PReS 6.1.5 Release-Notes En

26th June, 2012 PReS 6.1.5 Release Notes 1

PReS 6.1.5

Release Notes

26th June, 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PReS Release Notes v6.1.5 ................................................................................ 41. New Features and Enhancements .............................................................. 4

1.1 AFPDS and IPDS: New Registry entry added to cater for large PDF graphics ....... 41.2 Chart Wizard: 500 series XY Chart Wizard: Y-Axis Range 'Interval' setting

refined............................................................................................................................. 41.3 PDF: New MODEL DEFAULT_MONO instruction added ....................................... 4

2. Known Issues ............................................................................................... 6

2.1 PostScript: Error occurring when PDF graphic contains TrueType and Type 1 font of the same name .................................................................................................. 6

3. Fixes .............................................................................................................. 6

3.1 Last font in font list is only displayed when the name is followed by a CR/LF ...... 63.2 Incorrect alignment of Unicode text in certain jobs .................................................. 63.3 Sixth parameter in DRAWBOX instruction ignored when it is contained in a

numeric array ................................................................................................................. 63.4 Error occurring when large PDF graphic used in job ................................................ 63.5 Second parameter in SETMARGIN instruction ignored when contained in a

numeric array ................................................................................................................. 73.6 PReS installer prompting an Insert disk 1 error when upgrading from the

DVD image ..................................................................................................................... 73.7 Dongle Upgrade Tool cannot create DDF ................................................................... 73.8 Optimise feature in the XML Data Wizard incorrect when dealing with mixed

content data ................................................................................................................... 73.9 PReS cannot find help files after upgrade .................................................................. 73.10 Error occurring when PReS is installed on Russian Windows 7 64bit .................... 73.11 Hex separator \xB9 is replaced by a null in ASCII Delimited data when script is

reopened ........................................................................................................................ 73.12 Decimal separator not being correctly read from the Regional Settings ................ 83.13 Underline too thick when using bitmap fonts and NEW WORDWRAP is

enabled ........................................................................................................................... 83.14 AFPDS: LOADGRAPHIC with T format causing 200dpi TIF to be truncated ......... 83.15 AFPDS: Ming(for ISO10646) incorrectly wordwrapping when using either full

or right justification ....................................................................................................... 83.16 AFPDS and IPDS: Bitmap fonts not wrapping consistently between PDLs ........... 83.17 Chart Wizard: All items displayed in the legend, even if they contain a zero

value ............................................................................................................................... 83.18 GO and IJS/PReS: Unicode will sometimes have an extra character at the end

of a JUSTIFY .................................................................................................................. 83.19 IPDS: Misleading error message when Null Driver is disabled and no IP

address has been set .................................................................................................... 93.20 PDF: Transparency not being applied to certain images .......................................... 9

PReS Release Notes v6.1.4 .............................................................................. 104. New Features and Enhancements ............................................................ 10

4.1 Full justification with Unicode correctly spaces characters .................................. 104.2 XMLin2PReS now caters for default character sets ................................................ 104.3 General enhancements made to the XML Data Wizard ........................................... 11

5. Fixes ............................................................................................................ 12

5.1 WORDWRAP incorrect on subsequent pages when Japanese font used ............ 125.2 Hyphenation is not correctly handled in the case of single words ....................... 125.3 UniWW DLL crashes when processing certain Indian text ..................................... 125.4 WORDWRAP with full justification not working correctly with Bitmap fonts ....... 12


5.5 Fatal error occurring when REWIND 0 instruction executed on a XML data file .. 125.6 XML job with strict validation keeps looping without error .................................... 125.7 Fatal error occurring when REWIND 0 instruction executed on a XML data file .. 125.8 AFPDS: Mixed byte text not wrapping correctly when right justification is set ... 135.9 PDF: WORDWRAP with mixed byte data producing incorrect output .................. 135.10 XML Data Wizard: Missing pages in output .............................................................. 13


