What’s New for Oracle Outside In Technology

Here are the features listed for the particular release:

List of OIT Releases

NEW RELEASES	ONGOING RELEASES (in production)	PREVIOUS RELEASES
8.5.8 July 2025 (Upcoming Base Release) 8.5.7 July 2025	8.5.7 April 2025 8.5.7 January 2025 8.5.7 October 2024 8.5.7 July 2024 8.5.7 April 2024 8.5.7 January 2024 8.5.7 October 2023 (Base Release)	8.5.6 Lifecycle ended on 30-July-2023 8.5.6 April 2023 8.5.6 January 2023 8.5.6 October 2022 8.5.6 July 2022 8.5.6 April 2022 8.5.5 Lifecycle ended on 30-June-2022 8.5.4 Lifecycle ended on 31-Dec-2020 8.5.3 Lifecycle ended on 31-May-2019

Note: For the latest information on Certified Platforms and Supported Formats, see Certified Platforms and Supported Formats from the Get Started page.

Release 8.5.7 — July 2025

• Implementation of user’s comments and threaded comments for MS365 Office documents

  Issue: OIT content access processing functionality was not enabled for MS365 Office documents.

  Solution: OIT implemented user’s comments and threaded comments for MS365 Office documents.

• Implementation to rectify the height and Width of the image and setting rotation angle

  Issue: OIT content access processing functionality was not enabled for MS365 Office documents.

  Solution: OIT implemented user’s comments and threaded comments for MS365 Office documents correctly.

• Known Issues

  • Fidelity issues on Viewing a DOCX file

    Issue: The CSS property mso-fit-shape-to-text is a proprietary Microsoft Office property used in VML (Vector Markup Language) to control whether a shape (like a textbox) resizes to fit the text it contains. Setting mso-fit-shape-to-text: true will cause the shape to expand or contract to accommodate the text, while mso-fit-shape-to-text: false (the default) will cause the text to be clipped or overflow if it doesn’t fit within the shape’s boundaries. OIT is not supporting it.

    Solution: OIT creates Box first, and text is rendered in another process later on. Auto sizing the box would require text stream length and font size calculation when the box is being constructed.

  • PDF export of gif causes file is corrupt error

    Issue: There are few GIF sample files where the calculations cannot fit in a two-byte word because of the enormous dimensions. We are receiving a skewed version of this GIF in addition to the ScanLine being altered.

    Solution: OIT resolved Sample file corrupt error in this bug. But images are not good. Open a new bug for tracking* Bug 38146962 - WCC - PDF export of GIF generates a distorted output file.

  • Text before table in HWP file is duplicated and shifted when table is spanned over two pages

    Issue: The bug is caused by text data appearing after the table in the sample file, causing issues with xml versions of hwp. The issue is present in core display modules, and fixing it in core would result in regression. A change has been made to improve output.

    Solution: After the fix , If the table spans two pages , there can duplicate text present in the document. Further investigation is ongoing. Tracking Bug 38163115 - OIT is unable render the table correctly , despite reading correct offset values.

Release 8.5.7 — April 2025

• New Export Status flag for Identification of Layered PDF

  Issue: Layered PDF needs to be identified and reported while exporting.

  Solution: To identify Sample PDF file has layers, Check following flag in C++, JAVA and Dot.net(C#) application.

  infoStatus.bIsLayeredPdf for C
  ExportStatusFlags.ISLAYEREDPDF for Java
  ExportStatusFlags.bIsLayeredPdf for C#
  

• New Java Method getExtension() added to print File Extension

  Issue: File Extension needs to be identified using the OIT JAVA application.

  Solution: OIT enable file extension information for following file formats through JAVA API – String getExtension().

  text/html
  application/doc-word (ole)
  application/vnd.ms-outlook
  application/vnd.apple.pages
  message/rfc822
  vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document(docx)
  application/vnd.ms-excel
  application/vnd.ms-spreadsheetml
  
  

• DST settings Implemented for Activex viewer

  Issue: Incorrect mail header timestamp when viewed through ACTIVEX Viewer of OIT.

  Solution: To enable DST setting in Mail message header for OIT ActiveX Viewer, user needs to add following APIs in application.

  APIs:

  STDMETHODIMP Coixctrl::get_DayLightSavingTimezone(BOOL* pVal);
  STDMETHODIMP Coixctrl::put_DayLightSavingTimezone(BOOL newVal);
  
  

  By default, the DST Timezone is set to FALSE. If user wants to enable the DST Timezone, they should set the flag as follows:

  put_DayLightSavingTimezone(TRUE); // This will enable the DST Timezone flag
  

• Newly supported file formats -

  Microsoft Compound File (.cfb) - File Identification only

• Known Issues

  • OEL8 binaries are not supported on lower versions of OEL

    Issue: If you run OEL8 (BP6-Linux X86-64 OIT Binaries) on lower version or OEL, you will get following error message on your console:

    …/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found
    

    Solution: Update/upgrade your OEL boxes to OEL8 and above version of Linux X86-64 OS.

  • OEL8 binaries compatible with SUSE15 Issue: OIT Binaries are generated using OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) 8.10. These binaries are run smoothly on GLIBC_28 version. To run same binaries on SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) 15. It will failed with following error:

    …/lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found …
    

    Solution: Update SLES 15 machine with SP (Service Pack) 2 and above. Check its version using following example:

    > cat /etc/os-release
    NAME="SLES"
    VERSION="15-SP2"
    VERSION_ID="15.2"
    PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2"
    …
    
    

    it should return SP2 or above version

Release 8.5.7 — January 2025

• Non content cells are not rendering the color property

  Issue: OIT only renders those Excel cells which have text content with the property of the cell. But, if a cell does not contain any content, OIT does not render anything for that cell, and also ignores the property.

  Solution: Adding new flag in cfg file.

  #SCCOPT_RENDEREXCELCOLORCELL
  # Render Excel color cell from filter when it is set to yes. Default this flag is disable or set ‘no’
  #renderexcelcolorcell no
  renderexcelcolorcell yes
  
  

• ‘setFontScalingFactor’ Java method is not working on Linux

  Issue: Font Scaling Factor flag is not enabled for JAVA API.

  Solution: Set flag in OIT Java application.

  exporter.setFontScalingFactor(Value);
  Where value is a number.
  
  

• Incorrect ‘page count and ExportStatusFlags’ when converting msg file

  Issue: Export status flag shows “invalid HTML was encountered” because input file has bad html tags. This information is available as part of the status flag version 2 (SCCCA_STATUS_VERSION2).

  Solution: In 8.5.3, the export status flag is set (by default) as SCCCA_STATUS_VERSION, where ‘InvalidHTML’ information is not provided in the exportStatus. After that, “InvalidHTML” flag was updated as part of export flag version 2 (SCCCA_STATUS_VERSION2). In the latest version of OIT, it is set as SCCCA_STATUS_VERSION3 so that the Client application gets the export status for all the flags by default.

  EXSTATUSINFORMATION infoStatus;
  infoStatus.dwVersion = EXSTATUSVERSION3; // setting version 3
  
  

  This functionality will be available for C# or JAVA API beginning from the next Bundle Patch release.

