The ARender team presents version 2023.2.0 of ARender.

Download links: https://www.arender.io/download/v2023

The full release notes can be asked through our JIRA portal.

Evolutions

‣ General

🚀📝 Enhanced Sticky Note Editing with Image Support! 🌟🖼️

Exciting news for ARender end users! In the latest update, you can now elevate your sticky note editing experience by seamlessly adding images as content. Simply copy and paste images directly into your sticky notes, providing you with more dynamic and visual ways to convey information. Upgrade now to enjoy this enhanced feature in ARender! #ARender #StickyNoteEditing #ImageSupport 🚀🌐📝

Limitation: The download of a document with annotation does not support sticky notes with images.

Related ticket: AR-16579

🔗 ARender Hyperlink Enhancements

Selecting text in ARender now prompts a quick menu, allowing users to effortlessly create hyperlinks to specific document pages or external URLs. When choosing a page target, users can set any page as the link destination, and for URLs, simply paste or type the desired web address to create the hyperlink.

Related ticket: AR-16531

🔍 Text Search Improvement

When searching for text in rotated pages within specific PDFs in ARender, the search now correctly identifies and displays all results, including those on rotated pages.

Related ticket: TMAPR-5432, TMAPR-5433, AR-16290

‣ IBM FileNet connector

🚀📄 Direct Access to IBM FileNet Content Elements!

Great news for ARender users! Now you can directly open a specific content element within a FileNet object, rather than having to open the entire FileNet object with multiple content elements. This enhancement streamlines your workflow, making it easier and faster to access the content you need. Update to the latest ARender version to enjoy this improved user experience! #ARender #UserExperience #ContentAccess 🚀🔍

Related ticket: TMAPR-5528, AR-16551

Fixes

‣ PDFOwl

🛠️📄 PDFOwl Module Update in ARender: Improved Exception Handling!

For users of the PDFOwl module in ARender, we've made an important update. Now, when a process terminates normally, exceptions will no longer be displayed, providing a cleaner and more streamlined user experience. This enhancement reduces unnecessary clutter and ensures that you only see exceptions when there's an actual issue to address. Update to the latest version of ARender to benefit from this improvement! #ARender #PDFOwl #ExceptionHandling 🛠️🚀

Related tickets: TMAPR-5576, TMAPR-5577, AR-16658

🔍📄 PDFOwl Rendition API Enhancement: Improved Text Position Endpoint!

For users of the PDFOwl Rendition API in ARender, we've enhanced the /documents/{documentId}/pages/{pageNumber}/text/position endpoint. Now, when making a call to retrieve text position data for pages, you'll receive a consistent 200 response with valid JSON for each page. This improvement ensures more reliable and accurate text position data retrieval across various documents. Update to the latest version of ARender to benefit from this enhancement! #ARender #PDFOwl #APIEnhancement 🔍🚀

Relate ticket: TMAPR-5574, AR-16657

📧 Email Display Fix

Users experienced issues opening specific emails in ARender versions 2023.1.0 and 2023.0.0. This issue has been resolved in version 2023.2.0, with emails now displaying correctly.

Related ticket: TMAPR-5595, AR-16679

🔗 URL Document Title Fix

When opening a document from a URL with multiple request parameters, ARender would incorrectly extract the title. In version 2023.2.0, this issue is resolved, and documents are now opening with the correct title.

Related ticket: AR-16722

🔍 Smart Anchor Detection Issue

When opening a specific PDF file containing 8 Smart Anchors, only 5 are detected by ARender 2023.1.0. In version 2023.2.0 this issue is resolved.

Related ticket: TMAPR-5581

🔧 Quick Menu Fix for Read-Only Users! 🛠️

Given a Read-only user on an ARender Document view, when they select text, then the quick menu should not contain annotations, marking it as a fix for the ARender release.

Related ticket: AR-16724

Known issues

Visualisation of documents

• Connectors
  • Alfresco connector
    • Document activity is not displayed in Alfresco
      • The support will come in the next release: 2023.1.0

• • IBM FileNet connector
    • The creation of documents with different Metadata is not supported
      • The support will come in the next release: 2023.1.0Document creation (Document Builder)
• Unsupported document type:
  • On CentOS: Windows Metafile (.wmf) documents are not supported

Visualisation of annotations

• Sticky Note
  • annotation.stickyNote.hide.details property is not supported for now