Below, please find the release notes for VirtualViewer® v5.11.0 and associated minor releases. For questions, please contact us at info@accusoft.com or by phone at (617) 607-2010.

v5.11.0 - March 01, 2023

General availability release.

Known Issues

  • When heicLibraryPath is specified but invalid, a “HEIC library load path was not specified” error will appear when loading a HEIC file. This error message is not correct. The HEIC library load path was specified, but it is invalid.
  • If showFitToPageOption is set to true and the product is run without a license, then the “Fit contents to page” option will have no effect when printing. The “Fit contents to page” option will work as expected if the product is run with a license.

New features

HEIC File Support

VirtualViewer® now supports viewing HEIC files. Administrators will have to configure the new web.xml parameters enableHeic and heicLibraryPath and install libheif on their servers in order to make use of this new functionality. For more detailed installation information, please refer to our HEIC File Support documentation.

Currently, VirtualViewer® does not support HEIC on servers running macOS. If this feature is enabled, you or your organization will be responsible for obtaining the required third-party patent licenses for distribution of your application with the enabled HEIF/HEIC feature. Accusoft is unable to obtain a transferable license to give to customers. Customers must obtain it directly. See the “VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES DISTRIBUTION” section of the Software License Agreement for more information.

PDF Attachment Support

VirtualViewer® can now detect and extract PDF attachments. When you’re viewing a PDF file and a paperclip icon appears in the document tab, it indicates that there are PDF attachments. Click the paperclip icon to view a popup menu listing the PDF attachments.

Bug Fixes

  • After cropping a page that contains hyperlinks, any hyperlinks outside of the cropped area are now unclickable.
  • Document Note pages included in an exported or printed document will no longer show the evaluation watermark if license doesn’t include MS Office.
  • Users who have their own OCR data should be able to use it now while enableOcr is set to false. enableOcr is for our internal OCR engine, therefore it doesn’t need to be enabled for users to load their own OCR data.
  • Fixed an issue that caused VirtualViewer® threads to hang when opening some XLSX documents.
  • Fixed an issue that caused VirtualViewer® threads to hang when opening certain DOC files.

Security

  • Addressed potential vulnerabilities in a third-party component by updating it to a newer version.