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Proofware 2.0.0 Release Notes

Release date: 15 Jan. 2016

Updates  

  • Redesigned interface including new icons.

  • Notes files are displayed separately and grouped under “My Files”.

  • Report files are grouped together by the Sample name under “My Projects”.

  • Upload to Notes, Delete, and Download icons are displayed for each group of reports.

  • Proofware Home link is visible on the top of all pages for ease of access.

  • The Options panel for all apps slides out only when clicked.

  • Ability to download the annotated Sample Report only.

  • New email format for the Inspection Report emails sent to the user. 

  • Ability to remove/ hide layers that interfere with the inspection.

  • Improved cropping: Abilities to re-size the crop area, crop multiple pages, pages of all sizes, and to the trim box automatically.

  • Faster loading time.

  • User Password Expiry Date is visible to the Administrator on the interface.

  • All report date formats are listed as DD-MM-YYY.

  • Re-designed FAQs for easy access to information.

  • Support for AI files.

  • Support for concurrent licensing.

  • Support for Server 2012.

Graphics Inspection Updates: 

  • Ability to select dielines from the layers and/ or separations.

  • Ability to view color separations using the "Edit Content" icon. 

  • Ability to inspect repeats.

  • Ability to decode barcodes.

  • Ability to verify Braille.

  • Ability to maximize the Flash window.

  • Added a mask for the image in the Flash window.

  • Ability to inspect all pages of multi-page documents.

  • Ability to crop all, odd, even pages automatically.

  • Ability to review changes and call-outs using the Annotation Checklist.

Text Inspection Updates: 

  • Ability to review changes and call-outs using the Annotation Checklist. 

  • Ability to automatically inspect QRD templates. 

  • Ability to detect soft-hyphen differences.

  • Ability to detect line-break differences.

  • Ability to detect revision text below the specified threshold (minimum-font-size logic).

  • Ability to compare embedded images.

  • Ability to decode barcodes.

  • Ability to verify Braille

  • Ability to create zones in the Master and Sample files to map the areas for comparison. 

  • Ability to create table zones to map tables for comparison. 

  • Ability to inspect rotated tables.

  • Ability to re-sync false positives

  • Ability to correct the display of corrupt characters in the Difference Grid.

  • Ability to navigate differences using the up/ down arrows on the keyboard.

  • New color-coded Difference List and addition of tool tips to facilitate review.

  • Function keys (F1 to F4) available to input default levels while proofing.

  • Space bar available to move through the default comments while proofing.

  • Ability to view the inspectable text and numbers highlighted in red while viewing the inspection report in the report panel.

  • Ability to select text and get the word count.

  • Ability to select text and view the Unicode values.

Spelling Inspection Updates: 

  • Improved language dictionaries.

  • Added new dictionaries: Greek and Serbian (Cyrillic). 

Braille Inspection Updates: 

  • New inspection-report format.

Barcode Inspection Updates: 

  • Improved grading logic.

  • Improved detection logic

  • Barcodes are color-coded based on verification-grade colors. 

  • New inspection report format.

Notes Updates: 

  • Ability to send files to other users for approval. 

Bug Fixes  

  • Ability to load PDF files that contain internal content-security settings (e.g. page extraction).

  • Partial selection (i.e., underlines, cross-outs, crops, etc.) is retained when files are re-loaded after an inspection. 

  • "Include Master File" in Report options is consistent throughout the apps.

  • Micro character "µ" is visible in PDF files (all apps).

  • Braille layer removed properly (all apps).

  • Graphical elements within a layer are no longer displayed when the layer is hidden.

  • Valid message (not exception error) displays when attempting to download a failed report. 

  • Valid message (not exception error) displays when the current internet browser is not supported.

  • Valid message (not exception error) displays when updating/ creating user without selecting any app.

  • Valid message (not exception error) displays when system is in maintenance mode.

  • Status is not changed when “forgot your password” is activated. 

  • User only has to reset their password once when their password expires (i.e., does not depend on when the password expired).

