PDF converter for SharePoint update 10.1.1
Every once in a while you need to pause and look back. Stop adding endless new functionality and address some of the lesser exciting issues that have been accumulating over time. Bug fixes that only affect a very small number of operations or happen under an extremely rare combination of circumstances. Issues that no one has really complained about, but we feel need fixing.
In other words, a service release, which is what we are announcing today. A brand new release of the Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint(opens in a new tab), version 10.1.1, that adds almost no new functionality, but fixes a number of issues that may be important depending on your use case. When you run a product at scale, like we do in the Muhimbi PDF Online cloud service, even issues that happen in fewer than 0.01% of the operations, add up.
For those not familiar with the product, the Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint is a lightweight solution that allows users to merge, split, watermark, secure, OCR and convert common document types - including InfoPath, AutoCAD, MSG (email) MS-Office, HTML and images - to PDF as well as other formats from within SharePoint using a friendly user interface, workflows or a web service call, without the need to install any client-side software or Adobe Acrobat. It integrates at a deep level with SharePoint and leverages facilities such as the Audit log, Nintex Workflow, K2 blackpearl, localisation, security and tracing. It runs on SharePoint 2007-2019 & SharePoint Online and is available in English, German, Dutch, French, Traditional Chinese and Japanese. This ‘on-premise’ version of the PDF Converter requires software to be installed on the SharePoint server. Please note that if you have no server access, there is always the option to deploy our SharePoint Online App to on-premise versions of SharePoint 2013, 2016 and 2019. For details see this blog post .
When upgrading from a previous version, read this Knowledge Base article first.
Some of the main changes and additions in the new version are as follows:
| ID | Component | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6156 | Core | Bug | Some PDF files in Gujurati and Panjabi cannot be processed. |
| 6934 | Core | Bug | Fix working with PDF Bookmarks for certain edge cases. |
| 6935 | Core | Bug | Fix compatibility for certain PDF files. |
| 7111 | Core | Bug | Combination of Watermarking, post processing and ToC in same operation is not supported. |
| 7129 | Core | Bug | Bookmarks are missing in Adobe Document Cloud browser viewer. |
| 7147 | Core | Bug | First few lines of logs are missing when service restarts under load. |
| 7189 | Core | Bug | Fix total service hang in certain edge cases. |
| 7227 | Core | Bug | Post Processing (watermark, PDF/A) of very large documents times out. |
| 6181 | Core | Improvement | Improve compatibility with certain rare PDF files. |
| 7145 | Core | Improvement | Update Diagnostic Tool to allow Web Service credentials to be passed in. |
| 7134 | Core | Task | Add verbose logging to potential complex areas. |
| 6178 | Excel | Improvement | Improve reliability of Excel converter for some edge cases. |
| 7114 | HTML | Bug | Fix timeout during size optimisation of HTML Conversions. |
For more information check out the following resources:
- Product Page(opens in a new tab).
- Brochure(opens in a new tab).
- FAQ & Knowledge Base(opens in a new tab).
- Release Notes(opens in a new tab).
- Installation & Administration Guide(opens in a new tab).
- User Guide(opens in a new tab).
- Product videos(opens in a new tab).
- Related Blog Posts.
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