Product Releases

New Features

• Association Improvements
  • A new association algorithm has been implemented that significantly improves the compare without the need to constantly tweak the input flow settings.
• Automatic paragraph and flow detection improvements (DD-15)
• Option added to create multiple report types at the same time (DD-14)
  • Users no longer need to run the application twice to get multiple output reports.
• Option added to get extra information regarding paragraphs and associations (DD-34)
• User can set the default resource directory (DD-37)
  • User no longer needs to manually set the custom resource directory when creating new projects.
• Enable Paragraph splitting association by default for new projects (DD-74)
  • Paragraphs that have been split into another column do not show as a difference for new projects.
• Option added to ignore blank or invisible text items (DD-103)
  • Assists with isolating important differences.
• Remember the last zoom setting (DD-148)
  • User no longer needs to set a zoom each time they open the application.
• Scroll click now moves the page two-thirds of the visible page (DD-149)
• Name of project file matches Control data file name (DD-150)
• Flow sections now have an option to include the Stop Trigger text item (DD-30)
• Support for MS Word documents
  User can now compare differences in DOC and DOCX formats.

New Features

• Redesign of OKVC
  • Better support for Page Resynchronization Rules within reordered documents.
• Suppress Text Elements
  • The user can now suppress text items that meet a specific criteria. The suppressed items will not be part of the association or compare.
  • This feature will allow users to ignore text items created with a font height or size of zero. Or text items drawn with a white colour.
• Suppress Report Summary and Report Statistics from output PDF Report
  • The user can now optionally prevent the report statistics page and report summary page from being added to the output PDF report.
• Comments, No-Ops and TLEs will be associated even if the order of the elements are different
  • This provides an easier way for the user to detect differences in the Non-Visual items as they are now associated (even if the order in the data file is not the same)
• Ignore Font in Space Character when Combining Strings
  • In some cases, the space character is drawn with a different font, which prevents text items from being combined. The user can optionally ignore the font for spaces when combining text.
• Font Type Identification improvement
  • Font analysis will now detect if a font is embedded or referenced and will display a difference accordingly
  • For PDF/A or PDF/UA compliance the user needs to ensure that the fonts are embedded. The application will display a difference if the font has changed to be referenced.
• Option to Ignore Invisible Graphics when Visual Verification is enabled
  • Graphic items marked as “Invisible” were suppressed when Visual Verification was enabled. In some cases, visible graphics were incorrectly labeled as “invisible” and the differences were ignored form the compare. The user now has the option to disable this feature.
• OKVC can use TLEs and Special Fields as an input
  • When creating OKVC rules, then non-visual elements like TLEs and Special Fields can be used.

New Features

Trigger Enhancements

• Regular Expressions or Text Masks
• Use the Font Name instead of the text value
• Use the Page Number to trigger – like the first page of the file

Make Association and Break Association optimizations

• A trigger condition will be created automatically when dragging paragraphs. This makes creation of the rules much easier when several paragraphs need to be changed.

Postscript Input

• Postscript text compare can now be performed.

PCL Input

• PCL text compare can now be performed.

PDF Output Report

• A PDF report can be created with a side-by-side view.

Ignore Angled Watermarks

• The user can optionally ignore angled text usually used for watermarks.

Enable/disable Autorotate

• The user can disable the auto-rotate feature and set a hard-coded rotation for the data.

Flow Enhancements

• Major flow and association enhancements have been made to allow the application to better detect paragraphs and other items. Existing projects will not be affected by these changes, but new project will use the new flow method.

Automatic DocID

• Document ID automatically defined for files with less than 30 pages (this can be configured).

Check Font Styles

• Check only the font style (Bold, Italic or Underline) instead of all font attributes.

Overlapping Line Support

• Option to reduce the bounding box to handle scenarios with overlapping lines.

Default Trigger Naming

• When creating a trigger, by default the name of the trigger is the first 15 characters of the text value.

Set Project Setup Location

• Option to set a different location for the project setup and parameter files.