  • Account Status becomes inactive for an expired user account

  • Three audit trail events with status = "Invalid username and/or password" are logged after three invalid attempts. 

  • Audit trail event is not duplicated when users clicks "Share" on report page.

  • Error not generated for small files less than 5 MB (these files do not require compression to optimize the speed). 

  • "Proofware" is displayed in the Application column for all auto-timeout events (not the ‘app name’). 

Graphics Inspection Bug Fixes: 

  • Page is not rotated after cropping (file specific). 

  • Changed cropping mode options to Full Page, Trim, and Shape.

  • Red Difference boxes are placed correctly over the differences (file specific).

  • Double entries for the report on the main page are not logged when the user launches a report, reloads the same files, and then generates an inspection.

  • Layers are removed properly (file specific).

  • Ability to display large master/ sample images correctly. 

  • Blue error boxes in the thumbnails in the detailed inspection report are closed completely.

Text Inspection Bug Fixes: 

  • Improved subscript-superscript detection precision, resulting in more sub/ super differences being detected.

  • Decreased number of invalid font-type differences detected.

  • Decreased number of invalid bold differences detected. 

  • Decreased number of invalid space differences with vertical text.

  • Improved synchronization for files with repetitive text and files with tables.

  • Improved reading order correction logic to reduce mismatched text and sync issues. 

  • New and improved code to verify the match strength (i.e., false-positives removal routines).

  • New match recuperation algorithm when analyzing the comparison results during the false-positives removal step.

  • Improved results for Right-to-Left inspections due to new and improved logic and additional equivalencies on the server.

  • Italic words no longer missing when displayed on the screen (sample specific).

  • Hyphens no longer missing when displayed on the screen (sample specific).

  • Font not changing to italic for underlined words when displayed on the screen (sample specific).

  • Italic words not changing to regular non-italicized text (sample specific). 

  • Footers in PDF files are displayed (sample specific).

  • Stability improvements with respect to inspections with many differences. 

  • Proper message displays when files have no live text.

  • Cross-outs and underlines are performed by area and are correctly placed on all pages.

  • Files are displayed properly in both panels before and after inspection (file specific).

  • Ability to display the complete file name in the tool tip when multiple files are loaded.

  • Image and text properly displays with the correct colors (sample specific).

  • Sample difference remains highlighted after Difference List is closed. 

Spelling Inspection Bug Fixes:

  • Stability improvements with respect to inspections with many spelling errors. 

  • Proper message displays when files have no live text. 

  • Cross-outs and underlines are performed by area and are correctly placed on all pages.

  • Order of languages (Irish, Italian) in Language(s) option corrected.

  • Exact same text string is displayed in the report and in the Difference List.

Braille Inspection Bug Fixes:

  • Page is not rotated after cropping Braille Region (file specific).

  • Inspection date reflects the date the report was downloaded.

  • Two Braille regions are not being merged into one (file specific).

  • Ability to detect small Braille regions (i.e., ones that contain less than 10 Braille dots).

  • Inspection reports are compressed.

  • Ability to generate an inspection report even though no Braille regions are detected.

  • Hungarian letter "X" translated.

  • Lithuanian Braille characters translated correctly (specific file).

  • License-activation process updated.

Barcode Inspection Bug Fixes:

  • Page is not rotated after cropping Barcode (file specific). 

  • Inspection date reflects the date the report was downloaded.

  • Decoded value, type, and grade are displayed in the Barcode Information column on the inspection report.

  • Data Matrix barcode type description formatted correctly

  • Elements in the layer are not displayed when the layer is disabled

  • UPC-E barcode decode value displays properly without leading zeroes.

  • Invalid phantom Pharma codes are not detected.

  • Ability to generate an inspection report even though no barcodes are detected.

  • Ability to display non-displayable characters (i.e., line-break spaces are displayed as □’s).

  • Page-numbering format in the inspection report is "Page X of X".

  • License-activation process updated.

Notes Bug Fixes:

  • File name displays in Notes inspection report email.

  • Notification email is received by both logged-in user and manually-entered user.

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