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• 1 HELIOS UB2 Release Notes
  • 1.1 Installation & prerequisites
  •  1.1.1 Migration from UB⁺ to UB2
  •  1.1.2 Newly supported OS in HELIOS UB2
  •  1.1.3 Virtualization with Solaris zones
  • 1.2 Updated UB2 manuals
  • 1.3 AppleTalk is optional in HELIOS UB2
  • 1.4 HELIOS Base UB2
  •  1.4.1 New PDC authentication in UB2
  •  1.4.2 HELIOS PDC Logon
  •  1.4.3 Mapping of Windows SIDs to UNIX user and group IDs
  •  1.4.4 Troubleshooting
  • 1.5 HELIOS Base UB2 for Windows
  • 1.6 HELIOS EtherShare UB2
  • 1.7 HELIOS PCShare UB2
  • 1.8 HELIOS WebShare UB2
  • 1.9 HELIOS ImageServer UB2
  • 1.10 HELIOS PDF HandShake UB2
  • 1.11 HELIOS PrintPreview UB2
  • 1.12 HELIOS Script Server UB2
  • 1.13 HELIOS Tool Server UB2
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1 HELIOS UB2 Release Notes

This document does not cover all features of the HELIOS products. It explains changes to the existing UB⁺ product generation. Please visit the HELIOS website for the complete product information. The new product family is called HELIOS UB2. The main goal was to stay compatible, to allow easy upgrades and to keep existing sites working. The new features mainly focus on introducing newer protocol features, tuning the software for additional performance gains, and making the software most reliable. Additional capabilities like Spotlight and remote proofing support will make the products even more productive for many clients.

1.1 Installation & prerequisites

Visit the HELIOS Platforms web page to check the different supported OS versions. See the requirements for Mac OS X in 1.4 “HELIOS Base UB2”. The requirements for Linux are:

• x86 or AMD64 processor (Pentium 4 or better)

• Linux 2.6.16 kernel or newer

• glibc 2.4, libstdc++.so.6

A fresh installation or an over install will work as documented in the HELIOS Base manual.

Important:

If you use Windows AD/PDC user authentication, please read 1.4.1 “New PDC authentication in UB2” before installing UB2!

1.1.1 Migration from UB⁺ to UB2

Read the notes on the migration to the UB2 product generation on the HELIOS website:
www.helios.de Go to Support > Product Specific Support.

1.1.2 Newly supported OS in HELIOS UB2

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

• Sun Solaris 11

• Mac OS X 10.6

1.1.3 Virtualization with Solaris zones

UB2 installs and runs (without AppleTalk) within a Solaris 11 zone. However, Solaris 11 zones have received limited testing and there are still kernel panics which need to be investigated. Therefore, we cannot recommend deploying on zones at present.

1.2 Updated UB2 manuals

HTML versions of all UB2 manuals are available at:
www.helios.de/web/EN/support/manuals.html

The manuals received a lot of fine tuning, and all UB⁺ and UB2 introduced features as well as new preferences are documented. The Spotlight documentation is a separate online document (Index Server UB2).

The documentation is now based on an entirely new HTML and PDF production. The HTML versions have been optimized for easy reading and navigation within a web browser. We are confident that the HTML versions now have the same quality as the PDF version. Navigation in HTML is even better.

1.3 AppleTalk is optional in HELIOS UB2

For many environments there is no need for AppleTalk anymore. In Mac OS X 10.6, AppleTalk has been removed entirely by Apple. On Linux, AppleTalk support depends on the kernel configuration (see the HELIOS Support website for details). All HELIOS EtherShare services are supported over TCP/IP, including HELIOS printer drivers for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.

Therefore we decided to make the AppleTalk support optional in HELIOS UB2. The legacy services “atalkd”, “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv” and “timesrv”, which are only needed for Mac OS 9 or older clients, are also optional.

AppleTalk support is off by default. The AppleTalk kernel modules are not loaded, and the legacy services are not started. The EtherShare file server, print server etc. run using TCP/IP only. If AppleTalk support is required, it can be enabled after the UB2 installation (see below).

