Print&Share CQ release notes

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See Print&Share CQ installation

version > 1.1.0630:

version > 1.1.057:

version <= 1.1.057:

Release info:

1.1.0653

  • Core/Setup: Bug fix when installing P&S CQ V4 driver on Windows 10 or Windows 11 in a new environment.

1.1.0652

  • UI: improved layout styles for the task sequencers.
  • Core: Bug fix in the task sequencer for white space removal.
  • Core: A browse button has been added in the insert extra external pages dialog (task sequencer, insert (external) pages).
  • SDI: Hide buttons on Epson devices when en-user isn't allowed to scan/print from the main device interface.

1.1.0651

  • Core: new task sequencer to make a booklet.
  • SDI: For Epson devices you can now enable/disable the scan and print buttons on the home screen of the device.

1.1.0650

  • SDI: implemented support for HP devices.
  • Core: the function completebooklet has been added (similar to Print&Share V3.1).

1.1.0649

  • SDI/UI/Core: Profile option added to specify which scan settings can be visible on a device.
  • SDI/UI/Core: Profile dfault scan settings for: Paper size, Orientation, Document type, Machien specific settings.
  • SDI: when linking a profile to a button on SDI the user can't change the profile anymore by default (unless checkbox is enabled to allow changing profile).
  • UI/Core: Font-size added in html editor.

1.1.0648

  • UI/Core: In a secure channel it is now possible to enable the option 'Auto release'. This will automatically print the job on a printer device when a user is logged in.
  • UI/Core: Possibility to specify default scan options in a profile and mark if the scan page should be visible.
  • Core: Task sequencer: White Space Merging has been added.
  • UI: Profiles overview, reordering of columns.
  • Get More Editor: Datetime parameter dialog shows preview of the datetime.
  • SDI: label 'Caption' changed to 'Title'.
  • SDI: additional information added.
  • SDI: bigger buttons and better look&feel.

1.1.0647

  • Core/Installation: Bug fix in the installation of V4 driver.
  • Core: Added initial version of Followin' file output (followin.net).

1.1.0646

  • SDI: Fix for Epson devices where the delete button for jobs didn't respond anymore.
  • SDI: Fix for Epson devices where a grid kept on reloading.
  • SDI: Fix for Xerox devices for a scrolling problem.
  • SDI: Preview on devices (Epson/Xerox) shows preview of first output document instead of incoming job.
  • UI: updated labels on source image dialog.
  • Core/UI: File selection dialog did not always work.
  • UI: added an initial sort (creation time) in secure print jobs overview.

1.1.0645

  • Get More Editor: default text of watermark changed to copy.
  • Get More Editor: color dialog has more predefined colors.
  • Get More Editor: You can use '\n' in a parameter text inputbox to insert a new line.
  • UI: Edit buttons are changed to a pencil icon.
  • UI: Save button position changed to the right side.
  • SDI: job name from a scan contains the printer name.
  • SDI: increased the refresh rate of the job screen on a printer device.

1.1.0644

  • Core: Fixed an issue where not all correct profiles were visible in the V4 CQ Extension because of the recently introduced job source (1.1.0640).
  • UI: some images have been updated.
  • UI: translation updates.

1.1.0643

  • SDI: Fixed missing email button on Epson devices.
  • SDI: Fixed a small issue where images couldn't be set for buttons on SDI devices.
  • SDI: Default icon added when no image was selected.
  • SDI: Image filter has been added when selecting an image.

1.1.0642

  • UI: Preview column added in the jobs overview grid with a small preview of the first page. Clicking on the column shows a bigger preview of the first 10 pages in a dialog.
  • UI: Preview column click support.
  • SDI: Option to add extra (scan) buttons on an SDI device. Each button can have an icon and is attached to a profile.
  • SDI: Home icon in top left corner added on an SDI device.
  • UI/Core: Fix for page parameter that didn't work anymore in the Get More Editor in a watermark or advanced text object.

1.1.0641

  • SDI: A refresh button has been added on the Epson and Xerox SDI pages
  • SDI: Epson and Xerox printers are now cached for 30 minutes for better performance.
  • Get More Editor: Watermarks can have multiple lines (if using recognition with a default value)
  • Get More Editor: Watermarks can now have a date value.
  • Get More Editor: a SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) QR code payment button has been added.
  • SDI: Batch key card data can be reset as admin in the users page.
  • SDI: PIN code can now be generated if not in a domain.
  • Core: Print&Share CQ improvements when not in a domain.
  • Core: Auto remove jobs after x time.

