ROES User Group (RUG)
Meeting 2009 -
June 15 - 16, 2009, Rochester,
NY
This year's
RUG Meeting will be Monday and Tuesday, June 15-16, in Rochester. The
sessions will occur at the Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside (formerly the
Clarion), the same location as
last year. The room rates are $99 per night. The Radisson's phone number is (585)
546-6400, after connecting to Reservations be
sure to ask for the ROES Users Group block of
rooms. The Radisson is connected to
the Rochester Hyatt via skywalk. Anyone
attending the Kodak workshop can add nights to the front
of your Hyatt reservation and walk over via the
bridge. The hotel's web
site is http://www.radisson.com/hotels/nyroches.
Please reply to this email and
advise us who will be attending from your
lab. The sessions
Monday will begin at 12:30PM ET and end 6PM, Tuesday will begin with
breakfast at 7:30AM and run to
6PM.
ROES Client Update
Available
A new ROES Client is available
for live use for books with vertical flipping and other
changes. New
basic attributes and
features:
New Attribute
cropbackground - The color in the ROES Client crop
area can be changed to better synch
with your layoutimages using the cropbackground attribute.
This is ideal for items like canvas overlays to have a smooth transition appearance
(such as blocking out corners on canvas wrap items) to the rest of the crop area. The
value entry is similar to the monochrome attribute, using 3 comma
separated values for RGB display. The current background
color is 195,195,195, so you can
alter it to another color by using different values.
New Attribute
layoutimagestretched - This attribute can be set to false
to not stretch the layoutimage to match the aspect of the template
when shown in the ROES Client, such as canvas overlay
graphics.
New Attribute displayinset - This
attribute can be set to a
decimal value below 1 to reduce the space used by a template in the
crop area of the ROES Client. This can be useful to display frame
images around prints or add informational images onto templates
using an extra oversized node with a negative x and y
value.
Add
to Order button - All templates when selected will
have the Add to Order button enabled, unless addenabled is set
to false on the template. If the customer
clicks to add the item, a dialog window will pop up informing them
that there are empty image nodes in the product and asking them
if they are sure they want to add it as is. If the
template has addenabled set to true already, there will be no dialog
warning. This update eliminates the need for the
holding of the ALT/OPT keys down when the Add to Order button was
dimmed and the button tooltip was often missed.
ROES Pro Client Options
buttons - The behavior of the Options button in the main
Pro Client pane and in Order Review now opens as the
Options Palette looks, but anchored to the button.
This replaces the exploding menu look which would not scroll if the
length of the options menu was higher than screen height and
allows for better usage of the combobox attribute of options
that would normally take up a lot of real estate in the list, such
as font or stroke color choice sets. Image Options for your
retouching services will appear as a tab in the new appearance, not
as an submenus at the top of the template option list (again
mirroring the behavior of the palette). In Order Review, when the Options
button is clicked it will expand the order item's area a bit and
show the scrollable options with tabs for the Product and Image
Options as in the floating palette.
Books related attributes and
features:
addpagepaircount
- When set at the book level defines how many pages are added
upon clicking to add a page. 1 is the default, this can
be set to 2 if 4 pages are needed each add or 0 if no pages
should be added at all (as an extra precaution for locked/pre-set
size books).
pb_dp2_produce - When
set at the book/section level informs the ROES DP2 Server to
not create the book or section, and should exist on all Color
Centric books (or for inside cover areas or hard covers that you do
not produce through DP2).
pb_produce -
When set at the section level informs the ROES DP2 Server and
the ROES Stand Alone Server to not create the section, like for
inside cover areas or hard covers that you do not
produce.
sectionimageback - This attribute should be set to a
web URL to an image to display for back of a
coversection.
sectionimageboundsback - This attribute allows for
extending the section image bounds to extend beyond the bounds of
the back of the book templates/master bounds. Use
negative x and y.
sectionimageboundsfront - This attribute allows for extending
the section image bounds to extend beyond the bounds of the front of
the book templates/master bounds. Use negative x and
y.
sectionimagefront - This attribute should be set to a
web URL to an image to display for front of a
coversection.
verticalflip - When set at
the book level this attribute
will cause the flipping of the book to be up and down instead
of side to side.
Autosave of
Book - If a book is being built in the crop area, if
the customer exits the program, upon restarts and open of Autosave
the application will return to the book in process
and open the catalog it came from. Partially built books do
not need to be added to the order to retain them.
ROES
Servers
ROES Stand Alone
Server - The latest ROES Stand Alone Server includes new
'printers' for Books (including special PIC Pro, ZBE
Workstream, and output to local Desktop printers such as
Windows printers. We plan to update everyone to this version
before the end of May.
