Version notes for PixEdit® Server and PixEdit® Converter Server

• Correction - Input connector will not start and files are not submitted for processing
• Correction - PDF Bookmarks point to the wrong page when merging .zip content
• Correction - In rare cases duplicate files might occur when there’s a glitch in the connection between core service and input connector service
• Enhancement - Improved qr code detection

• Enhancement - Signed Outlook .msg fails to convert
• Enhancement - General PDF interpretation, rendering and saving
• Correction - Visio conversion not working on 2019 Office

• New feature - PixEdit Server Manager sort configurations by name
• Enhancement - Merge content of a PDF portfolio and PDF collection
• Correction - PixEdit Server changes status to queued even if the source file is not moveable
• Correction - OCR operation on specific document crashes the services

• Enhancement - Updated Adobe Library to latest version
• Enhancement - General PDF interpretation and rendering
• Correction - Date format in stamp command is default not selected
• Correction - Ink annotation not rendered and saved correctly
• Correction - JBIG2 compression write error

• New feature – New separation method in PixEdit Server. Separate documents by a fixed number of pages in each document
• New feature - Setting to unlink fill-in fields in Word documents. This will prevent Word from displaying fill-in dialogs during conversion, which will result in failed conversions
• New feature - Add resource/template folder for Word conversions
• Enhancement - Fixed several PDF open/convert issues
• Correction - Outlook .msg with attachments can fail because of self-inflicted access denied
• Correction - Zip files fail when the .zip has the same name as a document in the .zip

• Correction - Memory allocation error when converting color spaces CMYK/RGB. Could cause random program crash
• Correction - Multithread processing not optimal on single document process
• Correction - Conversion of specific PDF document fails

• Enhancement - Several improvements and smaller new features regarding PixEdit Desktop and PixEdit Server integration
• Correction - Outlook .msg conversions might fail due to Outlook.Quit() method throwing an exception
• Correction - Problem with JPEG compression in customer specific PDF
• Correction - Unable to open failed scanned jobs with PixEdit Desktop Server integration. Also from other clients (PixEdit Desktop)

• New feature - Export scanned document to Word, Excel, Html and other file formats
• Enhancement - Improve profile sheet to include user information
• Enhancement - Remove images and URL's with reference to internet
• Correction - Stamp not showing correctly on specific PDF
• Correction - Remove black borders function not able to detect black border on right side only
• Correction - Alternative save path with Ephorte QR code not working

• New feature - Added input filename and output filenames to log files
• Enhancement - New OCR engine from I.R.I.S. S.A
• Enhancement - Added feature to reserve a thread for priority configurations
• Enhancement - Generic barcode detection
• Enhancement - Send email notification when files are moved to error folder after core service crash
• Correction - Use of unnecessary resources when there’s input files in a disabled configuration
• Correction - Problem with XFA forms conversion
• Correction - Send email notification check box is not possible to un-tic

• Enhancement - PixEdit Server and PixEdit Desktop integration. Added job profile setting to lock scan settings, disabling all user input except contrast/brightness
• Enhancement - Add the original filename to the ephorte separated document files

• Enhancement - Important WCF security features added. An upgrade to this version is recommended
• Enhancement - Simplified firewall settings (setup program)
• Correction - PDF with PDF attachment problem
• Correction - Input Connector error when email configs are added
• Correction - Error in silent setup installation .bat file

• New feature - Copy job profile feature
• Enhancement - PDF issue with office 2013 vs 2016 when saving to PDF/A-2b
• Enhancement - Give error message when trying to generate empty report
• Enhancement - Ask for confirmation before uninstall starts (Setup program)
• Enhancement - Open close firewall ports from PixEdit Server Manager
• Enhancement - Handle file as unsupported when prerequisites not are installed
• Enhancement - Outlook shared item type not supported
• Enhancement - Change default settings in "Scan Properties" command
• Correction - Excel files waits entire timeout period before they finish and are copied to client output
• Correction - Access denied when testing sharing on DocServer folder causes setup program to crash

• New Feature - Optional safety check to verify empty/blank documents after processing and save
• New Feature - New function to snap page size to standard sizes like A4 or A3
• Improvement - New setup program with a modern look and feel
• Improvement - PixEdit User(s) simplification and logics
• Improvement - .eml mails are converted without sent date. This is fixed for Office 2013/2016
• Improvement - Improve GUI behavior during PixEdit Server manager window resize
• Improvement - Some typos in the menus in the PixEdit Server manager title bar
• Correction - JobProfiles.xml will be deleted if read problems detected during startup
• Correction - Service crash during preparation of job
• Correction - Excel file fails due to overload in DCOM interface
• Correction - Server Manager becomes Converter if opened before Core service is started

Important info regarding the new setup program and product upgrades:

Please close any running sessions of PixEdit Server Manager and PixEdit services before launching the new setup program.
By default, the new setup program installs the product in a new folder. To maintain all previous settings and configurations after installation you have to options: 1. Select the old installation folder during setup. Or 2. copy the .config files from the old installation folder to the new one.

• New feature - ‘Resize to standard page sizes’ function. Snaps page sizes to standard A4 or A3
• Enhancement - PixEdit Server manager detects when folders become unavailable
• Enhancement - PixEdit Server manager displays the last error received
• Enhancement - Delete multiple Input configurations at once
• Enhancement - Removed extra spacing in OCR text.
• Enhancement - Job profiles are not removed from ‘Document processing’ setup when it’s removed from the specified user
• Correction - Input connector will not start file pickup if a file pathname is to long (> 255)
• Correction - User settings in "Edit profile" button does not work
• Correction - If an input folder is temporary down, the file pickup responsivity will be compromised for the entire session. A service restart will fix this

• New feature - Erase borders function
• Enhancement - Improve exception handling in server options window
• Enhancement - User can define the author to set on PDF documents
• Correction - Invalid configured paths like for instance ‘Access denied’, may remove configurations from PixEdit Server Manager
• Correction - Output files are deleted when the defined output directory not is available

• Enhancement - Ephorte/Acos separation. Option to include qr separation page. This is necessary when using qr code labels
• Correction - Hyperlinks not working after saving to PDF/A on specific document
• Correction - Specific PDF document made PixEdit Core service crash
• Correction - Specific PDF document was white after conversion

• New Feature - Submit files from input configuration to PixEdit Desktop integration
• New Feature - Remove images linked to the internet on MHT files
• Enhancement – Added option for required characters when separating with QR-codes
• Enhancement - Remove browse button from Archive savepath. The user must enter this manually, preferably an UNC path
• Enhancement - Add warning in PixEdit Server Manager when placing "Deskew" over "remove black border"
• Enhancement - Convert password ‘change’ protected Excel and Word documents. Must be turned on manually in for PixEdit Core appsettings.config
• Enhancement - Throw exception if first page not contains QR separation sheet
• Correction - PDF language metatag not working
• Correction - Input Connector won’t start with faulty email configuration
• Correction - Documents separated with Techsoft sheets gets guid as filename
• Correction - Hour is always 0 when date and time is used as filename
• Correction - Checksum verification on Techsoft barcodes do not work when upside down
• Correction - Word loosing PDF pages on reported document
• Correction - Ephorte QR codes can sometimes crash the PixEdit Core service

• Enhancement - Multithread performance on ‘RemoveBlackBorders’, ‘Deskew’ and ‘Turn’
• Correction - Core service crash during restart from PixEdit Server Manager
• Correction - PDF interpretation, metatags and saving
• Correction - Distribution of processor cores to jobs does not work properly
• Correction - Document parameters are not transferred to new document during separation
• Correction - Memory leak in OCR
• Correction - Visio 2016 not working with Server

• New feature - Add date and time to the stamp functionality
• Correction - Input Connector unable to start if no configurations are created
• Correction - No standard setup is created after clean install
• Correction - Adding digital text (stamp) before separation. Process will fail
• Correction - PDF tag problem

• Enhancement - User guides updated
• Enhancement - Input connector stability and efficiency
• Enhancement - More effective updates in PixEdit Server manager GUI
• Correction - Auto orientation crashes the server core
• Correction - Deleting temporary office files is very slow
• Correction - Unsupported file formats attempted conversion
• Correction - Documents with PDF Bookmarks will fail during document separation. Some MFP devices might deliver PDF documents including bookmark

• New feature – Verify PDF documents according to PDF/A-3b
• - Auto orientation can cause the PixEdit Server Core to crash on some specific documents
• Correction - Word 64-bit processes are not terminated

• New Feature - Add support for rearranging processing configurations with drag and drop
• New Feature - Add support for prioritized jobs
• New Feature - Add support for dwf files
• New Feature - Add support to .odg files
• New Feature - Ignore barcodes where characters are missing, and the possibility to replace characters
• New Feature - Show warning in PixEdit Server manager if the job profile is not optimally configured
• New Feature - Check for Windows Desktop Experience during installation. This is necessary for OneNote conversion
• New Feature - Improved default folder setup
• Enchancement - Only scale down first page if preview is saved as jpeg
• Enchancement - Improve performance of job statistics
• Enchancement - Improve performance of analytics
• Enchancement - Add PDF timeout value to PixEdit Converter Server GUI
• Enchancement - Better handling in the PixEdit Server manager if the contact with the PixEdit Server core is lost
• Enchancement - Better handling of corrupt jobprofiles.xml. Backup file is now created
• Enchancement - Better conversion of Office-files to PDF/a-2b
• Enchancement - Delete Word resiliency folder in multithread Word
• Enchancement - Tags in PDF are not included in final PDF
• Enchancement - Option to have Original filename when using separation
• Correction - Filename may be cut off if it contains more than one dot (.)
• Correction - PixEdit Server core crashes when merging of documents fails. This applies to both .msg and .zip
• Correction - Office creates temp files when exporting files
• Correction - Incorrect filename generation when special filenames occurs

• Enchancement - PDF interpretation and saving
• Correction - MSG files with signature does not time out

