DocumentationMetatoolRelease history

Release history

This page lists what changed in Metatool, the Windows design tool in Interact, in each release from 11.8 onwards, followed by the older lists. Only Metatool changes are listed. The newest release is first. Each entry links to the page that explains the feature.

Interact 11.18.1 and 11.18.2

  • 11.18.1: The lists in the package item dialogs of solutions respond faster.
  • 11.18.1: More fixes to the handling of sign-in cookies in the Doc Gen integration. See Publish and sign in.
  • 11.18.2 has no Metatool changes.

Interact 11.18

  • Documents now have a read-only ID in Document properties, and Copy, keep ID… in the document list makes a copy that keeps the ID. See User interface.
  • When you update an assembly, the test data is converted automatically. You no longer need to refresh it. See Documents and templates.
  • Right-click on the data tree in the Text, Script and Phrase dialogs now opens a menu. The Phrase dialog can be resized.
  • Selecting the current document expands the document tree and the data tree one level. The data node in the Text, Phrase and Script dialogs is expanded one level too.
  • Metatool scales correctly when you move it between monitors with different resolutions (per-monitor DPI), and the Text, Script and Phrase editors repaint correctly when you resize them.
  • Publishing to Git is more reliable. See Publish and sign in.
  • Sign-in cookies are handled correctly in the Doc Gen integration. See Publish and sign in.

Interact 11.17

  • Metawrite and Test process are no longer supported in Metatool.
  • Data types is renamed Value types. See Data.
  • Publishing to Git is more robust.
  • The Language dialog closes when you press Esc. The script and content editors do the same.
  • Selecting the main document in the current document view highlights it in the document list.

Interact 11.16

  • The Caption text of a text variable is used as placeholder text in the Editor field. See User interface.
  • The Keyword table in Document properties is always available, also for a document that is not online.
  • The Content template can be changed when you insert a document with InsertDocument.
  • Fixed a problem in the Variable dialog when switching between types and formats.

Interact 11.15

Interact 11.13 and 11.14

  • New text choice Textchoice group (no default text). See User interface.
  • Better reading of PDF/UA structure and of imported tables, and PDF files with Form XObjects are imported better.

Interact 11.12

  • PDF import carries over the PDF/UA elements and structure when the PDF is valid PDF/UA. See Import a PDF form.
  • Export of a logic file without test data now includes the package information.

Interact 11.11

  • Tables, inline tables and images can be used in phrases, and relations are checked for them.
  • Test data can be imported from JSON files as well as XML files. See Documents and templates.

Interact 11.10

  • A Help button opens this documentation.
  • Consolas is available as a font in the edit dialogs and is the default for scripts.
  • Artifact mode for marking text items as artifacts in PDF/UA. See Scripts.
  • The Copy and disinherit dialog has a multi-select list, so you can search in several projects at once.
  • Fixed rotated text (90 degrees) in PDF import, relations in solutions with more than two levels, and authentication to Centerpoint.

Interact 11.9

  • Kerning option when you import a PDF. See Import a PDF form.
  • The grid in the preview can be shown in millimetres. See User interface.
  • The method SetArtifactMode marks text items as artifacts in PDF/UA. See Scripts.
  • Take page height can be set on QR code and Datamatrix.
  • Symbols for unknown characters no longer show up in imported PDFs, and the font dialog is wider for long font names.

Interact 11.8

  • Inline tables can be created without table and column definitions. See Data.
  • Better error message when you import a PDF and a font is missing.

Earlier versions

New in Metaforce version 11.7

  • Added 2 new tags: non breaking space and tab. They both show up as selectable options when right clicking in the TextEditor
  • Improvements importing PDF-files as overlays, now you can include images and vector objects
  • Added the ability to publish logic files via Centerpoint and start the WebEditor directly from Metatool.
  • Made the WebEditor fully User Accessibility compliant.

