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1 PRODUCT VERSION: 5.2 REVISION DATE: August 2014

2 Copyright Copyright 2014 Adlib This manual, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Adlib Publishing Systems Inc. Adlib Publishing Systems Inc. assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this manual. Except as permitted by such license, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Adlib Publishing Systems Inc. Adlib, Express, Express Server, ExpressConversion, ExpressRecognition, ExpressPublishing, Relay, Express Web Services, Insight and Publisher are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adlib Publishing Systems Inc. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW and Quattro Pro are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Corel Corporation. IBM, Lotus, SmartSuite, Word Pro and Freelance Graphics are either registered trademarks or trademarks of IBM Corporation. Adobe, Acrobat and Adobe Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. Crystal Reports is either a registered trademark or trademark of Seagate Software. OpenOffice.Org is either a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle. Portions of this product contain code from OmniPage Capture SDK (registered trademark of Nuance Communications Inc.), Outside In (registered trademark of Oracle), Glyph & Cog, LLC (Copyright ), Pegasus Imaging Corporation (Tampa, FL), PDFNet SDK from PDFTron Systems (Copyright ), FreeImage and are distributed by Adlib under license. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

3 Table of Contents Release Notes Adlib PDF New Features...4 Architecture...4 System Requirements...5 Job Processing...6 Bug Fixes...7 Job Processing...7 Known Limitations...7 System Requirements...7 Database...7 License Transactions...8 Multi-Server Installations...8 Components...9 Job Processing...9 XML Job Ticket Processing...14 PDF Version Downgrades...14 Overlay...16 OCR Processing...17 Extended Outputs...18 Appendix A Version History...20 Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Adlib PDF Appendix B Contact Adlib Adlib Page 3 of 28

4 Release Notes Adlib PDF 5.2 New Features The following features have been added since the Adlib PDF 5.1 release. Architecture New Feature Computer Aided Design (CAD) Documentum Connector Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Table 1 Components The CAD module has been updated and enhanced. There are now four separate CAD engines, each supporting different types of CAD input files. Four new CAD Rule Settings for use in conjunction with the new CAD engines are now available. New features include: Searchable PDF Default Line Weight Setting Support for RSC files for DGN files Page Load Order and Ctb, XRef and Font Folders Settings within the Transformation Rules For more information on the features available and the input files supported by each Setting, please see the Technical Reference Guide. Note: This feature may require a separate license; please contact your Adlib representative for more information. The Documentum Connector Job Acceptance Rule Rendition Type has been changed in Adlib PDF 5.2. This rule now enables the user to match Adlib PDF file types with Documentum file types. Any file type values that were configured in the Rendition Type Rule other than PDF in previous Adlib PDF editions will not be upgraded automatically and must be re-entered manually after the upgrade. Please see the Adlib PDF Documentum Connector Guide for more information. OCR processing will now be performed by a 64-bit engine Adlib Page 4 of 28

5 System Requirements New Feature Microsoft SharePoint Table 2 Prerequisites and Software Support Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is now supported in 64-bit only. Native Application and Supported File Types Several Native Applications are no longer supported for job processing in Adlib PDF, however the files generated by these applications will continue to be rendered by the Generic Viewer. These applications include: Adobe Framemaker Corel Draw and WordPerfect Corel/Novell Quattro Pro Microsoft Snapshot Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio and Project) 2003 and below Note: Microsoft Office files can be rendered with Microsoft Office 2007 native applications or the Generic Viewer Several file types can no longer be rendered by Adlib PDF, including the files generated by following applications: CAD/SDI Viewer CAD/VoloViewer CrystalReports DejaVu DeltaView Efax Microsoft MODI Microsoft Publisher OrCad RealLegal WinFaxPro For more information on the file types supported by Adlib PDF, please see Supported File Types Appendix in the Adlib PDF Installation or User Guides Adlib Page 5 of 28

6 Job Processing New Feature Multiple Outputs PDF Compatibility Statistics Logging Computer Aided Design (CAD) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Table 3 Job Processing Multiple output file types can now be created for each job using multiple Rule Settings in an Instruction Set. Note: Only one image file type can be rendered for each job. The Job Status screen now displays enhanced information on the Job Documents tab, including the input/output file type, size, hash type and file hash. Support is now available for all PDF/A compatibility standards. Statistics have been removed from Info level logs but remain in debug level logs and are still recorded in the statistics table in the database. The CAD processing setting, Convert to Black Mode has been removed from the Transformation Rules. The Deskew setting has been removed from the Transformation Rule Setting, but the functionality will be covered by the Auto Rotate Page setting. Recognition quality will remain the same if the Auto Rotate Page setting is enabled or not, but when set to No, the output document will appear in the same orientation as the input document. For more information, please see the Technical Reference Guide. Enhanced Output to Printers Several OCR job ticket settings have also been removed, including: Rotate: Right, Down, Left (Automatic and No remain supported) Timeout ErrorFileHandling Deskew For more information on job tickets, please see the XML Job Ticket Guide. The physical printer output feature has been enhanced, resulting in improved performance, stability and fidelity over the legacy print technology Adlib Page 6 of 28

7 Bug Fixes Job Processing Feature Engine Grouping Table 4 Job Processing Bug Fixes Multiple Engine Groups Previously, multiple engine group names could not be configured in the user interface, preventing the use of engine grouping for job processing. This has been corrected. The ability to create multiple engine groups has also been provided for OEM customers who cannot access the user interface. Please see the Integration Guide for more information. Known Limitations System Requirements New Feature Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Table 5 Prerequisites and Software Support Adlib PS Print Driver The Adlib PS Print Driver is not supported with Windows Server RDP with Network Level Authentication Setting The Windows 2012 default RDP setting "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication" must be unchecked if a user other than the local Administrator will be set up to run the Transformation Engine. Alternatively, a modification can be made in the Process Manager/Transformation Engine System Setting to change the Session setting from User to System. Internet Explorer Enhanced Security When installing Self-hosted Services on Windows 2012, the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration default must be disabled in order to view the Adlib Management Console. For more information on both these settings, please see the Adlib PDF Installation Guide. Database Feature Database Setup Table 6 Database Limitations Case Insensitive Database 2014 Adlib Page 7 of 28

8 The database that is used with Adlib PDF must be case insensitive. Note: This configuration is the default for SQL Server. SQL Express SQL Express May Fail if SQL already Installed If SQL has been installed on a server but the media or media location has been removed, the installation of a new SQL Express instance may fail. License Transactions Feature Adlib License Manager Table 7 License Transaction Limitations Online license transaction Port 80 requirement The Online license transaction method requires Port 80 to communicate with the Adlib License Server. Note: Please ensure that this Port is not blocked by a Firewall or other security measures. Offline license transaction Initial installation On systems where Adlib PDF has never been previously installed the Offline license transaction method will require the Request and Response file steps to be performed twice. All subsequent Offline license transactions will only require a single Request and Response file step to be performed. Multi-Server Installations Table 8 Multi-Server Configuration Limitations New Feature Multiple Server Installations Manual Configuration Requirements for Multi-Server Installations If the database scripts are installed first and all subsequent Components are installed on other servers, the Process Manager Users System Settings must be modified manually. When installing on multiple machines ensure that Adlib PDF is installed on the same folder on all machines. For example, if the database scripts are installed on C:\Program Files, we do not recommend that other Components be installed on the E:\ drive of a different machine. If the system is not configured in this way, Process Manager System Setting rules must be created to indicate the locations of all the Components it starts, including the Transformation Engine, Folder Connector, System Manager, etc. Users must also ensure that the Folder Connector Work and Error folders have been created in the desired location and that all file locations are UNC after this type of installation. The folder locations can be viewed in the Folder Connector Behavior System Setting Adlib Page 8 of 28

9 For more information, please see the Adlib PDF Installation Guide. Components New Feature Generic Connector Process Manager Component Paths Job Management Service MS SharePoint Workflow Connector Table 9 Component Limitations Excessive Subfolders Can Degrade Performance Currently, the Generic Connector creates one subfolder for each job; however Windows will start performing poorly if too many subfolders have been created. Self-Hosted Services When the Process Manager is stopped, it does not stop the Adlib Job Management Service and Adlib Management Console Service as expected. This occurs only when Self-Hosted Services have been installed with Adlib PDF. Windows Character Limits All paths used in Component System Settings must conform to the Windows limit of <260 characters. Component Status The Component Status on the Monitoring tabs for the Job Management Services will be as follows: - First installed: Installed - First time used: Initialized to Started - Second time used not too long after first time: Started - If the machine sits for a while without being used or rebooted: Stalled - First time used after reboot/installed state: Initialized to Started Multiple Outputs Appended with Sequential Numbers When multiple outputs are created from the same job, the output file names will be appended with sequential numbers ( _1, _2, etc ). Job Processing Feature Unhandled Exceptions Table 10 Known Job Processing Limitations Jobs Hang in Processing Status when Unhandled Exception When using Windows Server 2012, jobs can hang in processing status when an unhandled exception occurs and a dialog box is generated. This issue can be avoided by disabling Windows Error 2014 Adlib Page 9 of 28

10 Reporting. Please see the Installation Guide for more information. HTML Job Processing Adlib CAD Support Jobs Fail when Work Folder set to Localhost HTML jobs may fail when the work folder is set to localhost as Internet Explorer cannot find the file. The following message is generated when trying to open a file using \\localhost: Cannot find 'file://localhost/adlib/docinputs/sample.htm'. Make sure the path or Internet address is correct. This popup causes the Transformation Engine to hang until FMR kills the process. Workaround: Do not use \\localhost (or \\ ) in the FolderConnector Work folder name. The actual machine name acceptable. Pen width Some types of lines in DWG files will ignore CTB file settings. 3D CAD files 3D CAD files are not supported. PDF Export Some CAD files with frozen layers cannot be converted to PDF with PDF Export. The workaround for this issue is to disable the export layers for problematic CAD files. InventorView Installation and Registration The InventorView installer does not automatically register the COM classes that are required for Adlib PDF CAD conversions. The application must be run first ( C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor View 2013\Bin\InventorView.exe ) with the login used for the Adlib PDF Services login account. If this step is not performed, the following error message will be generated: InventorView classes have not been registered. Please run the InventorView application to complete the setup process. Printing Rendered.IDW files with Background Colors When printed, the background colors of an.idw file that has been rendered to PDF will not always match the colors of the original file. This is a limitation of InventorView. InventorView DirectX Error Pop-up A DirectX Error Pop-up may be generated when attempting to use 2014 Adlib Page 10 of 28

11 InventorView for CAD conversion. The workaround for this issue is to run the following command with the same user credentials used by the Adlib Transformation Engine: REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Autodesk\Inventor View\RegistryVersion17.0\System\Preferences\Driver" /v "Hardware Driver Type" /t REG_DWORD /d 0x201 /f Note: This command is specific to InventorView 2013 SP2 Using the Inventor Application while Processing Inventor Files If a user attempts to manually start and use the Inventor application on the same Transformation Engine that is processing Inventor files, multiple instances of Inventor will run simultaneously and degrade performance. The application should not be used while it is functioning as a native application for file processing. JPEG Processing TIFF Processing PDF Split OCR JPEG Processing Due to the nature of JPEG compression, a purely black and white image cannot be produced. The higher the rate of compression selected, the farther from pure black and white will be the result. Grayscale and Black and White Color Depth When processing images with the Convert To JPEG/PDF and Image Rule Settings, grayscale and black and white images are output as 24 bits per pixel. Images processed with the JPEG Processing Rule Settings will be output as follows: Grayscale images will be output as 8 bits per pixel and black and white images will be output as 24 bits per pixel. The appearance of the images should not be affected. TIFF Processing and Convert to PDF/Image Horizontal lines may appear in TIFF output when using Windows Server 2008 R2. Install the following hotfix to resolve the issue: If using 2008 R2 SP1 and the issue still occurs, install the hotfix. Grayscale Processing Grayscale TIFF images may become slightly degraded during processing, i.e. the number of unique colors may decrease. File Sizes The sum of all split file sizes will generally be larger than the file size of the original PDF document, since share resources (e.g. fonts) must be duplicated for each file..max Files OCR is currently unavailable for.max files. Searchable Text Input Documents 2014 Adlib Page 11 of 28

12 PDF input documents that contain searchable text will not be rotated, even if the Auto Rotate setting is enabled. DTD (Document Type Definition) File PDF/A DTD Not Updated The DTD file used for job processing is currently not being upgraded when Adlib PDF is upgraded, therefore recently added content rendering settings, including Convert to CALS, GIF, and PDFa-2b will not be available unless this file is updated. An updated version of the file, AdlibExpress.DTD, is installed with Adlib PDF at the following location: C:\Adlib\SYSTEM\DTD, To update the DTD file used for job processing, overwrite the file at: C:\Program Files\Adlib\Engine\DTD with the updated version. Font width interpretation e_pdfa3_6_1: Widths in embedded font are inconsistent with /Widths entry in the font dictionary. This PDF/A validation error is a result of ambiguity in the PDF/A specification: "6.3.6 Font metrics Note: For every font embedded in a conforming file, the glyph width information stored in the Widths entry of the font dictionary and in the embedded font program shall be consistent." Currently the Transformation Server PDF/A preflight interpretation of "consistent" errors on the strict side. This tolerance may be loosened slightly in a future release PDF input files with CMYK output intent PDF/A document creation with an output intent of CMYK is not supported via OCR processing. Crystal Reports Content Hyperlinks Crystal Reports files are not currently supported. Embedded Resources Hyperlinks within embedded resources, like Microsoft Visio, are not supported. Endnotes/Footnotes Some endnotes/footnotes, that are marked with a color by the Track Changes feature (aka Markup Options), will not be available as links (this is a Microsoft Word limitation). Microsoft Word 2007/2010 (NAS) Multiline hyperlinks will appear as multiple boxes (1 per line), not as 2014 Adlib Page 12 of 28

