The ARender team is proud to present the release notes for version 3.1.1, focusing mainly on bug fixes. Those will be detailed and will fuel the ARender User Group discussions!
This list of new and corrected bugs is to describe the vast majority of the novelties that have a direct impact on the use of ARender. A detailed list containing all bugfixes and features is available at: Changelog
‣ New behavior
When a document raises an exception in ARender, whatever the exception ARender now offers users to download the document. It is possible that this document cannot be downloaded if ARender never received its content.
‣ New behavior
Textual annotations are now created by placing the anchor point to the cursor position, and not anymore shifted to the left.
‣ New behavior
The button allowing to enter the document builder mode of ARender now appears once all documents are loaded. This allows the user to have a complete list of documents once entered into the document builder mode.
‣ New behavior
ARender can display MP3 and other audio formats in the same way as the video. Video view now starts in autoplay. One can disable this by parameter: visualization.video.autoplay=false
‣ New behavior
Now in ARender, rectangle, ellipse, arrows annotations can be created in a continuous mode of annotations creation.
This is configurable by default with the following settings: topPanel.annotationMenu.highlight.repeat=true
topPanel.annotationMenu.arrow.repeat=true
topPanel.annotationMenu.circle.repeat=true
‣ New behavior ‣ New customization
The images generated for documents can now be set to not be smoothed by the browser. The parameter used is:
visualization.images.sharpen=true
For more details regarding this new feature, see this http://arender.fr/doc/3.1.1/documentation/cookbook/sharpenImages.html
‣ New behavior ‣ New customization
Emails can now be named in ARender by their Subject field.
The following parameters affect the behavior of this new title for emails converted by ARender (in arender-rendition.properties): emltopdf.custom.mail.title=Email
emltopdf.custom.mail.title.separator=:
emltopdf.custom.mail.attachment.header=Mail body
emltopdf.custom.mail.display.subject.in.title=true
‣ New customization
The textual annotation can now be customized by its font settings.
Here is the list of the available parameters:
annotation.stickyNote.default.font=Helvetica
annotation.stickyNote.default.fontColor=#000000
annotation.stickyNote.default.fontSize=2
annotation.stickyNote.default.bold=false
annotation.stickyNote.default.underline=false
annotation.stickyNote.default.italic=false
‣ New customization
The document comparison feature can be customized in order not to take into account the spacing and capital letters.
Here are the available settings:
comparison.caseSensitive=false
comparison.includeSensitive=false
comparison.includeNonModifiedLinesAfterNormalization=false
‣ New customization
Stamp type annotations can now be assigned a « title » to put in the field icon in the annotation template catalog. This allows the stamp to have a popup displaying the title when the image is not readable.
‣ Major bugfix
Multiple page rotations can make rotations on the previous page, this is corrected in 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 will be improving the mechanism further.
‣ Major bugfix
Overall improvement in the management of keystrokes when the guide ruler mode is enabled in Internet Explorer 11. The focus is not lost and the guide ruler is still accessible.
‣ Major bugfix
Creating text annotations or geometric shapes in the document edges could lead to an annotation created with wider positions than intended. This is now corrected.
‣ Major bugfix
Rendition side, we detected internally that an encryption management library could lead to a case of Deadlock. This library has now been passed to a version without this bug.
‣ Major bugfix
In the annotation explorer, annotations could not be filtered by author, this is now fixed.
‣ Major bugfix
For the ARender video mode, the controls necessary to pause, read, forward videos will now be visible. (Zoom level was incorrectly placed)
‣ Major bugfix
After a rotation is created and saved, it was no longer possible to delete annotations, this is now fixed.
‣ Major bugfix
In the FileNet environment, highlight annotations saved only the first line highlighted instead of all of them, this is now fixed.
‣ Major bugfix
In recent browsers that can handle full-screen mode (Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Chrome) it is now better integrated with ARender:
‣ Major bugfix ‣ New behavior
The automatic annotations save mode has been changed to reduce the number of calls to save annotations.
The textual annotation does no longer send multiple save event following its movement and annotations save is now delayed to further limit the successive calls.
Here is an example of the look and feel of the new automatic annotation saving mode:
Similarly, in multi-view mode, the save has been improved and will save the annotations on all documents at the same time.
‣ Minor bugfix
To install the rendition under Windows, a drive letter problem could lead to a failure of the installation, this is now fixed. (Installation from drive D: to C: for example)
‣ Minor bugfix
In ARender, it is now possible to draw an arrow from another arrow starting/end point.
‣ Minor bugfix
Here is a quick list of other minor bugs fixed requiring no explanation but worthy to mention: