What's new in 360Works Scribe 1.43
Dec 16, 2014
- Full support for Perform Script on Server (PSOS), FileMaker Server 13 feature
- 64-bit support for all plugin deployments
- Various fixes and improvements
New in 360Works Scribe 1.41 (Apr 24, 2014)
- Improved index reading for unicode characters
- Fixed trailing characters/words in index file
- Added support for checkboxes in PDF files
New in 360Works Scribe 1.401 (Sep 24, 2013)
- 64-bit plugin now included for use with Custom Web Publishing in FMS 12
- New error reporting features in plugin
- Compatible with Java 7 update 25
- Fixed support for cells in Excel formatted as 'percentage' using ScribeDocReadValue
New in 360Works Scribe 1.3.1 (Jul 12, 2012)
- Fixed packaging issue introduced in Scribe 1.3. This affected ScribeDocSaveFile() function
New in 360Works Scribe 1.3 (Jun 19, 2012)
- Added support for inserting carriage returns into Word documents
- Added support in ScribeFileAsText function for Pages and Keynote ('08, '09)
New in 360Works Scribe 1.27 (Apr 5, 2012)
- FileMaker Pro and Server 12 compatibility release.
- If replaceText is null when calling ScribeDocSubstitute, use an empty string instead of generating an error (searchText is still required)
- Fixed ability to replace a placeholder with an empty string using ScribeDocReplace
- Fixed text boxes being kept in tact
- Fixed ability to pull symbols in using ScribeFileAsText with .docx files
- Fixed a bug with incompatible characters in filename
- ScribeDocReplace now replaces "simple field" types in Word Documents (these are merge fields created by some versions of Word)
- Now extracts the name of attached files out Outlook .msg files
- Fixed problem extracting from filenames with Japanese characters
New in 360Works Scribe 1.262 (Jan 13, 2012)
- Fixed corrupt files being produced on Windows after multiple documents use ScribeDocSubstitute
New in 360Works Scribe 1.26 (Dec 9, 2011)
- Fixed loss of formatting with .xlsx files with ScribeDocWriteValue
- Fixed loss of formatting with .docs files with ScribeDocSubstitute
- Fixed loss of formatting with .docx files with Content Control Fields and ScribeDocWriteValue
- Fixed "flatten" flag to work on ScribeDocSaveContainer
- Added ability to retrieve PDF metadata: author, creation date, mod date, creator, producer, subject. Functionality is available in ScribeDocReadValue function.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.25 (Sep 28, 2011)
- Fixed two bugs introduced in 1.23:
- When doing a find and replace on a PDF file, you get a NullPointerException when saving the changes if you don't specify a 'flatten' parameter.
- ScribeHighlight function doesn't appear to work, because the default highlight color was plain black text
New in 360Works Scribe 1.22 (Aug 17, 2011)
- Correctly reads values with superscripts and other formatting from Word documents.
- Date format is preserved when writing dates to a pdf.
- Reading a non-existent Excel cell returns an empty string instead of an error.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.2 (Mar 31, 2011)
- Added ScribeDocInsertCustomXml function for advanced users to write XML text directly into the Microsoft Office XML format.
- You can now remove a formula in Excel by overwriting it
- In Excel, newly created cells pick up the style of the row in which they are created.
- Fixed a bug where ScribeDocSaveFile failed on Windows when writing to a path supplied by a FileMaker get function, like Get(DesktopPath) or Get (TemporaryPath)
- Added an optional parameter to ScribeFileAsText to skip unrecognized files. Without this parameter, unrecognized files have their entire contents returned.
- Now supports tab stops when replacing text in Word .docx files.
- Fixed a problem in Excel when overwriting numeric cells with text values
- Reading numeric values from Excel no longer applies formatting such as percentages, just returns the number value back to FileMaker.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.142 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Fixed "Unbalanced Save/Restore state operators" error that some users may have received when calling ScribeDocSave.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.141 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Fixed highlighting with ScribeHighlight, which was returning an error.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.14 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Fixed issues with Auto-Update on Mac and Windows.
- Plugins prior to this version will need to be removed from the Auto-Update directory, we've put together an applet to take care of this http://www.360works.com/remove-plugins/.
- Perviously, FileMaker needed to be restarted after Auto-Update on Mac, and on Windows the update had to be performed manually in some cases; this update takes care of both issues.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.12 (Jan 21, 2011)
- Issue was resolved that was only allowing one plug-in at a time to load on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Logging is now consolidated to a single log file for all 360Works plug-ins. This should make it easier to report issues to 360Works, and will also significantly reduce the amount of disk space used when running multiple 360Works plug-ins on FileMaker Server.
- Scribe can now write images stored in container fields or SuperContainer into PDF forms
- Scribe can now extract text from Outlook .msg files
- Now supports reading .xlsx and .xls documents from a network URL
- Fixed a bug where documents read from a network URL were being cached instead of reloaded
- Better, more user-friendly error reporting
- Now supports tabs when extracting text, no longer double-spaces new paragraphs
- Numerous other bug fixes
New in 360Works Scribe 1.11 (Jan 21, 2011)
- When extracting text from .docx files, now respects tabs, inserts one return instead of two for paragraphs.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.1 (Jan 6, 2011)
- New feature: ScribeDocWriteValue can now write images to PDF forms (only for PDF, not Word)
- New feature: Now extracts message headers from Outlook .msg files
- New example: Now includes example script showing how to use ScribeDocWriteValue
- Bug fix: when reading .xls files from a URL; they were being treated as .xlsx instead.
- Bug fix: reading older .xls files, in some cases they were being treated as .xlsx XML files
- Bug fix: When extracting text from a URL, it was caching that result instead of reloading
- Bug fix: Reading older .xls files broke on Mac OS X 10.6.5, this is now fixed
New in 360Works Scribe 1.02 (Aug 24, 2010)
- ScribeDocValue now works with Content Controls inside table cells.
- ScribeDocSubstitute now works on text inside Content Controls and table cells.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.01 (Aug 24, 2010)
- Fixed a problem reported running in German / Windows OS.
New in 360Works Scribe 1.0 (Aug 6, 2010)
- Improved documentation
- PDF fields are now returned in the order in which they appear
- Excel documents now return numeric values for getText() and getIndex() - was previously only returning string values
- Fixes to reading percentage and formatted fields from Excel
- Added a ScribeDocSaveContainer field to simplify saving back to a container field
- Better error reporting when trying to read fields from old non-XML office docs