13 one combined box. Only the hyperlinks on first page will function for multiline hyperlinks that span multiple pages in a table. Internal hyperlinks which point to invalid/removed locations inside document will not be preserved. Hyperlinks within headers/footers are not supported. Some content hyperlinks may not be positioned correctly when Track Changes has been enabled in the source document. Hyperlinks with embedded quotes are not supported. Hyperlinks having a format similar to the following are not supported: {HYPERLINK"<ul><doc>1Documentum DEV e e9519 CURRENT</doc><pg>1</pg><ct> < /ct></ul> " \o "[Documentum] DEV:/Doc2" } Note: Requires the installation of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 in order to accommodate accurate content hyperlink creation. Generic Viewer Support Post Script Using the Generic Viewer to convert PostScript files to PDF may result in lower quality PDFs with missing data. MSG Processing Microsoft Outlook must be installed in order for the Generic Viewer to successfully render the MSG file. The reason for this is that specific Outlook libraries are utilized by the Generic Viewer to read specific MSG information. XSL-FO Content Bookmarks Ensure that the setting Retain Existing PDF Bookmarks is enabled for the bookmarks defined within the XSL-FO itself to be maintained in the output PDF. PDF Compression Settings The following settings (defined in the UI or Job Ticket) are not applied to the output PDF: Convert Colors to Grayscale, Page Content Compression, Resolution, Downsample Images to PDF Resolution, Color Image Compression, and Compression Level. PDF/X Output PDF/X output types are currently not supported for XSL-FO. UTF-8 XSL-FO Files 2014 Adlib Page 13 of 28

14 UTF-8 SXL-FO files are not currently being processed correctly. InfoPath Create PDF Pop-up Notes The template file referenced in the form data XML file must be accessible by the Transformation Engine doing the rendering (UNC recommended) InfoPath form template files (.XSN) are not supported Images/WordArt in MS Word comments are not supported; it will cause all pop-up note creation to fail. Text formatting (font, style, size) in MS Word comments are not supported; pop-up notes are created with plain text. Asian (and other non-latin) character sets are partially supported, based on the limited Unicode character sets supported by Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Visible markup (track changes, comments) will result in improperly positioned pop-up notes. XML Job Ticket Processing Table 11 XML Job Ticket Processing Known Limitations Known Problem OCR Processing Document Validation MSG Processing Content Bookmarks PDF Pop-up Notes The OCR Zone data feature is no longer supported. Pagination Error Threshold is not supported in Microsoft Word 2007/10 documents. attachment processing is not supported by the Adlib Viewer and is only supported via Native Application (Microsoft Outlook) or the Generic Viewer. Note: MSG files may only be rendered using the Generic Viewer option when the Transformation Engine has been configured to run as a Service. The creation of content bookmarks (i.e. MS Word heading styles/ms Excel worksheets -> PDF bookmarks) is not supported through Adlib Viewer processing. Bookmarks with JavaScript in PDF input files are not supported. The creation of PDF Pop-up Notes from MS Word Comments is not supported through Adlib Viewer processing. PDF Version Downgrades Table 12 PDF Version Downgrade Known Limitations Known Problem Enhanced Support for Fonts with Unicode or Unicode like Encodings Documents that implement fonts with Unicode or Unicode like encodings may produce PDF text dissimilar from the original document Adlib Page 14 of 28

15 Missing Fonts from Resource Dictionary Transparencies Not Supported Occasional Exception Error PDF Open Settings are not Maintained Some fonts will fail to be referenced properly in a resource dictionary for certain PDF object dictionaries. A message box will appear displaying the following error: Could not find a font in the Resources dictionary using Helvetica instead. Transparencies are not supported. This includes watermarks/headers/footers produced by Adlib PDF with the opacity property (C or little c for both stroking and non-stroking operations) set. The following error may occur intermittently: The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT)). Specific open settings defined in the original document are not maintained in the resulting document. The general PDF viewer application defaults will be used instead. PDF Text Positioning not Maintained Optimize for Fast Web View Large Documents PDF Annotation Support PDF Documents that implement Widgets, Crop Boxes and JavaScript PDF Documents with Geneva, T1 and Helvetica Condensed PDF Documents that Implement Solid Stroked Lines Document Uses Layers PDF Downgrade Failure Text position adjustments specified in a TJ array in the original document are not maintained in the resulting document. This causes some characters to be spaced too close or too far away from each other. Adlib PDF will not retain the Optimize (aka Fast Web View) setting as it is set in the source PDF. Note: Adlib PDF will set the Optimize for Fast Web View setting according to the explicit value set in the Fast Web View Transformation Rule. Large PDF documents (documents with pages) may have difficulty successfully downgrading. Partial support for link annotations. Documents of this type will produce a PDF with errors or an incorrect page size. Documents that use these fonts may cause the following error to appear in Acrobat: The font <font name> Condensed contains a bad /BBox or The font <font name> Condensed contains an invalid width array. Documents that implement this PDF feature may produce documents that cause the following error in Acrobat Reader: Dash arguments are invalid. Some PDF documents that implement layers may not flatten and therefore will not be PDF Version 1.4 compliant. The system is not detected when the downgrading functionality fails, and reports that the job completed successfully Adlib Page 15 of 28

