PDFING NEWSLETTER NO 17 - November 2005
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This letter is, in part, an apology for some egregious "bugs"
that were introduced into the "NT Service" version of PDFing,
when V3.0.0.17 was introduced in May 2005. 

Various "NT Service" bugs have been reported, which were most
apparent in "high-volume" installations, and could result in
some spooled-files appearing twice or more in the "grid" and
some other spooled-files being omitted entirely. These problems
have now been fixed in v3.0.0.21 of PDFing, which is now
available from our downloads page at: http://www.dfing.com/down

If you only use the "interactive" version of PDFing, then the
bugs mentioned above will not be apparent, however we do
recommend that you install this latest version as it does
contain several minor bug fixes and optimisations. PDFing
V3.0.0.21 is probably the last version of PDFing V3 to be
released  After PDFing v3.1 is released, new features will
only be added to V3.1, although V3 will be supported for
some months and any new bugs that appear will, of course,
be fixed.

The beta test of V3.1 has been very successful. Although
some of the bugs mentioned above were detected by customers 
testing PDFing v3.1. However, I would still appreciate some
more volunteers for our beta testing team! A list of the new 
features in v3.1 is available at:
http://www.pdfing.com/v31changes.html

Finally, I have had several customers asking when PDFing 
will support "digital-signatures" for PDF files. Apparently
this is an issue for customers doing business with large
businesses and governments in Europe. Although we will be
looking to add this feature some time next year, I would
very much appreciate your comments, if you feel that
"digital-signatures" are important to you, as this would
give me some idea about the priority that we should
assign to this feature. 


Regards

David Fowle and Jane Hearn