ARender: Release of version 3.0.5 'Xenon'
- Marye
- 17 Feb, 2016
- Release note
The ARender Team is proud to present the latest version of ARender Xenon : 3.0.5 !
Major bugfixes applied in the HMI:
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Dropdown lists were not opening in recent Mozilla Firefox versions
→ Dropdown list are now forced to open when clicking on it -
Square, Circle, Polygon, Polyline, Freehand and Post it could be created larger than page under particular conditions
→ These annotations types are now restrict to page size -
Square, Circle, Polygon, Polyline and Freehand border width was not set according to zoom
→ Added zoom management on these annotations’ borders to set a correct border width -
If an annotation format change was done after moving a Polygon, Polyline or Freehand annotation, the annotation came back to its initial position
→ Annotation position is now updated correctly after a move -
Freehand annotations did not support creation on rotated page
→ Position calculation modification to permit to create freehand on a rotated page -
Freehand annotations could not be deleted directly after creation
→ Keep the focus on the annotation to delete it -
Stamp and ImageStamp could be created outside of page
→ Restricted according to the bounding box of the stamps -
Stamp box was larger than text size
→ Stamp box is now resized dynamically to text size -
Users can no longer print annotation when
annotation.loadExisting
is false
annotation.loadExisting=false no longer interfere with theannotationCreationPolicy
→ If annotationCreationPolicy does not allow to create annotations,annotation.loadExisting=false
does not make the annotation creation buttons appear -
Multi-content ZIP file first page content was not always displayed
→ Fixed an issue with zip starting by empty folders -
Download functions are now entirely covered by using REST API
→ Multiple documents and document with annotations are covered -
Fullscreen is now working on IE 11
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IE incoherence on page close made user think they could save annotations before closing ARender
→ Now correctly warns the user he will leave the page with unsaved annotations -
Importing a more than one page document from annotation view import only the first thumb
→ Now all thumbs are displayed -
When
AnnotationCreationPolicy
forbids annotation creation, contextual menu allowed to create annotations, it should be updated accordingly
→ WhenannotationCreationPolycy
forbids annotation creation, contextual menu and toolbar do not display annotation creation buttons
Major bugfixes applied in the rendition:
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Aroms2pdf (Microsoft Office for ARender) could create collision on long filenames, this is no longer possible.
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Missing rc2 and rc5 folders during installation are now created
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Detect and correct potential failures of rendition installer onto several linux distibutions using docker containers to test a wide range of systems
Minor bugfixes applied in the HMI
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cache.js scripts are now cached
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Downloads of Pdf Documents with annotations are using the default name « Document.pdf » instead of the original name of the documents
→ The original document name is used when downloading PDF with annotations
Minor bugfixes applied in the rendition:
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PCX images displaying was not possible
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Modification of folder name which will contains rejected documents from “errors” to “rejected”
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PDF downloading with annotations did not respect original annotations colors
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On annotation navigation tab, text decoration annotation are only mentioned by their type and not the selected text
→ Annotation type is mentioned and then the begining of the text is now indicated
New features introduced in the HMI:
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Resizeable stamp with draggable presenter
→ Can be resized now also by picking the corners of the stamp while in edition mode. Only the corners will resize the stamp for now. → Dynamic font resize -
Polyline end : Double click to finish the polyline or click on the first point of polyline
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Polygon end : Double click to finish the polygon or click on the first point
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Freehand and vertice annotations are now activated by default
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Parameter created to configure the length in millisecond of the notification popups
→notifications.duration=500
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Exposed JS method to permit annotation saving
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Add a parameter to remove the possibility to delete loaded annotations :
→annotation.forceLocked=true
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On border color change, create a border if non exist for circle and rectangle annotations
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Improved Annotation explorer design
→ Buttons are more visible and consistent -
XFDF upload button now allows the upload of a PDF document containing FDF annotations. Those annotations will be ported onto the current document.
→ Possibility to import local offline modifications into the online document. -
Mobile :
→ Increase arrow body to select it easil
→ Long touch triggers contextual menu -
At post it creation, the default text is select to ease new content redaction
New features introduced in the rendition server:
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Added new options for the rendition installer to include optional filenet libraries.
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Possibility to now configure the Rest API port of the rendition server from the installer
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Simplified rendition configuration files:
→ Added the field rendition.soffice.path into arender-rendition.properties in order to configure the path to libreoffice binary files → Added the field tools.imagemagick.page.image.mimetype into arender-rendition.properties to configuration the types of images generated by imagemagick -
Simplified the way mails are configured for the merged “Header and Content” setup:
→ rendition.backend.mailFactory=mailFactory is the default, pdf generating factory from mails documents. It will produce a pdf with a header and a body of the mail page, followed by the attachements.→ rendition.backend.mailFactory=mergedMailFactory is the new, pdf generating factory from mails documents. It will produce a pdf with a header and a body of the mail merged in the first page, followed by the attachements.
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Security improvements to the rendition server
→ Local storage is protected from read access by configuration by default. → Only the samples folder is accessible by default, and it can be changed in the arender-rendition.xml under :
<property name= »localFileBasePaths »>
<list>
<value>../samples</value>
</list>
</property>
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Obfuscation (rendition side) :
→ Pages where an obfuscation has been done will now have their text removed in order to ensure a reliable obfuscation of the text at the download of the document with annotations. → This can be switched off with the parameter obfuscate.deleteText=false from the arender-rendition.properties file. -
Underline and Strikethrough annotations are now printable and downloadable
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UrlParserExternalAccessorProxy : Possibility to customize configuration-time as a parameter in httpRequest
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Allow to open a document containing an ARender rotation in ViewOne
→ Change Rotation Annotation name from CUSTOM to ROTATION -
Mobile :
→ Create or drag an annotation scrolls the page view
→ Remove the scroll when create or drag an annotation
Known bugs:
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The first selection of a stamp after a page rotation will shift its position. The next selections behave normally.
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Obfuscation is not yet available for solutions based on filenet.