New features and changes of DocuWorks 9.1

Difference between 9.1.7 and 9.1.8

  • Corrected an issue where the order of documents would change when the "Find and Mark" plug-in is placed on the task bar of DocuWorks Desk. (280602)
  • Corrected an issue where previously configured settings would change if 10 or more "Find and Mark" plug-ins are registered. (272782)
  • Corrected an issue where DocuWorks Desk would sometimes terminate abnormally when you delete the toolbar of DocuWorks Desk. (281769)
  • Corrected an issue where files look selected on both top and bottom screens in the folder split window of DocuWorks Desk. (283920)
  • When you perform "Write Signature and Save As" on a file, you can now add your signature (pasting a seal imprint) over the already signed seal imprint. (266073)

Difference between 9.1.6 and 9.1.7

  • Corrected an issue that caused a display delay when opening the folder linked to the DocuWorks Desk mailbox. (221654)
  • Corrected an issue that prevented scrolling to the position of a file created in DocuWorks Desk. (198046)
  • Corrected an issue that disabled operations when clicking on [To] in the new mail window displayed in the DocuWorks Desk [Exchange Outlook] plug-in. (182896)
  • Corrected an issue that caused a delay when saving files. (218345)
  • Corrected an issue that caused a delay when connecting to a folder linked to DocuWorks Desk mailbox. (205532)
  • Corrected an issue that triggers an error during OCR processing when refreshing the OCR processing library. (203565, 227667)
  • Corrected an issue that caused closed notification screens to pop up again when a DocuWorks application (DocuWorks Desk, DocuWorks Viewer, DocuWorks Tray) is left running. (200278)
  • Corrected an issue that caused a document with different horizontal and vertical resolutions to be divided incorrectly in the [Split Image Page] plug-in. (245202)
  • Corrected an issue that resulted in garbled characters when converting documents that contain rotated surrogate pair text into DocuWorks. (228589)
  • Corrected a minor issue that occurs when using Unicode characters. (225430, 226652, 227382, 239057)
  • Corrected an issue that garbles surrogate pair text and adds a space in text annotation. (226558)
  • Corrected an issue that garbles partial Unicode characters when pasting a DocuWorks document into another application. (226762)
  • Corrected an issue that garbles surrogate pair text and adds a space in the link annotation title. (226579)
  • The period you may use the software with Licensed Edition has been changed from 1 to 10 years.
  • Added a function to collect DocuWorks logs in the DocuWorks usage environment display tool.
  • Updated the PDF document processing library. (202308, 208754, 217764, 254546)
  • Corrected an issue that causes importation of the black and white two-value image PDF file to fail in the [Import image PDF] plug-in. (217144, 256092)
  • Corrected an issue where a DocuWorks Desk shortcut is created on the desktop regardless of the dw.ini [DeskShortcut] section make key value. (189295)
  • Corrected an issue that selects email delivery regardless of the dw.ini [UserInfo] section OptIn key value. (180967)
  • Corrected an issue where the DocuWorks Desk toolbar, work bar, status bar, and infoview are hidden when docking the work space toolbar in DocuWorks Desk. (260581)
  • Corrected an issue where excess lines appear when displaying a DocuWorks document converted from a PDF at high image quality. (237215)
  • Enhanced file write error checks when editing DocuWorks files in link folders. (218021)
  • Corrected an issue where the image color changes when lowering the image document resolution in the [Process Pages] plug-in. (208449)
  • Corrected an issue where the vertical text layout breaks down when converting a Microsoft Word file to a DocuWorks file. (207522)
  • Corrected an issue where file generation fails when printing to DocuWorks Printer from a local system account. (261666)
  • Corrected an issue where an error occurs and email cannot be sent when sending an email from the [Exchange Outlook] plug-in and the file path contains specific Unicode characters. (187338)
  • Corrected an issue where, when editing the original data of a DocuWorks document that contains specific Unicode characters in the file name and recreating the DocuWorks document, the original data cannot be opened. (207912)
  • Corrected an issue that prevented installation of DocuWorks to a path that contains Unicode characters. (217762)
  • Corrected an issue triggered when DocuWorks is installed to a path that contains Unicode characters. (235483)
  • Corrected an issue where an error is displayed when updating from DocuWorks 9.1 (version 9.1.0 or 9.1.1). (266980)
  • Corrected an issue where the status bar icon is difficult to see when the DocuWorks Desk or DocuWorks Viewer display style is set to [Follow Windows]. (256882)
  • Corrected an issue that disables operations on the screen when the client activation certificate selection screen is displayed in DocuWorks Subscription or DocuWorks Subscription Suite login. (259420)

