Posted at: 11:41 on 09 July 2021 by Muhimbi
The Muhimbi PDF Converter Online 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.
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 9.14.1 are as follows:
- Securing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF Files.
- Watermarking Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files.
- Support for EAN and UPC barcodes.
- Experimental PDF/A-2u and A-3u Support.
- Many improvements to our unique real-time watermarking and security facility.
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 10.1.1.
A simple 'Confidential' watermark applied to MS-Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF
For those not familiar with the product, the Muhimbi PDF Converter Online is a lightweight subscription based solution that allows 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. A REST based API as well as Power Automate (Flow), Azure LogicApps and Microsoft Power Apps integration is included in the service. More details can be found on the product page. An on-premise version for SharePoint 2007-2019 is available separately.
In addition to the changes listed above, the key changes and additions in the new version are as follows:
| 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. |
| 7227 | Core | Bug | Post Processing (watermark, security, PDF/A) of very large documents times out. |
| 4394 | Core | Improvement | Enable support for 1GB file operation. |
| 5358 | Core | Improvement | Improve support for processing Office documents in non-English languages. |
| 5437 | Core | Improvement | Improve regional routing for API requests. |
| 4698 | Core | Improvement | Improve error message when custom list is used as destination path. |
| 4647 | Core | Improvement | Update message for file type not supported by subscription. |
| 6181 | Core | Improvement | Improve compatibility with certain rare PDF files. |
| 6171 | Core | Improvement | Improve email delivery. |
| 5976 | Core | Improvement | Improve regional scalability. |
| 6900 | Core | Improvement | Improve font support for asian languages |
| 6860 | Core | Improvement | Improve error message for incorrect cross conversions |
| 7182 | Core | Improvement | Add support for additional font types during PDF Conversion |
| 6494 | Core | Improvement | Improve error messages for unrecognised file types |
| 6510 | Fix | Disable automatic 'ligature' generation when converting emails to pdf. | |
| 6178 | Excel | Improvement | Improve reliability of Excel converter for some edge cases. |
| 6501 | GUI | Improvement | OK and Cancel buttons not placed correctly on Watermark Settings screen. |
| 6919 | GUI | Improvement | Improve performance of SharePoint Online folder picker. |
| 7220 | GUI | Improvement | Improve user interface performance for large merge operations. |
| 6543 | GUI | Improvement | Update Real-Time watermarking screen to reflect it works with Office file types as well. |
| 6198 | GUI | Improvement | Improve error messages on Real-Time watermarking screens. |
| 5403 | GUI | Improvement | Visual Change to Muhimbi PDF Icons. |
| 7197 | GUI | Improvement | Include Subscription ID in SubscriptionDetails.aspx. |
| 6542 | GUI | Improvement | Rename the Watermarking and Security options in SharePoint Online UI. |
| 6096 | GUI | Improvement | Improve folder picker in SharePoint Online user interface. |
| 6152 | GUI | Improvement | Improve folder picker for Firefox users. |
| 7114 | HTML | Bug | Fix timeout during size optimisation of HTML Conversions. |
| 5465 | HTML | FIx | HTML conversion output is incorrect for sites that don't support redirects for HEAD requests. |
| 4617 | HTML | Improvement | Suppress 'working on it' message when converting SharePoint Online pages to PDF. |
| 6183 | HTML | Improvement | Resolve rare edge cases in HTML Converter. |
| 6513 | HTML | Improvement | Improve PDF rendering of SharePoint Modern pages. |
| 6544 | HTML | Improvement | Improve scaling during certain HTML conversions. |
| 6938 | HTML | Improvement | Upgrade HTML Converter to support the latest standards. |
| 7123 | HTML | Improvement | Improve PDF rendering of certain PowerBI reports. |
| 6164 | InfoPath | Improvement | Improve reliability of PowerPoint and InfoPath conversions under extreme load. |
| 6184 | InfoPath | Improvement | Improve processing of InfoPath XSN files in certain edge cases. |
| 6933 | Merging | Bug | Fix Merging of PDF files for certain edge cases. |
| 7076 | Merging | Bug | Fix Chinese bookmark text when merging PDF files. |
| 6021 | Merging | Fix | NullReferenceException when merging certain PDFs containing bookmarks and annotations. |
| 6506 | Merging | Improvement | Allow overriding of MergeSetting.OmitErrorPages using XML Override. |
