Support for the new Nicolet Apex FTIR instrument has been added to OMNIC.

The help file for OMNIC Series (omse_enu.chm) was not installed with the OMNIC Series software.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB or more of memory.

Spectral Interpretation requires Internet Explorer to work properly. Pressing the spy glass icon in the info column results in the user’s default browser being opened, but no informational page being displayed on systems that do not have Internet Explorer.

Spectra collected with Zero Fill set to None report half the resolution (e.g. collected at 4 cm^-1, reported as 8 cm^-1) on some systems. This is due to a bug in how the software handles the laser frequency correction when no zero fill is specified.

Auto Align fails to complete on some iN10 instruments with Core Card 5 due to an issue with peak hop rejection. Peak hop rejection has been disabled during auto align on the iN10 to prevent this failure.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Spectral Interpretation requires Internet Explorer to work properly. Pressing the spy glass icon in the info column results in the user’s default browser being opened, but no informational page being displayed on systems that do not have Internet Explorer.

Add support for the new MCT/A+ detector. This detector is only available on the iS20 and iS50 instruments.

New DDE command named SysSuitabilityRun has been added to OMNIC. It accepts an optional parameter auto which will suppress the UI.

If a measurement has bad scans, the counter for bad scans does not reset when a new measurement is started until its first scan is completed.

The QCheck command in OMNIC fails to display a result when there is a space character in the filename immediately preceding the file name extension (e.g. Referentiespectrum_PVC EVA new .spa).

When an *.SPA file with saved interferograms is re-processed to a different resolution, OMNIC generates a new spectrum with the wrong resolution. For example, if the original is 0.5 cm^-1 and the user selects "Reprocess to 1 cm^-1", the resulting spectrum instead has a resolution of 2 cm^-1.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Spectral Interpretation requires Internet Explorer to work properly. Pressing the spy glass icon in the info column results in the user’s default browser being opened, but no informational page being displayed on systems that do not have Internet Explorer.

The wrong resolution to be reported on systems with a VCSEL that had an unusually low laser frequency.

Switching experiment files while using smart accessories would eventually lead to OMNIC no longer changing the experiment file when the user tried to do so.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Spectral Interpretation requires Internet Explorer to work properly. Pressing the spy glass icon in the info column results in the user’s default browser being opened, but no informational page being displayed on systems that do not have Internet Explorer.

Add support for the iS20 to use new instrument hardware.

Despite the appropriate experiment files being present on the system, they do not appear in the list in Experiment Setup when the accessory is present in the sample compartment.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Add support for the iS20 to use new instrument hardware.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Despite the appropriate experiment files being present on the system, they do not appear in the list in Experiment Setup when the accessory is present in the sample compartment.

In certain service situations, using both BDiagUSB and OMNIC could result in one or both programs unexpectedly closing.

The command was a custom command for a mid-IR user and did not consider the special parts of the Raman spectrum header. This is now properly handled, and the command will process dispersive Raman spectral header information.

Performing Series Profile Setup on certain variants of series flies can crash if the computer is not using English language settings.

Peak hops could fail to generate rejected scans resulting in invalid spectral results.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Despite the appropriate experiment files being present on the system, they do not appear in the list in Experiment Setup when the accessory is present in the sample compartment.

Add support for the iN10 to use new instrument hardware.

Initializing an iN10 with an iZ10 would result in OMNIC crashing. Affects both old and new core cards

In certain service situations, using both DDiag and OMNIC Picta could result in one or both programs unexpectedly closing.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Despite the appropriate experiment files being present on the system, they do not appear in the list in Experiment Setup when the accessory is present in the sample compartment.

OMNIC now warns each user the first time a request to run an external program is made (or example, when a program is run from a toolbar button). If the user allows the external program to run, the warning will not be displayed to that user again unless the program is changed. This warning was added to ensure users are aware a program that could potentially harm their computer is being run with their credentials.

With the NIR accessory for OMNIC, need a way to open and close the integrating sphere flag during data collect. This could have been added to the collect command, but an explicit command is also effective. The command syntax is [SetNIRISFlag OPEN] or [SetNIRISFlag CLOSE].

Add a DDE command SplitAndMakeNew that will take the spectra from a library and either write them back into a new library or write them as spa spectral files. The arguments to the command determine whether the new library is written or the spectra are saved as distinct spa files.

This special, custom DDE command is called SeriesOddEven and it splits the contents of a bidirectional series file of the form *ifg.srs. It writes the interferograms (or absorbance spectra) to either of two directories .\ODD or .\EVEN.

Add an autobaseline correct option for map files.

Open a tsv spectrum (that is in the same form as a csv spectrum). Provide the ability to create as a wavenumber spectrum without interaction. Previously auto-opened as a wavelength file.

Add a collect parameter (COLLECT OMNICCOLLECTERROR) that holds a coded error from a problem that may have occurred during data collect. The no error value of this parameter is zero.

Based on a registry setting, generate a spectrum at various steps during Fourier processing to demonstrate how the processing alters the interferogram. The registry setting is under Nicolet Instrument\OMNIC as "TB2MakeSpecrum=1".

An extra blank line and then extraneous invalid results appear below the actual ValPro Qualification result. Remove these invalid lines to only show the correct (expected) results.

When a series run is started and the quant method associated with it has Constant or Known pathlength, then pass this pathlength information to the series data collect.

Changes to allow series files to be signed in a DS environment.

Fix an issue where the search parameters are not destroyed and eliminated when closing OMNIC. This removes the occasional issue.

Fix a pipeline issue when creating a spectrum where data had been destroyed when it was still required. This fixed the special data collect for split bidirectional series experiments.

NaNs were not checked when interpolating the Perkin Elmer data array.

The comment information in the JCAMP-DX file should be written using English language delimiters. That allows them to be read properly. Also fix so that when component and concentration information is written to JCAMP-DX, that the text line begins with a (. This character was missing.

Remove redundant background collect information and the instrument serial number from the JCAMP-DX comment information.

Add the spectrum file name to the top of the QCheck report. Add a new column for the reference file name to the answer report for QCheck.

Changed to handle a maximum size of 1.5 GB per srs file. Also correctly set the expected size of each spectrum in the series file. This is especially visible during 5 Hz high speed series data collect.

With a computer with 4 GB of memory, you cannot collect more than 24 hours of high speed, bidirectional series data. This is not an issue with 8 GB of memory.

Despite the appropriate experiment files being present on the system, they do not appear in the list in Experiment Setup when the accessory is present in the sample compartment.

Add support for the iS5 to use new instrument hardware.

Addressed problems where system localization could cause instability in the instrument communication layer.

Shutdown code for OMNIC could cause an access violation to be logged in the Windows Event Log.

From System Status you are able to "Run" the "Performance Verification" tests. If you wish to run this a second time, then you must:

Implement a DDE command called RequestSecureCopy that will copy a file from the OMNIC temp folder to a specified folder. The command is only available when Security is in use and can be controlled in TSA using an access control item called "Remote Secure Copy Request". The command syntax is: RequestSecureCopy <SourceFileName> <DestinationFolder> <OptionalAuditEntryComment>

Add support for the iS5 to use new instrument hardware.

When using the feature save file using the title has more than 99 characters, it will crash OMNIC.

When starting laser calibrate with save interferograms turned off an error message will be shown.

The changes made for OMNIC are reflected in other release notes.

High speed (5 Hz) series data collection requires that the experiment be run with sample spacing equal to 2 (SSP=2). This was not supported for the VCSEL laser. Therefore could not run the series experiment on a system with the VCSEL laser. This is now supported.

The failure was caused when reporting a test that wasn’t actually performed. In that case the failure was caused by limit checks that were too restrictive. Set to pass if the maximum limit and the minimum limit are both zero. Also set to true if the reading equals either the maximum limit or the minimum limit.

Fix a possible memory leak in the Run command when used with the -wait argument.

Fix bug where errors reported by the instrument were overridden by the SPV status. So if the instrument reported an error, but there was no SPV error, no error was shown to the user.

Open a single beam spectrum and reset the laser frequency directly using [SpCorrectReferenceLaser <laser_freq>].

If requested, write TQ answers to a text file to be picked up by an external program. Update the normal Quantify DDE command with new commands called QUANTIFYTOMAILBOX and QUANTIFYTOTQMAIL. Add option to write answers during a series data collect.

Restrict data collect in OMNIC for Summit instruments by reading entitlements.

Add DDE command AdjustLimitsByFactor to adjust a spectrum by the multiplicative factor that is the argument to the command.

Recreate DDE commands that can be used to build a chemical map remotely.

Allow ssp=2 reference spectrum or calibration spectrum to be used to calibrate the system (VCSEL) laser.

The string that was the instrument serial number from JCAMP-DX had extra characters when extracted into the spectrum comment.

Put the backgrounds in the correct order to match up with the single scan split bidirectional collected spectra.

Allow an environment variable in the path of the spectrum file name for the save spectrum DDE command.

Do not attach a background interferogram to a single beam spectrum, an emittance spectrum or an interferogram.

The string that was the instrument serial number had extra characters tacked onto the end.

There could be an unprintable first character in the security password and that caused it not to be recognized. Make sure that the first character is NOT unprintable.

Fixed an error where the pressure and temperature information was only attached to every other spectrum extracted from a split bidirectional series file.

The pathlength set from the "Gas cell" button on the Series tab was not used in the series run. Instead of using pathlength=1, now use this pathlength value.

No longer do a string comparison of numeric values. Instead convert to number. This allow the comparison to work across different decimal separators.

The SelectSource DDE command did not work and this breaks all of the ValPro methods when running in non-English languages that translated the source setting values. For example "White Light" became "Lumiere Blanc" which failed the comparison. It turns out that the setting worked, but comparison test to see if it worked failed.

The logic to save a new laser frequency was incorrect and the new laser frequency was not saved. The logic was corrected and the new laser value will be saved. However this command requires that OMNIC_gs.dll be installed with OMNIC.

This releases drivers to support iS10 and iS20 instruments with the new Core Card.

When OMNIC is run with none English systems, the history for the multiply spectrum by a value operation records an incorrect multiplier for the spectrum.

The relationship between points after the interferogram peak and resolution was not handled correctly for a spectrum collected with a VCSEL (non-HeNe) laser.

Had to make all instances where Quant was referenced in OMNIC also included MultiStdCLS. By doing this the pathlength, temperature and pressure must be handled the same way as in QuantPad. That includes passing the information to the MultiStdCLS prediction routine.

The GetMethodAbbrComponents DDE command did not return the component names for a MultiStdCLS quantitative method. This was caused because a MultiStdCLS method is not a section file. Now this is handled as a special case.

Use a MultiStdCLS_all.txt file to hold the composite components information for any MultiStdCLS quantitative method that doesn’t use a specific txt file to hold composite component information. The QuantPad_all.txt file may also be used if the new MultiStdCLS_all.txt file is not present.

MultiStdCLS uses the pathlength, temperature and pressure from OMNICSettings.ini rather than from where expected. This was handled to make is similar to how these values are handled for a QuantPad method. MultiStdCLS methods are meant to replace QuantPad methods, so this is a good replacement.

Running auto tune on an iS50 with OMNIC 9.11 Hotfix 1 would not complete correctly. It has been fixed in the NicUsb.dll so only this DLL changed from the previous version.

When inserting some smart accessories on the iS50, OMNIC did not recognize that the smart accessory was inserted and would prompt to insert it.

Some ways to cancel a collect was discovered. This has been prevented.

Thermo IQ will now correctly report the cloud connector service information

System suitability has been changed to handle the background file correctly.

The IGS specialized high speed collect option was not available in the series collect types.

For specialized cases the autotune can produce different quant results when executed via the user interface for the DDE command.

This has been fixed.

When using the DDE command GetSpecNum it returned an empty string not the string it returned in earlier versions of OMNIC.

Laser calibrate has been improved to handle several special cases that had failed the calibration.

When SEA470 library is installed, the size of the file was incorrect. This size is reported correctly now.

When collecting a spectrum at 0.5cm^-1, sample spacing 1, zero fill 2 and save range set to 400 to 6500 cm^-1 the save spectrum operation would fail and not write the file.

The command WaferHome has been added to allow control of when the wafer is homed.

The composite name is now written with tabs to the quant text output file correctly.

When saving an archived interferogram as JCAMP-DX format, loading it and setting the Y axis to volts the reprocess command cannot use it.

A new splash screen has been added. The both about box and splash screen will report correct copy right years.

The rapid scan bidirectional mode would not run.

Added policy "Prevent user from signing data multiple times". When selected the same user account is not allowed to sign the same file again.

There was no way to move the wafer stage to its hardware home position in OMNIC Wafer software. This was added as DDE command WaferHome.

Collecting the reference background used for System Suitability could not be stored into the signed Experiment file along with the System Suitability configuration. This has been resolved.

If you set the system status icon to monitor ValPro methods and you set ValPro to put its results into a secure folder the status does not show the last ValPro result in the new secure folder. This has been resolved.

Laser verification reference files and quant files could not be found when secured folders were present. If the laser verification files aren’t found in the secured data directory, then also look in the OMNICDATA directory. This only occurred on upgraded installations, new installations had the new reference files needed.

Collecting maps in a secure environment was failing.

With this release, OMNIC now supports the new iS20 instrument

With the OMNIC 9.9 release the Videology drivers were completely removed from all OMNIC distributions. With this release the Videology drivers are restored for the Raman accessory only

With the OMNIC 9.8 release the iS5 stopped performing an auto tune and laser verify before the Performance Verification tests. This release now performs those operations before PV.

When a TQ method created an Excel file, it was only compatible with excel 2003. When read into Excel 2013 the user had to approve a format conversion. This manual intervention prevented an end user from using this in a fully automated process. With this release, the created file is now compatible with Excel 2013.

In certain circumstances, OMNIC series will not wait for the trigger from the Chromeleon software to start a series collect. This occurs with Chromeleon 7.2.7 and 7.2.8, Chromeleon.

Series cannot write to secure folders because the file shuffler is not implemented for the series file save. It continues to write to the default location C:\My Documents\OMNIC\series

It is now possible to link library spectra to spectral groups or to save them for easy access later for a search result. A link defining the library spectrum is saved in the group, not the actual spectrum. When opening the spectral group file, the library must exist on the system or the linked spectrum will not be displayed.

If the SPA file contains path length, temperature and pressure, exporting to JCAMP-DX files will include this information

The custom profiles have been added into this release

Added ability to read in more data fields from TGA type files.

