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Daeja demos Universal Viewing at ARMA 06	28 Oct 2006

Daeja's booth at the ARMA International Expo 2006 in San Antonio, Texas, from 22nd -24th October was a hive of activity as the team demonstrated the new Universal Viewing Module, and also previewed the Permanent Redactions SDK and the Document Streaming SDK

ARMA International's 2006 Expo at the Henry B Gonzales Convention Centre in San Antonio proved enormously successful for Daeja. The several hundred of visitors to the booth over the three days of the Expo saw demonstrations of the new Universal Viewing Module, which offers support within ViewONE Pro of another 300+ file formats (including MS Office and AutoCAD), and the forthcoming Permanent Redactions SDK and Document Streaming SDK, both of which will be available in January 2007.

The Universal Viewing Module is licensed by the server, in user number bands, and like the other modules needs no user installation - it automatically caches to the local machine when the user clicks to view one of the supported formats, such as MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint or AutoCAD DWG. All of the formats that are added by the module can also be annotated and redacted using ViewONE Pro's existing Annotations Module, thanks to ViewONE Pro's innovative annotations layering.

In response to the problems generated by legislation such as FOI and Sarbanes-Oxley, Daeja is launching a Permanent Redactions SDK which will allow users to permanently 'burn-in' redactions onto any of the supported documents visible within ViewONE Pro (including the 300+ offered by the Universal Viewing Module). When the user clicks the 'burn' button, the SDK is passed just the small redactions data, opens the local copy of the document on the server and applies the redaction, outputting a TIFF Group IV file with the redacted data permanently blacked out. If the source document is a text-based PDF, it might be important to retain the text-searchability of the redacted document, and therefore there is an option to output another text-based PDF, which has the redacted data permanently deleted, without affecting the text-based nature of the file. In each case, the outputted files are then safe for distribution internally and outside of the enterprise, such as in response to FOI requests.

Daeja's Document Streaming SDK for ViewONE Pro splits multipage TIFF and PDF files on the fly on the server to deliver just the page that the user wishes to view, dramatically reducing user wait times and improving performance. When used in conjunction with ViewONE Pro's pre-fetching facility, the Streaming SDK can send the next pages in the viewing sequence in the background whilst the user is viewing their initial page request. The SDK shows significant performance benefits even over using linearised PDFs.

Over 100 people attending the demos also took part in our ViewONE Pro 'Spot the Difference' competition, which invited entrants to spot the difference between two TIFF files, two PDF files and two MS Word documents, all within ViewONE Pro, and to use the same ViewONE Pro annotations tools to mark the differences on each document. A great deal of fun was had by all, and we'll be repeating the competition at AIIM in 2007!