Version 4.35

Support for Microsoft Office documents:

• Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• In doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt and pptx formats.

Functions:

• Preview of the document, with detail view, scrolling within multi-page documents,
• Texts can be marked and copied in the document,
• annotations can be stored in the document (in connection with CollabAnnot-AddOn)
• Document content is automatically available in full text search
• Download as PDF possible.

We once turned audio/video support on its head, rethought and reimplemented it.

• The old approach, while technically sound, was costly to maintain. Adding new features, formats, or codecs was disproportionately costly.

Our new model

• is technically simpler, but also more flexible and easier to extend
• for processing/transcoding of audio & video an external toolchain is controlled
• which can be defined and configured by “preview format”,
• especially ffmpeg does an excellent job here,
• but other transcoders can be integrated as well

New codecs

• with ffmpeg as external transcoder practically all codecs are supported that ffmpeg also understands
• for example also H.265/HEVC, AV1, or the Apple ProRes family

New A/V containers

• Additionally, the container formats MKV, WebM, ASF, WMV and WMA are now supported.

Presets/Templates

• Of course, there are templates again that you can use directly.

Further

• It is now possible to start audio/video files side by side synchronously in the “Compare” dialog to allow direct audiovisual comparison.

PDF as download format

• PDF is available as a fully-fledged download format.
• Both for the output of images,
• as well as for the output of documents.
• With PDF and Office documents as source, texts and vector data are preserved.
• Any annotations can be inserted or removed by setting.

Optimized PDF

• Ideally, only the best available version of a document should be stored in the DAM. However, in the case of PDFs from professional print workflows, this can be very large and unwieldy for many users.

Our solution:

• PDFs can be automatically optimized for download – various options control the degree of optimization.
• Setting is done by download format – so you can provide different qualities at the same time.

Watermark

PDFs can now be watermarked, just like images.

• Support for preview rendering of CorelDraw files.
  _{(Note: the CorelDraw format, however, is in principle not suitable for exchange and archiving – it is strongly application and version specific, changes remain largely undocumented and it is not subject to any standardization overall).}
• Support for BigTIFF format
• Extended information for “container” formats – especially archive files: the file list is processed as metadata and thus becomes searchable, among other things.

Send as lightbox

• Lightboxes can now be shipped to multiple recipients at once.

Lightboxes

• Files from one lightbox can now be copied to another or new lightbox.

• Publications can now optionally be protected with a password,
• For publications with multiple collections, there are now different display variants: the collections can be displayed individually, grouped or combined. The previous display variant corresponds to the new “individual”.
• The assets of a publication can now be sorted by different criteria:
  • alphabetically ascending/descending,
  • modification date newest/oldest first,
  • creation date newest/oldest first.

Video Embed Codes

• The template “Web Feeds & Playlists” has been extended with functions to create and copy embedding codes. This allows you to easily copy and paste videos into external sites.

More freedom for own flags & status icons (4)

• for own flags & status icons there are now more possibilities to realize them by configuration & CSS,
• especially styles (e.g. colors) can now be selected based on the content of metadata fields.
• Regarding details please contact us.

Projects can now continue within a stage despite rejection. The option can be activated/configured in advance via workflow.

• UI for managing deleted files (trashbin): this can be used to restore deleted files, but also to delete them permanently – currently available in the Maintenance area.
• Batch processing: remove single files from selection afterwards possible.
• Batch processing: navigation via previous/next item in dialog title bar.
• Two-factor authentication based on OATH standard.
• Nextcloud as OAuth2 provider.
• Hint when creating a category tree, that maybe only one category should be created.

• Batch processing / automatic numbering: more flexible detection of non-negative numbers in the template.
• Administration: corrected sorting of user account list.
• Although permission was missing for commenting files, users were sometimes offered the stamp function as available. This bug is fixed.
• Multiple assignment of a user in different sharing groups resulted in incorrect assignment. This has been fixed.