The date associated with signatures is now always displayed in an unambiguous format for all languages and regional operating system settings.

When software was setup to use the "Use Last Directory" setting and Save As command is used, the software was defaulting to the directory from which each spectral file was opened, and not the last one that was used.

If Use DDE commands in the OMNIC menu or toolbar was unchecked in Security Suite, OMNIC did not respect this setting.

The problematic Bruker files can now be read into OMNIC.

Access to Help → Getting Started → Getting Started with OMNIC is now enabled.

For some SPA files, an attempt to print Collection & Processing information would clear the signatures from Collection and processing.

The iS5 laser verification process has been improved to handle laser upgrades when replacing the laser diode.

The OMNIC display only displayed two fields (e.g., 9.8) and Thermo IQ displayed three fields (e.g., 9.8.37). Both places now display three fields.

Atmospheric Suppression now works correctly for all iS5 resolutions.

Even when the security policy Prevent canceling a data collection was checked, the user was allowed to cancel a measurement by pushing the cancel button on the instrument panel. This is no longer allowed.

This no longer causes the software to terminate

When editing a report template and the Thermo Admin application policy "overwriting of existing files" is disabled, a file can be overwritten by using the Close button on the report editor and clicking yes to overwrite the file. This is no longer allowed

Unable to save a spectrum from Macros Basic when the date/time are appended to the file name. An error is returned from OMNIC that states that the file cannot be saved. It appears that there are invalid characters in the file name (the colon from the time stamp).

When reprocessing a spectrum the title of the spectrum may be changed.

When performing Process>Other corrections on a spectrum containing interferograms the resultant spectrum now retains the interferogram

Split series did not add the proper extension (.SPA) to the files when the series file was split.

The browse button for the create series file dialog was disabled so the files to use in the series file create could not be selected.

Quant results from a series collect were always saved with 2 significant digits. It has now been changed to use the magnitude of the value to determine how many significant digits to use.

In certain circumstances, OMNIC series will not wait for the trigger from the Chromeleon software to start a series collect. This occurs with Chromeleon 7.2.7 and 7.2.8, Chromeleon.

Series cannot write to secure folders because the file shuffler is not implemented for the series file save. It continues to write to the default location C:\My Documents\OMNIC\series

In the Epitaxial Settings dialog, the reference spectrum is now saved into a spectrum library. The description of where the reference is found is changed to reflect this modification.

In Profile Settings, Custom Profile 4 thru Custom Profile 12 are added as options. This gives a user more custom profiles to use.

Parameter groups "WaferEPIIfg", "WaferEPICepstrum" and "WaferCO" have been added with parameters to set the parameters shown in the Epitaxial Settings dialog and the Carbon/Oxygen Settings dialog.

If you select "Serial" communication in the Wafer menu / Wafer Options command, a valid default serial port will be selected. In the past there was no guarantee that the port selected existed.

During digital signature, if both the username and password were left blank and the OK button is pressed, the program unexpectedly closed.

The atmospheric suppression has been improved to fix the problem.

When there is more than one profile in a series window, it cannot be cleared.

A change in 9.8 introduced a problem that disabled the browse button in the split series dialog when not using data security. The browse button is now disabled only when that option is selected in a security environment.

An error occurs during the collection in advanced diagnostics.

A library installed after a system has been setup with data security does not show the newly installed library.

System suitability does not run when data security is installed and the "Prevent overwriting files" was turned on.

When using a secure network folder that is read-only to the current user and you perform a "Save As" after the initial autosave you get an error message "Save failed - file is read-only" occasionally. Additionally, this error only occurs on Window7 with a network folder, on Windows 10 the save operation works properly both to a local folder or a network folder.

Previously when software applications started they altered the folder permissions on the secure folder every time the program started. Now they only alter the permissions the first time when the folder is created or filled with files. This allows IT departments to alter the configuration from the recommended default permissions.

Now that folder permissions can be altered, the software tests writing to the secure folder using the current account and the specified secure file service account. If the current account is allowed to write to the secure folder a warning message appears stating this is not expected. Also if the secure file service account cannot write to the secure folder an error message occurs as well.

The spectral resolution was set to 2.0 in collect tab, but the information of collected spectrum is 1.906. With this release this value is now reported as 2.000 cm^-1

Software version can now be added to a report

A new menu item has been added to the process menu to extract a background single beam spectrum from the selected spectrum. If the spectrum does not contain a background, the operator is notified.

For both System Suitability and Performance Verification the reports were always overwritten. This has been changed to keep a history and allow viewing of results from earlier tests.

To help prevent accidental deletion of libraries by the user in OMNIC, they are moved to the Windows Recycle Bin instead of permanently deleting them.

The iN5 microscope is supported for the iS10 and iS50 instruments.

When quantify is performed on a spectrum, it puts new results in the spectrum so the signature will be invalidated

With Full Scale and Auto Full Scale mode checked, boxing in a peak does not scale the spectrum all the way to the full possible range. This has been changed to go to the full range when there are no annotations on the spectrum. If annotations are present, there will be a gap at the top of the spectrum in full scale.

The font was too small when multiple quant results were being reported as the program was attempting to put them all on one page. This has been corrected to use multiple pages.

Using the experiment setup access in the Touch point setup caused a crash. It now shows the experiment setup without a crash.

On some systems, starting OMNIC will always show the ValPro needs to be run message even if it has just been run.

After updating with a service pack, there were multiple references to several components.

The software allowed illegal temperature values to be input. This has been modified to limit the temperature to the legal range for the controllers. The values will be checked and limited after the apply button is clicked.

Annotation changes were not put in the OMNIC audit trail. They are now being included.

When displaying stacked spectra and displaying them with custom Y display limits, the limits would be changed when the spectrum was printed. This has been changed to keep the custom display limits.

OMNIC Data Security uses temporary files to test access and the files were left behind. They are now being deleted.

A new DS policy will protect against changes to annotations.

The diagnostic used the correct ranges for the test, but the report did not show the correct range. The report now shows the correct range from the test.

If was found that if the quant method for a wafer analysis was changed that the reference file name was lost. This has been changed to not lose the reference file name when the method is changed.

When using a non-administrator login account, some documentation was not visible.

When using a QuantPad method with more than 28 components in series and the quant results are being archived, there can be a crash of the software.

OMNIC wafer epi analysis has error when doing the quantify using an iG50.

If installing to a non-standard path, the atmospheric correction files were not installed to the new directory but into the standard path location.

The policy "Include original data format when saving" was overridden by the experiment file setting for saving interferograms. It will now be controlled by the DS policy for all cases.

It was found that after data collection with auto save that opening a file from another folder would change the save folder for the next file save.

Fix Reprocess so that the only change to the spectrum title is that one or more * character is appended to the spectrum title to indicate changes to the spectrum.

The Service Pack installation requires installation of an earlier OMNIC 9 version of software (OMNIC 9.0-OMNIC 9.6). When moving to a new Windows 8.1 (64-bit) or Windows 10 (64-bit) computer the older media may be unable to install on the new operating system resulting in the inability for the user to update their software easily to the latest OMNIC 9 version using the Service Pack.

Security Administration software is now consistent across both the OMNIC and UV-Vis product lines.

The limit for the iS50 fiber probe advanced diagnostic test is increased from 0.1 to 0.5. This is consistent with the expected performance of the fiber probe on the iS50. This is corrected in iS50Diag.exe.

OMNIC 9.7 was installed on a Windows 10 Pro Computer. When OMNIC starts, the splash screen appears, but it never progresses past that point. After a while the splash screen goes away, but OMNIC32.exe is still listed in task manager.

Files with names that used some Japanese characters would not open in OMNIC using drag-and-drop or double-click from Windows Explorer. The failure cases were different depending on if the system was running English Windows with the locale set to Japanese or Japanese Windows. Other languages such as Korean and Chinese may also be affected.

The resolution list in Experiment Settings for an iS5 includes an entry for 0.25. This is not a valid resolution value for this instrument.

The resolution list in Experiment Settings for an iS50 does not include the entry for 0.125. This is a valid resolution for this instrument.

OMNIC 9.7 is now fully Win 10 compliant. A new version of ToolBook (v11.5) is being used with OMNIC and the method of communicating between ToolBook and OMNIC is improved.

The wafer analysis experiment files set the incorrect detector and the aperture is set to zero.

The incorrect atmospheric suppression method was identified from the Reprocess command, so the fix was not done.

The incorrect atmospheric suppression method was identified during data collect on the iS5 and this caused the correction to be ignored.

The correction at the end of the spectral range is incorrect. It appears that the correction goes to zero at the end of the spectrum.

The correction made in OMNIC 9.7 build 7 was improved to be able to recognize and correct spectra written in OMNIC 9.6 SP1. In most cases OMNIC 9.7 can correctly read the detector and beam splitter values if the spectrum was saved in OMNIC 9.6 SP1 and SP2.

The accessory information that is shown in the spectral header since OMNIC 9.4 is changed. The old format and information should be maintained even if new information is shown. The previous changes were removed in OMNIC 9.7. The old, traditional behavior is returned.

The change made in OMNIC 9.7 build 7 was removed. It didn’t appear to provide any benefit for the problem.

When System Suitability was run when configured to use the iZ10 sample compartment attached to iN10 systems, the validation wheel would not move to the correct position.

When DS is installed with OMNIC and the user signs a file, Thermo Client writes a *.tmp file to the target folder. The tmp file is not deleted (removed) when the signature process is complete.

When you display the Resolution options in Experiment Setup for an iS5 instrument, the first value listed is 0.25. This resolution is incorrect and not allowed with an iS5 family instrument. Do not make this selection.

When you display the Resolution options in Experiment Setup for an iS50 instrument, the list starts with 0.25. It does not include 0.125.

This behavior was first seen in OMNIC 9.7 (build 39) and is not found in previous versions.

Frequently our interferograms are anti-symmetric (that positive lobe and the negative lobe have the same absolute magnitude). This can cause visual problems in processing to a spectrum. Fix this so that the maximum peak is always selected if the peak magnitudes are with 10% of each other.

The wafer analysis experiment files set the incorrect detector and the aperture is set to zero.

The incorrect atmospheric suppression method was identified from the Reprocess command, so the fix was not done.

The incorrect atmospheric suppression method was identified during data collect on the iS5 and this caused the correction to be ignored.

The correction at the end of the spectral range is incorrect. Appears that the correction goes to zero at the end of the spectrum.

The definition of the detector and perhaps the beam splitter is saved incorrectly to .spa and .spg files since OMNIC 9.6. Because of this, files saved in 9.6 will display incorrect names for the detector and beam splitter when viewed with other versions of OMNIC.

The detector and beam splitter values are read incorrectly and likely displayed wrong in old spectra when in OMNIC 9.6.

If a Norris first derivative is calculated with a gap of zero, the result is confused with a gap set equal to the segment value. This produced an incorrect Norris first derivative in that situation.

Creating and closing a new window when the OMNIC window is minimized has caused some macros to crash.

The automatic PV dialog should only come up with an iS5 and iS5N, however in OMNIC 9.6 it is also found with the iS10 and iS50.

For a bidirectional data collect, only one background spectrum is saved. Thus if the saved background option is used for a data collect, the ratio step will fail. Make sure that both the forward and reverse interferograms are saved.

When DS is installed with OMNIC and the user signs a file, Thermo Client writes a *.tmp file to the target folder. The tmp file is not deleted (removed) when the signature process is complete.

The insert for the OMNIC software DVD states that the OMNIC 9 version is 9.6 Hotfix 2 and the About box in the software claims version 9.7.7. The insert is incorrect for this version. The version of software is 9.7.

Fixed an error in the update to the Delay DDE command. The problem caused the error "The number of arguments is invalid for this command."

The location being reported for the ~1000 cm^-1 peak has shifted from previous versions. Corrected how the Raman interpolation is being done to conform to previous versions.

Update how the annotation is getting the location of the peaks. Directly use the values from Find Peak.

Remove the need to save Accessory information in the spectrum as part of data collect when doing high speed, bidirectional data collect. Also do not save the Gram Schmidt data when doing a bidirectional collect and not requesting the Gram-Schmidt transform.

The laser save routine was fixed to save a new system laser frequency permanently to the instrument. Also added the LASERSPECTRUM composite component to support reporting the laser change.

The OMNIC modal or modeless dialogs can be hidden behind the OMNIC window hiding the need to respond from the user. Modify the dialog commands so that they will always be set to the "TopMost" item in the display z-order.

OMNIC did not use the experiment file set up in the login dialog and used the blue button experiment file instead. That is correct behavior, so now do not request an experiment file when using the OMNIC login on an iS50. For other instruments, honor the experiment file selected in the OMNIC login setup.

Complete support for the iS5N near-infrared instrument has been added

A DDE command to access the BDiag diagnostic values is now available from OMNIC. The DDE command syntax is: [InstrumentDiagnostic <DiagnosticType>]

The steps needed to use this command are:

The solution is in a new DDE command called PASSaturationCorrection

The current setting of the decimal separator is now honored across the OMNIC product. Previously much of OMNIC expected the English setting.

The peak peaks labels appeared in the preview, but not in the report. This was caused by scaling of the label text.

If you go to "Edit → Options" and set SPC in "Use selected file type", it still doesn’t set SPC as the default in Save As. Other formats do work.

When you perform a 2^nd QCheck prediction into a report template, the 2^nd correlation value and the Reference Title are incorrect. It retained information from the first measurement.

Remove the date and time from the QCheck report.

In the QC Compare template, the compare answer is not shown on the report.

Enable the QC Compare command.

In a template report, the library compound list is not updated when the 2^nd search is done.

Using the iS50 integrated ATR a spectrum was collected and the detector was properly reported as DTGS. However when the spectrum was saved and then retrieved, the detector was reported as Unknown. There were certain detector settings that were reported incorrectly and the lists that defined the detector value were harmonized.

The accessory information in the spectrum file header is often incomplete. Sometimes there is a coded accessory serial number and other times an accessory id. Add information in the file header to save the accessory description, the full serial number and the manufacturer.

The bar code information from the Chromeleon audit trail did not appear in any of the OMNIC spectrum file fields (file name, file header, title).

The bar code information did not appear in any of the OMNIC spectrum file fields (file name, file header, title).

If any of the vials on a system has a bar code reader fail, then all spectra following use the incorrect bar code value.

TA made a change to the TGA file format and OMNIC no longer could open their files. The simple change was made in the Thermo parser to recognize this change.

