What's New in Anzio
Now shipping version 16.2
This is just a short list of what is new in AnzioWin and Anzio Lite 16. You can find full detail for each patch release in the Read-Me and How-to documents included with the software.Key New Features :
The most recent release of AnzioWin and Anzio Lite is version 16. Here is a list of the key new features:
- Anzio Lite adds Background Bitmap support, toolbar setup, commands for control from host
- Graphics for Background Bitmap included in distribution.
- Settings file import for ease of migration
- Image Viewer window (AnzioWin only)
- Toolbar enhancements
- Emailing support (AnzioWin only)
- Enhancements in PDF creation (AnzioWin only)
- Print to TIF (AnzioWin only)
- Improved print-to-fax (AnzioWin only)
- Improved scanner support (AnzioWin only)
- Gesture recognition on Tablet PC, Vista
- Shape recognition on Tablet PC, Vista
- Smart keytroke: control-backspace = word delete left
- Support for ClearType font smoothing
- Local port forwarding under SSH (AnzioWin only)
- Backchannel AUX serial port (AnzioWin only)
- Improved backchannel printer support (AnzioWin only)
Release Notes
Changes in 16.0a:
1. Bug fixed: toolbar background sometimes not repainted.
2. Bug fixed in browsing for a directory (File:Changed logged directory,
set default download directory).
3. Improvements in PCL translation.
4. More built-in key definitions, so a KYS file is not required.
5. When recording a scanning operation into a macro, force SHOW to FALSE.
6. When scanning via a command or macro that has show=false, don't show
the select/acquire box.
Changes in 16.0b:
1. If show_command is set, update the screen with it more often.
2. Reduce flickering when changing IMAGEBOX contents.
3. Show file name in title bar of IMAGEBOX.
4. New ANZ variables for Terminal Services (or remote desktop) environment:
ANZ_IS_REMOTE
Returns "1" if remote, "0" if not
ANZ_REMOTE_IP
Returns the remote client's IP address
ANZ_REMOTE_NAME
Returns the remote client's machine name
ANZ_REMOTE_STATION
Returns station/session name
ANZ_REMOTE_SESSION
Returns session number
5. Quicker display of FTP/SFTP dialog box to user.
6. Record scanning parameters into macro in IMAGEBOX command.
7. In VTxxx emulation, DON'T respond to Esc [ ... R as Delete Line.
8. Bug fixed in transparency re. background bitmap.
9. IMAGEBOX contains "Next page" and "Revious page" buttons.
10. Give warning before saving a recorded macro over an existing one.
11. Allow recorded macros to be assigned to accelerator keys (such as alt-F).
Changes in 16.0c:
1. Printing: more diagnostics on failure to create TrueType fonts.
2. PRINTWIZ: New tag:
<ARCTEXT>
Prints text in an arc, clockwise or counterclockwise, referencing the center point of the circle. Possible parameters:
SRC="some text" Text to be printed
X, Y Initial printing location. Default to current location.
X2, Y2 Center of the circle. Default to one inch below X, Y.
DIR=CW | CCW Clockwise (default) or counterclockwise.
ALIGN=LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT Which part of the text is at X, Y
3. PRINTWIZ: New tag allows output of low-level data, typically escape sequences, such as to cut paper or do a job offset:
<PASSTHRU src="your data">
where "your data" can include HTML-style character entities.
4. PRINTWIZ: Bugs fixed in PCL overlays in PDF.
5. Allow Environment string to be larger.
6. Make Zmodem download work on a 7-bit modem connection.
7. New command to set on-screen highlight:
HIGHLIGHT <x1> <x2> <y1> <y2> [COLUMN|STREAM|WRAP]
8. When recording a macro, if you highlight a part of the screen with
the mouse, it will record a HIGHLIGHT command as above.
9. Added ability to send emails via Outlook without triggering security
warnings.
10. If email type is Outlook, and needed items are missing from the email
specification (or "show this dialog" is checked), Outlook's "send mail"
form will pop up instead of Anzio's.
Changes in 16.0d:
1. Bugs fixed in HPGL processing.
2. SSH key file location can have environment variables in it.
Changes in 16.0f:
1. Improvements in dealing with certain EMF files, going to PDF.
2. Print Wizard: Some PCL default values, such as Vertical Motion Index,are now read from the settings file, in the [PCL] section.
