Qimage Pro 2001 v2.5 Released

Mike Chaney, author of Qimage Pro 2001, emailed me to let me know that he had just released the latest v2.5 of this excellent Windows printing program. New features of v2.5 include:

Support for embedded ICC profiles - Qimage Pro will recognize and use an embedded ICC profile when it reads a JPEG or TIFF image containing an ICC profile. In addition, Qimage Pro will now embed an ICC profile in TIFF's when an ICC profile is specified any time a TIFF image is saved from Qimage Pro (using "Convert Images" from the queue, using the batch filter, etc.). We plan to support JPEG ICC profile embedding in the future.

NEF thumbnail reading speed: In prior versions, you may have noticed a short delay before Qimage Pro began building thumbnails when you entered a folder that contained a large number of NEF images. We've eliminated this delay in the latest version.

ICC profile information: v2.5 has been enhanced to display the embedded profile description in the queue (if Printer ICC is turned on). In addition, the profile description is also displayed on the "Image Info" window accessed by holding the mouse pointer over a thumbnail and pressing Ctrl-I, and on the EXIF hotbar displayed at the bottom of the QP main window. This enhancement will help take the guesswork out of exactly what profile is embedded in your image files!

TIFF conversions: Beta 3 now preserves embedded profiles from original to TIFF copies when converting or filtering images in Qimage Pro. When saving TIFF format images from Qimage Pro, the embedded profile will be saved in the new/created TIF if an embedded profile existed in the original. In other words, embedded profiles are copied from the original to the new image as long as you use the TIFF format when saving new images in Qimage Pro. This embedded profile "preservation" will occur even if "Perform profile to profile conversion" is not selected.