• New feature - Upload processed documents to SharePoint
• Enchancement - Functionality to downscale documents to generate previews
• Enchancement - Better preservation of digital content in PDF files when saving to PDF/A. I.e. output file sizes will not increase
• Correction - Server manager and services crash when a QR profile sheet is created
• Correction - Word files created by Outlook fails when converting to PDF/A
• Correction - Occasionally a second copy of the processed document is copied to the output directory

• Enchancement - More responsive file picking in the input connector
• Correction - Incorrect config file in PixEdit Server manager causing program to crash on new installations
• Correction - PixEdit Core service crash when converting documents to PDF/A

• Enchancement - Better handling of large images and tables embedded in emails
• Correction - When converting some types of Word documents to PDF/A, transparent images it not properly rendered

• New feature - Implementation of Adobe® Library. The SDK will assist the internal engine with rendering of complex PDF documents containing for instance shading, pattern and transparency
• New feature - Possibility to cancel a job in progress
• New feature - Support for OneNote documents (.one)
• New feature - Add support for .oxps file conversion
• New feature - Support for AutoCAD drawings
• Enchancement - Show progress information on active jobs
• Enchancement - Auto initialize uninitialized layouts in AutoCAD drawings
• Enchancement - Update failed list in flyout more dynamically
• Enchancement - Convert Pdfs that contains XFA forms. This will require Adobe Reader and the virtual printer PixJet present on the system.
• Enchancement - Update file count only when changes are made
• Enchancement - Restart MS Office Click-to-Run service when Office COM fails. This solves a rare problem that previously required a restart of the services or even computer
• Enchancement - Change ‘working’ to ‘input’ in Document processing
• Enchancement - Possibility to use date/time as unique identifier when separating - Ephorte/Acos
• Enchancement - Add the possibility to use Acos/Ephorte separation sheets containing QR codes
• Correction - Update unique filename in .xml file
• Correction - Order of email attachments or .zip files can get mixed up
• Correction - Exclude temp folders created by PixEdit in input folder
• Correction - Ephorte separation - incorrect attachment filename
• Correction - Ephorte separation - incorrect filename generation
• Correction - Ignore MACOSX folder from .zip content
• Correction - Paper size will not be increased when email body contains wide tables
• Correction - Output file get wrong name when extracting a .zip inside .zip
• Correction - Unable to delete emails from exchange server when IMAP protocol is configured

• Correction - Fixed problem converting Outlook emails
• Correction - Fixed a problem with Outlook attachments order and Zip archives  when saving and merging to one single PDF 

• New feature - Added support for .csv file conversion
• New feature - Added new feature which enables external applications to be visible during conversion. This can be useful when analyzing documents which are failing during conversion.
• New feature - New function to throw error if ‘markup’ is present in office documents
• New feature - Added support for processing folders containing documents
• Correction - problem with termination of Outlook application
• Correction - Emails .eml conversion and blue underlined text symptoms
• Correction - ‘Retry’ and ‘Flush’ buttons in PixEdit Server Manager
• Correction - Problem with removing blank page after separation sheet

• New feature - Property to select Word or Excel for HTML conversion
• New feature - Internal pdf timeout preventing pdf's to occupy threads forever
• New feature - Added a setting for Landscape or Portrait export of Excel documents
• Enchancement - Higher PowerPoint image quality selected for export
• Enchancement - Ephorte Separation file incrementing added
• Enchancement - Clearing MS Word’s auto recovered document list
• Enchancement - Added default user selection when new job profiles are created
• Correction - Specific PDF file in email not able to load correct
• Correction - Specific logo goes all black when saving to PDF/A compact
• Correction - Files stuck in internal working directories and never released to selected output folders

• Correction - Minor application updates

• Correction - Minor application updates

• New feature - Added a “Generate report” feature in PixEdit Server manager analytics Tools
• Enahancement - Added a “debugmode” which must be enabled by config files. When debugmode is enabled, pixedit will copy any failed documents into docServer\log directory, and thus make it easy to obtain the document for further investigation
• Enhancement - Improved performance on logging and analytics tool
• Correction - Specific problem when saving to PDF/A-2b
• Correction - Problem with PixEdit Server Core crashes during startup, over and over again
• Correction - PixEdit Server Manager crash when using Retry and flush buttons on multiple selection

• New feature - Delayed file pickup
• Correction - 'Access denied' problem in the input connector service

• Correction - Problem with barode separation
• Enhancement - Updated OCR language files

• Enhancement - Updated code Signing Certificate
• Enhancement - Dutch OCR lanugage addded
• Correction - PixEdit Server not able to set all configures properties
• Correction - Alternative port configuration not properly configured by setup program

• New feature - Added functionality to stamp documents with a configurable text
• New feature - Possible to convert directly to TIFF file format
• Correction - Problem regarding filname and zip conversion

• Correction - Problem regarding email conversion with attachment
• Correction - Problem with barcode separation
• Correction - Problem with some specfic PDF documents

• New feature - Added Danish language to the OCR functionality
• Correction - Problem regarding file format selection in PixEdit Server Manager