![]() ![]() Release Date November 26 2012 NEW Version release Sept 3 2013 "PDF Pro Release Notes" New features in the 6.2 Release over Release 6.1
Please read this document for late-breaking or detailed information about eCopy PDF Pro Office that could not be included in its other documentation. It relates to standard and enterprise versions of the product. In the rest of this document, the name PDF Pro Office is used for both versions. Up-to-date information and a knowledge base are available on the PDF Pro Office support web page (http://www.nuance.com/support/ecopy/index.htm). You can access this directly from inside the product, using the Menu item Help/Nuance on the Web/Product Support. These release notes discuss the following topics: Installation, Activation, Registration New updates in the 6.1 release New updates in the 6.2 release Minimum System Requirements
Note: Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer’s processor, memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements. This is especially true when converting very large color PDF files. Hyper-thread enabled or multi-processor systems can deliver better performance. Third Party Licenses/NoticesThis software is based, in part, on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. The software is based, in part, on the work of Colosseum Builders, Inc. The software is based, in part, on the work of the FreeType Team. The software is based, in part, on the work of Kakadu Software. The software is based, in part, on the zlib Compression Library. The word verification, spelling and hyphenation portions of this product are based in part on Proximity Linguistic Technology. The Proximity Hyphenation System © Copyright 1988. All Rights Reserved. Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. The Proximity/Merriam-Webster American English Linguibases. © Copyright 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988 Merriam-Webster Inc. All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Words are checked against the 116,000, 80,821, 92,641, 106713, 118,533, 91928, 103,792, 130,690, and 140,713 word Proximity/Merriam- Webster Linguibases. The Proximity/Collins British English Linguibases. © Copyright 1985 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Legal and Medical Supplements © Copyright 1982 Merriam-Webster Inc. All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1982, 1985 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Words are checked against the 80,307, 90,406, 105,785, and 115,784 word Proximity/Collins Linguibases. The Proximity/Collins French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Continental), Spanish Linguibases. © Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Words are checked against the 136,771, 150,893, 178,839, 207,119, 212,565, and 194,393 word Proximity/Collins Linguibases. The Proximity/Van Dale Dutch Lingubase. © Copyright 1987 Van Dale Lexicografie bv. © Copyright 1987 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Words are checked against the 119,614 word Proximity/Van Dale Linguibase. The Proximity/ Munksgaard Danish Linguibase. © Copyright 1988 Munksgaard International Publishers Ltd. All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1988 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved .Words are checked against the 113,000 word Proximity/Munksgaard Linguibase. The Proximity/IDE Norwegian and Swedish Linguibases. © Copyright 1988 IDE a.s. All Rights Reserved © Copyright 1988 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Words are checked against the 126,123 and 150,000 word Proximity/IDE Linguibases. INSO/Vantage Research dictionaries: International CorrectSpell ™ spelling correction system © 1993 by Lernout & Hauspie All Rights Reserved. Slovenian Speller Database, copyright © 2002 Ambeis d.o.o. All Rights Reserved. Esperanto dictionary based on compilation by Toon Witkam and Stefan MacGill. The SoftwarePassport/Armadillo Software Protection System Copyright 1998-2007 by the Silicon Realms Toolworks. All Rights Reserved. This software is based, in part, on the PNG Reference Library (libpng). InstallShield® 2008 Copyright © 1997-2007 Macrovision Corporation and/or Macrovision Europe Ltd. All Rights Reserved. AES encryption/decryption copyright © 2001, Dr Brian Gladman, Worcester, UK. All Rights Reserved. This product includes elements developed by the OpenSSL project, including software written by Eric Young and Tim Hudson. Clip Art ‘Radiating confidence’, ‘Reading a Report’, ‘Veterinarian’ and ‘Nurse’ © Karina MacGill, 2009. All Rights Reserved. Implements Adobe® Architecture XFA® specification © 2009 Adobe Systems Incorporated All Rights Reserved. Development tools from Microsoft © 2009 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved. TrademarksNuance, the Nuance logo, ScanSoft, eCopy, OmniPage, True Page and Logical Form Recognition are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliate companies in the United States of America and / or other countries. Microsoft, Windows and Outlook are registered trademarks and / or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. InstallShield is a registered trademark of Macrovision Corp. All other company names or product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Installation, Activation, RegistrationeCopy PDF Pro Office detects previous versions and components and prompts for your confirmation to remove them. This product can co-exist with the Nuance PDF Reader. You must have administrator rights on the computer to install and activate the program. You need web access for activation.
