Mail Factory News - September 8th, 2004
Hello Everybody :-)
Here is what you can read in this issue:
• Mail Factory updated to 1.3
• Meet BeLight Team
• Mail Factory in press (first reviews)
Mail Factory Updated to 1.3
Well, well, well, Mail Factory continues to grow up.
Now the app takes addresses from MS Excel, vCards, text files and gets iPhoto
integration!
Nearly all contact managers and databases like FileMaker can export data to a
tab-delimited file, readable by Mail Factory. Work with the Address Book,
Entourage, Eudora and Now Contact was improved.
"This update became possible largely thanks to our users, who virtually
bombarded us with suggestions.
We crammed in a lot of new features, which bring the application to a whole
new level", - says Valeriy Ryazanov, Product Manager of Mail Factory.
Mail Factory update 1.3 contains:
New Features:
- Added support for tab-delimited text files. Many popular applications,
such as FileMaker, Excel, most contact managers, can export data to a
tab-delimited file, which can now be read by Mail Factory.
- Direct data import from MS Excel files added.
- Mail Factory can now import data from vCards (including those with
multiple records). vCard is a popular format for exchanging contact information,
supported by most contact managers, many hand-held devices and mobile phones.
- Addresses imported from different sources are now cached inside a database
during the first import. This helps to speed up subsequent working with the
addresses. The database can be updated with the Update operation.
- The Suffix field from Apple Address Book is now supported.
- Added integration with iPhoto. Now it's possible to preview and use
pictures from the iPhoto libraries in the same manner as it was possible
to use built-in clipart.
- The Avery label range extended to include video cassette labels, tape,
diskette and file folder labels.
Included new label formats from Rank Xerox and others.
- Support for AppleScript allows third-party applications to print on
labels and envelopes, using Mail Factory designs.
Improvements:
- For UK addresses it's now possible to print Royal Mail postal barcode.
- FIM-A Code (Facing Identification Mark) can now be printed on envelopes
with US addreses. This code is used together with the barcode and serves for
automated sorting purposes.
- In the Preferences dialog now it's possible to specify whether to place
comma after the City field in the address.
- Text fields can now be rotated.
- Previously, the angle could be changed with the slide bar only. Now it's
possible to enter an exact value.
- The search box in the Layouts dialog now works as filter.
Bug Fixes:
- Corrected the problem with printing envelopes on printers with a separate
tray for envelopes. Now supported envelope sizes are recognized automatically.
- When printing multiple addresses from Entourage or Now Contact, and the
preferred address (e.g "work") is missing, the program will now
print the "home" address instead of nothing, as previously.
- Vertical labels are oriented horizontally in the Edit window for more
convenient editing.
- Fixed reported bugs related to printing on DYMO printers.
The update file is available at:
http://www.belightsoft.com/download/
Like to Meet People from BeLight Team? Go Ahead!
You know, BeLight Software site contains our team's information.
Meet authors of Mail Factory and Business Card Composer there!
Now the page was updated with info about 2 programmers participating in
Mail Factory development.
Let me introduce Sergey Bailo (aka Baila) and Vladislav Vasiliev (aka Vlad).
These guys joined us last year. They took part in the current update of Mail Factory too.
You can read more about all the team:
http://www.belightsoft.com/company/team/team.php
Mail Factory in Press
There are Mail Factory reviews (early birds:)
MacCompanion gave Mail Factory 4.0 MacCs.
Ted Bade says: " I love Mail Factory!! It's like a Mac, it just works."
Read full article text at:
http://www.maccompanion.com/archives/september2004/shareware.html
Mail Factory was reviewed by Alaskan Apple Users Group:
http://www.akappleug.org/rev/353.html
Gary Miller says: "Mail Factory is very intuitive and easy to use. Not very
often can I sit down and begin using a software product without first reading the
instructions, but this time I could."
Dear friends, we are eager to hear your feedback:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/mailfactory/supportform.php?prod=MF
Have a nice day!
Helen Nersesova
BeLight Software