16 Overlay Known Limitation HTML or MHT documents and page scaling Creating HTML or MHT documents with Office products Missing Background Colors and Images in the Resulting Overlay (HTML or MHT Overlay files) HTML or MHT documents with dynamic content HTML or MHT page encoding Ensure that website font and Table 13 Overlay Known Limitations If absolute positioning is used in the body of HTML or MHT documents, the content will not scale to the rendered PDF page size. Note: Please use percentages instead of specific width / height units. It is recommended that HTML or MHT documents to be used for this feature are not created with Word or other Office products since these products have a tendency to insert comments that are programmatic instructions to the rendering application and may interfere with the replacement macro interpretation. In addition, if the rendering application is not Internet Explorer, then the MATCHPAGESIZE attribute will not function accordingly. The workaround is to delete all references to the Microsoft Office product used to create the HTML or MHT document. This includes namespaces and metadata elements found in the body of the HTML or MHT. This will help to ensure that the HTML or MHT document is rendered using Internet Explorer. If background colors and images are to be retained in the overlay document then the following option must be enabled in Internet Explorer. To enable background colors and images while printing with Internet Explorer: 1. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. 2. Click the Advanced Tab and scroll down to the Printing Option in the Settings window. 3. Check the Print background colors and images checkbox. HTML or MHT documents that have dynamic content must be allowed to render. Security settings in Internet Explorer are set too high causing these documents either to be rendered with missing content or not at all since they cannot be loaded correctly. Reduce the security settings in Internet Explorer to resolve this issue. Ensure that the page encoding is set to "Auto-Select" in Internet Explorer. Otherwise, the font appearance may be different than what has been specified in the source of the HTML or MHT document. It is recommended that the user does not force certain fonts and 2014 Adlib Page 16 of 28

17 color settings are not overridden (HTML and MHT overlay files) MEASUREMENTSYSTEM and MEASUREMENTUNIT attributes in the JOBS element (HTML and MHT overlay files) colors to be used in Internet Explorer for all websites. To ensure this is not the case, follow these steps: 1. In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. 2. On the General tab, click Accessibility. 3. Uncheck the following options: Ignore colors specified on web pages Ignore font styles specified on web pages Ignore font sizes specified on web pages check boxes 4. Click OK. It is recommended that these attributes are clearly understood when they are used in transformation. DTD defaults that are not overridden will not be converted to the specified measurement unit value. OCR Processing Limitation PDF documents with CID Keyed Fonts JPEG Compression GIF Support Multi-page GIF Support PDF/A with CMYK output Table 14 OCR Processing Limitations CID-keyed fonts consist of CIDFont files which contain the character descriptions (outline, hinting information) and a set of CMap (Character Map) files, which are used for the mapping from the CID (Character ID) to the character code in the desired encoding. The recognition engine will interpret the Character ID as the character code (instead of retrieving the character code from the CMap) and cause the image text and invisible text to be garbled. TIFF documents that implement legacy JPEG compression are not supported. Conversion and recognition of GIF images will assume that the GIF image resolution is 200 DPI (105143) Potential for the resulting PDF to be slightly larger than the original image size since many GIF images do not store resolution information For instance: o Image size of 2550 x 3300 pixels will produce a PDF with a page size of x 16.5 When 300 DPI is assumed, the resulting PDF will have a page size of 8.5 x 11.0 Conversion and recognition of multi-page GIF documents will result in a PDF document of the first page of the original image (105127). Multi-page GIF documents are not fully supported. PDF/A document creation with an output intent of CMYK is not 2014 Adlib Page 17 of 28

