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PDF Automation Server Changelog

What's new in PDF Automation Server 2022R1.00

Sep 12, 2022
  • Workflow / FlowChart Module:
  • PAS-1143- New Node! Document Properties Nodes not applying all properties
  • PAS-915- New Node! PAS Node – XSLT Transformation Node
  • PAS-61- New Node! Edit PDF Document Properties Node
  • PAS-1090- New Node! Assemble PDF Node: Assemble all PDFs contained in a zip file using alphabetical or last modified date order
  • PAS-1091- New Node! Convert Any to PDF Node to Convert Excel, Word, Images, Text, & Powerpoint
  • PAS-977 – New Node! Advanced PDF Text Extraction
  • PAS-979 – New Node! Node for Table Extraction similar to our Area Text Extraction
  • PAS-991 – New Node! Add PowerPoint to PDF to PDF Automation & freepdfonline
  • PAS-1055- Review Command Line node options
  • PAS-1047- HTTPListenerNode: Add validation for SSL configuration
  • PAS-1035- QHintTextField doesn’t work with variables
  • PAS-667- Add support for page labels in node settings
  • PAS-1111- Add BCC field to Send EMail node
  • PAS-1085- Changes in email node message body field does not mark flow as modified
  • PAS-696- Default value for “msg.payloadName” variable when value is unknown
  • PAS-1139- User Interface PDF to PDF/A node properties panel layout issues
  • PAS-1087- Handle better AccessDeniedException when accessing files in a watch folder – do not consider it as critical error
  • PAS-1000- Implement branching based on PDF permissions (added to pdf variable list)
  • PAS-18 – Add option to handle unrecognized files in folders
  • PAS-103 – Add PDF/X4 and X5 verification to Preflight Node
  • PAS-1126 – Fix issue in evaluation of Logic node condition
  • PAS-1124 – Change Default Watch & Email Delay from 1 Second to 5 Seconds
  • PAS-1123 – Regression: JSON to XML Node is now missing
  • REST API:
  • PAS-871 32713 – New! Pluggable Authenticator Module for REST API
  • PAS-1088 – Update REST endpoint to create sessions to take authorization in the header
  • PAS-425 – Generate OpenAPI specs for REST API (raml, yaml, json)
  • PAS-1074 – Add SVG Options as General Settings in PAS
  • PAS-1080 – Add REST resource and APIs to work with file attachments
  • PAS-1081 – Add File Attachments to Web PDF Annotator
  • PAS-1100 – Rest API: Use Filename for Title of PDF/A Validation Report when Document Title is not set
  • PAS-407 – Show better error when upload fails due to no permission
  • PDF Web HTML Viewer / Annotator / Editor:
  • PAS-1053 – Mobile Web Viewer: Clicking X on Annotation Properties Dialog does not always Close the Dialog on Android
  • PAS-1093 – Error opening a PDF form + review locking of files in PAS Web Viewer
  • PAS-413 – HTML Viewer & Editor: New Comments Pane
  • PAS-1058 – Do not print pages that were just deleted
  • PAS-1119 – WebViewer: Setting annotation properties doesn’t always work
  • PAS-1144 – Option to turn off smoothing of pencil annotation in Web PDF Annotator
  • PAS-1110 – Regression: Drag & Drop thumbnails is broken in the web viewer
  • PAS-968 – Web PDF Editor: Added Document Modification Listeners to Mark a Document as Modified Felipe
  • Installation:
  • PAS-1121 – Remove Linux 32bit Installer for PDF Automation Server (finally!)
  • PAS-1067 – Update installation should install in the existing directory, if any
  • Manager / Client:
  • PAS-1138 – Add a Robots.txt file in the html folder of Qoppa PAS
  • PAS-1057 – UI updates for storage configuration
  • PAS-947 – Remove Jobs Module from PAS (replaced by the more powerful Wrokflow Module)
  • PAS-1101 – Change links for private domain to http instead of https to avoid getting a privacy warning
  • PAS-1104 – Improve Recent Events Table to handle very large number of logs
  • PAS-1099 – Throw Exception to User when SSL Config Fails
  • PAS-1109 – Error displays when checking “StartTLS” option: Update Version of Java mail + Use app passwords with gmail and yahoo
  • PAS-1112 – Fix issue with modal dialogs in PAS (makes the main application hide behind other application windows)|
  • Server:
  • PAS-1102 – Minimize memory usage when working with logs database to avoid event logs not showing in PAS Manager
  • PAS-1056 – Error handling for misconfigured alfresco
  • PAS-1103 – Keep the last 10 console log files for PAS
  • PAS-1086 – Change variable $[sys.env(VAR_NAME)] to work with expression language

New in PDF Automation Server 2021R1.02 (Feb 3, 2022)