This issue was seen when running in either Japanese or Chinese. Make a report and move the report to the clipboard. This would crash OMNIC.

When the path is specified in DDE, the split series command does not honor the output path for the resulting spectra.

Fixed in this version.

Corrected feature and returned result to the report. This was lost when OMNIC 9.4 was released.

Button is only grayed when TSA is installed.

Problems were found when collecting a spectrum at 6.0 cm^-1 resolution. There were incorrect results including a failure to do atmospheric suppression. This non-standard feature was not needed in our applications and we removed the 6.0 cm^-1 resolution feature from OMNIC.

Bruker spectral files can no longer be read from OMNIC. This could be done prior to the release of OMNIC 9.4.

Galactic Grams spectral files can no longer be read from OMNIC. This could be done prior to the release of OMNIC 9.4.

The filter wheel is moved to the empty position when you try to autotune on an iS10 with an MCT detector. The signal saturates in the empty position. The fix is to move to the C screen for autotuning.

The filter wheel is moved to the empty position when you try to autotune on an iS10 with an MCT detector. The signal saturates in the empty position. The fix is to move to the C screen for autotuning.

The validation wheel moves to the open position for the performance test and that causes the detector to be saturated. The wheel now moves to the C screen position to support the performance test.

On occasion when a TQ Analyst method was attached to an iS50 post-calculation, the method would immediately be identified as not calibrated. This was caused by an invalid spectrum calculated to test the method.

Starting iS50 appeared to lock up because the microscope configuration dialog is hidden behind the splash screen.

This is fixed in this version.

The updrift accessory was given the same ID as the OMNIC sampler. This caused it to be reported incorrectly. The duplicate ID code was resolved.

This was found and fixed for this release.

If the root name for autosave is blank, then the files will overwrite. This hole was plugged and now the files will be detected correctly and not overwritten.

The software was fixed to allow negative y-intercepts for the linear correction of carbon and oxygen measurements.

In the epitaxial thickness application the path to the reference spectrum could not be saved. This problem was solved by saving the reference spectrum into the method library. This means that it is attached to the actual measurement method.

The C screen must be in place if trying to align an iG50 with an MCT detector. An open beam is correct for an iG50 with a DTGS detector.

If a quant method fails during a PV run, the error is swallowed and the run stops without notice. Added a new message when a quantification fails and this allows the PV to run to completion.

Add "&" to the list of characters not allowed in a system suitability experiment.

Name ambiguity in the two Blackman-Harris apodizations is resolved.

If you open a spectral group (an spg file) and you wish to save an individual spectrum from the group, you must make sure that the file(s) that you want to save are "ungrouped". With the spectra selected, go to the Edit menu and select the "Ungroup Selected Spectra" command. Then you will be able to save the individual spectra.

Most of the library search parameters are part of the experiment file. However certain of the values are global and saved into the Options file. These include the Maximum Number of Components in the List and the Minimum Match Value which are saved in the options.

Win10 issue: The first time that you run Macros Basic after a computer reboot, the splash screen loads and the spinning cursor is visible. If you let the cursor time out, then Macros Basic will launch. This has been timed at between 8 and 24 minutes. Once you have successfully run Macros Basic, this problem no longer exists until you reboot your computer. This appears to be a feature of ToolBook.

The Add to Library DDE command could have a problem when using 10 additional information fields where the string was truncated.

When using the series bidirectional scanning at 5 Hz the intensity of the y axis was inverted on the reverse scans.

TQ Analyst had a problem in the 9.4 release with security login when installing the OMNIC 9.4 service pack to update the software. This has been resolved.

A request was made to set Auto Full Scale on as the default in new software installations. This has been done.

A request was made to set the overlaid titles on in new software installations. This has been done.

Test was reporting 0 during the background collect and later steps would fail.

During the Advanced Diagnostic test, there needs to be a delay between the aperture change and the collect with the DTGS-Poly detector.

When using the Source rest function there were problems the required the instrument to be restarted. This feature is disabled for this instrument.

When collecting using the ID7 smart accessory, the serial number does not appear in the spectrum header.

When collecting using the ID7 smart accessory, the serial number does not appear in the spectrum header.

When using the annotate DDE command, the annotation appears on the spectrum in the display but does not get written to the disk file when saved.

When a spectrum is collected in Result software and then opened in OMNIC, the interferograms are sometimes not retrievable for display.

When running the installation wizard on an iS5, the results will occasionally show a failure when the tests successfully completed.

An error was reported when performing EPI Cepstrum on wafer analysis. The peak type was incorrect.

When inserting a smart accessory into an iZ10, a pop-up window appeared and quickly disappeared immediately.

There were problems reading the temperature and pressure using the Antaris IGS.

Right side AEM will now run PV tests.

The filename of the subtraction file is now included in the title of the result to support traceability of the result.

This has been fixed for all languages.

The multi-line outputs for some DDE commands could not be handled by the testers. The strings reported in [Result Current] were simplified to one line for Signal-to-noise, MinMax, Average, FWHH, LocateMinMax and Analyze (peak-to-peak) commands.

OMNIC 9.3 had problems in hanging up during the component analysis.

Smart accessory recognition and experiment file support was added for the Smart iTX ATR Accessory to be used with the Nicolet iS50/iS50R, Nicolet iS50 AEM, Nicolet iS10, Nicolet iZ10, Nicolet 4700/5700/6700/8700 and Nicolet 380 instruments.

The autosave sequence number could sometimes be calculated incorrectly when an experiment file was loaded. This could result in autosave overwriting files. The bug was fixed so the sequence number is calculated correctly. In addition, the autosave code was changed to check for a file using the expected sequence number and calculate a new number to prevent overwrites if necessary. The user is given a warning message if a new sequence number is needed to prevent overwrite.

The changes involve adding 4 EXP files and one Registry entry. No executable or any other files are altered since the last release.

The change involves isolated 8 lines of code change in one source file for Driver DLL (NicUsb.dll.) No executable or any other files are altered since last release. Decision was made to rebuild the DLL using the latest source code, instead of code from archive DVD. The risk of doing so is much less as the DLL has no source code change since 9.2HF1.

OMNIC 9.2 was not correctly recognizing smart accessories on most systems. This would result in the smart accessory notification dialog popping up for a moment and then going away.

On systems that correctly recognized smart accessories, there were cases where the user would be asked to select an experiment file for the accessory twice. This would happen if a smart accessory was inserted into a sample location that was not active and then the user switched to that sample location. OMNIC now only prompts once in this case.

OMNIC 9.2 adds support for the new iS50 AEM module including smart accessory functions in the AEM.

OMNIC 9.2 adds support for Avatar System 370u, Avatar System 370Nu, Avatar System 370CSIu, Avatar System 370MCTu and Avatar System 330u. These are systems that have had the electronics upgraded to replace the parallel port interface with a USB interface.

Some mistakes in the behavior of the motorized purge shutters when used with the sample shuttle have been fixed.

The match values shown in the search results were always shown as whole numbers on systems setup to use a comma for a decimal point. The problem was introduced in OMNIC 9.

If a smart accessory was inserted while OMNIC was displaying a dialog for smart accessory removal, OMNIC did not respond to the new accessory insertion.

When OMNIC was run with the DS option on Windows 7, and a user had to have their password reset by an administrator, that user would no longer be able to sign files. This problem has been resolved.

When DS was used with ValPro, the dates for digital signatures were incorrect. The year was shown as 2148; the month and day were also incorrect but not as obvious. This problem has been resolved.

Fixed problem where OMNIC did not recognize the arm that inserts a polystyrene sample into the beam on the iS5. The problem prevented correct operation of Performance Verification.

Fixed problem where OMNIC did not recognize when the Time Regions were defined.

Libraries with existing date/time fields merged without keeping the date and time intact. This problem prevented large libraries to be merged.

Fixed problem where OMNIC did not recognize the directory had changed in the Library Directories tab of Library Setup.

OMNIC 9.1 adds support for the new iS50 Raman module, the iS50 GC interface and the Continuum microscope.

OMNIC 9.1 adds support for Nicolet 380, iS5, iS10, iN10, 6700 and 8700 instruments.

OMNIC Series can now integrate with Chromeleon GC software to automate GC-IR measurements using auto-samplers supported by Chromeleon.

The System Suitability settings in the default experiment files for several sample locations were corrected to use more appropriate ranges for the tests.

OMNIC 9 adds support for the new iS50 instrument types. This includes support for Touch Points which allow separate experiment settings to be assigned to each sample location and task driven sampling that can be configured to automatically perform analysis of a sample and generate reports as part of a measurement.

The results generated from search, quant, QCheck, or Find Peaks are now attached to the input spectrum and saved in .spa or .spg files. Because the analysis results are now considered part of the sample data, they are included in the calculation when a .spa or .spg file is digitally signed with the optional OMNIC Data Security package. If a new analysis operation is performed on a signed spectrum, it is considered a change to the sample data and the digital signature will be reported as invalid due to the modification. In previous versions of OMNIC, analysis results were not considered part of the sample data, so analysis operations did not invalidate digital signatures.

OMNIC can now automatically generate reports that include all analysis results associated with a spectrum. These reports can be saved to existing report notebooks.

The grouping of spectra saved in .spg files is now preserved within OMNIC. The spectra in a group can all be included in a single automatically generated report. In previous versions of OMNIC, the grouping of spectra only existed in the .spg file and the spectra were treated individually when they were read into OMNIC.

Images from a microscope stage or Raman stage can now be attached to a spectrum and saved in .spa or .spg files. The images will also be included in auto reports.

TGA Identify can be used to quickly identify the primary components of a TGA sample measured using any Thermo Scientific TGA-IR module or interface. The unknown may be a mixture of components; the software looks for a mathematical combination of reference spectra that best describes it.

GC Identify can be used to quickly identify all the unknown material in a GC sample measured using any Thermo Scientific GC-IR module or interface. GC Identify compares the spectrum at each retention time of a series Gram-Schmidt profile that shows a maximum spectral response against all the selected spectral libraries and finds the library spectrum that most closely matches the unknown. The result is a list of best matches, one for each response peak in the Gram-Schmidt profile.

There is now a window that can be displayed to monitor the heating of the GC transfer line during a GC series run.

The basis vectors collected for a Gram-Schmidt profile can now be used as the series background, so a separate background does not need to be collected. Use the Edit button in the profile section of the Series tab of Experiment setup to activate this feature.

The positions of the screen wheel and filter wheel are not correctly stored in experiment files and restored when the file is opened. Since the wheels are optional, the positions will only be stored on instruments that have the optional hardware.

In previous versions, users on some systems were allowed to select the Raman sample compartment from the Bench tab of experiment setup when in FT-IR mode. This would change the instrument to the Raman beam path, but not switch the software into Raman mode. OMNIC 9 does not allow the selection of the Raman sample compartment when in FT-IR mode. The user must select "Use Raman accessory" from the Raman menu, which correctly changes to the Raman beam path and switches the software to Raman mode.

The software will automatically switch correctly when the new iS50 Raman module is inserted or activated. The "Use Raman accessory" menu item is not available on those systems.

Although OMNIC 8.3 was supported on systems with Windows Vista, OMNIC 9 is not supported on those systems.

OMNIC 8.3 is now supported on systems with Windows 7 Professional edition, 64-bit version.

Beginning with OMNIC 8.2, the data spacing adjustment for the instrument’s diode laser was not applied correctly when the background was measured resulting in invalid background errors.

Occasionally the automated accessory test, which runs when the iD5 accessory was attached, would initially indicate a failure but always succeed when re-tried.

An incorrect value in the iTR experiment file for iS10 prevented the Spectral Interpretation operation from producing the expected result.

On some systems with McAfee, the McAfee Update Agent would no longer run properly after installation of the OMNIC software.

This package is incompatible with Windows 7 64-bit and has been removed.

The SPV feature has been enhanced to support the new Nicolet iS5 instrument. A check box has been added to the System Suitability test to do an auto tune at the start of the test.

Added support for the Nicolet iS5 spectrometer. This includes the laser calibration, warm up time when the instrument is first started and a prompt to run PV when the instrument is first used.

Added support for the IGS II spectrometer and data collection in series at high speed.

How to use 5 Hz, 0.5cm^-1 series collect:

OMNIC 8.2 is compatible with Windows 7 Professional edition. 64-bit versions of Windows are not supported.

Add support for JCAMP MultiFile read and write.

A report field has been added to show the signature of a spectrum in a report.

Support for new GaGe Razor 1422 card for TRS

The steps for setting up an automated performance verification have changed for the Windows 7 operating system. The user documentation should read as follows:

If Performance Verification is available on your system, you can have a verification run automatically at a scheduled time using the internal validation wheel. You use the Task Scheduler wizard in Windows to set up the software for verification.

If the system policy "prevent printing, cutting or copying of unsaved data" is activated the customer is unable to print from the search result window.

The types "NanometerXAxis" and "ElectronVoltXAxis" were added to the DDE parameter for the XaxisMode. The settings were available from the Options dialog in OMNIC but not from the DDE parameter.

Unable to combine two large spectral groups into one file on disk.

The filter wheel did not switch to the open position after the ValPro test was run.

During a background collection the software crashed when the collect reached the 4^th scan.

After source replacement the sources work but they fail the source current low limit test.

When using OMNIC Data Security 8.0 and opening multiple spectra OMNIC displays an unexpected error Caution box.

OMNIC returns an error when the DDE command is used to set the X axis scale to nanometers.

When making a library list a group, the following error message would appear "The library or path in the group was not found". The error message is confusing.

When the TQ quant method required a prompt for temperature or pressure, the series collect would not prompt.

Negative values are occasionally used in the TGA data. This prevented importing of the data into the series run.

Rapid scan data set collected and reprocessed to absorbance. When profile run error message "Cannot recalculate reconstructions with interferograms or single beam spectra. Please change the final format"

Using a TQ quant method that reports errors results in a CNC file with zeros for all the quant values and times of zero when a profile is run.

When using a macros basic delay task, it does not keep accurate time.

Macro is setup to open several files, when executed with several files there was an error.

The system policy "Run OMNIC only" cannot be supported in Windows VISTA or Windows 7.

The spectrum digital signature was not shown on the spectrum in a report.