6.1 Font limit increased in PDF and PostScript ............................................................. 146.2 AFPDS: New tag added to define multiple transparent TIFs .................................. 146.3 Chart Wizard: New option added to avoid labels overlapping in a pie chart ........ 146.4 Changes made to the CONVERT instruction............................................................ 15

7. Fixes ............................................................................................................ 16

7.1 RSS handling documentation expanded .................................................................. 167.2 LOADGRAPHIC fails to find files with long paths ................................................... 167.3 REPLACE 'F' ignores the scope it was invoked in. ................................................. 167.4 IJS Archive removed from setup ............................................................................... 167.5 Blank page produced with certain jobs without an error message ....................... 167.6 Corrupted Datamatrix barcode occuring if module dimension is greater than 9 . 167.7 WORDWRAP instruction adding extra space to a line ............................................ 167.8 REPLACE F instruction crashing with certain TRF text ........................................ 167.9 SPLIT instruction incorrectly using double byte characters as delimiters ........... 177.10 CONVERT with F format not adding initial font change with mixed byte text .... 177.11 WRITE instruction causing an Open Error on text file ............................................ 177.12 AFPDS: Certain XML data files causing to terminate early .................................... 177.13 AFPDS: $Result set to 0 after LOADGRAPHIC is executed if graphic is in the

Graphics List ............................................................................................................... 177.14 AFPDS and IPDS: Thin border displayed around graphic ...................................... 177.15 IPDS: Charts at different PDC resolutions are different sizes ................................ 177.16 PDF: Problems searching for text in PDF output .................................................... 187.17 PDF: RESTOREPAGE causing Fatal Error when mixed byte fonts were used ..... 18


8.1 AFPDS: LITREC DS instruction added to allow structured fields to be written into Resource Group ................................................................................................... 19

9. Fixes ............................................................................................................ 19

9.1 DBF files can only conform to the 8.3 naming convention ..................................... 199.2 +PReS Share / WebDirect jobs crashing when using PReS 6.1.0 .......................... 199.3 AFPDS: SPOOL I4 instruction not adding Formdef ............................................... 199.4 GO: tag not working in version 6.x.x .................................................... 199.5 PDF: PDF/A output not fully compliant ..................................................................... 19

10. Feedback ..................................................................................................... 21

PReS Release Notes v6.1.5

1. New Features and Enhancements

1.1 AFPDS and IPDS: New Registry entry added to cater for large PDF graphics Previously AFPDS and IPDS/PReS had an internal memory buffer of 40MB in order to cache large graphics created via the ImageGear library. This was not always enough to contain the created graphic and resulted in errors. A new registry entry TempMemSize can be added under either the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PrintSoft\PReS\AFPDS\prn1 or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PrintSoft\PReS\IPDS\prn1 area of the Windows Registry to increase the value of the internal memory buffer. The default value is 80; however a maximum of 512MB is supported.

1.2 Chart Wizard: 500 series XY Chart Wizard: Y-Axis Range 'Interval' setting refined The Interval setting in the Y-Axis Range settings for 500 series XY charts has been changed. Existing behaviour When Maximum is set to Fixed, and Interval is set to Fixed, the interval value is used directly to label the Y-axis. For example: Minimum = 0, Maximum = 100, Interval = 15 Y-axis labels will be: 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90 New behaviour When Maximum is set to Auto, and Interval is set to Fixed, the interval value is used to specify the physical gap in between each label on the Y-axis. The interval value does not equate directly to any measurement unit, but is used by an algorithm within the Chart library. For example: Minimum = 0, Maximum = Auto, Interval = 30 Y-axis labels may be: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 If we double the interval to 60, we double the distance in between the labels and hence: Y-axis labels may be: 20, 40, 60

1.3 PDF: New MODEL DEFAULT_MONO instruction added An issue was found if a multiple page TIFF contained both colour and black and white pages. The colour pages would print as solid black if the entire graphic was to be printed as monochrome only. To overcome this issue a new MODEL DEFAULT_MONO instruction has been created to treat all images as monochrome unless colour is specifically established via the C format. For example: MODEL "DEFAULT_MONO" ;specifies monochrome as default standard MODEL "COLOR" ;still needed to enable potential colour


