January 17, 2013 Update

SendMyAd

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Features 

• Several enhancements for picking up and sending multiple page and split spread ads to other publications.
• Separate configuration interfaces for print, tablet and digital ad upload form elements.
• Sales representative field available on upload form for all ad types.
• Improved color picker.
• Bulk removal of ad categories.
• Ad pickup form pre-fills more information from the source ad to make data entry easier for the most common use - picking up an ad for a new issue the same title. 
• Ad category selector on upload form.
• Issue details view shows a message when the issue is disabled because of run date and related publication setting "disable ad reception X days before issue run date."
• New publisher approvals report.
• Ad Size edit form enhanced for spreads and multipage ad configuration.
• Publication and Issue selection now available as an option for digital ads. 

Fixes

• Fixes deliveries for split and multipage ads.
• Delivery location form improvements.
• Back button in ad pickup form fixed.
• Improved validation for custom metadata fields on upload forms.
• Enhanced processing of PDF files with hidden layers.
• File thumbnail added as an option in the new pickup notification templates.

SendMyAd Tablet Ads

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Features

• Allow re-uploads of previews until ad is completed. 
• New custom text in URL confirmation screen.
• Adding Reject Ad option for Designed for Tablet (DFT) ads.
• Ad category selector on upload form.
• Pixel-range preflighting for DFT ads.
• File size preflighting for DFT ads.
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Fixes

• Various fixes for email notifications
• Improved device thumbnail display

Virtual Publisher

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Features

• Plug-in fully supports custom metadata fields. 
• Plugin supports download of both full page and partial advertisements.
• Plugin supports merging ad content and sending back to the portal
• New text editor
• Items from plan moved to clipboard when plan size is reduced. 
• Printable Ladder view.
• Position notes for empty pages.
• New ability to select multiple pages at once and move them around.
• Lots of UI improvements surrounding plan management. All plan related tabs can now be seen on a single tabbed popup.
• Plan list can now be seen at both the issue and publication level.
 

December 16th Update

SendMyAd

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Features 

• Pickup ad form allows publisher to assign the new ad to a different user. 
• Picking up a spread or multipage ad now picks up all related pages as a set. 
• Splitting ads is now easier to configure in the ad specification area.
• Splitting ads extended to approved and completed ads. 
• Improved navigation for multipage and spread ads.
• New "Ads Per Issue Compact (By Issue)" report. (The older report is now labeled "Extended"). 
• Redesigned Approval Cycle Editor.
• Configuration of ad upload form items moved to new editor. The button to access this is still found in the Publisher Information > Print Ad Settings area.
• Optional sales representative selector on upload form. In order to populate the sales rep list you must add a new group in the groups area and classify it as an ad sales rep group. Each person added to this group will become a possible selection for sales rep on the ad upload.

Fixes

• Extended characters in product, headline and ad instruction fields will be cleaned when writing XMP data during finalization. 
• Back button in pickup form now returns user to the original ad.
• Low-resolution image preflight warning now shows the incorrect resolution.

SendMyAd Tablet Ads

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Features

• Updated "iPad 1 and 2" default profile name to "iPad 1, iPad 2, and iPad Mini",  in order to reflect that these three devices use the same specs.
• Created default profile for "iPad 3 & iPad 4"
• Put disclaimer within URL confirmation modal window. Default text is "The rendered website may appear differently than the actual device due to browser rendering"
• Enabled "Reject Ad" functionality. Rejecting a file now draws a "Rejected" status within the right panel of the preflight view and locks all future revising of the ad's device files.
• Template selector is required within 'Add Tablet Profile' modal, in order to set the tablet profile up with the correct ad specs.
• "Designed for Tablet" uploading prevents users from trying to upload more than one file at a time. 
• Removed ability to drag-n-drop upload onto files after the total ad is complete. Once the total ad is complete, no more revisions can be made.
• User can now upload a new file to a completed device, as long as the entire DFT Ad is not completed.
• Increased size of icons within device navigation thumbnails.

Virtual Publisher

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Features

• Position notes for empty pages in the flatplan.
• Improvements to billing report.
• Editorial Manager Plugin Supports full page non-bleed advertisement downloading and placement.
• New color selector on story views.
• New easy to use in site texteditor

Fixes

• Only Virtual Publisher help is shown in the Dashboard. 
• Prevention of dropping more than one editorial page from the desktop at a time.

