Features & Fixes Feb. 5, 2012

Features & Fixes

Ad Creator

• Publisher users can filter their ad list to focus on just Ad Creator ads. 
• Publisher users can be restricted to only seeing print ads or Ad Creator ads using new rights. Assign to groups as appropriate. 
• Ad sizes can be denoted as only being used for Ad Creator. This will prevent users from uploading regular print ads to the ad specification.
• Additional confirmation when a user chooses to use an image that failed preflighting.

January 22 New Features & Fixes

Features & Fixes

SendMyAd

• Change in PDF version detection. Please review your setting for checking the PDF version in your preflight profiles if you are not ignoring that value. 
• Improvements in detecting PDF/X-1a compliance (for upcoming release of our new preflight engine only).
• All download links are now faster and support very large files.
• Duplication of all ad sizes to the same publication renames the copied specifications for easier identification.
• When configuring issue deadlines, the materials due date is now verified to be before the run date, and if not, will auto-set it to be the same. A warning will appear to verify the correct dates.
• Ad size template files are being generated again. We now support InDesign CS 5.5 and 4.0 through the InDesign Markup Language (IDML) file format. 
• Ads may now be merged with metadata from an existing materials request. Check for the button in the ad's job ticket. 
• New ad repositioning tool manual available from preflight report. 

Ad Creator

• The publication selector will now only show publications with available Ad Creator templates.
• Fixed bug with special tiff files and improper resolution detection
• Fixed bug with keep aspect ratio of ad and fit to box

Virtual Publisher
     Enhancements

• Added ability to remove an editorial's file content all at once.
• When creating an issue and new layout, signatures are automatically created.
• Reorganization of publication settings area
• When viewing viewing versioned pages, regions are now visible
• Moved region selection to top bar and book actions to sub bar in book plan
• When creating a publication default region system is automatically setup for you
• Each publisher can now have a completely branded and separated virtual publisher site at *.virpublisher.com
• New insert options to count insert in ad count and to count in weight calculations
• Editorial start page now visible in editorial view
• Added ability to edit an editorial from the page menu
• Removed ability to drag and drop file content on empty pages. Editorials and ad reservations must be defined first.
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Coming Soon!

• Zinio output book option

    Bug Fixes

• Fixed Several refresh issues
• Fixed editorial centering bug when dragging and dropping files
• When importing book data, story editorial colors are automatically created
• Bug fixed concerning default insert delivery location not being added
• better drag and drop, files dont jump as much
• fixed bug which made pages disappear.

January 8, 2012 New Features

Features

SendMyAd

• New warning for publishers about charges when adding a delivery location
• Ad categories now available in delivery location variables
• Improved preflight warning for files with overly complex vector art.

Ad Creator

• New ability to save current document state as PDF
• New option to export print ad content as HTML.

VirtualPublisher

• Files assigned to a valid signature should inherit the color profile of the signature.
• New merge tool features
• Auto set trim box to bleed and trim size of page
• Auto align both image and frame to page size
• New filter to see ad position tags and categories in book plan view
• New option to upload ads from Virtual Publisher

      

December 2011 Features & Fixes

Features

SendMyAd

• Ad Creator: New ability to fit an image to frame by most appropriate dimension.
• Ad Creator: New ability to change the size of images by entering width and height parameters. All apect ratios are kept the same.
• Tablet Ads may now be delivered when they are completed.
• "Invite Advertisers" button moved to the publisher dashboard.
• Separate file uploads for spread-sized ad specs are now possible. Ad sizes where page coverage is larger than a single page will have a new setting to allow separate file uploads. The user will then have a choice to upload separate files or to upload a single page spread as they have done in the past. Watch the screencast for details.

VirtualPublisher

• Page merge tool: Ability to bring items forward and backwards on layers in the merge tool.
• Page merge tool: Now when clicking on images the frame outline is more similar to indesign. The bleed becomes visible and is grayed out of the frame. 
• Page merge tool: Better guide dragging and guides stay placed while zooming. (This will come to the trim tool soon)
• Color profiles can be managed separate from SendMyAd now, the same way preflight profiles can.
• Color profiles are now validated and required on both the ads and publication level.

        

Bug Fixes

SendMyAd

• All issue times default to 00:00:00 instead of the current hour minute and second.
• Ad Creator: Please note all templates will need to be regenerated. There are several ad creator fixes, the most critical is the bug which would create duplicate text boxes is now corrected.
• Various interface fixes and performance improvements system-wide.

New Feature: Publisher approvals for tablet ads

We've now enabled publisher approvals for tablet ads. When configuring an approval cycle, there is now a select menu that associates the approval with print or tablet ads, pages (if using Virtual Publisher) or all file types. Otherwise, publisher approvals work just as before.

Features & Fixes October 2011

Enhancements



Print Ads

• New Ad Category selection option. Allows publishers and advertisers to add a category to the ad. When placing ads in a layout, this can be helpful to know ads which are similar brands. Ad categories can be found in your publication setup under "Manage Ad Categories"
• New Ad position tag system. Allows publishers to define tags which can be used to propose positional based placement in the book.
• New interface for paper stock manager and manage stocks

Tablet Ads

• Tablet ads can now be allowed or disallowed per issue.
• Tablet device profiles.
• Publisher have a new option to turn on multi-publication upload form for tablet ads. This will allow advertisers to upload to more than one publication at a time.

General Interface Improvements

• Improved publication details view
• Improved issue details view
• Toggle new bleed and safety size display in ad upload form
• Publisher dashboard improvements

Ad Creator

• Ad Creator ads now appear in Your Approvals view
• Better "updating text" user feedback
• "Return ad to advertiser for approval" implemented

Notifications

• Revamped interface for managing email notifications. (Now found in Publisher Settings in the section for each type of ad, i.e. print ads, digital ads, etc.)
• Total separation of emails by file types (print, digital, tablet, page)
• Proof requested notifications

Virtual Publisher

• Auto Approve Pages if no preflight errors/warnings are found.
• ProseXML import from Publisher's Studio complete.
• Region management on ads, editorial and inserts.
• Better version management.
• Better insert management.

Delivery

• Active mode support for FTP delivery locations
• New "approval type" in job ticket section of digital receipt
• New Publisher setting for default units is used in XMP metadata when finalizing ads
  

Bug Fixes

• Billable items report has a new format for Unique ID column. This prevents incorrect unique IDs.
• Edit Issues button was not working for "one issue per ad."
• 5 digit precision for points to inches conversion
• Ad Creator: user created "line break" fields will not be required by form validation
• Fix for styles site-wide for lines floating left instead of centering
• Ad advanced search now shows ad size info in results
• Pick-up ads must be re-uploaded, not revised, in case of errors
• Better performance for report generation

Features & Fixes August 31, 2011

Enhancements

Ad Upload Form

• After selecting the ad size, the bleed & safety sizes are shown for easy reference.

Trim History Viewer

• A new button in the History tab of the ad details view allows viewing of ad's trim history.

Ad Creator

• New custom text templates for publishers to configure.
• Publisher and advertiser communication included in ad history.
  
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with files being delivered multiple times when assigned to more than one issue.
• Missing materials Dashboard notification formatting fixed, and clicking the note displays the materials request.
• Ad Creator: various fixes including improved handling of newly-created lines, and removal of empty text blocks.
• When an ad is reprocessed, the approval states are reset and the ad sender receives a notification to review & approve the new version.