Outside In Technology 8.5.7
The primary goals of this release are improved rendering fidelity in several key PDF and MS-OFFICE file formats, improved general font selection for all PDF exports, increased file format identification coverage, and enhanced EMAIL processing functionality. Other customer-requested enhancements and bug fixes are also included in the 8.5.7 release.
What’s New
To know about the new features and enhancements in this release, see What's New guide.
This section contains the following subsections:
Pre-Installation Steps
This section contains the pre-installation steps for the 8.5.7 release.
- Install .Netcore 6.0 x64 from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0 in both Windows and Linux platforms.
- Download .NET 6.0 SDK (v6.0.414) - Windows x64 Installer (microsoft.com) for Windows.
- Download .NET 6.0 SDK (v6.0.414) - Linux x64 Binaries (microsoft.com) for Linux
- Download and unzip OIT 8.5.7 SDKs.
- Run makedemo.sh/makedemo.bat command to install .Net core files in sdk/demo folder.
- Linux: "makedemo.sh corenet"
- Windows: "makedemo.bat corenet"
- For Linux platform, set GDFONTPATH variable to the relevant font location.
- Now you can run .Net applications (OITRedirectSample, wv_sample_exporter_cs, OITSample) from sdk/demo folder.
Clean Content
For configuration and SDK related information, see Outside In Clean Content Developer's Guide.
Known Issues
- OIT-supported SDKs on AIX PPC 64 and HPIA-64 platforms are not supported with base version 8.5.7.
This support will be available from 8.5.7 Bundle Patch #1 (January, 2024)
- OIT 8.5.7 supports PSB (Adobe Photoshop) file formats with few limitations.
- This feature is not available on AIX PPC64.
- Other limitations related to PSB support are:
- Supported bits: 8-bit
- Default Resolution: 72DPI
- Supported Colorspace
- RGB
- GrayScale
- CMYK
- Pixel supported: Less then 30000
- File size: Greater then 1GB is not supported
- PSB and PSD have similar configuration support in OIT which is a design limitation.
Outside In Technology 8.5.6
The primary goals of this release are improved rendering fidelity in several key target formats, improved general font selection for all rendering products, increased format coverage, and enhanced functionality. Other customer-requested enhancements and bug fixes are also included in the 8.5.6 release.
What’s New
To know about the new features and enhancements in this release, see What's New guide.
This section contains the following subsections:
Post Installation Notes
This section contains post installation notes in the 8.5.6 release.
Annotations in Bit ActiveX viewer for .NET 4.5 or higher
When Bit Active X is not highlighting annotations in .NET 4.5 or higher version then, perform the following steps:
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Open command prompt in Administrator mode.
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Run
regsvr32 /u
< path to old ocx. For example, C:\Program Files\OIX\OutSideX folder. This command will unregister the old activex dll. -
Run Sample applications and it should show error as Activex is missing.
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Copy new patch dlls of ActiveX to C:\Program Files\OIX\OutsideX\Filters directory.
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Run
regsvr32
<path to test patch ocx file>. This will register the Activex File. -
Rebuild the Sample application.
To run VC Samples, follow steps:
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Build the C:\Program Files\OIX\OutsideX\Samples\VC\VSProjects\VCSamples in release/debug mode.
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Run the exe's present in C:\Program Files\OIX\OutsideX\Samples\VC\VSProjects\x64\release directory.
Note:
MSI installer is present in Windows ActiveX release, manual registration of OCX is applicable only for patch release with OCX file.Known Issues
- DWG file format support is not available on Solaris Sparc, Solaris X86 (AMD),
AIX-PPC, HPUX-IA. (ref 33653341).
This support will be available from 856 Bundle Patch #1 (April, 22)
- PDF file format, all TYPE1 embedded fonts, and custom encoding are partially supported.
Limitations
Outside In Technology does not support bi-directional tables for
Microsoft and Hancom Word Processor file formats. You can find the option under
table properties. For Microsoft docx, the option is also available in the
<bidivisual>
tag in the document.xml
file.
Licensing Information
Licensing information for Oracle Outside In is available in License Information guide.
Product Documentation
The complete Oracle Outside In documentation set is available from the Oracle Help Center at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=oitlatest&id=homepage.
Documentation Accessibility
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.
Access to Oracle Support
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Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes for Outside In Technology, Release 8.5
F11003-04
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