) includes sections in a PDF document that can be selectively viewed or hidden by document authors or users, featuring in CAD drawing, layered artwork, maps and multi-language documents.

In some cases, PDF transparency code was imaging PDF registration marks incorrectly (as white) when the rip was swapping to disk. This problem has been corrected.

The CropBox, as set in the PDF file, is now honoured. This means that files with a defined CropBox now render to the correct size with excess areas automatically trimed.

Fixed ripping failures with certain PDF files that contained forms.

Fixed a problem ripping certain PDF 1.6 files that contained blending operators.

Transparency related PDF fixes.

Gradients with transparency related PDF fixes.

Non-printing areas of Studio Assets now rotate correctly when when in cropping mode.

Under certain conditions excessive amounts of memory were being used to hold the job queue. This caused the Server to run out of memory and jobs to fail.

Fixed a bug with printer automatic maintenance functions. Under certain conditions multiple calcheck charts would be submitted. In another case, none were submitted at all.

Corrects an error in the QueueManager list views where if multiple jobs were block-marked, their order changed using a sort column header; certain toolbar buttons would cease to function. e.g. the Submit button in RIPMonitor.

SoftProof Autocrop function now crops correctly.

Automatic margins in printer Paper Settings is now overridden for all Borderless mode enabled Canon printer drivers. Borderless mode now functions correctly.

Fixes to SoftProof Ruler bugs.

Output Maintenance functions have been corrected so as to prevent multiple Auto-Nozzle Checks being submitted.