December 2012 Features & Fixes

SendMyAd

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Features 

• Support for multi-page advertisements added. Publishers can now create ad specifications which allow page ranges, fixed length and indeterminate length ads. Watch the video!
• Ad spread splitting now fully supported.
• AdShare System now shows full preflight report with trim boxes. This is enabled by default. It can be turned off in the publisher settings under Print Ad Settings > Ad Details View.
• New print ad approvals report shows all approvals by user for a given issue.
• Added ability to auto-trigger specific custom workflows from publisher approval area.

SendMyAd Tablet Ads

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Features

• New supported ad type DFT Tablet ads. This new system supports dragging and dropping dft ads directly to the browser. Final dft ads are injected with XMP data, zipped and delivered to the publisher. This can be turned on your company account profile if you have tablet ads.
• New Tablet ads report shows all information concerning tablet ads. Also supports full year report.

SendMyAd AdCreator

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Features

• New publisher only form field option on ad creator forms allow publishers to hide form items from advertisers so that only the publisher can enter information into specific areas of the ad template.

Virtual Publisher

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Features

• Support for multi-page advertisements added. Publishers can now create ad specifications which allow page ranges, fixed length and indeterminate length ads. These show as spreads in the book plan.
• Support for linking 2 pages of an editorial to ensure they always stay connected in page order.
• Support for changing the shape of a story page to any common size.
• All incoming production customers with preflight will have their files auto trimmed to bleed size.
• Added ability to print most VirtualPublisher lists from the action menu.
• Better page navigation menu in Magazine viewer.
• New page info on and off checkbox in magazine viewer.
• Better support for jpg preview dropping in book plans. Jpg previews must be to trim size.
• Ad data import now replaces and picksup ads when possible.
• More detailed billable items report.
• Added ability to not enforce section rules when dropping content.

New Editorial Manager Plugin 1.4.1
Features / Fixes

• New action to download SendMyAd ads directly into your Adobe Indesign documents for placement.
• New action to send merged pages directly through the plugin. This allows users to not be forced to use the online merge tool.
• New tab list and actions to download and create a new document out of pages containing multiple partial ads. The document can then be uploaded as a single merged ad page.
• New ability to tag any page with the MergableAd tag and send as a merged page.
• Better support and enforcement of custom metadata collection forms.
• Support for exporting all Adobe pdf file types to the book plan. This can be configured in your company account area.

October 2012 Features & Fixes

SendMyAd

• Issue selectors now hide issues that have an issue run date older than the publisher retention date. 
• Issue management action "Set Active" changed to "Hide", "Set Disabled" to "Unhide."
• Dashboard charts track tablet ads.
• New feature to duplicate web media profiles. 
• Ability to reselect a color profile and resubmit an ad with a "color profile missing" server error.
• Printable preflight report added and improved.
• Significant speed and accuracy improvements for the Your Approvals view. 

Fixes:

• Better handling of default text in Ad Creator templates.
• Approval Cycle configuration window now shows the list of approvals in the configured order.
• Approvals thumbnail / list view switcher works correctly now. 
• In Ad Creator, approval of an ad will wait for any outstanding text edits. 

Virtual Publisher

• New dedicated delivery system for editorial files. 
• Delivery View contains new status filter menus. 
• Much faster document switching in soft proofing system.
• New option to compare two files in soft proofing system from the Approvals list view.
• New revisions viewing in soft proofing system.
• Product selector in delivery location setup for Virtual Publisher-specific options.
• Added duplication of position tags, ad categories, sections and regions to other titles. 
• Many interface improvements across the product.

Fixes: 

• Merged pages respect color conversion settings.
• Numerous fixes in soft proofing and approvals.

September 2012 Features & Fixes

SendMyAd

• New "Force Approve" feature, found in the Actions menu when viewing an ad. Publisher only. User must accept a warning, and this action is logged in the file history. Use at your own risk!
• Soft-proofing available as a required action for a publisher approval.
• Bulk issues management area enabled for all publishers.
• Added %MaterialsId% variable for use in delivery path.
• Improved separation of email notifications based on the type of ad. See the appropriate areas in the publisher settings.
• Ad Sizes view now shows web and tablet information in addition to print.
• New "can manage ad sizes" right available.
• Improved CSS file editing for portal customization and branding. 
• More flexible XMP metadata insertion method.