  • PAS-1079 – Web Editor: Deleting the last page does not work
  • PAS-1040 – Redo saving of annotations from Web Editor to allow multiple users annotating (i.e. incremental saving)
  • JOFFICE-605 – Convert Word to PDF – Add support for Raised Position Property
  • JPDF-1847 – Fix error when merging PDF with tags when parent tree is an empty array
  • JPDF-1867 – Fix Invalid Byte range in Docusign digital signature validation
  • PAS-1078 – Web Annotator: Fix Error (XML Parse Exception) when saving a form with no fill permissions
  • PAS-1078 – Web Annotator: Review permissions enforcement
  • JPDF-1846 – Handle UTF8 encoding in rubber stamp appearance dictionary in XFDF import file

New in PDF Automation Server 3.20 (May 4, 2012)

  • New Support for converting Word documents with a .docx extension (MS Word 2007 and above) to PDF.
  • Improvement Improved Word to PDF conversion: support for document meta data (title, keywords, subject and title), paragraph shading, fields such as date, numpages, different heards and footers on different pages, additional image types, border widths in tables, lines, rectangle and elliptical shapes, justified list paragraphs, paragraph borders, justified text in table cells.
  • Improvement Improvement in memory usage when reading and converting JPEG images.
  • Improvement Better support for CJK fonts and more generally CID fonts when filling interactive form fields.
  • Improvement When creating new documents or updating existing document properties, PAS creates or updates the XMP metadata so both document's properties dictionary and XMP meta data are kept in synch.
  • Improvement Edit unicode text (UTF-16 characters) in annotations content. This will be of special interest to customers using non-latin characters such as arabic, asian, greek, cyrillic characters. Unicode text is also supported within document properties (author, subject, description).
  • Improvement Improved Internal Links & Bookmarks: when merging multiple PDF documents.
  • Fix Fixed most "Unrecognized Command" errors. These errors occurred when the PDF parsing engine had issues detecting the end of image stream on inline images.
  • Fix Fixed some issues with form fields when merging or extracting data.
  • Fix Fixed some issues with importing, exporting and flattening annotations.
  • Fix Fixed issue when opening some PDF documents "Invalid xref position".
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Automation Server 3.00 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • New MS Word document processing: print Word documents (.doc format), convert Word documents to PDFs, convert Word to images.
  • Preflight enhancements.
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Automation Server 2.22 (Sep 2, 2010)

  • New: Ability to specify a port number for communication between the client and server.
  • Improvement: Improved text to PDF conversion with word wrapping.

New in PDF Automation Server 2.21 (Jul 23, 2010)

  • New Ability to manage jobs from remote clients.
  • New Support for custom CMYK profiles.
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Automation Server 2.20 (Apr 21, 2010)

  • New:Qoppa's brand new PDF reader and parser engine which allows for:
  • better handling of PDF documents that are formatted incorrectly.
  • better handling of bigger documents due to the revamp of memory management.
  • New: (Windows, Mac) Support for CJK fonts (Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts). PAS can now render PDF documents which use CJK character sets as well as extract text from such documents.
  • New:Support for barcodes. XFA form fields containing a barcode ui will now be rendered properly in PAS when printing documents or extracting images.
  • Improvement: Additional file verification when watching a folder for processing. The server will not attempt to process the file until the file is available and the server has full control.
  • Improvement: The PAS Manager printer list is loaded by the server so that only the printers available to QoppaPAS service on ther server are visible when editing a job.
  • Improvement: PAS can now process files embedded into or attached to incoming PDF documents. Portfolios files are supported as well.
  • Internal enhancements.

New in PDF Automation Server 2.00 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Existing customers update to the new version for free, please contact us to get a license key for this new version. We have changed our installer and thus recommend that you uninstall the older version before installing the new one. Unless you are running Windows Vista, your settings, logs and jobs will be preserved automatically. Vista customers, please be advised that the application data was moved under ProgramData, contact us to get more information.
  • New Split between PDF Automation Server on the server side and PDF Automation Manager on the client side. This allows to setup PDF Automation as a service running on the server and monitor the jobs progress from any remote client machine.
  • New Added new Text to PDF Job for converting text files to PDF documents.
  • New Added new Preflight Job to preflight PDF documents against PDF/X profiles and generate preflight reports. This job allows for specifying different output based on the preflight results.
  • New Edit Document Properties Job now allows to set PDF documents initial layout and magnification settings: navigation tab, page layout, magnification, open to page.
  • New Added ability to specify an order when processing zip files (alphabetical or by timestamp).
  • New Added ability to process files in order in a watch folder (alphabetical or by timestamp).
  • Improvement Improved graphical user interface.
  • Improvement Improved FTP log messages on ftp connection, disconnection, errors.
  • Fix Resolve issue with non US number formats in spinner fields.
  • Fix Internal bug fixes.

New in PDF Automation Server 1.80 (Jun 12, 2009)

  • Support for digital signatures