Upgrading to HELIOS UB2 does NOT remove AppleTalk support. The kernel modules and all services continue running. But you can remove AppleTalk support and the legacy services after the installation of HELIOS UB2.

To remove AppleTalk support, enter the following commands as superuser:

# cd /usr/local/helios
# bin/stop-helios
# sbin/atsupport uninstall
# bin/start-helios

This unloads the AppleTalk kernel modules from the system, and also disables the services “atalkd”, “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv”, and “timesrv”.

To enable AppleTalk support, enter the following commands as superuser:

# cd /usr/local/helios
# bin/stop-helios
# sbin/atsupport install
# bin/start-helios

This installs the AppleTalk kernel modules and also enables the services “atalkd”, “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv”, and “timesrv”.

If you need AppleTalk support (e.g. for printing via PAP), but not the legacy services, execute the following commands as superuser:

# cd /usr/local/helios
# bin/stop-helios
# sbin/atsupport driver-only
# bin/start-helios

This installs the AppleTalk kernel modules (and “atalkd”), but disables the services “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv”, and “timesrv”.

On Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, AppleTalk must be activated or deactivated in “System Preferences > Network > Advanced … > AppleTalk”. The “atsupport” script (in “HELIOSDIR/sbin”) is only used to enable or disable the services “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv”, and “timesrv”.

Mac OS X 10.6 does not support AppleTalk at all. The services “admsrv”, “mailsrv”, “termsrv”, and “timesrv” are disabled automatically.

1.4 HELIOS Base UB2

• HELIOS UB2 supports Mac OS X 10.6 as a server platform. Note that Mac OS X 10.6 does not support AppleTalk anymore.

• AppleTalk is optional for all platforms that support AppleTalk

• The syslog entries listing tool “psyslog” now supports the new rsyslog daemon and configuration that are used by default on newer Linux distributions, e.g. openSUSE 11.2 or newer

• If a folder is moved with dt mv -E from a local place to a HELIOS volume, or from one HELIOS volume to another HELIOS volume, also the files within the folder are now subject to notification

• New PDC authentication in UB2:
  In the past, we needed a special Windows share on the AD/PDC server containing the groups created by the “helauthcreate.exe” program. This is not needed anymore. The new “HELIOS PDC Logon” Windows installer installs a new HELIOS service on an AD/PDC server which gets queried from one or more HELIOS authentication servers to answer login and group member requests. For details, please read 1.4.1 “New PDC authentication in UB2” below.

• Spotlight search support:
  UB2 features the HELIOS Index Server, which is very compatible with Apple's search technology implementation. Therefore it works right from within the Mac Finder. Spotlight searches are also supported via PCShare, WebShare, and the command line. The HELIOS Spotlight server, client and indexer comprise a very sophisticated system which collects and indexes metadata and full-text of files in HELIOS volumes:

  Format	Index
  Files and folders	All file and folder names including dates
  Comments	Mac, Windows, and WebShare file and folder comments
  Images	All major image formats (color space, resolution, pixels, …)
  IPTC	IPTC metadata fields
  EXIF	Image information from EXIF records
  XMP	XMP metadata fields as well as custom XMP fields
  ICC	ICC profile names that are included within images
  Text	Regular text files (ASCII, Unicode, etc.)
  Format	Index
  Word	Word files (old and new formats)
  Excel	Excel files (old and new formats)
  PowerPoint	PowerPoint files (old and new formats)
  PDF	PDF metadata and form fields
  PDF-Text	PDF full-text extraction via PDF HandShake add-on
  XPress/InDesign	Full-text extraction via ImageServer add-on (XPV files)
  Annotations	Author, project title, file status and due date information
  Media	wav, mp3, avi file metadata

  The benefit is that this Spotlight support brings real value to users. Simple searches for file names, comments, image data, IPTC, XMP, EXIF, InDesign/QuarkXPress text and more offer great convenience and time savings. Unique to HELIOS is the Spotlight support for XMP metadata. Just manage your IPTC/XMP/EXIF data within the original files and it is searchable. This is very powerful because customers can define their own XMP panels in Photoshop and the additional metadata fields are now Spotlight indexed. Details are documented in the HELIOS Index Server manual. Even more complex queries can be created to e.g. »Return all images with an sRGB profile attached« or »Return all PDF files with the comment “Review” of today«. This brings entirely new capabilities to our server customers.

