new features and history

New Features and History

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Trapeze Desktop History © Onstream Systems Ltd 1997 -2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHANGE HISTORY AND FEATURES ................................................................................... 8

Trapeze Desktop 7.42 .......................................................................................................................... 8 New Features .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Improvements ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Fixes ................................................................................................................................................................ 10

CHANGE HISTORY AND FEATURES ................................................................................. 11

Trapeze Desktop 7.36 ........................................................................................................................ 11 New Features .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Improvements ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Fixes ................................................................................................................................................................ 12






Trapeze Desktop 7.1 .......................................................................................................................... 21 New Features .................................................................................................................................................. 21 Improvements ................................................................................................................................................. 23 Fixes ................................................................................................................................................................ 23



Trapeze Desktop 6.8 .......................................................................................................................... 30 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 30


Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 30 Customize Toolbar ....................................................................................................................................... 31 Preferences .................................................................................................................................................. 32

Improvements and fixes ................................................................................................................................ 32

Trapeze Desktop 6.71 ........................................................................................................................ 33 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 33

Measuring .................................................................................................................................................... 33 Preferences .................................................................................................................................................. 33

Improvements and fixes ................................................................................................................................ 33

Trapeze Desktop 6.53 ........................................................................................................................ 34 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Improvements and fixes ................................................................................................................................ 34

Trapeze Desktop 6.52 ........................................................................................................................ 34 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 34

Trapeze Desktop 6.5 .......................................................................................................................... 34 Improvements and fixes ................................................................................................................................ 34


Open File Tabs............................................................................................................................................. 35



Trapeze Desktop 6.2 .......................................................................................................................... 37 Improvements and fixes ................................................................................................................................ 37



Preferences .................................................................................................................................................. 37


PDF support ................................................................................................................................................. 38 Toolbar ......................................................................................................................................................... 38 TRIM integration........................................................................................................................................... 39 OCR ............................................................................................................................................................. 39 Measuring .................................................................................................................................................... 40 Thumbnails ................................................................................................................................................... 40 Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 41 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 41



File types ...................................................................................................................................................... 43 Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 44 TRIM integration........................................................................................................................................... 44 Measurement and Scale .............................................................................................................................. 46


Print Options ................................................................................................................................................ 48


Toolbar ......................................................................................................................................................... 50 Scanning ...................................................................................................................................................... 50 Replacing Files............................................................................................................................................. 52 Bookmarks ................................................................................................................................................... 52 Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 52




Scanning ...................................................................................................................................................... 53 OCR ............................................................................................................................................................. 54 Commands\Menu ......................................................................................................................................... 55 Saving .......................................................................................................................................................... 57 File Sharing .................................................................................................................................................. 57


OCR (See Appendix 1) ................................................................................................................................ 58 Large Images ............................................................................................................................................... 58 Saving a copy of an image locally................................................................................................................ 59 Pasteboard ................................................................................................................................................... 60 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 60 Scanning ...................................................................................................................................................... 60

Demonstrations – Trapeze Desktop 5.0 ....................................................................................... 61 OCR .................................................................................................................................................................. 61

OCRing Full Pages ...................................................................................................................................... 61 OCRing Full Documents .............................................................................................................................. 61 Searching for OCR’d text ............................................................................................................................. 61 Replacing OCR’d Text ................................................................................................................................. 62

Allow Local Save ............................................................................................................................................ 62




Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................................. 65


Scanner Function Sheets ............................................................................................................................. 66 Page Rotate ................................................................................................................................................. 66 Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................................. 66


Drag and Drop.............................................................................................................................................. 67 iManage Integration ..................................................................................................................................... 67 Re-Ordering Pages ...................................................................................................................................... 67 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 67 Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................................. 67


Magnify Tool ................................................................................................................................................. 68 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 69


OCR (Optical Character Recognition). ........................................................................................................ 70 Saving .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 Tunneling ..................................................................................................................................................... 70

TrapezePro 3.5 .................................................................................................................................... 71 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 71 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 71

Encryption .................................................................................................................................................... 71 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 71


Area Measurement ...................................................................................................................................... 72 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 72


Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 73 Saving Annotations ...................................................................................................................................... 74 Job Separators ............................................................................................................................................. 74 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 74 Information/Messages .................................................................................................................................. 75

TrapezePro 3.21 .................................................................................................................................. 76 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 76 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 76

Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 76

TrapezePro 3.2 .................................................................................................................................... 77 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 77


Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 77 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 77 Job Separator Detection .............................................................................................................................. 77 Measuring .................................................................................................................................................... 77 Authentication .............................................................................................................................................. 77

TrapezePro Active Viewer 3.1 ......................................................................................................... 78 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 78

Job Separators ............................................................................................................................................. 78

TrapezePro Active Viewer 3.0 ......................................................................................................... 79 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 79 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 79

Barcodes ...................................................................................................................................................... 79 Deleting Thumbnails .................................................................................................................................... 79 Bookmarks ................................................................................................................................................... 80 Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 81

Onstream Trapeze 2.14 ..................................................................................................................... 83 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 83

Commands\Menus ....................................................................................................................................... 83

Onstream Trapeze 2.1 ....................................................................................................................... 84 Changes .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 84

Commands\Menu ......................................................................................................................................... 84 Measuring .................................................................................................................................................... 87 Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 87 Printing ......................................................................................................................................................... 88 ODMA .......................................................................................................................................................... 89 Scanning ...................................................................................................................................................... 89

Onstream Trapeze 2.0 ....................................................................................................................... 91 Features ........................................................................................................................................................... 91

Thumbnails ................................................................................................................................................... 91 Pasteboard ................................................................................................................................................... 91 ODMA .......................................................................................................................................................... 91 Commands\Menu ......................................................................................................................................... 91 Measuring .................................................................................................................................................... 93 Magnification ................................................................................................................................................ 93 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 93 Image Pane Positioning ............................................................................................................................... 94 Appending Files ........................................................................................................................................... 94 Saving .......................................................................................................................................................... 95 Scanning ...................................................................................................................................................... 95 Annotations .................................................................................................................................................. 95

APPENDIX 1 ......................................................................................................................... 97

Copyright Information ....................................................................................................................... 97


INTRODUCTION Trapeze Desktop document viewer is the basis of the Trapeze range of imaging products. Annotate, measure, draw, index and bookmark, create thumbnails and scan with document separator sheets. Integrates with any document management system. ODMA compliant. This document outlines the change history of Trapeze Desktop and gives a description of new features as they have been developed over the versions and also gives you a brief description as to how you can see some of these unique features in action.


CHANGE HISTORY AND FEATURES

Trapeze Desktop 7.42

New Features Added Printer Groups to Print Preview

The ability to set printer groups to enable the printing of a document (consisting of various page sizes) to specified printers…e.g. A4 sized pages to an A4 printer; A3 pages (or pages larger than A4) to an A3 printer.

Added auto-orientation to printing Enabling this ‘Auto-orientation’ option will result in all pages (e.g. a document containing both Portrait and Landscape oriented A4 pages), printing at the correct page orientation.


Added preferences menu to measure popup

Added "Measure circles from center" preference to Measuring Preferences


Added zoom in and zoom out to the light table popup window

Improvements Added ‘SaveAs’ and ‘SelectImage’ to toolbar script commands. Added ‘ScanAppend‘ to toolbar script commands. Improved speed of reading some scanned PDFs. Added $fileno$ to Run toolbar script command. Added context-sensitive help to new style print dialog and print options dialog. Added "Check white is zero JPEG compressed TIFFs" and "Open white is zero JPEG compressed TIFFs as black is zero" preferences. Added convert white is zero to black is zero to 256 gray TIFF JPEG compression options. Added a workaround for bad PDFs written by Canon imageREAL Capture. Added a workaround for bad PDFs written by pdfDocs. Added a workaround for reading PDFs with bad LZW image EOD. Added a workaround for opening some bad Kofax TIFFs. Added a workaround for a bug in the HP LaserJet P2015 Series PS printer driver causing print preview problems.

