Below, please find the release notes for RasterMaster v20.7.0 and associated minor releases. For questions, please contact us at info@accusoft.com.

v20.7.0 - May 18, 2021

General availability release.

New Features

  • MS Office XML
    • Excel
      • Reduced memory requirements and increased processing speed
  • LicenseManager
    • Replaced “X” banners with Snowbound Watermark for Evaluation Licenses
    • Ability to run License-less in Evaluation Mode
    • Expired license will revert to License-less
  • HTML
    • Support for right-to-left languages
    • Ability to set character encoding via new API 
      public void IMGLOW_setHtmlEncoding(String charSet)

Known Issues

  • DWG Does not work when no license is loaded
  • XLSX Text may get clipped in certain custom formatted cells

Bug Fixes

  • PDF
    • Enhanced rendering of embedded Jbig2, jpeg images
    • Enhanced rendering of transparent highlight annotations
    • Improved rendering of rotated text
    • Added code to handle missing closepath for rectangular paths emitted to SVG
    • Handle rgb values greater than 128 correctly when emitting filled or stroked objects to SVG
    • Added code to honor the permissions in the file. In this case, when attempting to redact a file for which change is not permitted, we’ll return an operation not permitted error
    • Skip the text layout calculation when text rendering mode is invisible to improve rendering speed
    • For unembedded fonts, honor the FontWeight field in the font dictionary so the fallback font chosen is bold
    • Honor the flag bit in annotations to indicate “do not view”
    • Added support to handle indexed images with 2 bits per component
    • Correct the width for the egrave character
    • Don’t try to render radial gradients with a radius less than 0
    • Added code to support form XObjects which flip both x and y directions
    • Handle Type 3 fonts lacking a Differences entry (build a Win Ansi encoding)
    • Added support for type 12 cmap tables in Truetype fonts
    • Added code to handle type 1 gradients (smooth shades)
  • MS Office XML
    • Fixed bug in retrieving file information
    • Word
      • Enhanced document section parsing
      • Improved Office Shape position
    • Excel
      • Fixed rendering of ‘General’ formatted cells
    • PowerPoint
      • Support for embedded images with alpha channel
      • Support for PPSX, slideshow documents
  • Legacy MS Office
    • Word
      • Improved processing of embedded Windows Meta Files (WMF, EMF)
    • Excel
      • Fixed bug in parsing of MS Office Shape objects
    • Rich Text Format (RTF)
      • Enhanced table cell width calculations
      • Support for some embedded image objects
      • Support for right-to-left text
    • MSG (Outlook)
      • Support for right-to-left text
  • HTML
    • Support right-to-left text
  • AFP/MODCA
    • Fixed bug with Unicode code page
    • Fixed bug with parsing end of page tag
    • Fixed rendering of arcs and curves
  • PCL
    • Enhanced PCL file detection
    • More precise font size when converting to PDF, SVG
  • MIME (Email)
    • Support for right-to-left text
  • FileNet
    • Support for G4 compression files
  • Annotations
    • Fixed text placement in rotated SANN_CLOUD_EDIT and SANN_BUBBLE annotations