What's new in FolderMill 5.4
New features
- New Printer load balancing feature for distributed printing (Round robin and Least loaded printer)
- Print document Action: Smart color mode selection that automatically chooses between Grayscale and Color for each page based on content (Color mode: As in document), with adjustable color detection threshold
- It is now possible to use the same Source (folder path) for different Hot Folders. For example, you can specify the same Windows folder for several Hot Folders and activate only the currently needed one while others remain paused
- Added new Rotate document Action
- Option to pause/unpause Hot Folders from the context menu on the main window
- Enhanced Rescan period setting with flexible time intervals: seconds, minutes, or hours
Convert to PDF Action
- Convert to PDF Action: PDF/A standard, OCR settings, and password-protected PDF can now be configured on the Action's window (General settings)
- New setting Post-process action for combined file that lets you move output PDFs to a specified location based on defined conditions
- New setting Attachments of unknown file types action that allows you to choose how to handle "unknown" attachments: Ignore, Replace with placeholder, or Try to process
- New setting What to do with existing attachments allowing to choose an action if the source file already has attachments (Ignore, Keep, Delete all)
- New Excel file loading settings allowing to show/hide gridlines, headers, and change page orientation before converting XLS/XLSX/CSV files
Improvements
- Improved Convert XLS… Action with multiple output format options: XLS, XLSX, CSV, and ODS
- Added Downscale shapes to page size setting that automatically reduces oversized embedded images in Outlook EML, MSG, and Word files to fit page dimensions
- Upload to HTTP Action: Added User name and Password for HTTP authentication
- Upload to HTTP Action: Ability to include macros like {*SrcFileName} (source file name) in the URL field
- Rename document Action: Added case conversion options (toggle uppercase/lowercase) for macros
- Rename document Action: Updated regular expression algorithm for macros and added option to add a string delimiter between resultant name parts (Regexp delimiter string)
- New supported formats: XCF (eXperimental Computing Facility), LWP (Lotus Word Pro Document)
Updated file processing components
- New and improved component for processing Outlook PST files
Knowledge base
- New how-to article: "How to Print to Multiple Printers Using Printer Load Balancing in FolderMill"
- New Knowledge Base article: "Convert to PDF Action"
Fixes
- Fixed subfolder structure when using Upload to FTP Action
- Renamed some context menu option names in Windows tray menu
- Simplified saving/loading of Rule files (.rule) renamed by a user via Import/Export button
How to get the latest version
- Customers who already have FolderMill 5.0 or newer (commercial version) are welcome to request the new FolderMill 5.4 for free;
- A 50% discount is available for customers who have the previous versions;
- The free version of FolderMill 5.4 is available for testing and evaluation;
- New users can buy the full-featured commercial version.