• Known Issues

  Stretched image background on export

  The base bug for this issue is fixed for pages rendering in an endless loop. However, the exported output has the blue background stretched unusually.

Release 8.5.7 — October 2024

• Newly supported file formats (File Identification only)

  • JSON
  • OPUS/OGG
  • PCL files

• New Java method added for File Extension

  • New method parallel to GetDescription()

    String getExtension()

    This method returns a human-readable extension of the file format.

• Known Issues

  • Apple format files are not supported in HPUX-IA platform.

  • Excel file table wrapped to next page:

    /*SCALING VALUES USED TO DETERMINE COL WIDTHS*/
    #define XL12_COLWIDTHFACTORNUM 48.0
    /*calculate the custom width*/
    tmpColInfoEntry.dwWidth = (DWORD)((double)(value*220*XL12_COLWIDTHFACTORNUM)/(double)XL12_COLWIDTHFACTORDEN);
    
    

    Workaround: Set the value from 48 to 47.6.

    Change #define XL12_COLWIDTHFACTORNUM 48.0 to #define XL12_COLWIDTHFACTORNUM 47.6.

    This change will uniformly decrease the column width across the cells. With this change, there might be cases where some columns might be shifted to next page or get squeezed in the same page.

Release 8.5.7 — July 2024

• Enhancement to support Microsoft Excel file with Print-Title information in PDF Export: OIT supports export of dedicated marked ROWS/COLUMN of an excel sheet as title when exporting to PDF formats. There is no configuration option to be set for it.
• Enhancement to support Speaker Notes markup in PDF output for Microsoft Power Point and print speaker notes at the end of the document for 2016 PPTX files:

  • OIT supports export of speaker notes from PPTX and PPT files on the next page of each sheet.

  • Option is SCCOPT_PRINT_MSPPT_SPEAKERNOTES. This is the new flag to control printing of speaker notes at the end of the document for PPTX files.

  • Parameters: printmspptspeakernotes which can be set to true or false (default).

    Java API

  • setPrintMSPPTSpeakerNotes: OIT supports export of speaker notes from PPTX and PPT files on the next page of each sheet.

  • Option: PrintMSPPTSpeakerNotes

  • Setting this option to TRUE enables printing speaker notes in Microsoft PPT/PPTX files in PDF Export only.

  • Parameters: printmspptspeakernotes which can be set to true or false (default).

• Enhancement to support comments and printing of reply messages in native PDF style for docx files.

  • This enhancement also supports adding reference point for each comment provided in MS Word DOCX , MS Word DOC (97) , MS PPT (97) and MS PPTX files – POC.

  • OIT has an option to set configuration before PDF export. PDF export adds extra pages and allows to provide comments.

  • Option: Printmsofficecomments

  • Parameters: Printmsofficecomments which can be set to true or false (default).

    Java API

  • SetPrintMSOfficeComments: This API gives control for printing review comments for MS Office files.

  • Option: bPrintMSOfficeComments

  • Setting this option TRUE enables printing review comments in MS Office files (Word, Excel, PPT) in PDF Export only.

  • Parameters: bPrintMSOfficeComments which can be set to true or false (default).

• Newly added APIs for Java and .NET support:
  • SCCOPT_HTMLFITMODE: This API will control the HTML export size when using preview or web layout mode on OIT Viewer.
  • SCCVW_FITMODE_ORIGINAL: Sizes the preview page to the actual size.
  • SCCVW_FITMODE_WINDOWWIDTH: Sizes the preview page to the width of the window.
  • SCCVW_FITMODE_WINDOW: Sizes the preview page to the window. It sizes the web layout to the width of the window.
  • Default: SCCVW_FITMODE_ORIGINAL
• Newly supported file formats
  • Microsoft Office 365 - Word, PPTX, XLSX
  • WebP file formats

Release 8.5.7 — April 2024

Newly Supported Platforms

• HP-UX Itanium (64 bits) – Versions: 11iv3(11.31) HP-UX 11i v3.

• Microsoft Windows x86 (32 bits).

  Note: Microsoft Windows x86 (32 Bits) will not be supported after OIT 8.5.7.

• Certified Platforms

Release 8.5.7 — January 2024

• The flags mailheaderflags=1 and mailheadervisible=sensitivity are enabled for .eml files.
• OIT enables DeviceN colorspace processing in PDF filter.
• OIT now supports exporting of MS Excel 2016 review comments similar to its native part.
  • Workbooks with more than a worksheet is supported.
  • Review comments with Author name and Cell reference are printed after each worksheet’s content.
  • OIT provides an option that can be set during configuration before PDF export. This option allows to add an extra page for comment after each worksheet. The option is Printmsofficecomments (which can be set to false (default) or true).
• OIT has added support to retrieve “MAIL_SENDER_SMTP_ADDRESS & MAIL_SENT_REPRESENTING_SMTP_ADDRESS tag” through Content Access SDK.

Release 8.5.7 — October 2023

Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added to improve Outside In Technology. To obtain complete documentation for any other Outside In product, see Middleware documentation page and click the Outside In Technology link. Look for the data sheet with the latest supported formats.

See Supported Formats for 8.5.7 for the list of newly supported file formats that are available for 8.5.7.

Newly Supported Platforms

• OEL/RHEL 9.x on Linux(Intel/AMD 64) and Linux(ARM 64)
• Windows Server 2022, Windows 11
• Core Net6 support on Windows and Linux X86-64.
• Certified Platforms for 8.5.7

New SDK Support

New Configurable OIT options in C++/JAVA/Dot.NET

Enhancements related to Exports

PDF Export

• OIT has limited support of colorspace in PDF operation. Hence, some of the PDF colored samples are rendering/exporting with color differences. In this Colorspace:
  • Support provided for PDF colorspace - Separation, Lab, ICCBased, DeviceGrey, DeviceCMYK, and Indexed.
  • Separation is implemented with alternate color options such as Lab, ICCBased, DeviceGrey, and Device CMYK.
• OIT was not handling Luminosity in PDF sample. So, the child element of “Resources” was not handled and OIT started deviating from that point onwards. PDF export is rendering black stripes. Now, “Luminosity in PDF sample” is handled by PDF Export process.

SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_MAX_EMBEDDED_OBJECTS

Sometimes PDF files have a very large number of embedded objects. This option allows the user to limit the number of embedded objects that are produced in a PDF file. Setting this option to 0 produces an unlimited number of embedded objects.

Handle Type: VTHDOC

Scope: local

Data Type: VTDWORD

Data: The maximum number of embedded objects to produce in PDF output.

OIT Export Status for no fonts and an image found in a PDF file: There are few PDFs that do not have any fonts and images for constructing a PDF page. These PDFs are created through lines and curves properties. To view these PDFs using native viewer, user has to increase the resolution to 300DPI. OIT implemented an API which returns the status of these PDFs through a message “This sample not having any image and font” (as export status). It is implemented in JAVA and DOTNET also.

