This Readme document contains information about the installation of this package and about restrictions in support of IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14 iFix 5
Readme for: IBM Daeja ViewONE
Product or component release: Version 5.0.14
Update name: iFix 5
You must have IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14 installed.
Before you install IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14 iFix 5:
IBM Daeja ViewONE, 5.0.14 iFix 5 is provided as a compressed file containing the files that are needed to update Version 5.0.14 for all supported platforms.
To install this package:
As this package contains all the files required for all platforms, you can remove the files that are included for platforms that are not relevant to your environment. Change to the server/WEB-INF/lib directory under the Daeja ViewONE installation directory and delete the platform specific jars that are not relevant.
There are platform specific jar files:
Make a backup of the Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 files in the relevant locations in your web application server. For the server files that will be the web application's WEB-INF/lib directory. For the client, it will be where the package client files were copied to. For example v1files directory in the web application.
Note:
To upgrade to iFix 5, please ensure that both the client and the server are updated.
Ensure browser cache is deleted after IBM Daeja ViewONE is upgraded.
If you want to remove the iFix 5 from your installation and revert back to the original 5.0.14 version, you need to replace the files in you installation directories with the backed up files, then copy the files into the correct places in your web application server.
If you use the IBM Daeja ViewONE Version 5.0.14 uninstallation program to remove IBM Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 and the iFix 5 from your system, then some of the files may be left on your file system and you will need to remove them manually.
IBM Daeja ViewONE comes with a Toolkit rich in capabilities that enables advanced integration and customization of the viewer by using HTML parameters and JavaScript API methods. For more information on the developer’s guide refer to:
IBM Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 Virtual Developer's Guide
IBM Daeja ViewONE, Version 5.0.14, provides the following new features:
CSDV-61 Removal of vulnerable third party component
In this release, the third-party library identified as vulnerable under CVE-2017-9096 is being replaced with an alternative implementation to handle various viewer operations, such as document building, printing, redaction and downloading the document.
For online documentation, see the IBM Daeja ViewONE knowledge center.
The following APARs are fixed in this product release for customers who have direct entitlement to IBM Daeja ViewONE. If you are using IBM Daeja ViewONE made available to you as part of another IBM product, these fixes might not be available immediately. Contact IBM Support for information about IBM products that integrate IBM Daeja ViewONE.
Latest iFixes and readmes for this release: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Enterprise%20Content%20Management&product=ibm/Other+software/Daeja+ViewONE+Virtual&release=5.0.14&platform=All&function=all
DT223190 Microsoft excel document fails to render with an error message
Specific excel document fails to render with an error message 'String index out of range: 0'.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT223199 Unable to render scanned PDF documents
Unable to load PDF documents that contain scanned images. The application shows a loading symbol and shows error in browser console as:
Warning: Unsupported header type 1667523942 (cdef).
Warning: Unsupported header type 1970628964 (uuid).
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT364176 Error message is displayed when opening msg documents having invalid characters
While opening certain msg document, an error is displayed as 'Failed to load document' and document fails to load.
This is due to some invalid characters present in the msg document.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT365202 Some text in the PDF document render as ascii characters
Some of the text in the PDF Document are displayed as ascii characters due to incorrect font mapping.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT387505 Background is missing when creating a solid text annotation for the first time
While drawing a solid text annotation for the first time, background area where annotation rectangle is drawn, is not visible.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT383320 Certain Email(.eml) documents is not rendered completely in the viewer
When opening certain email documents (.eml), only part of the content is displayed in the viewer.
This occurs due to the presence of nested HTML tables within the email document.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT390057 Incorrect page retrieved after saving the page in merge and split mode
In merge and split mode, if a page is cut from one document and pasted into a new document, and the source document is saved before the new document, the pasted pages in the new document will change when it's reloaded after saving.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT390715 Font for some texts in a PDF form is converted to windings font.