Print ads:

• New preflight profile option for SendMyAd to automatically remove hidden layers during file processing. 
• Print ad preflight report printable view added.
• Enhancements to ad category management system
• Easily duplicate ad specifications

Tablet ads:

• "Allow only one issue" option for tablet ads. 
• New "Product URL" field option on upload and validation for tablet ads.
• More meta details added to the tablet profile forms

Web ads:

• Added "boost revision limit" feature for digital ads.

Ad Creator:

• New "Download Ad Bundle" feature from actions menu when viewing a completed ad. Downloads all placed images and other files associated with Ad Creator ads.

Virtual Publisher:

• New soft-proofing application.

Java plugin required. Latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome supported.

• New Approvals list view
• New Plan Items view
• New paper size options and other formatting options on "Print Plan View"
• More notifications for Virtual Publisher events.
• Many new rights added to customize the user experience. This can be seen by adding a group with specific rights. 
• Re-organized book plans view
• New plan selection and management view
• Improved story flow

Fixes:

• A newly added ad size now enters edit mode automatically.

• Ad size re-ordering no longer requires a manual refresh to show changes.

• Ad size editing with unequal bleeds fixed.

• .html extenstion added for Ad Creator HTML export deliveries.

• Ad Categories now show publisher-added items or the default ones provided by SendMyAd 

• Improved handling of special characters in Ad Creator templates
• Improved handling of special characters in SMA form fields, including auto conversion of curly quotes to straight quotes.

• Preflight suggested fixes speed improvement

• Dashboard report fixes

• Ad Spec "extra information" returned to print ad upload form.

• Better handling of special characters in filenames when generating zipped ad bundles for download.

• Various fixes when displaying newly uploaded files.

• Several improvements and additions in the email notifications metadata.

• Fixed SWF/JPG view toggle for Flash ads.

• Various fixes for the password reset interface.

• Filename variable is now used correctly during manual delivery. 

• Approve all button in campaign view now visible only when appropriate.

• Many miscellaneous fixes throughout the site. 

July 2012 Features & Fixes List

New Features:

• Refreshed user interface across the web site. Larger, cleaner, standardized dialog boxes are the biggest change. A new calendar widget is also used throughout the site.
• Improvements to notification configuration. Notifications can be configured at the publisher level, by file type. They filter through to the publication level, where the publisher defaults can be overridden. The publisher may also reset all publications to match the global settings for a particular notification. New interface for publication level notification management. 
• Improved user feedback for some types of file errors that prevent a file from reaching the preflight stage (hidden layers, missing color profiles, password-protected files, etc).
• Expanded the types of errors that will still allow the user to trim a file. For example, if a preflight profile requires a crop box, and none is present in the file, the user will be directed to trim the file, which will set the proper boxes and clear the preflight check performed after trimming.
• For publishers using our soft-proofing module, ICC profiles can be uploaded and managed per publication. 
• Billing report now includes issue information.
• Ad Creator ads now create an HTML version of the ad, and this HTML export is available as a delivery option. Configured in the delivery locations section of the publisher settings.
• Streamlined pickup process for Ad Creator ads.
• Ability to split a spread file in SMA. Details to follow in a later blog post and video.
• File processing is faster now due to workflow optimizations. 
• Next-generation preflight engine is fully operational.
• "Actual Days Left" column in Ad Sizes > Closing Dates tab is now only visible for publishers. 
• New warning text set for "outgoing email address" to explain the consequences of changing this from the default value.
• Improved selection of Ad Creator templates in the Create an Ad screen.

Bug fixes:


Too numerous to list all of them, but some major ones include:

• Improves ability to requeue failed deliveries
• Duplicated publication will have correct creation date
• "Send ad to other publications" issue selections are correctly maintained. 
• The Dashboard buttons for Inviting users and reports will no longer disappear when clicking anything but the Dashboard button
• Ad Creator pickups will show the correct issue(s).
• Digital ads: the web media profile is being validated correctly for ad size information.

Features & Fixes July 2012

July 2012 Upgrade

We've just released a new version of SendMyAd and Virtual Publisher. There are many new features and fixes. They include a refreshed user interface, creation and delivery of HTML versions of Ad Creator ads, and a much enhanced story flow feature for pages. We'll be detailing all the changes on the blog in the coming days.