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New features and enhancements


Referenced PR IDDescription
Pandora-1617Allow Pandora to shorten Pantone and Spot Color names when used in SmartMarks
Pandora-1781Taking 5 minutes to launch if marks, templates, shopmap are homed on hosted Primary Server
Pandora-1783Smart Layout for Nesting - Add a checkbox "Constrained Rotate"
Pandora-1779Support macOS Ventura

Allow Pandora to shorten Pantone and Spot Color names when used in SmartMarks (Pandora-1617)

  1. Close Pandora software.
  2. In the Pandora application folder, use a text editor program to open the DefaultUser.properties file.
  3. Add the following lines: “Mark.EnableShortenColorName=true” and “Mark.ShortenColorNameRule”
  4. Save the DefaultUser.properties file.
  5. Open Pandora software and resume work.

Notes:

Only prefix or suffix of color name can be replaced.

For example,

  1. setting “Mark.ShortenColorNameRule=PANTONE:PMS”, "PANTONE 200 C" will be shortened to "PMS200C"

  2. setting “Mark.ShortenColorNameRule=PANTONE:PMS, C:”, "PANTONE 200 C" will be shortened to "PMS200"

Before:

After:


Taking a long time to launch Pandora if marks, templates, shopmap are homed on hosted Primary Server (Pandora-1781)

For example: Site has a Prinergy server that has been moved to an offsite server.

  1. Close Pandora software.
  2. In the Pandora application folder, use a text editor program to open the DefaultUser.properties file.
  3. Add the following lines: Pandora.EnableSyncJobTemplate=true, Pandora.EnableSyncShopMap=true, Pandora.EnableSyncMark=true
  4. Save the DefaultUser.properties file.
  5. Open Pandora software and set Folder Locations for Marks, JobTemplates, and ShopMap to server directory
  6. Wait for downloading to complete, the time varies depending on the speed of network connection to the server. When all files are downloaded, the ShopMap Window, Marks Window will refresh to show all the local files, and Pandora is ready.



Fixed bugs

Referenced PR IDDescription

Pandora-1667

Die Waste Marks are incorrectly positioned for specific dies

Pandora-1760

Color Bar not knocking out the Crop Marks

Pandora-1768

Die/CF2 files exported from Pandora or created with Smart Layout for Nesting will be choppy if the artwork has curve shape

Pandora-1780

Regression - Pandora 9.0 cannot access the subfolders inside the JobTemplates folder

Pandora-1785

Improvement to French Translation for Mark Settings properties


Known limitations

Error opening Pandora layout from Mac Workshop with a Domain Account [Prinergy-53246]

When selecting Workshop > Job > File > Create New Layout on a mac computer, Pandora will Error with the message “Unable to get Job data from file. PDF file is not found".

This is caused by the illegal "\" character in the folder name "<computer name>_<domain\user>" that is inside the TransientLayouts folder.

Workaround: Change the number of characters of mac computer name(host name) and domain username to be greater than 31. Note: You may change either the computer name(host name) or domain username, as long at the combined characters for both "<computer name>_<domain\user>" is greater than 31.

Cannot Install Pandora 10 on Mac OS X 10.x and later

In some cases, when installing Pandora 10 on Mac OS 10.x and later, the installer stops and reports that Java 1.8 is required. Please refer to Kodak Partner Place Answer ID 75720 to download and install the Java 8 JDK from the Oracle site, https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java8-mac

Note: After accessing and reading the information on the download website, there may be some confusion about whether a subscription is required to install and use Java. This is not the case, a subscription is not required. Java JRE and Java JDK are available as free downloads from the Oracle site, but you must provide your email address to Oracle, in order to download.