18 intent supported. Extended Outputs Limitation HTML Output Table 15 Extended Output Limitations Image Resolution Setting the Image Resolution to anything other than Automatic may cause some documents to fail. Hyperlinks Setting the Image Resolution to anything other than Automatic may cause some documents to fail. Image Output Color LZW Compression The Color LZW compression option is not supported Font Substitution When fonts are not available on the system performing the conversion, font substitution will occur in the resulting document unless the font is fully embedded in the source PDF. Pagination Issues Adlib PDF does not implement the Preserve Character Spacing option in the Office Output module. This does cause pagination issues from time to time but the resulting document is easier to edit. Secured PDF PDF documents that are secured with a PDF password cannot be processed. HTML Output MS Word Image format, Image resolution, and HTML splitting are only available for MS Word documents when the HTMLMSWORD element is disabled. MS Excel Image format, Image resolution, and HTML splitting are only available for MS Excel spreadsheets when the HTMLMSEXCEL element is disabled. MS PowerPoint Image format, Image resolution, and HTML splitting are only 2014 Adlib Page 18 of 28

19 available for MS PowerPoint presentations when the HTMLMSPOWERPOINT element is disabled. Post-Processing Post-processing (Stamping, Transformations, etc) is not supported when the HTMLMSWORD, HTMLMSEXCEL or HTMLMSPOWERPOINT elements are enabled. PDF Encoding PDF files (Acrobat 5+) with certain types of text encoding will cause processing to fail. Mozilla Firefox Compatibility <SPAN elements are created in the Output file (HTML). These elements are not interpreted by Mozilla Firefox (Microsoft Internet Explorer does handle them). Removing the <SPAN elements (in their entirety) will allow the Output to load in Mozilla Firefox. NOTE: Output created via the HTMLMSWORD, HTMLMSEXCEL and HTMLMSPOWERPOINT methods will not contain <SPAN elements and will load in Mozilla Firefox. PDF Forms PDF source documents that contain PDF Forms may have fidelity issues (e.g. positioning, shifted content, incorrect rotation, etc.) 2014 Adlib Page 19 of 28

20 Appendix A Version History Adlib PDF 5.1 Important: Direct upgrades from Adlib PDF 5.0 are now supported. Please see the Adlib PDF Installation Guide for more information. New Features System Requirements Native application support has been added for the processing of Autodesk Inventor 2014 and Inventor View 2013 SP2 (64-bit) CAD files. Support has been added for the OCR processing of the Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. Architecture The CAD module has been updated and enhanced Support has been added for a Connector that integrates Adlib PDF with IBM FileNet. Support has been added for a Connector that integrates Adlib PDF with EMC Documentum. Bug Fixes PDF Stamping Previously, the &[Date] and &[Time] formats used PDF stamping did not following the date and time formats in the Regional Settings of the Transformation Engine server. This has been corrected. OCR Previously, headers, footers and watermarks added to a PDF with Adobe Acrobat were removed when the file was processed through Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This has been fixed. Folder Connector Previously, the Source Error, Output and Input folder metadata was not being submitted upon initialization of the Folder Connector. This metadata is used by Helper Applications. This issue has been corrected. Previously, if the Folder Connector could not locate the output file in the work folder, an error message was logged continually until the job was manually deleted. This has been corrected. The job will fail if the output file cannot be found. Previously, if the Folder Connector was configured to delete the input file and rename the output to InputBaseFileName, the output file would be deleted if the input file was a PDF. This has been fixed Adlib Page 20 of 28

21 Adlib PDF 5.0 Important: The Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R1 (64-bit) and Oracle operating systems are no longer supported by Adlib PDF. Direct upgrades to Adlib PDF 5.0 are not supported. Any previous versions of Adlib PDF must be uninstalled before Adlib PDF 5.0 can be installed. Adlib PDF 5.0 is now available in 3 editions: Adlib PDF Express, Adlib PDF OEM and Adlib PDF Enterprise. New Features System Requirements Support has been added for the Microsoft Office 2013 applications. Support has been added for Microsoft SharePoint Visual C++ Redistributable Package 2010 (64-bit) is now a prerequisite for Adlib PDF. Architecture Several new image processing engines have been added to Adlib PDF, offering improved performance and flexibility. All Connectors have been migrated to the WCF Job Management Service. The Documentum and Exchange Connectors can now be used in conjunction with self-hosted services. Multiple Environments are no longer supported in Adlib PDF all Components will be registered to a single Environment. The Environments page has been renamed to "Environment". Job ID has been added as a search criterion on the Job Status page. The term "Sample" has been removed from the Sample Folder Source, Sample Generic Source and Sample SharePoint Workflow Sources. The "read-only" Environment and Instruction Set have been removed from the Management Console. Job Processing Job Acceptance and Transformation Rule Settings have been categorized on the user interface. Icons have been added to Rule Settings. Multiple settings have been added to the Transformation Engine / Engine Registry Rule Setting, including Document Rendering settings, Native Apps settings and user-defined registry values Adlib Page 21 of 28