PDF Fonts Type1 with Custom Encoding support

OIT has implemented custom decoding for PDF Type1 fonts in PDF Filter. Hence, the PDF Font support table has changed to the following:

Fonts ->	Type 0 CID Fonts (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 2 CID/TrueType-CID Font (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 1 Fonts	Type 3 Fonts	TrueType Fonts
Exports	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts
PDF Export	Partial Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
Web View Export	Partial Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
Image Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
Viewer	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
CA	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
Search Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported

Note:

• For all non-embedded fonts mentioned above as “supported”, Outside In Technology uses the system fonts present on the machine for font’s substitution. For best results, make sure that the same fonts as used in the file are present and accessible to Outside In Technology. A substituted font/document never looks like the original.
• For all TYPE1 embedded fonts: Custom Encoding Support added.
• Semi Support provided for some of the Type0 fonts in PDF/WVX export.
• The type of embedded font does not matter for text exports such as CA and SX. Text extraction for CA and SX depends on whether or not the font uses a standard built-in encoding like WIN_ANSI or whether or not the font contains a valid ToUnicode mapping table.

Content Access

• SCCOPT_TIMEZONE_USEDST in OIX ACTIVE Viewer (oixctrl): OIT has implemented SCCOPT_TIMEZONE_USEDST for DOTNET technology.

  public OptionsCache SetDSTTimeZone(bool dstTimezone)

  public bool GetDSTTimeZone()

• JAVA API for CA to extract object is missing in Exporter and Document Level - OIT supports extraction of objects from any archive file through C-API. Now similar API has been implemented for JAVA also. Exposed APIs are:

  1. getCAOpenContent -> Initialize the CA content handle to the document to be processed.
  2. getCACloseContent -> Close the CA content handle.
  3. getCAReadFirst -> Read the first CA item. If successful, CAReadFirst will return the file properties and initial character set of the source.
  4. getCAReadNext -> Read the next CA item.
  5. saveInputObject -> Saves a copy of the object to a local file.

Image Export

• SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI

  This option allows you to calculate DPI based on the image.

  TRUE/1: If input image doesn’t have DPI information and SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI is not set then SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI is set to true. OIT will calculate DPI based on the input image and export that image with calculated DPI.

  FALSE/0: If SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI is set in config file then OIT is not going to calculate DPI. It will export the image with SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI.

  Handle Type: VTHDOC, VTHEXPORT

  Scope: local

  Data Type: VTBOOL

  Data: A Boolean value to control Graphic DPI.

  Default Value: FALSE

• Pages of TIFF exported to PDF/HTML are in a different orientation: OIT provided support to render and export image orientation in all file formats. This feature rotates JPG images as per the orientation/EXIF data. OIT has implemented to parse the orientation field in the image filter by using Exif metadata.

• OIT has implemented to get Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) image metadata using OIT DOTNET technology.

  public OptionsCache
              SetExtractXMPMetadata(bool ExtractXMPMetadata)public bool
              GetExtractXMPMetadata()
  

All Exports:

SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI option

A minimum value for the graphics output device resolution can be specified. A value ‘true’ indicates that any graphic image exported should have a minimum DPI (dots per inch) value of 120. It enhances the output quality of the images with lower DPI (less than 120 DPI). A value ‘false’ (default value) indicates that any graphic image exported should be at the same resolution (DPI) as the original graphic image and if the original graphic does not specify a DPI, value 72 is assumed. The default value is ‘false’. This option will always override the SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_OUTPUTDPI option.

SCCOPT_FONTSCALINGFACTOR for .Net API/Java API

Sometimes, OIT-rendered fonts (which are allies or substitutes for other fonts) are bigger/smaller in size than the actual font. OIT provides an option through Viewer, where user can scale the font size up and down for better view. Same font scaling feature is enabled for the other exports. This option is enabled through JAVA and Dot.NET APIs. This option can be used to scale the fonts by a percentage when exporting a document. The normal size is 100%. This will not affect paragraph, page or table attributes (for example margins) for word processor documents. For spreadsheet and database documents, the font scaling will affect the row height and column widths. This option will not affect metafile or raster graphics views. For all other document types, only the fonts will be affected.

• For C/C++ API

  fontscalingfactor 100

• For JAVA API

  FontScalingFactor

  Data Type: int

  Default: 100

• For DOT.NET API

  void SetFontScalingFactor(ulong fontscalingfactor);

4 byte Unicode characters support - for HTML, MSG file formats in CA, SX, SearchText.

OIT has added support for multibyte Unicode characters (including Emoji characters) for HMTL and email file formats. Currently this support is added for text-based exports like CA, SX, and SearchText.

Exit Status Information Structure

typedef struct EXSTATUSINFORMATIONtag
{
              VTDWORD dwVersion;                      /* version of this structure */
              VTBOOL bMissingMap;                     /* a PDF text run was missing the toUnicode table */
              VTBOOL bVerticalText;                   /* a vertical text run was present */
              VTBOOL bTextEffects;                    /* a run that had unsupported text effects applied.  One example is Word Art*/
              VTBOOL bUnsupportedCompression;         /* a graphic had an unsupported compression */
              VTBOOL bUnsupportedColorSpace;          /* a graphic had an unsupported color space */
              VTBOOL bForms;                          /* a sub documents had forms */
              VTBOOL bRightToLeftTables;              /* a table had right to left columns */
              VTBOOL bEquations;                      /* a file had equations*/
              VTBOOL bAliasedFont;                    /* The desired font was missing, but a font alias was used*/
              VTBOOL bMissingFont;                    /* The desired font wasn't present on the system */
              VTBOOL bSubDocFailed;                   /* a sub document was not converted */
              VTBOOL bTypeThreeFont;                  /* a PDF Type 3 embedded font was encountered */
              VTBOOL bUnsupportedShading;             /* a PDF input file had an unsupported shading type */
              VTBOOL bInvalidHTML;                    /* invalid HTML was encountered */
              VTBOOL bVectorObjectLimit;              /* The vector object limit was reached */
              VTBOOL bInvalidAnnotationNotApplied;    /* Annotation/Redaction wasn't displayed */
              VTBOOL bInlineImageFound;               /* An inline image was found and may not have been rendered */
             VTBOOL bIncorrectPageSize;              /* a PDF file was larger than 200 in x 200 in, as specified in the PDF reference guide */
             VTBOOL bIncorrectPageSize_lower;        /* a PDF file was smaller than 3 units x 3 units, as specified in the PDF reference guide */
              VTBOOL bPDFOneToMany;                   /* A PDF input file contained an embedded font with a ToUnicode table which maps one Unicode value to multiple glyphs */
             VTBOOL bIsBidi;                        /* a PDF file contains Bi-Directional Text*/
              VTBOOL bUnsupportedFont;                /* an unsupported font was encountered */
             VTDWORD currPathSize, maxPathLimit;     /*Current size of the paths seen, Max number of Paths allowed*/
             VTDWORD currVectSize, maxVectLimit;     /*Current size of the Vectors seen, Max number of Vectors allowed*/
             VTDWORD currObjtSize, maxObjtLimit;     /*Current size of the Objects seen, Max number of Objects allowed*/
             VTBOOL bFontWidthUsed;                  /* a PDF file is using Width parameter to change widths of glyphs */
             VTBOOL bFontExistsinPdf;                /* a PDF file containing at least one font */
             VTBOOL bImageExistsinPdf;               /* a PDF file containing at least one image */
} EXSTATUSINFORMATION;

Release 8.5.6 — July 2023

• JPEG images are decoded and rendered correctly on Outside In Technology Viewer, as well as Image, PDF, HTML, and WebView Exporters.