In previous versions of the software sometimes experiment files were saved with the Validation Wheel set to the NG11 position after a ValPro software run which would then leave the wheel in a position other than home which was not acceptable. The only workaround was to restart the OMNIC application following a ValPro run. Now the experiment file settings are set properly so that the correct position is stored following a ValPro run. All experiment files that were saved previously will be adjusted at runtime to correct the issue also.

Seen on both the main FTIR instrument and one or more accessories using SPV, the collect background before sample option is selected in Experiment Setup and you are using the 21CRF11 option. The software generates an unhandled exception on the 4^th scan of the sample collection following a successful background collection when certain ValPro methods are monitored in SPV and TSA is being used. When all of these conditions are met a buffer overflow exception was thrown because of a long description being generated. This issue has been addressed and will no longer occur.

The result window now displays text indicating the High Sensitivity setting used during the processing.

Quant methods created with OMNIC version 5.1a now quantify correctly with OMNIC 8.0 SP1 software. They caused an error to occur when used with OMNIC 8.0.

Prior to auto-aligning, the validation wheel is reset to the home position.

Macros Pro programs will not execute without requiring installation of Macros Pro on the system.

The translation files have been updated.

The new QCheck feature allows a user to compare a spectrum to an individual reference spectrum or to a set of reference spectra. The analysis is configured with the QCheck Setup command found in the Analyze menu and the analysis is performed using the QCheck command found in the same menu.

The SPV feature provides an integrated monitor to verify instrument performance, perform "fit for purpose" tests, and inform the user when tests or maintenance have failed or need to be performed. It consists of the Instrument Status monitor, Scheduled Maintenance monitor, System Suitability monitor, Performance Verification monitor, and ValPro monitor (if installed). If any of those items being monitored need to be performed or have failed, the System Status indicator changes from green to yellow or red as appropriate.

Added support for sending the selected spectrum in OMNIC to OMNIC Specta for further analysis. This is accomplished using the Send to OMNIC Specta command in the Analyze menu.

Added support for the Nicolet iS10 spectrometer.

The Thermo IQ utility is now included with OMNIC; previously it was included with OMNIC Data Security. This utility allows you to verify that the files on your computer match the files specified by the installer.

OMNIC 8 is compatible with Windows Vista Business edition. However, there are two features of OMNIC Data Security that are not supported in Vista. See the known issues for a description of these limitations.

If you select ATR, H20 or CO2 Correction in Experiment Setup, the software actually performs the correction listed one below your selection.

The JCAMP file format does not define the apodization function or phase correction settings of a spectrum. In previous versions, OMNIC set these values to OMNIC’s normal defaults. In OMNIC 8 these values are set to unknown.

If you saved a spectrum with a blanked region to a CSV file, the X-axis information was incorrect for the region above the blanked area.

Files in the Bruker format with data in percent transmittance (%T) were incorrectly scaled from zero to one instead of zero to 100.

Users without Administrator privileges are restricted from writing updates to the Windows\OMNIC32.ini file in most Windows environments. OMNIC has changed to writing shared state information to the file OMNICSettings.ini in the OMNIC data directory (usually C:\My Documents\OMNIC). This change was necessary to make OMNIC function under Windows Vista but was also a problem for some Windows XP environments.

Report notebooks with a very large number of reports were getting corrupted and the reports could not be read/displayed. The number of reports that caused this problem varied depending on how many items were in each report. The incidences of corrupt notebooks that were reported held over 10,000 reports before they were corrupted. The reporting code has been changed to detect when an attempt it made to add a report to a notebook that is near the limit and display an error message. The user must then create a new notebook to save the report.

Some previous versions of OMNIC were allowing spectra extracted from commercial libraries to be saved as individual spectral data files (as .spa files, for example). The old restriction that prevents this saving has been reinstated.

If a Rapid Scan series file was reopened after the initial collection, the X-axis could be reversed and any manipulation of the data could cause OMNIC to crash.

When the option to display the Sampling Information collect time field was turned on, the date and time displayed for Series data was not valid.

Pressing the tab key does not move the keyboard focus from one control to the next in the Options and Experiment Setup dialog boxes.

The 960 spectrometer help is no longer included with OMNIC software.

If you have OMNIC 8 and ValPro installed and then uninstall ValPro, subsequent use of the System Suitability and Performance Verification features of SPV will display error messages indicating the output files have been tampered with. This is caused by the ValPro uninstaller unregistering the component needed to apply and verify digital signatures.

Macro Panel is no longer included with Macros\Pro. Macros can be added to the OMNIC toolbar with the Edit Toolbar command.

In newer versions of TA Universal Analysis software the file format of the TGA data files was modified so they are not read by OMNIC using the instructions provided. In order for the file to be read by OMNIC it must be saved using the Export utility from the TA software selecting the ANSI character set instead of Unicode.

With the Radeon x300 or x1300 Pro graphics card, the Series 3D display will not show colors. The workaround to get the image to display in color is to adjust the hardware acceleration setting for the video card. See the Technical Bulletin TBN IR3140 for detailed instructions on how to do this. This problem can also appear in the OMNIC Atlµs mapping software.

In newer versions of TA Universal Analysis software the file format of the TGA data files was modified so they are not read by OMNIC using the instructions provided. In order for the file to be read by OMNIC, it must be saved using the Export utility from the TA software selecting the ANSI character set instead of Unicode.

The security policy named "When user logs on, run only OMNIC" that can be used to prevent selected user groups from having access to the Windows desktop is not supported in Windows Vista.

The security policy named "Automatically start screen saver after (minutes)" that can be used standardize a screen saver time for user groups is not supported in Windows Vista.

Some international versions of the Windows operating system have translated Administrator strings that cause a failure when trying to install the OMNIC 7.4 software.

Changes have been made to the about box, splash screen, program icons and folder names to reflect the company brand name change to Thermo Scientific. The about box has changed to show the versions from the Windows Installer information rather than the version resources of the actual DLL/EXE files.

The entire OMNIC help system has been changed to use the "Compiled HTML" help now provided with Windows. There have been some minor changes to the help functionality with this change. For example, right clicking in a spectral window no longer brings up a help window. This change also eliminates problems with .GID files used by the old help system. The old help system tried to update these .GID files as the help file was navigated, but would sometimes display error messages if the user did not have sufficient privileges to update them. If the .GID files did get updated, the modification dates would no longer match what was expected by the IQ tool. These issues are resolved with the new help system.

The dropdown list of experiments has been enhanced to include the filename of the experiment. This helps eliminate confusion when there is more than one experiment with the same title.

Additions were made the Atmospheric Correction feature to improve its performance. This included algorithm changes and an expanded calibration model.

A limit on the levels of zero fill the Reprocess feature allowed on high resolution data has been removed. This limit was only needed in 16-bit Windows, but it was left in when the transition to 32 bit Windows was made. Two levels of zero fill are now supported.

Jasco files with a newer binary file type indicator are now read by OMNIC.

Reports added to notebooks with versions earlier than OMNIC 7.3 would have spectra all displayed as red when viewed with OMNIC 7.3. This has been changed so only the selected spectrum is displayed in red.

In the Collect tab of Experiment Setup, the drop-down list for the Base name in the File Handling box has failed to show the Auto save base names previously used.

OMNIC was giving an error message that indicated the target file was write protected if a save was attempted to a disk drive that did not have sufficient free space for the save to succeed.

When some spectra with saved interferograms were reprocessed, the saved interferograms were not attached to the new result spectrum.

OMNIC was not correctly handling filenames that contained some Kanji characters.

The derivative command could fail from a macro if the system was running in Japanese.

The results of a QC Compare operation were not made available in Macros Basic.

The Library converter program would generate errors if the output library was written to the same directory as the input file. This restriction has been removed.

The data from some GRAMS format libraries was being scaled from 0 to 256 instead of from 0 to 1.0.

Spectra with data that spanned zero on the X Axis could cause Find Peaks to crash.

When a paste was done into a newly created window, the focus was on the disabled title control rather than on the spectral display, so the paste operation failed.

Collects done in a macro would sometimes overwrite previous collects because the autosave sequence number was not incremented.

Collects of high-resolution data (0.125 cm^-1) would display a message indicating the result would not be displayed until the entire collect was complete, but the intermediate results would in fact get displayed. This message has been removed.

When changes were made in Experiment Setup that caused the collect used to populate the interferogram display to change sample spacing, the region of the interferogram displayed was not adjusted to focus on the same features. This would usually cause the peak to be outside of the display region. This has been changed so the displayed region is adjusted for sample spacing changes.

OMNIC would lockup when trying to read some files in the Mattson WinFirst format. This happened on files that had text annotations.

If a copy was done from an OMNIC window that produced tabular results and then the table was pasted into OMNIC’s log file, the table header would be garbled.

A floating-point overflow would sometimes occur when expanding the interferogram display on the Bench tab of Experiment Setup, causing an error message to appear that forced the user to close OMNIC.

If OMNIC had trouble communicating with the instrument at startup, but then was able to establish good communications, the Raman menu would end of being added to the top-level menu twice. Some of the items in the two menus would then be enabled/disabled at the wrong times.

In the data collect window, if the region tool was used to define a region, the remainder of the collect would be discarded and the spectrum on display at the time the region was defined would be used as the final result. This was true even if the region was defined while the background single beam was being collected.

If you install OMNIC 7.x over OMNIC 6.1a installation and then try to uninstall OMNIC 7.x using either the Uninstaller on the OMNIC 7.x CD or from Add/Remove programs, the OMNIC EXEs and DLLs are not removed. The reason is that OMNIC 6.1a was not uninstalled before OMNIC 7.x was installed. To uninstall 6.1a, run the uninstaller in the /uninstall folder.

Pressing the tab key does not move the keyboard focus from one control to the next in the Options and Experiment Setup dialogs.

Macro Panel is no longer included with Macros\Pro. Macros can be added to the OMNIC toolbar with the Edit Toolbar command.

In newer versions of TA Universal Analysis software the file format of the TGA data files was modified so they are not read by OMNIC using the instructions provided. In order for the file to be read by OMNIC it must be saved using the Export utility from the TA software selecting the ANSI character set instead of Unicode.

With the Radeon x300 or x1300 Pro graphics card, the Series 3D display will not show colors. The workaround to get the image to display in color is to adjust the hardware acceleration setting for the video card. See the Technical Bulletin TBN IR3140 for detailed instructions on how to do this. This problem can also appear in the OMNIC Atlµs mapping software.

A change to the approach used to deliver maintenance software releases for OMNIC related products resulted in a change to the information shown in the About OMNIC box in the Help menu. Maintenance releases for OMNIC related products are being issued as Service Packs that bundle files for all products that have been changed. Only the specific files that have changed are updated by the new service pack installation process. There will no longer be maintenance releases of individual components, such as OMNIC Search. Because of this, the third component of the version number (such as the "a" in 7.2a) is no longer used. Instead, the latest service pack (which applies to all components) is shown near the top of the About box.

It should be noted that the Service Pack installation requires OMNIC 7.3 to be installed on the computer.

Support has been added for the USB version of the Nicolet 8700 spectrometer. This includes the extension of the PM modulation amplitude to 4.5 lambdas and three enhancements of step-scan time-resolved data collection: The optional use of an additional input (Sync), a shorter (1 microsecond) minimum sampling interval when using the spectrometer digitizer, and the ability to use multiple triggers per step when using the spectrometer digitizer.

Two new correlation options were added that are available only by setting the DDE parameter "Collect Correlation" to "NoPeakShift" or "NoShiftSimple". These settings cause OMNIC to assume the instrument positioned the peak at the exact location requested for the first scan and do not shift the scan. All previously existing correlation options shift the first scan so the largest peak (in absolute value) is located at the requested position. The "NoPeakShift" option does not do any correlation on subsequent scans, while the "NoShiftSimple" option still does simple correlation on subsequent scans.

This was done to provide a workaround for unusual collect conditions where the ZPD location cannot be inferred from the largest peak.

OMNIC was not responding to insertion and removal of Smart Accessories if the instrument had not been used to collect data for more than 40 minutes. A change was made so the instrument always responds to smart accessory changes if OMNIC is running. If OMNIC is not running, the instrument will still go into a "rest mode," but starting OMNIC will automatically take the instrument out of "rest mode."

OMNIC 7.3 has reversed the A and B channels on Nicolet 6700 Dual Channel systems. Channel B on these systems is supposed to be the BNC mounted in the baseplate to the right of the sample compartment. When OMNIC 7.3 is loaded, this becomes Channel A. Then when a Dual Channel PEM collect is made the spectral data that is automatically ratioed will be upside down.

If a spectrum is added to a user library created with OMNIC 6.0 or newer, the header information is preserved in the library and can be viewed if the spectrum is extracted from the library. However, a bug in extracting the spectrum from the library was causing this header information to be lost. Because of this, using a spectrum extracted from a user library as input to the "Match Spectrum Settings" command on the Collect menu would not result in the settings being set to match those used to collect the library spectrum.

The Check Desiccant button on that is supposed to appear on the Diagnostic tab of Experiment setup was not present on Nicolet 380 systems. This has been changed so the button appears and functions.

On some 460 and ECO 1000 systems, using the Align feature on the Diagnostic tab of Experiment Setup would appear to work correctly, but at the very end of the Align, the interferogram would change to a flat line. A Reset of the bench would restore correct scanning operation. A driver change was made to add a small delay (10 milliseconds) to the end of the Align operation to avoid this problem.

A bug was found in the Nicolet 8700 PCI driver which prevented the polarizer wheel from moving to zero if the attenuation wheel was at zero.

The company logo on the EZ OMNIC splash screen was changed from the Thermo Nicolet logo to the Thermo Electron logo. This change was missed when the OMNIC splash screen changes for version 7.0.

The Find Peaks operation on the Analyze menu may cause OMNIC to lock up if the X Axis covers a range of both positive and negative values. A workaround that avoids this lock up is to manually add a piece of annotation using the text tool prior to doing the Find Peaks.

Macros Basic was not handling floating point numbers correctly if the system was set to use the comma as a decimal point character.

Some Macros Basic macros saved on systems using Chinese as the system language could not be reopened.

Data collected with Rapid Scan show incorrect date/time in the Series Information window. This is for the "collected" date in the second line and also for the "data processing" section in the history. The year shows up as 2036 and the month/date appear are arbitrary.

The settle time used for Rapid Scan runs on a 380 was too short causing poor quality data to be collected. The settle time was changed from 2 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds for the 380.

If more than three quant components were selected for profiles using a selected quant method when collecting Series data, the Y Axis labels of the profiles could be displayed incorrectly and crashes could occur.

