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First up, I released Retrobatch 1.4.3 this morning as a Universal Binary, meaning it will run natively on the new Apple Silicon Macs. There are also a couple of bug fixes, features, and compatiblity fixes for MacOS 11 Big Sur. It's just like the version of Retrobatch on Intel Macs… just… you know, for Apple Silicon now.

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• November 13, 2020 First up, I released Retrobatch 1.4.3 this morning as a Universal Binary, meaning it will run natively on the new Apple Silicon Macs. There are also a couple of bug fixes, features, and compatiblity fixes for MacOS 11 Big Sur. It's just like the version of Retrobatch on Intel Macs just you know, for Apple Silicon now.

I recently posted an article on Flying Meat's website about Acorn and Big Sur and Apple Silicon. In short, Acorn 6.6.3 (which is now out), is fully compatible with Big Sur on Intel. Acorn 6 on Apple Silicon runs pretty well, but the the seed fill based tools are a little pokey (magic wand selection, flood fill). But otherwise it runs just fine. It's currently running in Rosetta however.

I do have a version of Acorn which is a Universal Binary where everything works great, but there are big changes in it and I'm going to have a public beta for it first. I'm not quite there yet, but hopefully soon, and I'll be posting about it here as soon as it's ready.

So how about those new Apple Silicon Macs?

They look pretty sweet to me. The thing I'm probably looking forward to most is the unified memory architecture (aka UMA) between the CPU and GPU the new M1 processors provide. UMA speeds up so many things in Acorn by virtue of not having to copy pixels around as much. Brushing is faster, rendering is faster, and things just feel smoother. It's nice.

So how about MacOS 11 Big Sur?

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In general, I think it's a good upgrade. The new sounds are great, the overall feel of it is decent. However, I can't get past the super plain toolbar icons that are showing up in Safari, Mail, and Xcode's preferences windows. Ditto for the iOS style icons in the Dock. I think it's a great idea to take cues from iOS, but I don't think this should extend to everything. Mac icons have always been rich in color and detail, and have always had a certain style to them. These iOS icons just don't fit.

But overall, I don't find myself missing Catalina. The collection of little good things in Big Sur make me happy with it.

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Retrobatch

• New Animated Image node, which will allow you to make animated GIF or PNGs.
• Droplet support! Use the File ▸ Save As Droplet… menu item to write out your workflow as an application, which you can then drag and drop folders and images on to run your workflow. To re-edit a workflow contained in a droplet, you can either hold down the Option key when opening the droplet, or drag and drop the droplet onto the Retrobatch app icon.
• New Set Finder Tags node, which can assign one or more tags to images in the Finder (Pro only). This will work on the image that was most recently written- so you don't need to write out a copy of an image to set it. You can instead have a Read node, and then a Set Finder Tags right after it and Retrobatch will then set the tags on the original files.
• The Clipboard node got some improvments:
  • It will now notice when a new image shows up on the clipboard, and update the preview accordingly.
  • If you copy a file in the Finder, it'll now use that file on disk to process through any following nodes.
• New preferences for sending out a notificaiton when a workflow ends, as well as playing a sound.
• The Watermark node now has a 'File Number' token, which is the image number being processed.
• The Shell Script node has a new field where you can enter arguments to the selected script. Arguments are separated by spaces.
• New 'Round Corners' node.
• New 'Limit' node which will limit the number of images or PDFs allowed to pass through (Pro only).
• New 'Image Grid' node.
• New option for the Write Images node, which enables to you write your processed images back to the original image it came from.
• New template 'Classify and Set Keywords' which uses Machine Learning to figure out what's in the image, and sets the metadata keyword based on what it found.
• New 'Page Number' rule in the Rules Node. You can use this rule to say 'only let the first page of a PDF through', or 'all pages of an animated GIF except the first', or even limit images 5 though 16.