Mako 8.4.1 Release Notes

RELEASED JUNE 2ND, 2026

Introduction

Mako 8.4.1 is an interim maintenance release required to address specific customer-reported problems.

Issues

MAKO-5559 Allow for non-square screening in Apex

CHalftonePostProcessSpec now accepts X & Y resolutions. When Y is 0 or omitted, defaults to X value. A transform scale is added to stretch the halftone dots.

MAKO-5694 Solve crash when getting number of incremental saves

Now fixed.

MAKO-5722 Buffered temp store writer fix

Encountered during development, and required for APO (Apex PDF Output) development.

MAKO-5766 MAKOSUP-11797 A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment

The customer exhibit, a PDF, sets a pattern color space but does not set a pattern before invoking a form, triggering the error. Mako will now tolerate this situation.

MAKO-5767 Apex: Image corruption problem

This issue was caused by a synchronization error on a specific brand of GPU. Now fixed.

Distribution

Mako is distributed in a folder labelled MakoSDK that you will find in your support FTP folder. If you have access to Apex, there will be a second folder labelled MakoApexSDK. Obviously, the latter should be used for Apex-related development, but in other respects the Apex release is identical to the Jaws release and can be used for non-Apex development too.

Mako Version 8.4.1 is built for the following platforms:

Apple:

• macOS (universal binary - x86-64 & ARM64, macOS 11 (Big Sur) and later)

Windows platforms:

• Windows (static and dynamic libs, VS 2022 (V143), x64 and ARM64)

Mako supports the following programming languages.

• C++ (Mako is written in C++)

• C# (.NET Core (multiple platforms) and .NET Framework (Windows only))

• Java (built with OpenJDK11 and therefore compatible with later versions)

• Python

The alternatives to C++ are built using SWIG (http://www.swig.org ) which provides a translation to the native libraries. They are found in these distribution folders, found in the SWIG folder:

• macOS_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)

• Windows_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)

ColorLogic

MAKO is available with the ColorLogic CMM, supplied by our Hybrid Group sister company, ColorLogic Gmbh. All builds can be found in the ColorLogic folder. C++ builds are available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and there is also a Windows SWIG build for development with C#, Java or Python that use the ColorLogic CMM.