• The Word wrap feature in MS Excel generates correct output on all Outside In Technology Viewers and Exporters.

• The container service for PDF export is now available on Linux-x86-64. For details, see the PDF export folder in sdk/samplefiles/container.

Release 8.5.6 — April 2023

• SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI

  *\#SCCOPT\_GRAPHIC\_SCALEDDPI*
  *\# A minimum value for the graphics output device resolution can be specified.*
  *\# A value 'true' indicates that any graphic image exported should have a* 
  *\# minimum DPI\(dots per inch\) value of 120. It enhances the output quality*
  *\# of the images with lower DPI\(less than 120 DPI\). A value 'false' indicates*
  *\# that any graphic image exported should be at the same  resolution DPI\)*
  *\# as the original graphic image and if the original graphic does not *
  *\# specify a DPI, value 72 is assumed. The default value is 'false'.*
  *\# This option will always override the SCCOPT\_GRAPHIC\_OUTPUTDPI option.*
  *graphicscaleddpi false*
  

• Luminosity in PDF sample is now handled.

• SCCOPT_FONTSCALINGFACTOR for Java and .NET APIs: Through Viewer users can scale up and scale down font size for a better view. This font scaling feature is enabled for other exports as well. This can be enabled through JAVA and Dot.NET APIs.

  Option:SCCOPT_FONTSCALINGFACTOR

  Description: This option can be used to scale the fonts by a percentage during exporting a document. The normal size is 100%. The scaling will not affect paragraph, page, or table attributes (for example, margins) for word processor documents. For spreadsheet and database documents, the font scaling will affect the row height and column widths. This option will not affect metafile or raster graphics views. For all other document types, only the fonts will be affected.

  Supported Options:

  • For C/C++ API: fontscalingfactor 100

  • For JAVA API: FontScalingFactor, Data Type: int, Default: 100

  • For DOT.NET API: void SetFontScalingFactor(ulong fontscalingfactor);

• Newly added and supported platforms: Oracle EL/Redhat EL9 x64 – supported and certified with this release.

• Newly added and supported file format: Data interchange format (.dif) is a spreadsheet supported by a spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Apache OpenOffice Calc.

Release 8.5.6 — January 2023

• File identification is now able to identify correctly file Id 1351 (0x0547) – Outlook Sticky

• SCCOPT_TIMEZONE_USEDST for DOTNET technology has been implemented

  public OptionsCache
          SetDSTTimeZone(bool dstTimezone)public bool
          GetDSTTimeZone()
  

• The DOTNET technology is implemented to get XMP Metadata

  public OptionsCache
          SetExtractXMPMetadata(bool ExtractXMPMetadata)public bool
          GetExtractXMPMetadata()
  

• Indexed ColorSpace in PDF Filter is implemented. It is a type of colorspace, which enhances exports and viewers.

• Some PDFs do not have any fonts and images for constructing a PDF page. These PDFs are created through lines and curves properties. To view these PDFs using native viewer, users need to increase the resolution to 300DPI. OutsideIn has implemented an API, which returns the status of these PDFs in a message as export status stating that this sample doesn’t have any image and font. It is implemented in JAVA and DOTNET also.

• Custom decoding for PDF Type1 fonts in a PDF filter has been implemented. With this PDF font support, the table has changed as follows:

  Fonts ->	Type 0 CID Fonts (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 2 CID/TrueType-CID Font (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 1 Fonts	Type 3 Fonts	TrueType Fonts
  Exports	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts
  PDF Export	Not Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Web View Export	Not Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Image Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Viewer	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  CA	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Search Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported

  Note:

  • For all non-embedded fonts mentioned above as “supported”, Outside In Technology uses the system fonts available on the machine for font’s substitution. For best results, make sure that the same fonts as used in the file are available and accessible to Outside In Technology. A substituted font/document never looks like the original.
  • For all TYPE1 embedded fonts : Custom Encoding Support added
  • The type of embedded font does not matter for text exports such as CA and SX. Text extraction for CA and SX depends on whether or not the font uses a standard built-in encoding like WIN_ANSI or whether or not the font contains a valid ToUnicode mapping table.

Release 8.5.6 — October 2022

• Export module now supports PDF colorspace- Separation, Lab, ICCBased, DeviceGrey, DeviceCMYK
• Outside In supports object extraction from any archive file through C-API. Now similar API is implement for JAVA also. Exposed APIs are as follows:
  • getCAOpenContent -> Initialize the CA content handle to the document to be processed.
  • getCACloseContent -> Close the CA content handle.
  • getCAReadFirst -> Read the first CA item. If successful, CAReadFirst will return the file properties and initial character set of the source.
  • getCAReadNext -> Read the next CA item.
  • saveInputObject -> Saves a copy of the object to a local file.
• Outside In provides support to render and export image orientation in all file formats. JPG images can be rotated as per the orientation/EXIF data. Orientation field can be parsed in the image filter by using Exif Metadata.

Newly Supported Platform: AIX PPC64 7.3

Release 8.5.6 — July 2022

• SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_MAX_EMBEDDED_OBJECTS

  Option: SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_MAX_EMBEDDED_OBJECTS

  Description: PDF files sometimes have a very large number of embedded objects. This option allows the user to limit the number of embedded objects that are produced in a PDF file. Setting this option to 0 produces an unlimited number of embedded objects.

  Handle Type : VTHDOC

  Scope : localData

  Type : VTDWORD

  Data : The maximum number of embedded objects to produce in PDF output.E

• SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI

  Option : SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI

  Description : This option allows you to calculate DPI based on an image.

  TRUE/1 : If input image doesn’t have DPI information and SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI is not set, then SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_SCALEDDPI is set to true. Only then DPI is calculated based on the input image and the image is exported with the calculated DPI.

  FALSE/0 : If SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI is set in the config file, then DPI is not calculated and the image is exported with SCCOPT_OUPUTDPI.

  Handle Type : VTHDOC, VTHEXPORT

  Scope : local

  Data Type : VTBOOL

  Data : A Boolean value to control Graphic DPI.

  Default : FALSE

Release 8.5.6 — April 2022

Added CMYK ColorSpace for PDFs

Processing of CMYK Colorspace in PDF sample file is added. Now OutsideIn renders/exports/produce significant similar colors like those in the input file.

New and Supported Platforms

• Windows X86 32 bits – Native and ActiveX available with this version
• Linux PPC 64 – Big Endian Binaries are replaced with Little Endian Binaries

Release 8.5.6 — January 2022

Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added to improve Outside In Technology. To obtain complete documentation for any other Outside In product, see Middleware documentation page and click the Outside In Technology link. Look for the data sheet with the latest supported formats.

