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FTIFF Accelerator Plugin

FTIFF (the "F" is for fast) is an output plugin for use with the Fusion RIP (or other Harlequin-based RIPs). The FTIFF plugin can reduce by half or more the time it takes to generate 1-bit and 8-bit TIFF files (compared to the already fast Harlequin TIFF plugin). The FTIFF plugin is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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Release 4.7 Key Features

Windows: Enhancement. This version changes the way that scripts are executed on Windows. Instead of launching the file directly, only .exe and .com files are launched directly. All other files are launched using bash.exe as a script wrapper environment.
Mac OS X: Enhancement. Universal Binary Support: This release is optimized to work with Fusion RIPs 7.x for Mac OS X on the Mac Intel (and PowerPC) platform.
All Platforms: Enhancement. This version changes the parameter lists that are delivered to the scripts. The Path component has been removed, and replaced with the Directory and File components. It's much easier for a script programmer to combine the Directory and File elements into a Path than it is to break apart a Path into the File and Directory elements.
All Platforms: Bug fix. Bash scripts execute correctly now if a space existed in the path to the script.
All Platforms: Bug fix. When scripts are launched, the function that builds the script path now confirms that a file exists at the end of the path, and issues an error if it is absent. The prior version could miss some of these cases, and cause a crash if a nonexistent script was executed.

Release 4.6a Key Features

All Platforms: Bug fix. This release fixes a long-standing (but previously unknown) memory leak.

Release 4.6 Key Features

All Platforms: Bug fixes. This release fixes a minor bug related to per-job post processing. Also Macintosh names containing characters with the high bit set needed to have those characters encoded with a three-character hexidecimal pattern.
Per-page and per-job scripting have been modified so that the order and style of filename parameters is consistent. For Windows, we only deliver the tiffPath parameter. For non-Windows, we deliver the tiffPath, tiffDirectory and tiffFile parameters, in that order, for both the per-page and per-job post-processing.
The Huffman algorithm has been speeded up, both inside the bit-twiddling algorithm, but also in the adding of multi- threading support.
Support for three types of string trimming have been addd to template-based naming: [m-n] keep the mth through the nth characters; [m&n] discard the first m and last n characters; [pre/suf] trim everything before 'pre', after 'suf'.

Release 4.03 Key Features

Improved multithreading and other performance enhancements.
Implements new Template Based Naming (TBN) capabilities for custom naming of output files.

Release 3.04d Key Features

This release fixes an image-width accuracy problem for CCITT 2D and LZW compression algorithms. For these compression types, the width in pixels described in the TIFF file is now exactly as described by the Fusion RIP (based on Harlequin Eclipse). Only CCITT Huffman encoding still rounds upward to the nearest 32-bit boundary.