Fixes Fixed converting PDF text to OCR text not working for some PDFs. Fixed a crash caused by some scanner drivers. Fixed light table set pin not working at 90, 180, 270 rotation. Fixed exemption codes incorrectly disabled after creating a polyline/polygon/scribble with an exemption code. Fixed perimeter not showing when measuring with no calculator. Fixed a problem reading some cross-reference stream PDFs. Fixed opening a PDF as a TIFF from TRIM with replace original enabled not checking in/out correctly. Fixed some PDF images being displayed inverted. Fixed a bug when copying tiled TIFF images. Fixed a crash when stamping unknown (newer) stamp types. Fixed circle measurement not showing area while measuring.




New Features Added Print Preview

The ability to preview how the document will look when printed, has been added to Trapeze. Simply click on the File menu item and select Print Preview…

Options from within the print preview window include –

Page range selection list Page Previous/Next buttons Page layout (preview display) options Zoom In/Out buttons Printer Settings (select Printer, Printer properties, print range, copies etc.) Advanced View button (expand preview window to show printer, # of copies)

Improvements

Added workaround for bad PDFs written by “pdftk” Added workaround for bad PDFs produced by Adobe Designer 7.1 Added a workaround for bad PDFs written by Canon Added support for using open file tabs to change the active document while dragging and dropping Changed to allow ini files larger than 64K Added a workaround for a Windows XP theme bug causing a crash Added support for *.dwf CAD files Changed to use the new style print dialog (Options button replaced by Options tab). Improved PDF reading support Changed to allow TRIM field stamping to work when a PDF is opened as a TIFF from TRIM Added path expanding to picture stamps from ini files. Added support for TWAIN automatic page size detection


Changed to use Acrobat (if installed) to view PDFs with bad data (i.e. non-compliant with PDF specification)

Fixes Fixed burning in 24 bit gray pictures drawing with the wrong colors Fixed a problem with the default text area when creating a new picture stamp Fixed ‘Replace original PDF when saved’, not working for TRIM records Fixed a problem stamping multi-page stamps with text/ODMA/TRIM fields Fixed a pasteboard crash when errors occur. Fixed a TIFF with bookmarks saved as a PDF with bookmarks, incorrectly removing bookmarks from the open document. Fixed a problem saving bookmarks, from earlier versions of Trapeze, to PDF. Fixed incorrectly allowing drag/drop of multiple PDF pages. Fixed a crash caused by some ExIF JPEG thumbnails. Fixed incorrectly enabling undo for some redact delete page operations. Fixed a crash when drag/drop copying annotations



New Features Added ODMA fields to text stamps

The ability to insert ODMA field attributes to text stamps has been added to Trapeze (Stamp Options | Text | Insert ODMA Field).

Added multi-page stamps

Trapeze now has the ability to apply a stamp to multiple pages (Stamp Options | Size/Location and select position from drop down Location list)


Added date and page number annotations Users of Trapeze now have the ability to select date and page number annotations and to apply to all pages within a document. Date and Page annotations are in effect, Text Stamp Annotations and, as such, have a number of options that can be configured.

For example: After selecting the Date Annotation type, click on ‘Options…’ to bring up the Date options window. From there, select ‘Options…’, Size/Location and select the location for placement of the date (e.g. ‘Top right of all pages’).


Date and Page Number saving options…’Show on save dialogs’ NOTE: If this option is enabled for Date annotations and/or Page Number annotations then, when saving, the user will have the option to save the file with date and/or page number automatically applied:

The option is greyed out in the Save window until a user first chooses ‘Save annotations’ –

‘Show on save dialogs’ option enabled within both Date and Page Numbers setting –


Added extra PDF Color preference An additional PDF color preference ‘Automatic up to 256 Shades of Gray’ has been included in the list of available color options.

Added ‘Ctrl + Measuring’ to snap to 45o increments Using the keyboard’s Ctrl key in combination with the Measurement Tool now enables the measurement line to ‘snap’ to 450 increments.

Added ‘Run’ to toolbar script commands

Trapeze now has a number of ‘Run’ command line options (including toolbar scripts) to run an external command.

Improvements Changed default PDF color preference to Automatic (Edit | Preferences | PDF) Changed to handle bad PDF files generated by Acrobat Distiller 6.0 (Windows) Added a workaround for a Windows tab control bug Added a workaround for bad PDF files written by PDF Docs

Fixes Fixed a problem with page delete annotations Fixed a crash when saving to TRIM with show options when saving preference on Fixed a crash after dragging a bookmark to the top, then deleting it, then dragging again Fixed PDF saving incorrectly using TIFF compression preference in some cases Fixed some multilayered TIFF files displaying incorrectly Fixed an occasional crash during scanning




New Features No new features have been introduced between releases of 7.14 and 7.18

Improvements Changed to use external viewer for unsupported PDF types.

Added additional PDF preferences

16 Colours has been added to the available list of colors (this option will determine the color type in which to view PDF files). PDF/A support (saving only) has also been added.

Fixes Fixed Scan New PDF command not working for tool popups Fixed menu help not working for tool popups Fixed custom tooltips not always working in tool popups Fixed some standard icons missing from buttons in tool popups Fixed a crash reading some JPEGS




New Features Added Despeckle facility and Despeckle preferences

Trapeze now has a Despeckle functionality included. Despeckle is for use with black and white images only.

This Despeckle functionality can be accessed (after opening a black and white image) from the Page menu (above left) or by adding a Despeckle button to the Trapeze toolbar (above right).

Despeckle can be configured via Despeckle preferences to remove black or white dots on the image of a predetermined pixel size (as shown above)..


Added Deskew functionality Trapeze now has deskew functionality included (Deskew tool) for use with TIFF images.

A Deskew button is provided within the drop down Tool list (above left) or, if desired, this tool button can be added to the Trapeze toolbar (above right).

It is also possible to deskew an image up to 10% clockwise or anticlockwise.


Added ability to include TRIM fields to text stamps The TRIM Field function provides the ability to automatically include selected TRIM field input for text stamps.

Improvements Added support for support for opening and saving PDF bookmarked documents. Added custom tool popups Added PDF support to DataWorks integration Added ‘Automatic’ to PDF color preferences Added rotation to text annotation preferences Improved PDF rendering Added support for images larger than available memory Changed the scribble popup to remember its position Changed the open dialog to allow entering of DataWorks identifiers Added workaround to overcome a TRIM Context API checkout problem Added workaround to allow display of corrupted PDF’s generated by some Canon scanners

Fixes Fixed a crash when saving some corrupted TIFF files Fixed a number of PDF document opening and display problems Fixed a crash caused by some large TIFF files Fixed a problem applying picture annotations to images with non-square pixels


Trapeze Desktop 7.1

New Features Added Light Table functionality

Trapeze now has Light Table functionality (license dependent), whereby one image can be overlayed on another. The current level of Light Table functionality only allows the viewing of overlaid images on screen…there is currently no ability to measure, print, save etc., on the Light Table image. The only configurable options at the moment are Light Table Colors options.

Light Table use/availability is NOT documented in the Help File that ships with Trapeze Desktop version 7.1. The next release of Trapeze Desktop will have a fully updated Help file relating to this and other 7.1 ‘New Features’ functionality.


Added page number and page count to text stamps

The ability to have text stamps include page number and page count has now been included.

Added perimeter to area measurement

‘Perimeter’ length has been added to the area measurement window

This can be enabled/disabled via Trapeze’s Measuring Preferences (Edit | Preferences).


Added Copy Pages to thumbnail context menu

‘Copy Pages’ has been added to the context (right mouse click) thumbnail menu. This copies the selected page/s to the clipboard.

Improvements Added support for PCX compressed TIFF files. Added ‘CopyPage’ to toolbar script commands. Added formats parameter to ‘CopyPage’ toolbar script command. Added ‘LastPage’ and ‘SelectStamp’ to toolbar script commands. Added ‘New’, ‘PasteAppend’ and ‘Zoom’ to toolbar script commands Added current record options to TRIM save options. Improved handling of large images. Added workaround for reading K-Image annotations.

Fixes Fixed Still Image causing Trapeze to fail to run on some machines. Fixed problems scanning with some TWAIN drivers Fixed OTTP connections not working when not licensed for redaction. Changed TWAIN bit order check to work around bugs in the Ricoh Type3030 Scanner TWAIN driver. Fixed a problem opening CAD documents with errors Fixed some resource and memory leaks. Fixed incorrect dialog title for send selection. Fixed a bug reading some freehand Imaging annotations. Fixed occasional crash when measuring with areas. Fixed a problem mouse wheel scrolling thumbnails with single click. Fixes for various PDF viewing issues Fixed a crash reading some JPEG Exif thumbnails. Fixed a crash caused by Auto-size Exemption Codes being incorrectly available.



New Features Added Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MDI) support

Trapeze can now open Microsoft Office Document Imaging format files (*.mdi).

MDI format can also be selected for 'Save Copy As...’ & 'Save Selection...' options from within the File menu item.

Added ExIF support for JPEGS

ExIF (Exchangeable Image File) is a format that is a standard for storing interchange information in digital photography image files using JPEG compression.

Almost all new digital cameras use the ExIF annotation, storing information on the image such as shutter speed, exposure compensation, F number, what metering system was used, if a flash was used, ISO number, date and time the image was taken, white balance, auxiliary lenses that were used and resolution.


Improvements Added Active Document Container to system information in the about dialog. Added workaround for TRIM's ODMA driver crashing (TRIM versions 6.1.2.6570 through 6.1.4.6856). Added workaround for IE ActiveX problems drawing when using Active Documents. Added Edit to right click menu for TIFFs in Explorer. Changed to not check out finalized TRIM records.

Fixes Fixed ODMA save selection dialog incorrectly showing unavailable options. Fixed a problem when printing with dithering while using a 24 bit display driver. Fixed changing TRIM preferences from "Use TRIM and TRIM TopDrawer" to "Use TRIM" not working.



New Features Added DataWorks integration.

Trapeze Desktop has the ability to integrate with DataWorks (an enterprise content management system from Avand).

If DataWorks is present on the system, an additional File menu item (Local open...) is added to Trapeze. This allows you to open local files rather than always opening a file from DataWorks (Open...).

If you do not wish to use DataWorks with Trapeze you should disable the preference.


Added 'Save As Options..." to TRIM preferences

Click on the Save As Options…button to select from the available TRIM Save As actions.

Added Toolbar Button Editor

A Button Editor has been added to the available Modify Toolbar options. This allows you to customize the appearance of the Trapeze toolbar buttons. A Preview area will let you see the effects of your changes on the tool button, before you commit your changes


Added 'Print as image' and Dither printing preferences

This preference option will overcome problems experienced with some printer's printer driver software whereby (e.g.) transparent annotations can not be printed transparent. Within the ‘Print as image’ option is a second preference option of ‘Dither’. It should be noted that whilst some printers handle dithering, some don’t. So if you find that the output when printing doesn’t look right, they can try this option to see if an improvement can be achieved. It’s one of those ‘trial and error’ settings.

Added 'auto-size' option to Exemption Code window context menu

If the text in a created exemption code window is too big (e.g. only part of the text is able to been seen in the window) or too small (e.g. window un-necessarily large for size of text) to display correctly within the window, 'Auto-size exemption Codes can be selected. Auto-size can be applied to the selected or last created redaction's exemption code.


Added HTML Help for Vista compatibility

Improvements Changed to handle truncated JPEG files Changed to handle planar TIFFs with extra samples Changed bookmark tree view line color to match Windows Explorer Added workaround for CanoScan LiDE 60 and WIA-Contex COUGAR Tx 36 (1394) scanner drivers returning incorrect resolution

Fixes Fixed a crash when using TWAIN Fixed burning in annotations with a solid background and text not drawing the background Fixed PDF annotations not always drawing Fixed problems with some PDFs Fixed more tools popup not working correctly on Windows XP/2003/Vista Fixed an intermittent problem loading MS61 drivers Fixed a crash when burning in some annotations Fixed centered transparent text annotations not drawing correctly Fixed occasional problems after saving a document containing exemption codes


Trapeze Desktop 6.8

Changes Added CAD support. Added /stampadmin command line option. Added support for menu to shared stamps. Added All Supported Files to open dialog.

Features Annotations ‘Text stamp text fields’ – Insert text field… has been added to the Text Stamp options (as shown below in figures 1, 2 and 3):

Figure 1

– A new text stamp, ‘APPROVED’, has been created. The text to appear in this stamp is APPROVED and the machine date (&d) have been set to append to the text. The Insert Text Field… option has then been selected (right click on the arrow button).

Figure 2 – Selecting the Insert Text Field…option (fig 1) has brought up a Text Field window where a caption of “Approving Agent’s Name’ has been entered. The Sample… button has then been clicked to display how the configured Text box will look (as shown above).


Figure 3

1. The Text box will first appear on the page (after selecting the ‘APPROVED’ stamp from the list and stamping the image).

– This shows the result of applying the newly created text stamp.

2. The agent’s name is entered and the OK button hi. The stamp will then be applied (as shown above) …’APPROVED 26/01/2007 Asquith’.

Note: Alignment to rectangle/text annotation properties and multi-line text stamp options have also been added. ‘Picture stamp text area’ – An optional text area has been added to picture stamp annotations properties…to determine where on the picture stamp the text will be positioned (as shown below):

Customize Toolbar ‘Scan new PDF’ – Scan new PDF command added to the customization options as shown below:


Preferences ‘CAD’ - An ‘Open CAD drawings as TIFFs’ option is available as shown below:

‘PDF’ - An ‘Open PDFs as TIFFs’ option is available as shown below:

Improvements and fixes Changed so saving an empty TIFF can be used to delete the document. Changed text stamps to handle multi-line text. Changed to enable PDF and CAD in all licensed versions. Added workaround for WIA-Vidar Scanner (USB) returning incorrect resolution. Added a workaround for bad PDFs generated by Fuji Xerox Document Centre C360. Various other bug fixes



Changes Added annotation mouse pointer preferences. Added show tooltips to toolbar preferences. Added show options when saving to file preferences. Added remove all OCR text when redacting preference. Added rotate with image and rotation to rectangle/text annotations. Added default scale. Added background pattern to rectangle/text annotation/redactions.

Features Measuring ‘Area Calculator Percentage Function’ – A percentage button has been added to the calculator within the Measure window (as shown below):

Preferences ‘Exemption Code’ preferences have been enhanced to allow exemption code group re-ordering (via up and down arrows) as shown below: In addition, the ability to hide/show selected exemption code groups has been added (tick or un-tick desired selection within the Exemption codes screen).

Improvements and fixes Fixed incorrect page properties for some PDFs. Changed so any non-white PDF text in black and white mode is drawn black. Fixed F9 showing toolbar menu when toolbar is hidden. Fixed problems reading some JPEG TIFFs written by Imaging.


Fixed annotations with exemption codes being copied to the clipboard when not selected. Fixed an occasional crash when saving a page with changed annotations. Fixed a number of PDF problems - including: - reading some PDFs containing ASCII85Decode data - reading some PDF G3 images - problems with PDFs with rotated pages - LZW compression for PDFs not sticking sometimes Changed to allow an entire scribble annotation to be erased. Improved PDF text searching. Improved PDF rendering speed.


Changes Added extra options in PDF preferences for color, optimization and page caching Changed the behaviour of the File | Open document window to allow multiple selection of files

Improvements and fixes Improved PDF font handling to enable quicker display of PDF files Fixed problems experienced with having TRIM records consisting of large title names Various other bug fixes


Changes Changed the layout of the Internet preferences options Added HTTP tunnel connection information storage, for speed. Added OTTP preferences ‘Clear Connection Information…’ button to clear the stored HTTP tunnel connection information Improved PDF file reading Various bug fixes

Trapeze Desktop 6.5

Improvements and fixes There have been no new features or functionality added since the release of Trapeze Desktop 6.47, however, there have been numerous improvements and fixes to existing features and functionality.



Changes Added various changes and workarounds to read and/or repair badly written Tiff images created by 3rd party applications Added OCR | Pages to bookmark context menu Added button to page properties to change displayed image size units Added support for annotation/redaction line styles other than solid Added PDF to file open type list Added support for animated buttons in Windows Vista Added TRIM permission checking Added support for redaction-only over OTTP Added ‘Rotate with image’ to picture annotations Changed attempting to open an already open document read-only to automatically open a copy Changes to overcome various Windows themes (including Windows Vista themes) related issues Various bug fixes.

Features Open File Tabs An addition to the View Menu is the Open File Tabs option. With this enabled (ticked) as shown below (figure 1.), each opened document will display in tab mode (figure 2.) rather than in Cascade or Tile mode.

Figure 1.

Figure 2.



Changes Added PNM (PBM/PGM/PPM) reading support. Note: PNM is not a format in itself, but rather it is a generic term for the Portable Bitmap family of images. This family includes PBM (Portable Bitmap), PGM (Portable Graymap), and PPM (Portable Pixmap) files. PNM formats originate in a UNIX® environment. Added support for encrypted PDFs. Added selectable Default print range to printing preferences (Edit | Preferences | Printing). Added Visible area to selectable print range options (File | Print or Toolbar Print button). Changed TRIM preferences so selecting "Use when saving" sets focus to Change. Changed annotation text dialog to be resizeable. Various bug fixes.


Changes Added support for CALS (Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support) Type 1 files. Added exemption codes for use with redaction functionality. Added ‘Show Settings Dialog Before Scanning’ command to Customize Toolbar. Added ‘Make Annotations Permanent’ command to Customize Toolbar. Added custom background colors to Image and Bookmark Preferences. Added ‘fixed display size’ to thumbnail preferences. Added additional Image Pane context-sensitive shortcuts. Added TIFF drag/drop. Added annotation paste and drag/drop. Added right button drag/drop to image selection, OCR text and bookmarks. Added stamp menus. Added custom annotations. Various bug fixes.


Trapeze Desktop 6.2

Improvements and fixes There have been no new features or functionality added since the release of Trapeze Desktop 6.14, however, there have been numerous improvements and fixes to existing features and functionality.


Changes Added "Ignore back of duplex software detected function sheet" scanning preference. Added Trapeze software version to scanner 'About Scanner' dialog.


Changes Added a "Make Annotations Permanent" command to the toolbar ‘Page’ Menu. Added Redaction to Save/Send selection dialog boxes. Added floating toolbar window (Tool drop down list). Added single click option for Bookmarks. Added version reporting to the About ODMA window. Added disable to tablet support. Increased maximum thumbnail size to 512 x 512

Features Preferences A new ‘General’ preference has been added. Enabling this preference option will have Trapeze retain the window size and position of window.


Trapeze Desktop 6.0

Changes Added "Confirm open after download" to file types. Added Recent Files management commands. Added "Ask when saving" TRIM check in preference. Added Reduce To Window command. Added support for custom file associations on Windows Me/2000/XP/2003. Added language support. Available languages are currently US English or NZ/Aus/UK English. Added the perch area unit. Added support for Windows XP themes. Improved OCR text highlighting on color images. Added Printing preferences. Added support for icon and cursor files. Added Show Recent Files preferences. Added control key modifier to keep rectangle selection and annotations/redactions square and ellipse annotations/redactions circular.

Features PDF support Available when creating a new document (File | New…) as seen below:

Available when saving a document (File | Save, Save As…, Save Copy As…or Save Selection) as seen below:

Available for opening PDF files as seen below:

Toolbar The Trapeze Toolbar can now be customized to include frequently used tools. To customize the toolbar either select the Customize… button within the Toolbar Preferences (Edit | Preferences) or double mouse click on a blank area of the Trapeze Toolbar. From within the Customize Toolbar box (as shown below) select the tool to add/remove/modify or reposition.


TRIM integration TRIM Saved Searches can be added to the new Favorites command (see the Commands\Menu section in this file) in the File Menu. This is done by clicking on the Add TRIM Saved Search… button in the Favorites Preferences dialog box, as seen below:

This brings up the TRIM “Select from Saved Searches” dialog box. Select the saved search from the list and click OK. The Saved Search will now be listed in the Favorites.

OCR OCR text Highlight Color and Text Color preferences have been added. Set within the Find Preferences (Edit | Find)) dialog box, it is possible to use either the Windows system color or custom color, as shown below:


Measuring A calculator feature has been added to the measuring functionality. This must first be enabled within the Measuring Preferences (Edit | Preferences). Enable the Show area measurements box and then enable the Show calculator box as shown below:

After measuring an area, click either the add or subtract button to add/subtract the next area measurement.

A Circle Measurement tool is also now available

Thumbnails A Scale indicator has been added so that when a page has had scale set, the thumbnail displays an indicator as shown below:

Circle Measurement Tool


Annotations New annotation types have been added. Ellipse annotation tools and an elliptical redaction tool are now available.

Commands\Menus The Send command in the File menu has had PDF and selection functionality added. A document can now be sent to a mail recipient as a PDF attachment (as shown below)

or as a selection from an image as shown below:

Elliptical Redaction Tool

Elliptical Annotation Tools: Hollow Ellipse and Filled Ellipse

Scaled Page thumbnail indicator Measurement Tool


A Favorites command is available from the File Menu (if first enabled within Favorites Preferences – Show Favorites) as show below:

Clicking on Add to Favorites brings up a Favorite Properties box where the Properties for the favorite can be set:

If TRIM integration is enabled, TRIM Saved Searches can also be added to the Favorites list.


Trapeze Desktop 5.3

Changes Job separation sheet detection has been improved. Auto slow down of measurement animation for slow displays has been added. A TrapezePlugin ActiveX is now available. An “End Measurement” command has been added in the right click (context) image menu. Support for Still Image has been added (Trapeze can automatically run when a button is pressed on scanner, camera etc).

Features File types A new file type (DICOM… Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is now supported for viewing. DICOM image files with the extension .dcm can be associated with Trapeze Desktop. DICOM support is dependent upon a DICOM enabling Trapeze Desktop license key.


Rectangle Redaction Tool

Annotations A new tool called ‘Rectangle Redaction’ has been added. This can be selected either from the Menu bar (Tool | Rectangle Redaction) or from the Tool bar’s Tool drop down list as seen below:

The Rectangle Redaction tool can be used to select and block out areas of an image file. The color of the block will be determined by the colors within the image…a black and white image will give you the choice of black or white, whereas a color image will give you the choice of a full range of colors. Unlike other annotations, once the file has been saved, the redaction is permanent (can not be removed). Note: The original document is never changed (redactions can NOT be saved back to the original document); you should use the “Save As”, “Save Copy As” or “Save Selection” options in the File menu.

TRIM integration Trapeze Desktop now has the ability to integrate directly with TRIM Context (a Records Management System from TOWER Software) without using ODMA (the exception is TRIM TopDrawer which continues to use ODMA connectivity).


Trapeze Desktop integration with TRIM Context provides additional Trapeze Desktop File menu items for the opening and saving of TRIM repository image files.

Non-TRIM repository files (local files) can be opened and saved through the ‘Local Open’, ‘Local save As…’, Local Save Copy As…’ and Local Save selection…’ menu items. Once a TRIM repository image file has been opened in Trapeze Desktop, all (license key enabled) functionality within Trapeze Desktop can be applied to the file.


Measurement and Scale Scale Ratios (scale as found notated on drawing e.g. 1:50) can now be set within the Calibrate Scale dialog box, in addition to the Set Scale dialog box (Page | Set Scale…). This is NOT enabled by default. To enable, tick the Show ratios check box as shown below.

With the preference set, use the Calibration Tool and calibrate a line length on the image. You can now also enter the scale ratio if one is provided.

The Ratio will also be displayed in the Measuring dialog box and can be easily changed during the measuring process.


Similarly, Ratio as unit conversions (e.g. 1/8 inch = 1 foot) can now be set within the Calibrate Scale dialog box, in addition to the Set Scale dialog box (Page | Set Scale…). Again, this is NOT enabled by default. To enable, tick the Show ratios as unit conversion check box (you need to first enable Show ratios check box) as shown below.

During the calibration process, you can now enter in the unit conversion to be used (this is especially convenient when more than one scale is used in the drawing of the plan).

The conversion unit is also conveniently changed automatically to decimal fraction when using the measuring tool



Changes Changed to keep focused thumbnail in view, when the thumbnail pane position is adjusted. Enabled ‘Locate page in Bookmarks’ for single page documents. Added paper size (if known) to the image size details displayed for Image Properties. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Print Options A new layout setting called ‘Photocopy mode’ has been added for use with the print style “Print At Scanned Size” and using the 1x1 Page layout (see below).

When ‘Photocopy mode’ is chosen (and thereby the ‘Use entire printable area’ setting is automatically over-ridden), the image will be printed to a single sheet of paper. By default, ‘Photocopy mode’ will clip the bottom and right side edges of the image.


If this clipping causes the image to loose important data when printed, then fine-tuning adjustment of the print area has been provided by means of a further dialog box.

Clicking on the ‘Adjust…’ button will provide access to a ‘Photocopy Mode Adjustment’ settings box (as shown above). Here you can adjust the placement of the image’s edges on the printed output.


Trapeze Desktop 5.2

Changes Changed toolbar bitmap size from 16 x 15 to 16 x 16. Changed toolbars to handle system color changes. Improved JPEG reading speed. Improved TIFF opening speed. Improved the look of preference right arrow menu buttons on some Windows configurations. Improved MAPI error message. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Toolbar Trapeze now provides the ability to customize the Toolbar to contain your preferred button layout (including additional buttons). In the example shown below, four additional icons (buttons) are displayed, beginning with a View/Hide Bookmarks button. This feature is enabled through the use of a configuration file (that can include tool bar mouse-over text and specified button bitmap images). If you wish to implement this feature, please contact your reseller for further information.

Through the use of a ‘More Tools’ (chevron) button, as shown below, it is now possible to see all available tool bar buttons when the Trapeze Desktop window is open at less than full size.

Click on the chevron button to see hidden tools.

Scanning The Scan Settings dialog box that appears by default before scanning can now be enabled/disabled within the Scanner Preferences (Edit | Preferences | Scanning). If the ‘Show settings dialog before scanning’ option is unchecked (as shown below), then the Scan Settings dialog box (after the initial set up) will not be displayed each time a scan job is started.


If you later wish to change the scanner settings, the Scan Settings dialog box can be accessed from the File menu as shown below.


Replacing Files The Replace command has been implemented in the Page menu:

This allows the user to replace a page within a document by scanning a further page (Scan Pages…), insert from a file (Files…) or copy from the clipboard (Paste). The Replace commands found in the Page menu supports multiple files. Bookmarks New bookmark name preference (Edit | Preferences) has had ‘Insert Date’, ‘Insert Time’ and ‘Insert User’ options added…see below.

Any combination of New bookmark name options can be selected…Date and Time are read from the PC while the User option is the ‘logged on’ user of the machine. Annotations An ‘Insert User’ option has been added to the text stamp annotations properties as seen below.


As with the ‘New bookmark name’ option, ‘Insert User’ text is the machine’s ‘logged on’ user name.


Changes Fixed ‘Find OCR Text’ not working with a license with Find and without OCR.


Changes Help Topics now work from inside Internet Explorer on Windows 2000 and XP operating systems. Corrected the saving behavior when saving a new TIFF document.


Changes MS61 scanning has been changed to successfully use scanned pages when stopped. The default 24 bit compression has been changes to old style JPEG. Large image error handling has been improved.

Features Scanning Scanning preference now has a “Single Page” option. You can select this option to scan a single page straight into Trapeze and automatically end the scanning process, in the Document scanning options section on the Append Scanned Pages dialog (from the Trapeze Menu select Page\Append\Scan Pages…) as shown below:


OCR Unrecognised character handling has been added to the OCR feature. A value can be set in (Menu) Edit\Preferences\OCR which will be inserted in the OCR text wherever there is any unrecognized character. By default this is “~” as seen below:

Selecting an area of text, right-clicking and choosing the OCR menu option now gives the option of OCRing that text to a file which can then be saved. The option of OCRing a Page to File has also been added. This will OCR the current page which can then be saved to a file. See OCR\To File and OCR\Page to File…below:


Commands\Menu New TIFF documents can be made in Windows Explorer using the File | New command in Windows Explorer as shown below:


“Show Empty Bookmarks” option has been added to the (Menu) Edit\Preferences\Document option (see below). This determines whether or not the bookmark pane will be displayed when Trapeze Desktop open a document for which there are no bookmarks.

Page\Open Copy menu command has been added (see below). This enables a read-only copy of a document to be opened for viewing, if another user already has the document open for writing.

An “Ignore Orientation” image preference has been added in Edit\Preferences\Image. When this is enabled, Trapeze will ignore the orientation tags contained in scanned images thus displaying the image as physically scanned. For example, if an image has been deliberately scanned upside-down, and this is the orientation that is to be displayed, then enabling this option will force Trapeze to ignore the orientation tags (if any set during scanning) and display the image upside-down. New command line options ‘/single’ (Runs in a single application) and ‘/file’ (Specifies the document to create in the specified location).


Saving When using the “Save Copy As’ function, images can be saved as bitmaps now as well as other previously supported formats. File Sharing Write/read-only copy share handling has been added. When another user has a document opened, another user will be asked if they wish to open the document read-only.


Trapeze Desktop 5.0

Changes Undo annotation changes has been added. Support for HTTP 1.0 tunnel connections has been added. Added an annotation indicator ( ) to the thumbnails of images which have been annotated (local documents only i.e. non-Webstreamer). DRS OCR has replaced TypeReader OCR. This is an in-built OCR engine and OCR text support has been added. Tunnel support has been improved and tunnel logging has been added. Support has been added for the Stop button in Internet Explorer (when Trapeze Desktop is running within a browser). The Open and Save dialog size and position is now consistent across all versions of Windows. The size is remembered by default and position remembering can be enabled in the Edit\Preferences\Files menu. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features OCR (See Appendix 1) In addition to the OCRing of selected text and OCRing new bookmarks, Trapeze Desktop 5.0 now has the ability to OCR full pages or full documents locally. This can be carried out using thumbnails or images. Searches can be carried out on all OCR’d text. OCR’d text can be replaced. Indicators have been added to thumbnails of an OCR’d page of a local document i.e. non-Webstreamer documents. The user can choose to search for OCR’d text on the current page or throughout the whole document. Large Images When an OTTP reference containing one or more large images is opened bookmarks and thumbnails are displayed. When a large-image page is selected for display a low-resolution preview of the image is sent from the Webstreamer server and displayed in Trapeze Desktop. Webstreamer then sends “tiles”, each a full resolution version of a region of the image. Trapeze Desktop requests the visible tiles first so that as the user displays a particular region of interest in the magnifier or the main window, the tiles for that region are sent first. As the user zooms and pans further regions are sent, once the region of interest is complete non-visible tiles are sent as a background activity (using a left-to-right, top-to-bottom order, as in western text). The effect is that the user initially sees a low-resolution image that progressively becomes clearer, tile-by-tile. The low resolution is most noticeable when a small region is viewed at a high zoom factor but this is also the case where the benefits will be greatest because the smallest fraction of the original image is required. Once the entire full-resolution image has been sent, the image will be indistinguishable from one downloaded using existing Webstreamer functionality. Right clicking on an image and choosing properties, displays whether or not an image is a large image:


Saving a copy of an image locally When used in Trapeze Online, Trapeze Desktop 5.0 has the capability of saving a copy of an OTTP document locally. This functionality is dependant on the Trapeze Desktop license key and the Webstreamer configuration. When the Allow Local Save function has been set to ON in Trapeze Webstreamer, the user can right click on any page of a document and choose to Save Page or to Save Selection if a selection has been made. When choosing the directory in which to save the image, the user can also choose to save the bookmarks, thumbnails, annotations, and any OCR’d text. When saving a copy of an image when the original image is local also, (not using Trapeze Online) the user has the option of deleting the original image after saving.


Pasteboard With the Pasteboard, it is now possible to copy single items from the Pasteboard to the clipboard. This allows the user to copy tiff images from the Pasteboard and use them in other Windows applications. Commands\Menus The OCR commands have been moved to the Edit menu The Set Scale Command has been moved to the Page menu OTTP Save As\Save Selection has been added to the File menu and the right click

context menus for Images and Thumbnails The Save command in the right click context image menu has been renamed Save

Selection. An “Open All Documents in a Single Application” preference has been added to

Edit\Preferences. This is forces multiple documents to all open in a single copy of Trapeze.

Alt+Backspace (Undo) and Shift+Delete (Cut) shortcut keys have been added. In the Edit\Preferences\Files menu, it is now possible to set an initial directory for the

Open and Save dialogs. This means that the specified directory is the directory opened in the Open dialog and the same for the Save command.