Newly supported file formats are:

• Advanced Function Presentation (AFP/PTOCA/MODCA/IM1)
• Apple Iwork, Ikey and Inotes 2020 (File ID, Content access)
• Apple High Efficiency Image Format HEIF (File ID support)
• AutoCAD Drawing ACAD – 2016 to 2021.
• Electronic Publication Epub (File ID support)
• JT (Open CAD file) Image file 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 (File ID support)
• Libra-office 5.x, 6.x
• Microsoft Word for Windows 365
• Microsoft Excel for Windows - 365
• Microsoft Power-point for Windows – 365
• Mobipocket eBook MOBI (File ID support)
• Portable Arbitrary Map (PAM)
• RAR version 5.X, 6.X
• WebM Video format (File ID Support)

Newly supported platforms are Linux ARM Platforms - OEL/RHEL 8.x, SLES 15.x

Newly supported SDKs for various platforms are:

• File Identification (FI) sdk now supported on HPUX-IA64, IBM AIX-PPC-64, IBM Linux on System z S390-64, IBM Linux on Power PPC64, Linux ARM 64, Oracle Solaris Sparc 64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64
• Content Access (CA) sdk now supported on IBM Linux on System z S390-64, IBM Linux on Power PPC64, Linux ARM 64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64
• HTML Export (HX) sdk now supported on IBM Linux on System z S390-64
• Image Export (IX) sdk now supported on IBM Linux on System z S390-64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64
• PDF Export (PX) sdk now supported on IBM AIX-PPC-64, IBM Linux on System z S390-64, Oracle Solaris Sparc 64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64
• Search Export (SX) sdk now supported on IBM Linux on System z S390-64, Linux ARM 64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64
• XML Export (XX) sdk now supported on IBM AIX-PPC-64, IBM Linux on System z S390-64, Oracle Solaris Sparc 64, Oracle Solaris Intel X64

The new options are:

• #SCCOPT_FLAG_BACKGROUND_COLOR - Controls the background color, highlight, and the text color of MSG File Format.

  # 0 - Picks the default color of the Input File.

  # 1 - Sets all background and highlighting white, and all text black to ensure the readability of the content.

  backgroundcolor 0

• #SCCOPT_DEFAULTPAGESIZE – Increases the page-dimensions for print of MS-Outlook message. This change is not activated unless SCCOPT_USEDOCPAGESETTINGS is set to false.

  in the CFG file, change the following

  # SCCOPT_USEDOCPAGESETTINGS: Specifies if the document page setting should be used

  usedocpagesettings false

  # SCCOPT_DEFAULTPAGESIZE: Specifies the default page size ifSCCOPT_USEDOCPAGESETTINGS is set to false

  • # 1 Pica is 1\6 of an inch
  • # 1 Points is 1\72 of an inch
  • # 1 centimeter is approximately 2\5 of an inch
  • defaultheight 11
  • defaultwidth 22 units inches

• SCCOPT_SYSTEMFLAGS is set to SCCVW_SYSTEM_UNICODE for the UNICODE file name in an archive file.

  SCCOPT_SYSTEMFLAGS= SCCVW_SYSTEM_UNICODE

  daErr = DASetOption(hDoc, SCCOPT_SYSTEMFLAGS, (VTLPVOID)&dwSystemFlags, sizeof(dwSystemFlags));

• SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_NEW_SPACING_ALGORITHM - Spacing in PDF documents is not explicitly mentioned. To handle spacing efficiently, a new PDF spacing algorithm is used. This option, a boolean value, allows users to switch between OLD-algorithm and New-algorithm (default being the New-algorithm).

  pdfnewspacing false

  • Handle Types VTHDOC, VTHEXPORT
  • Data Type VTBOOL
  • Default Value TRUE (By default, it will use the New-algorithm)

The following support is provided for general accuracy and fidelity features:

• PDF fonts

  Fonts ->	Type 0 CID Fonts (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 2 CID/TrueType-CID Font (Both embedded and non-embedded)	Type 1 Fonts	Type 3 Fonts	TrueType Fonts
  Exports	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts	Both, embedded and non-embedded fonts
  PDF Export	Not Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Web View Export	Not Supported	Supported from 8.5.5 BP4	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Image Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Viewer	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  CA	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported
  Search Export	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Supported

  Note:

  • For all non-embedded fonts mentioned above as “supported”, Outside In Technology uses the system fonts present on the machine for font’s substitution. For best results, make sure that the same fonts as used in the file are present and accessible to Outside In Technology. A substituted font/document never looks like the original.
  • For all TYPE1 embedded fonts : Custom Encoding is Partially Supported
  • The type of embedded font does not matter for text exports such as CA and SX. Text extraction for CA and SX depends on whether or not the font uses a standard built-in encoding like WIN_ANSI or whether or not the font contains a valid ToUnicode mapping table.

• Handling of “Encoding” Cmap for CID Type2 font: Encoding CMap is used for char code to CID (Character Identifier) mapping. It is used in Outside In Technology PDF Filters. (ref Enh 33284689)

  • Encoding Type:name or stream (Required)
  • Type:name: The name of a predefined CMap
  • Type:stream
  • CMap Mapping
  • Predefined CMaps: Identity−H, Identity-V

• SCC_TIMEZONE_USENATIVE support on Unix OS: Short date format was not recognized and the default format (M/D/Y) was used as default. (ref Enh 32474737). Outside In Technology picked up the locale settings and applied it to the date format. The root cause of the problem was diagnosed as that the locale identification implementation was missing in Outside In Technology.

• A new MSG MAPI property added: SCCID_MAIL_CALENDAR_EXCEPTION, SCCCA_MAIL_CALENDAR_EXCEPTION (Content Access (CA) tag)

• ExportStatus object returns ISBIDI status for BIDI PDF file (ref Bug 27746695)

  Function to set the Detection Mode

  exporter.SetPDFDetectBidiBit
  

  Arguments: (JAVA)

  Options.PDFBiDiDetectValue.STANDARD = false Setting this option to FALSE performs internal scanning for the BIDI information in the file.

  Options.PDFBiDiDetectValue.DETECT= true Setting this option to TRUE signifies that the customer wants to perform BIDI file scanning. Hence, setting this flag to TRUE turns the pre-existing flag SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_REORDER_BIDI to TRUE. In this case, the PDF filter performs BIDI scan using the existing code-flow.

  Arguments: (.NET)

  Options.PDFBiDiLifebitDetectValue.Standard = false Setting this option to FALSE performs an internal scanning for the BIDI information in the file.

  Options.PDFBiDiLifebitDetectValue.Detect = true Setting this option to TRUE signifies that the customer wants to perform BIDI file scanning. Hence, setting this flag to TRUE turns the pre-existing flag SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_REORDER_BIDI to TRUE. In this case, PDF filter performs BIDI scan using the existing code-flow.