  Spotlight includes a new server service, indexing rebuild tools, and support for Mac, Windows, web and “dt” tool CLI clients. We support both specific field and full-text searches. HELIOS is the first vendor offering Spotlight support for Mac, Windows, web and CLI users. Check out our Spotlight server and client documentation in the HELIOS Index Server manual:
  www.helios.de/web/EN/support/manuals.html

  HELIOS Admin supports rebuilding the Spotlight index for a volume.

• Bonjour server compatibility enhancements

• HELIOS Admin additional compatibility enhancements

• HELIOS Admin volume settings received a users list in addition to the existing groups list. If users or groups have been specified in the lists, the volume will only be available to members of these lists. The new volume users list is supported by EtherShare and PCShare.

• “dt” tools support file comments and the Spotlight search

• “dt” tools: all reported errors were resolved

• “dt” tools received support to set and view the “Label” color numbers (0-7)

• “dt” tools file management on HELIOS volumes will inform EtherShare and PCShare server to notify the Mac Finder and Windows Explorer on changed files

• Authentication server LDAP support has been enhanced to work more robust if LDAP servers are unavailable

• Services that are not needed by a product will not be started, e.g. in a WebShare-only installation on Windows with only a WebShare license and no HELIOS Base license

1.4.1 New PDC authentication in UB2

UB2 offers a new PDC authentication which has several advantages over the previous version:

• Consistent UNIX user and group IDs if several HELIOS installations authenticate against the same PDC (see 1.4.3 “Mapping of Windows SIDs to UNIX user and group IDs”)

• Faster and more reliable authentication especially in PDC domains with many groups

• Backup Domain Controller support

• Primary group support for AD/​PDC users

The new PDC authentication requires the HELIOS PDC Logon service to be installed on the Windows host that should act as the PDC to the HELIOS installation. This host does not have to be a Primary or Backup Domain Controller; any Windows host that is part of the desired domain will do.

HELIOS PDC Logon is installed by running “setup.exe” in “HELIOS_APPS\​Windows\​AuthServer Tools\​HELIOS PDC Logon”.

The new PDC authentication is active by default. The following steps are necessary for a successful migration:

Install UB2.

On the Windows host install the HELIOS PDC Logon service.

On the Windows host optionally remove the network share including contents created by the previous HELIOS PDC configuration. By default, this share resides at “C:\​Windows\​heliosauth”. This share is not used by the new PDC authentication.

If PDC user or group names are already listed in the “HELIOSDIR/​var/​conf/​authsrv.cache” cache file from a previous UB⁺ installation, the new “authsrv” will keep these mappings to UNIX user and group IDs. Thus, the consistency of ID mappings is kept also for old users and groups.

Programs/authsrv/PDCCompat (Bool)
Off by default. Setting this preference to TRUE activates the old UB⁺ PDC authentication mechanism which uses the “heliosauth” share.

Programs/authsrv/PDCCompatIDMap (Bool)
On by default. If set, the new PDC authentication looks into the “HELIOSDIR/​var/​conf/​authsrv.cache” file to map PDC user and group names to UNIX user and group IDs of previous HELIOS installations. If this file does not exist or this preference is switched off, all PDC users and groups get a PDC domain specific and unique UNIX ID. This new ID will be different to the ID set in the “authsrv.cache” file.

1.4.2 HELIOS PDC Logon

HELIOS PDC Logon is installed as a Windows service. The service can be stopped or started using the Windows “Services” utility, or the command: net stop/start heliospdclogon.

On Windows, domain users can be members of many groups. In contrast, some UNIX variants only allow a very limited number of groups per user. To overcome this hurdle, HELIOS PDC Logon can report to the “authsrv” only a subset of the groups PDC users are members of.

At startup HELIOS PDC Logon tries to read in two files “group-include.txt” and “group-exclude.txt”. These files reside where HELIOS PDC Logon is installed. In a default installation this would be “C:\​Program Files\​HELIOS PDC Logon”.

As its name suggest, “group-include.txt” specifies allowed group names, i.e. any PDC group not mentioned there is ignored. Likewise, “group-exclude.txt” specifies group names that are ignored, i.e. all PDC groups not mentioned there are allowed. The exclude list takes precedence over the include list, i.e. a group name that is in both files is filtered out nonetheless.

The group files must be UTF-8 encoded. The files have to start with the magic line: # heliospdclogon filter file. The groups must be listed line-separated.

HELIOS PDC Logon needs to be restarted if the group filter files were changed.

1.4.3 Mapping of Windows SIDs to UNIX user and group IDs

Windows uses SIDs (Security Identifiers) to identify users and groups. HELIOS PDC Logon uses a consistent mapping from SIDs to UNIX user and group IDs:

• The “Administrators” group is mapped to group ID 0

• The “Print Operators” group is mapped to group ID 1

• All other user and group SIDs are mapped to a UNIX ID in the range 16777216-83886079 (hex: 0x01000000-04FFFFFF), using a built-in algorithm

The old UB⁺ preferences PDCUserFirstId, PDCUserLastId, PDCGroupFirstId and PDCGroupLastId (HELIOS Admin options First User ID, Last User ID, First Group ID and Last Group ID) are no longer used.

1.4.4 Troubleshooting

• Check that HELIOS PDC Logon is running

• Look at the Windows event log

• Check that the Local Security Policy allows NTLMv2 authentication

• HELIOS PDC Logon needs to be restarted if the group filter files have been changed

• Check the file names: “group-include.txt” and “group-exclude.txt”

• Look at the Windows event log

• Check that the group filter files start with the correct magic line

• Check that the group file is correctly UTF-8 encoded

1.5 HELIOS Base UB2 for Windows

• The Microsoft C runtime “vcredist_x86.exe” installer is not needed anymore. The new HELIOS UB2 based products include the required C runtime DLL in the HELIOS library folder (“HELIOSDIR\​lib”).

1.6 HELIOS EtherShare UB2

• Additional compatibility enhancements

• Client support for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) has been added

• The AFP server has received initial support for extended attributes (“xattrs”) which are used by Mac OS X clients (10.5 or newer) to store file comments. Due to the fact that many file systems do not have sufficient space to store the extended attributes data, we only save comments into the HELIOS resource file – other attributes are getting discarded. When saving files from Photoshop, additional Mac OS X AppleDouble files are not saved anymore because we accept the comment as an extended attribute.
  Extended attributes can be turned off via the following command:

  # prefvalue -k Programs/afpsrv/usexattrs -t bool FALSE
  # srvutil stop -f afpsrv
  # srvutil start -f afpsrv
  

• The AFP server has received full Spotlight search support. It works right from within the Finder without the need for any additional client software. Spotlight support in the AFP server can be turned off via the following command:

  # prefvalue -k Programs/afpsrv/useindex -t bool FALSE
  # srvutil stop -f afpsrv
  # srvutil start -f afpsrv
  

• HELIOS backup software tools for Apple Time Machine:

  • HELIOS TM Image Builder – A Mac tool which allows creating custom backup images of a specified size, including support for password protected backup images

  • HELIOS TM Browser – A Mac tool to display all backups of Mac network clients with important information like last backup date, image size, and workstation name

• The AFP server supports AFP 3.2 and 3.3 which adds Time Machine, Spotlight, and extended attributes features. Only the optional ACL (Access Control List) support is not available because most UNIX file systems do not support ACLs.

• Automatic Mac Finder window updates in case PCShare or “dt” tools update files within an EtherShare volume

• Drop box support for folders with mode “733” (others and group can drop files/​folders) or “773” (others can drop files/​folders). The dropped files and folders will have read/​write permissions and can be opened by the owner or group members of the folder only. This feature is active for volumes with smart permissions enabled. Details on how to create a drop folder are available in the EtherShare manual, chapter 6 “The EtherShare file server”.

• New volume users list in addition to groups list allows hiding volumes to users who are not member of the specified user/​group lists

• A Mac OS X 10.6 Finder “gray folder” copy problem has been resolved. Sometimes, copying a folder into a server volume resulted in a gray folder. A workaround to overcome this was closing/​opening the Finder window.

• The Mac client utility “HELIOS Meta” allows adding comments within the Finder. For 10.6 and 10.7 it is a service application which is listed in the Finder's “Services” menu or via right-click within the Finder. HELIOS Meta is needed because the 10.6/​10.7 Finder, including the “File > Get Info > Spotlight Comments” field, has a problem showing HELIOS file comments from extended attributes, while writing comments works. HELIOS Meta support is available for Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and now 10.6 and 10.7

• New support for HELIOS TCP Printer driver running on Mac OS X Lion

1.7 HELIOS PCShare UB2

• Additional compatibility enhancements

• PCShare UB2 is faster, offers higher SMB compatibility and reduces the server load. This was achieved by a major internal revision of the PCShare SMB server. The handling of file streams and internal caches as well as the usage of system calls has been optimized.

• Spotlight search support was added via the HELIOS PCShare Client Tools

• Windows CLI tool “helsearch.exe” supports Spotlight search

• New -A option for “helsearch.exe” to list available Spotlight search attributes for <Drive:>

• Automatic Explorer window updates in case EtherShare or “dt” tools update files within an PCShare volume

1.8 HELIOS WebShare UB2

• WebShare volume access e-mail notifications now include the logged-in user name in the subject line, e.g. “WebShare user access notify (testuser)”. In addition, if an annotation has been added to a preview or proof document, the notification e-mail contains a URL share access link which leads directly to the annotation table.

• WebShare user names can now have up to 64 characters

• With PrintPreview UB2, a new color info dialog for image preview/​proofing and PDF proofing is available. The color info dialog is similar to the Photoshop color info and shows the individual primary color values and spot colors used in the selected area.

• Support for previewing multiple-page PDF documents does no longer require PDF HandShake add-on

• Spotlight search:

  • Web clients can benefit from the same search capabilities as Mac and Windows clients

  • The new Spotlight search has been included into the WebShare file browser

• File name or Spotlight search results can be displayed in gallery mode

• Office document gallery and multiple-page previews are now included in WebShare (requires Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 for Windows or Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, Office is not included). In this case, the Tool Server “OfficeReader” tool and the “toolclient” program are licensed for WebShare, with the limitation that “toolclient” is restricted for use with “OfficeReader” only.

• iPad support has been added to WebShare. It perfectly supports iPhone and iPad devices.

• A new feature in the contextual menu allows opening PDF documents, movies, Flash and other file types directly in the web browser. For example, iPad users can now open PDFs directly in Safari.

• Color info, soft proof, print proof, and document annotation reviewing features require the proofing add-on product PrintPreview UB2. ImageServer and PDF HandShake are not required anymore for proofing images and PDF documents.

• New WebShare Manager to synchronize files between the WebShare sharepoint and Mac and Windows clients. WebShare Manager received major performance enhancements, it supports uploads and downloads of very large files (> 4 GB) and interruptable uploads. Less local file traffic, optimized system call usage, better proxy support, including support of a “proxy.pac” file, Windows 7 support, less temporary files and better error messages. WebShare Manager is qualified to work in any environment to synchronize files between the server and the local client.

• The default WebShare window title can be specified on a per-branding basis. If a title is specified in the Branding Editor, the Powered by HELIOS WebShare link is not displayed anymore for this branding on the WebShare start page.

• A new dialog allows specifying print and proof settings prior to using the standard OS print dialog, when printing out a preview or proof image.

• Custom settings of the printer, monitor and proof ICC-Profiles, as well as the current view mode (file list, gallery), are now stored on a per user basis in “HELIOSDIR/​var/​run/​WebShare_User_Settings/​<user>.settings”. In the past, these settings were saved as options within “webshare.passwd”.

• The automatic extraction of uploaded Zip archives on the server can now be turned off in the upload dialog. By default, archives are automatically extracted.

• With PrintPreview UB2, proofing sample print control strips are included (“HELIOS_ControlStrip-H.pdf” and “HELIOS_ControlStrip-V.pdf”)

• Printouts in preview mode have been enhanced by printing based on sRGB, with 150 dpi instead of using the current screen resolution. Higher resolutions and a user specified printer ICC profile is only supported in proof mode (PrintPreview required).

• The browser-based uploading has been enhanced to detect incomplete uploads and to remove the corresponding temporary file

• Multiple printing resolutions for proof and preview printing can now be specified per branding. For using custom resolutions, the PrintPreview product add-on is required. The benefit is that customers can request resolution values that come closer to their printer's specification.

• New JavaScript includes on a per-branding basis allow customizing the WebShare client user interface and behavior. This extends the branding feature to customize the look and feel, and the server action feature to run background scripts on the server and present the output as HTML directly into the current view within WebShare. The JavaScript programming is meant for advanced web programmers, which allows changing the entire user interface and behavior of WebShare, including HTML DOM customization and issuing AJAX calls to server action scripts.

  The file “additional_samples.js” includes the documentation and several samples, e.g.: save preferences items for a user, license terms accept dialog, generate a URL share link by using global variables, change the menu by moving the label menu into the top menu bar, add the annotation status to the file browser view, execute server actions, etc.

• Spanish localization for WebShare has been added

1.9 HELIOS ImageServer UB2

• Enhanced image format compatibility

• Improved compatibility with large Photoshop files (PSB format)

• InDesign CS5 XPV plug-ins for Mac and Windows for document previews from InDesign pages

• XPV XPress and InDesign page previews are exclusive with ImageServer, to be used for preview conversion or page previews in WebShare

• Full-text search in InDesign and QuarkXPress documents via XPV documents by Spotlight server indexing (InDesign and QuarkXPress Mac/Win)

• Updated Preview XTension for QuarkXPress 8

• New OPI TuneUp XT for QuarkXPress 9 (Mac). On Windows, the OPI TuneUp XT for QuarkXPress 8 is working fine

• Image conversion and layout file generation received robustness enhancements to handle corrupted image formats without dumping core

• New “layout” options:

  • ApplyClippath to set all regions outside a clipped region to white

  • -G sends close events for newly generated layout files

• The MaskToEps parameter did not work correctly under UB⁺. While the default value was always TRUE, layouts of raster image formats were not EPS files, even when they contained a mask. If you prefer the old behaviour, MaskToEps has to be set to FALSE.

• Workaround for TIFF images with more than 32 channels:
  Additional channels will often be used temporarily for masking so only a few standard channels are active. This is no problem anymore because channels beyond 32 will be skipped for image processing

• Automatic landscape/portrait rotating of images with according EXIF information

• Office document previews are supported in ImageServer image conversion features

• Office document previews are included using remote automation via Tool Server (requires Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 for Windows, or Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, Office is not included)

• RAW support for new camera models Canon EOS 60D, Canon EOS 600D, Canon EOS 1100D, Canon PowerShot G12, Canon PowerShot S90 + S95, Casio EX-Z10, Fujifilm FinePix F550EXR, Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR, Fujifilm FinePix S200EXR, Fujifilm FinePix X100, KODAK EasyShare Z990, Nikon D3100, Nikon D5100, Nikon D7000, Nikon COOLPIX P7000, Olympus E-5, Olympus E-PL1s, Olympus E-PL2, Olympus XZ-1, Pentax K-5, Panasonic DMC-GF2, Panasonic DMC-GH2, Sony DSLR-A290, Sony DSLR-A390, and SONY DSLR-A580

1.10 HELIOS PDF HandShake UB2

• Enhanced PDF compatibility

• Support for Create PDF Server using Acrobat Distiller X (Mac & Windows)

• Bug fixes for Create PDF Server running on 64-bit Windows systems

• PDF layer support. With HELIOS UB2 all inactive layers for printing will be omitted when printing or previewing PDF documents. Optional “pdfprint” or “layout” parameters allow overwriting layer settings. Saving changes in layers into an PDF document is possible with Acrobat Professional or third-party complementary tools from callas software.