1. Insert the CD-ROM or DVD in the appropriate drive The installation program will start automatically. If it does not, locate your CD-ROM or DVD drive in Microsoft® Windows® Explorer and double-click the converter's AutoRun.exe file. Select a language for installation. The InstallShield® Wizard will appear. (If you have downloaded the program from the Nuance web site, double-click its AutoRun.exe file.) Note: Do not use the setup.exe located on the installation media! It does not perform the complete installation. 2. License and Serial Number
Your job is to Activate it. 3. Location and Setup Type The installer offers a default location for the program. Accept it or define a different one. Select Complete or Custom Setup. Choose Custom to accept or decline installation of the PDF unlocking component. Choose Custom also to enable or disable the integration of PDF Converter and PDF Create in other programs or to control installation of certain program components. By default, all the programs offered in the PDF Pro Office Integration panels of the InstallShield Wizard will be enabled. (You can change integration settings later by choosing the program under Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel and clicking Change and then Repair.) Do not install the product to the Windows installation directory, to other system folder or mapped network drives. 4. Activate You will be invited to activate the product at the end of installation. Please ensure that web access is available. Provided your serial number is found at its storage location and has been correctly entered, no user interaction is required and no personal information is transmitted. If you do not activate the product at installation time, you will be invited to do this each time you invoke the program. PDF Pro Office creates PDF files with a trial watermark on each page if you use it without activation. If you ignore the first five activation prompts, you must activate products separately and manually - a much more time-consuming process. You will be allowed to re-install the program a reasonable number of times without having re-activation problems, because un-installation includes a de-activation step. The serial number is needed for reinstallation and web access is needed for de-activation and re-activation. The Enterprise version of this product does not require activation and is designed for network installation. For registration and activation troubleshooting see the Nuance Knowledge Base at http://nuance.custhelp.com/. Note: Keep the serial number of earlier versions, to retain the option of installing them on a different computer. PDF Pro Office and other Nuance products Previous versions of PDF Create and/or PDF Converter products might be installed on your computer with the different versions of OmniPage and PaperPort. The installer of PDF Pro Office detects previous versions of these PDF products and upgrades them. You can skip upgrading the PDF Converter component during the installation process to keep the previous version PDF Converter, but it does not cooperate with the latest version of PDF Pro Office. The previous PDF Create has to be updated with its newest version, as included in PDF Pro Office. Two versions of PDF Pro Office and PDF Create cannot be installed together. General Application NotesDownloading Microsoft .NET 4.0 Framework Please read the appropriate section of the System Requirements to learn why you may need Microsoft .Net 4.0 Framework. Cloud based storage support
Microsoft Office compatibility Conversion to different editable formats can be performed whether or not the target applications are installed on your system. However, to use the results, you need the applications associated to the target file types you want to use (for example Microsoft Word XP (SP3), Microsoft Word 2003 (SP3) for .doc files, the same versions of Microsoft Excel for .xls files, Microsoft Office 2007 (SP1), Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013 for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files and Corel WordPerfect X3 and X4 for .wpd files). Downloading a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack If a Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack is installed on your computer, Office 2007 output files can be opened in earlier Office versions. This software is downloadable from the Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en. This component is not necessary for saving or converting files into Office 2007 formats. Browser support
Adobe® Flash Player To view, edit or create PDF portfolios you should have or install Adobe® Flash Player. Document Management System (DMS) support in the Enterprise Edition
Scanner SupportScanning to PDF documents is improved in PDF Pro Office. The scanner support is exactly the same as in other Nuance products such as OmniPage or PaperPort. Install your scanner before you install PDF Pro Office Your scanner must be working independently of the program prior to connecting it to the program. Scanners to be used by the product should be installed according to the scanner manufacturer’s specifications. Please consult the documentation that came with your scanner for information. TWAIN, WIA and ISIS drivers PDF Pro Office supports scanners that are controlled by TWAIN, WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) or ISIS scanner drivers. PDF Pro Office supports any fully TWAIN- WIA- or ISIS-compliant scanner or other input devices that can supply at least a binary (black-and-white) image in a supported resolution (200 to 600 dots per inch). Scanner Setup Wizard PDF Pro Office includes a Scanner Setup Wizard that will automatically test your scanner for use with the product. It is launched automatically the first time you try to scan images to PDF document. You can also launch it from the menu Edit/Preferences/General/Scanner Setup. The scanning process can be driven either by the UI provided by the scanner manufacturer or in UI-less mode with pre-defined settings (One Touch scan). For more details please read the appropriate section of the product Help. Scanner compatibility Since scanners change frequently, please refer to http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/ for the most recent information about scanner compatibility. If you are having problems with your scanner, please contact the scanner manufacturer for assistance. Often, scanner manufacturers maintain web sites that provide the latest scanner drivers, answers to frequently asked questions, and other information about their products. General Technical Notes
New features in the 6.1 Release
PDF Converter Professional offers two working modes – PDF View (the interface offered up to now) and the new Advanced Edit. This allows word processing type editing capabilities within the PDF using a set of tools similar to those in Microsoft Word. Finalizing your advanced edits solidifies the changes within the PDF document.