22 An option has been added to the Convert to PDF/Microsoft Word Transformation Rule Setting to enable or disable A4/letter resizing when printing. An Automatic setting is also available, which will maintain the setting that has been configured in MS Word. Bug Fixes Sort Order When documents in a PDF Portfolio were sorted by Name or Modified, the output did not retain the correct order. This has been fixed. PDF Portfolios created using Outlook Previously, PDF Portfolios created with Outlook could not be rendered using Adlib PDF. This is no longer the case..vcf Card Detected as XML Previously, when attempting to render a.vcf card with a native application, job processing would timeout because this file type is not supported by native application processing. This file type will now be ignored if the Generic viewer (Convert to PDF/Generic Rule Setting) is not used for processing. EPS Files Fail to Render EPS files failed to render in some previous versions of Adlib PDF. This has been corrected. VSD Files do Not Scale After PTL Conversion Previously, the first VSD file to be rendered after the conversion of a PLT drawing would fail to scale correctly. This issue has been corrected. Conversion of docx files to TIFF Previously, when converting docx files to TIFF with the DownsampleImages = no setting, blank pages would be created as the TIFF output. This has been corrected. InfoPath Paper Size not Reset The paper size was not being reset after processing InfoPath documents with text attachments. The next item was being processed with the page dimensions of the last document. This has been fixed. TOC Overwrites Page Numbers Previously, the page number was being overwritten by the last line of the TOC in certain circumstances. This has been fixed. Conversion of Files with Insufficient Data Source image files with insufficient data were being converted to blank images, rather than being flagged as an error. This has been corrected. Custom Date Type Metadata not Returned to SharePoint Metadata in custom date/time fields were not being returned to SharePoint after conversion. This has been fixed..msg Files Fail MS Outlook Conversion 2014 Adlib Page 22 of 28

23 Previously, certain.msg files were being converted unexpectedly with the Generic viewer instead of MS Outlook (Native App processing) due to an issue with pop-ups within Outlook. This has been corrected. RTF Messages with Embedded Images When using an Adlib viewer for conversion, RTF messages with embedded images were being detected as attachments, which caused the rest of the message body text and images to shift vertically in the PDF output. This has been fixed. Excel Spreadsheet Tabs Labeled with Unicode Characters Previously, Excel files with tabs labeled with Unicode characters would not render successfully. This has been corrected. Adlib PDF 1.8 Important: The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system is not supported by Adlib PDF 1.8. New Features System Requirements The Windows Server 2012 operating system is now supported with Adlib PDF for use with SQL Server. IIS prerequisites are no longer required if Self-Hosted Services are installed. Microsoft.NET 4.0 is now required for the installation of the Adlib PDF Transformation Engine. The XPS Viewer feature must be installed in order to use the ConvertToXPS Transformation Rule Settings to convert input to the XPS file type. Support has been added for the SQL Server 2012 database. Architecture The Folder Connector has been redesigned using Microsoft.NET technology. The new design eliminates the need for Java prerequisites and offers performance enhancements. The user now has the option to install self-hosted Services (web and Job Management Services) instead of IIS-based services. Job Processing The OCR engine has been updated in order to provide improved performance and stability. A Licensing Tab has been added to the System Settings page which displays the current and expired product and software maintenance licenses associated with the system Adlib Page 23 of 28

24 Input file processing by the Generic Viewer engine has been updated in order to provide better stability and fidelity of output files. The Adlib Viewer engine has been updated in order to provide enhanced stability and fidelity for message file processing. Bug Fixes PDF Optimize Transformation Rule Setting This Rule Setting was not functioning as designed. The issue has been corrected. Evaluation License Messaging Previously, the log messages generated for a job processed by a server with an evaluation license were incomplete. This has been corrected. Offline Activatations Previously, the Adlib PDF License Manager did not indicate to users that the offline activation process needs to be run twice when Adlib PDF is licensed for the first time (i.e. two Request/Response file pairs must be processed). This messaging has been corrected. Adlib PDF New Features Long Dimension in Convert to Image Transformation Rules The Long Dimension attribute can be used to preserve the aspect ratio of the original document. Native Application Support for Internet Explorer 9 Bug Fixes XML Job Tickets Content was removed when jobs were rendered with the Flatten Form Fields functionality. This has been corrected. Adlib PDF 1.7 New Features Components Automatic Registration of Components (with the exception of Connectors) in the default Environment during a Custom Installation or Silent Installation in which Components are installed on multiple machines. The Job Management Services Component for the Generic Connector has been converted to WCF (Windows Communication Protocol). A default Source and Instruction Set are created automatically for the Generic Connector during registration Adlib Page 24 of 28