Changes in 16.0g:
1. Ink (markup) fixes for Vista.
2. Bug fixed in WRITE command.
3. Add browse button to SSH Setup dialog, for private key file.
4. Additions and changes to EMAILSETUP command's parameters:
AUTH
by itself, equivalent to AUTH=ON
CONFIRM
set to ON, TRUE, OFF, or FALSE
HTML
set to ON, TRUE, OFF, or FALSE
5. Additions and changes to MAILTO parameters:
NAME
name of recipient
CONFIRM
same as SHOW
* 6. Outgoing emails can now be text or HTML.
7. Additions to Setup Email dialog
"Allow user to confirm email"
"Allow message body to contain HTML"
8. Bug fixed: allow TRANSMIT TRAILER <ctrl-D> from host.
9. Trailer in TRANSMIT TRAILER now gets environment expansion.
10. Report errors in SPEAK commands.
11. In Printer Setup, separate PDF setup from email info. Same for TIFF.
12. In SSH, allow use of RSA in key exchange phase.
13. Bugs fixed in Outlook emailing.
Changes in 16.0h:
1. Added browse button to SSH Setup dialog, for choosing a private key file.
2. Removed question on startup about importing old settings file.
3. Add support for graphics characters in Viewpoint mode, using
Esc Z <char>.
4. Add "Confirm" checkboxes in Printer Setup.
Changes in 16.0j:
1. Improvements in PCL spacing.
2. Bugs fixed in email forms.
Changes in 16.0k:
* 1. Outgoing emails can read and include signature files.
a) Default signature file is carried in settings file.
b) This can be maintained in Email Setup.
c) TIF and PDF superfile names can contain?signature=filename
d) MAILTO command can specify
signature=filename
e) If name given has no path, it is assumed to be in
${APPDATA}\Microsoft\Signatures
f) If a file with that name exists, that is used; otherwise a file filename.htm or filename.txt is used, depending on whether we're sending an HTML email.
g) TXT file can contains ANSI code or UTF-16, as Outlook stores it.
h) Default name of signature file is "Untitled".
i) Contents of signature file, if found, are appended to any "notes specified.
Changes in 16.0m:
1. Email Setup now allows user to browsed for a signature file.
Changes in 16.0n:
1. Bug fixed in emailing (other than through Outlook).
2. Added menu item File:Close Image Window
Changes in 16.0p:
1. Bugs fixed in dialogs showing on high-DPI screens.
Changes in 16.0q:
1. Bugs fixed in VT-style downloadable characters.
2. Bug fixed in using Outlook 2007 configured for RTF.
Changes in 16.0r:
1. Bug fixed in FILE-CLEANUP.
2. Various DELETE commands added to Lite.
Changes in 16.0s:
1. Bugs fixed in BLOCK-HIBERNATE for Vista.
2. Fixed problem with BodyFormat (EmailSend), should not default because of
problems when RTF selected in Outlook.
3. Fixed problem with BodyFormat (EmailSend), Outlook 2000 or earlier does
not support BodyFormat.
Changes in 16.0t:
1. Added function:
PRINTSCREEN
This initiates the high-level screen print routine, the same as the
PrintScreen key on the keyboard and the Print Screen item in the
menus.
2. "Print Screen" button on standard toolbar now does PRINTSCREEN function.
3. PRINTSCREEN routine will now flush the print job immediately, regardless
of FLUSHTIMER setting.
Changes in 16.0u:
1. Bugs fixed in VT220 8-bit controls mode.
2. Changes in FTP/SFTP dialog:
a) Track "show hidden files" for PC, host, between sessions.
b) Don't show Control Panel on PC side.
3. Bugs fixed in Macro Edit.
Changes in 16.0v:
1. Update fixes for VT220.
Changes in 16.0x:
1. Zmodem: make ASCII mode and binary mode work...
2. Zmodem option: -R for Recover ...
3. Bug fixed re. long filenames in About box.
4. New variable: ANZ_LANG converts to Linux-style LANG variable, such as "en_US" for US English. Also pays attention to Character Sets setting "Linux UTF-8"; if that is on, for instance, LANG would get set to "en_US.UTF-8".
5. PDF name (in Printer Setup) can contain a directory name only. In this case the standard filename handling will be done. Same for EMF, TIF.
Changes in 16.0y:
1. In WINSTART and related commands, don't let Windows display a dialog box on failure.
2. Mouse action "Start URL", if it sees an "@", will construct and do a"mailto:".
3. Note: Here is a new approach to sending Anzio commands from a Unix or Linux host, which works the same across platforms and shells:
/usr/bin/printf "\034%s\035" "your command here"
Notably, any backslashes in 'your command here' will NOT get converted.