1.1.0640

  • UI: some icons have been updated.
  • Core: The job source of a profile can now be set to Smart Device Integration (SDI).
  • SDI: general improvements for Epson SDI and Xerox SDI.
  • SDI: improved touchscreen interaction.

1.1.0639

  • SDI: Print&Share CQ SDI can now be pushed to Epson printers.

1.1.0638

  • SDI: Now posible to use Xerox SDI.
  • SDI: Now possible to use a key card with Xerox SDI.

1.1.0637

  • UI: menu structure and navigation has been optimized.
  • UI: grouped IPP printing together with CQ printers page.
  • UI/Core: An IP address can be associated per output printer.

1.1.0636

  • Core: implemented IPP(S) 2.0
  • Core: An IPP settings page was added to define IPP printers.
  • Core: Release QR-codes have been modified. An end user can now use their favorite QR-code scanning app to scann the release QR-codes.

BREAKING:

  • Setup/Core: default HTTP port changed from 800 to 631. (During setup you can still change to port 800 if needed. Port 631 is now recommended.)

1.1.0635

  • Core/PDF: PDF file options now have an image quality option.
  • Hot folders: it is now possible to use a file sequence in the filter dialog.

1.1.0634

  • Core: fix for releasing jobs with on-hold status in a parallel context.
  • Core: debooklet quality improvements.
  • Core: added a culture in Manage > Settings > Regional format. (e.g. changing culture has effect on CSV delimiter of exports.)
  • Core: extra cleanup of temporary files.

1.1.0633

  • Core: unable to add additional CQ printers because of changes made by Microsoft in the .net globalization APIs (ICU libraries).
  • Core: fixed debooklet functionality when initiated from a hot folder.
  • Setup: Did not always finish the first time.

1.1.0632

  • Core: Fix where an error message was consume database space.

1.1.0631

  • Core: implemented IPP 1.0/1.1

Breaking

  • Setup: switched from .net 6 to .net 7.

1.1.0630

  • Core: Job release in a profile with 'Wait for condition' release now has the possibility to use seconds in the timeout.

1.1.0628

  • Core: update for barcode recognition.
  • Core: the Extra options on a recognition now contains an option to limit the number of results used in a recognition.
  • UI: translation/localization updates
  • UI: small user interface fixes and improvements.

1.1.0626

  • Epson: Epson Smart Device Integration (SDI) has been added.

1.1.0625

  • Core: cascading didn't always work because of an error.
  • Tasks: scheduled tasks were added which can execute a task once per day/week/month/.. Currently implemented task: "exporting info from received jobs".

1.1.0624

  • PDF: fixed a rendering bug with PDF annotations.
  • Hot folders: Attachment filter wasn't saved in an email connection.

1.1.0.623

  • Core: fix regarding an already disposed resource.

1.1.0.622

  • Hot folders: did no always process files.

1.1.0621

  • Core: update to source tray page specific settings when printing. (Only for Ricoh devices).
  • UI: Skipping a channel because of a condition in cascade now produces a Warning instead of an Error in log files.
  • Core: Issue where received jobs directory did not clean up.

1.1.0620

  • Internal release

1.1.0619

  • Core: performance updates.
  • Core: fix for daylight saving time issue when auto sending a profile at a certain time.

1.1.0618

  • Setup: when uninstalling you are being asked to delete all CQ printers or not.
  • Setup: translations
  • Printing: V3 printer properties now also have the option to enable Preview Mode.
  • UI: translations
  • UI: error log message can now easily be copied to clipboard.

1.1.0617

  • DocuWare: when inserting pages you now have to option to search through fields (DocuWare config dialog).

1.1.0616

  • Web2Print: fixed a bug preventing W2P to show.
  • UI: Filemanager dialog update.

1.1.0615

  • DocuWare: updates for a better config dialog.

1.1.0614

  • Get More Editor: Option for the canvas recognition to draw relative results within page bounds. A margin can also be added.
  • Get More Editor: Fix for a focus/selection issue in the canvas recognition dialog and its properties.
  • UI: the 'busy' screen did not refresh when manually sending jobs.

1.1.0613

  • Printing/Core: Option to specify Kyocera Prescribe encoding for a RAW job.
  • Core: update in the barcode rendering.

