Build 1437 – July 15, 2013

Westtek File Viewers

The File Viewers are installed by launching the WesttekFileViewers6.exe file contained in your release or downloaded from the Microsoft website. Once installed, the catalog components for the File Viewers will be under “\Third Party\File Viewers”.

Important

References to Microsoft Office 2007 file formats include files created or edited under Microsoft Office 2010. Limitations of the Office 2007 and Office 2003 file format support is listed below.

Functionality added to this release

This release contains enhancements from the previous release of the Westtek File Viewers (Build 1428). The primary purpose of this update is to bring the level of support up to the level released for Windows Embedded Compact 2013 (Build 1436 – April 16, 2013). Most enhancements in this build are related to PDF Viewer functionality.

Enhancements:

Functionality added to this release

While this is the first release of JETCET PDF for Windows Embedded Compact 2013, this release does contain enhancements from the previous releases of JETCET PDF on Windows Embedded Compact.

Enhancements made to the PDF Viewer:

· General performance enhancements

· The imaging model has been modified to allow the PDF Viewer to load a larger variety of images, with higher color depths, using less memory and with reduced processing time.

· The most common types of embedded JBIG2 images.

· Line join features are now supported.

· Image rotation is now supported.

· Support for images with 16 bit per pixel and 2 bit per pixel components have been added to this release.

· Limited annotations are supported.

General Limitations

There is no support for files created in versions of Microsoft Office earlier than Office 97; there is no support for the Microsoft Visual Basic® macro programming language. Password protected Microsoft Office documents are not supported and will not open.

Object linking and embedding (OLE) is not supported on Windows Embedded Compact. Objects pasted into Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 formatted file will be displayed as a static image.

If sufficient memory for temporary file storage is not available on a Windows Embedded Compact–based device, very large documents or documents that contain large graphical elements may not open, or may not display all of the content.

Font recommendations

Windows Embedded Compact does not provide the same set of fonts that is available on Windows-based desktop operating systems or in recent versions of Microsoft Office. If the original font used in a document is not available, the file viewers show the closest possible approximation of the original format.

The following list shows fonts that you should include in your OS design for optimal performance with the File Viewers:

• Arial
• Arial Bold
• Arial Bold Italic
• Arial Italic
• Courier New
• Courier New Bold
• Courier New Bold Italic
• Courier Italic
• Symbol
• Times New Roman
• Times New Roman Bold
• Times New Roman Bold Italic
• Times New Roman Italic
• Wingding

In addition, you should include all combinations of these fonts for the Microsoft PowerPoint® viewer:

• Comic Sans MS
• Impact
• Verdana

Office 2003 Excel Viewer

The following list shows functionality not supported by the Office 2003 Excel viewer:

• Hyperlinks.
• Cell Comments.
• Data tables in charts.
• WordArt; plain text is substituted.
• Surface charts; an image representing an unsupported chart appears in the chart's location.
• Dates shown for the formulas “=NOW( )” and “=TODAY( )” are the cell’s last calculated result not the current date as displayed in Microsoft Excel.
• Column widths and row heights are fixed based upon the sheet’s last stored width and height settings. In some cases this may cause content that falls outside the cell’s boundaries to be hidden.
• SmartArt mapped back into the Microsoft Excel 2003 format using Microsoft Excel 2007 or newer contains unsupported AutoShape transforms and will not display with the correct perspective.
• Hidden objects are visible in Microsoft Excel 2003 files.

The following list shows some of the additional limitations:

• Certain types of 3D charts are mapped to equivalent 2D charts.
• Supported 3D charts are only shown at a fixed camera angle.
• Vertical text in a worksheet is mapped to 90-degree rotated text.

Office 2007/2010 Excel Viewer

The following list shows functionality not supported by the Office 2007 Excel viewer:

• WordArt.
• Hyperlinks.
• SmartArt.
• Cell Comments.
• Dates shown for the formulas “=NOW( )” and “=TODAY( )” are the cell’s last calculated result not the current date as displayed in Microsoft Excel.
• Column widths and row heights are fixed based upon the sheet’s last stored width and height settings. In some cases this may cause content that falls outside the cell’s boundaries to be hidden.

The following list shows some of the additional limitations of the Charts module. The Charts module is shared by all Office 2007 formats.

• 3D charts are mapped to equivalent 2D charts.
• Error bars, trend lines and data tables in charts are unsupported.
• The plot area for some charts may be different than the desktop, i.e. data will be plotted on a different scale.
• Surface charts, Radar charts; an image representing an unsupported chart appears in the chart's location.

Office 2003 PowerPoint Viewer

The following list shows functionality not supported by the Office 2003 PowerPoint viewer:

• Hyperlinks.
• Hidden objects are visible in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 files.

In addition, some animations and transitions from recent versions of Microsoft PowerPoint are not supported. These are mapped to a supported animation or transition.

Office 2007/2010 PowerPoint Viewer

The Office 2007 PowerPoint Viewer does not support the following functionality:

• Hyperlinks.
• WordArt and SmartArt.
• Some features of AutoShapes are missing or incomplete (such as arrows and dashed or dotted line styles). AutoShape connectors are unsupported.
• Other text effects such as “Equalize Character Height” and “Shadow” are unsupported and will display as plain text.
• Path gradients are unsupported and will be replaced with a linear gradient in shape or slide backgrounds.
• Charts in the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Viewer are output using the same software components used by the Microsoft Excel 2007 Viewer and will contain the same limitations.
• Office 2007 PowerPoint is a static viewer only and does not support the full screen slide show mode (i.e. no slide transitions or object animations occur while viewing the PowerPoint presentation).
• Hidden objects are visible in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 files.

Office 2003 Word Viewer

The Office 2003 Word Viewer does not support the following functionality:

• WordArt.
• Hyperlinks.
• ClipArt.
• Revisions and comments.
• Headers and footers, endnotes and footnotes.
• Some types, styles, and groupings of AutoShapes. In addition text wrapping effects for AutoShapes and other types of inserted objects is not support – objects will be displayed “inline” with the document text.
• Word forms; elements from the form may be visible but are not available for input.
• Hidden Objects are visible in Microsoft Word 2003 files.

Office 2007/2010 Word Viewer

The Office 2007 Word Viewer does not support the following functionality:

• Hyperlinks.
• WordArt and SmartArt.
• Revisions and comments.
• Endnotes and footnotes.
• Vertical text; vertical text will be output horizontally.
• AutoShapes and Text Boxes are unsupported and will be missing from the displayed output.
• Picture effects are unsupported; pictures will be displayed in their original format.
• Word forms; elements from the form may be visible but are not available for input.
• Table support is enhanced in this release; however some formatting may be lost.
• Most Word Fields are unsupported and will display their last stored result; this will be particularly evident for date or file status fields that may have changed since the last stored result.
• Charts in the Microsoft Word 2007 Viewer are output using the same software components used by the Microsoft Excel 2007 Viewer and will contain the same limitations.

JETCET PDF Viewer

The JETCET PDF Viewer does not support the following functionality:

• AES encrypted file; Adobe standard encryption for 40 and 128 bit encryption is supported.
• Annotations.
• Transitions.
• Acrobat Forms; content from forms, including images, is not displayed.

The JETCET PDF Viewer operates with the following limitations:

• Colors from unsupported color spaces, such as ICCBased or DeviceN color, may be displayed incorrectly.
• Some styled lines may be displayed as solid lines
• Certain styled brushes are unsupported and may cause gradient backgrounds to display as white.