WebGrabber Release Notes 2013 R2.1

Bug

Known Issue

Workaround

340

COM: Remote conversion using a large input string or a large file will occasionally timeout.

The problem is intermittent; for a workaround, please retry the conversion.

1296

Dotted line does not display as expected after conversion.

Use the Internet Explorer engine for this file.

2449

File specific: Native engine: WebGrabber is not able to convert this large file.

Use the Internet Explorer engine for this file.

2545

File specific: When using the Native engine the output PDF has extra horizontal lines.

If the border is moved to inside the div the lines display as expected.

2673

If SetMargins is used, the PDF links converted from hyperlinks are misaligned in the output PDF.

No workaround available.

3128

Native engine: Form fields are missing borders in the output PDF.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

3133

File specific: Native engine: the text at page break is cut off, and becomes more pronounced when SetMargins is used.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

3134

Native engine: When using PreserveTextBoxes set to True or False, Japanese characters inside text areas appear garbled in the output PDF (even when using Unicode).

PreserveTextBoxes does not currently support Unicode characters.

3142

Instead of being deleted during conversion, href links that point to destination anchors create links in the output PDF. These links point to the original HTML page.

Remove anchors and corresponding links prior to conversion. This will be resolved in an upcoming release

3419

Native: COM: When using PreserveTextBoxes set to True or False, the check box, text input, combo box are misaligned in the output PDF.

Use the Internet Explorer engine (the fields will not be editable).

3689

Native engine: The background color style is not completely filling the content background when applied to the HTML body tag.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.
Or
Place all content in a one-cell table, and set a 'background-color' property for the table.

3830

Native engine on a Japanese OS: Japanese characters set using HeaderHTML or FooterHTML do not display as expected in the output PDF.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

3859
3960

Native engine: There are slight differences in character spacing and crispness when certain fonts/character combinations are used.

In cases where font fidelity is a high priority, we recommend using the Internet Explorer engine.

3949

Native engine: When saving the output PDF to UNC paths (Unified Naming Convention; for example: \\mynetworkshare\myfolder\myfile), a -3007 error (failed to download output from the server) is returned.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

3952

Native engine: URL specific: When WebGrabber attempts to convert the URL, it times out.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

3956

Native engine: File specific: Hyperlinks attached to image in the output PDF do not display as expected.

No workaround available.

4007

Internet Explorer engine: If the PaperSize enumerator is set to 0 for a custom page size, the PaperLength and PaperWidth properties cannot be set.

Use the Native engine and its PDFLength and PDFWidth properties as a workaround.

4244

Native engine: On Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012R2, when setting EmbedFlash = 0 (do not attach Flash file), an error is returned when converting an HTML file that contains Flash.

Set EmbedFlash = 1 (attach Flash file).

Or use the Internet Explorer engine.

4258
4268

Native Engine: When converting a file using the font AGaramondPro-Regular.otf, the output file is created properly, but the font is not listed in the PDF document properties.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

4269

Native engine: When using StampBackground set to 1 (place stamp in background) the stamp does not display as expected in the output PDF.

Use the Internet Explorer engine or set StampBackground to 0 (place stamp in foreground).

4345

Native Engine: When using FitToPage with a hard-coded page size of 11 inches, the output file results in a blank page for each page converted.

Fix: Use Internet Explorer engine, or set the page size to 10.8 inches, or turn off FitToPage.

4390

Native engine: Output PDFs are sometimes missing footers.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

4392

Internet Explorer engine: If the text in a header or footer includes an apostrophe, neither the header or footer print.

Replace the apostrophe with two sets of double quotes:
"'"
This displays a single quote in the output.

4414

Although all settings are set to embed fonts, the HelveticaBold font in the source does not fully embed, and the output PDF displays Arial.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

4831

URL specific: A graph does not convert to PDF (using either engine).

No workaround available.

4841

Native engine, URL specific: The web site fails to convert.

Use the Internet Explorer engine.

4847

URL specific: The web site fails to convert using the Internet Explorer engine.

Remove the @page selector in the CSS.

4853

URL specific, Internet Explorer engine Images in the output PDF look blurry.

Use the Native engine.

Bug

Description

Resolution

3976

Native engine: When using FitToPage and text-align: justify, character spacing is inconsistent in the output PDF.

In WebGrabber, the width calculations for strings were updated, using a different model.

4437

Native engine, file specific: Unwanted spacing was added between some characters.

In WebGrabber, the width calculations for strings were updated, using a different model.

4765

File specific, .NET: When using FooterHeight an unknown error occurred and the conversion failed.

This issue has been resolved and the HTML converts to PDF as expected.

4786

When FooterFirstPageHTML was used, the FooterHTML call continued to print the configured footer on the first page.

The footer on the first page now displays as expected.

4818

Windows Server 2012R2: When the group policy was set to display a legal message for users of the remote desktop, the WebGrabber terminal failed to log in the user.

The log-in procedure has been updated, and this issue is resolved.

4829

File specific: When a font size was included with a FooterHTML call, the font size was not applied.

The file included invalid style scripting.

To configure the font size when calling FooterHTML, use this format:

WG.FooterHTML = "<div style='font-size: 8pt'>This is the footer text.</div>"

4850

When using Microsoft Internet Information Services and HTMLTextToFile was called, the path to the text file was wrong.

This has been corrected, and the correct file path is now used.

10087

When the source HTML contained double spaces or <span> elements, the output PDF contained characters that were shifted to the left, which resulted in overlapping text.

In WebGrabber, the width calculations for strings were updated, using a different model.

ID

Incident

What to do

1313

After conversion, the first and second pages have different spacing at the top of their pages.

Adjust the HTML code for body style:

<body style="margin-top:-4px;">

3430

Native: When FitToPage is set to True, data such as radio buttons, text, and dropboxes on the page break are split between Pages 1 and 2 in the output PDF, instead of displaying on either Page 1 or Page 2.

This is by design. FitToPage instructs WebGrabber to force the content into a specified page size, regardless of right margin or page breaks. The workaround is to set FitToPage to False.

3779

When using the Internet Explorer engine, dynamic Google charts in the source file are missing in the output PDF.

Use the WaitBeforePrinting property to set enough time for the charts to load.

Note: If you are converting a local file ("file:///xxxxx") on your computer system, follow these steps to configure Internet Explorer to allow active content to run in local files:

·         In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet Options > Advanced

·         Scroll down to Security and and check:
Allow active content to run in files on My Computer.

4222

File specific: Using the SetMargins and FitToPage properties together, the output PDF does not display as expected.

Comment: The HTML file has fixed width tables which cause text to be cutoff when using FitToPage and SetMargin.

Instead of applying a width to a table, wrap it in a div and set a width to the div element.

Or set margins to 0, 0, 0, 0.

4436

When logging in remotely using Internet Explorer 9 or later, conversion attempts fail.

Internet Explorer 9 and later requires the user to be logged in to create files.

To be granted file creation permission, reboot the remote machine and log in as the WebGrabber Internet Explorer user.

4837
10107

Native engine: The SSL 3.0 Protocol used with the native engine may be vulnerable to the POODLE attack.

When using the native engine, you may now select the SSL Protocol to use:

See the New Feature section for more information.