The Windows implementation of this software is delivered as a set of DLLs. This product supports the following platforms:
Platform | Detail |
---|---|
Windows (x86 32-bit) | Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7 |
Windows (x86 64-bit) | Windows Server 2003 x64 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter Editions (64-bit Extended Systems), and Windows 7 |
To install the demo version of the SDK, copy the contents of the ZIP archive (available on the Web site) to a local directory of your choice.
This product requires the Visual C++ libraries included in the Visual C++ Redistributable Package available from Microsoft. There is a version of this package for the x86 version of Windows. This can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/downloads, by searching on the site for the following package:
vcredist_x86.exe
The required download version is the "2005 SP1 Redistributable Package."
Outside In requires the msvcr80.dll redistributable module.
The installation directory should contain the following directory structure:
Directory | Description |
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\docs | Includes HTML and PDF versions of the manual you are reading right now. Release notes contain more up-to-the-minute information on product changes which occurred after documentation production. |
\redist | Contains a working copy of the Windows version of the technology. |
\sdk\common | Contains the C include files needed to build or rebuild the technology. |
\sdk\demo | Contains the compiled executables of the sample applications. |
\sdk\lib | Contains the library (.lib) files needed for the products. |
\sdk\resource | Contains localization resource files. |
\sdk\samplecode | Contains a subdirectory holding the source code for a sample application. |
\sdk\samplefiles | Contains sample files designed to exercise the technology. |
Notes Storage Format (NSF) files are produced by the Lotus Notes Client or the Lotus Domino server. The NSF filter is the only Outside In filter that requires the native application to be present to filter the input documents. Due to integration with an outside application, NSF support will not work with redirected I/O nor will it work when an NSF file is embedded in another file. Either Lotus Notes version 8 or Lotus Domino version 8 must be installed on the same machine as OIT. SCCOPT_LOTUSNOTESDIRECTORY should be set to the directory containing the nnotes.dll. NSF support is only available on the Win32 platform.
The following is an overview of the files in the main installation directory for all five Outside In export products.
These libraries implement the API. They should be linked with the developer's application. Files with a .lib extension are included in the SDK.
Library | Description | HTMLExport | ImageExport | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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sccda.dll | Data Access module | X | X | X | X | X |
sccex.dll | Export module | X | X | X | X | X |
sccfi.dll | File Identification module (identifies files based on their contents). | X | X | X | X | X |
The File ID Specification may not be used directly by any application or workflow without it being separately licensed expressly for that purpose.
The following libraries are used for support.
Library | Description | HTML Export | ImageExport | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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ccflex.dll | A data model adapter that converts from stream model utilized by Outside In filters to the FlexionDoc Tree model used as a basis by XML Export. | X | ||||
exhtml.dll | HTML Export module | X | ||||
exxml.dll | XML Export module | X | ||||
libexpatw.dll | A third-part XML parser | X | ||||
ocemul.dll | Output component emulation module | X | X | X | X | X |
ospdf.dll | PDF generation module | X | ||||
oswin*.dll | Interface to the native GDI implementation
oswin32.dll is the 32-bit version, oswin64.dll is the 64-bit version |
X | X | X | X | |
sccanno.dll | The annotation module | X | X | X | ||
sccca.dll | Content Access module (provides organized chunker data for the developer) | X | X | X | ||
sccch.dll | Chunker (provides caching of and access to filter data for the export engines) | X | X | X | X | X |
sccdu.dll | Display Utilities module (includes text formatting) | X | X | X | X | X |
sccexind*.dll | The core engine for all Search Export formats: SearchText, SearchHTML, SearchML and PageML | X | ||||
sccfmt.dll | Formatting module (resolves numbers to formatted strings) | X | X | X | X | X |
sccfut.dll | Filter utility module | X | X | X | X | X |
sccind.dll | Indexing engine. In Search Export, it handles common functionality. | X | X | X | X | |
scclo.dll | Localization library (all strings, menus, dialogs and dialog procedures reside here) | X | X | X | X | X |
sccole2.dll | OLE rendering module | X | X | X | X | X |
sccsd.dll | Schema Definition Module Manager (brokers multiple Schema Definition Modules) | X | ||||
sccut.dll | Utility functions, including IO subsystem | X | X | X | X | X |
sccxt.dll | XTree module | X | ||||
sdflex.dll | Schema Definition module (handles conversion of XML string names and attribute values to compact binary representations and vice versa) | X | ||||
wvcore.dll | The GDI Abstraction layer | X | X | X | X | X |
The following libraries are used for display purposes.
Library | Description | HTML Export | Image Export | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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debmp.dll | Raster rendering engine (TIFF, GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX…) | X | X | |||
devect.dll | Vector/Presentation rendering engine (PowerPoint, Impress, Freelance…) | X | X | X | X | |
dess.dll | Spreadsheet/Database (Excel, Calc, Lotus 123…) | X | X | X | ||
detree.dll | Archive (ZIP, GZIP, TAR…) | X | X | |||
dewp.dll | Document (Word, Writer, WordPerfect…) | X | X | X |
The following libraries are used for filtering.
Library | Description | HTML Export | Image Export | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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vs*.dll | Filters for specific file types (there are more than 150 of these filters, covering more than 500 file formats) | X | X | X | X | X |
ltscsn10.dll
lwpapin.dll ltscsd13.tlb lwpapipn.dat |
Support files for the vslwp filter. | X | X | X | X | X |
oitnsf.id | Support file for the vsnsf filter. | X | X | X | X | X |
exgdsf.dll | Export filter for GIF, JPEG, and PNG graphics files. | X | X | |||
eximg.dll | Extended image conversion module | X | ||||
expagelayout.dll | Page layout module | X | ||||
sccimg.dll | Image conversion module | X | X | X |
The following are graphics filters.