English texts in a PDF form renders with windings font when opened in viewer.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT393001 PDF does not display certain digital signature
Some digital signatures are not visible in PDF documents, leaving the designated area blank.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT372260 Unable to open PDF generated by DPU scanner tool
A PDF generated by DPU Scan version 1.5 appears blank when opened.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT393849 Thread hung in Websphere due to wrong usage of URLClassLoader for loading absolute files
Some threads were hungs in Websphere when the application tries to load absolute files or full path files using URLClassLoader.
Hung thread details were logged in the Systemout.log
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT397734 In IBM Content Navigator, certain tiff files are failed to check-in during merge and split process
In IBM Content Navigator, check-in or add document functionality fails for specific tiff files during the merge and split process with error 'Cannot instantiate Java JPEG Encoder: com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec'.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT383354 Microsoft Word Document shows table contents incorrectly
Certain Microsoft Word documents display content incorrectly as follows:
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT386194 Microsoft Word documents having png images are rendered with opaque background
Certain Microsoft Word document that have embedded png images with transparent background are rendered with opaque background.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT386331 Unable to open EML files having invalid base64 content
EML files having dot(.) character in the base64 encoded content fails to parse and results in error as: Unable to display document, Status : Unrecognized file type, Image format not recognized.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT386574 The Microsoft Excel file without an extension fails to open correctly
The Viewer can not identify the file type of the Microsoft Excel file without an extension, which causes the file to not open correctly.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT387388 Background transparency is not maintained for Solid Text Annotation in FileNet Mode
In FileNet mode, if a user sets the background of a Solid Text Annotation to transparent, this setting is not saved, and the text will display without any background
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT389298 Viewer is affected by vulnerabilities CVE-2024-29857 and CVE-2024-23076
CVE-2024-29857 and CVE-2024-23076 are reported on third party libraries in Viewer.
With this fix, BouncyCastle and Jfreechart are updated with appropriate versions to resolve above vulnerabilities.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT389351 Text annotation toolbar gets hidden when the viewer windows is resized to a smaller window
When window size is reduced, the text annotation toolbar is not sized correctly and not all the icons of toolbar are visible.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT390243 Unable to open Word documents containing multiple binary streams
Certain word documents containing multiple binary streams does not open in viewer and results in an 'Unrecognized file type' error
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT270188 PDF Documents containing Extension B characters in form fields print incorrectly when printOriginalSize is unchecked
When 'Extension B characters' are present in the PDF forms and printed with PrintOriginalSize option unchecked, the remaining characters following the 'Extension B characters' are not displayed in the printed document. With the fix, they are skipped and the remaining characters will be displayed in the printed document.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT377886 Unable to display EML files with invalid font family syntax attribute
EML file containing unicode character 0x3 fails to open in viewer.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT378515 Enable font type annotations support for pageN documents
Font selection for text annotation is not possible in PageN documents.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT381213 Custom stamp annotation does not show 'highlight' when it is added to the document
While adding stamp annotation using the custom property annotationStampProperties<N>, the fillcolor property is not working as expected.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT381563 Certain form fields of PDF displays text in wrong font
Certain PDF with native annotations fails to display correct font inside form fields.
To address this, new parameter, enablePdfNativeAnnotation has been added to disable native annotations in PDF document by setting it to false
Note : Default value of this parameter is true which enables native PDF annotations.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT381877 Radio button selection is not displayed appropriately in certain PDF documents
Some radio buttons in the PDF document are not displayed correctly in the viewer. For instance, if a PDF contains multiple groups of radio buttons on a single page, selecting a button in one group prevents selections in other groups.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT382050 Annotations on top of PDF form fields are not editable
When annotations are saved on top of PDF form fields, they are not editable.
