Datacolor User to User Support Group.

(This should be simpler than emailing individual copies of this)


Spyder3Print 3.0, October 18, 2007

PrintFIX PRO 2.0 -> PrintFIX PRO 2.1 -> Spyder3Print 3.0 Update Notes

Key: (Both) = OSX + Win, (OSX) = OSX only, (Win) = Windows only


**************** Spyder3Print 3.0 ****************


PLEASE READ before installing Spyder3Print 3.0 as an update from earlier
PrintFIX PRO versions!

(Both): DO THIS FIRST: Any measurement files you've previously created
will be in your older PrintFIX PRO :Data:PRO subfolder. (If you have
PrintFIX PRO 2.0 or later already installed, you can use the
"File:Open Data" command to open and view the contents of this folder,
once PrintFIX PRO is running).

PLEASE MAKE COPIES of your existing measurement .xml files before you
continue! After you've run the Spyder3Print 3.0 installer, use Spyder3Print's
"File:Open Data" command to open the new measurement files folder, and copy
your measurement files back into it. NOTE: There have been no changes
in any of the file formats; all measurement files created with older versions
of PrintFIX PRO software are 100% compatible with Spyder3Print. NOTE: The same
comment applies to the contents of PrintFIX PRO's "Export" folder. If you've
used the Average or Export commands, or have exported measurements to use with
QTR or CreateICC, make sure you backup, and then recopy, the contents of these
folder for use with Spyder3Print as well. NOTE: The "PRO" subfolder has been
replaced with a "Print" subfolder in the new software; this is where you will
copy your measurement files to.


(Both): All existing PrintFIX PRO serial numbers will work with Spyder3Print.
As with all previous versions of the software, this is a free upgrade. You
will need to re-enter your FULL serial from PrintFIX PRO to initialize and
run the new software.

NOTE: PrintFIX PRO serial numbers start with 890.

NOTE: PrintFIX PLUS serial numbers (which start with 889) will NOT work
with Spyder3Print. You can only use Spyder3Print if you have a Datacolor
1005 spectrocolorimeter as part of a previous installation of PrintFIX PRO.

NOTE: You must enter the dashes (-) between the number groups for the 
serial number to work.

NOTE: You must enter all of the trailing digits from the FULL serial for
PrintFIX PRO. The serial number  will NOT work if you enter the X'd out
digits (...XXXX) that are shown in PrintFIX PRO's "About" dialog. You need
the FULL serial (all digits, in 3 groups, separated by dashes) for it to work.

(OSX) Your Applications folder will contain a "PrintFIX PRO" folder that was
specifically named for the PFP version that you had previously installed (such
as "PrintFIX PRO 2.1"). You can simply run the Spyder3Print 3.0 installer,
without deleting any older PrintFIX PRO application folder you may have been
using, and a "Spyder3Print 3.0" folder will be created in 
Applications:Datacolor. You can continue to run either the older 
PrintFIX PRO
software out of its own folder as well as Spyder3Print out of the new Datacolor
subfolder in your Applications folder. Multiple installations are completely
"separate" and will not interfere with each other. OSX users don't need to
unplug or replug the spectro during installation.

(Win) We recommend going to the Start menu, Colorvision section, and doing
an Uninstall of your older version of PrintFIX PRO first (with the spectro
unplugged). Then run the Spyder3Print 3.0 installer. The software will go into
a new Spyder3Print application folder (which will be in a new Datacolor
subfolder in Program Files) and you will see a new set of items in the Start
menu.



********************* Changes in Spyder3Print 3.0 *********************


                         *** New features ***

- The user interface has been updated with the new "look" for the
Spyder3Elite and Spyder3Print products, and Datacolor is now being used for
the product naming.

- The new SpyderProof(tm) softproofing image display and mechanism are
improvements for the older PrintFIX PRO softproofing feature. You now have
a matrix of 16 high quality images at your disposal for softproofing. Clicking
on any corner quadrant area zooms you in one level, so that only the 4 images
from that quadrant are visible. Clicking again on any image in that group
isolates that image only. One more click brings you back to the top level,
where all 16 images are visible. Click on the "Large Preview" button to expand
the current softproof display into a full-size window that's shaped according
to your page setup shape and which also shows you the border printing area, as
in older versions of PrintFIX PRO. Page Setup, Print, and the softproofing
controls work as they have in the past.

- The image files for the new softproofing feature are located in the new
"Proof" folder which is at the same level as the Spyder3Print application.

- Softproofing is much faster than in the previous versions of PrintFIX PRO.

- New item in Preferences for "L-Star workflow".

- Added a full translation of the application, Help files, and installation
in Russian.

- If you attempt to select Portrait mode rather than Landscape, during Page
Setup, Spyder3Print will detect this and warn you.

- The software installs, by default, into a "Spyder3Print" folder in a
"Datacolor" folder. In OSX, the Datacolor folder is in Applications; in
Windows, in Program Files. The new Spyder3Elite software also installs into
its own named subfolder in the Datacolor folder. So, if you have both
Spyder3Print and Spyder3Elite installed, you will see their subfolders
next to each other.

- The measurements files are now stored in a "Print" subfolder in the Data
folder (this replaces the "PRO" subfolder from the earlier versions of PrintFIX
PRO). If you have any older measurement files, just copy them into this
folder to make them available in Spyder3Print.

- Completely updated Help files for both English and Russian. Other language
installs will get a slightly modified version of the older PrintFIX PRO 2.1
Help in that language.

- (OSX): Uses "sheets" for most alerts, rather than dialog windows. (Better
cosmetics)

                             *** Fixes ***

- The Average command will now work properly with Extended Gray measurement
files.

- Exporting measurements to a QTR linearization file now puts the proper
keyword into the file.

- Fixed a problem with the wrong text label being shown, in the Ref
White/Ref Black feature.




******** Changes from PrintFIX PRO 2.0 to PrintFIX PRO 2.1 ********


- (Win): Vista compatibility.

- (Win): The Print button on various UI screens now brings up the full Windows
print dialog. You can access printer driver settings here directly. Note: in
Vista, this is the ONLY place to adjust printer driver settings, since Printer
Properties are not available in Vista's Page Setup dialog.

- (Win): XP/64 fixes for some stability issues.

- (Both): The Spectro Calibration screen now contains a picture of the spectro
on its calibration base, as an additional reminder that the spectro must be
calibrated this way (sitting in the calibration base); not on the paper white.

- (Both): Updates for Help files in French, German, Spanish, Simplified
Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

- (Both): Additional translations for warning alerts.

- (Both): Various adjustments/fixes to text translations for some UI elements;
in all non-English languages.

- (Both): Better checking and error messages for rare cases in which certain
files which are needed for proper operation are not present after installation.



-- 
David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision