PDF Converter for SharePoint 8.4 — PDF/A-3b, Improved Watermark On Open, Bug Fixes!

Over the past 10 years, we have always made it a habit to listen to our customers, especially when kicking off the development of a new release. Once you receive a request, or bug, more than once, you’d better do something about it.

However, during the last 3 to 4 years things have changed. Naturally we still listen to our customers, but Muhimbi is now its own biggest customer. What!? Indeed, and to the best of our knowledge, no one carries out more operations in a real-word production environment than we do in-house. Why is this? Well, our popular cloud based services, the Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint Online, and the Muhimbi PDF Converter Services, use the exact same engine that we ship alongside our on-premise products.

Because our Online customers fully depend on us, our data centres and our software, the responsibility to keep things up and running has shifted from our customers’ IT departments, to our own operations team. Although our products have always been very stable and scalable, there were plenty of minor hiccups that we did not know about because it wasn’t too much of a problem to our customers. However, when you run your own software at a very VERY large scale then all small things add up.

To cut a long story short, we monitor our online services like a hawk. Each and every issue, no matter how big or small, is recorded and analysed. If we can help it, we fix it. As a result we have improved and fixed dozens of issues in the new 8.4 release.

Naturally we added some new functionality as well. The key changes are as follows:

• Support for PDF/A-3b in addition to existing support for PDF/A-1b and 2b.

• Skip processing of ‘real-time operations’ for search indexer and other system accounts.

• Support for 3rd party OCR engines.

• Support for TLS 1.2 throughout.

• Automatically generate named destinations based on PDF Bookmarks.

• Support for merging of PDF Portfolio files.

• Optionally unhide hidden Excel columns and rows during PDF conversion.

• PDF Conversion of Outlook contacts (in MSG Format).

• PDF Conversion of delivery and read receipts (in MSG Format).

• Support for targeting ‘last page’ when watermarking documents.

• Many improvements to Email, AutoCAD, MS-Word and HTML converters.

• New unattended installer.

For those not familiar with the product, the Muhimbi PDF Converter for SharePoint is a lightweight solution that allows end-users to merge, split, watermark, secure, OCR and convert common document types - including InfoPath, AutoCAD, MSG (email) MS-Office, HTML and images - to PDF as well as other formats from within SharePoint using a friendly user interface, workflows or a web service call, without the need to install any client-side software or Adobe Acrobat. It integrates at a deep level with SharePoint and leverages facilities such as the Audit log, Nintex Workflow, K2 blackpearl, localisation, security and tracing. It runs on SharePoint 2007-2019 & SharePoint Online and is available in English, German, Dutch, French, Traditional Chinese and Japanese. For detailed information check out the product page . This ‘on-premise’ version of the PDF Converter requires software to be installed on the SharePoint server. Please note that if you have no server access, there is always the option to deploy our SharePoint Online App to on-premise versions of SharePoint 2013, 2016 and 2019. For details see this blog post .

When upgrading from a previous version, read this Knowledge Base article first.

Some of the main changes and additions in the new version are as follows:

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For more information check out the following resources:

• Product Page.

• Brochure.

• FAQ & Knowledge Base.

• Release Notes.

• Installation & Administration Guide.

• User Guide.

• Product videos.

• Related Blog Posts.

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