Posted at: 14:52 on 12 February 2020 by Muhimbi
The Muhimbi PDF Converter is constantly being improved and extended. Similar to many other online services, when a new version is rolled out there is nothing to do for our users. New functionality just shows up, existing functionality continues to work as expected. Life is good!
Since our previous formal announcement, we have added some interesting new facilities, and fixed / improved existing logic.
The full list of changes can be found further down, but the key highlights for versions 9.13 are as follows:
- Support for barcode watermarks in UI, SP designer workflows, Flow and API.
- Support for print-only watermarks in UI, SP designer workflows, Flow and API.
- Attaching email and InfoPath attachments in their original format.
- New facility in Flow & Merge API to pass in an array of documents.
- PowerShell sample code to programmatically deploy the App and workflow actions.
- New HTML Converter that supports the latest standards (and can convert Power BI).
- Support for the PDF conversion of Modern View pages and List Items.
- Overhaul of real-time watermarking in Modern View lists and libraries.
- Support real-time watermarking for external users.
- Filter out useless 'signature' images during email conversion.
- Filter out attachments based on their file type.
- Allow any MS-Word style to be designated as a heading level (for PDF Bookmarks and TOC).
Please note that all SharePoint Online versions are numbered in the 9.X range. At the time of writing the most recent version of the on-premise software is 10.1.
Apply barcode watermarks using SharePoint Designer Workflows, Power Automate (Flow), the UI and API
For those not familiar with the product, the Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint Online is a lightweight subscription based solution that allows end-users to convert merge, split, watermark, secure, and OCR common document types - including InfoPath, AutoCAD, MSG (email) MS-Office, HTML and images - to PDF using SharePoint Online through a friendly user interface or via workflows, without the need to install any client-side software or Adobe Acrobat. More details can be found on the product page. An on-premise version for SharePoint 2007-2019 is available separately.
The Muhimbi PDF Converter API & Server Platform is included in the PDF Converter for SharePoint Online, but also available as a separate subscription. Although frequently used in combination with SharePoint Online, it is a completely stand-alone product which is typically used programmatically via its REST based API, via Power Automate (Flow), Azure LogicApps or Microsoft Power Apps. It comes with the same functionality as the SharePoint Online product to convert, merge, watermark, secure and OCR files.
Control if watermarks are always displayed, or only when printing.
In addition to the changes listed above, the key changes and additions in the new version are as follows:
| 5401 | API | Fix | PdfWatermark API call fails if URL does not end in .pdf. |
| 4714 | API | Fix | API does not recognize folder path containing plus sign (+). |
| 4653 | API | Fix | Fix Serialization errors of certain file paths in API. |
| 1723 | Attachments | New | Support embedding of attachments inside a PDF in original file format |
| 5339 | Attachments | New | Implement filtering of attachment types during conversion |
| 5364 | AutoCAD | Fix | Out of Memory exception during AutoCAD conversion |
| 4879 | AutoCAD | Fix | Resource leak in CAD conversions |
| 4904 | AutoCAD | Improvement | Implement sorting of CAD layouts by their Tab Order |
| 5024 | AutoCAD | Improvement | Improve PDF rendering of certain DXF files |
| 4630 | AutoCAD | New | Add support for latest R2018 DWG files |
| 4882 | Conversion | Fix | Error related to 'Protected View' when converting Office documents. |
| 5407 | Conversion | Improvement | Resolve performance issues related to Office telemetry |
| 4956 | Core | Fix | Error: 'The property or field 'Url' has not been initialized' |
| 4701 | Core | Fix | Base file name returns _____ in place of Chinese characters in a file name |
| 4918 | Core | Fix | Support very long SharePoint Online URLs for destination files |