Difference between 9.1.5 and 9.1.6

  • DocuWorks Viewer Control can now be used with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (except for Internet Explorer mode).
  • Displaying a DocuWorks document in a web browser for which Microsoft Windows protected mode is enabled caused a different license status to appear, or license usage information to be registered redundantly. This problem has been corrected. (210194)
  • The processing libraries for PDF documents have been updated. (177547, 204367, 208857)
  • Opening a document containing a lot of image data and then turning the pages caused the content of the document not to be displayed correctly in the middle. This problem has been corrected. (208338)
  • Importing the settings file containing information for the [Start Command Execution] plug-in occasionally failed. This problem has been corrected. (186475)
  • We have fixed the problem that some annotations on annotation toolbars did not appear correctly. (149032)
  • We have made improvements to the process for associating DocuWorks file types at installation. (135577)
  • During printing in DocuWorks Viewer or DocuWorks Desk, sometimes the window turned to black or malfunction. This problem has been corrected. (131599)
  • In DocuWorks Viewer, the way how the documents are shown can now be selected in more settings. (160320)
  • We have made improvements so that online help can be directly opened in your web browser by clicking [Setup Guide] on the menu screen for the install media. (212999)
  • After the update installation of the netprint Printer driver, information for user IDs, passwords, and e-mail addresses are now inherited. (214341)
  • We have made improvements to the process for importing the task toolbar and toolbar in DocuWorks Desk. (206869)

Difference between 9.1.3 and 9.1.5

  • The processing libraries for PDF documents have been updated. (140039, 158392, 170903, 200359 and others）
  • With the licensed edition, programs created with DocuWorks Development Tool Kit occasionally abnormally terminated. This problem has been corrected. (191257)
  • An enhancement has been made so that DocuWorks configuration information files exported with DocuWorks 9 can be imported into DocuWorks 9.1. (189661)
  • OCR processing occasionally ended in an error. This problem has been corrected by updating the OCR processing libraries. (187396, 187407, 187409)
  • An enhancement has been made so that TIFF files compressed in a special JPEG format can be converted into DocuWorks documents. (184330)
  • DocuWorks Desk occasionally failed to provide thumbnail view for some files in a folder. This problem has been corrected. (175302)
  • DocuWorks Desk could not be launched in an environment where certain library files or registry settings, that were used in an older version and that should had been already removed, still remained. This problem has been corrected. (196204)
  • In a DocuWorks Desk status sharing folder, the positions of files were occasionally different for each user. This problem has been corrected. (170914)
  • In DocuWorks Viewer, the way how the documents are shown can now be selected in more settings. (160320)
  • In DocuWorks Viewer, repeating the process of deleting an annotation occasionally caused Viewer to stop working. This problem has been corrected. (149053)
  • When displaying a DocuWorks document with the setting showing in "View as Continuous Page" enabled, any annotation placed in foreground of a NotePad that runs off the page image appeared behind the NotePad. This problem has been corrected. (189122)
  • Applying Windows Quality Update resulted in distortion of specific fonts in DocuWorks documents. This problem has been corrected. (187414)
  • Microsoft Outlook mail sheets (.msg files) stored in a DocuWorks container could not be opened. This problem has been corrected. (187412)
  • Running a Scan and Import with some scanner drivers caused DocuWorks Desk to abnormally terminate. This problem has been corrected. (187405)
  • In an environment of a user account having specific characters in its name, displaying or creating a Task Toolbar, and importing DocuWorks settings files did not work. This problem has been corrected. (187350)
  • Creating a new toolbar on DocuWorks Desk and placing a button having submenus (Rotate, Arrange, or Rotate Front Page) caused DocuWorks Desk to fail to start. This problem has been corrected. (182527)
  • Displaying a corrupted PDF file in DocuWorks Desk caused an internal error to occur at the time of exiting of Desk. This problem has been corrected. (179998)
  • Specifying a DocuWorks container as a search target in Windows Search caused unwanted files to pile up in the ProgramData folder. This problem has been corrected. (172734)
  • A full text search feature has been added to the online help.
  • Corrected an issue where sometimes the displayed page is split and white lines appear when rotating a DocuWorks image document multiple times. (196816)

Difference between 9.1.2 and 9.1.3

  • Fixed the problem where the menu operation ends with an error after pasting annotation in DocuWorks Viewer. (173485)
  • Fixed the problem where the virtual printer created with the Scan Delivery QR Creation Tool does not work properly. (173621)
  • Fixed the problem where OCR processing fails for PDF files that do not contain images. (173046)

