Release Notes

Welcome to ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3 Beta. This document contains the release notes for Beta version 3.0.200. The following sections describe the beta release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information not covered in the ACDSee Pro 3 documentation.

This is an early release for wide evaluation and usage. Keep in mind that we are continuing to work on ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3 and things may change in the future.

Your feedback is invaluable to make ACDSee Pro 3 even more adaptable to your specific workflow needs.

New in ACDSee Pro 3 Beta

For up-to-date information on ACDSee Pro 3 Beta, please visit http://www.acdseepro.com. More information on what is new in ACDSee Pro 3 Beta is available in the application at Help | What’s New.

IMPORTANT NOTES, PLEASE READ

The beta is intended to be used for testing and feedback purposes.

• We recommend using test images only as you try ACDSee Pro 3 Beta. This is a very early beta quality build and you should always work on duplicates of files that are securely backed up.
• The image management and processing settings you select will not be transferable, as this beta version is not fully compatible with previous or subsequent versions of ACDSee Pro.
• The ACDSee Pro 3 Beta database will not be migrated to the final released version of Pro 3.
• Pro 3 Beta will not overwrite or interfere with ACDSee products that are already installed on the same computer.
• Help documentation is available for ACDSee Pro 3 Beta but is not considered final.
• The beta is not supported by Customer or Technical support. Please report any issues encountered on the product forums (http://community.acdsee.com/forums). See the Other Resources section below.
• Once you have an ACDSee Online account, you can access it through a web browser at www.acdseeonline.com.
• Additional known issues are listed below.

Beta Period

ACDSee Pro 3 Beta will install and launch for an extended beta period. This beta will expire October 30, 2009. Please provide feedback through the forums at http://community.acdsee.com/forums.

Known Issues

• File operations which involve developed files are not fully implemented at this time. Files ACDSee internally associates with a developed image may not be correctly renamed, deleted, copied, or moved, resulting in some unanticipated behavior.
• Pro 3 Beta does not recognize Canon cameras connected via USB and currently cannot import images.
• VCD creation is not working properly.
• All EXIF and IPTC data will be lost after performing Rotate, Resize and Exposure on JPEG, TIFF and PSD images.
• In layered TIFF files the layers will merge and create a flat TIFF.
• Pro 3 Beta hangs on password protected ZIP files.
• A 16 bit PSP file from Paint Shop Pro will cause Pro 3 Beta to crash. Disable the ID_PSP.apl plug-in as a workaround.
• Browsing and/or editing huge TIFF, PSD and other file formats over 50 MB will cause Pro 3 Beta to perform unreliably.
• The Backup database name cannot be longer than 16 characters.
• Pro 3 Beta crashes when you navigate to a long path folder.
• The Image Description EXIF field displays incorrectly.
• The screensaver and standalone slideshow require the latest version of DirectX to run.
• A DNG thumbnail cannot be rotated.
• The Batch Resize tool produces a corrupt output file.
• The Search tool runs in an endless loop when the search is limited to a specific folder.
• Pro 3 Beta will corrupt APD files when it tries to re-encode image data or metadata.
• Pro 3 Beta crashes when batch converting NEF RAW files to TIFF.
• The Filmstrip is not updated when new files are added to the list in View mode.
• Images may be overlapped in the View mode.
• EXIF maker notes are missing for the following: Nikon camera models: D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D40, D40X, D60, D80, D90, D200, D300, D700; Pentax camera models: K10D, K20D, K200D.
• Camera Maker Notes are lost when using the Batch Set Information and Batch Edit tools.
• Some Camera Maker notes, for some Canon, Epson, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax camera models, are completely lost from the EXIF tab after running Tools | Batch Convert from RAW to JPEG.
• A crash occurs after pasting files with long file names (180 characters).
• Pro 3 Beta crashes if you attempt to develop an 8 or 16-bit image in Process mode.
• There is a focus issue when entering text in the Text tool in Process mode.
• Pro 3 Beta will crash if you modify an image in View mode and are forced to use Save As, if you have not previously used Process mode in the same session.
• Pro 3 Beta will hang if you show the histogram and adjust the scroll bar in the Edit pane.
• Pro 3 Beta may fail to generate a RAW image proxy after developing a RAW image.
• White balance settings shown in Pro 3 Beta for a RAW image processed in Pro 2.5 do not match what is shown in Pro 2.5.
• The ACDSee Device Detector may crash when a mobile phone is connected to the computer via Bluetooth.
• Multi-page TIFF files which contain tags unknown to Pro 3 will merge or collapse the pages when modifying the TIFF file.
• Images may not appear centered in full screen mode in a dual monitor setup.
• When trying to enter Process mode with invalid files, the message displayed is not a modal dialog box (it does not prevent you continuing to use the application).
• In Manage mode, the Filmstrip will not select the first item in the file list when browsing to a new folder.
• In Edit, the Preview bar may not be positioned correctly.
• Pro 3 Beta may hang or crash during the cataloging process.
• Pro 3 Beta may incorrectly load a developed image in Process mode.
• The CTRL + E shortcut does not work in Develop mode.
• Images may display twice in full screen mode, on Windows Vista.
• Search and Quick search. Does not sync address bar and quick search bar in Online and Manage modes.
• Pro 3 Beta does not support processing excluded files or excluded folders.
• Pro 3 Beta may crash on attempting to save an image in BMP format.
• Pro 3 Beta may crash when panning a cropped image in the Detail tab in Develop.
• Processed RAW files that have been renamed may appear incorrectly in View mode.
• Pro 3 Beta may crash when applying changes to large set of RAW files and saving as TIFF.
• Removing the database may cause problems with developed RAW files.
• The left and right arrow keys may not work correctly in View mode.
• In Develop, if you make an adjustment and then ‘reset’ the adjustment, Pro 3 Beta may appear to apply the adjustment when you leave Develop.
• The Catalog Files command may hang if it encounters processed RAW files where the [originals] folder has been deleted.
• In Manage mode, the Filter By option does not work correctly for Tagged/Untagged when viewing categories.
• In View mode, rotated landscape images may not be display correctly. As a workaround, minimize the Pro 3 Beta window and restore it to a larger view to refresh the image.
• Under certain circumstances when an image is rotated in Develop mode, the crop settings are not correctly initialized. When applying a ‘Last Used’ develop preset from Manage mode, this may result in an output image which doesn’t apply an automatic crop to the rotated image.