• Visually compare individual image pixels
• Merge page now appears in a separate middle pane
• Trigger on an empty page
• Easier OKVC rule setup
• API to integrate the batch compare
• Regular expressions for non-visual elements
• Custom DPI for side-by-side PDF difference report
• Compare clipping regions in PDF or Postscript data

• Improved Flow logic to better identify paragraphs
• Colour identification of different metadata elements
• Specify output file name on command line regardless of the document name
• Automatic URL detection

• Easily transform your high volume customer facing documents into compliant User Accessible (UA) documents on demand
• Visually setup templates without any scripting
• Improved Flow logic to better identify paragraphs
• Automatic detection of table rows and columns
• Performance improvements

• Improved Flow as Paragraph Association
• Override Associations (Make or Break an association)
• Define Layouts to group data
• Restricted Flow Areas (Only compare within a specific area)
• Touched/Contained setting for Flow and Association rules
• Linux platform support

• Easily transform your high volume customer facing documents into compliant User Accessible (UA) documents on demand
• Visually setup templates without any scripting

• Added comparison of Postscript printing options and stapling
• Added AFP tray number to Print Options
• Ability to use an image as trigger value for Page Sync and Document Identifiers
• Detail Difference window is now non-modal

• Complex Trigger Support
• Font Comparison and Acceptance
• Import/Export of Settings and Rules
• Mask Area/Section during Comparison

• CDP is currently working with a few companies prior to General Availability. If you are willing to be a reference contact CDP for more information.

• Enhanced AFP DS Output Support
• File Input Type Overrides
• NOP Encoding Overrides
• External Resource Scanning Configuration

• Required Change Rule for Non-visual elements
• Enhanced Rule Selections
• File Input Type Recognition enhancements
• Region Shift Compare enhancements

New patch 1 of ADEPT Suite 3.16 is released.

New patch 1 of STREAMdiff 3.1 is released.

• AFPDS Output Support
• Project Support for Absolute or Relative paths

• Document Flow Comparison
• Dockable Windows/Screens
• Browser Based Reports

• Enable / Disable Rules
• Project Support for Absolute or Relative paths
• Enhanced Command Line options
• Enhanced Graphics Association

New patch 1 of ADEPT Suite is released.

New Patch 1 of STREAMdiff 3.0 is released.

• Advanced Search
• Mandatory Indexing
• Enhanced Automatic Font Mapping

• Paragraph Compare
• Advanced Compare Filters
• Advanced Tolerances
• Character Acceptance
• Association Filters

New Patch 1 of STREAMdiff 2.14 is released.

• Enhanced Graphics Engine
• AFP Color Override
• Enhanced PCL font encoding
• Enhanced Font Mapping

• Region Compare
• Global Acceptance
• Ordered Key Value Compare – Multiple Key values

• Enhanced Font Mapping
• Indexing and Triggering Enhancements

New patch 1 of STREAMdiff 2.13 is released.

• Ordered Key Value Compare
• Required Changes – Mandatory
• White Space Management
• Masks and Regular Expressions

New patch 2 release of ADEPT Suite 3.12 is announced.

New patch 1 release of ADEPT Suite 3.12 is announced. 

New patch 1 of STREAMdiff 2.12 is released. 

• Enhanced resource scanning
• Enhanced PCL processing

• Batch Comparison support on Linux
• Enhanced project setup capabilities
• Expanded Comparison Tolerances

CDP Communications announces plans for the localization of STREAMdiff in the 4th quarter.

• AFP Type 1 font pass through
• AFP PDF Container support
• Enhanced PCL support for tray assignments and comments

New patch 1 release of STREAMdiff 2.11 is announced. 

New patch 1 release of ADEPT Suite 3.10 is announced.

• Support added for z/OS and Redhat
• Enhanced extraction capabilities for TLEs and Comments
• AFP BC:OCA support
• PDF/A support

• Provide ability to define Required change rules
• Filter comparisons for text, graphics and images
• Side-by-Side Detailed Difference reports

New Features

• Acceptance Rules for Non-Visual Elements
  • The user can now create acceptance rules for non-visual elements like Indexes, Comments and Printing Options
• Enhanced Trigger Logic
  • The trigger logic has been enhanced to allow the user to set “When value has changed” for a trigger condition when creating an acceptance rules
  • The user is now able to use non-visual elements (indexes or comments) as a trigger value.
  • The user is now able to use images as a trigger value.
• Auto-rotate
  • Automatic rotation of pages to allow the user to compare data files that have different rotations and orientations.
• Project Locking
  • The application will now prevent multiple users from working on the same projects.
• Halftone Rendering
  • Configuration setting added to allow the user to modify the contrast of the pages displayed in the Viewer.
• Memory Management
  • Configuration settings added to allow the user to modify the memory cache policy for pages and resources.
• Ignoring PDF Font Prefixes
  • Configuration setting added to ignore PDF font prefixes. This will allow for a better comparison between PDF files that contain subset fonts that have a font prefix added to the font name.
• Font Substitution Policy
  • Referenced fonts in PDF and Postscript input files can now be mapped to a Type 1 font. This will provide better fidelity when the pages are displayed in the Viewer.

