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Mac App Trials are Back

In June, we consolidate all sale of our Mac apps to the Apple App Store as it would simplify purchase and installation of our apps. However, one big issue with the App Store is that it does not offer you as the customer the ability to try our apps before buying.

As we have completed the migration of our apps from the Carbon to the Cocoa framework and then subsequently rewrite the apps to support the Sandboxing Requirement for OS X Lion.

Since all that is behind us now, we are pleased to announce that the Mac Trials are back on our website. However, all sales are exclusively available on the Apple App Store.

All Apps come with a 21 days trial period which would allow you to try our apps before buying.

CM PDF Page Extractor v1.0.4 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of CM PDF Page Extractor v1.0.4 on the Apple’s App Store.

This update addresses two issues, crashing when handling some PDF files and the Sandboxing Requirement laid down by Apple.

For the first issue, the application was using multi-threading when handling the page extractor and at times, these causes the app to crash when handling complex pdf pages. As such, we have disabled the multi-threading feature which appears to address the issue. You should not experience any significant degrading of performance. The only thing is that you may not have the ability to stop the app while it is doing the processing.

The second issue is a requirement issue which requires all apps sold on the Apple’s App Store to be sandboxed for OS X 10.7 Lion users. The dateline for this is November 2011 but we decided to work on this first and get it out of the way so that we can concentrate on feature enhancement. The sandboxing requirement does require a major rewrite on how files are handled within the app as natively, the app would not have any permission to access any files to read or to write outside of its ecosystem. It cannot handle any files on your computer and the only way for it to handle them is for the user to specify which file or folder where it can access files in, this is done by having the user Drag and Drop files to the application or by using the File Dialogs.

What sandboxing means to the user, the significant change is that as a OS X 10.7 Lion user, you will need to specify the “Save In” folder each time you launch the application so as to grant the application permission to write files to the folder. The permission is only valid until you shut down your computer or the application. As such, we moved the “Save In” settings out of the Preference Tab into the Main Window.

If you do encounter any issues or have a suggestion as to improve the app, feel free to email us at support@batchimage.com .

Thank you very much for your support.

CM TIFF 2 PDF v1.0.5 Update

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CM TIFF 2 PDF v1.0.5 on the Apple App Store.

The Update contains several enhancements which includes

* The inclusion of “Resize to (%)” option which allows you to resize the tiff files before inclusion in the PDF output file

* The inclusion of “Picture Quality” option which allows you to determine the JPEG and PNG image quality that would be saved in the PDF output file.

The above options would substantially reduce the file size of the output file.

One major fundamental internal is the Sandboxing of the Application which is a requirement of the Apple App Store for OS X Lion. So far OS X 10.7 Lion users, what this means for CM TIFF 2 PDF is that each time you launch CM TIFF 2 PDF, you will need to select the folder to save the output PDF in. This is no longer saved for OS X Lion users. This does not affect Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users.

Thank you once again for your patience and hope you enjoy using CM TIFF 2 PDF. As always, if you do encounter any issues or have any suggestions to improve this app, please feel free to contact us as support@batchimage.com

You can get the free update to CM TIFF 2 PDF from the App Store using the App Store App.