New in Metaforce version 11.6

  • Improvements viewing Solutions objects in Metatool
  • Improvements handling variables in combination with the WebEditor
  • Added the ability to configure MetaEngine to take the first text in a TextChoice bundle when creating a ondemand document
  • Added the ability to start a WebEditor document instance directly from Metatool
  • Improvements importing PDF-files as overlays
  • Improvements in PDF/A generation
  • Improvements when generating MFDX-files in batch

New in Metaforce version 11.5

  • Added channel configurations
  • Added the ability to define and override built in behaviors for data types CURRENCY, SHORTDATE and LONGDATE in Language dialog
  • Added the ability to run Interact in Linux container (with limited functionality)

New in Metaforce version 11.4

  • Added new paragraph tag
  • Added the ability to configure spaces between list items
  • Added the ability to add keywords on texts and corresponding SOAP operations to get all texts based on filters and all keywords defined

New in Metaforce version 11.3

  • Added the ability to import SVG vector graphics
  • Added the ability to import PDF as overlays, this will depricate the old Adobe Acrobat plugin (it will be removed in a future release)

New in Metaforce version 11.1

  • Added Interact Test
  • Added webbased Metawrite application called WebEditor
  • Added Font Tracking

New in Metaforce version 11

  • Since the release of version 10 there have been a number of improvements done. Here’s a summary. For details look in the release notes.
  • All projects converted to VS2019 which leads to new C/C++-runtime.
  • All .NET-projects upgraded to .NET 4.7.2.
  • All Windows GUI applications have high resolution support (System Aware)
  • All manuals have been through a revision
  • Added the ability a link to images and vector objects
  • PDF-fields
  • MetaWrite
  • Support for Content/HTML
  • New SOAP-operations: GS_ConvertPdfToAXML, GS_CreateAndLoadDocument
  • Data converter, .NET assembly hosted in Metalogic file that converts domain data to view data
  • Solutions and package has been enhanced
  • Support for PDF/UA

New in Metaforce version 10

Installation now requires a license file that opens up your installation has access to.

Metaforce Interact is from version 10 x64 only, meaning it is only compatible with x64 hardware. It also affects application pools in IIS that shouldn’t be set to 32-bit any more.

As usual this major release is possible to reside side by side with other major releases of Metaforce, whether registered nor not.

This version is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, and uses the 2015 runtime as well as .Net 4.5.2.

Major new feature of this release are:

  • Interact now built for x64 architecture to significantly improve memory performance.
  • Interact is from this version delivered with a customer specific license file, that is required to execute the system.

This version is possible to reside side by side with other versions of Metaforce, whether they are registered nor not.

New in Metaforce version 9

This is a major release that affects all Metaforce programs, the MetaLogic format. This version is possible to reside side by side with other versions of Metaforce, whether they are registered nor not.

The new version is built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and uses that runtime.

MetaLogic conversions:

All MetaLogic files and Solutions need to be converted to the latest version.

Automatic conversion is done by MetaTool and MFSolution.

Major new feature of this release are:

  • Support for import of CMYK images.
  • Support for pure CMYK workflows without ICC-profiles.
  • Support for vector graphics.
  • Color definitions. Could now be used with any color setting on any object except business graphics. Mandatory on vector graphics and in general when using CMYK colors.
  • Data types and “typed scripts” to be used for output formatting. Built in capabilities for numbers, dates and currency.
  • Smaller memory footprint and improved performance.

Please, note that due to change of the imaging framework, scaling and dithering algorithms have been changed.

The implications of this are that any settings done on individual images prior to v9 will be discarded. This is true for the print config settings as well. Typically this will not cause any problems, as the default settings suffice in most cases.

New in Metaforce version 8

From Metaforce version 8.0 most programs handle Unicode. Another change is that MetaEngine doesn’t need any AFP charset, AFP code page or Type1 font. These resources are generated on the fly from an OpenType typeface and optimized to contain only necessary glyphs for the specific printfile generated.

Be aware that when bringing new typefaces to the “table”, the new AFP charset names impact on AFP-viewers and AFP-transformers. Please read and understand the section named “Naming logic AFP charset” below in order to understand how to configure your viewer/transformer.