Photo Mechanic™ Version 4.6.8 History

Below is a list of changes made to Photo Mechanic for Version 4.6.8, released September 13, 2011.

This version is available as a free update for registrations good through February 2009.

  • (Mac) Updated the slideshow and live slideshow to work with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). Please read the note above if you are using Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) or 10.5.x (Leopard) as you will need a special "legacy" build that uses the old slideshow. HINT: To move the slideshow to a different monitor, temporarily use the 'F' key to toggle between full screen and window mode, drag the slideshow window to a different monitor, and then resume to full screen with 'F' key.
  • Added support for RAW ORF files from the Olympus E-P3, E-PL2, DMC-GF2, and DMC-GH2.
  • Fixed {frame} and {frame4} variables for JPEG and NEF files saved from Capture NX2.
  • When uploading, the cached upload images (not your originals) are deleted when their image processing is complete. Upload images are also deleted if the upload is terminated.
  • (Win) Autoplay will now launch Photo Mechanic and if configured to ingest, PM will display the ingest dialog.
  • Fixed an issue with Ingest where the {seqn} value would be incremented when using a local IPTC Stationery Pad that didn't contain the {seqn} variable (but the global IPTC Stationery Pad did).
  • The {seqn} value is only incremented by one when saving from Preview window.
  • Structured Keywords are now written to IPTC metadata without spaces around the '|' separator character. This makes them consistent with the way the XMP data is represented.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause improperly formatted but otherwise valid GPS coordinates to be discarded.
  • Fixed an issue with expanding extremely large {variable} lookups.
  • (Mac) Fixed an issue in the Preview window that would cause the user's choice of layout to be disregarded.
  • (Max) Fixed Navigator Sidebar issues when running on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
  • (Mac) Fixed an issue with launching classic (Rosetta) Photoshop droplets.
  • PEF files now treated properly as TIFF-based RAW.
  • Enabled cropping feature for RAW Sony formats ARW, SR2, and SRF.
  • Fixed handling of smart quotes (e.g. pasted in by Word) in the Text Exporter.

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