  Fetch the BIDI Info

  To fetch bidi info: bool isbidi = exporter.GetExportStatus().StatusFlags.HasFlag(ExportStatusFlags.IsBidi);

  Note: Note: The BIDI information is fetched after the export is called.

• Outside In Technology PDF Export SDK supports JBIG2 compression for embedded JPEG files (ref Enh 27746695)

  Outside In Technology provides the following JBIG2 decoding options:

  • Symbol dictionary
  • Intermediate text region
  • Immediate text region
  • Intermediate generic region
  • Immediate generic region

• SCCOPT_GRAPHIC_OUTPUTDPI modified for those images that do not have any DPI information. In such cases, Outside In Technology assumes a default DPI of 120 in both horizontal and vertical dimensions.

• SDK/COMMON/<header files>: EXSTATUSINFORMATION structures are updated as follows:

  typedef struct EXSTATUSINFORMATIONtag
  {    
     VTDWORD dwVersion;              /* version of this structure */    
     VTBOOL bMissingMap;             /* a PDF text run was missing the toUnicode table */    
     VTBOOL bVerticalText;           /* a vertical text run was present */    
     VTBOOL bTextEffects;            /* a run that had unsupported text effects applied.  One example is Word Art */    
     VTBOOL bUnsupportedCompression; /* a graphic had an unsupported compression */    
     VTBOOL bUnsupportedColorSpace;  /* a graphic had an unsupported color space */    
     VTBOOL bForms;                  /* a sub documents had forms */    
     VTBOOL bRightToLeftTables;      /* a table had right to left columns */    
     VTBOOL bEquations;              /* a file had equations */    
     VTBOOL bAliasedFont;            /* The desired font was missing, but a font alias was used*/    
     VTBOOL bMissingFont;            /* The desired font wasn't present on the system */    
     VTBOOL bSubDocFailed;           /* a sub document was not converted */    
     VTBOOL bTypeThreeFont;          /* a PDF Type 3 embedded font was encountered */    
     VTBOOL bUnsupportedShading;     /* a PDF input file had an unsupported shading type */    
     VTBOOL bInvalidHTML;            /* invalid HTML was encountered */    
     VTBOOL bVectorObjectLimit;      /* The vector object limit was reached */    
     VTBOOL bInvalidAnnotationNotApplied;    /* Annotation/Redaction wasn't displayed */    
     VTBOOL bInlineImageFound;       /* An inline image was found and may not have been rendered */    
     VTBOOL bIncorrectPageSize;      /* a PDF file was larger than 200 in x 200 in, as specified in the PDF reference guide */    
     VTBOOL bIncorrectPageSize_lower;/* a PDF file was smaller than 3 units x 3 units, as specified in the PDF reference guide */    
     VTBOOL bPDFOneToMany;           /* A PDF input file contained an embedded font with a ToUnicode table which maps one Unicode value to multiple glyphs */    
     VTBOOL bIsBidi;                 /* a PDF file contains Bi-Directional Text*/    
     VTBOOL bUnsupportedFont;        /* an unsupported font was encountered */    
     VTDWORD currPathSize, maxPathLimit; // Current size of the paths seen, Max number of Paths allowed    
     VTDWORD currVectSize, maxVectLimit; // Current size of the Vectors seen, Max number of Vectors allowed    
     VTDWORD currObjtSize, maxObjtLimit; // Current size of the Objects seen, Max number of Objects allowed    
     VTBOOL bFontWidthUsed;          /* a PDF file is using Width parameter to change widths of glyphs */
  } EXSTATUSINFORMATION;
  
  

  typedef struct EXANNOHILITETEXTtag
    {    
       VTDWORD         dwSize;    
       VTDWORD         dwStartACC;    
       VTDWORD         dwEndACC; /* Last char to highlight +1 */    
       VTLPBYTE        pBookmark;    
       VTLPBYTE        pHyperlink;    
       VTDWORD         dwOptions;    
       SCCVWCOLORREF   sForeground;    
       SCCVWCOLORREF   sBackground;    
       VTWORD          wCharAttr;    
       VTWORD          wCharAttrMask;
    } EXANNOHILITETEXT, *PEXANNOHILITETEXT;
  

  typedef struct EXANNOINSERTTEXTtag
  {
     VTDWORD         dwSize;
     VTDWORD         dwTextACC;
     VTLPWORD        pText;
     VTLPBYTE        pBookmark;    
     VTLPBYTE        pHyperlink;
     VTDWORD         dwOptions;
     SCCVWCOLORREF   sForeground;
     SCCVWCOLORREF   sBackground;
     VTWORD          wCharAttr;
     VTWORD          wCharAttrMask;
  } EXANNOINSERTTEXT, *PEXANNOINSERTTEXT;
  
  

Release 8.5.5 — May 2020 (Lifecycle ended on 30-June-2022)

Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added to improve Outside In Technology. To obtain complete documentation for any other Outside In product, see Middleware documentation page and click Outside In Technology link below. Look for the data sheet with the latest supported formats.

• The new supported formats are:

  • Microsoft Access (text only) Windows 2019

  • Microsoft Office Theme files (File ID only) Windows 2019

  • Microsoft Outlook (MSG), Express (EML), Forms Template (OFT), OST, and PST of Windows 2019

  • Microsoft Outlook OST 2019

  • Microsoft Outlook PST 2019

  • Microsoft Word for Windows 2019

  • Microsoft Excel for Windows (.xlsb) 2019

  • Microsoft Excel for Windows 2019

  • Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows 2019

  • Hanword HWP - Hangul Specification 5.0.4.x and 5.0.5.x

• The new supported platforms are:

  • Linux Platforms - OEL/RHEL 8.x, SLES 15.x
  • Windows Platforms - Windows Server 2019

• The new options are:

  • SCCOPT_TIMEZONE_USEDST: This option allows users to enable Day Saving Time (DST) that will be applied during date formatting, allowing date values to be displayed in a selectable time zone. This option affects the formatting of numbers that have been defined as date values. This option will not affect dates that are stored as text. When

    • HANDLE TYPE: Null, VTHDOC

    • Scope: Global

    • DATA Type: VTBOOL

    • To enable DST Timezone, Data: TRUE

      To disable DST Timezone, Data: FALSE

    • Default: FALSE

      Note: The DST Set option is disabled for non-windows platforms. An error message with invalid set option will be reported when user tries to set it in non-windows platforms.

    • To enable DST Timezone, VTBOOL bValue = TRUE

    • DASetOption((VTHDOC)NULL, SCCOPT_TIMEZONE_USEDST, (VTLPVOID)&bValue, sizeof(VTBOOL));

  • SCCOPT_TIMEZONETEX: This option allows users to enable the display of the user-provided Timezone text appended with date/time in the email header and spreadsheets.