Library | Description | HTML Export | ImageExport | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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i*2.flt | 30 .flt files (import filters for premier graphics formats) | X | X | X | X | X |
isgdi32.dll | Interface to premier graphics filters | X | X | X | X | X |
The following files are also used.
Library | Description | HTML Export | ImageExport | PDF Export | Search Export | XML Export |
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adinit.dat | Support file for the vsacd2 filter | X | X | X | X | X |
cmmap000.bin | Tables for character mapping (all character sets) | X | X | X | X | X |
cmmap000.sbc | Tables for character mapping (single-byte character sets). This file is located in the /sdk/common directory. | X | X | X | X | X |
cmmap000.dbc | Identical to cmmap000.bin, but renamed for clarity (.dbc = double-byte character). This file is located in the /sdk/common directory. | X | X | X | X | X |
The following is a discussion of some basic usage and installation features.
All the steps outlined in this section are used in the sample applications provided with the SDK. Looking at the code for the exsimple sample application is recommended for those wishing to see a real-world example of this process.
Any source code that uses this product should #include
the file sccex.h and #define
WINDOWS
and WIN32
or WIN64
. For example, a Windows application might have a source file with the following lines:
#define WINDOWS /* Will be automatically defined if your compiler defines _WINDOWS */ #define WIN32 #include <sccex.h>
The developer's application should be linked to the product DLLs through the provided libraries.
When using the Export products, a list of available filters and a list of available display engines are built by the technology, usually the first time the product runs. You do not need to ship these lists with your application. The lists are automatically recreated if corrupted or deleted.
The files used to store this information are stored in an .oit subdirectory in \Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data.
If an .oit directory does not exist in the user's directory, the directory is created automatically. The files are automatically regenerated if corrupted or deleted.
The files are:
*.f = Filter lists
*.d = Display Engine lists
*.opt = Persistent options
Some applications and services may run under a local system account for which there is no users "application data" folder. The technology first does a check for an environment variable called OIT_DATA_PATH. Then it checks for APPDATA, and then LOCALAPPDATA. If none of those exist, the options files are put into the executable path of the UT module.
These file names are intended to be unique enough to avoid conflict for any combination of machine name and install directory. This allows the user to run products in separate directories without having to reload the files above. The file names are built from an 11-character string derived from the directory the Outside In technology resides in and the name of the machine it is being run on. The string is generated by code derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
The software still functions if these lists cannot be created for some reason. In that situation, however, significant performance degradation should be expected.
Outside In is built with 8-byte structure alignment. This is the default setting for most Windows compilers. This and other compiler options that should be used are demonstrated in the files provided with the sample applications in samples\win.
The strings passed in the Windows API are ANSI1252 by default.
To optimize performance on systems that do not require DBCS support, a second character mapping bin file, that does not contain any of the DBCS pages, is now included. The second bin file gives additional performance benefits for English documents, but cannot handle DBCS documents. To use the new bin file, replace the cmmap000.bin with the new bin file, cmmap000.sbc. For clarity, a copy of the cmmap000.bin file (cmmap000.dbc) is also included. Both cmmap000.sbc and cmmap000.dbc are located in the \common directory of the technology.
The technology includes the following default font alias map for Windows. The first value is the original font, the second is the alias.
Chicago = Arial
Geneva = Arial
New York = Times New Roman
Helvetica = Arial
Helv = Arial
times = Times New Roman
Times = Times New Roman
Tms Roman = Times New Roman
itc zapfdingbats = Zapfdinbats
itc zapf dingbats = Zapfdinbats
Outside In PDF Export ships with the necessary files for OEMs to change any of the strings in the technology as they see fit.
Strings are stored in the lodlgstr.h file found in the resource directory. The file can be edited using any text editor.
Note:
Do not directly edit the scclo.rc file. Strings are saved with their identifiers in lodlgstr.h. If a new scclo.rc file is saved, it will contain numeric identifiers for strings, instead of their #define'd names.Once the changes have been made, the updated scclo.dll file can be rebuilt using the following steps:
Compile the .res file:
rc /fo ".\scclo.res" /i "<path to header (.h) files folder>" /d "NDEBUG" scclo.rc
Link the scclo.res file you've created with the scclo.obj file found in the resource directory to create a new scclo.dll:
link /DLL /OUT:scclo.dll scclo.obj scclo.res
Note:
Developers should make sure they have set up their environment variables to build the library for their specific architecture. For Windows x86_32, when compiling with VS 2005, the solution is to run vsvars32.bat (in a standard VS 2005 installation, this is found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\). If this works correctly, you will see the statement, "Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools." If you do not complete this step, you may have conflicts that lead to unresolved symbols due to conflicts with the Microsoft CRT.Embed the manifest (which is created in the \resource directory during step 2) into the new DLL:
mt -manifest scclo.dll.manifest -outputresource:scclo.dll;2
If you are not using Microsoft Visual Studio, substitute the appropriate development tools from your enviroment.
Note:
In previous versions of Outside In, it was possible to directly edit the SCCLO.DLL using Microsoft Visual Studio. Outside In DLLs are now digitally signed. Editing the signed DLL is not advisable.