Scanning Gray and colour images now scan correctly from ISIS scanners. Scanning now works with more broken TWAIN drivers than before Scanning from some bad TWAIN drivers is detected and corrected with the help of the

new “TWAIN Bit Order” image preview window.


Demonstrations – Trapeze Desktop 5.0

OCR To demonstrate the OCRing capability of Trapeze Desktop, open an image (locally) which has text displayed in it. OCRing Full Pages There are a number of ways to OCR a full page of a document locally (not available in Trapeze Online in this version):

1. From the Page menu, choose the OCR option. Trapeze Desktop will OCR the full page of text and when it is completed the OCR indicator will be displayed on the thumbnail of that image. Save the document. The OCR’d text is now searchable. 2. Right click on the thumbnail of the image to be OCR’d and choose OCR Trapeze Desktop will OCR the full page which corresponds to that image. Save the document. The OCR’d text is now searchable. 3. Right click on the image and choose OCR\Page. Trapeze Desktop will OCR that entire page. Save the document. The OCR’d text is now searchable.

OCRing Full Documents To OCR a full document for text searching click on the Edit\OCR\Document menu option. When the OCRing has completed, all the text will be searchable when doing a search (described below). To OCR a full document to the Clipboard, click on Edit\OCR\Copy Document as text. This copies all text that can be found in a document to the clipboard which can then be pasted into another Windows application such as Word. Searching for OCR’d text Using the Edit\Find command, choose either “OCR text (current page)” or “OCR text (all pages)” in the Find in drop down list.

Enter the search criteria in the Find what field and click on Find Next. The user can choose which direction Trapeze Desktop will search (Up or Down). When Trapeze Desktop finds a match, the image with the match will be displayed in the Image Pane and the corresponding thumbnail will be highlighted and the text found in the search will be highlighted:


Replacing OCR’d Text When a page or a document has been OCR’d locally and saved, the user can now replace OCR’d text with any other text. To do this, choose the OCR Text Selection Tool which is found in the Tools drop down list:

Highlight the text on the image which has been OCR’d and has to be replaced. Right click on the selected text and choose Properties from the context menu. The selected text will be displayed in a dialog box which can be edited. Change the text and click on OK. Save the document. The text on the actual image has not changed but the replacement text can now be searched for when searching OCR’d text.

Allow Local Save To be able to save an OTTP document locally using Trapeze Online:

Highlighted OCR’d text found in a search

OCR Text Selection Tool


1. Open the Trapeze Webstreamer Administration Utility from Start\Programs\Onstream Trapeze Webstreamer\Administration Utility.

2. Click on the Data Provider node in the left hand pane. 3. In the right hand pane configure both the StandardSingleFileDLL and

StandardMultiFileDll by double clicking on each on to display the Properties dialog. 4. Click on the Advanced tab and tick the Allow Local Save check box. 5. Click on OK and start Webstreamer. 6. Open any of the Trapeze Desktop documents on the Sample website. 7. Right on the image that you wish to save locally and choose Save Page. 8. On the Save Selection dialog which will be displayed, there will be the options of saving

bookmarks, thumbnails, annotations, and OCR text.

9. Name the image and click on Save. Note: It is also possible to select an area of an image and save it locally by choosing Save after right clicking on the selection.



Changes Some previously unsupported formats are now supported in TWAIN scanning. Support has been added for various rare TIFF and JPEG images. Support has been added for white is zero TIFF/JPEG images. Image repairing for TWAIN drivers that fail to send the last line of a black and white, grey or RGB image has been added. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Miscellaneous Pages can be permanently rotated i.e. a page can be rotated and saved in that

orientation. Command line and DDE printing support has been added



Changes Image repairing for Canon scanner drivers that fail to send the last line of a black and white image. Support for repairing TIFF images with a bad threshold value was added. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Miscellaneous Progress display to page moving operation has been added. The bookmark and bookmark folder properties dialog box can be resized. Word wrap has been added to bookmark and bookmark folder properties dialog box.


Trapeze Desktop 4.3

Changes Support has been added for JPEG 6 compression. Stricter warning checks to LZW have been added. The string resource format has been changed in Unix to match Windows. The dialogs of minimized windows have been changed to centre on the primary display. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Scanner Function Sheets Scanner function sheets and job separators with bar coding are now supported and can be printed using Trapeze Desktop 4.3. When used in batch scanning jobs, job separator sheets will automatically create bookmark folders as per the barcode information. Orientation (portrait, landscape) for scanning and function sheets for changing orientation during a batch scan is now supported. Trapeze detected function sheets, when used in batch scanning, determine the orientation (No Rotation, Rotate Left or Rotate Right) of the image to display and save to file after receipt from the scanner, whereas scanner detected function sheets (if supported by the scanner) determine switching between duplex/simplex scan modes etc. Job separator sheets can also be used in conjunction with function sheets. Page Rotate Page rotate commands have been added in the thumbnail context menu. Images can be rotated left, right or flipped by right clicking on the corresponding thumbnail and choosing the Rotate submenu. Miscellaneous The background colour of the thumbnail pane can be customised. 8 bit palette and 16 bit grey support has been added to TWAIN scanning.


Trapeze Desktop 4.2

Changes The icons for Trapeze Desktop have been changed. 80-20 integration information has been improved with a message describing an 80-20 ODMA problem. Compression speed of LZW, packbits, G3, G4, CCITT 1D and uncompressed images and memory use has been improved. Handling of ODMA documents (when ODMA has been disabled) and the displaying of ODMA document properties have been improved. Support has been added for read only bookmarks in OTTP documents. TWAIN logging and extra support for TWAIN drivers have been added. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Drag and Drop Images can now be dragged from areas outside of Trapeze Desktop (e.g. Windows Explorer) and dropped into an existing or a new document. This allows the user to insert saved images as new pages to an existing document. Drag and drop support for OCRing bookmarks has been added. Selecting an area of text within an image and dragging the selection to the bookmarks will OCR the text and create a bookmark. The bookmark will be created in the position of the drop. If the position of the bookmark needs to be changed, the user can drag the bookmark to the required position and save it there. iManage Integration Trapeze Desktop has been modified to provide highly functional and comprehensive integration with iManage. More information on how to integrate Trapeze Desktop with iManage can be found at http://www.onstreamsystems.com/default.asp?data_article=101. Re-Ordering Pages Support has been added to allow the re-ordering of pages locally. This means that in an existing document, the location of pages can be moved around by dragging the thumbnail of the page to be moved to the new position and saving the document. Please note that this is not available for OTTP documents (Using Trapeze Online). Commands\Menus SHIFT +F10 for context menus has now been added. When using Trapeze Desktop as a plugin within IE, F9 now accesses the plugin menu. It is now possible to undo Insert Pages using the Edit\Undo menu option. The undo option has now been disabled after the Delete Pages operation has been

carried out. A new Windows\Tile Vertically command has been added. The Rename command has been added to the Edit menu. This allows the renaming of

bookmarks without using the mouse. Miscellaneous A minimum zoomed thumbnail size of 8x8 pixels has been added (this is the minimum size thumbnails can be set to).

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Trapeze Desktop 4.1

Changes OTTP JPEG support has been added. YCCK JPEG support added. HTTP tunneled OTTP reliability has been improved. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed. Trapeze Desktop 4.1 is the first Unix library version. The bookmarks and status bar now use the Windows fonts as defined in Control Panel | Display | Appearance. The minimum width of the measure pop up box has been increased so that it is wide enough to show area list items when area is enabled. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Magnify Tool A new Magnify tool has been added. This tool allows the user to magnify specific areas of the image. There are a number of ways in which to choose this tool:

1. From the Tool menu. Select Magnify. 2. From the drop down tool list on the main Trapeze Desktop toolbar choose the

Magnify Tool:

To magnify a specific area of the image, click and hold the left mouse button to drag the tool over the image. The magnified areas of the image will be shown in the Magnifier box. Using the zoom in and zoom out buttons on the Magnifier box the user can set the percentage zoom used.


The crosshairs in the Magnifier box can be selected to be displayed or not by right clicking on the box and ticking or unticking the Crosshair option:

Commands\Menus The Show Angle option has been added to the Measuring preferences found in Edit\Preferences. This allows the user to choose whether or not to have the angle measurement displayed on screen when measuring. TWAIN scanner diagnostics logging has been added to the Scanning preferences found in Edit\Preferences. A View Toolbar command is now available within the image pane context menu (right click) if the tool bar is hidden when Trapeze Desktop is running as a plugin (e.g. within Internet Explorer).