    • C++ API: This option is introduced in the DASetOption API. It can be set as shown below:

      VTWORD szTimeZoneText[SCCUT_FILENAMEMAX - 1] = {'U', 'T', 'C', 0};
      DASetOption(hDoc, SCCOPT_TIMEZONETEXT,(VTLPVOID)szTimeZoneText, SCCUT_FILENAMEMAX)
      

    • JAVA API before ExportTest:

      private static String m_TimeZoneText = "UTC”;
      exporter.setTimeZoneText(m_TimeZoneText); 
      exporter.export();
      

  • SCCOPT_HIDDENTEXTFLAG: This option allows the user to hide the OCR text layer and enable the HiddenText flag.

    • In C++ application, set the flag SCCOPT_HIDDENTEXTFLAG to TRUE using DASetOption.

    • In java before the export:

      exporter.setHiddenTextFlag(true); 
      exporter.export();
      

  • SCCOPT_TRACK_ANNOTATIONS: This option allows the user to create a JSON output file with an appended extension. For example, exporting the native file abcd.xxx to PDF would result in the files abcd.pdf and abcd.xxx.anno.json.

    User needs to set SCCOPT_TRACK_ANNOTATIONS option using DASetOption() API.

    #define SCCOPT_TRACK_REDACTIONS  0x0001  // only to track redaction 
             #define SCCOPT_TRACK_HIGHLIGHTS   0x0002  //only to track annotation 
             #define SCCOPT_TRACK_ALL          0x0003  
            //SCCOPT_TRACK_REDACTIONS|SCCOPT_TRACK_HIGHLIGHTS - to track both annotation and redaction
            )
    

  • SCCOPT_FLAG_PAGEREDACTIONS_ENABLE: This option allows the user to enable PAGE REDACTION during IX/PX export. If the call back is registered, user will get the callback-id “EX_CALLBACK_ID_PAGEHASREDACTION” for every page which has redaction applied on it.

    • C/C++ API: User needs to set SCCOPT_FLAG_PAGEREDACTIONS_ENABLE option using DASetOption() API.

      The values can be either true (to flag pages with redaction) or false (default).

    • JAVA API: Part 1

      Call below Exporter API Interface for setting flag page redaction export option:

      public OptionsCache setFlagPageRedactionsEnabled(boolean FlagPageRedactionsEnabled);
      

      For example, exporter.setFlagPageRedactionsEnabled(true);

      Note: Calling the above JAVA Interface will enable the SCCOPT_FLAG_PAGEREDACTIONS_ENABLE option or disable it in C layer which will handle the core functionality.

      Call the Exporter API Interface for getting flag page redaction export option:

      public boolean getFlagPageRedactionsEnabled();
      

    • JAVA API: Part2

      Call the Exporter API Interface for setting track annotation export option:

      public OptionsCache setTrackAnnotations(EnumSet<Options.TrackAnnotationsValues>
              TrackAnnotations);
      

      TrackAnnotationsValues is defined as an enum and with the following values:

      • TrackAnnotationsValues.REDACTIONS
      • TrackAnnotationsValues.HIGHLIGHTS
      • TrackAnnotationsValues.ALL: This option will enable both REDACTIONS and HIGHLIGHTS.
      • TrackAnnotationsValues.NONE: This is the default behavior. Note: Calling the above JAVA Interface, the SCCOPT_TRACK_ANNOTATIONS option will be set in C layer which will handle the core functionality. For example:

      EnumSet<TrackAnnotationsValues> flags = EnumSet.of(TrackAnnotationsValues.ALL);
      exporter.setTrackAnnotations(flags); 
      

      Call the Exporter API Interface to get track annotation export option:

      public EnumSet<Options.TrackAnnotationsValues> getTrackAnnotations();
      

  • bextObjMHT: To enable extracting objects from the MHT file, the variable bextObjMHT should be set to true. The default value is false. This should be done in the sample code of extract_object.c file as shown below:

    VTBOOL bextObjMHT = FALSE;  //This flag should be TRUE when extracting objects from MHT file
    

  • SCCOPT_READ_RECIPIENT_DELIVERY_INFO: This option allows the user to enable the additional properties from winmail.dat of the message file through which OutsideIn Technology can extract the Recipient Delivery information.

    SCCOPT_READ_RECIPIENT_DELIVERY_INFO   //toggle for Extracting recipient or Delivery notification information.      
    # 0-default, 1-Recipient Information, 2-Delivery Notification      
    recipientdeliveryinformation 0
    

• Note the following for general accuracy and fidelity features:

  • ACC and ACCEND information on files (WVX and ActiveX Viewer): Corrected calculation of ACC and ACCEND value in the JSON file to improve Redactions on text files.

  • BIDI Status Information handling in .NET and Java Application. Set SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_REORDER_BIDI to TRUE. In this case, the PDF filter performs BIDI scan using existing code-flow.

    Function to set the Detection Mode “exporter.SetPDFDetectBidiBit”

    • Application: JAVA

      Options. PDFBiDiDetectValue.STANDARD = false //Setting the option to FALSE will perform Internal scanning for BIDI information in the file Options. PDFBiDiDetectValue.DETECT= true //Setting the option to TRUE will ensure that the Customer wants to perform BIDI file scanning. Hence, setting this flag to TRUE will evidently turn the pre-existing flag

    • Application: NET

      Options.PDFBiDiLifebitDetectValue.Standard = false //Setting the option toFALSE will perform Internal scanning for BIDI information in the fileOptions.PDFBiDiLifebitDetectValue.Detect = true //Setting the option to TRUE will ensure that the Customer wants to perform BIDI file scanning. Hence, setting this flag to TRUE will evidently turn the pre-existing flag

    • Fetch the BIDI Info

      bool isbidi = exporter.GetExportStatus().StatusFlags.HasFlag(ExportStatusFlags.IsBidi);
      

      Note: The BIDI information shall be fetched after the export is called.

  • Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format or TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format. Update and provided TNEF Down-level Attributes/Properties to access attachment “winmail.dat” from Outlook mails.

  • Improved handling of CJK, CID and other Embedded fonts in PDF documents processing. Added more options for JBIG2 decoder, Signature PDF. Vector Graphic DWG formats in PDF files also improved. Characters and line spacing improved. Adobe Signing 64bits processing functionality added.

  • Improved processing of spreadsheets with more than 100 rows. Highlight Navigation on Excel sheet, corrected ACC and ACCEND information through WVX VIEWER.

  • The Word file with the Jokerman LET file, letters in Webview are more block style than the Italic style seen in Word. In such cases, FontAlias Should be “key=Jokerman, value=Jokerman LET”, as given below.

    Added this code in the exportDocument method to add the alias.

    HashMap<String,String> aliaslist = new HashMap<String,String>(); 
          aliaslist.put("Jokerman", "Jokerman LET");  
          FontAliases fontAliases = new  FontAliases(true, aliaslist);  
          exporter.setFontAliasList(fontAliases);
    
    

    This should be added before the line exporter.setCallbackHandler(callback);

  • Redactions appear to be shifted up or left relative to expected location (highlight is placed without accounting for header row or leading column). Text is correctly removed in redacted cells in such a case by changing configuration parameter. Set config parameter SCCOPT_PRINT_TITLE_DISABLE to ‘true’.