1.1.0612

  • UI/Profile: a post action can now be added in a profile. Allows you to run C# or PowerShell after all channels have been executed.
  • Core/Email: Modern authentication (via client secret) in email input for hotfolder.
  • Core: possibility to define document analysis method in the recognition dialog (using Artificial Intelligence services).

1.1.0611

  • Printing: PCL library contains improvements regarding Kyocera Prescribe.

Breaking

  • Setup: now requires .NET Framework 4.8 (not anymore 4.7.2).
  • Setup: .NET (runtime, server hosting) has been updated from .NET 6.0.3 to .NET 6.0.12.

1.1.069

  • Printing: orientation opton to default PCL5 (RAW) settings was added.

1.1.068

  • Printing: the V3 RAW print queues (PCL3 - PCL5) can now accept and process print jobs with basic Kyocera Prescribe.

1.1.067

  • Folder monitoring: every channel in the hot folder monitoring has an option 'for preview'.
  • Printing: fixed scaling issue when printing a smaller paper size onto a bigger paper size.

1.1.065

  • UI/Task sequencers: option to import and export task sequencers per channel. On the View Profile page a context menu per channel has two extra options to make this possible.

1.1.063

  • Core: buffix to read a cryptographic stream in .NET 6.

1.1.062

  • Core: Update to UTF8 encoding related to how .NET 6 handles this compared to previous implementations (.NET Core 3.1 / .NET Framework 4.8).

1.1.061 & 1.1.060

  • UI: added an option in General Settings to change the number of maximum pages that can be combined in one document.

1.1.059

  • Core: update to disposal of WMI object.
  • Core: folder monitoring improved.

1.1.058

  • Core: small background tasks are running more efficient.
  • Core: fix where unawaited tasks could throw an exception.

Breaking

  • Setup: upgrade from .NET 5 to .NET 6. Long-term support from Microsoft with .NET 6.

1.1.056

  • Core: original print job is no longer kept in memory, instead being written to disk to reduce memory pressure.
  • Core/Security: more efficient caching for computer and user objects.
  • Core: fix to make sure memory is properly released.

1.1.048

  • Core: Update to a message being showed after backup/restore.

1.1.047

  • Core/Recogntion: option added to discard unfound results in memory lookup table (default activated).
  • UI: many values in comboboxes are now sorted (a-z).
  • UI: the user selector control has been updated to always show the delete button.
  • UI: buttons for a hot folder entry have switched positions, so that the delete button is set as last. This to avoid clicking on the delete button of the user selector control ('print as').
  • UI: fixed some typos.

1.1.046

  • Core: small internal bug fix.
  • Setup: updated .NET to required version 5.0.11.

1.1.045

  • Core: added extra checks when writing data to a log.

1.1.044

  • Core/Printing: update to source tray and punching in XPS PrintTicket
  • Core/Printing: restricted source trays and punchmethods are not shown anymore in the UI.

1.1.042

  • Task sequencer: added an ID to all page inserters.
  • Core: added function InsertedPages() which allows an optional ID parameter. When the ID is specified, only pages inserted by the page inserter defined by that ID are selected.
    Example usage: InsertedPages(the unique id here)
  • Core/UI: added option to use a custom SQL connection string in System Settings for connecting to a MS SQL database.
  • Core: Modified the pre-execution script to run before documents are adjusted by the Task sequencer.

1.1.041

  • UI: update to the translations.
  • UI: update to input boxes.

1.1.040

  • UI/Core: Javascript quote was missing in translations, preventing a dialog and UI section to work properly.

1.1.039

  • UI: update to the Dutch and French translations.

1.1.038

  • Core: fixed a permission issue where it was sometimes not possible to delete own jobs.

1.1.037

  • Core: implementation of role/leaf function in page selection.
  • Get More Editor: In the Page Indication dialog, it is now possible to enable the option 'Indication per job' (only for Role). This option means that PageIndication and PageCountIndication are reset per job.
  • Get More Editor: UI bug fix. When editor was loaded, the properties were shown of an item but the item itself was not selected.
  • UI: fixed a display bug in the Auto release option screen.

1.1.034

  • Core/XPS: Improved quality of drawing a scaled image shader in XPS.
  • Core: trying to ignore rounding errors when drawing an image shader.

1.1.033

  • Core: rendering bug with overlays. A System.Windows.Media function returned different, inconsistent negative boundaries.