Trapeze Desktop 4.0

Changes The Trapeze suite of products has been renamed. TrapezePro is now known as Trapeze Desktop Support for 16 bit grey TIFFs has been added. Support has been added for planar uncompressed and and packbits TIFFs. The minimum magnifier zoom has been changed to 0.01%. This means that the user can zoom out to 0.01% of the original image. The number of days left to expiry date has been added to the expiry date text. Multi level bookmark scanning support has been added. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features OCR (Optical Character Recognition). OCR support has been added to Trapeze Desktop 4.0. This allows the creation of bookmarks using OCR’d text and allows OCR’d text to be pasted to the clipboard for use in other applications. This functionality requires that a licensed copy of Expervision’s TypeReader (v6.0 or greater) OCR software is available on the machine. To OCR a new bookmark, select the text in the image to be OCR’d using the Rectangle Selection Tool:

Right click on this selection and from the context menu, choose OCR\OCR New Bookmark. If the OCR engine can read text from the selection, a new bookmark will be created at the lowest level of bookmarks. To copy OCR’d text to the clipboard, right click on a selection and choose OCR\Copy Text. This OCR’d text is now saved to the clipboard and can be pasted into another Windows application e.g. Word. Saving In Trapeze Desktop 4.0, it is possible to save a copy of a single page tiff file as a JPG file. This can be done using the File\Save Copy As.. command. Tunneling OTTP Tunnel support has been added. The Trapeze HTTP Server (HTTP Tunneling) enables users to access a Trapeze Webstreamer when they are behind a network firewall that blocks the default communications protocol. Trapeze Desktop will use the http protocol rather than the default OTTP protocol. The default HTTP Tunneling preference (found in Edit\Preferences\OTTP) is set to ‘Use HTTP tunneling when an OTTP connection fails’.


TrapezePro 3.5

Changes The Open and Save dialogs have been changed to use the Windows 200 Opena nd Save dialogs on Windows 2000 and XP. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Encryption Trapeze Desktop, as client software working with an Onstream Trapeze Webstreamer, can use special protocols to communicate with the Trapeze Webstreamer. This allows, amongst other things, for data communications to be encrypted between the server and the client. If encryption is enabled on data transmission from the Trapeze Webstreamer, then Trapeze Desktop can be instructed to use encryption. This is done by ticking Edit\Preferences\OTTP\Use encryption if available. A list of Trusted Certificates that identify the server that is using encryption can be viewed by clicking on the Trusted Certificates button. You can then select a listed certificate and either view the certificate details or remove the certificate from the list of Trusted Certificates. Commands\Menus The Send command has been added to the File menu. This allows images to be sent by

email to the designated recipient. Trapeze Desktop allows you to choose to view only selected thumbnails e.g. only those

thumbnails contained in a particular bookmark folder (including folders of bookmarks within a bookmark folder). Select, from within the bookmark pane, the bookmark folder for which you want to have the thumbnails displayed. Right click on the folder and select ‘View Selected Thumbnails’ from the menu. You can also select “View Selected Thumbnails’ from the Thumbnail menu. To restore the thumbnail view to view all thumbnails, choose the Thumbnail\View All Thumbnails command.


TrapezePro 3.4

Changes Added support for top-down bitmaps. Added support for 32 bit bitmaps. Added support for 16 and 32 bit BI_BITFIELDS compressed bitmaps. Improved support has been added to TIFF and JPEG 6 reading and copying. The draft image icon has been added to the Properties dialog of a draft image (

). Annotation size has been added to the Data tab of the image properties dialog. The handling of images with non-square pixels (e.g. faxes) has been improved. Documents are now always opened shared for reading. Chain, rod, furlong and lick scale units have been added to units of measurement available for measuring. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Area Measurement TrapezePro 3.4 now has the ability of being able to measure angles. This is done using the

Measurement Tool . Click on the point where you wish to start measuring from and draw the line along one axis of the angle to be measured. At the turning point of the angle click once, then move to the end point (along the other axis of the angle). Double click to finish Total line length and angles between measured lines will be displayed and (by default) the area encompassed will be displayed. For convenience, the information displayed in the measurement dialog box can be copied to the clipboard by right clicking on the measurement pop-up box and choosing Copy All. Commands\Menus Control + Zoom In tool while clicking on an image zooms out and Control + Zoom Out tool, zooms in. Control + Zoom Area tool undoes the last area zoom. Measurement Unit has been added to the Edit\Preference\Measuring:

. The F2 shortcut has been added for bookmark label editing. Copy and Paste is also supported during an in-place bookmark label edit. Undo is now available in the Edit menu for bookmark/folder inserts. Single Click To Open a Page has been added to Edit\Preferences\Thumbnails:


TrapezePro 3.3

Changes The thumbnail properties dialog has been enlarged. Support for TIFF orientations 2, 4, 5, 7 has been added. Support for planar JPEG6 compressed TIFF images has been improved. Support for opening large TIFF and JPEG images has been improved. Thumbnail colour optimising has been added. Mouse wheel support has been added. Print abort handling has been improved. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Annotations The ability to annotate images has been enhanced by the addition of the picture, stamp, polygon, polyline and scribble annotations. Each of these can be accessed from the Tool menu:

Tablet support has been added for these annotations also.

Picture

Scribble

Polyline

Stamp

Polygon


Saving Annotations The Save Annotations option has been added to the Save Page selection (accessed by right clicking on the thumbnail or image) giving the user the option of saving (or not) the annotations available on an image.

Job Separators Using Trapeze Desktop printed barcode job separator sheets while scanning documents in Trapeze Desktop, quickly and easily creates named Bookmark Folders for the separated document pages. The pages will appear as bookmarks within the bookmark folders. To print Job Separators, choose File\Print Job Separators. From the Barcode type drop-down list, select an appropriate type (Code 128 is a standard type barcode) In the Barcode text box, type in the text to be represented in the barcode. This will become the Bookmark Folder name within the Trapeze Desktop multi-page TIFF file that you create from the scan of documents. Click OK to print. Note: It may be necessary to adjust the barcode position (change settings in Adjust [millimeters]) if the printed function sheet is not recognized during scanning. The distance between the top of the barcode and the top edge of the paper must be exactly 10 millimeters whilst the middle gap of the barcode must be exactly on the vertical centerline of the page (i.e. the barcode must be horizontally centered). Commands\Menus The Delete command has been added to bookmark and image context (right click) menus:


Information/Messages Thumbnail deletion confirmation has been added. This displays a message which asks if you are sure you wish to delete the selected thumbnail. Annotation deletion confirmation has been added. This displays a message which asks if you are sure you wish to delete the selected annotation.


TrapezePro 3.21

Changes TWAIN scanning support has been improved. Draft image and annotation display has been improved. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Commands\Menus The Save Copy As.. command has been added to the File menu when Trapeze is running within a browser. Control + W has been added as a shortcut for Close.


TrapezePro 3.2

Changes TrapezePro Active Viewer has been renamed TrapezePro and the unlicensed version has been called TrapezeLite. Barcode recognition has been improved. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Commands\Menus Minimum width has been added to the Barcode Preferences (found in Edit\Preferences\Barcodes\Minimum Width:

Job Separator Detection Software job separator detection has been added to scanning. This means that TrapezePro can detect job separator sheets and not is not reliant on the type of scanner used. Measuring Angle measurement has now been added to the measuring capabilities of TrapezePro. Using

the Measurement Tool , click on the starting point of the measurement. Measure the length of the line to be measured and click at the turning point. Move to the finish point. In the Measurement pop-up box, the angle between the 2 lines will displayed.

Authentication OTTP authentication has been added (both Basic and NTLM).


TrapezePro Active Viewer 3.1

Changes Code 128 barcode recognition has been improved. Support for PNG images has been improved.

Features Job Separators Job Separators with barcodes has been added to scanning. This setting is used if the scanner (hardware) is to detect job separator sheets with barcodes, in a batch scan. Bar coding on job separator sheets enables TrapezePro to automatically create bookmarks as per the barcode naming.