Difference between 9.1.1 and 9.1.2

  • The OCR plug-in can now be used with PDF.
  • In Licensed Edition, the behavior taken when the license usage check deadline expires has been changed.
  • In Licensed Edition, the version of the license module has been updated. (144850)
    This update will resolve the following problems and concerns:
    • DocuWorks occasionally fails to start up due to the failure of the license usage check
    • It sometimes takes a long time until DocuWorks Desk or DocuWorks Viewer is started up
  • In an environment having Windows OS installed on a drive other than the drive C, [Open Original Location] did not work. This problem has been corrected. (59326)
  • Running the DocuWorks Viewer's file verification for a corrupted document caused the application to abnormally terminate. This problem has been corrected. (69854)
  • Printing a file having a long file name to DocuWorks Printer occasionally caused double byte characters in the file name to be substituted with "_". This problem has been corrected. (76148)
  • In the DocuWorks Viewer full screen view, rendering speed for image pages has been improved. (94782)
  • Clicking the Search button during file preview in DocuWorks Desk caused the preview display to disappear. This problem has been corrected. (94903)
  • Users are now prohibited from working with a DocuWorks container as long as a file within it is open. (97474)
  • In DocuWorks Viewer's single page continuous view, running Copy Image occasionally caused a black filled image to be created. This problem has been corrected. (115979)
  • Printing a file to DocuWorks Printer caused the colors in it to be darken, for example, from white to light gray for a bitmap image in 16-bit format. This problem has been corrected. (121486)
  • It occasionally took a long time to convert a file with an OLE object such as graph pasted on it into DocuWorks document. This problem has been corrected. (124770)
  • When registering the [Start Command Execution] plug-in, specifying a path consisting of 256 characters or more caused DocuWorks Desk to abnormally terminate. This problem has been corrected. (128282)
  • In an environment running under Windows Server 2019 or later and having roaming user profiles configured, some settings caused DocuWorks Printer not to work. This problem has been corrected. (131131)
  • The processing libraries for PDF documents have been updated. (135381, 135868, 135930, 157512, 157514, 157516, 157521, 157525, 157535, 157537, 157541, 157990, 159098, 159105, 159108, 159110, 159273, 160249 and 161947)
  • When silent installing DocuWorks, the file specified in the [CustomFile] section in dw.ini was not successfully copied. This problem has been corrected. (135899)
  • Pasting a text annotation by using DocuWorks Viewer caused it to be pasted at an unexpected position. This problem has been corrected. (137147)
  • In an environment with IPv6 disabled, adding a Mailbox Extended Folder for DocuWorks Desk failed with a message telling that "Failed to search devices" appeared. This problem has been corrected. (140228)
  • Executing [Open Original Location] for a file located in Task Space did not correctly work. This problem has been corrected. (140229)
  • The color combination for the News button in DocuWorks Desk has been changed. (145423)
  • During importing of the DocuWorks settings, some setting values for DocuWorks Desk were not correctly reflected. This problem has been corrected. (158327)
  • In DocuWorks Subscription or DocuWorks Subscription Suite, on the screen that is displayed if the license verification at startup of DocuWorks Desk or DocuWorks Viewer fails, users can now delete login information. (158483)
  • Printing a file containing a mathematical expression to DocuWorks Printer occasionally caused the document generation to fail. This problem has been corrected. (49367)
  • Vertical writing font text was not displayed in the correct orientation or position in high quality display mode. This problem has been corrected. (67813)
  • When you attempted to embed a DocuWorks file in HTML and display it, specifying a SHEAF attribute did not work as expected. This problem has been corrected. (67886)
  • Fixed the problem of Desk sometimes failing when you ran the OCR (character recognition) process while setting to make the output as files with [Show the progress of OCR processing] checked. (164534)
  • Modified the operation for the PDF annotation of the annotation pasting plug-in to release the following limitations (the on-line help has been updated).
    • Comment Properties
      • Comments with thickness other than 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, or 10 points cannot be pasted.
      • The Start point, End point, and Style will not be inherited (the settings will be Start: None, End: None, Style: Solid line).
    • Text Comment, Text Box, and Text Callout
      • Font type, font color, and style will not be inherited.
      • Text Comment, Text Box, and Text Callout will be pasted as text boxes.
    • Pop-up notes
      • Pop-up notes will be added even if there are no pop-up notes.
  • Modified the annotation pasting plug-in to take over the line break position when pasting the text annotation, text box, and text box with a leader line. (166744)

Difference between 9.1.0 and 9.1.1

  • Fixed the problem where the Paste Annotation Plug-in registered in the old version cannot be used after installing the upgrade to DocuWorks 9.1. (138999)
  • Link comments were excluded from target PDF comments of the Paste Annotation Plug-in. (140128)
  • Text box comments and text callout comments are added as target PDF comments of the Paste Annotation Plug-in. (139645)
  • Fixed the problem where PDF comments with 0 point width or height cannot be registered on the Paste Annotation Plug-in. (140130)
  • Fixed the problem where the preview of Underline comment was not displayed on the [Select PDF Comment] dialog box. (140131)
  • Fixed the problem where pasting comments with pop-up notes may fail. (140132)
  • Fixed the problem where the settings are not inherited when opening the [Convert to PDF (DocuWorks PDF)] properties set in DocuWorks 9.0.7 or earlier. (162444)

New features of 9.1.0

  • The design of the software application has been changed.
  • The following plug-ins now can be run for PDF documents:
    • Paste Annotation
    • Find and Mark
    • Page Layout
    • Sort Pages
    • Split Image Page
    • Image Converter
  • Help can now be accessed online.
  • A new feature has been added so that users can send us operation logs (DocuWorks Subscription or DocuWorks Subscription Suite only).
  • The license management component has been updated.