• Support for OpenType CFF (Compact Font Format) fonts. OpenType CFF fonts are used by Acrobat 7 and later.

• PDF Preflight now utilizes callas pdfToolbox 5 (version 5.0.135) which is licensed for PDF HandShake. pdfToolbox, the successor to pdfInspektor, is now Acrobat X compatible and now also supports the generation of HTML reports, which can be enabled in the HELIOS included scripts.

  Important:

  Due to the change from pdfInspektor to pdfToolbox, all existing scripts in the “Settings” volume (in the Script Server, ToolServer or WebShare/Actions folders) must be updated!

  pdfToolbox 5 support has been added for:

  • The printer queue notification script “inspectPDF”

  • The Script Server hot folder script “inspectPDF.pl”

  • The WebShare PDF preflight action script “wscheckPDF.pl”

• The “inspectPDF.pl” PDF preflight hot folder script utilizes a preflight profile (“*.kfp” or “*.kfpx”) in the hot folder, if available. This profile will overwrite the default profile specified in the script Environment setup.

• Support for PDF full-text extraction via pdfToolbox with the --extracttext file.pdf option which will output the text on “stdout”, or into a file with --extracttext -o=file.txt file.pdf

• Additional Spotlight indexer plug-in for PDF full text and form field indexing

• Tool Server tools (“winpdfflatten”/​“osxpdfflatten”) for automating PDF flattening via Acrobat on Windows and Mac have been enhanced to be more robust and to support custom flattening profiles

1.11 HELIOS PrintPreview UB2

• Enhanced rendering capability

• New soft proofing add-on for WebShare UB2

• New hard proofing add-on for WebShare UB2

• New color info add-on for WebShare UB2

• PrintPreview UB2 introduces an entirely new document review capability to WebShare UB2, with hierarchical annotation support. This works with multiple-page PDF documents, XPress/InDesign XPV documents, and Office documents (using Tool Server remote automation) as well as with all major image formats. It tracks document versions and allows signing off ready-to-go documents.

  Note:

  The “Annotations” feature requires one of the following web browsers:

  • Mozilla based browser (e.g. Firefox)

  • WebKit based browser (e.g. Safari)

  • Internet Explorer 7 or newer

• Printing out WebShare annotations is fully supported. The first page will contain the image with its marks, the following pages will show the comments. In addition, it is now possible to specify printing resolutions and the ICC profile for the proof printer. A user specified lefthand margin can be defined.

• Annotation author, project title, file status and due date information is indexed and searchable via the HELIOS Spotlight search feature

• The annotation access e-mail now includes a URL which allows users to jump directly from the e-mail into the annotation board by entering the credentials only. The WebShare server setting Allow URL Share Access must be enabled to allow this feature.

Existing PrintPreview queue based soft and hard proofing, as well as “psrip” features are still fully supported, basically all proofing/reviewing capabilities are moved to PrintPreview UB2.

1.12 HELIOS Script Server UB2

• HELIOS ScriptAssistant – An interactive Mac or Windows tool which allows, by a few clicks, creating a custom image conversion script including ICC color management. Image conversions can be automated within minutes without the need for scripting or programming.

1.13 HELIOS Tool Server UB2

• For servers that should not be fully utilized by the tool server, the new MaxProc preference allows limiting the published number of CPUs, so that a “toolclient” call will distribute jobs to other machines

• The HTML to PDF converter tool is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.6

• Mac OS X based tools have received support to work in the logged-in user environment. When specifying a “RunAs” user name for a tool on Mac OS X, the tools will run within the proper user session. This allows logins with multiple user names so each tool automation can run under a specified user, e.g. “PDF Flatten” under user1, “Photoshop Action” under user2, etc. To permit Mac OS X GUI program automation, e.g. in Acrobat and Photoshop, a user must be logged-on, otherwise desktop applications will not start.

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