| 4082 | Core | Improvement | Accept fully qualified path names for source and destination paths for operations |
| 4724 | Core | Improvement | Improve error message when Override xml is not entered correctly |
| 4674 | Core | Improvement | Improve messaging for 'file not found' situations |
| 3975 | Core | New | Allow multiple API subscriptions to be grouped under a single main subscription |
| 5341 | Fix | RTFHTML email parsing issue | |
| 4845 | Improvement | Improve encoding of eml headers | |
| 4728 | New | Filter out useless 'signature' images during email conversion | |
| 5410 | Excel | New | Localise Excel conversions depending on user region |
| 4765 | Flow | Improvement | Add facility to Flow & Merge API to pass in an array of documents |
| 5433 | HTML | Improvement | Improve conversion of Power BI pages |
| 3162 | HTML | Improvement | Improve conversion of 'Modern View' SharePoint pages |
| 4618 | HTML | Improvement | Implement new HTML Converter that supports all modern standards |
| 4309 | HTML | Improvement | Clean up converted HTML links without protocol |
| 4763 | HTML | Improvement | Investigate special characters in HTML conversion |
| 3499 | HTML | New | Add support for 'repeating headers and footers' in HTML converter |
| 5333 | InfoPath | Fix | InfoPath conversion fails if xml does not define the 'my' namespace |
| 5413 | MS-Word | Fix | Signed Word document Fail to Convert |
| 5931 | MS-Word | Improvement | Improve page numbering and various field types during MS-Word conversion |
| 4834 | MS-Word | Improvement | Improve MS-Word 3rd party template handling |
| 4878 | MS-Word | Improvement | Add support for hyphenation for most common languages |
| 4891 | MS-Word | New | Allow any MS-Word style to be designated as a Heading level |
| 4660 | Setup | Improvement | Update characters allowed for password on API signup |
| 4403 | Setup | Improvement | Redesign 'Sign up' form to make it easier to understand |
| 4901 | Setup | New | Create sample PowerShell to install / sideload App store app |
| 5381 | UI | Fix | Convert page to PDF does not work if URL contains '&' |
| 5356 | UI | Fix | Destination button on conversion screen fails when destination folder contains '+' |
| 4744 | UI | Fix | Prevent clashes with other jQuery versions used on same page. |
| 4664 | UI | Improvement | Add Support to Disable User-Integration for APP deployed Via App-Catalog |
| 5405 | Watermarking | Fix | Watermarking fails for certain PDF files |
| 5351 | Watermarking | Fix | Out of memory exceptions during certain watermark operations |
| 5367 | Watermarking | Fix | Chinese characters not appearing in text watermark |
| 5416 | Watermarking | Fix | Fix imageFilePath references on root site collection's subsite |
| 5335 | Watermarking | Fix | Issue with RT Watermarking on modern view websites when Filtering is enabled |
| 4607 | Watermarking | Fix | Potential problem when copying watermark URLs |
| 5342 | Watermarking | Improvement | Implement date and time localisation in watermarks |
| 5365 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve stability of real-time watermarking of modern view Lists and Libraries |
| 2742 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve messaging around real-time watermarking |
| 4954 | Watermarking | Improvement | Add support to Filtering in SP Online Library with real-time watermarking enabled |
| 4708 | Watermarking | New | Add support for barcode watermarks to UI, SP designer workflows, Flow and API |
| 4326 | Watermarking | New | Support real-time watermarking for Classic Search in SharePoint Online |
| 4899 | Watermarking | New | Automate sync external users to real-time processing user group. |
| 4801 | Watermarking | New | Add support for external users in real-time watermarking |
| 4625 | Watermarking | New | Target watermarks the last page(s) via negative StartPage and EndPage values |
| 4729 | Watermarking | New | Support for Print Only watermarks to UI, SP designer workflows, Flow and API |
| 5353 | Workflow | Fix | Workflow alerts not being sent for file not found exception |
| 4637 | Workflow | Improvement | Improve Workflow Alert emails |
| 4949 | Workflow | Improvement | Allow XML override without escaping characters in Nintex Workflow for Office 365 |
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