;printing like all the other PDLs LOADGRAPHIC "colour1.tif" ;prints monochrome LOADGRAPHIC "colour2.tif",'C' ;prints colour SETXY 1,1,"colour3.tif" ;prints B/W

2. Known Issues

2.1 PostScript: Error occurring when PDF graphic contains TrueType and Type 1 font of the same name

PDF graphics are a supported graphic format for use in PostScript/PReS. However the following error message: 99-1-1-06-0005 PRESGraphic Error: "Name of graphic.PDF" Error -2010: Could not detect the format of this file may appear if the script references a font that has two Windows system fonts using the same internal name.

3. Fixes

3.1 Last font in font list is only displayed when the name is followed by a CR/LF When using a font list, if the last font name in the list file did not contain a CR/LF at the end it would not be displayed in the Fonts and Graphics dialog. This has been fixed.

3.2 Incorrect alignment of Unicode text in certain jobs A problem was found where Unicode text was being incorrectly aligned in comparison to previous versions during certain jobs. This has been fixed.

3.3 Sixth parameter in DRAWBOX instruction ignored when it is contained in a numeric array If the sixth parameter used in the DRAWBOX instruction was a numeric array, rather than a simple numeric value, then it was ignored. This has been fixed.

3.4 Error occurring when large PDF graphic used in job When a job containing large PDF graphics was run through AFPDS and IPDS it would produce a global memory has been depleted error and if run through PDF/PReS produce a fatal error when the page was printed. This has been fixed.


3.5 Second parameter in SETMARGIN instruction ignored when contained in a numeric array If the second parameter used in the SETMARGIN instruction is a numeric array, rather than a simple numeric value, then it was being ignored. This has been fixed.

3.6 PReS installer prompting an Insert disk 1 error when upgrading from the DVD image If the PReS 6.1.4 DVD was being used to upgrade the current version of PReS, the error message Insert disk 1 would appear and prevent any further progress. This has been fixed.

3.7 Dongle Upgrade Tool cannot create DDF A problem was found in version 6.1.4 where the Dongle Upgrade Tool could not create a DDF file if the default path name was used. This has been fixed.

3.8 Optimise feature in the XML Data Wizard incorrect when dealing with mixed content data Some mixed content text based records were being merged into their parent records in the XML Data Wizard when they shouldnt have been. This has been fixed.

3.9 PReS cannot find help files after upgrade If a new version of PReS was installed over an existing version of PReS and the previous installation was set up using the non-default directory path then the internal links to the help files were incorrect. This has been fixed. Note: This issue also extended to the default TRF/PDI directories and has also been rectified.

3.10 Error occurring when PReS is installed on Russian Windows 7 64bit When PReS was being installed on a Russian Windows 7 64bit operating system an error message Error 2609... would occur. This has been fixed.

3.11 Hex separator \xB9 is replaced by a null in ASCII Delimited data when script is reopened If an ASCII Delimited data file was defined as having a separator value of \xB9 (superscript 1) it was being replaced by a \x00 (null) once the script was closed and reopened. This has been fixed.

3.12 Decimal separator not being correctly read from the Regional Settings The Data Manager was not interpreting the comma (,) as a decimal separator for those regions where is this was applicable.

3.13 Underline too thick when using bitmap fonts and NEW WORDWRAP is enabled If a script was using bitmap fonts and the WORDWRAP string contained underline control sequences, the underline would be created as a thick box instead of a line if the LITREC NEW_WORDWRAP instruction was not used. This has been fixed.

3.14 AFPDS: LOADGRAPHIC with T format causing 200dpi TIF to be truncated When using the LOADGRAPHIC instruction with the T format (signifying a TIF image) a non 8bit aligned, 200dpi TIF was being truncated on output. This has been fixed.

3.15 AFPDS: Ming(for ISO10646) incorrectly wordwrapping when using either full or right justification If Unicode text was either full or right justified using the WORDWRAP instruction with the Ming(for ISO10646) font, it would result in incorrect output. This has been fixed.