New Features

• Search Across Pages
  • Associate and accept differences caused by data moving to another page
• Difference Marker changes
  • Display difference markers on both Control and Test page on screen
    • Easier to identify differences on the control and test pages
  • Display the individual characters that are different (instead of the entire word/phrase)
    • Easier to identify the exact differences
• Performance Increase
  • Speed improvements of the compare.
• Partial CID font support
  • Able to display CID fonts
    • Based on results returned from extensive testing of known CID font data sets – these sets of data, may not be a complete set, as there may be CID font sets unknown and thereby untested at time of release
  • Able to compare CID fonts
    • Based on results returned from extensive testing of known CID font data sets – these sets of data, may not be a complete set, as there may be CID font sets unknown and thereby untested at time of release
  • However, we will only be able to report the differences in the Western/Latin characters (Asian characters will display as ??? in the detail difference list)
• Support for PDF files with custom encoding
  • The detail difference list will now show the correct text.
• Text search
  • Look for an account number, customer name or any other text in the control or test pages
• Start Pages
  • Users are not required to start the compare at page one anymore. They can set the start page for the control and test file.
• New input types
  • AFP Line-data and Text (Line-data) input.
• Acceptance Rules Tool Tip
  • Users can now see what attributes were used to create the acceptance rules (what is being accepted).

• Compare Non-Visual Elements
  • Compares TLE’s, No-ops and Printing Options for AFP, Xerox and PCL.
• Measurement Units
  • Select different units for comparison (inches, cm, original printer pels, etc).
• PDF Report Enhancements
  • Added a banner page, color highlights for differences and a report statistics page
• Xerox Settings
  • There is now a drop down list containing all JSL’s and JDE’s for a file for selection when setting up a Xerox report.
• Input Settings
  • Job Setup now has the ability to select multiple resource directories.
• PCL
  • PCL is now added for comparison purposes.  However, not all PCL types are supported with STREAMdiff.  PCL will only be licensed by request.
• Job Setup
  • No longer opens automatically when there is no further information to be added by the user for a particular data type.
• Saving Acceptance Rules
  • Importing and Exporting Acceptance Rules & Saving “Global Acceptance” Rules to a template (Global Templates).
• Command Line Parameters
  • Added new parameters for the Batch and Viewer.
• Masking
  • Allows the user to select an area on the page and the elements in that area will not be compared.
• Highlighting Acceptance Rules
  • Allows you to highlight any, all or none of the acceptance rules with a project file.
• Xerox Input Data Support Enhancements
  • Added 2 byte record format for Xerox data streams, VAR_2I and VAR_2X.
• Page Re-synchronization
  • Has been removed from Project Settings. It now automatically turns on if a Page Re-synchronization or Document Identifier rule is created.
• Viewer
  • The page will re-center on a difference when it is selected in the detail difference list.
• Page Progress Messages for the Viewer and in the batch application have been added.

• Combining segmented words and phrases
  • If the input data is character position that results in individual characters been shown in the differences list. The user now has the option to join the characters into words and words into phrases.
  • If the control data file and test data file were generated differently (i.e. control was word positioned and the test was character positioned), the application will no longer find differences with broken text string.
• Creating a PDF report of the differences
  • The user can create a PDF report showing the differences in the data file
• Page Report – selecting only specific differences on the page
  • The user can create a PDF report for the current page by choosing only those differences to include.
• Color for accepted attributes in Detail Difference Window
  • The application will now show all accepted attributes in green in the Detail Difference Window. Attributes in grey are those that are not compared, attributes in red are flagged as differences, and attributes in black are those that contain no differences.
• Generate a report during the batch process
  • The batch application can generate a report at the end of processing. The report type (text file or PDF file) can be configured.
• Only those pages with differences included in text or PDF report
  • Only those pages with differences will be included in the text or PDF report.
• Visual Verification for Graphics and Images
  • Bitmap comparison for graphics and/or images can now be done.
• Ignore Differences Caused by Spaces
• Compare Text Strings By Hostcode or Unicode
  • Allow the user to chose whether to compare data by the binary values in the data file, or by the translated values shown on the screen.
  • Useful when the two data files were created with different encodings (created by different composition packages)
• Page Size Tolerance
  • The user has the ability to ignore differences in the page size if the difference is less than the specified tolerance.
• Configurable Semantic Search
  • Greater flexibility when associating text strings from the control and test data file.
• Show All Forms in data file
  • The user has the option to list all the forms in the data file. Any data from these forms can be ignored during the compare.
• Highlighting Strings
  • The user has the option to display a box around each text element in the data file.
  • Additionally, the user can choose to highlight only those elements that do not exist on the associated control or test file.
• Trigger Tolerances
  • The use can specify tolerances on trigger conditions to handle those cases when the text shifts slightly from page to page.