The CloseWindow DDE command can be issued with the argument Yes to save changes to data automatically without prompting the user (that is, CloseWindow Yes). The Series window now recognizes this argument and will close without a prompt if it is present. This allows a Series run to be stopped before is completes by using the two commands StopCollect and CloseWindow Yes.

Changes made to the GC flow cell and transfer line temperatures were not being sent to the instrument when they were changed in Experiment Setup.

Rapid Scan data collected on an 8700 PCI would have gaps where scans were missed if Smart Accessory polling was not manually turned off during the run. This was fixed by automatically turning off polling of Smart Accessories during a Rapid Scan run for 8700 PCI instruments and restoring the previous polling state at the end of the run.

The duration of a Series collect started with an external trigger could be shorter than expected because the collect timer was being started before the trigger occurred.

The concentration output text file (CNC) would not get generated when creating a profile on an existing Series data file.

If you install OMNIC 7.x over OMNIC 6.1a installation and then try to uninstall OMNIC 7.x using either the Uninstaller on the OMNIC 7.x CD or from Add/Remove programs, the OMNIC EXEs and DLLs are not removed. The reason is that OMNIC 6.1a was not uninstalled before OMNIC 7.x was installed. To uninstall 6.1a, run the uninstaller in the /uninstall folder.

Pressing the tab key does not move the keyboard focus from one control to the next in the Options and Experiment Setup dialogs.

Macro Panel is no longer included with Macros\Pro. Macros can be added to the OMNIC toolbar with the Edit Toolbar command.

In newer versions of TA Universal Analysis software the file format of the TGA data files was modified so they are not read by OMNIC using the instructions provided. In order for the file to be read by OMNIC it must be saved using the Export utility from the TA software selecting the ANSI character set instead of Unicode.

If OMNIC Data Security is installed on your system, the Require Signature When Saving Spectrum policy should be disabled during instrument calibration and when smart background data are due to be collected so that the collections will not be interrupted by requests for digital signatures. Smart background data are collected during the first ~40 hours of instrument inactivity after OMNIC for Almega 7.3 is installed and periodically after that based on the setting of the Maximum smart background age control in the Calibrate Instrument dialog.

OMNIC can now open and display Bruker [.0-9]* and Jasco [*.JWS] spectral data files.

A new application titled "Library Converter" has been developed to convert PerkinElmer^^ Spectrum, Bruker OPUS^^, GRAMS/Spectral ID and Sadtler SearchMaster user libraries to OMNIC format. The converted libraries can then be used in OMNIC for library searching and with the Library Manager feature.

A new processing function has been added which allows the user to convert specular reflectance data with a Kramers-Kronig correction and either normalize the result to 1 (one) Absorbance unit or 1 (one) micrometer. The user can also choose to have the N-index and/or the K-index spectrum appear with the result.

The polynomial order and number of iterations for the automatic baseline function can be set in the Edit/Options/Process Tab.

A new processing function titled "PAS Linearize" has been added that will apply the linearization method of R.O. Carter III, Applied Spectroscopy, 46, 219, 1992) to the data. This enhances the infrared signal at the sample surface and improves quantitative linearity.

In previous versions, titles for the spectra in the search list were only displayed if the spectra were stacked. Titles are now also displayed if the spectra are in overlay mode.

Previously, a field did not exist to add the name of a notebook to a report. This field has now been added.

A clipboard button was added to the Search Results window that copies the hit list as a text table as well as the graphical display of the search results. Users can use "Paste Special" in most programs, such as MS Word, to select the format of data they want to paste.

Many places in OMNIC that write tabular data to the clipboard were changed to write the data as an RTF table as well as the previously supported unformatted text. Users can use "Paste Special" in most programs, such as MS Word, to select the format of data they want to paste. Pasting RTF tables can simplify formatting of the information in external documents. RTF tables are now produced for Find Peaks, Peak Resolve, Search Results, and Annotations,

OMNIC can now be used to control the Antaris and Antaris IGS spectrometers.

Setting up a series data collection is no longer done through the Series menu; it has been fully integrated into OMNIC’s Experiment Setup dialog. If Series is installed on your system, a new tab titles "Series" will appear in the Experiment Setup dialog. The previous capabilities of configuring a series data collection are still available. Additionally, new functionality has been added to setting up a series data collection including the ability to set collect data for a specific period of time, delay (or suspend) collect data during a specific time period, collect data until a specified intensity value is attained, or delay (or suspend) data collection until a specific intensity value is reached. The user can also set the Y-axis range for the series data collection.

Series data collection can now be used with FT-Raman and Almega spectrometers.

Opening and saving series files is now done through the OMNIC File menu Open, Save, and Save As items.

Displaying a series file with the "Show Series 3D window" menu item has been completely redone. A new interactive 3D display is available that allows the user to change the viewing angle of the image with the mouse. An enhanced 2-D contour plot has been added. A color bar has been added to allow the user to change the color palette used in the 2D and 3D images to better differentiate differences in the series data file. Additionally, the user can view the spectra and/or profiles on the same screen. The four panes are interconnected so that selecting a point or spectrum on one pane, updates the other panes correspondingly. Right-click pop-up menus are connected to each pane for quick access to common features of that pane.

Users have the option to set up to 10 profiles with each series data collect. Previously, the limit was 3 (three). Profiles can be displayed in either overlay or stack mode. Through the right-mouse pop-up menu, users can choose to copy individual or all profiles to an OMNIC spectral window. A similar copy and paste functionality has been added for spectra.

Users can now use the Process menu to apply relevant processing functions (absorbance, transmittance, other conversions, reprocessing (with saved interferograms), automatic baseline correct, other corrections, blank, straight line, subtract, automatic region subtract, smoothing, derivative and multiply). In previous releases, these functions where applied through the Apply Function menu item in the Series menu.

Users can search the selected the spectrum in the series window. There is no longer a need to first copy the spectrum to an OMNIC spectral window.

During a series data collect, data is always saved to disk after every collect cycle in order to prevent data loss in case of an error or power failure.

Users have the option to use basis vectors from a specified file versus collecting them at the start of a series collection. Also, the basis vectors can be used as the background rather than collecting a separate background. This can speed up the time of the series data collection.

Users have the option to save the interferograms along with the data in a series collection. Interferograms must be saved if the user desires to reprocess the series data set.

Users use up to 64 characters for the names of the individual files created when splitting a series file. In previous versions, the limit was 4 characters.

Access to the Series features and policies for series spectral data files can now be controlled with the Thermo Security Administration application if needed by the user to comply with FDA regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11.

Atmospheric suppression can now be used in EZ OMNIC to automatically remove water vapor and CO2 interferences during spectral data collection.

Users can now apply the Advanced ATR Correction processing feature.

The ability to digitally sign spectral data files in EZ OMNIC and control EZ OMNIC through Thermo Security Administration has been added.

Users now have the ability to print and preview reports with EZ OMNIC. A variety of templates are provided for including the spectral data, search results, peak tables, and data collection information together in a single document which can then be printed.

A new application is available with OMNIC Data Security to verify that the correct versions of files are installed and that the files are installed in the correct folders. A report in HTML format is generated that lists all of the installed files and notes any discrepancies from the expected result. This replaces the written checklist of files previously provided for OMNIC and OMNIC Data Security Software IQ.

If multiple spectra existed in a spectral window when the data was added to a notebook, which spectrum was the selected spectrum was not retained in the notebook itself. This has been changed so that the selected spectrum from the spectral window appears as the selected spectrum when the report is viewed in the notebook.

Create a new notebook. Use the View Notebook command and choose a different notebook to view. From viewing notebook window, choose the newly created notebook. The title displayed when the new notebook appeared was that of the previously viewed notebook. This has been changed to show the title of the currently selected notebook.

If the data collection date and time were displayed in the OMNIC spectral window and the data was added to a notebook, the collection date and time did not appear in the spectral window in the notebook report. This had been changed so that the displayed collection information is displayed in the report notebook if it appears in the spectral window.

In previous versions of OMNIC, the length of the base file name for autosave was limited to 4 characters. This has been increased to support up to 32 characters.

On some systems, the down arrow next to the list for the spectra in the OMNIC window disappeared after hiding a spectrum. This prevented the user from "unhiding" the hidden spectra.

Peaks could not be annotated correctly if the x-axis was in wavelength.

Printing out a listing of all QC Compare libraries would stop after the first page.

If the base file name for autosaving spectra in a macro ended in a number, the names would not sequence correctly.

If a different Initial User Library directory was set in the Edit/Options/File dialog, the directory didn’t appear in the Library Directories box in Library Setup. To see it, one had to delete one or more of the listed directories from the box.

The number of decimal points use for Y-axis annotations is now controlled by the number of decimal points option in the Options dialog.

Search regions were not displayed on the Search Result window if they were enabled. OMNIC has been changed to display the search regions on the results window.

If a spectral window showing a shaded area is copied and pasted into Microsoft^^ Word, the shaded area extends past the bottom of the y-axis. This has been changed to only show the shaded area with the boundaries of the graph.

If a Smart Accessory change is made when the Bench Tab of Experiment Setup is open, the dialog settings are not updated. The Smart Accessory change will cause a new experiment file to be loaded, but the new settings are not shown in the Bench tab. Also, the live display does not properly show the interferogram. This has been changed to properly update the Bench tab settings with the information from the newly loaded experiment file.

Spectra collected by selecting match settings in Library Manager always collected the same number of background scans as sample scans. It ignored whether a different number of background scans had been enabled in the Collect tab of Experiment. This has been changed to follow the settings in the Collect tab.

If autoblanking regions were enabled in the Advanced Tab of Experiment Setup, the regions were used during the advanced diagnostics tests. If the region between 2000 and 100 was blanked, the tests would fail. This has been changed so that advanced diagnostics ignores the autoblank regions.

The diamond window material range and useful range for the Smart Orbit differ and a warning is displayed if the range is set to go below the recommended range of 525 cm^-1 for diamond. This has been changed to allow for the full range of the diamond optics.

A default report template was not set up when the software was installed. This has been changed to load a default template.

While the region tool is used to draw an area, it displays information about the selected region. The information disappears as soon as the drawing is complete although the shaded region remains. This has been changed to show the information with the shaded region.

If an experiment file is opened and a parameter from the experiment is not appropriate for the current system configuration, a generic error message would appear saying an inappropriate parameter was found and not loaded. This has been changed to identify which parameter was not appropriate.

If a version 6 OMNIC library was reprocessed through DDE, OMNIC may crash.

On systems with only EZ OMNIC installed, the application would not launch if a spectral data file was double-clicked in Windows Explorer.

A default experiment file is not set when EZ OMNIC is installed. This has been changed to load default.exp when EZ OMNIC is first installed.

The auto tester program for algorithm verification would not run on EZ OMNIC only systems.

After a fit operation, the peak table can be viewed in the Peaks… dialog. It was possible for the wrong peak to be highlighted in the graphical window behind the dialog. This has been changed so the correct peak is highlighted.

If Thermo Security Administration was used to disable access to the library manager "Add to window" button, it only turns it off on the Library tab. The same button on the Spectra tab is still enabled. This has been changed so that if access to the Add to Window functionality is disabled, it is disabled on both tabs of Library Manager.

Even with the policy set to prevent overwriting on files, report templates could be overwritten as Save As was enabled with the Edit template feature. This has been changed to disable the Save As functionality if prevent overwrite files is enabled.

When the Thermo Security Administration program starts, it prompts for a user name and password. However, it accepts any valid username and password rather than just the person for the currently logged on user. This has been changed so that only the person currently logged on to the computer can log into Thermo Security Administration.

Under some conditions, after a local user account has been added to a policy group, all attempts to add domain user accounts will fail.

If the Thermo Security Administration program has "Prevent overwriting of files" enabled, the user who collected the spectrum or another user will not be able to sign the file again. The user will receive the error: "Write denied. The file is read only." This has been changed to allow the user to sign the files more than once.

If access is denied to everyone for the last entries of the Analyze menu (Quantify, Quant Setup, and View Library), "Add to Library" command is also disabled. In addition if the permission to access "Add to Library" is removed the "QC compare" function is disabled as well. This has been changed to only disable the selected features.

An intermittent problem with the size of the font used for printing axis in reports was fixed. Reports now print with the correct axis font.

On some printers, bitmap fields of reports will not print out if they overlap other fields. A warning message is now displayed when a report template is saved and there is an overlapped bitmap field that may not print on some printers. Users can choose to save the template anyway since the report will print correctly on most printers.

Any printout in OMNIC that was sent to a printer other than the default printer would use the wrong size fonts if the selected printer was set for a different DPI than the default printer. This is similar to the report printing bug mentioned above but could affect any printed text in OMNIC and was not intermittent on systems configured as described.

If OMNIC was not configured for logins (either with OMNIC Data Security or OMNIC custom logins), the username OMNIC provides to ValPro was the name entered when OMNIC was installed rather than the name of the current user. This results in the ValPro report displaying the incorrect username.

An occasional Access Violation would occur when repeatedly running a Macros\Basic macro that collected data and the macro was set to "Reset OMNIC parameters when macro ends". This same problem would sometimes cause the spectra to draw with a "filled" appearance.

Perkin-Elmer files that used a Y-Axis identifier of "Abs" rather than "A" were displayed in OMNIC with a Y-Axis label of "Arbitrary Units". OMNIC now recognizes these files as absorbance and displays the correct Y-Axis label.

An access violation would occur when using Experiment Setup to create an experiment file that used Atmospheric Correction and a set of collect options not covered by the supplied correction standards. The violation occurred when OMNIC tried to generate the new standards needed for unusual collect conditions, such as triangular apodization. Most of these unusual collect conditions are controlled on the advanced tab of Experiment Setup.

Atmospheric Correction is not included in EzOMNIC, but some of the controls in Options and Experiment Setup that are used to control this feature are still enabled. This has been changed so the controls are disabled in EzOMNIC.

The Save Group operation in OMNIC that writes .SPG files was not generating an event in the Thermo portion of the Windows Event Log.

Features have been added to OMNIC to support the new ValPro validation package.

Access to all of the ancillary programs that can be launched from the OMNIC menus can now be controlled individually from the Thermo Security Administration (TSA) program. This allows administrators to restrict a given user to launching some ancillary programs but not others. For example, a user may be allowed to launch Advanced Diagnostics, but not allowed to launch ValPro. In previous versions, the ability to launch all ancillary programs, as well as independent programs assigned to toolbars or menu items through Edit Toolbar or Edit Menu were controlled by a single access control item in TSA (called "Run programs from menu or toolbar" in the "Custom toolbar and menu items" group).