4. In DEFINE command, allow keyname for key to be defined, e.g., DEFINE F1 abcd
5. Allow Zmodem, etc., filenames to include forward slashes (exceptas first character).
Changes in 16.0z:
1. Bug fixed in handling certain file names in Kermit.
2. In C332 mode, handle extended escape mode (Esc [ ? C q).
Changes in 16.0za:
1. Bug fixed in popup menus when Ink is on.
2. Improve reliability of AUX port, especially with USB-serial converters.
a) Detect when problems occur, such as device removed.
b) Try to reconnect, at a timed interval, configured in settings file as aux-retry, in [main] section. This is a real number.
Changes in 16.0zc:
1. For "Start URL" option in mouse handling:
a) allow for URLs that are wrapped on the screen in various ways. In the settings file, in the "mouse" section, URLtype allows these
values:
4 = none, behaves as before
0 = block; URL's second (and following) line(s) starts at same horizontal location
1 = wrap to left edge
b) can now handle international characters.
c) is generally smarter about figuring our what's a URL.
2. New command:
SETF <var>=<anziofunction>
Processes the <anziofunction>, which presumably ends in "/S", meaning it returns a value. This value gets placed into variable name <var>.
3. New command:
DIR-SEPARATOR <string>
Sets an internal variable. Whenever a pathname is returned to the server
(such as from DIR/S), any backslashes in it are replaced with this variable, which is usually set to "/". This is easier to process on a Unix/Linux host. See also DIR-TERMINATOR.
4. Note: If a command is getting its variables processed too early, code each variable as
${$}{<varname>}
On the first pass at decoding, the "${$}" will get reduced to "$". The next pass will then decode the <varname>.
5. New commands for dealing with pathnames:
BARENAME/S <pathname>
Returns bare filename without path, without dot, without extension.
EXTENSION/S <pathname>
Returns (last) file extension, without dot.
DIRNAME/S <pathname>
Returns directory path, without filename.
FULLPATH/S <pathname>
Returns the fully qualified pathname, including name and extension. See also BASENAME/S. All these routines will work with either forward or backward slashes. All are subject to DIR-SEPARATOR (see above).
6. New command:
DIRIN/S <desc> <extension> [<caption>]
Prompts the user for a file to be read. See also DIROUT/S. See 16.0zd changes for more.
7. New command:
DRIVETYPE/S <drive>
Returns a numeric drive type for <drive>, which can be "a" or "b:" or"C:\" or "D:/". Numeric values as defined by Windows are:
DRIVE_UNKNOWN = 0;
DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR = 1;
DRIVE_REMOVABLE = 2;
DRIVE_FIXED = 3;
DRIVE_REMOTE = 4;
DRIVE_CDROM = 5;
DRIVE_RAMDISK = 6;
8. New command:
DRIVELABEL/S <drive>
Returns the volume label of the specified <drive>.
Changes in 16.0zd:
1. Allow COPY command to copy to a directory name:
COPY <filename> <dirname>
2. New environment variable:
ANZ_PATCH
returns the patch level of Anzio, such as "zd". Note that if you query an earlier version of Anzio for this variable, it will return
an empty string.
3. Note: A better way to send an Anzio command from a Unix or Linux server is to use a command like this:
/usr/bin/printf "\034%s\035" '<command>'
Notes:
a) By using /usr/bin/printf instead of printf, you separate yourself from different behaviors in different shells.
b) The '\034' translates to octal 34 (same as hex 1C), which starts an Anzio command. The '\035' terminates it.
c) The '%s' gets replaced by the next argument in the command, as a string.
d) The <command> is the Anzio command. Do NOT enter the '<' and '>'.
e) The single quotes cause the shell to NOT process any special characters inside the <command>, including backslashes and dollar signs.
4. Improve mouse wheel scrolling with "smooth wheel" mice.
5. New command:
CD/S <directory>
Changes the current working directory to <directory>, passes a result code to the host, as follows:
00 Success
01 Failure
6. New command:
LASTFILEERROR/S
Returns to the host the numeric Windows error code that Anzio stored whenthe last file operation failed. Numeric values are as returned by Windows' GetLastError call, documented by Microsoft. This number is valid only if a file error has just occurred.
A host program can, for instance, issue a COPY/S command and get back a result code. If the result code indicates an error has occurred, the host can issue a LASTFILEERROR/S and read the numeric response, and use that to differentiate between, say, a security violation (5) and an attempt to write over a file that is already open (32).
Most common errors are:
2 File not found
3 Path not found
5 Access denied
19 Write protected
32 Sharing violation
7. New command:
LASTFILEERRSTR/S
Returns a text string containing Windows' explanation of the last file error (see LASTFILEERROR/S).
