Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.2) ReadMe

UPDATE: please see the v6.0.3 ReadMe for a newer version.

Piranesi 6 Pro is the latest release from Informatix Inc. It can be installed as a new product or as a free upgrade to Piranesi 2010 Pro.

For Windows users: if you have Piranesi 2010 Pro on Windows, the Piranesi 6 Pro installer will replace it. Afterwards, you can download the Piranesi 6 Pro Data installer to update the style library raster files. Until then, styles will use the raster files in your Piranesi 2010 folder.

For Mac users: if you have Piranesi 2010 Pro on Mac OS X, keep your existing Piranesi 2010 Pro folder until you add the Piranesi 6 Pro data so that these raster files can be used for your styles.

Here's what's new since Piranesi 2010 Pro:

• Piranesi is now produced and supported by Informatix Inc. We have changed the product name from Piranesi 2010 Pro to Piranesi 6 Pro.
• SKP files from SketchUp v8 can be read by Piranesi and Vedute. Our free plugin for SketchUp has been updated too.
• the texture clone tool is now easier to use because it no longer asks to save the cloned area to a file before you can paint with it.
• PNG files saved with File/Export can now be used as raster grains. Before, opaque areas would become black but now the grain uses the alpha channel so the detail is retained.
• a style library can be hosted on a website if required. Any raster files it needs will also be read from the website if the styles use relative paths.
• a thumbnail shown in the style manager and style selector can be shown in higher resolution by providing a separate image file. The details pane on the right side of the style manager has a "thumb" option to set the filename.
• the Help Assistant is now hidden at startup to increase the available drawing area. Use the View/Toolbars menu to show it.
• a memory leak while displaying lock highlighting has been fixed. This was particularly noticable on Mac and could lead to crashes.
• in some cases, the style library builder did not create thumbnail images.
• FBX files with Japanese characters in their pathname can now be opened.
• double-click to open an EPix file no longer shows an extra message box, provided that a licence has been activated.
• capturing a reflection no longer crashes (Mac OS X only).
• in rare cases, some areas of the drawing were not redrawn.
• File/Export to PSD format could crash when the layer extent was outside the drawing.
• File/Export to PSD has an option to flatten cutouts and shadows into one layer, as in earlier versions of Piranesi. This means that cutouts can be correctly clipped against lower layers.
• on the stereo image pair dialog, clicking Pick no longer reverts earlier changes.
• in Style/Properties and Add Style, the blend values can be set for layer blend command.
• security fix to protect against DLL preloading attack on Windows.
• Vedute on 64-bit Windows no longer prompts for the paper sizes file before saving.
• Mac OS X 10.6 is now required on Mac. Older PowerPC computers are no longer supported.
• material and floating cutout names in all languages are now handled correctly.
• other fixes in response to Windows Error Reports and customer feedback: we are grateful for your input and encourage you to report any problems to us.

These changes from Piranesi 2010 Pro (v6.0.1) are also included:

• too much memory was required while opening EPix files with transparent areas
• layer merge failed in some cases
• the drawing is now updated after changing cutout blend
• keyboard shortcuts can be defined for many operations that use Pick buttons on the Settings palettes - see the Shortcuts/Pick section in Edit/Preferences or Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts
• DWG™ files from AutoCAD 2010 and earlier are now supported by Vedute and Piranesi. Support for DXF™ files is improved. A lisp script is available for AutoCAD users to export to Piranesi EPix files.
• fixed multifill styles that used erase tool
• layer thumbnail was not updated immediately after drawing (Mac OS X only)
• rerender script command did not redraw Restore channel (Mac OS X only)
• duplicate ozbreed style library after upgrading from 5.1/Lite (Mac OS X only)
• Vedute produced invalid EPix on PowerPC computers (Mac OS X only)
• a number of other problems have been fixed

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