This page describes the new features added in Prizm Content Connect. For detailed information about these new features, please refer to the Prizm Content Connect Help. In addition, each Prizm Content Connect release includes numerous customer enhancement requests, fixes and improvements; please see the Product Updates page for detailed information.
Improvements include:
We've added full support for multiple signing stages to the eSignature module. This allows a form to be passed through several signing roles (for example, Employee, Manager and Director). See the help file for more information.
HTML5 rendering support for MS Visio Drawing files.
Content Conversion Service support for merging together certain pages of multiple source files (of different formats) into a single PDF file.
Added a comprehensive list of file formats and raster compression supported by Prizm Content Connect to the help file.
PCC now offers support for CAD drawings which depend upon external files also known as XREF CAD documents. Full documentation on setting up a viewingSession for XREF can be found in the help file.
You can now configure PCCIS to be started / stopped together with the Linux system. Full details are documented in the help file.
Improvements include:
We've added the ability to work with multiple annotation layers, including the ability to hide/show individual layers and merge layers together to form new layers.
New API methods now allow serializing and de-serializing individual annotations or groups of annotations into JSON strings. This will allow for easy association of individual annotations with related database records.
We've added a spinning icon while loading the first page of a document. Previously we only showed this on page changes after the first page was loaded.
We've added support for many common keyboard keys and shortcuts to the viewer samples in order to make navigation easier.
New printing options allow setting the printed page size, which makes it possible to print many more documents with the proper page size.
New methods allow hiding/showing individual marks.
We've modified the TextSelected event to attach line rectangle information, thus allowing for the ability to figure out where in the document (pixel coordinates) selected text is when the user selects text with the mouse.
We've added tools to allow resizing multiple items to the same height or width, making it easier to create consistent looking forms.
We've added visual marks (red triangle in the corner) to fields in the template creator module to make it visually clear which fields are required fields.
Key settings for each field can now inherit from global settings. For this release this will include font and color, but we will likely expand this concept over time. This makes it easier to modify the font, etc. across an entire template.
It's now always possible to expand a field either horizontally-only or vertically-only, as we have changed the way drag handles are presented.
It's now possible to select several fields and mark them all as "Required" in the template creator.
It's now easier to perfectly place a selected field by using the keyboard arrow keys to 'nudge' the field in the proper direction, one pixel at a time.
New checkbox grouping behavior has been added to the eSigning module to allow for selecting one and only one item from a group of checkboxes (the checkboxes behave as radio buttons while the user is signing the form).
A new multi-line option is available for text fields, so users can enter large quantities of text easily.
New configuration properties make it easier to configure the eSignature modules by setting properties on creation rather than modifying JavaScript code.
Internal hyperlinks from the Office documents are now maintained upon conversion and are clickable in the HTML5 viewer.
Extended capabilities of the Content Conversion Service to convert multiple files of different formats to a single TIFF file.
Extended capabilities of the Content Conversion Service to convert certain pages and page ranges of the source documents to a single TIFF file.
Improvements include:
A new "draft mode" for redactions allows viewing and printing of redactions in a way that shows they're clearly redactions but the redacted content is still legible.
It's now possible to manually apply a redaction reason that is not in the list of redaction reasons, making it easy to apply "non-standard" redaction reasons.
Search now supports applying redactions directly on found results as a single operation.
A new API has been added that enables developers to vertically scroll the viewport of the viewer.
We've added support for many common keyboard keys and shortcuts to the viewer samples in order to make navigation easier.
It's now possible to hide redactions when printing a document.
We have added a new electronic form filling toolkit that allows a developer to incorporate form design and form completion into their web workflow. Based on a backing document, this tool allows you to overlay text fields, date fields, checkboxes, signatures, and initials over this document, and then have an end-user fill the form out electronically and download a copy of the completed form. See the Help file for more details, as this represents an entirely new set of workflow tools based on existing documents.
Error Reporting Service (ERS)
Acts as a hub through which all REST-based child services report their errors to a single location.
Speeds up diagnosis by providing a single location where only error messages are logged.
Helpful tips are provided for searching the new error reporting service logs. Please see the Help file for more details.
Improvements include:
Office Rendering Engine
OpenGL rendering model helps to accelerate rendering operations and improve image rendering quality.
Faster conversion of large image-filled presentations.
Faster decompression of embedded JPEG content.
Improved image scaling in Excel and PowerPoint formats.
Improved glyph rendering fidelity.
Memory usage optimization for Excel sheets with large span of columns with runs of similar formulas.
Added support for AGGREGATE spreadsheet function for Excel format.
Extended Math to support 16 basic HTML colors.
Improvements include:
Thumbnail Viewing
PCC 10.0 now has the ability to view thumbnails for improved document navigation.
Hyperlinks
We've added support for jumping through document hyperlinks. We support external links and some internal document links (internal links work for PDF files only).
New Fit Types
Several new "view modes" are available, including Fit-to-Width, Fit-to-Page, and several useful percentage zoom views.
Document Download
We've added the ability to download the current document as a PDF.
Copy Content on Touch-Based Devices
We've added the ability to copy text from a document. Previously this was only possible by using Ctrl+C when text was selected, which was not easy to discover and did not work for touch-based scenarios.
Skinny Comments
A new "skinny comments" mode will now display when the viewer gets so narrow that comments are crowding out the document itself. This should make it easier to utilize comments on mobile devices and other situations where the viewer is narrower than a full screen.
Text Selection is Touch Friendly
It's now possible to modify your text selection after it's been created. This works across all of our text-selection based tools, and is touch friendly.
Annotation Improvements
Annotations can now be created with transparent fills and outlines.
PCCViewer.ViewerControl Updated
The "Click" event of the PCCViewer.ViewerControl has been updated to fire when a user clicks on document hyperlinks. The event argument now contains a 'hyperlink' property, which is set if the click target was a document hyperlink. The behavior of the "Click" event is unchanged if the user clicks on a HyperlinkAnnotation.
New Book Reader Sample
A new code sample is available that illustrates how to create a "Book Reader" experience. You can access this here: http://www.accusoft.com/products/prizm-content-connect/code-examples/
New Splash Page
Our "splash page" has been augmented to be much more useful. This is the first page loaded when you start working with our web tier samples.
Less Pre-Processor
In order to simplify management of CSS for the viewer, we have incorporated the Less pre-processor into our CSS workflow.
Improved Options for Configuring Multi Server Deployments
A new option is available to set up a static list of servers for multi-server deployments. See Getting Started with PCC > PCC Multi-Server Mode in the documentation for more details.
Improved Service Status Page
An improved Services Status page has been introduced. The new page shows the status of all the PCC child services on the system in real time allowing for easy assessment of system health.
Raster Image Watermarking
Watermarking, introduced in PCC 9.3, has been extended to support raster output types.
Content Conversion Service
A new RESTful Service has been added to PCC, The Content Conversion Services. The services is specifically designed to facilitate conversion from all PCC supported formats to SVG, PDF, TIFF, PNG or JPG. This service features a flexible REST based API and many useful options. Please see PCC RESTful API > Content Conversion Service in the Help file for full details.
Conversion Demo
A new sample demonstrating the use of the Content Conversion Services API is now available. This sample walks a user through the steps and options required to make full use of the Content Conversion Service showing the required URLs, verbs and Json directly in the UI.
Format Detection
PCC now has true file format detection based on the internal structure of the document. This means consistent and correct routing and document conversion regardless of the file name or extension.