Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Feature Update: 

• Enable support of a licensed installation of IRIS. 

Bugfixes: 

• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing successful conversion of a file. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing one image of many from being correctly rendered. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing successful conversion of a file on Linux operating systems only. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing the detection of a Table of Contents due to the text order of the file. 
• [pdf] Fixed an issue preventing PDFA-2b validation of a document when certain font combinations are installed.  

Office Fidelity: 

• [docx] Improved detection of breaks on scanned documents containing Arabic text. 
• [office] Streamlined optical character recognition workflow of large documents containing non-standard encoded text. 
• [office] Allowed page snapshot deletion where annotations exist. 
• [office] Improved processing of non-standard encoded characters to unicode. 
• [office] Improved detection of combined characters. 
• [office] Improved detection of Arabic diacritic characters. 
• [office] Improved detection of transparent watermarks over scanned pages. 
• [docx] Improved detection of Table of Contents. 
• [rtf] Improved detection of characters when converting to RTF. 
• [docx] Improved detection of shapes when converting to DOCX. 
• [docx] Improved detection of serial images that contain underlines.  

Security 

• A limited number of third-party libraries have been updated to include the latest security fixes.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Improvements: 

• Improvements to pdf rendering clipping algorithms: 
  • Added method for detecting a polygon that had degenerated into a polyline. 
  • Added methods for detecting self-intersections of polygon contours. 
  • Added method for automatic error detection in the clipping algorithm. 
  • Added method for changing the direction of a polygon. 
  • Support for winding/alternate rules has been added prior to polygon clipping. 
  • Rewrote the method for finding polygon intersections. 
  • Rewrote the method for adding the found intersections of polygons to the polygon structures. 
  • All clipping algorithm methods have been updated to operate with the same tolerance. 
  • Improved the accuracy of determining the type of vertices found near a polygon. 
  • Improved processing of polygon edges located very close to each other. 

• Header and footer improvements specifically targeting one-page documents: 
  • Improved the exclusion of graphic lines, images and labels. 
  • Improved the exclusion of large tables, images and footnotes. 
  • Improved the exclusion of headings and titles. 
  • Improved the exclusion of images or text located close to other page content. 

Bugfixes: 

• [pdf] Fixed an issue preventing conversion with PDF/A-1a and A-2b standards due to a specific page structure. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue with CAD source content where vertical text around architectural details is displaced. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue resulting in the top of characters in one line of text to be clipped. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing five rows of a table to be incorrectly merged. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing two columns of a table to be merged into one. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue in the clipping engine preventing successful rendering of a specific pdf. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing the last line of a right-to-left direction paragraph to have a hanging indent. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue where right-to-left text was incorrectly left aligned. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing the rendering of leader (tabbing) characters in table of contents containing right-to-left text. 
• [docx] Fixed incorrectly wrapped right-to-left text causing a page overflow issue.  
• [docx] Resolved an indentation and alignment issue at list items in a right-to-left document. .  

Office Fidelity: 

• [docx] Improved table of contents detection by optimizing sections across pages. 
• [office] Improved GNSE detection to independently recognize glyphs and unicodes in separate stages. 
• [office] Improved support for Arabic diacritical marks using analysis of scale and character spacing. 
• [docx] Improved border line termination in specific table cases 
• Improved the left margin alignment of a document. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing text misplacement when viewed on Office 2016 only. 
• [docx] Fixed a hybrid table detection issue resulting in two additional columns. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing line shapes to be rendered as underlines. 
• [pptx] Fixed an issue resulting in a block of text in a table to be incorrectly divided into six rows. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue that caused one table to be incorrectly split into two tables. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing a textbox to be divided in two parts. 
• [docx] Improved Arabic language character unicode detection 
• [docx] Improved alignment and indentation of content with right-to-left text direction.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Feature Update:

Our Windows releases are now compiled with Visual Studio 2022 build tools.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

1. Fixed an issue preventing the underline style from applying to all characters of a word in a specific document.  
2. Improved our compliance to the OpenXML standard when handling malformed hyperlinks. 
3. Improved our compliance to the OpenXML standard after text layout improvements. 
4. Improved our detection of list hierarchy. 
5. Resolved a page count issue on macOS caused by the Helvetica font. 
6. Fixed an issue causing a false link to be detected. 
7. Resolved an issue preventing the detection of a page number in the footer on specific layout styles.  
8. Improved inconsistent footer detection on specific layout styles.
9. Improved detection and implementation of inline small graphic groups. 
10. Improved detection of headers and footers located unusually far from the page edge. 
11. Improved detection of underline style for descending letters g, p and y. 
12. Improved detection of different odd and even headers and footers. 
13. Reduced false detections of section title body content as headers. 
14. Improved detection of headers when watermark graphics cross the header content. 
15. Improved detection of borderless tables. 

PDF to PDF/A conversion improvements include:

1. Fixed an issue with annotations and fields preventing verification of compliance with PDF/A-2a and 2b standards. 
2. Resolved an issue preventing conversion with PDF/A-1a standards due to the limit for real values.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Breaking Change: 

PowerPoint slide extraction of a PowerPoint ‘handout view’ now respects the pdf page indexes when selecting a ‘page range’ (subset) of the pdf. Previously ‘page range’ respected the extracted slide index. 

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

1. Optimized predefined cmap loading to improve rendering of certain pages of a file
2. Fixed an issue interfering with header detection.
3. Fixed an issue preventing a portion of a certain borderless table from being detected.
4. Resolved issue blocking optical character recognition of certain pages of an internal document.
5. Fixed an issue halting optical character recognition after the third page of a specific document.
6. Fixed an issue resulting in a false table being detected.
7. Improved detection of text background color.
8. Resolved multiple issues preventing the successful conversion of a specific pdf on Linux only.
9. Improved header detection.
10. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a specific pdf on Linux and macOS only.
11. Improved borderless table detection.
12. Improved detection of multiple line spacing in a text box.
13. Improved column detection in tables.
14. Resolved an internal issue causing the separation of table content in a specific file.
15. Updated included libraries with potential vulnerabilities.

PDF to Office conversion improvements include:

1. Fixed an issue where local font detection was scheduled more often than necessary.
2. Resolved an issue causing conversion failure when input files contained special.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

1. Improve the scale/spacing correction for certain RTF format breaks
2. Optimize conversion of paragraph height for empty paragraphs
3. Improve conversion to prevent overflow of text
4. Fixed a bug that could break the link to a previous footer upon increase in page number digit
5. Fixed a bug causing text with a paragraph style background color to be rendered as a text box
6. Fixed a bug preventing the detection of the first page number of a certain document as a footer
7. Fixed a bug rendering the location of the content of a pin incorrectly
8. Fixed a bug causing text and graphics to be rendered in the wrong order
9. Support the ability to disable table detection on conversion
10. Improve the detection of spacing in lists
11. Fixed a bug causing one line of text in a specific document to be garbled
12. Improve detection of borderless tables
13. Fixed a bug that could cause certain files containing annotations to be detected with unreadable content
14. Improve the detection and order of graphics for isolated groups over background groups

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements include:

1. Improve detection of glyph width
2. Improve conversion to prevent overflow of text