ARender v2023.17.0 – Upgrade Notes

Release note: See v2023.17.0.

⚙️ Customization and Configuration

This section details the changes to properties used for application configuration and customization.

New Properties

This release introduces several new properties for link annotation customization and a completely reworked keyboard **`shortcut system for better control over user interactions.

Link Annotation Customization

toolbar.link.hasOpacity=true
toolbar.link.hasColor=true
toolbar.link.hasStyle=true

Keyboard Shortcut System

Copy (CTRL-c & CTRL-x)
shortcut.copy.enabled=true

Print
shortcut.print.key=p
shortcut.print.ctrl=true
shortcut.print.shift=false
shortcut.print.alt=false

Navigation & View

Zoom In
shortcut.zoomin.key=k
shortcut.zoomin.ctrl=true
shortcut.zoomin.shift=false
shortcut.zoomin.alt=false

Zoom Out
shortcut.zoomout.key=i
shortcut.zoomout.ctrl=true
shortcut.zoomout.shift=false
shortcut.zoomout.alt=false

Fullscreen
shortcut.fullscreen.key=q
shortcut.fullscreen.ctrl=true
shortcut.fullscreen.shift=false
shortcut.fullscreen.alt=false

Next Page
shortcut.nextPage.key=ArrowRight
shortcut.nextPage.ctrl=false
shortcut.nextPage.shift=false
shortcut.nextPage.alt=false

Previous Page
shortcut.previousPage.key=ArrowLeft
shortcut.previousPage.ctrl=false
shortcut.previousPage.shift=false
shortcut.previousPage.alt=false

Move Page Down
shortcut.movePageDown.key=ArrowDown
shortcut.movePageDown.ctrl=false
shortcut.movePageDown.shift=false
shortcut.movePageDown.alt=false

Move Page Up
shortcut.movePageUp.key=ArrowUp
shortcut.movePageUp.ctrl=false
shortcut.movePageUp.shift=false
shortcut.movePageUp.alt=false

Page Down
shortcut.pageDown.key=PageDown
shortcut.pageDown.ctrl=false
shortcut.pageDown.shift=false
shortcut.pageDown.alt=false

Page Up
shortcut.pageUp.key=PageUp
shortcut.pageUp.ctrl=false
shortcut.pageUp.shift=false
shortcut.pageUp.alt=false

General Actions

Search
shortcut.search.key=f
shortcut.search.ctrl=true
shortcut.search.shift=false
shortcut.search.alt=false

Save
shortcut.save.key=s
shortcut.save.ctrl=true
shortcut.save.shift=false
shortcut.save.alt=false

Duplicate Annotation
shortcut.duplicate.key=d
shortcut.duplicate.ctrl=true
shortcut.duplicate.shift=false
shortcut.duplicate.alt=false

About Dialog
shortcut.about.key=,
shortcut.about.ctrl=true
shortcut.about.shift=false
shortcut.about.alt=false

Delete Thumbnail
shortcut.delthumb.key=Delete
shortcut.delthumb.ctrl=false
shortcut.delthumb.shift=true
shortcut.delthumb.alt=false

Deleted properties

The following properties are removed in favor of the new properties and they were not working.

shortCut.copy.enabled
shortCut.cut.enabled
shortCut.print.key
shortCut.print.enabled

📦 Product

Performance Improvements

Image Conversion: A new conversion factory utilizing PDFBox has been introduced for PNG and JPEG files. This ensures that converted PDF sizes remain as close to the original image size as possible.

Thumbnail Loading Optimization: Refined the page navigation behavior during scrolling to optimize the number of calls made to the Rendition server for image previews.

💻 API

No new API endpoints have been introduced in this release.