As I’ve mentioned in other posts, the recent upgrade to ImageRight 5.2 was highly successful, though we did find several bugs and oddities. Most have been resolved with calls to ImageRight support and some, while interesting, just aren’t critical. But I’ve got two tickets open that have been escalated to official defects and are worth noting.
Bug 1: Annotation Wrapping and Resize I’ve mentioned the annotation wrapping issue before and this stems from the new 5.x feature where you can control the ability to wrap and resize annotations on a per-annotation basis. This is no doubt a great feature that adds a lot of flexibility to annotations and stamps.
In our 4.x environment, we have several long annotations that were resized and wrapped to fit specific areas of a page. In 5.2 version, those 4.x “legacy” annotations are no longer wrapped, often spanning off the printable page area. This stems from the fact that the older stamps do not have the “wrap” and “resize” flags activated, something that is controllable whenever you created an annotation in 5.2. Upgrading from 4.x to 5.2 should have automatically defaulted the existing annotations to have those flags, as that is the native behavior of annotations in the older versions.
This will be corrected in the next revision of 5.3, but a hotfix is also expect to be available soon. It's important to note that if a page has an affected annotation and a "new" 5.2 annotation is added to that page, all legacy annotations will be "frozen" and not corrected when the fix is applied.
Bug 2: The Red X – Desktop Can’t Display a Page Image When you see this red X in the viewing window instead of the page you selected from your file, you know you have a problem. The big error message thrown by ImageRight Desktop that can close the application also makes it clear something is amiss.
Turns out some documents can have a DPI issue related to when annotations are placed on a page. As I understand it, some third party import processes can put in images at a different DPI than expected and when annotations are added it makes the 5.2 software unable to load them in the viewer. We’ve had some odd DPI issues in the past that were caused by our small Canon desktop scanners and I suspect these are the same images that are unable to be loaded by the viewer now. We've been able to recreate the issue using the desktop scanners, so this issue is not only a legacy problem, but an ongoing one.
It’s possible to export the page to PDF and view it that way, so there is a temporary work around for viewing the page, but the user can’t annotate the file without printing that PDF copy back in. This may be acceptable in some cases, but the document would then have a disconnect with the annotation history that might not be acceptable.
The fix for this issue is expected in version 5.3.29.1350, but a hotfix is also planned for release.
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