Drumlin Security

Release notes:

V4.202 Update release: 7th May 2010

• New "browser" navigation buttons added to toolbar. Enables BACK and FORWARD navigation following user selections (e.g. internal links) rather than page-by-page navigation

V4.2 Full release/update: 15th March 2010

• release of new screen handling library - improved handling of some PDF files under Vista and Windows 7 and fix of scrolling bug with some documents
• New menu item, Document History - provides tabbed display from DocumentHistory file
• Publish New Document facility re-implemented with tabbed forms and greater control over secure publishing options
• 64bit Windows support now provided via additional kit

V4.102 update: 14th December 2009

• release of new screen handling library - improved handling of some PDF files under Vista and Windows 7
• introduction of page bookmarking feature - allows any page to have a bookmark associated with it. Bookmarked pages are highlighted with a yellow border and included in a new Bookmarks tab to the left of the page display window; bookmarks are created using the new Bookmarks icon and stored in a .bmk file alongside the document

V4.1 Important update: 14th October 2009

• Release of new display library and program exe - much faster and with resolution-independent zoom
• Removal of settings menu item, and print preview menu option (no longer required)
• Page layout improved with 'shadow' display for 'fit page' view
• Improved scrolling and movement between pages 
• Introduction of 'Document download' facility for Enterprise users - see Technical Manual for full details
• Inclusion of Spanish language option via Languages menu

V4.004 Minor updates - 9th August 2009

• Improvements to scrolling
• Automatically remember last zoom level as default setting
• Page layout of 'fit to page' improved

V4.003 Minor update - 31st July 2009

• Kit updates to support Vista and Mac users

V4.0 Major update - 1st July 2009

• New PDF library - no longer requires 3rd party component
• New text search facility - improved search locating
• Removal of thumbnails facility - not currently supported in V4
• Removal of multi-page display - not currently supported in V4
• New "Settings" menu item on Tools menu - allows users to trade off between display speed and resolution, and print speed and resolution
• Revised Print dialog, now includes "Current page" option 
• New software version and DRM service now available without charge. Tailoring options, support services and specialist facilities may be subject to a charge, on quotation

V3.0 Minor update - 15th Jan 2009

• New PDFNET library for faster PDF handling
• Minor changes to support for additional printers
• Minor change to Set to default PDF reader option

Major update - 22nd Aug 2008

• revised registration and licensing arrangements
• authorization history log - removes the possibility of trying to authorize a document twice
• default secured file names simplified to .drm and .drmx extensions (.pdf element now dropped)
• extended set of zoom facilities
• save as... option for PDF files
• real-time monitoring and usage control for publishers, reporting and technical support
• additional DRM-based security controls

V2.139 interim release - 23rd June 2008
           technical update only

V2.13 Release - 13th June 2008

• Additional security features - optional detection and disabling of manual and automatic screen capture/grabbing programs such as SnagIt, Paint Shop Pro, Acrobat Capture and many others
• Preview option in watermarking facility
• Print preview menu item

V2.124 Release - 27th May 2008

• Enhanced bulk file processing
• Smooth-scroll via up/down arrow keys
• Minor changes to print handling

V2.120 Release - 14th May 2008

• Application-specific watermarking - augments existing watermarking support in earlier versions with print watermarking for additional security/tracking including field data that identifies data relating to the user, date/time of printing, publisher and document
• User-specific DRM file creation - create enhanced 'basic DRM files' that do not require separate authorization. The userID(s) of intended recipient or recipients must be provided. The files created can be read by the intended users immediately/without separate online access or authorization, but are not readable by any other users
• Minor functional changes (recent file list display altered; 5 test authorization codes included without charge; About form includes Send log file facility to assist support in case of any problems)  

V2.114 Release - 25th April 2008

• Apple Mac support - new program startup link "Drumlin Reader (for Mac users)" enables Mac users running a VirtualPC to run Drumlin. This link simply runs the standard Drumlin program with the command line argument "-mac".  A range of VirtualPC software has been tested for this purpose. For VirtualPC software see: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
  http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/ and
  http://www.parallels.com/

V2.110 Release - 1st April 2008

• Multiple language support - Separate language files, initially for English, German, French - all languages can be supported via additional language files provided on the web site languages page
• Tools menu - new menu for extra functions (set as default PDF, Language facilities etc.)
• Download language files - new menu item and languages page
• Settings.cfg - new entries for language files, location of downloadable language files and name of welcome.pdf (for tailored installations)
• Extended registration form, with tailorable setting for mandatory and optional fields (bitmask set in settings.cfg file)
• Start-up option to email log files to support

V2.0 to V2.1 releases - V2.1 1st March 2008

• View/print support for wide range of image file formats as well as PDF and DRM files. Includes GIF, TIF, JPG, PNG and BMP files
• Extended document Properties screen (PDF and DRM properties) – see description in welcome.pdf for details
• Full screen display support (useful for presentations etc) – new icon on toolbar and via View menu for this function
• Synchronised bookmark and thumbnail support, with toolbar icon to view/hide this sidebar
• Enhanced support for very large documents – major performance improvements providing very fast navigation for large and complex documents
• Control over text selection (text selection by line and by area, with copy to clipboard - IF ENABLED by the publisher)
• Automatic display of page thumbnails and page bookmark navigation sidebar
• Built-in emailing support to enable secured documents to be sent by email as attachment, directly from within Drumlin
• Optional password protection (password required to open) within Drumlin (i.e. as an alternative to applying password to the underlying pdf, which is also supported)
• Improved user interface to Publish functionality, including Save settings option (i.e. save preferences), clipboard enable/disable etc
• Improved authorization process, with keyboard paste (Ctrl+v) support and robustness enhancements
• Optional unlimited view/print setting for basic (locally generated) DRM files (set at DRM server site, per user)
• Bulk generation of protected files – browse documents option in the publisher window allows multiple file selection and publishing
• Support for individual and corporate-level quotas for file publishing within the central DRM facility
• Optional creation of user-specific authorisation codes for DRMX files (i.e. codes that can only be used by a specified, pre-registered user)
• In-context menu support (right mouse click) for key operations
• Keyboard support for navigation (PgUp, PgDn)
• Wheel mouse support, for easy scrolling of documents
• Proxy support, enabling sites with proxy servers to use the central registration, publication and authorisation services