[softwarelist] Ovation Pro for Windows - latest version

Hi,

In short I've uploaded the latest version of the Ovation Pro for Windows CD. See:

www.davidpilling.info/cd

I'd not recommend that you rush to upgrade, and if you're doing serious colour work or a lot is at stake, don't upgrade at all.


Now for the long story. The last version of OPW came out at the end of March. After seeing that it was stable I started work on adding better support for ICC colour profiles. I knew that this meant the working version would be unusable for a couple of weeks. What happened then is that I had problems outside the world of computers. So a couple of weeks became about five months.

I've still not added the new ICC colour features, what I've done is grey out the new settings in the dialogues and put in some code which passes on colours without changing them where the ICC profile code will go. However I can't promise that colour handling, separations etc. will work correctly.

On top of this, Windows XP decided to randomly mess up the contents of my hard disc. So I've had check that the 100's of files on the CD are correct. Part of that has been recreating everything that is dependent on other files - in other words every exe, pdf, zip, dll file.

One file XP did delete was my email. Which meant I lost a month or so of this mail list. Gavin Crawford has kindly supplied me with a copy.

So the CD has been rebuilt, and the mail list archives are now up to date. More importantly the version of OPW on the site now times out in November (rather than June).

The only new thing is that OPW and DPScan can now acquire images using the WIA protocol - MicroSoft's (inferior) version of TWAIN. Cameras tend to have WIA drivers and not TWAIN.

A few bugs have been fixed in OPW.




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