3.16 AFPDS and IPDS: Bitmap fonts not wrapping consistently between PDLs A problem was found where wrapped fields were being broken across lines in different locations when the job was run in PDF/PReS instead of IPDS or AFPDS/PReS. This only occurred with bitmap fonts and was caused by the different unit of measurement used by the PDLs. To fix this issue the new MODEL RELBMFNT instruction needs to be used.

3.17 Chart Wizard: All items displayed in the legend, even if they contain a zero value When a Pie Chart contains an element that has a zero value it will still be listed in the legend, despite not appearing in the chart. In previous versions this element would not appear in the legend.

3.18 GO and IJS/PReS: Unicode will sometimes have an extra character at the end of a JUSTIFY When using a Unicode string in either GO or IJS/PReS, an extra superfluous character would appear at the end of a string when it was justified via the JUSTIFY instruction. This has been fixed.


3.19 IPDS: Misleading error message when Null Driver is disabled and no IP address has been set When an IP address had not been established for the IPDS Print Control and the Null Driver was disabled, the following error message would appear:

This error message has now been changed to reflect the cause of the initial problem.

3.20 PDF: Transparency not being applied to certain images A problem was found where certain images would not appear as transparent when not used as the first image in the PReS script. This has been fixed.



4.1 Full justification with Unicode correctly spaces characters When the tag is applied to a font used to fully justify Unicode text the double byte glyphs are now evenly spaced along the entire specified width. Note: This enhancement has resulted in a change in the way single-byte words are fully justified on a line where it contains only one word. In previous versions the characters within this word were spaced as normal. In 6.1.4 onward the characters are evenly spaced along the specified wrap width as best as possible. This does not apply to the last line in a fully justified paragraph, which is always left justified. See the below example:

Old Functionality

New Functionality

4.2 XMLin2PReS now caters for default character sets

In XMLin2PReS it is possible to define a default font, size and style at the message block level, for use with +PReS Share, however there was no default character set attribute. This resulted in a run time error in XMLin2PReS when an ANSI or double byte job contained a font that did not use the ANSI/Western character set. A default character set is now defined in order to avoid any font related errors.


4.3 General enhancements made to the XML Data Wizard The XML Wizard/Parser has been significantly re-worked and simplified to facilitate the use of more complex XML files as data sources within PReS and PReS Designer. Within the wizard itself the following updates can be found:

Users can no longer manually create the data structure for the XML file. This is to reduce potential issues with parsing and any future upgrades.

Due to significant enhances made to the XML parser, the 'Advanced' dialog has been streamlined to contain only the option to limit recursive XML elements.

When using an XSD for the XML definition, the XML Wizard can now automatically detect the PReS field types required for your data. In the case where the XSD schema contains a tag with the xs:decimal property, the XML Wizard will set this field by default to NUMERIC instead of ALPHA.

As these areas have been corrected and improved, therefore creating a new RECORD definition from the XML Wizard June result in differences from any previous iterations of the wizard. Please ensure that if creating new RECORD definition for any existing scripts that the logic within the PReS script is still correct for the new definition. There remains no need to update any existing XMLDEF files or RECORD definitions that were created prior to PReS 6.1.4, as they will function exactly as in previous versions.

5. Fixes

5.1 WORDWRAP incorrect on subsequent pages when Japanese font used A problem was found where the text output from the WORDWRAP instruction was correct on the first page; but it became incorrect on any subsequent pages if a Japanese outline font was used. This has been fixed.

5.2 Hyphenation is not correctly handled in the case of single words For cases where a block of text consisted of a single word and the length of the word exceeded the wrap width the WORDWRAP code was adding the length of original word to the line length before trying to hyphenate the word. The result was that the hyphen broke in the wrong place. This has been fixed.

5.3 UniWW DLL crashes when processing certain Indian text A memory allocation error in the UniWW DLL was causing the program to crash when processing certain Indian Unicode sequences. This has been fixed.