NOTE: With this fix, when PDF document contain link annotations, the links can be clicked only after enabling text selection.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT270207 Default behavior of Custom button is not working as expected
With the support for Content Security Policy, the functionality of custom buttons were affected due to incorrect determination of CSP enablement.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT364017 Unable to display EML files with invalid hypertext reference attribute
Specific EML file with invalid hypertext reference attribute, fails to render with an error message.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
DT364993 Footer alignment and table rendering is not correct in specific MS Word documents
Certain MS Word documents displayed incorrect alignment with respect to text and table content alongside the footer image.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29397 SETPAGE() TO THE SAME PAGE DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY WHEN CONTINUOUS PAGE VIEW IS DISABLED
When continuousPageViewEnabled is set to false and the JavaScript function setPage() is called for the same page, the page will not be rendered .
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29423 MISSING CHARACTERS WHEN PRINTING PDF DOCUMENT WITH PRINTORIGINALSIZE OPTION UNCHECKED
When documents are printed without the printOriginalSize option checked, some form fields may not appear due to missing fonts.
Font substitution can be customized by defining the pdfFontSubstitute HTML attribute and specifying the substitute font name.
Note: This is applicable only when parameter PDFfontAliasesSupplied is set to true
Example : pdfFontSubstitute = 'courrier=courier,KozGoPr6N-Medium=mingliu'
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29339 UNABLE TO OPEN A PARTICULAR MSG FILE DUE TO A PARSING ERROR
Specific MSG file with inline expression and also different syntax for certain html attributes, fails to render with an error message.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29361 DISPLAY ISSUE WITH DOCX CONTAINING TABLES AND OTHER FORMATTING
Certain table style, bullets and numbering, table of contents are not displayed correctly in MS Word document.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29376 SCREEN READER DOES NOT PRONOUNCE MANY BUTTON NAMES CORRECTLY
Few buttons do not have proper aria-labels set which makes it difficult to identify using JAWS reader.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29386 ISSUE WHEN RENDERING A MS DOCUMENT (DOCX) FILE WHERE THERE IS A LOGO IN THE HEADER
When a document has huge images such as logos in Header or Footer, entire document content was getting replaced with only the image/logo. Overlapping was very evident between the content and the image.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29403 UNABLE TO OPEN A PARTICULAR EML FILE DUE TO A PARSING ERROR
Specific EML file with invalid row attribute, fails to render with an error message.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO28920 CERTAIN PDF FILES WHEN VIEWED CAUSED BROWSER TO RUN OUT OF MEMORY
With certain PDF Documents, with continuous scroll or navigation, the browser memory reached more than a gigabyte.
This caused the browser to crash if the system memory was less.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO28964 DOCUMENT FAILS TO OPEN WHEN DISPLAY IS NOT SET FOR CUSTOM FONT ANNOTATIONS
When the system lacks configured DISPLAY settings, custom font annotation texts fail to function.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29322 A CERTAIN MS WORD DOCUMENT WITH CHECKBOX CONTENT IS UNRESPONSIVE DURING RENDER
Specific word document with checkbox content, fails to render and shows the spinner for a long time eventually resulting into hung threads.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29342 JAVASCRIPT ERRORS GENERATED IN BROWSER CONSOLE WHEN USING THE GOTO PAGE FEATURE
When goto page feature is used to navigate to different pages, javascript errors are thrown in the browser console.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29356 SPECIFIC MS WORD DOCUMENT CONTENT NOT RENDER AS NATIVE APPLICATION
Some MS Word documents do not render the complete page content table content missing while rendering.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29360 DOCUMENT DOWNLOAD FUNCTION OF VIEWER FAILS FOR A CONTENT MANAGER REPOSITORY
When Content Manager Enterprise Edition is the repository for documents, download function would fail in the viewer. This defect doesn't affect FileNet P8 customers.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29366 SINGLE-PAGE MS WORD FILE DISPLAYS IN MULTIPLE PAGES
Certain single page MS word document erroneously shows as a multi page document in the viewer.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29367 CERTAIN MS WORD DOCUMENT WITH HEBREW DOES NOT RENDER AS EXPECTED
While opening certain MS Word document containing Hebrew text, does not display content as expected.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
IO29368 ISSUE IN VIEWING PROCESSED MS WORD DOCX FILES IN VIEWER
When certain MS Word docx files are opened in viewer, it keeps loading and the page count is observed to be incorrect.
