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PLOSSYS 5.2.1

New Features

  • The preprocessing, processing and postprocessing steps have been revised. Preprocessing consists of the analysis of the input file and the conversion into the metaformat (PDF) which can be processed by PLOSSYS 5. The processing consists of the formatting (scaling, rotation), the rendering (stamping) and the postprocessing (conversion into the format which can be processed by the output device).

  • The waiting status has been replaced by the preprocessing, waitpreprocessing and waitprocessing statuses.

  • For a better performance, the results of the processing steps are kept in the database and are used if a job has to be repeated with the same settings.

  • The seal-pdf2ps, seal-pdfstamp, seal-ps2pdf, seal-router and seal-sapgof services have been replaced by new ones or have become obsolete. They have to be uninstalled manually after the update.

  • For the preprocessing, processing and postprocessing steps, standard flows are provided which can be customized via customer-specific flows and user exits. The customer-specific flows will not be overwritten when updating PLOSSYS 5.

  • Via PLOSSYS CLI, flows can be listed, imported, removed and exported to a file. When being imported, the flows are checked for syntactical correctness.

  • Native queues are available. All jobs send to a native queue are spooled by PLOSSYS 5 without any conversion or other manipulation. A queue becomes a native queue by setting the nativeQueue queue parameter to true.

  • Native jobs are supported. A job becomes a native job by setting the document-format IPP parameter to application/vnd.plossys.native or by setting PLS_PLOTTYPE to NATIVE in the SEAL attributes with IPP or as PostScript property.

  • PostScript input files are only converted into PDF and back to PostScript if the files are generated by Adobe Acrobat and the output is a PCL 6 printer.

  • For a printer failover, more than one URL can be specified in connection with the printer configuration. The URLs has to be separated by blank. If the connection to a URL cannot be established, the next URL is tried.

  • The new versions Ghostscript 9.52 (Build Number 6), PDF Tools 3.5.1.2 and sapgofu2pdf 9.0.6 are contained in delivery.

  • Jobs in the preprocessing status can be canceled, deleted, paused and resumed.

  • When setting the query parameter errorHandling to smart in the LPR connection string, a job will be considered as successful as soon as all data have been sent. A missing ACK from the printer will not result in an error in this case.

  • PostScript files containing a PJL header at the beginning are recognized.

  • In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following new features have been implemented:

    • The framework Angular has been updated to the version 9. In doing so, the dashboard has been revised completely.

    • The user can reset the user interface to the defaults which means, for example, that the default columns are displayed and the column widths are set to the defaults.

    • The user can select which columns are to be displayed, for example, the column displaying the target printer with redirected printers.

    • The texts displayed in the user interface can be customized and new languages can be added.

    • With any printer, a note can be input, for example, when a printer is out of order due to maintenance. The note is displayed in a separate column. A tooltip shows the complete text when hovering over the column. It shows also the user who entered the note and the time when the note was entered.

    • A checkbox is provided for switching on an automatic reload of the printer and job views. The interval can be specified in the user profile individually. Default are 5 seconds.

    • In the job view, a link to the specified printer is provided. When clicking the link, a watch tab is created in the printer view containing the printer.

    • In the printer view, a link to the assigned jobs is provided. When clicking the link, a watch tab is created in the job view containing the jobs.

    • The user-specific settings (for example, the column selection and column widths) are additionally stored on the server so that the user has always the same settings, for example, when using another Web browser.

    • Like in all other columns, wildcards can also be used when filtering the printers.

    • Watch tabs can be created conveniently via context menu in the printer and the job views. Printers and jobs can be add to a watch tab or removed from a watch tab. Watch tabs can also be renamed.

    • The conversion results are provided together with the other job files when downloading the job in PLOSSYS Administrator.

    • Filters in the printer and in the job view can be saved as tabs.

Bug-Fixes

  • jobid and uuid are logged correctly by all services and in all log levels.

  • The bug with the erroneous job count has been fixed.

  • If an error occurs within the conversion, an error message is output and the job is marked as erroneous.

  • In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following bugs have been fixed:

    • The language-specific translations have been added for some new job attributes.

    • The number of jobs waiting for a stopped printer is displayed correctly.

    • The details dialog stays open with the automatic reloading.

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