5.4 WORDWRAP with full justification not working correctly with Bitmap fonts When a fully justified WORDWRAP instruction was executed using Bitmap fonts (e.g. IPL and IPF fonts), the wrap width boundary was being exceeded. This has been fixed.

5.5 Fatal error occurring when REWIND 0 instruction executed on a XML data file A fatal error was occurring when the REWIND 0 instruction was executed and the input data file was XML. This has been fixed.

5.6 XML job with strict validation keeps looping without error A job using an XML data file with the validation set to strict was causing an infinite loop when it reached the End of File section of the script, without prompting any error. This has been fixed and the Print Controls will now prompt a relevant error message.

5.7 Fatal error occurring when REWIND 0 instruction executed on a XML data file A problem was found where a fatal error would occur when the REWIND 0 instruction was executed and the input data file is XML. This has been fixed.


5.8 AFPDS: Mixed byte text not wrapping correctly when right justification is set When the WORDWRAP field contained mixed single and double byte text and it is right justified, the output in AFPDS/PReS would be printed at an incorrect length. This has been fixed.

5.9 PDF: WORDWRAP with mixed byte data producing incorrect output When the WORDWRAP field contained mixed single and double byte text the output would be incorrect when using PDF/PReS. This has been fixed.

5.10 XML Data Wizard: Missing pages in output An error was sometimes occurring when parsing certain XML data files, causing the document set to be unexpectedly truncated and the resulting pages to be missing from the output. This has been fixed.



6.1 Font limit increased in PDF and PostScript PDF and PostScript/PReS now allow a maximum number of 256 fonts to be specified in a font list.

6.2 AFPDS: New tag added to define multiple transparent TIFs A new tag is available to specify that all TIFs defined in the Graphics List are to be treated as transparent. For example: MODEL "IOB=TIFTM" Note: When this instruction is used the use of the tag is not necessary. In this case of SETXY 1,1,"Page.TIF" and SETXY 1,1 "PAGE.TIF" will yield the same result, with the TIF being transparent.

6.3 Chart Wizard: New option added to avoid labels overlapping in a pie chart A new option has been added to the Chart Wizard regarding the placement of the labels within a pie chart. The Layout Method drop box allows users to choose between the default Circular method which can sometimes cause label values to overlap when the chart contains narrow pie segments, or the new Side method which lists the labels to the side avoiding any potential clutter.


6.4 Changes made to the CONVERT instruction Some changes were made to the CONVERT instruction to simplify the insertion of font changes.

1. CONVERT with the 'F' parameter The instruction will now insert the appropriate font change at the beginning of the field. Previously, only font changes were added after the first font change in the field

2. CONVERT with the 'FDB' parameter

The 'FDB' Format code will insert the default double byte and single byte marks into a mixed byte string. The current 'F' format will still work which allows the insertion of !0! and !1! into the string.

7. Fixes

7.1 RSS handling documentation expanded The documentation has been expanded to contain the advanced options available to the GS1/RSS barcode.

7.2 LOADGRAPHIC fails to find files with long paths A problem was found where the LOADGRAPHIC instruction failed to find graphics if the name contained more than 128 bytes. This has been fixed.

7.3 REPLACE 'F' ignores the scope it was invoked in. A problem was found where the REPLACE 'F' instruction does not take into account the section in where it is invoked. For example if the instruction was executed in a subroutine it would look for a global internal variable, even if there was a variable of the same name defined within the subroutine. This has been fixed.

7.4 IJS Archive removed from setup The IJS Archive executable has been removed from the installer as it is now redundant.

7.5 Blank page produced with certain jobs without an error message A lack of cache memory in the XMLInputManager was resulted in it not being possible to load large document sets into memory. This has been fixed.

7.6 Corrupted Datamatrix barcode occuring if module dimension is greater than 9 A problem was found where the Datamatrix barcode would be incorrectly generated if the module dimension was greater than 9. This has been fixed.

7.7 WORDWRAP instruction adding extra space to a line A problem was found where the WORDWRAP instruction would add an extra space to a line when executed, resulting in right aligned text being incorrectly positioned. This has been fixed.