25 The Process Manager will no longer try to start or restart Components that are not installed on the same machine. Adlib PDF Upgrade (Oracle) Adlib PDF versions to 1.6 for use with Oracle will now be automatically upgraded when installing Adlib PDF 1.7. Scripts retain the manual process. Job Processing The green caution icon can now be clicked directly to Publish and activate changes to the system. Users can now search for Rule Setting names or attributes within Rule Settings using full or partial search terms. Job Details Tab Reorganization The Job Processing and Job Ticket tabs have been consolidated on the Job tab within the Job Status details. Clicking either tab will open the log information within an XML Visualizer. A chevron-shaped Show/Hide icon has been added to the top right of the Management Console window. The Settings Panel can now be resized in order to maximize the work area. The user is now informed if a filter has been applied to the information displayed on the Monitoring tabs. Configure and Action Labels A Configure label has been added to the cogwheel drop-down menu and an Action label has been added to the pencil drop-down menu on the Job Settings and Environment windows. Rules and Job Processing Microsoft InfoPath Views and Attachments A view can be specified when rendering Microsoft InfoPath documents using the Convert to PDF.Microsoft InfoPath Rule Setting. Attachments can be rendered using an XML Job Ticket Template. Rendering Support has been added for Microsoft InfoPath 2010 files. A Transformation Rule has been added to produce CALS output. A Transformation Rule has been added to produce GIF output. Content can now be output to plain text using the Convert to Text Transformation Rule Setting. Adlib PDF can now produce PDF output that reliably meets the PDF/A 2b standard. Automatic Hyperlink Routine Documents are now analyzed prior to rendering in order to determine the hyperlink routines that are required to process each document. Permissions and Licensing Windows Authentication for SQL Server is now available when installing Adlib PDF. Installation Folder Permissions for the Network Service user 2014 Adlib Page 25 of 28

26 During the installation, the specified installation folder will be checked to ensure that the user Network Service has the required permissions to allow IIS to access the web.config file in the install folder. System Prerequisites The.NET 4.0 Framework has been added to the list of System Requirements for Adlib PDF 1.7. Bug Fixes Silent and Custom Installation Prerequisites The Adlib PDF installer will now restrict System Requirement checks to the specific Components being installed during a Silent or Custom installation. PDF/A Preflight The Adlib PDF/A preflight routine did not distinguish between PDF/A versions 1a and 1b. Hyperlinks in HTML Documents Previously hyperlinks were not being reproduced when HTML input documents were processed. Adlib PDF 1.6 New Features Automatic upgrade is now available from earlier versions of Adlib PDF (versions and above) to the latest version. Bug Fixes Silent Install Silent installation previously failed when installing only the Transformation Engine component. System Log Page The delete button in the search box was removed when navigating to another page and back. CAD Conversion Create Layers option was being applied even if it was disabled. Resolved an issue where all IDW files were failing to render. MS Word Conversion D2 (Documentum) hyperlinks were improperly formatted when rendered to PDF. PDF/A Conversion The Fast Web View option was being ignored (if enabled) when converting to PDF/A format. Adlib PDF New Features Database Support has been introduced for the Oracle Database, version 11G Adlib Page 26 of 28

27 A SQL Express database can now be installed along with Adlib PDF. An automated tool to control database size is now available with the installation of Adlib PDF. Connectors SharePoint Workflow Connector Multiple connections (Sources) can be linked to Microsoft SharePoint so that multiple collections of job processing rules (Instruction Sets) can be configured to service the needs of each user group. One Connector can be installed and deployed across an entire SharePoint farm. During installation of the Connector, the site collection feature in the site collection feature gallery can be set to Hide in order to limit access to our workflows. Job Processing An address is now captured during installation. Users can now search for Instruction Set names using full or partial search terms. Info level logging messages have been streamlined and reduced. The Web Services interface Component registration process has been simplified. Publishing an Environment after a configuration change will now re-initialize Components without the need for restarting the Process Manager Service. PDF Optimization By default, duplicate fonts, images, ICC profiles and other data streams are removed when jobs are processed in order to produce optimized PDF output. Image down-sampling settings for compression and maximum resolution of black and white, greyscale and color images can also be configured. Adlib PDF can now produce PDF output that reliably meets the PDF/A 1a standard. Rotate, deskew and word correction attributes have been added to the OCR Transformation Rule Setting Adlib Page 27 of 28

28 Appendix B Contact Adlib Please contact Adlib if you have any questions or comments. Web: info@adlibsoftware.com for General Inquiries sales@adlibsoftware.com for Sales Support support@adlibsoftware.com for Technical Support Phone: Fax: Toll Free: Sales: Support: (North America Only) Mail: Adlib South Service Road Burlington, Ontario. L7N 3H8 Canada 2014 Adlib Page 28 of 28