1.1.032

  • UI: column status and progress has been combined into a single column.
  • Core: Metadata columns (and profiles) can be defined for jobs in the General Settings.
  • CQ Printers/Core: Fixed a DPI scaling bug when inserting overlays, caused by a fix on the DPI scaling bug from handling jobs from a V3 CQ printer.

1.1.031

  • CQ Printers: scaling issue in jobs printed on V3 CQ printer.
  • Core/UI: Improved All jobs overview in Monitor section (faster queries, filtering and sorting. Database query improvements).
  • UI: Monitor, All jobs now shows Job progress, Download job and View job in a context menu.
  • UI: Monitor, All jobs has sorting, filtering (general + per column), select one or multiple, delete all selected jobs, execute all selected jobs (usefule when profiles are set to manual release in the Job release option of a Profile)

1.1.030

  • Core: update to caching of an overlay.
  • Core: now possible to add an environment variable in a text parameter field.
  • UI: Cookie Policy update to resolve a problem in Microsoft Edge and Chrome.
  • Backup: restore of backup failed in Chrome browsers.
  • UI: import profiles now has a file filter to avoid mistakes.
  • CQ Printers: V3 printers were not visible in the CQ Printers section.
  • CQ Printers: now possible to rename them in the browser.
  • Core: update in channel execution requirements and profile recognition to select specific pages in 'Pages'-condition. (Allows you to only execute if there are colored pages or B/W pages, ...)
  • Core: Page coverage selection in the Page selector dialog has been added. Allows you to only select pages that have a minimum coverage.
  • UI: possibility for an administrator to filter on a user in the All jobs overview page in the Monitor section.

1.1.029

  • Core: Update to admin rights for printing.

1.1.028

  • Core: fixed an issue where in a case the local printer name was used and not the network printer name when trying to print to a shared printer.
  • Core/UI: recuced printer caching time.

1.1.027

  • Setup: minor update to installation.

1.1.026

  • Core: update to XPS rendering.
  • Core: improved .NET 5 libraries.
  • Get More Editor: fix where overlay was not rendered if there was no preview job.

1.1.025

  • Get More Editor: improved quality when inserting an overlay in the Get More Editor.

1.1.024

  • Core: adjustment to prevent double job execution.
  • Fix: UI/Recognition dialog: Split on different value with an offset recognition of -1 where the very last split group was incomplete.
  • UI/Logs: clean-up dialog for the logs overview has been added to clean-up older logs.
  • UI/Logs: export dialog for logs has been added.
  • UI: icon update.
  • Update to the memory collecting.

1.1.023

  • Recognition: Barcode recognition for datamatrix barcodes failed because barcode font wasn't anti-aliased.

1.1.022

  • Core: lower memory consumption when processing a print job.
  • Core/PDF: improved speed of making PDF files.
  • UI/Get More Editor: added a Condition parameter to every object in the Get More Editor.
  • Fix: bug where the same job could be added multiple times when the service was under heavy load.

1.1.021

  • Core: improved performance in the recognition dialog.
  • UI: extra option in the recognition dialog to browse to other pages in the select boundaries subdialog.
  • Fix: bug regarding text recognition within a boundary.

1.1.020

  • Core: recognition executes in different threads.
  • Core: A job property page count has been added so that a condition could be made to insert empty pages to make the number of pages even in case of an uneven count.
  • Fix: new line wasn't saved for the result adjuster combine in the Content recognition dialog.
  • UI: Content recognition dialog received updates to give the end-user more information about results.

1.1.019

  • UI: improvements in the recognition dialog when loading and in case there are no results.

1.1.018

  • Fix: issue where a long-running task would block execution of other tasks.

1.1.017

  • Log/UI: an info icon was unclickable.
  • Fix: UI: Get More Editor wouldn't always open the modal dialog.
  • Fix: UI: Printing strategy dialog did not always respond the second time it was opened.
  • UI: Recognition dialog: a 'Split' option is added to allow split of recognized values into multiple subvalues.
  • Costs/Balance: First release of cost & balance page.

1.1.016

  • Update to CQ instance job scheduler
  • UI: Sent items hyperlink (to show the saved files) is not displayed anymore when administrator disabled saving the files.
  • V3 printer: update to the job loading.

1.1.0.15

  • Core: Update to the job scheduler
  • Fix: PDF with XMP metadata update.
  • Fix: UI: a save button didn't come to the active state when removing an emailaddress.
  • Fix: Notifications: a (global) notification was missing or delayed.
  • UI: Update to the license screen.