7.8 REPLACE F instruction crashing with certain TRF text The REPLACE F instruction would occasionally crash when performing a replace on certain TRF text. This has been fixed.


7.9 SPLIT instruction incorrectly using double byte characters as delimiters The delimiter character specified in the SPLIT instruction must be ANSI, unless it needs to be Unicode. A problem was found where the instruction was incorrectly using a double byte character as the delimiter. This has been fixed.

7.10 CONVERT with F format not adding initial font change with mixed byte text A problem was found where if the DB font name was shorter than the SB font name an Unknown Font error was displayed. This has been fixed.

7.11 WRITE instruction causing an Open Error on text file A problem was found where the WRITE instruction would cause an Open Error where the instruction was part of a loop that wrote to a single text file.

7.12 AFPDS: Certain XML data files causing to terminate early A problem was found where certain XML data files were causing the AFPDS Print Control to terminate without warning. This has been fixed.

7.13 AFPDS: $Result set to 0 after LOADGRAPHIC is executed if graphic is in the Graphics List In AFPDS/PReS $Result was being incorrectly set to 0 when the LOADGRAPHIC instruction was executed, provided the graphic was also defined in the Graphics List. Under the same circumstances all of the other PDLs set $Result to 1. This has been fixed.

7.14 AFPDS and IPDS: Thin border displayed around graphic A problem was found where a thin border line was displayed on the right side of particular graphics. This was caused by the rounding up of bitmap widths and has been fixed.

7.15 IPDS: Charts at different PDC resolutions are different sizes The size of a chart should remain static regardless of the resolution set in the script. However a problem was found where the size of the chart was changing when the PDC resolution changed. This has been fixed.

7.16 PDF: Problems searching for text in PDF output A problem was found were it was no longer possible to search for text strings in PDF files output from PReS. This has been fixed.

7.17 PDF: RESTOREPAGE causing Fatal Error when mixed byte fonts were used A problem was found where the RESTOREPAGE instruction was causing a Fatal Error when mixed single and double byte fonts were used.




8.1 AFPDS: LITREC DS instruction added to allow structured fields to be written into Resource Group A new variation on the LITREC instruction has been added to allow structured fields to be written into the Resource Group Area of the resulting spool file. Example: LITREC BeginResource,DS A practical application of this is to embed the code to create a Formdef. A full example of this functionality can be found in the AFPDS/PReS section of the Online Help.

9. Fixes

9.1 DBF files can only conform to the 8.3 naming convention A problem was found where $FileID was displaying an incorrect value when the file name did not conform to the 8.3 naming convention. DBF files with long file names also caused connection failures due to differences between the referenced file name and the actual file name. This has been fixed.

9.2 +PReS Share / WebDirect jobs crashing when using PReS 6.1.0 A change was made to the PDCSymbolsInfo.dll in version 6.1.0 regarding the way dates were returned and this was causing +PReS Share / WebDirect jobs to crash due to an invalid date. This has been fixed.

9.3 AFPDS: SPOOL I4 instruction not adding Formdef An issue was found where the associated Formdef was not being included in the resource (res) file when the I4 format was used with the SPOOL instruction. This has been fixed.

9.4 GO: tag not working in version 6.x.x The valid tag for signifying an extended ASCII font, , was causing the error Unknown Font when included in a font name. This has been fixed.

9.5 PDF: PDF/A output not fully compliant

A problem was found where certain validating tools were producing warnings with PDF/A output created through PDF/PReS. This has been fixed.


10. Feedback

PrintSoft is pleased to receive any comments or suggestions regarding PReS or any of its ancillary products. Your local PrintSoft Customer Support Team can be reached as follows:

AUSTRALIA

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: +61 (0)3 8573 2900

CANADA E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: +1 514 875 5863

FRANCE


Telephone: +33 (0)1 34 24 34 35

GERMANY


Telephone: +49 (0)89 614417-0

UK


Telephone: +44 (0)261 368 2808

USA


Telephone: +1 630 625 5400

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