  • While converting few PDF files to TIFF using OutsideIn Technology java-api, the conversion is failing with the exception “com.oracle.outsidein.OutsideInException”. Before conversion of such files, by increasing Timeout setting, conversion can be achieved. Set exportTimeout to 1000000.

  • When PDF Page-Size is beyond specified limits, OutsideIn Technology should throw relevant error message. To get the logged information, user should set the following flag in the CFG file.

    exportstatustype information: This will flag the customer for any out-of-boundary page size with message “The execution might not complete as PDF page size was larger than 200 in x 200 in, a constraint specified in the PDF Reference Guide.”

  • The garbled text caused by the lack of the mapping information associated with a font used in the file. For the input files which has missing toUnicode map table, OutsideIn Technology doesn’t treat the lack of atoUnicode map as an error in every case, because there are times when such text is nevertheless encoded correctly in Unicode and can be read/displayed without problem.

    But when such a file is encountered, the ExportStatus object returned from "exporter.getExportStatus()” can return a set of flags from the method getStatusFlags(), one of which is named MISSINGMAP.

    The presence of this flag indicates the situation described in this issue. The calling code can choose to treat that as an error. The following code block can be added in export code to figure out the MISSINGMAP flag is set after export or not. Below code used to verify that MISSINGMAP flag is reaching the JAVA export.

    import java.util.EnumSet; 
    import com.oracle.outsidein.ExportStatus; 
    import com.oracle.outsidein.ExportStatus.ExportStatusFlags 
    
    exporter.export(); 
    ExportStatus status = exporter.getExportStatus(); 
    EnumSet<ExportStatusFlags> statusFlags = status.getStatusFlags(); 
    if(statusFlags.size() > 0){ 
       System.out.println(" Missing Map encountered : " + statusFlags); 
    }
    

    Images present in the input PDF file have color depth between 8 to 24, 12bits per pixel image. This color depth is not part of standard bitmap specification and we do not support that in any filter or export.

    Below are the standard depth of bitmap images:

    • 1 bit (black and white)
    • 8 bit grays
    • 24 bit RGB
    • 8 bit indexed color
    • 4 bit indexed color
    • 32 bit RGB
    • 16 bit RGB Note: Bitmap images of 12-bit color depth in PDF or any other file will not be processed and image will not appear in the final output.

Release 8.5.4 — May 2018 (Lifecycle ended on 31-Dec-2020)

Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added to improve Outside In Technology. To obtain complete documentation for any other Outside In product, see Middleware documentation page and click Outside In Technology link below. Look for the data sheet with the latest supported formats.

• The new supported formats are:

  • Microsoft Access (text only) Windows 2016

  • Microsoft Office Theme files (File ID only) Windows 2016

  • Microsoft Outlook (MSG), Express (EML), Forms Template (OFT), OST, and PST of Windows 2016

• The new options are:

  • SCCOPT_EMAIL_FIXEDWIDTH - (WVX only): When the value set to TRUE, the body of email files converted by Web View Export gets wrapped to a fixed width during conversion. When the value set to FALSE (the default), the Web View output gets wrapped by the browser to fit within the display.

  • SCCOPT_HTML_FIXEDWIDTH - (WVX only): SCCOPT_HTML_FIXEDWIDTH  - (WVX only) : When the value set to TRUE, HTML files converted by Web View Export gets wrapped to a fixed width during conversion. When set to FALSE (the default), the Web View output gets wrapped by the browser to fit within the display.

  • SCCOPT_PLAINTEXT_PAGINATION - (WVX only): When the value set to TRUE (the default), causes Web View Export to format plain text files as paginated content. Thereby, wrapping the text to a fixed size page width which gets broken into multiple pages. When set to FALSE, the Web View output wraps by the browser to fit within the display area.

• The following support are given for general accuracy and fidelity features:

  • The WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts supported. WOFF fonts can be passed to Outside In Technology in the same manner as other system fonts via SCCOPT_FONTDIRECTORY or the GDFONTPATH environment variable.

  • PDF special print color spaces (Separation, DeviceN) are now partially supported for PDF input files. If a PDF print color space includes a fallback color space for electronic display, Outside In Technology will use the fallback color space when rendering the input file. Prior versions of Outside In Technology would always render PDF print color spaces as grayscale.

  • PDF Tiling Patterns are now partially supported for PDF input files. For PDF input files containing an area filled with a PDF Tiling Pattern, Outside In Technology renders a single tile (but the tile pattern does not get repeated). Prior versions of Outside In Technology would omit the tiling pattern completely and fills the area with a default diagonal hatched pattern instead.

  • General rendering fidelity for PDF input files containing embedded fonts is improved relative to prior Outside In Technology releases, especially for embedded fonts containing multiple potential glyphs for a single Unicode text character. Support for embedded fonts in PDF input files is still limited based on the embedded font type.

  • Web View Export now supports selecting and highlighting text for PDF input files containing scanned or OCR text.

Release 8.5.3 — April 2016 (Lifecycle ended on 31-May-2019)

• The updated list of supported formats is linked from the page. For a list of the currently supported platforms, see Outside In Technology and click links under Certified Platforms and Supported Formats from the Get Started page.

• The new supported formats are :

  • Microsoft Word 2016

  • Microsoft Excel 2016

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2016

  • MS Outlook 2011 for Mac (OLM and EML)

  • Corel WordPerfect X7

  • Corel Quattro Pro X7

  • Corel Presentations X7

  • Corel Draw X7

  • iWork KeyNote (text only)

  • AutoCAD 2015

• The following new options are:

  • A new option, SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_MAX_EMBEDDED_OBJECTS, is added that allows you to limit the number of embedded objects produced in PDF files.

  • A new option, SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_MAX_VECTOR_PATHS, is added that allows you to limit the number of vector paths produced in PDF files.

  • A new option, SCCOPT_PDF_FILTER_WORD_DELIM_FRACTION, is added. This allows you to control the spacing threshold in PDF input documents.

  • Extraction of MS Excel track change information. For more informatio see, SCCOPT_GENERATEEXCELREVISIONS in the Developer’s guide.

  • The way that some spreadsheets are parsed is changed, which results in some minor additions to the schema. The following new attributes are added:

    • DEFAULT_ROW_HEIGHT, on SS.WORKSHEET, that gives the default row height

    • USE_COL_STYLE, on SS.CELL, that indicates that the column style should be used

    • STYLE, on SS.COL, that should be used when the prior flag is set

• Support for the following general accuracy and fidelity features is provided:

  • MS Word table styles supported

  • MS Office Chart data label styles extended

  • Font selection algorithm improvements implemented

  • Outlook MSG “best body” algorithm implemented

  • PPTX Master slide Transparency provided

  • Four Color (CMYK) progressive JPEG supported

  • Processing of very large spreadsheets containing large areas of white space are optimized for improved performance supported

  • Soft line special character has been added

• The following Operating System support is provided:

  • Windows 10

  • SLES 12

• The following .NET API changes are implemented:

  • A new configuration object — OutsideInConfig

  • Get method for options

  • Redirected IO for temp files

• The following Java API changes are implemented:

  • Get method for options

  • Redirected IO for temp files

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