Online mode

• Enable cookies in Internet Explorer.
• Browsing ACDSee Online uses the latest version of your Internet Explorer. Please upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or higher for optimal performance of ACDSee Online.
• Images do not upload to the server if the JPEG is larger than 10 MB and the upload option is "Upload as original".
• Selective Browsing is only available in Online mode.
• You can only upload 10 folders at a time to your ACDSee Online account.
• You cannot create two ACDSee Online accounts on the same computer.
• Your upload may fail depending on your connection speed. A fast connection speed is recommended.
• The maximum number of images an online folder can have is 400.
• Currently, ACDSee Online cannot upload Sony DSLR A900 RAW files and convert them to JPEG.
• After pausing an image upload, and you try to delete or rename the file being uploaded, Pro 3 Beta crashes.
• Do not close Pro 3 Beta while uploading your images. Pause the upload first, before closing Pro 3 Beta.
• Currently, you cannot download your images from your ACDSee Online account.
• Thumbnails are sometimes not displayed correctly. If your thumbnails are not displayed correctly after dragging the images for upload, press F5 to refresh.
• The maximum number of folders you can create on ACDSee Online is 100.
• Changing the original file or the upload size after pausing uploads may result in a crash. It is recommended not to change the original file or the upload size while there are paused uploads.
• Aperture and shutter speed information are not correctly displayed for images.
• The Image Basket is not available in Online mode.
• Uploading images with more than 64 characters in the file name may result in problems deleting from Online mode.
• Storage capacity for uploading images is 2 GB.  When exceeding this limit the application provides erroneous feedback that images above the 2GB limit have been uploaded, but in actual fact they have not.
• In ACDSee Online the "Remember me" checkbox does not work on XP.

Supported File formats

You can find a list of supported file formats at: http://files.acdsystems.com/english/support/fileformats.pdf

Pro 3 Beta supports the same Camera RAW formats as ACDSee Pro 2.5 and ACDSee Photo Manager 2009. You can find a list of supported formats at: http://www.acdsee.com/products/rawformats

Other Resources

Your feedback is important to us—please help us make this the best product possible. Please join the discussion at http://community.acdsee.com/forums to find and share information on the ACDSee Pro 3 Beta.