Portrait recognition: In version 11, Claro is able to classify portrait images as such. This leads to optimized skin-tone treatment and adjustments in noise filtering and local contrast for highlights, leading to better portraits.
Banding removal: Claro now detects and removes banding issues in blue skies that may occur in heavily compressed images.
JPEG compression artefacts: Claro offers new and improved detection and removal of various types of JPEG artefacts.
Improved exposure correction: Claro has improved detection of under- and overexposed images and offers an even higher success rate in correcting these problems.
Added localized treatment of key areas in images: Claro offers more controls to include or exclude certain areas in images like skin tones and blue skies to algorithms like the local contrast for highlights feature and the color filter.
New plug-in for Adobe InDesign: Our plug-in offers the ability to enhance images inside InDesign documents. The plug-in identifies the size of the picture box and the visible area of the images and takes this into account. The enhanced images fit exactly into the picture box at the exact resolution. The new plug-in offers enhanced user experience and allows documents to be closed while images are in process.
Newsrooms will love this: If a major news event occurs, newsrooms will have the ability to tag images shot within a specified range of the location where the event took place. Especially with user generated content coming into the newsroom, it is a huge benefit to be able to immediately identify images shot within a certain proximity of the event.
IT departments will love this: The new installers of both the Claro server (Windows and Mac OS X) as well as the InDesign plug-in and Photoshop Inspector are completely independent of pre-installed runtime environments.
Fix for ClaroAdmin appearing to freeze, but is waiting for user-input in another window.
Embedded HTTP server is upgraded to newer version.
Fix for ClaroAdmin not showing screen if you would like to start Claro if ClaroAdmin is started from the same system as Claro is installed on.
Fix for JVM crash with core dump (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION).
Claro logging shows more detailed system information at startup making it more easier for support to advise on concurrency and memory settings.
The previous version showed in ClaroAdmin the network logging from a MultiServer environment. It appears that this leads to problems because of too much access to this log (and delays because of the network access to the storage) causing unacceptable delays in the Claro Administration. The logging in ClaroAdmin shows now only the local log.
In the advanced tab of Input in a routing channel an extra option has been added: “Use IPTC from jobfile and image”. In previous versions routing on IPTC used either the IPTC from the jobfile (and IPTC imported via XPath) or if it did not exist the IPTC from the image. With this option first the IPTC is taken from the jobfile (and XPath) and for IPTC fields which are not available the IPTC fields are used from the image itself.
ClaroAdmin did not close the file for locking the preferences. This could cause an error in the operating system “Too many open files”.
Improved Inspector failover in cluster environment to backup cluster.
Added basic Inspector functionality to the channel- and group-overview in ClaroAdmin.
Special option CropWithBox was not saved correctly.
Images in PDF get extra XMP information about Claro processing if selected in XMP options (output tab)
Added the option to skip or process images in PDF based on XMP data per image
Added in routing channel in IPTC a possibility to check if a field has content or not (without specifying what that content should be)
Possibility to specify a backup cluster in ClaroServers.conf. Add the line: “backupserverlist=” (similar to “serverlist”) listing the servers that are part of the backup-cluster. The client applications will connect to one of the servers in “backupserverlist” if none of the servers in “serverlist” is available. Known limitations: Inspector will only connect to a server from “backupserverlist” if Inspector is already running. It will also not reconnect to the primary cluster automatically if that becomes available again. The setup (channel selection) is manual. ClaroPreferences.xml might be different in backup cluster. Limitations will be fixed in next update.
In inspector.ini, an option can be added: EnableUseNoneButtonJobFile=1 to enable the use none button in Inspector also when job files are used.
Bug fixes
Improved performance of ClaroAdmin
Scanning a (sub-) folder on a network folder where Claro has no rights to see the contents could crash Claro
The preview in the QueueWindow of Inspector did not get updated correctly under all circumstances
Fix for compressed XMP in PDF
Improved handling of network folders
Improved thread safety InspectorServer
Fix for negative seek errors in PDF files
Improved creation of temporary folders for PDF and handling of PDF files after restart of Claro
Fixed org.xml.sax.SAXParseException in log after files are processed from Inspector
Improved logging if copy of files to temporary folder fails.
Prevent locking of files if copying of files to temporary folder fails
BlueTone adjustment was default selected
Added a cancel button at the Claro Administration to cancel the search for network installation, so they can be entered manually
ClaroAdmin shows to which server it is connected now in the top right corner, before the version-number
In Edit groups, the selection of channel names is now sorted
In the ClaroAdmin if one channel in a group is on standby the whole group will have the standby status color
List of Groups in Channel Edit screen is sorted
Fixed problem to change to English language in ClaroAdministration on non-english operating systems
In multiserver the admin also counted the .lck files as separate input files
Fix for Node removed exception causing a crash of Claro
Re-arranged several fields in ClaroAdmin to have more space available in order to make fields better readable
Respect case of extension
Fix for jpeg containing wrong information about the amount of ICC markers in the file
Fix for JVM crash
In a multiserver setup the preferences file wasn’t backupped if the preferences was changed by ClaroAdmin
Amount of files in input folder and inspector are only shown if group/channel is not on standby (to prevent slowdown of Claro trying to access network shares that may not be availabl
The java version inside the ClaroAdmin.app on Mac is now updated to 1.8.0_65
Improved locking of the preferences file in MultiServer
Improved checking for changed preferences file in MultiServer
If Multiserver configuration is used and the network log is enabled, then for the normal logging the network log is shown in the user-interface
Fix for corrupt backup preferences file
JobClient crop/rotate issues fixed that could sometimes occur with negative scaling percentages
Default max memory for JobClient is increased
Order of “execute external program” is changed so that is done after creation of the return job ticket, such that the return jobticket can be used in the script/program
Fix for startup problems Inspector. On first launch, libraries must be downloaded from the Claro server. This process stalled sometimes, and Inspector would not come up properly
Fix for resizing images in PDF with a mask. Because of rounding errors the mask and the image could have a different resolution (1 pixel). Fixed.
Fix for Claro running in MultiServer and using concurrent processing, the lock files were left behind for a time-period specified by the lock-timeout value.
Possible now to change the email address with which a customer is registered with.