Breeze Systems has announced a major update to its image organisers program, Downloader Pro, which runs on Windows PCs (including Vista).

 

March 30, 2007: Breeze Systems has announced a major update to its image organisers program, Downloader Pro, which runs on Windows PCs (including Vista).
The company lists the improvements to the latest version as follows:
– When using a card reader for downloading images can be displayed as large or small thumbnails or in Downloader Pro v1’s list format.
– Downloader Pro v2 supports the new IPTC XMP standard as used by BreezeBrowser Pro, Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications. XMP data is added directly to JPEG, TIFF and DNG files and is stored in XMP “sidecar” files for other raw formats.
– With GPS devices like the Sony GPS-CS1 all you need to do is ensure your camera’s clock is set correctly before shooting and then connect your Sony GPS-CS1 to your PC using a USB cable before downloading your images. Downloader Pro will automatically read the GPS track log and calculate the position by comparing the time the picture was shot with the times of the GPS fixes in the GPS track log and store this in the image as it is downloaded.
– Downloader Pro v2 now supports date based job codes, making it much easier to download memory cards which span several days and subjects.
– The new version supports the continuous numbering of images using the tokens {seq#}, {seq#2}, {seq#3}, {seq#4}, {seq#5} and {seq#6}. These tokens allocate sequence numbers to images in timestamp order and will continue to number from the last image downloaded the next time Downloader Pro is run.
– The backup plug-in has been extended to allow two backups to be made of each image as it is downloaded.
– Downloader Pro v2 adds support for downloading DNG and Hasselblad raw file formats.