Affected users: IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual users
During print process, when the application is not able to optimize the document for print, it silently switches to fallback print mechanism.
Users will now be notified with a message in the print pop-up when the application is not able to optimize the document and prints using fallback mechanism.
The message reads as:
The document cannot be optimized for print. Printing using fallback mechanism. Preparing File
In this release, a new server-side parameter, tempCacheLocation, has been introduced, allowing users to specify a custom temporary cache location.
Changes to this parameter require an application server restart.
The directory location that is assigned as a value to this parameter should have appropriate read and write permissions from the server where application is running.
This is an optional confiuration. If this value is not provided, the temporary cache will continue to get created inside the app server.
Sample syntax : tempCacheLocation=c:/temp
In this release, PDF documents that contain XFA forms will be displayed with restricted feature capabilities.
Please note that this is a Tech Preview of XFA Support and some functionality may not work as expected
To activate the rendering of these forms, a new HTML parameter, enableXFA, has been introduced, with default value set to false. Setting this parameter to true allows the viewing of XFA forms.
Custom text can now be printed at the bottom of the document page and the positioning of this custom text can be specified. A new parameter printFooter can be used to specify custom text to be printed. We can also specify the alignment of the custom text with the two parameters printHeaderAlign for header text and printFooterAlign for footer text. The parameter can take the following possible values:
left: prints the text in the bottom left of the page.
center: prints the text in the bottom center of the page.
right: prints the text in the bottom right of the page.
The following footer options are available:
Any Text
Custom text to be printed. For example, your own copyright for the documents that are being viewed or some other informational text.
Formatted Text
Text can include limited formatted elements as below.
When parameter printFooter is set to $page # $of ##, first page will display Page 1 of 5 for a document containing 5 pages.
It is to be noted that # will print current page and ## will print the total number of pages.
User can now configure the additional font files location which are required to select the font type in annotation toolbar.
User can generate the font files required for custom annotation font type, using a utility (daeja-font-utility.jar).
Place the utility jar and TTF files of the relevant font under the same directory (for which font files needs to be generated) and execute the jar using the command 'java -jar
Example: java -jar C:/Administrator/Desktop/CustomFonts/daeja-font-utlity.jar
When the font generation is complete, copy the directory path and specify it under the server parameter annotationCustomFonts
Example: annotationCustomFonts = C:/Administrator/Desktop/CustomFonts
Restart the web application server for the addtional fonts to be displayed in the font type dropdown within annotation toolbar.
Download the utility here
Go to the page at Software Product Compatibility Reports to create a high-level report for operating systems, hypervisors and prerequisites.
When printing PDF documents with annotations, the annotations are embedded in the
downloaded PDF document as native PDF annotations. This reduces the time taken
to print documents, especially large documents.
This process currently only applies to printing PDF documents when 'Print Original Size'
is selected in the print settings. If this is not selected or the printed document contains
other file formats, the print process completely flattens the content of each page.
The time it takes to prepare a PDF with annotations for print using the optimized print
depends on the total number of annotations. In most cases you need to have several hundreds
of annotations in a single document before the time difference becomes noticeable.
With the optimized print any annotations created in IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual are embedded
into the document as native PDF annotations. Therefore they are recognized as active annotations
when the PDF is viewed by tools that support editing of PDF documents. If this document is
subsequently viewed by IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual, any annotations will be treated as static
content where loading a document with pre-applied native annotations cannot be edited.
To prevent document or annotation modification appropriate security would need to be set via a
tool that supports editing or via some PDF printers.
Sticky Notes
Sticky Note annotations will appear on top of other annotations regardless of z-order.
Line Width
The maximum line width of native annotations is 12pt and will be limited to this for print output.
Solid Text
If a solid text annotation is set to be semi-transparent the fill background and the text will
become semi-transparent, previous behavior left the text solid and only the fill became
semi-transparent.
Image Stamps
Image stamp annotations will appear underneath any other annotation types regardless of the z-order.
This is due to the fact that they added to the content of the PDF and not as separate native PDF
annotations.
The optimized PDF print does not occur in the following circumstances:
The document will be built with the source document as it is saved in the repository. The document is also built by using the annotations that are saved in the repository, unless annotations have been edited. The following scenarios explain the effects of this behavior:
Result: The document currently displayed in the viewer differs from the newly built document in the system. To prevent this issue occurring, the master document should be locked or checked out when it is retrieved for document builder.
Note Versioned documents will not be affected by this issue. This will only affect situations where the document that a URL refers to has changed.
Result: The document currently displayed in the viewer differs from the newly built document in the system. To prevent this issue occurring, the master document should be locked or checked out when it is retrieved for document builder.
When in document builder mode, the option to restore annotations is not supported. The following scenario explains the effects of this behavior:
Scenario 1:
Result: The user cannot reload the annotations from the server. Newly created annotations and edited annotation edits remain.
To restore any newly created annotations, the user must take the following steps:
When running Daeja ViewONE 5.0.14 as a component inside IBM Content Navigator, the minimum supported version of ICN is 3.0.15, unless stated otherwise by the specific ICN release.
As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support team updates the Support site. By searching the Support site, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.
The following links open queries for IBM Daeja ViewONE documents on the IBM Support site:
Any restrictions and/or limitations of the base or fix pack release and any subsequent ifixes, still apply to this release unless stated otherwise.
For information on the supported file formats refer to the tech note below. Please note that this is a live document and might get updated frequently. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10730429
IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual is designed to support as many file types as possible. However, the product is not able to render every type of file with the same accuracy as native applications, such as Microsoft Word. The flexibility of the viewer can lead to differences in the way that the documents are displayed between the native application and the viewer. The severity of the differences varies depending on the complexity of the file type. In particular, PDF files and Microsoft Office files are difficult to render with complete accuracy in a universal viewer.
For additional information on IE/Edge limitations, refer to the following tech notes:
Excel spreadsheet load times are impacted based on the size and complexity of the Excel document. In order to improve load times, IBM Daeja ViewONE does support tuning capabilities, such as breaking up the Excel document presentation into multiple pages. Please be aware, as this behavior may not be optimal for your end user viewing experience.
After a document is permanently redacted and the user selects Download, they are
normally prompted to save the document with a file name based on the original
un-redacted document. For instance, mypresentation.ppt will default to
mypresentation.tif. In this version the user might be prompted with a filename
such as 41f96b20b97f431ebd4efd85245f1f72.tif instead. The user can still
change the name to something more meaningful.
If a pageN document is open in the viewer, the user cannot switch to document builder mode. The user remains in the edit mode in which the document was opened. The following scenario explains the effects of this behavior:
Scenario 1:
Result: This switch is not permitted and the user will stay in their current mode.
To enter document builder mode, the user must close the pageN document and then switch to document builder mode.
DocN documents are not supported in conjunction with document builder mode. The combination of these features may result in unusual and/or unexpected behavior.
Document builder is able to support TIFF and PDF files with the exception of email attachments. TIFF and PDF files that are attached to emails cannot be used as source files for a new document.
PDF files with access control flags set by the owner of the document cannot be used as a source document for document building where they require a password to view the document or where the owner has indicated that the content may not be copied.
Annotations that have the semi-transparent property set to true, the transparent property set to true and a fill color set can appear to blend the line and fill colors near the edges.
Annotations that have the transparent property set to true and a fill color set to black are not printed transparent for non PDF documents. When printing PDF documents, with 'Print Original Size' selected, these annotations are printed with transparency applied.
UI mirroring is not supported for the bidi languages, Arabic and Hebrew.
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