To gain access to these new settings in TSA, the administrator must load the new OMNIC.XML file through the "Add Application…" menu item in the File menu of TSA. The OMNIC.XML file is located on the root of the OMNIC installation CD in uncompressed format. Loading the new version will only add new entries to the TSA database; it will not change any existing settings. The new entries are located in the Access Control group that corresponds to the OMNIC menu they appear in. For example, Advanced Diagnostics is in the Collect group and InterpretIR+ is in the Analyze group.

The "Run programs from menu or toolbar" access control item mentioned above is still available for controlling access to all independent programs added to the menu or toolbar.

If you are upgrading to version 7.2 of OMNIC Data Security and do not reload the OMNIC.XML file into TSA, all of the ancillary programs will be controlled by the "Deny access to menu items not in security database" System Policy since OMNIC now sees each of these as an individual command rather than a run command.

OMNIC now expands all environment variables in DDE arguments before executing the commands. This also occurs when the commands are passed through the OMNIC COM interface.

The OMNIC Macros Pro DDE command OMNICMode now accepts the Locked keyword to put OMNIC in a mode similar to the Simple mode with no menus or toolbars, but with the additional constraint that user input is ignored on the active window. This prevents the user from changing the active window or boxing within the active window or any other similar interactions. However, dialogs that are presented by OMNIC do accept user input. This new mode can be used when OMNIC is being driven by an external program or macro to prevent users from making unwanted changes to the context OMNIC is using. To switch back to the normal mode, use the command OMNICMode Normal.

A new scaling command has been added that makes it easier to compare spectra on a common scale when they have different baselines. The command is called "Overscale" and it is similar to doing "FullScale" followed by "CommonScale" and then manually dragging the spectra so their baselines coincide. The command can also be used to align peaks or midpoints. OverScale takes one argument that indicates what part of the spectra should be aligned as shown below.

This command was added for the user interface of a new TQ Analyst version and is available as an OMNIC command because of a common codebase. It is not available through the OMNIC user interface yet.

The power supply diagnostics dialog available within OMNIC from the Diagnostic tab of Experiment setup now shows the correct list of voltages for a Nicolet 380 instrument. These voltages are for +5, +12, -12, +1.2, +2.5, +3.3 and -5 volts. In previous releases, only the +5, +12, -12 voltages were displayed. Also, the laser voltage readout has been removed from the Laser Diagnostics dialog when used with a 380 since the 380 does not provide this information. The laser voltage readout displayed for 380 instruments in previous releases was not accurate.

The checkbox for turning on automatic atmospheric suppression on the Collect tab of Experiment setup is now enabled when using a Nicolet 380 instrument. This allows users to perform automatic atmospheric suppression during data collect with a 380 instrument.

The check box for specifying single-sided interferograms on the Advanced tab of Experiment setup is now enabled when using a Nicolet 380 instrument.

The button for verifying the Smart Accessory on the Diagnostic tab of Experiment Setup is now enabled when using a Nicolet 380 instrument.

Several menu items, including Save As, that were disabled when the Search result window was active are now enabled. This allows the Search Result window to be saved as a .WMF file.

OMNIC now correctly supports the Macros\Basic feature that allows Search and QC compare operations to complete and leave their result window open while the macro continues with no user interaction. In 7.0 and 7.1, the macro would not continue until the user manually closed the Search or QC Compare window.

In some situations, report fields were not being displayed when a template was edited. This would only happen if report fields were added and deleted in a specific order.

When the feature that allows the title of collected spectra to include the autosave filename was used (see the Collect tab of the Options dialog), the last character of the autosave prefix was dropped from the title. So if the autosave prefix was set to "abcd" and the sequence of collects results in a file being autosaved as "abcd0123.spa", the title would include "abc0123.spa" rather than "abcd0123.spa".

When the ability to read GRAMS multifiles was added, the first scale factor in the file was used to scale all spectra. This has been changed to the individual scale factors.

On the Bench tab of Experiment Setup, if one of the properties lists that affect the recommended save range, such as Source or Window Material, is dropped down and then collapsed without making a change, the save range would be reset to the recommended range. This has been changed so the save range is only reset to the recommended range if one of the properties is changed.

When the Bench tab of Experiment Setup is first displayed, the Window Material was not included in the calculation of the recommended save range. If any of the properties affecting save range was changed, the recommended range was calculated properly in earlier versions.

The Find Peaks command is supposed to delete all peak labels in the region it is applied to before it adds the new labels. In 7.0, this was enhanced to leave annotation that was created using the peak height and peak area tools even if they are in the Find Peaks region. This change introduced a bug where some peak labels outside of the Find Peaks region were deleted by mistake.

When the preview collect feature is used and the collect has progressed past the preview, the Start Collection button used to finish preview mode reappears by mistake in place of the save controls whenever a resize or focus change occurs on the collect window.

OMNIC no longer destroys the global atoms used during processing of DDE initiate messages. Although destroying these atoms is the correct protocol, some Visual Basic programs that process the same DDE initiate messages crash if OMNIC does this. This may only be a problem on some versions of Windows.

In some circumstances, the wrong list of available velocities would be shown in Experiment Setup when used with the Nicolet 380. Several of the slow velocities would be missing.

The Nicolet 380 would not collect data from a Centaurµs microscope.

The Low pass filter on the advanced tab of Experiment Setup was never enabled when used with a Nicolet 8700.

The external trigger option in Series software would only work the first time.

When OMNIC Data Security is installed and "Prevent Overwriting of files" and "Prevent changing directories when saving files" policies are turned off in Thermo Security Admin tool, the DDE Export command displays the "Save As" dialog even when the destination file does not yet exist.

In some cases, if the keyboard focus is on the Sample Compartment row of the property grid on the Bench tab of Experiment Setup when a switch to another tab is done (or the dialog is closed) OMNIC will become unstable and communications with the instrument may be unreliable. One symptom of this is a completely blank tab displayed in Experiment Setup. A workaround for this problem is to always change the keyboard focus to some row other than the Sample Compartment before leaving the Bench tab.

In some cases, when the Sample Compartment list is dropped down and then collapsed without making a change, OMNIC will change the selected detector. The change in detector may also cause other fields to change such as the velocity and save range.

A new Peak Resolve menu item is available in the Analyze menu. Peak Resolve models or fits a number of pure peaks to a complex set of overlapping peaks in a sample spectrum. A table of the pure peaks is produced that can be printed or copied to the clipboard.

When controlling a Nicolet Series instrument, OMNIC is no longer required to wait for each motor movement to complete before initiating the next operation. OMNIC does still wait for all movements to complete before initiating data acquisition. This change results in faster startup and more responsive changes in Experiment setup.

The default configuration file for OMNIC has been changed. If you have changed your default.con file, the OMNIC 7.1 installer will not overwrite the modified file. The changes include putting the toolbar across the top, using a smaller font size for annotation and prompting for the sample title at the end of sample collects rather than the beginning.

The Nicolet Series and Nexus bench drivers have been enhanced to support collecting data from the array detector of the Continuum XL.

Paths to executables and macros assigned to toolbar items or menu items can now contain environment variables. The variables will be expanded at the time the item is selected by the user. This allows configuration files to be created on one machine and run on another where the target files are in a different location, as long as an environment variable exists that specifies the location.

Raman spectra saved to JCAMP are now labeled with the DATATYPE string of RAMAN SPECTRUM instead of INFRARED SPECTRUM as stated in the JCAMP specification. Also, the XUNITS field for Raman spectra is now set to 1/CM instead of being left blank. The X and Y-axis units can now be set properly when Raman spectra saved with these enhancements are read back in.

As a separate issue, JCAMP files with YUNITS of TRANSFLECTANCE and now recognized and treated as Transmission spectra.

Previous versions used an interferogram peak position of 1024 when Raman collects were done at resolution of 2 cm^-1 and higher. This has been changed to use the maximum number of pre-peak data points (usually 8192) at these higher resolutions. Testing has shown this improves the actual achieved resolution of some Raman collects.

In the Array Collect window, if preview mode has been selected for the collection, a button labeled "Skip well" will be displayed during the preview collects. If it is selected, the preview collects will stop and the data collection in the current well will be skipped. I.e., it will be as if the well had never been selected in the Wells tab.

There are several new capabilities in the Array: Open Data Set window related to the display of more than one spectrum in the window at the bottom.

In the Array: Open Data Set window (and the Collect Array window when the display is not in the "Live" mode), a well may be selected (for display) adjacent to the currently selected/displayed well by using the arrow keys to move to the well that is to the left or right of or above or below the current well.

In the Reprocess controls in the Array: Open Data Set window, if a quant method is selected as the metric and the Result has more than one Type defined in the quant method (e.g., several components in a CLS quant method), the Type dropdown list box will contain an additional choice: "All". If "All" is selected, when the Report button is selected, the spectra in the data set will be reanalyzed and the resulting *.csv report file will contain separate columns for each of the components in the method.

The Correlation option in the Reprocess controls in the Array: Open Data Set window has been modified as follows. If Correlation is selected as the metric, the Region edit controls are displayed allowing specification of a region of the spectrum that is to be used for the correlation operation. (Previously the entire spectrum was used.) The region tool is active to select the region graphically from the displayed spectrum.

The Metrics available in the Reprocess controls in the Array: Open Data Set window now include "Peak height ratio" and "Peak area ratio". If either of these is selected, two radio buttons labeled "Numerator" and "Denominator" are displayed. When the former is selected, the peak or region and baseline edit controls are used to specify the frequencies of the peak or region and baseline to be used for the numerator of the ratio. The latter radio button allows specification of these frequencies for the denominator of the ratio.

A Kinetics Setup button has been added to the Methods tab of Array Setup that, if selected, displays a Kinetics Setup dialog. This dialog allows the user to specify how frequently the entire plate is to be measured and how many times it is to be measured.

The Array menu has been expanded to include several new items that are active when an Array: Open Data Set window is displayed.

Two new strings have been added that control the text displayed in the prepare for sample and prepare for background dialogs that appear during data collects. The new DDE parameters are "Custom SamplePrompt" and "Custom BackgroundPrompt". The same settings are used for Raman and IR. Set the strings to the empty string to revert to the default prompts.

The new DDE parameter "BenchStatus InterferogramLevel" can be used to read the current interferogram level of a Nicolet Series instrument. This is available when data collect is active or inactive. The data is returned in the format <IfgMaxVal>,<IfgMinVal>,<IfgMaxPosition>,<IfgMinPosition>. For example, the string "5.3, -2.4, 8231, 8256" indicates the maximum is 5.3, the minimum is -2.4, the max occurs at data point 8231 and the min occurs at data point 8256.

The DDE commands Run, RunMacro, and RunMacroAndWait now allow Environment variables to be used to specify the location of the target. For example, the command [RunMacro "%OMNICDATA%\macro\SimpleTrans.mac"] will launch the SimpleTrans.mac macro from the macro subdirectory of the location set in the OMNICDATA environment variable.

The Thermo Administration program now requires user authentication when the program starts to verify the user identity matches the user that is logged on to Windows.

The Thermo Administration program will switch to initiating the accounts on the local PC, rather than the accounts on the login domain if the enumeration takes a long time. An edit control has been added that allows user names to be entered manually so enumeration can be avoided. Accounts are not re-enumerated when switching from the access control portion of the tree to the policy portion.

The Thermo Administration program has two new menu items. The "Add to All Access Control Items…" will add an Allow or Deny entry for the specified user to every function in the Access Control section of the application. The "Add to All Access Control Items…" will add an Allow or Deny entry for the specified user to every function in the Access Control section of the current application. The "Remove From All Access Control Items…" will remove the entry for a specified user or group from all functions in the Access Control section of the current application.

Spectral libraries can now be signed using the new Sign button in Library Manager. The signature status of the selected library is shown at the bottom of the Library Manager Window.

Spectral group files can now be signed and verified using the Sign File and Verify File items in the File menu.

The Sign File item in the File menu now allows multiple files to be selected for signing. The authentication prompt used to enter the password and signature reason is only displayed once and the same reason for signing is applied to all files.

A new item in the File menu called Sign Spectra will sign the selected spectra. If the spectra already have a filename associated with them, the file navigation dialog does not need to be displayed.

The Nicolet Series Bench drivers now support the Continuµm XL.

The company name has been changed from "Thermo Nicolet" to "Thermo Electron" in many places, such as copyright notices of help files and readme files.

The selected tool may be changed incorrectly after running a Macros Basic macro.

A bug that caused the spectrum title to be corrupted when Automatic Baseline Correct was done has been fixed. This only happened if the title was at maximum length when the function was applied.

When spectra were saved using the Save As dialog and the "Save as type" was set to show all files, an asterisk would be appended to the filename entered by the user.

At the start of Collect Sample or Collect Raman, the X Axis would sometimes be left blank until a spectrum was added to the window.

The X Axis in the Collect Window was always displayed in decreasing order. This has been changed to display the axis in the same order that the default limits are specified in the Window tab of the Options dialog.

When a Raman collect completed and the collected spectrum was added to a window, the X Axis of the window was reset to the zoomed out limits of the collected spectrum (always in decreasing order) and the default X Axis limits for new windows in the options were changed to these same values. All of this behavior has been removed so that adding spectra to a window at the end of a Raman collect behaves the same as all other methods of adding a spectrum to a window.

If more than one spectrum from the same .spg file were sent in the same email suing the Mail Spectra menu item, multiple copies of the .spg file were included in the email.

If a Collection and Processing Information (CPI) window was left open after the spectral window it originated from was closed, some of the fields of the CPI window would become garbled.

In the bench tab of Experiment setup, if the save range was changed such that sample spacing had to change, the limits of the interferogram window were not adjusted correctly so the new peak position was within the displayed window.

When Windows is set to use a comma as the decimal point, which is the default for some locales such as German, the overlay feature in the search results window did not work.

The "Use fix Y-Axis limits in collect window" feature did not work when the final format of the collect was set to interferogram. This has been fixed, but the feature still does not apply to single beam collects so that background collects are not displayed using the limits intended for samples. Also, an error message is now displayed if the upper and lower values are set to the same value.

The buttons at the bottom of the Experiment Setup and Options dialog were cutoff when large fonts were used for the dialog caption. Selecting one of the Appearance Schemes from the Windows Display Properties dialog can set this large font.

