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New in CARAT 6.0

The most powerful software for the professional jewelry appraiser has become once again even better.

What’s new in release 6.0? We improved CARAT and kept it up-to-date with industry and trade research and updates. We responded to users' feedback and requests and enhanced the functionality and usability of the software. We kept up with computing technology and made sure CARAT is compatible with the latest Windows platform, Microsoft Vista and we also fixed a few issues, the following highlights the main features delivered in this version:

Gemology: Added many diamonds and gemstones attributes and functionality that will enhance the quality and professional outlook and compliance of your appraisals. This includes many attributes such as color, clarity and cut grade and functions such as access to calculator and a Cut Grade assistant that will help you assess the cut quality of diamonds.

Usability: Enhanced your use experience by adding significant features to ease searching for and access to appraisals, improved certificate printing in support for multiple-item certificates, added audit trail functionality over the life cycle of an appraisal and printing of annotated side-view diamond diagram (in addition to the existing top and bottom view inclusions plot diagrams.)

Database maintenance: Improved database functionality and integrity and a significant number of features were added to assure continued operation and recovery under most conditions.

Graphics support: Provided better support for graphics files such as jewelry photos. Jewelry photo files will be examined upon selection and are no longer stored in the database. They are now maintained using the native Window’s file system thus removing many of the issues involved in loading unnecessary large amounts of data into the database.

April 14, 2011, Version 6.0.10: Provide support for optional enhanced certificate layout; Minor corrections to rare word wrapping issues.

December 01, 2010, Version 6.0.9: Provide support for optional digital signature further supporting distribution of electronic certificates through PDF files; Corrected redundant printing of certificate number while producing multi-item certificates; Consistent printing of production date of all appraisal documents.

September 03, 2010, Version 6.0.8: Provide support for optional printing of a multi-line address; Default to initial print preview at 100% size; Corrected space management message for network drives; Corrected calculations of table percentage for round and fancy stones; Eliminated printing stone weight as zero when unspecified.

May 08, 2010, Version 6.0.7: Provide support for user specified jewelry type ("other"); Add an option to suppress printing of the multiple-item summary pages; Introduce additional format for printing the signature/footer lines; Eliminate warning message when stone weight is not specified; Allow four digits when specifying quantity for number of diamonds/gemstones.

December 20, 2009, Version 6.0.6: Refine printing of Jewelry photos for better handling of spacing and pagination; Correct navigation on the Jewelry Items screen; Reintroduced printing of a certificate without opening a Jewelry Item.

November 1, 2009, Version 6.0.5: Support Asscher and Cushion shaped diamonds, including weight estimatation and plotting; Provided a new function to help clean up the database by removing duplicate clients; Supports handling of very large photo files.

September 19, 2009, Version 6.0.4: Support an unlimited number of photos for jewelry items with various, powerful printing options.

July 27, 2009, Version 6.0.3: Corrected error when printing plot for undefined stone shapes; Corrected error in calculating Crown Angle; Corrected display of change log for new jewelry items; Enforces printing of certificate date even when printing of page numbers is supressed; Displays start and end time on update log to enable estimation of total work effort; and Provided selection of Clarity grade for cut shapes gemstones but issue warning message only when missing for fancy shape.

July 24, 2009, Version 6.0.2: Eliminated runtime error 91 in the Reports and Maintenance program when printing a list of items; Corrected print of fax number on the registration form; Changed warning message when Clarity grade is not provided for gemstones; Corrected access to the spell checking dictionaries in Vista; and Increased the type-in limit of the Jewelry description from 4,000 to 32,000 characters.