TrapezePro Active Viewer 3.0

Changes Onstream Trapeze has been renamed TrapezePro Active Viewer. Thumbnail page numbers and bookmark indicators have been added. Support has been added for Exif file containing JPEGS. The Pasteboard functionality has been completed implemented. OTTP billing (using Highwire) has been extensively enhanced. Canceling downloading an OTTP document before the data is completely received has

been enhanced. A current page download will be cancelled immediately when the user moves to a different page in the document.

A Properties option has been added to the thumbnail pane context menu (displays the properties of the selected thumbnail).

Annotation and rectangle selection and measuring on grey images has been improved. 16 bit per pixel image support has been added.

Features Barcodes TrapezePro Active Viewer provides the ability to find and annotate barcodes within document pages. Preferences are available to enhance the barcode detection process. To find barcodes select the page to search on for barcodes. From the Edit menu, select Find barcodes. A Find Barcodes information box will be displayed with the results. Click OK and the found barcodes will be automatically annotated. Deleting Thumbnails The ability to delete thumbnails has been added to the thumbnail context (right click) menu:


Saving Thumbnails The Save Thumbanils option has been added to the Save Page selection (accessed by

right clicking on the thumbnail or image) giving the user the option of saving (or not) the thumbnail of an image.

Bookmarks TrapezePro Active Viewer now provides the ability to display Page Numbers in the bookmarks. This is a preference setting in Edit\Preferences\Bookmarks\Show Page Numbers:

This feature allows a dynamically formatted label to be added to the bookmark text (Page Number Text).


Commands\Menus The Find command has been added to the Edit menu:

This allows the bookmarks to be searched. Choosing this option displays a find dialog which allows the user to choose the required search criteria.

The Save Changes option has been added to the Thumbnail preferences found in the Edit menu. This option will save changed thumbnails (e.g. a thumbnail created from a selection of the image or generated missing thumbnails) to the tiff file when you exit or save the file. It is NOT enabled by default.


A Stop Opening Page command has been added to the Page menu

This allows the user to cancel downloading a large image. LZW has been added to the thumbnail compression types. This can be set using the Edit\Preferences\Thumbnails\Compression drop down list:

A Select Gray button has been added to the File Types dialog (Edit\Preferences\File Types. This button is used to select those partially associated file types (sometimes resulting from a previously used application ‘taking’ the association from Trapeze. Control + Insert and Shift + Insert have been added as shortcuts for Cut and Paste respectively.


Onstream Trapeze 2.14

Changes Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed. Error messaging has been improved. Support for V4 and V5 bitmaps has been added. The saving action has been improved.

Features Commands\Menus The numeric keypad +/- has been added as context keys for zoom in and zoom out. F, H, and W have been added as context keys for fit to window, height and width respectively. Note: These keys are active only when the image window has focus (i.e. by clicking on the image).



Changes Support for TIFF orientations 1, 3, 6, 8 has been added. Support for reading YcbCr TIFF images has been added. Support has been added for reading uncompressed planar RGB TIFF images. Support for reading 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 bit TIFFs has been added. Support for LZW compressed separated (CYMK) TIFF images has been added. Support for reading packbits compressed separated (CYMK) TIFF images has been added. PNG reading support has been added. CCITT decompression has been improved. Support has been added for OTTP document titles. Dialog box layout has been improved. Support for reading Watermark annotations has been added. Progress indication of various operations has been improved. Bitmap support has been improved. Annotation functionality has been improved. MS61 scanning support has been improved. TWAIN scanning support has been improved. Billing support has been added. Control + G context key has been added for Go To Page command. Various bugs in previous versions have been fixed.

Features Commands\Menu The Toolbar menu has been added:

This menu contains the following tools: Dragging tool Zoom In tool Zoom Out tool Rectangle Selection tool Zoom Area tool Measurement tool Calibration tool Annotation Selection tool Hollow Rectangle Annotation tool Filled Rectangle Annotation tool Text Annotation tool Straight Line Annotation tool Arrow Annotation tool Line Annotation tool The Tool menu has also been added with all of the tools mentioned included. The tool which has been selected will be ticked:


Page Navigation buttons have been added to the scroll bars of the image pane. These allow navigation to the Next\Previous Page . The central button is the Go To Page button which allows quick navigation to a certain page within a documents. File Type preferences has been added to the Edit\Preferences menu. This allows the user to choose file type is to be associated with Onstream Trapeze. Included are: Bitmap images JPEG images OTTP documents PCX images PNG images TIFF documents Trapeze documents. Read only documents can be modified for Save As” option has been added to the Edit\Preferences\Documents preferences:


This option allows read-only documents to be modified e.g. annotations added, and then saved with another name. Internet preferences have been added to the Edit\Preferences menu


Measuring Measuring preferences have been added to the Edit\Preferences menu:

Annotations Line annotations have been added. These are found in the Tool menu:

The default annotation text has been changed to Arial.

Straight line annotation tool

Arrow annotation tool

Line annotation tool


Printing The ability to print line annotations has been added. “Use entire printable area” print option has been added to the Options on the Print dialog. This will print the selected image over the entire area available to print on:

Also implemented on this dialog was the Automatic sizing for some print option styles.

Automatic sizing


ODMA ODMA Document Management System selection has been added at ODMA startup and in the Edit\Preferences menu.

Scanning An About button has been added to the Scanning dialog. This displays information about any scanner driver found by Onstream Trapeze:


Scanning preferences with the ability to close TWAIN drivers between scans has been added to the Edit\Preferences menu:



Features This version of Onstream Trapeze is the first general release. Support for BI_RLE4 and BI_RLE8 compressed bitmap files has been added. Support has been added for GIF images. Support has been added for CMYK TIFF images. Support for G4 and LZW compression has been added. Support for G32D has been added. Support for G3, G4, Modified Huffman and bilevel uncompressed compression has been added. Support for G3 and Modified Huffman compression has been added. Support for JPEG compression has been added. JPEG handling has been improved. Inverted rotation icons have been added Double clicking the bookmark folder opens the first page in the folder. Document properties has been added by right clicking on the document displayed. Support has been added for copying rotated/inverted images to the clipboard. These can then be pasted into another Windows application in this format. Icons have been added to the list of scanners drivers Onstream Trapeze finds. DDE support has been added. “All Image Files” has been added to the Open dialog file type. Document preferences has been added to the Edit\Preferences menu. Thumbnails The Generate Selected Thumbnails menu item has been added to the Thumbnail menu. Pasteboard The Pasteboard functionality has been implemented. ODMA ODMA support has been added – this allows the use of Onstream Trapeze with other Document Management Systems. ODMA preferences have been added to the Edit\Preferences menu. Commands\Menu The New Bookmark Folder command has been added to the bookmark context menu

. The right click menu has been added to the Trapeze window.


Bookmark Locater has been added to the Page menu. This locates, in the bookmarks, the page which is displayed in the Image Pane.

This command has also been added to the context (right click) menu in the Image Pane. Compression preferences have been added to the Edit\Preferences menu:


Measuring The ability to choose the unit of measurement has been added to the measurement pop-up box.

Magnification The magnification pop-up box has been added

Overview The Overview pop-up box has been added.


Image Pane Positioning The positioning of the Image Pane within the Onstream Trapeze application window can be changed according to the user’s personal preference. This can be done by positioning the mouse pointer over the dividing frame between the Thumbnail Pane and the Image Pane (the pointer will change to a double vertical line with left and right arrows). Double click the left mouse button. The position of the Image Pane is then changed to be below the Bookmark and Thumbnail panes.

Appending Files The Insert/Append Paste commands have been implemented in the Page menu:

This allows the user to paste in an image which has been copied from another image. Append/Insert Files commands found in the Page menu supports multiple files.


Saving The Save Selection command has been added to the File menu. This allows the user to save a selection of an image as a new image. The user has the options of saving the bookmarks of a selection and deleting the selection after saving. These are available on the Save Selection dialog:

The Save As action updates the Recent Files list found in the File menu. Scanning Double sided scanning options have been implemented.

Scan New button has been added to the tool bar Annotations Annotation editing has been added using the Annotation tool and the Annotation

Selection tool . The ability to print annotations has been added to the Print Options dialog (Options button found on the Print dialog):


Support for reading Imaging annotations has been added.


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