When the OMNIC dialog font was changed using the Options dialog, some dialogs would intermittently use the system font instead.

The text fields on the Extended Search tab of Library Setup were incorrectly limited to around twelve characters (depending on font size). The dialog now allows scrolling and uses the first 60 characters entered into these fields.

With Nexus and Magna instruments, the green check indicating good bench status may appear before bench communications had been established. In this case, the green check appears, but the items in the collect menu remain disabled.

If an experiment file created with a version of OMNIC prior to 7.0 is loaded, the new fields added in 7.0 are not reset to their default values. These fields include the auto-blank regions, the separate number of background scans and the Y-axis limits used during data collect. This has been changed so the fields added for 7.0 are reset to their default values so the older experiment files give the same behavior they did when they were created.

Problems on Nicolet Series instruments with the wrong beam splitter being recognized as installed after an experiment file has been loaded have been fixed.

When annotation from a signed spectrum is editing using the Annotation Information dialog (available from the Collection and Processing Information window), the displayed signature status of the spectrum with change to the string "Text".

Pressing the tab key does not move the keyboard focus from one control to the next in the Options and Experiment Setup dialogs.

On a Nicolet series instrument, if a smart accessory is installed while a data collect is active, the experiment file will be changed in the middle of the collect, possibly resulting in bad scans. Other instrument types suppress the change if a data collect is active. However, if an accessory is inserted while the collect is active, the IR beam will almost certainly be disrupted resulting in bad scans anyway.

The Find Peaks operation in OMNIC now adjusts the location of peak labels to avoid overlapping labels as much as possible.

Support for the Nicolet Series line of instruments is now included. This includes providing control for filter wheels, screen wheel, polarizer, turbo source, and function buttons on the front of the instrument.

The controls on the bench tab of the Experiment Setup dialog have been consolidated into a grid to reduce clutter, make better use of space and handle dynamic bench configurations better. This required a few other small changes to the layout of the Bench tab.

A "Freeze" button has been added to the bench and diagnostic tabs of Experiment setup that will snapshot the currently displayed interferogram or single beam and leave is displayed in the window so it can be compared to subsequent scans.

A Configure tab has been added to the Experiment Setup dialog. This tab has the "Configure Bench" button that was on the Diagnostics tab, along with controls for providing names for the positions of the filter wheels and screen wheels (if they are present) and setting up the IR Source rest mode for instruments that support this feature. Items set up this tab are not saved in experiment files.

The X limits of the live display are not saved when the dialog is closed and reused when you redisplay the dialog. The limits are also saved when you switch to between the Bench and Diagnostics tabs. They are not saved when you exit OMNIC.

The Collect tab of experiment setup now provides an option to specify a different number of scans for the background than the sample.

The Collect tab of Experiment Setup now provides an option to specify a Y limits to be used in the collect window during the collect operation. This can be used to avoid autoscaling on large peaks that are not of interest.

The Advanced tab of Experiment Setup now provides a grid for entering up to four spectral regions that are to be blanked during data collection. The regions can be turned on and off individually. This new auto-blanking feature can be used when collecting with accessories that have totally absorbing regions to prevent auto-scaling to these large peaks.

The Advanced tab of Experiment Setup now provides a place to identify a macro that will be executed when the "Macro" button on the front panel of the Nicolet Series instrument is pressed.

The annotations created with the peak height and area tools now use lines or shading to highlight the measured peak.

The annotations associated with a spectrum can now be viewed as a table by clicking the new "Annotations" button in the Collection and Processing Information window. The text portion of the annotation can be editing in this window, but the location and baseline information cannot. The table can be copied to the clipboard.

A new Mail Spectra item in the File menu provides support for sending the currently selected spectra as attachments to an email message. The email is sent using the default account for the logged-on user.

Two additional buttons are now provided in the View Finder control to improve scaling in the Y dimension.

The drop-down list of spectra at the top of the main spectral window is now sized so that empty rows are eliminated and do not obscure the spectra display.

The Derivative operation on the process menu has been enhanced to three choices of techniques: 1) First different (the only technique supported in previous versions), 2) Savitzky-Golay and 3) Norris.

The spectral display in the Search results window now can be switched between stack and overlay mode. This allows the unknown to be overlaid with one or more of the search hits.

OMNIC now read all of the spectra in GRAMS .SPC files that contain more than one spectrum.

Some cosmetic changes were made to the look of the tabbed containers used for the Options dialog and Experiment Setup dialog.

In earlier versions of OMNIC, when you read in spectra from a spectral group file (.spg) and then did a save with one of the spectra from the .spg file selected, the group file would be overwritten with a new group of just that one selected spectra. To avoid that problem, save operations on spectra that were loaded from .spg files default to saving as individual spectra in .spa files.

Floating point exceptions that occur in OMNIC are now caught and acknowledged so that the application does not exit. For example, in earlier versions of OMNIC, you could enter very large numbers in the Spectral Math window and generate a floating-point exception that would cause OMNIC to exit. This error is now caught and handled properly.

The Thermo Administration program is now translated into several languages.

OMNIC now gives a warning at startup if any of the initial directory policies set in the Thermo Administration program are not valid. This is done at OMNIC startup rather than in the Thermo Administration program to handle cases where directories are deleted after the policies are set.

A new option has been added to AM, PM, and TRSS step-scan collects. This is the ability to specify that the stepping be triggered externally rather than occurring automatically after the data collection. This external trigger should be connected to the bench via the SYNCH BNC. If this feature is enabled, and the logic level on this input is high after the data collection, the stepping to the next mirror position will be delayed until the level goes low. This option is available only if the firmware is version 7.16 or later

When data is collected about 7879 cm^-1 at .125 resolution, data collect timeouts could occur. Only occurred on Magna or Nexus instruments that used a PCI interface card.

If the X-Limits were set so the left limit was less than the right limit (increasing order), a bug caused OMNIC to switch the order back to decreasing when the View Finder control was touched. This appeared in the Bench tab of Experiment setup and could also occur in the main spectral window if the limits were manually set.

The Open and Delete file dialogs use to share a setting to record the last file type the user selected so that type could be selected again the next time the dialog was shown. This gave unexpected results because the list of file types in the two dialogs is not the same. There are now two separate settings to record the last file type so the open and delete dialogs each remember the last selection correctly.

If the filename field of Sampling information is turned on when a copy is done of the spectral window and pasted into an external program such as Microsoft Word, the filename was not shown in the pasted image.

The Mpanel32.exe program provided a way to launch Macros Basic macros in the original versions of OMNIC that did not have a toolbar (versions 1 and 2). Since macros can now be assigned to the toolbar, this program is no longer needed so it has been removed from the install.

A limitation of user libraries has been eliminated for new libraries created with OMNIC 7. When a spectrum is extracted from a user library, the true collection and bench parameters of that were used to collect the spectrum are now retrieved from the library rather than the ones from the first spectrum in the library. If the spectrum was deresolved or hyper-resolved as it was added to the library, looking at the sample spacing vs. the resolution can identify it. A warning will be displayed if a spectrum needs to be hyper-resolved when added to a library.

The filename of the unknown spectrum now displays properly in the Search window when the display setup has this feature turned on.

Improvements were made to the parsing of the OMNIC command line so that double clicking on files in Explorer with filenames that included dashes is now handled correctly.

A bug that caused the display of reports to be modified when changes were made to spectra extracted from the report has been fixed. The changes shown on the report display were never written to the report, but the display was mistakenly being modified.

The feature of DS that allows users to save data into directories they would normally not have write permission on no longer requires administrators to manually change the permissions on each user’s temp directory. This bug has been fixed so that the feature works with the permissions set at install.

A security feature of Windows XP invalidates the default PKI keys under some circumstances when a password change occurs. When XP service pack 1 is installed, this only occurs if the administrator forces a password change. Without service pack 1 installed, this can occur even when the user changes the password. After the default keys are invalidated, OMNIC will no longer be able to sign or verify files for that account. A change has been made in 7.0 so that OMNIC does not use the default keys and is therefore not affected by password changes.

The print feature of the Search results window is now disabled if the unknown spectrum has not been saved and the security policy is set to prevent printing of unsaved data.

The policy that controls printing of unsaved data was preventing spectra extracted from a user library from being printed. These spectra are now correctly marked as saved so they can be printed regardless of the policy setting.

The policy that prevents users from having access to the Explorer features such as delete and rename could be defeated in 6.2 by pressing the Windows key.

File delete entries were not being made when GAML files were deleted. These entries are now made, but the filename recorded for all delete operations is the 8.3 version, so they show up as deletions of .GAM files.

Added ability to read and write spectra in GAML format.

Added New Advanced ATR correction.

With libraries created in OMNIC 6.2, the insertion and deletion dates of each spectrum is tracked. The dates are visible in the Library Spectra tab of library manager. This information is not available for libraries created prior to 6.2, even when new spectra are added to these libraries.

A new column has been added to the Library names tab of Library Manager with the heading "Del". A red X in this column indicates that the spectrum has been deleted from the library. Compressing a library permanently removes the deleted spectrum from the library. After compression no red X’s are displayed in the "Del" column.

Additional files are being installed so that help files will be displayed in the more modern three-pane mode.

Several open/save dialogs where changed so they can be sized by the user. Also, small improvements were made in the spacing/alignment of controls on open/save dialogs.

If the Spectrum information window is enlarged beyond its default size, the new size is saved and used as the initial size for the window the next time it is opened.

The history entry made in the spectrum header when a Change Data Spacing operation is performed now includes the old data spacing as well as the new data spacing.

The Raman operations Shift, Un-shift and Instrument correct now generate records in the spectrum history.

The history record generated when a change data spacing operation is done now includes both the old and the new data spacing. Previous versions only record the new data spacing.

Authorization to use any OMNIC function now controlled by separate Administration program.

Access to reasons for signatures now controlled in the Admin app.

Significant events such as saving data and signing files are recorded in an isolated section of the NT Event log. Modifications, deletions and renaming of important file types generate log events, even when they are made outside of OMNIC.

Added ability to save files to directory that has very restricted access so lab manager be assured files will not be renamed or deleted. Even with this restricted access, OMNIC is able to apply digital signatures to the files.

The sign file dialog now gives the user three chances to enter the correct password.

Increased range of allowed sample spacings for step scan experiments from 8 to >100. (Requires bench firmware v. 7.14)

Improved multiple-trigger mode operation in TRSS collects by allowing shorter trigger intervals. (Requires Gage driver v. 3.60 or later)

Made resolution selection more flexible for step-scan time-resolved collects.

Y-axis added to TRSS real-time display.

The Settling time control in the Step-Scan Time-Resolved setup dialog has been changed from a list box to an edit control to allow more flexible setting of this parameter. The minimum value is 1 msec or larger if more time is required for data transfer during multiple-trigger collection.

Change in default behavior.

Correct a problem with frequency normalization whit Raman shifted data. This is now the correct behavior, but there will be a difference between old Raman libraries and new Raman libraries with respect to how the spectral limits are normalized.

Eliminate an erroneous error message that was displayed when the used chooses not to overwrite a signed file.

Fixed a bug that occurred when OMNIC was installed in a path that used multi-byte Japanese characters.

On a clean install, the default for peak picks will be sorted on Position not intensity.

A change was made to set the users temporary directory to have wide-open access each time OMNIC starts. This allows ancillary OMNIC tools to write to this directory.

Changed the report printing to turn off display of signature information for spectra because spectra in reports are never signed. Only the notebook can be signed.

Fixed a bug where spectra loaded from signed .spa files were considered modified as soon as they were read. This bug caused a prompt to resave the spectra when the window was closed, even though the spectra had not actually been modified.

The automatically generated filenames for series files now have enough digits to allow 10000 files in the same directory rather than 100.

Some small improvements to the skinned drawing of dialogs were made, such as providing a background color to list boxes and using a solid brush color if pattern bitmaps are not available.

Fixed a bug that would disable the spectrometer tour by mistake in some cases.

The MRU list of spectra at the end of the File menu is now stored in the registry on a per-user basis rather than in OMNIC32.ini. The main reason for this change is that some user sites prefer to set all files in the Windows directory (including OMNIC32.ini) as read-only for standard users. When this is done, OMNIC’s MRU list would not work.

Many of the OMNIC sub-installers have been changed to use the new Microsoft Installer technology. This was done for improved maintainability since the old InstallShield installer is no longer supported.

Fixed the Perkin Elmer spectral conversion code so that it does not produce spikes when data values are near zero.

A bug that required Undo Scale Change to be done twice to undo changes made with the zoom buttons of the view finder was fixed.

A bug that prevented using a reference file for Raman Instrument Correct was fixed.

Find Peaks windows now recognize changes to options such as annotation orientation and number of digits. Earlier versions required the Find Peaks window to be closed and reopened for the change to take effect.

A different technique is now used to draw shaded regions. The old technique did not work on some ATI cards when the bit depth was set to 32 bits.

If a user is required to sign a file as part of the save operation, but cancels the signature dialog or enters an invalid password 3 times, an error message is now displayed indicating the file has been saved, but not signed.

The references to the Thermo Electron web site have been changed to www.thermo.com/Spectroscopy.

A bug that caused a crash when an invalid gain was read from a spectrum file was fixed.

A problem adding additional scans after a data collect was initiated on Mattson benches was fixed by disabling the feature when OMNIC is running with one of these benches.

Attempting to save over the top of a read-only configuration file now generates an error message indicating the save failed. In prior versions, the save failed with no indication.

When the Change data spacing command fails, an error message is displayed. Attempting to change the data spacing of an interferogram is an example of how the command can fail.

The hour glass cursor is now displayed during the other conversions command since some of these conversions can be time consuming.

A bug that prevented the digital signature status from being displayed for Almega spectra was fixed.

A bug that caused several text strings to be drawn on top of one another in the collect status window was fixed. This occurred if the experiment description and title were blank.

If an operation is performed on a spectrum that had been saved to a file and then the operation undone, the spectrum would appear as if it had never been saved to a file and the user would have to re-assign a filename.

If a piece of annotation was added with a very long text string (2000 characters), a crash could occur.

A correction is now done to remove the DC offset from interferograms read from Mattson files before the data is displayed or processed.

A problem was fixed with the Normalize Scale command. If the command was performed twice on the same spectrum the results were invalid. On some PC’s a floating-point exception was generated and OMNIC would exit.

