Share this story. Microsoft Expression Media 2 Service Pack 1 was released, and now, just under four months later, SP2 is out via Microsoft Update and the Mac AutoUpdate.
You can also download SP2 via the Microsoft Download Center: (3.4 MB) and (62.5 MB). For Windows, the service pack is available in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, while on Mac it is available for Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
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Expression Media 2 SP1 must be installed before installing Expression Media 2 SP2. According to, the service pack fixes the following issues:. Windows and Mac. It takes a long time to import many large images. The XML export and import operations may scramble custom fields. Catalogs that are saved from a Macintosh lose their paths to the original media. This issue occurs if the catalogs are opened from a server on a Windows-based computer.
Original file paths are used instead of new file paths when you are copying items to a new catalog. Silverlight 2.0 is not detected correctly by Mozilla Firefox browsers when you are viewing Silverlight HTML galleries.
Thumbnails cannot honor a file's embedded color profile. Note: Thumbnails should be rebuilt after you install this service pack. Windows. User preference for rendering engine is not used. When you right-click to open a file in the default application, the wrong file opens after you sort the files in list view.
When you move hierarchical keywords, flat keywords may be applied incorrectly to images. Scripting annotations garble text that has Unicode characters. File paths are broken if the imported folder contains more than 1,024 subfolders. When you set a path to the root of a drive, you cannot reset paths. Expression Media 2 crashes when you import a file from a folder that was removed from the Organize panel.
Expression Media 2 crashes when an import is canceled and then files are imported from the root of a drive. You cannot rename a folder on a network share. Additionally, the folder disappears from the Organize panel. Files whose names have more than 64 characters are always imported again when you update folders in the organize panel. Additional folders are not added in the organize panel for saved catalogs when the disk volume name is the system default. Typically, the system default is 'Local Disk.' .
The file size of TIFF RAW files from Phase One Digital Backs seems to be large in a catalog. Random numbers may be displayed on catalog folders if the disk does not have a volume name.
HTML gallery links show question marks when the gallery is viewed in Mozilla Firefox browsers. Mac. You cannot import PPT and XLS files.
'Contact sheet out of range' errors are improved, and the experience for making contact sheets is improved. The Batch Rename feature changes Cyrillic characters into question mark characters when you are using the 'Strip Diacriticals' function. When you use the 'Update Folders Now' function, duplicate folders may be shown, and file links may be broken., Microsoft released Microsoft Expression Studio 2, a set of five professional design tools and technologies aimed specifically at Web and multimedia developers and designers. Expression Media is a robust digital asset management solution for photographers and other creative professionals. We'll keep you posted about updates to the other four applications that are part of the suite. Update Microsoft has pulled the Macintosh Dutch and French versions of the service pack temporarily while it fixes a bug in Rendering Preferences. The updated versions should be up soon.
It’s bad enough that you’ve spent hundreds of dollars on a product over the years, only to see the company and the product become a Microsoft product. Then to help you swallow the pill, they tell you that, if you are a registered user of iView Media Pro 3.0, you’ll get a. Fine, you think. Let’s give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, even though they scarcely deserve it. Then the day finally comes when you get your free license in the mail. You go to the web page, download the software, install it, and enter your brand new license key. And you get this: Thanks, Microsoft!
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That’s what I would call an ominous start to our new relationship. Apparently, the iView/Microsoft staff: Unfortunately it appears we’ve suffered a issue with our Mac license deployment and a number of Mac users were incorrectly issued Windows codes. Although it is too early to put the finger on what exactly went wrong please rest assured that the team are working hard to address the issue and to get valid Mac licenses as a matter of urgency. At this point we’re looking to restock the Mac licenses in the database and resend the announcement email as soon as we can. I think they have a phrase for this in English It’s “adding insult to injury,” isn’t it? Bloody jerks.
Not that I am in any hurry to migrate to Microsoft Expression Media anyway, mind you. Based on what I am reading, it doesn’t really provide any significant improvements over iView Media Pro 3, and of course it brings a whole slew of new issues In other words, it’s already quickly becoming yet another Microsoft product. I guess I should have seen this coming when iView Multimedia switched from being a Mac-first company to being a “Mac and Windows” company. The first iView Media Pro upgrade that came after that switch already caused quite a stir among Mac users because it was actually a regression for Mac users, and iView Multimedia scrambled to try and correct the situation after the fact. That was a sure sign.
Naively, I still gave them my money for the next version. It obviously was a big mistake. I guess I am going to have to choose between iPhoto and Aperture or Lightroom now This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Friday, June 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pm and is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can, or from your own site. Previous Post: Next Post: 3 Responses to “iView Media Pro and Microsoft Expression Media: Mac license key screw-up”.
says: I hadn’t realized iView Media Pro had been bought. I’m not a customer, but this makes me sad, because their user base has been really positive about the product, and the field is a little thin. I’d like to see some good underdog products keeping Adobe and Apple on their toes. brett says: Actually up to now, the iView Media Pro licenses were cross-platform.you could assign your purchased license keys to either Mac or PC installations Is it clear if this has changed?.
says: brett: Clearly they have changed this. Another MS-sponsored “improvement”! Leave a Reply Comments are closed.