SmartDFE v6.0 (Beta) Release Notes



New Features and Bug Fixes

Jira Story

Description

SDFE-2603

***SDFESUP-1067:*** The Excel Job Cost Report has been modified to utilise formulae built into the spreadsheet itself to allow for user input to affect certain costs, e.g. the Copy Count and LILO Counts can be directly altered in a report to scale up a job's cost.

SDFE-2688

***SDFESUP-1140:*** Fixed issue where the job's height could be sometimes read as a rounded version rather than its real unrounded version.

SDFE-2696

***SDFESUP-1151:*** Added "Per Square Meter Ink Weight" to the Excel report from Smart Job Cost Estimator.

SDFE-2975

***SDFESUP-820:*** Output Process Colours As CMYK and Spot Colours with Extended Gamut Colour

SDFE-3011

***SDFESUP-1985:*** OPCUA - Add the ability to add and remove "Ignore" spots.

SDFE-3045

***SDFESUP-1245:*** Fixed issue where Smart Media Manager test charts were unable to render Unicode characters correctly.

SDFE-3133

***SDFESUP-1494:*** OPCUA Interface now has the ability to import and export jobs files

SDFE-3134

***SDFESUP-1506:*** Add multiple spots in a single Spot Variation chart 

SDFE-3135

***SDFESUP-1505:*** Extend spot variation chart configuration

SDFE-3140

***SDFESUP-1499:*** Can now add, remove and clear the spot override list over OPC. These new nodes can be found under "SpotSetup".

SDFE-3158

***SDFESUP-1473*** Extended Job Cost Reports to include the ink cost per linear meter.

SDFE-3162

Spot colors can be copied to the clipboard from the eyedropper tool in Job Editor

SDFE-3326

***SDFESUP-1668:*** Central Color Libraries are now saved in and loaded from SDCs.

SDFE-3333

***SDFESUP-1673:*** Setting in the engineer -> plugin pane and the prepress pane will now be stored in the SDC. 

SDFE-3347

***SDFESUP-1661:*** OEM can decide whether Press Operators are allowed to edit spots. 

SDFE-3362

***SDFESUP-1985:*** Can now add, remove and clear the aliased spots list over OPC. These new nodes can be found under "SpotSetup".

SDFE-3435

***SDFESUP-1656:*** Use XMP data if available to populate Label Studio Parameters

SDFE-3525

***SDFESUP-1807:*** We have added a blackbrush transform for when the print pages in black is toggled on in Li and Lo pages. This will now become darker.

SDFE-3527

Fixed issue where using the Meteor UI Plugin Installer would not correctly install itself into SPC.

SDFE-3529

***SDFESUP-1921:***  Enable PrintFlat to work with 16 Bit contone from the RIP.

SDFE-3547

Improved page ordering for Add Job

Add Job now handles page ordering in the same way as Cloudflow when Reverse Order is enabled and both odd A or even side A has been selected.

When the total page count is even, pages are swapped in recurring pairs. For example, page 1 and page 2 are swapped, page 3 and page 4 are swapped, and so on. This reverses the page order while ensuring that each page remains assigned to the correct server.

This behaviour also applies when using page ranges. For example, if a 20-page document is processed with the page range set to 1–10, the same paired page-swapping logic is applied, producing the expected output on each server.

Odd-numbered page ranges, such as 1–5, are not changed, as they already process correctly.

SDFE-3560

The operator can now view (read only) jobs in the completed queue using Job Editor.

SDFE-3583

***SDFESUP-1868:***  CueMarkIntervalMm can now be written to over OPC. 

SDFE-3590

***SDFESUP-1921:*** We have optimised the performance of ScreenPro when dealing with 16 bit con-tones. 

SDFE-3597

***SDFESUP-1951:*** Improve the preview functionality in Job Editor using the new Apex renderer and full SMD support.

SDFE-3600

Allow operator defined linearisation charts.

SDFE-3609

Added the option to import a media from a device configuration file and an option to export a media to a device configuration file.

SDFE-3619

***SDFESUP-1858:*** Fixed an issue where switching the Target Media of a job would not re-calculate the Named Colour Overrides if the two media have different output profiles.

SDFE-3621

***SDFESUP-1889:*** Set the name of the TIF preview file

SDFE-3635

Update the evaluation version of SmartDFE to the Helix blue and clean up style.

