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PDF Converter for SharePoint 10.1 — Secure & Watermark Word, Excel, PowerPoint & PDF Files

Jonathan D. Rhyne
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We are excited to announce version 10.1 of our popular Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint.

A full list of changes and additions can be found below, but the main highlight is the ability to use our powerful PDF watermarking facilities on MS-Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well.

As always, when we introduce new functionality like this, we do so in our core processing engine. That way all our product lines benefit, being it SharePoint on-premise and its many integration facilities including Nintex Workflow, our API for Java, C# and PHP developers, or our Online Service.

There are many improvements and refinements, but also some great new features, specifically:

A simple ‘Confidential’ watermark applied to MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF

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. For detailed information check out the product page. 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:

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6611 Core Improvement Add support for Ghostscript v9.53.3.
5445 Core Improvement Improve automatic clean-up of temporary and intermediate files.
5948 Documentation Improvement Update sample code including .net Core.
5453 Documentation New Provide PowerShell Sample code for PDF Conversion.
6510 Email Fix Disable automatic 'ligature' generation when converting emails to pdf.
5465 HTML Fix HTML conversion for sites that don't support HEAD redirects.
4880 HTML Improvement Improve HTML Conversion through proxy servers.
5918 InfoPath Improvement Add ProcessRuleSets to the object model for  InfoPath documents.
6021 Merging Fix NullReferenceException when merging PDFs containing bookmarks.
6506 Merging Improvement Allow overriding of MergeSetting.OmitErrorPages using XML Override.
6512 MS-Word Fix Allow digitally signed DOCM files to be converted.
6177 MS-Word Fix Improve processing of field codes for files that use revision tracking.
5928 MS-Word Improvement Make locking Word fields more versatile.
6131 PDF/A New Implement experimental support for PDF/A-2u (and A3-u).
4917 Security New Add support for password protecting Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
6125 Watermarking Fix Improve 'Inheriting settings' in real-time watermarking facility.
5436 Watermarking Fix Error while saving certain watermarked PDFs.
5939 Watermarking Improvement Improve watermarking of corrupt PDF files.
4250 Watermarking New Add support for watermarking Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
5450 Watermarking New Implement support for additional barcodes (EAN/UPC).
6129 Workflow Improvement Rename Nintex Workflow actions to reflect Watermark and Security is not limited to just PDF.
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Jonathan D. Rhyne Co-Founder and CEO

Jonathan joined PSPDFKit in 2014. As CEO, Jonathan defines the company’s vision and strategic goals, bolsters the team culture, and steers product direction. When he’s not working, he enjoys being a dad, photography, and soccer.

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