FlexPaper 2.4.2 Release Notes

5 January 2016

We hope all of you had a excellent christmas. Here is this month’s upcoming update. It is mainly focused around stability around our new creative publisher with a few new enhancements and improvements for Zine. 

Zine and the Creative Publisher will be rolled out first and Classic will follow by the end of the week. Have a excellent end of your christmas season and a very happy new year!

Significant changes in this release:

  • Various fixes for IE8 when running fixed layout in Elements (Elements)
  • New event added to Classic & Zine “onPasswordNeeded” which is fired when a pdf that is opened requires a password.
  • Stopped fade animations from stacking and made zooming in using mouse wheel render faster (Zine)
  • Improved pinch/zoom/pan support for Android in Elements static mode (Elements)
  • Added page flip as option to our flat Adaptive viewer (Elements)
  • Disabled scroll bar while pinching on in FlexPaper Classic on Android to avoid scrolling while pinching (Classic)
  • Improved automatic link detection for Adaptive (Elements)
  • Undo/Redo added to Desktop Publisher (Elements)
  • Fixed an issue where high res zooming on mobile devices would cause the page to turn white on some PHP GD configurations (Zine)
  • Added a bit of bottom margin in cases where the thumbnails are not visible to allow bottom border to be visible (Zine)
  • Upgraded to Atom Electron 0.36.1 (Desktop Publisher)
  • Changed search input text field to use input type search for Elements (Elements)
  • Search will now close if clicking outside of search box. Will reopen once clicked again (Elements)
  • Fixed an issue where ’#’ in the pdf file name would cause the publisher to fail to open a document (Publisher)
  • Fixed an issue where switching working directory wasn’t possible (Publisher)
  • Fixed a feature detection issue causing IE to use 3D transitions incorrectly in version 11 and below (Elements)
  • Updated the Desktop Publisher to use native OSX routines for splitting the PDF in case PDFTk isn’t installed (Publisher)
  • Switched to a different font fallback routine for EOT fonts in FlexPaper Elements which speeds up processing and stability (Elements)
  • Signing & encryption added to the new desktop publisher (Desktop Publisher)
  • Zine now automatically adjusts two-fold publications in single file mode (Zine)
  • Fixed an issue where some events were not correctly bound past page 20 in Zine due to incorrect use of garbage collector (Zine)
  • Issue fixed where Flip-SinglePage wasn’t showing the thumbnails properly and where the document was slightly mispositioned (Zine)
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to navigate to the very last page using Flip-SinglePage for some specific scenarios (Zine)
  • Fixed an issue where the search result wasn’t highlighting words properly in Flip-SinglePage mode (Zine)
  • Improvements to automatic link detection when links are broken into segments (Elements)