| 7215 | MS-Word | Bug | Old style MS-Word (.doc) files without headers may be formatted incorrectly. |
| 6512 | MS-Word | Fix | Allow digitally signed DOCM files to be converted. |
| 6177 | MS-Word | Fix | Improve processing of field codes for Word documents that use revision tracking. |
| 5928 | MS-Word | Improvement | Make locking Word fields more versatile. |
| 6549 | MS-Word | New | Add support for Document Structure Tags when converting MS-Word and PowerPoint files. |
| 7075 | MS-Word | New | Add support for showing MS-Word revisions as 'Simple markup'. |
| 6751 | OCR | Bug | Improve ability to index OCRed PDFs using ifilter. |
| 6995 | OCR | Bug | Improve reliability of OCR for certain edge cases. |
| 7138 | OCR | Improvement | Improve error message for OCR operations that time out. |
| 6131 | PDF/A | New | Implement experimental support for PDF/a2u (and a3u). |
| 6502 | Power Automate | Improvement | Improve text layout in Power Automate actions. |
| 6174 | PowerPoint | Bug | Converting PowerPoint files to PDF/A after OCR doesn't always generate valid PDF/A documents. |
| 7113 | PowerPoint | Improvement | Allow PDF Conversion of corrupt PowerPoint files. |
| 6009 | Security | New | Support password protecting Office documents in SharePoint Online. |
| 6084 | Security | New | Support password protecting Office documents in SharePoint Designer Workflows. |
| 6085 | Security | New | Support password protecting Office documents in Power Automate & API. |
| 6033 | Setup | Bug | Fix global app deployment to root site collection |
| 6014 | Setup | Fix | Fix for 'App not installed' error if add-in deployed with tenant scope. |
| 5964 | Setup | Fix | Deployment of Add-in to root site collection using tenant scope deployment. |
| 6923 | Setup | Improvement | Improve email address validation for rare address types. |
| 3961 | Setup | New | Document code based SPFx package deployment. |
| 6615 | Setup | New | Make it possible to enable app-only access tokens via Muhimbi SharePoint Online user interface. |
| 6932 | Split | Bug | Invalid file name template not detected during split action. |
| 6496 | Watermarking | Bug | Fix visibility of watermarks for certain rare PDF files. |
| 6684 | Watermarking | Bug | Watermarks not consistently displayed in Office file formats for certain regional settings. |
| 6884 | Watermarking | Bug | PDF watermark from Power Automate always ends up in the foreground. |
| 7330 | Watermarking | Bug | Fix Real-Time watermarking on folders with a '.' (dot) in the folder name. |
| 5436 | Watermarking | Fix | Error while saving certain watermarked PDFs. |
| 5939 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve watermarking of corrupt PDF files. |
| 5944 | Watermarking | Improvement | Support real-time watermarking on pinned documents. |
| 6092 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve real-time watermarking on classic view. |
| 6093 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve real-time watermarking on modern view. |
| 6097 | Watermarking | Improvement | Rename PDF watermark settings for site and library settings page. |
| 5420 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve real-time watermarking from document preview window. |
| 4761 | Watermarking | Improvement | Support real-time watermarking on multilingual sites. |
| 5391 | Watermarking | Improvement | Real-time watermarking issue with call out menu in classic search results. |
| 6505 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve real-time watermarking in Search Results. |
| 7102 | Watermarking | Improvement | Support real-time watermarking for all variations of English. |
| 4760 | Watermarking | Improvement | Improve real-time watermarking on custom search result page. |
| 7074 | Watermarking | Improvement | Real-time watermarking add support for document library web parts on modern pages. |
| 6008 | Watermarking | New | Support watermarking of Office documents in SharePoint Online. |
| 4976 | Watermarking | New | Add support for including UserProfile properties in watermarks. |
| 6028 | Watermarking | New | Support watermarking of Office documents in SharePoint Designer Workflows. |
| 6029 | Watermarking | New | Support watermarking of Office documents through the API. |
| 6030 | Watermarking | New | Support watermarking of Office documents through Power Automate. |
| 6012 | Watermarking | New | Implement EAN/UPC barcodes in SharePoint Online. |
| 4650 | Watermarking | New | Support on-open watermarking for Search results in Modern User Interface |
| 6162 | Watermarking | New | Add support for the 'PDF watermark type' in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. |
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