Lasernet Release Version 8.1
Release date: 23rd December 2016
New Features and Fixes
The purpose of this section is to outline the new features and fixes of the components of Lasernet Version 8.1.
Lasernet Form Editor/Engine
- Fixed an issue where you could not proceed in the Wizard to import an XML template to the XML output view.
- XHTML Images were not translated to a mail attachment for XHTML mail bodies when selected.
- Template settings for the CSV output view were lost after adding a template opened in the Sheet Options tab.
- Improved image translation for inline attachments.
- The setting for output zoom is now saved to the registry.
- Improved drag-drop support in Form Editor.
- Fix for viewing an Excel spreadsheet with charts in the Grab Files dialog.
- EDI settings added to Form Options for forms with EDI as input format.
- The pattern description was not created properly on changing pattern position in the XML input.
- Added preview and removed support for EMF overlay files.
- A Conditional Rearrange didn't always split properly if the Region had "Relative to" set to "Top of region".
- Fixed an issue where the overlay adding functionality didn't support the ".emf" extension.
- Improved the Preview dialog.
- PDF/A, multi-language and embedded fonts settings are added to the PDF document in preview mode if selected.
Lasernet Developer
- Improved the handling of default values when checking if objects have been changed in the configuration.
- Added Export/Import support for files in the Schemas folder used by XML Transformer.
- Additional descriptions added to the JobInfo dialog help tool.
- Fixed an issue when selecting a Destination with a lengthy description on modules.
- Fixed the problems when selecting a minimized object, locked objects, or form objects with equal names in XML Transformer vs. Form Engine.
- Fixed an issue where a destination as default wasn't visible in the destination list on a module even where mimetype was compatible with the to destination.
- Added preview and moved support for EMF overlay files.
- Additional JobInfo descriptions added to the built-in manual.
- Support for viewing password-protected PDF files.
Lasernet Meta
- The Afterburner option has been added to queues to support the execution of third-party processes/executables after pressing Send.
- Support for Citrix and Windows RDP added to the Meta Client via a new Lasernet Proxy Service installed by MSI.
- Warning page added in the preview window if a job is too large - the job will now be stored in the Printer Input queue.
Lasernet Monitor
- Fixed a crash when editing a server connection.
- Improved refresh of the monitor log when removing and adding server connections.
Lasernet Client
- Fixed an issue where a failed job couldn't always be released.
- Help for a user to only select a single destination, in the Destination dialog, when a job is manually released.
- Support for viewing password-protected PDF files.
Lasernet OCR
- Improved Dictionary support.
- Inactive property setting added to OCR Fields in OCR Engine.
- Prevention to upload OCR Forms without a document type.
- Support for viewing password-protected PDF files.
Lasernet Service
- Handled General Network errors (11) by retrying the SQL command.
Azure Storage Output
- Existing storage queues can be selected from the drop-down list.
- Added support for listing Blob Containers and Queues when using a global connection.
- Substitution support for #DatabaseConnection# syntax in the Database Connection field.
- JobInfos created or read by Azure modules are now prefixed with "AzureServiceBus" or "AzureStorage".
CSV to XML
- Added new 'Include Empty Cells' option to improve the structure of XML format.
EDI to XML
- Always include empty groups to be able to go back and forth between template and XML.
- Fix for a wrongly added value separator after group separator.
Excel to XML
- Better handling of quotes in different places in data fields.
File Input
- Added a log message when a folder isn't available.
- Added a log message about falling back to polling when the notification is unavailable.
File Retriever
- Fix for problems with file retrieval from a network drive.
FTP Output
- Added support for move functionality if the file must be moved to another folder after an upload.
HTTP Modifier
- Fix for headers and parameters which are substituted with JobInfo values when used as input.
- Fix for Response in properties not being used when the direction was set to input.
JavaScript
- Fix for script function lastIndexOf that did not return an expected value (critical).
Job Engine
- Handled general network errors (11) by retrying SQL connection/command executed by Job Engine.
- Fixed an issue with some large font sizes (36pt. +), not being aligned in the expected position, in print documents created via the Lasernet EMF printer driver.
- Fixed a crash when a subsetting font containing an invalid zero-length cmap encoding subtable.
Web Service (client)
- THE optional SOAP Envelope header is now removed from the result.
Web Service (server)
- Prevented circular references when setting up Data Types for web services.
XML Transformer
- The Previous and Next buttons are fixed.
- Fix in migration to Lasernet 8 for XML Transformer Modifiers created in Lasernet 6.5.
- Improved insert placement logic for new objects when no items are selected.
- Fix for running modifiers that work on JobData.
Module SDK
- Support for running in editor mode in modifiers developed with the SDK.
Installers
- Installers will now refuse to run on Windows prior to Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 2008R2 SP1.
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