SDFE-3641

Update some OPCUA tags in SmartRIP to make the usage more natural.

SDFE-3642

Remove the desktop short cut for Server Mode from installers

SDFE-3647

Allow an Engineer to set 16 Bit default behaviour.

SDFE-3649

Change the 16 bit blend defaults, giving smoother blends/shaded fill objects.

SDFE-3650

Fix issue with Virtual Press.sdc'.

SDFE-3656

 ***SDFESUP-1899:*** Added millilitres to job costing measurement units. When selected ink volumes are shown in millilitres (ink costs are still calculated based on litres). The report template should be deleted to ensure the updated template is used. Added an ink volume chart in the job breakdown and made the ink costs chart show values instead of percentages.

SDFE-3659

Add a Book edition into the set of SDFE Editions.

SDFE-3662

The "spot colours output as extended gamut only" feature of an SMD is now honored by the Fluent Interface.

SDFE-3665

***SDFESUP-1916:*** Compare a measured patch to the custom colour library for the active SMD

SDFE-3668

Add Job Name Searching  to the job queues.

SDFE-3669

***SDFESUP-1933:*** Fix the internal bars disappeared once K was limited.

SDFE-3674

Update the SmartRIP version to be inline with SmartDFE

SDFE-3677

Add a limit in the spot variation chart dialog that doesn't let the user generate Spot Variation charts with more than 256 spots.

SDFE-3678

***MAKOSUP-11787:*** The user can now make an offline licence, once they have a real product key and have created a .req file they need to upload it to "https://offline.licensespring.com/" and download the licence file generated by that then import that into SMM. 

SDFE-3680

Optimise 16bpp screening performance with PrintFlat calibration

SDFE-3684

***SDFESUP-1929:*** Large PDFs will now respect the ignored color list.

SDFE-3691

***SDFESUP-1925:*** Removed duplicate JdfOutputPlugin.UiPlugin.json file found in the top level folder of the SunriseDFE installation. The correct json file can be found in the UiPlugins\JdfOutputPlugin folder.

SDFE-3694

Fixed adding screens in SMM

SDFE-3695

Fixed issue where the Hot Folders tab had incorrectly styled features.

SDFE-3697

Fixed: Pure color target no longer pure after pre-processing.

SDFE-3698

Fixed a crash caused by competing queue operations.

SDFE-3699

Update the SmartRIP integration to use the active Meteor configuration managed by Meteor tools.

SDFE-3700

Drop level mixing and the corresponding reference charts will now respect the ink limit and drop levels active you have set for each individual colourant. 

SDFE-3704

Fixed: Switching language in SPC braking link with servers.

SDFE-3709

Improve reliability when switching from service RIP to 'print' RIPs.

SDFE-3710

Can now click the ram icon and it will launch FreeMemory tool

SDFE-3712

Ensure the OPC license 'Edition' property is available to SPC UI plugin code.

SDFE-3714

Removed unwanted fliles from Smart RIP distribution.

SDFE-3724

Fixed a bug where SMM would freeze on cancelling a print.

SDFE-3725

Fixed a bug were it wasn't possible to import an inline target that had already been imported.

SDFE-3726

***SDFESUP-1987:*** Job Page Count vs Copies Change

SDFE-3727

Allow operator defined Ink Limit charts

SDFE-3728

Allow operator defined Drop Transition charts

SDFE-3730

Fixed a bug where preprocessors could crash if you removed the job while still preprocessing.

SDFE-3735

***SDFESUP-1991:*** Hide - Restart Page Feature (show and hide using OPCUA tag).

SDFE-3737

All spin boxes are now grey rather than using the primary customer colour. 

SDFE-3738

Updated branding across SDFE.

SDFE-3742

The 'use thin text' feature of an SMD is now honored by the Fluent Interface.

SDFE-3745

Device Link output profiles in SMDs are now honored by the Fluent Interface.

SDFE-3749

Auto-Stop and Auto-Print are now remembered when restarting SPC, and now are saved to and loaded from an SDC.

SDFE-3757

Prevent Multiple SmartRIP Instances from Running Simultaneously

SDFE-3759

Implement PrintFlat output at extreme dark tones solution.

Known Limitations

  1. We have added a limitation of 256 patches to the Spot Variation charts. This is temporary and will be lifted in a future release.