New connectors allow files to be opened from popular cloud services, such as DropBox and Evernote. Modified results can be returned to these sites. It is also possible to print PDF files to the PaperPort desktop application from the Nuance PDF Create printer and from the PDF Create Assistant.
This new cloud-based service opens the door to multi-user editing of PDF files, document sharing, screen sharing, chat and voice conferencing.
Ability to export data from single forms to additional file types, such as XFDF, XML and TXT. Also to export data from multiple forms with the same data field sets to XML and CSV files that can be opened by Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet programs; each form is represented by a row and each form field by a column. Field labels in the forms become the header row texts for the spreadsheet columns.
Enter notes onto PDF files by dictating them instead of using the keyboard. Use your microphone to transmit dictation to a Dragon Notes server in the Cloud and receive back the written note into your PDF file.
The user interface language can now be changed inside the program. PDF Converter Professional can handle PDF files with content in a very wide range of languages and alphabets, providing your system and keyboard supports them – Thai language support is introduced.
The previous Select Text and Select Object are replaced by a single Select tool that performs both functions, depending what is clicked. The same has happened with the Touchup tool and the Typewriter tool. General use toolbars installed by default with the ability to turn on and customize all additional options to the toolbar.
Direct PDF files via e-mail to a fax machine using an address predefined in an exchange server, according to settings made under program preferences.
Create signature and custom stamps in addition to the supplied set by right-clicking on a selected area. Stamps can now be applied to all pages of a document in one move.
Ability to print to the PDF printer from a MS application so the file opens in PDF Converter Professional without having to save it locally. Further files can be printed with the ability to append more pages to the document.
Highlight not only text blocks but page areas; optionally apply customized file open/save dialog boxes; in addition to optimizing PDF files, they can now also be reduced; auto-orient and auto-straighten pages when scanning to PDF, preview PDF files in Outlook, specify a page range when printing a document to PDF.
Additional Enterprise features
Ease of PDF/A file creation through the File > Save As menu. A PDF/A Compliance checker allows files saved to the PDF/A file type to be checked for full compliance with the various levels of PDF/A standards, identifying non-compliant items. Compliance notification is provided whenever a PDF/A compliant document is opened.
The Nuance PDF toolbar in Internet Explorer now allows access to the same set of Document Management Systems as from the program itself. Save to DMS support from within Portfolios. DMS support is extended to EMC Documentum and Xerox DocuShare.
Assemble groups of files in one format and automatically convert them to another. Valid input is TIFF (any flavor) or PDF (any flavor), output is TIFF, PDF (image-only) or Searchable PDF.
When scanning to PDF, multiple inboxes can now be monitored, to better cope with distributed scanning; the folders to monitor are set under preferences.
PDF documents secured under digital rights management using FileOpen document controls are supported.
New features in the 6.2 Release
Known Issues
For Administrators PDF Pro Office can be configured for Active Directory, SMS and Citrix deployment. Network and server deployment requires an OLP (Open License Program) agreement with Nuance. For deployment instructions please review the "Network Install Guide". For assistance with deployment, a maintenance agreement is required.
A Nuance team maintains a database to answer many technical questions relating to different products. Please visit the site http://nuance.custhelp.com/, if you have questions related to PDF Pro Office.
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