In the Quant Setup dialog, the default setting for the Bench and Collect check boxes was changed from on to off.

When a Raman spectrum was added to a library the x-axis values were not properly registered to the laser frequency.

The initial directory for configuration files was changed to be the same as the initial directory for parameter files instead of options.

A problem where a Series GC collect waiting for an external trigger from the GC device would start before the trigger signal was issued was fixed.

Fixed bug in display of Channel B/A ratio in PEM setup dialog.

Fixed collect time-out problem in step-scan setup dialogs when averaging time is large (> 3 sec).

Modified Phase Analysis dialog so that IP spectrum must be in upper window.

Changed SST menu item names and labels for several controls in setup dialogs.

The title contains the correct time stamp (Mon Jul 29 14:39:05 2002 (GMT+02:00)), but DS date and time in the spectral header says " 29-07-2002 15:40:36 (GMT-11330037:44)".

This fixes a message (abort, ignore, retry) that pops up on some computers and OS combinations when a CDROM is not in the drive.

Rapid scan was not functioning properly on Windows NT^^ 4.0 systems.

This issue was discovered during internal testing. Rapid scan was not functioning properly on Windows NT 4.0 systems.

InterpretIR+ did not update the previous version since the name of the executable had changed.

The references used in the comparison were created on a system where decimals are used as the numerical separator. Changed software testing module in Val-Q to recognize commas in place of decimals as valid separators.

Autotest was reporting failures because it cannot read the digital signature portion of a data file without having the DS option installed. Autotest changed to perform the correct comparison with and without the DS option.

Changed FT Raman software to not turn off the Raman View Stage lamp when collecting data since the lamp LED does not affect Raman data. This allows you to view data while collecting.

Correction to PolySNR test which caused photobleaching to be done twice.

The 10 um slit option did not remain selected when changing tabs.

Display limits for preview data collect were incorrect when final format is in nanometers.

The Almega driver did not update when installed from the Update CD. Does not affect new installations.

Changes and bug fix in PM Setup dialog related to multiple frequency selection and use.

Changed the lower limit from 4.5 to 4.0 volts in autogain checking. Also upped the minimum trigger interval from 0.01 sec to 0.04 sec.

Add diode laser capabilities and verification for the IR100 and IR200 spectrometer to EZ OMNIC. The IR100 and IR200 Series FT-IR spectrometers were designed to meet the needs for fundamental infrared analysis, teaching and basic sampling needs. The IR100 and IR200 spectrometers also operate with the Encompass software. EZ OMNIC support is now provided for those customers that prefer the flexibility of a personal computer with more functionality.

The ECO 3000 is a 300 mm, high-performance, tool used for measuring dopant levels in dielectric films (BPSG, PSG, FSG), Hydrogen in SiN/SiON films, epitaxial film thickness, MEMS device thickness, and Carbon and Oxygen in Silicon wafers. The ECO 3000 supports the SEMI standards for 300mm automated wafer handling.

The Avatar 330 and 370 spectrometers are routine analysis FT-IR spectrometers that offer packaged solutions for your entire FT-IR process, from data collection to reporting the results.

Support for Windows XP version is available in this release. Windows XP Professional is required with the Digital Signature (DS) option.

This improves the legibility in the dialogs when fonts for a specific region such as in Czechoslovakia or a bolder font is used.

The FDA recently released a guidance document regarding time stamp requirements for Part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. To aid in a clear understanding of the time zone in which an event occurred, a reference to GMT is appended to each record of the time written into the Collection and Processing Information.

Macros files play a key role in a system that is subject to the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 regulations as they can be used to enforce permitted sequencing of steps and events. By using the Sign File command in the OMNIC File menu, users can sign these files and later verify that a macro has a valid digital signature with the Verify File command in the File menu.

The ability to sign group files was confusing to some users. A group file consisted of a group of spectra, stored together in a single file. Users were confused as to the meaning of the signature on the file and how it related to the individual spectra in the group file.

Users now have the option to copy and then paste reports from a report notebook into another application as either a bitmap or a Windows metafile.

Users can query the spectrometer for its model name. The complete command line for this option is described in the Macros on-line help file.

If a user created a macro where one event must wait for another to complete, the user can add a delay into their macro for a specified number of seconds. The complete command line for this option is described in the Macros on-line help file.

The Other Conversions command that previously was available only in OMNIC, now appears in the EZ OMNIC menu. Other conversions allow the user to convert a spectrum into Kubelka-Munk, Photoacoustic, %Reflectance, Log (1/R), wavenumber, micrometers or nanometers.

New Feature.

New Feature.

New Feature.

New Feature.

The 8500 board is a faster board. Parameters have been updated.

New Feature.

New Feature. This lets the user select a subset of spectral ranges to calibrate if they don’t want to take the time to calibrate all ranges.

New Feature.

When OMNIC is started, the user can now access the OMNIC menus more quickly without having to wait until the spectrometer setup has been completed.

When OMNIC is started, the user can now access the OMNIC menus more quickly without having to wait until the spectrometer setup has been completed.

If the Digital Signature option is installed, OMNIC users are required to enter their Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP username and password to start OMNIC. The full user name along with the date-time is recorded in the Collection and Processing Information whenever data is collected, modified or signed. Similarly, if a user does not have the DS option but has enabled the OMNIC login feature, the OMNIC username and the date-time is recorded in the Collection and Processing Information whenever data is collected or modified.

Now OMNIC automatically detects when spectrum in memory does not match file on disk and updates the display of the digital signature as needed for in all OMNIC windows. The message "Unable to verify digital signature. The data has been changed" will be displayed when a saved spectrum with a digital signature is modified in OMNIC.

When a spectral file is signed, the username, date-time, and the reason for the signature are recorded in the Data Processing History section of the Collection and Processing Information.

In previous versions, users need RWX and delete permission to save files to a NTFS folder. FDA requirements for electronic records require additional controls on which users can delete files. A change was made in OMNIC to allow file saving in a NTFS folder without requiring users to have delete privileges.

If automatic atmospheric suppression is enabled on the Collect Tab in Experiment Setup, the software removes water and carbon dioxide bands from the background and sample single beam spectra. When the Absorbance spectrum is calculated, OMNIC will perform the processing with and without the suppression applied to the single beams. The displayed result will be the resultant Absorbance spectrum with the best baseline characteristics.

Peaks labels were not being displayed correctly when spectra in wavelength were annotated.

Simplifies the entering if annotations for the most common use of the DDE annotate command.

Previously, if the Collection and Processing Information of a Raman spectra acquired with an Almega spectrometer was viewed in workstation OMNIC, the Almega spectrometer information was incomplete. OMNIC has been enhanced to show the Almega spectrometer information in the Collection and Processing Information.

The error message a user would see if for example, they tried to add two spectra of different x-axis units, is now clearer.

Right-clicking on the tool palettes icons will bring up context sensitive help for that icon.

Enhanced OMNIC’s COM interface to perform its own checking for proper command syntax and to wait until a previous command has completed before issuing the next DDE command.

Enhanced the functionality of OMNIC’s COM interface.

If the background file comes from the disk, the name and path for the file is captured in the Collection and Processing Information.

OMNIC enhanced to print out all information in the Collection and Processing Information.

The collection time that appears in the Collection and Processing Information is now that of the extracted spectrum.

A user can open a digitally signed file on an operating system that does not support the encryption tools. Without these tools, OMNIC knows a signature is there but cannot decrypt the signature.

If a file is read-only, an error message will be displayed to the user indicating that the reason the file cannot be signed is that it is read-only.

Change made to not change the status of the signature due to a search. Searching does not modify the data.

Change made in Bench Configuration application to correctly configure right-hand custom detectors.

With OMNIC 6.0a, the default range for all sources was 4000 - 400 cm^-1. A new default range of 11,000 - 375 cm^-1 has been set for the XT-KBr beam splitter and DTGS TE cooled systems.

On the Advanced tab of Experiment Setup, the option to "reset bench at start of collection" has been enabled for Raman data collections.

The Avatar driver has been modified to control a sample compartment validation wheel.

Change to OMNIC so that if a communication failure occurs while the user has the Experiment Setup dialog open, the user can restart communications without exiting Experiment Setup or changing tabs.

Default.cfg is installed during the OMNIC installation. If the file is not found on startup, OMNIC will now create the file.

Small sections of memory were not being freed after a background collection. Over time, this can affect system performance as less memory is available.

Reprocess will now account for atmospheric suppression if the Sample Spacing Parameter is set to one.

OMNIC changed to allow UNC paths as the destination folder when saving groups.

OMNIC .SPA files will be associated to OMNIC if there is no other association for .SPA files in the registry.

Fixed a crash that occurred on some systems when OMNIC tried to read in .SPA files created with PC-IR DOS Software.

OMNIC changed so that only the displayed region is saved to the CSV file.

Prompting for before overwriting a Mattson file is only done for .ABS files. No prompting if a .RAS, .IFG, or .DRT file is being saved.

Long dates were added into the 5.01 JCAMP specification. This has been implemented in OMNIC to assist users with Y2K issues.

OMNIC has been changed to allow any of the wavenumber displays when the current x-axis format is in wavelength.

Need to correctly determine width of printable area for text wrapping. Fixed issues where if text enabled through Display Options wraps, it would not print.

Changes made to correctly determine the width of the printable area. Printing, wrapping text if necessary, fixed for the Sampling Information.

Issue has been resolved by moving the sampling information below the overlaid titles.

Issue has been resolved by moving the digital signature information below the overlaid titles.

OMNIC modified to display the spectral title independent of the placement of other annotations. Also, corrected error in printing routine to correctly wrap titles that are longer than a single line.

Change to OMNIC so that if an OMNIC window is copied and then pasted into another application, it appears with the current display limits of the OMNIC window, not the values from the Edit/Options/New Window dialog.

There is a documented problem with ToolBook^^ II applications and Windows 2000. The issue is supposed to be addressed with Windows 2000 SP3. A workaround has been implemented in OMNIC to eliminate the error.

Context sensitive help for the Copy and Sign buttons in View Notebook has been added. The help can be accessed by right clicking on the buttons.

If Roll & Zoom is highlighted in the View menu, the Roll & Zoom help will appear if the user presses the F1 key.

Context sensitive help was added to the Collection and Processing Information. The help is accessed by right clicking on the background area of the dialog.

A change was made in Edit Menu to not let the user disable or hide menu items that are submenu headings such as "Learning OMNIC" and "Sampling Techniques". Other items in the help menu can now be disabled or hidden as determined by the configuration constructed with Edit Menu.

Changed OMNIC to show the separators and the button frames if "Text Only" is selected as the toolbar type.

Depending upon the Item Type, the title for the Command Text box changes. Scenarios existed where the text string did not match the Item type.

The Text string was repositioned on the main OMNIC to show the colon.

In the Subtract window, the auto Y check box can be selected for all video display modes on the computer.

OMNIC 6 enabled the user to choose the OMNIC Window Style in the Edit/Options/View dialog. The style was not applied to the Change Data Spacing dialog in the previous OMNIC version.

Change made to Macros\Basic.

Change was made in OMNIC so that Variance command functioned the same as it had with OMNIC 5.0. By invoking the command: ExecuteOMNIC "Variance 1", the average is calculated and added to current window.

Change was made in OMNIC so that Statistical Spectra functioned the same as it had with OMNIC 5.0. By invoking Statistical Spectra though DDE, the result will be added to the current OMNIC window.

InterpretIR+ has been changed to automatically import the active spectra when InterpretIR+ is launched from the OMNIC Analyze menu.

Previous versions of OMNIC Atlµs allowed users to collect just less than 16K spectra in a map. The limit has been increased to 50,000.

The last used video size is now saved when OMNIC Atlµs (or Microview) is closed. The saved value is loaded and used when OMNIC Atlµs (or Microview) is started.

The user can specify a different number of scans for a background versus a sample scan in OMNIC Atlµs.

Changed OMNIC Atlµs so that if "autofocus at each point" is selected/enabled, the Mosaic will also autofocus at each point.

The size of the Microview application has been increased to allow the user to more easily view the controls.

Change made so that the if a ruler is drawn in the navigation pane, the arrow tool can be used to position the ruler.

The stepping increment for the Z-axis control was changed to a finer granularity. The stage moves one increment with each mouse click.

View Stage controls in Experiment Setup can now be toggled/changed without freezing the interferogram display.

A View Stage calibration file is needed. The file "ramanvs.cal" has been included in the factory folder.

User now has the choice as to where the spectral data is saved. Can be to any mapped local or network drive.

Val-Q modified to store current OMNIC settings when Val-Q starts and restore them when Val-Q closes.

A change occurred in OMNIC version 6.0a that prevented TGA files from being imported into OMNIC.

OMNIC 6 enabled the user to choose the OMNIC Window Style in the Edit/Options/View dialog. The style was not applied to the Series or OMNIC Atlµs progress bars in the previous OMNIC version.

Prevents attempt to create multi-gigabyte files that caused the display of the size to be a negative number or when the number of spectra exceeded 60000. Modified the routine that calculates OMNIC Atlµs map file size to return 0 if resultant file would be larger than is supported. Also file creation to return 0 if too many spectra in potential file (more than supported). Some combinations of series collect parameters would cause the Estimated File size in the Series Setup dialog to display a negative number as it overflowed the variable. Limits and error checking have been added to ensure that a valid estimated file size is displayed.

The data spacing is not checked when a measure only method is applied to Series or OMNIC Atlµs data.

Enhance Series collect so that the current spectrum always updates the display even when the time increment is less than one expected increment.

The time stamp increment for rapid scan was changed to a finer resolution so that all scans would have a unique time stamp.

Readout now displays the correct value.

Coarse adjustment increment reduced. Allows for smoother operation and less overshoot.

Coarse adjustment increment reduced. Allows for smoother operation and less overshoot.

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Added code to adjust spectrograph focal length for best fit. Added neon lines (neonhigh.txt and neonlow.txt files) to do a better job covering the spectral range for each grating position. Removed some chronically mismatched neon lines. Results are saved in a single file, calibrate.txt, rather than individual peak.txt files.

Changed peak location algorithm to use center-of-gravity. Modified procedure so that second laser is calibrated even if first laser fails. Fixed bug that caused some single laser configurations to hang up. Fixed bug so that a combined bin range is calculated for single laser systems.

Removed code which caused default.con and default.exp files to be write protected. Fixed issue which installed the WinNT 4.0 driver under Windows 2000 in addition to the Windows 2000 driver.

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