1.1.014

  • Fix: backup schedule
  • Fix: XPS to PDF page size.
  • UI: logs are nog divided in 3 views (system, DLP and admin).
  • UI: Administrator notifications will be shown in the admin logs.
  • UI: clearly showing if the number of licenses has been exceeded.

1.1.013

  • Fix: space characters couldn't be saved when entering a trim character in a recognition.
  • XPS/PDF: added XPS to PDF optimizations (special improvements for small images with opacitymasks).
  • Reporting: one report wasn't visible in the UI.
  • UI: Added the possibility to choose files with file selection dialog in the job overview page.
  • UI: added the possibility to release jobs that have been combined.
  • UI/Recognition: a replace option was added.

1.1.012

  • Reports: a reports section has been added with 3 fixed reports (number of reports could be extended in future releases).
  • Get More Editor: image object/overlay object use extra memory cache to speed up the drawing process.

1.1.011

  • Fix: Job could be executed multiple times. (Could happen when printing multiple files at once, not one-by-one)
  • XPS/PDF: improved image quality in the XPS to PDF conversion.
  • PDF: improved file size in the XPS to PDF conversion.
  • UI: searching text in sent items searches through original print jobs and highlights the found words in the PDF view of the original job.

1.1.010

  • OCR/PDF: modified the inclusion of OCR data in PDF.
  • UI: date times were converted to a different culture (dd/mm/yyyy vs. mm/dd/yyyy).
  • UI: option to save the original print job with each sent job (sent items).

1.1.009

  • XPS: better parsing of XPS
  • XPS/OCR: text is being extracted from XPS files instead of OCR. (OCR fallback if no text was found).

1.1.008

  • Fix: file selection dialog button was not always visible

1.1.007

  • UI: file selection dialog when choosing an overlay from the server where Print&Share CQ is installed.

1.1.006

  • UI/PDF: added the option to insert parameters in user password and owner password fields of a PDF.

1.1.005

  • Get More Editor: image overlay created from a PDF was sometimes different. This resulted in a wrong positioning of the image overlay.

1.1.004

  • UI: updated labels and translations.
  • UI: Channel sequencers renamed to Task sequencers.
  • UI: order of Task sequencers has been changed.
  • Get More Editor: it is now possible to embed a local PDF/XPS file in an overlay
  • Get More Editor: fixed a problem where PDF files used in an overlay rendered black.
  • Get More Editor: when opening the editor, the first selected object wasn't working. Now nothing is selected after initialization.
  • Get More Editor: adjusted display titles of properties.
  • UI: translated image source dialog.
  • UI: translated PDF settings dialog.
  • PDF permissions were not saved.

1.1.003

  • UI: tabcontrol didn't show content after a second time on the recognition dialog (web view).
  • OCR: improved OCR (pages are drawn bigger internally to improve OCR readability).
  • Settings: OCR: added the option to choose for Microsoft Vision API.
  • Settings: possible to specify the detail/level of logging (general settings).
  • Added the option to use Redis backplane. The redis backplane can be configured via appsettings.json file in the installation folder of P&S CQ. After adjusting the json file you have to restart the P&S CQ service via services.msc.

1.1.002

  • Web 2 Print: unable to upload files because of the "due date" requirement that was disabled.
  • UI: a drop zone has now a green color instead of red to show that it accepts file drops.
  • License: activation shows more details now.
  • License: general activation improvements.
  • BREAKING CHANGES: the engine has been drastically improved and updated in order to support Print&Share CQ clustering with multiple instances. It is possible that preview jobs will be lost. Before updating, take notes of your existing configuration in case of a setting that couldn't be upgraded/saved.
    (Tip: The free Microsoft Steps Recorder, included in Windows, can be used to take automatic screenshots on pages that you navigate to when viewing settings before updating.)

1.0.616

  • A recognition adjuster, like a regex, lookup values or trim could only return 1 result per recognized item. Now all valid results are given back.

1.0.615

  • Optimization of reading barcodes on pages
  • Fix: memory leaks
  • Fix: C# scripts consumed too much memory.

1.0.614

  • Recognition is executed in multiple threads to increase the speed of printjobs.

1.0.613

  • Service: resolved a stack overflow.
  • Service: combined jobs are now being cleaned up properly.

1.0.611

  • Service: activation and licencing improvements.

1.0.610

  • Setup/Driver: improvements to the V4 driver updates.
  • Service/UI: It is now possible to do a recognition on the deselected pages.