ARender 2017-2018 Roadmap
- Maxime
- 30 Jan, 2017
- Roadmap
RoadMap – Version 3.1.8 (20 December)
Issues
- XFDF hyperlinks – Border around XFDF hyperlink rework
- Rework locale languages and how they are fetched
- Iframe and IE11 : bugfixes
- Quality of life bugfixes on annotation toolbar and annotation saving
Evolutions
- Improve DPI handling from HMI using rendition provided DPI.
- New annotation: the text box
- Read only support for embedded PDF Attachments
- Support visual rendering of callout annotations
- Support visual rendering of Carret annotations
- New annotation content pane
- Improve REST API performance by allowing to configure Grizzly thread pool and using a stronger default configuration
- Add parameter to libreoffice conversion to allow parallel treatments.
- Improved manual saving mechanisms in composite documents switching
- Support parameters in aroms2pdf (as a property file) to activate/deactivate PDF/A rendering for office documents.
RoadMap – Version 3.1.9 (mid February)
Issues
- XFDF Stamp annotations with CDATA appearance are not properly exported back to Adobe
- Rendition Video: improve its rendering
Evolutions
- Display the e-mail address of senders and receiver (currently just the name is displayed)
- Downloading XFDF or CSV annotations does not warn the user that the current document does not possess annotations
- Text stamp: Insert line breaks into the text of stamps
- StickyNote: Possibility of increasing the size of the reduced stickynote icon
- Adjust the border’s size depending on the annotation’s surface
- Image stamp: Add the size parameters of the image stamp buttons in the top panel
- JSAPI: DocumentBuilder: Expose a way to download a built document through its index
- JSAPI: DocumentBuilder: Expose a way to download all the built documents
- HMI: DocumentBuilder: Shortcut: expose a way to remove the selected thumb (via a configurable key)
- HMI DocumentBuilder: Expose a way to remove the selected thumb(s) through the right click contextual menu
- Possibility to 180° rotate the document
RoadMap – Version 3.2.0 (mid April-June)
Issues
- Rendition output format image/jpeg is not supported anymore for PDF documents
- IPad No possibility to print document with annotation
- Ipad No possibility to edit Vertices, TextDecorator, Stamp & ImageStamp annotations
- IPad Resize post-it is not possible
- IPad Can not remove TextDecorator annotation by button « remove highlight »
- Navigation menu items are not translated for email
Evolutions
- HMI RestBridge: Expose Rendition REST API as a HMI servlet with direct forwarding
- Improving ergonomics on iPad and Mobile : consultation, adapted menu, annotations
- Consolidation of Rendition : multi-agent and modular Rendition
- Enhanced SaaS architecture: docker first, ARender API Key
- Full support of the « Callout » XFDF annotation in ARender API.
- Digital signature: just one displayed signature and truncated comment
- A sticky note without value for open attribute has to be opened by default
- Support HTTPS for rest API
- Support API cookie for rendition and hmi, client side propagated in a second step
- Support and compile on GWT 2.8.1
- Java 8 required
RoadMap – Version 3.2.1 (Summer 2018)
Issues
- Zoomlens – correct positioning
- MultiView – Remove Close multiView menu from contextual menu when we are not in multiView
- Mail: wrong date shown in a mail
- Correct many issues linked to mail parsing
- Consolidate version 3.2.0
RoadMap – Version 3.2.2 (Summer-Fall 2018)
Evolutions
- Improve document builder capabilities
- Extend ARender as a service “Features and Monitoring” tools
- Route documents through ARender using their mime type, allowing for asymmetrical configuration of rendition servers.
RoadMap – Version 3.2.3 (Fall 2018)
Issues
- Correct many HMI front end glitches linked to highlight text annotations
- Improve annotations behavior over large documents
RoadMap – Version 3.2.4 (Winter 2018)
Issues
- Integrate JDBC annotation connector as default connector
- Open sub-document in another (popup) window
- Improve Sticky note Print
- HTML viewing: view HTML pages directly into ARender window as iframe as an alternative
- Visualize empty files as empty PDF files. (no errors generated)
- document comparison loses synchronize views during scrolling with big documents
- MSOffice: allow the print with track changes visible
Evolutions
- Create i18n locale logic into ARender rendition side
- Rotation: Add a button to reset all rotated pages, going back to original orientation
- Quality of life changes to HMI (more loading icons, facilitators, etc…)
- Add control Panel under video playback control to list annotations.
- Set annotation timestamp_start in video mode to current video timestamp when creating annotation
- Add drag and drop handlers to video control panel in order to setup the annotation timestamp_end & start.
- Allow direct input of timestamp into drag and drop handler of annotation in video control panel in order to setup the annotation appear/hide times.
- Use a background task to hide/show annotations when the video is playing according to their setup timeframes.
- Add API change to AnnotationAccessor to fetch Specific versions of Annotations only and add default implementation in our connectors