8. New command:
RENAME/S <oldfilename> <newfilename>
Renames a file, returns result status:
00 Success
01 Failure
9. New commands:
WINSTART/S <file> [<params>]
WINPRINT/S <file> [<params>]
Equivalent to the same commands without the "/S"; these ones sent a result status:
00 Success
01 Failure
10. Handle diacritic spacing for Vista's Courier New.
11. New command:
DIRIN/S <desc> <extension> [<caption> [<default name>]]
Causes Windows to prompt the user for an input file name, returns it to the host.
12. DIROUT/S now allows default name as the fourth parameter.
13. New command:
PRINTFILE-DIR <pathname>
can specify a directory in which to place printfiles, such as PDFs.
14. New command:
CHOOSEFOLDER/S <desc> [<default>]
prompts the user for a folder, returns the result to the host.
Changes in 16.0ze:
1. Removed file name limit (of 80 bytes) on GIF files.
Changes in 16.0zf:
1. Added more icon sizes, especially for Vista.
Changes in 16.0zh:
1. Default value of PRINTWIZ-DIR is now "${ANZ_MY_DOCS}" which translates to the "My Documents" folder.
Changes in 16.0zj:
1. Fix for a problem with licensing that was preventing license information from being entered.
Changes in 16.2:
1. Changes from Print Wizard 3.2:
a) <ARCTEXT> ...
b) <PASSTHRU> ...
c) "Test Print" button in Preview
d) Collate...
e) PDF <INDEX> actions...
f) PDF Joboptions...
g) PDF <A> ...
h) PDF with signature, certification...
i) Print Wizard figures out label dimensions...
j) Preview allows dragging margins...
k) Embeddable fonts in PDF...
l) Transparent images...
m) <SPAN>...
n) Page range...
o) <TABLE> improvements...
p) <GOTO> based on margins...
q) Improved PCL, HPGL translation.
2. Bugs fixed in recording macros containing "#", "{", "~", "|".
3. Fix ANZ_MAC_ETHERNET variable to properly report wireless adapters in Vista.
4. Bug fixed in SWITCHTO (ctrl-tab).
5. Allow highlight bottom line (status, FUNCTION prompt) in all highlight types.
6. In FUNCTION prompt, allow ctrl-C = copy (if something is highlighted), ctrl-V = paste, IF these keys are configured for that in advanced options.
7. Now command:
SSHPRINT [ON] | OFF | TOGGLE
8. Improved debug on backchannel printing.
9. New command on backchannel printing:
FLUSH
Flushes job, doesn't send FF.
Changes in 16.2a:
1. Improvements in backchannel printing.
Changes in 16.2b:
* 1. New command:
SETKEY <keyname> [<state>]
where <keyname> is "CAPS" or "NUM", and <state> is "ON" (or blank), "OFF", or "TOGGLE".
2. Options for filtering data to be pasted from clipboard, currently available only by editing the settings file:
paste-filter-tab -- Replaces tab character with space
paste-filter-single-quote -- Replaces "smart" single quote with ASCII ` or ' paste-filter-double-quote Replaces "smart" double quotes with ASCII "
Changes in 16.2c:
1. When toggling NumLock state with SETKEY, don't trigger a macro attached to the NumLock.
Changes in 16.2d:
1. Support VT double-high, double-wide characters.
Changes in 16.2e:
1. Bugs fixed in double-high, double-wide.
2. Tabs stop at effective right edge of screen.
3. Add 'mask_input_7_bits' in settings file.
Changes in 16.2f:
1. In VT420, support
Esc P 2 $ t .... Esc \
to reset tab positions.
2. Updated character set handling for Linux emulation.
Changes in 16.2g:
1. Bug fixed: GDI memory leak in double-high, double-wide chars on screen.
Changes in 16.2h:
1. Bugs fixed in SENDFILE command.
2. In SCOANSI terminal type, allow user-preferred character set to be retained.
3. A new item in the settings file, pdf-ascii85, controls whether PDF objects will be encoded using ASCII85. Defaults to "0" (false).
4. Improvements in PCL input, PDF output.
Changes in 16.2j:
1. Add item in Advanced Options:Mouse for "Copy as bitmap". Normally true. If false, Anzio will not copy to the clipboard as bitmap (in addition to text).
2. In kiosk mode, "Copy and paste" menu item responds to the sum of the copy flag and the paste flag.
3. In kiosk mode, gray out all unavailable items.