Release BadgeMaker

ScreenCheck biedt een nieuwe release van onze desktop ID badge software, BadgeMaker 2.6.2 aan.  Naast een aantal mooie nieuwe features en verbeteringen van de software hebben ook de BadgeMaker website en de License Manager een kleine facelift gekregen. 

De voornaamste veranderingen:

  • Braziliaans Portugees toegevoegd aan de al bestaande talen
    Engels, Spaans, Duits, Frans, Pools en Nederlands.
  • Card designs kunnen nu meteen bij het aanmaken van een BM project worden toegevoegd,
    en snel updaten kan nu via een knop in de layouts panel.
  • Quick-print settings worden nu opgeslagen en opgehaald uit de user default print settings.
    Dit voorkomt verwarring, en zorgt er ook voor dat er geen problemen ontstaan na een printer driver update.
  • De Magicard Ultima wordt nu ondersteund (weliswaar nog steeds met een paar known SDK issues).
  • Uitbreiding van de automatische error reporting. Gebruikers die metrics hebben uitstaan zullen na een crash
    worden gevraagd of toch (eenmalig) een report opgestuurd mag worden.
  • BadgeMaker Design biedt nu fixed-length instellingen voor dynamische velden.
  • Tekst elementen hebben nu een ‘fit’ instelling, dat er voor zorgt dat de tekst altijd binnen
    de randen van het element past (door de font size dynamisch kleiner te maken).

Daarnaast gaat het vooral om een flink aantal kleine verbeteringen en crash-fixes.
Lees de onderstaande release notes voor meer informatie.

Release BadgeMaker Design              BadgeMaker Identity

RELEASE BADGEMAKER NOTES VERSION 2.6:

• Improved error reporting.
• Clarified certain license activation errors.
• The licensing system now uses a FIPS-certified algorithm.

New features for BadgeMaker Identity
• The new-project wizards now contain a step for adding card designs.
• Card designs can now quickly be updated via the layouts panel.
• Improved error reporting.

Improvements for BadgeMaker Identity
• Webcam access denied errors now point towards the webcam privacy settings.
• Improved search filter validation.
• Quick printing now uses and updates the user’s default print settings, instead of storing them
separately.
• Columns with a default value can now be set to ‘required’ even when they contain empty values.
• The BM7 importer can now handle ISO-numeric columns.
• After a crash, BadgeMaker Identity will now ask to send a crash report, if metrics are disabled.
• The export images window no longer marks fields as invalid before they have been filled in.

Fixes for BadgeMaker Identity
• Fixed a problem with certain MySQL databases that prevented obtaining table information.
• Fixed a local data loading failure caused by incorrect handling of large decimal values.
• Fixed that double-clicking anywhere in the open-project window would open the selected project.
• Fixed that Thumbs.db files in card design folders could cause saving project configurations to fail.
• Fixed that folders open in Explorer could not be deleted.
• Fixed a Wiegand-26 incorrect parity-bit encoding problem.
• Fixed that unbound CCI fields would cause printing to fail.
• Fixed problems with the empty and duplicate value checks in the project settings window.
• Fixed a failure to remove the temporary fonts folder after printing.
• Fixed a twain capture problem caused by a previous capture process still running.
• Fixed date formatting when changing a column type from date to text.
• Fixed a font release issue caused by non-ASCII characters in font paths.
• Fixed that BadgeMaker did not disconnect gracefully from the Share server when closing.
• Fixed a crash when selecting a csv file that was already in use.
• Fixed a crash when importing certain BM7 or IDPro7 projects.
• Fixed a crash when opening a biometric capture window, caused by certain project configurations.
• Fixed a crash when trying to select a biometric image file.
• Fixed a crash when trying to crop a biometric image.
• Fixed a crash when opening or closing a project, caused by certain project configurations.
• Fixed a crash when applying after-encoding triggers failed.
• Fixed a crash when trying to open Share projects.
• Fixed a crash when trying to add a design, when certain design files are locked by other programs.
• Fixed several crashes related to data-loading failures.
• Fixed several crashes when saving or loading the project configuration.
• Fixed several crashes caused by BadgeMaker Share connection problems.
• Fixed several other crashes.

Improvements for BadgeMaker Design
• Added fixed-length settings for dynamic fields.
• Added a fit-content-to-size option for text fields, which enables dynamic font size downscaling.
• The element properties panel now displays the chosen measurement unit.
• Added a scrollbar to the element properties and card design settings panels when they’re running out
of space.
• The preview panel now displays placeholder images for biometric image and barcode elements.

Fixes for BadgeMaker Design
• After a crash, BadgeMaker Design will now ask to send a crash report, if metrics are disabled.
• Fixed a bug where dynamic fields were not automatically generated when copy/pasting elements from
other designs.
• Fixed that double-clicking anywhere in the open-design window would open the selected design.
• Fixed a crash when copying certain dynamic-logo elements.
• Fixed a crash in the open-design window.
• Fixed a crash caused by a failure to obtain printer settings.

Improvements for BadgeMaker Share
• BadgeMaker Share now detects and handles ungraceful disconnects.
Supported Devices & Encoding
• Added support for the Magicard Ultima printer.

CCI Editor (v1.4.5):
• Bugfix siteCode values will not be set to 0 when saving CCI’s