Black Ice Software is excited to announce the launch of our newest product, the TIFF Viewer Core! With this cutting-edge technology, users can now open TIFF and PDF files directly in their browser without installing any browser Extension or configuring a web server.

The TIFF Viewer Core is an all-in-one solution for viewing your TIFF and PDF documents on the Web and on your Desktop. It allows users to easily view, edit, annotate, OCR, search, rotate, and organize TIFF and PDF documents.

The TIFF Viewer Core comes with a similar feature set to the TIFF Viewer Chrome / Edge extension; however, the TIFF Viewer Core includes major enhancements for installing, uninstalling, and deploying the application from Group Policy.

Some of the key benefits of using the TIFF Viewer Core over the TIFF Viewer extension are:

• Simplified install - All components of the TIFF Viewer Core install with the TIFF Viewer, even without an active internet connection
• Simplified uninstall - All components of the TIFF Viewer Core uninstall with the TIFF Viewer
• Simplified deployment - Using the MSI installer, system administrators can deploy the TIFF Viewer Core the same way as the TIFF Viewer using Group Policy.
• IT Administrators – the TIFF Viewer Core is easy to preconfigure and apply user restrictions.
• No more Chrome / Edge extension restrictions and changing Google and Microsoft policies.

Another useful feature of the TIFF Viewer Core is its user-friendly interface. The software is designed to be easy to use, with intuitive controls and a simple layout that anyone can navigate. You don't need to be a tech expert to use this product, making it perfect for businesses of all sizes and industries.

Additionally, the TIFF Viewer Core comes with a range of customization options that allow you to tailor the product to your specific needs.

Zero-Footprint TIFF and PDF Viewer

The IceViewer is an HTML5-based document viewer and editor recommended for customers who want a centralized document viewing system that can be accessed from any web-ready device without a local client install. The IceViewer is easy to integrate with existing applications and can be easily embedded into a webpage with Advance Administrator options and much more.
Please contact impactsales@blackice.com for more details.

The complete list of improvements in the latest TIFF Viewer includes the following:

DATE: 03-30-2023
Version: 14.50 (revision 2199)

• Added a new dropdown menu for OCR, OCR selected area, OCR to Clipboard, and OCR and Export feature in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16385, #16384, #16363)
• New feature: Ctrl + D shortcut now opens the Document Information in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16376)
• New feature: The Log file directory can be customized in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16369)
• New feature: Users can cancel the OCR process in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16263)
• New icons for the “Light” theme in the TIFF Viewer Extension (#16203)
• Stability improvements for double-clicking on the TIFF Viewer Core Action Center icon on the System Tray (#16417)
• Stability improvements for saving PDF Forms with multi-line fields in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16278)
• Stability improvements for reordering pages with Drag and Drop, then navigating between the pages in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#15489)
• Stability improvements for the “Apply Configuration for Every User” feature in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16408)
• Stability improvements for opening single-page documents with the “Thumbnail Mode” feature enabled in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16409)
• Stability improvements for opening files with the same name over and over again in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16404)
• Stability improvements for enabling/disabling logging in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16403)
• Stability improvements for using the “Rubberband Zoom Mode” and then navigating between the pages in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16324)
• Stability improvements for displaying annotations after using the “Go To Page” feature in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16355)
• Stability improvements for hiding the Annotation Tutorial in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16326)
• Stability improvements for configuring the View Mode to Normal Mode on the options tab in the TIFF Viewer Extension (#16286)
• Stability improvements for the Fit to Width View Mode in the TIFF Viewer Extension (#16284)
• Stability improvements for the “Thumbnail Mode” feature in the TIFF Viewer Extension (#16288)
• Stability improvements for editing and saving Word documents in the Downloads folder, while the TIFF Viewer Core is running (#16380)
• Stability improvements for opening the Options window multiple times in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16367, #16407)
• Stability improvements for Cut and Paste pages with Annotations in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16315)
• Usability improvements for creating Signature annotation (#16336)
• Quality improvements for OCR documents with small size and resolution (#16121)
• Minor usability improvements for opening documents – PDF documents are no longer shown if the PDF opening is disabled in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16331)
• Minor usability improvements for using the Magnifying Glass feature in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16339)
• Minor user interface improvements for entering an incorrect password for PDF documents in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16359)
• Minor user interface improvements for the “Paste Page Before” and “Paste Page After” options in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16329)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Annotation Tutorial when creating Comment annotation in the TIFF Viewer Extension and Core (#16335)
• Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported (#16289)
• Updated Black Ice JavaScript library to version 1.00.003

DATE: 03-24-2023
Version: 14.45 (revision 2191)

• Stability improvements for opening files with ‘#’ characters in the filename with the TIFF Viewer Core (#16366)
• Stability improvements for automatically starting the TIFF Viewer Core (#16354)
• Licensing: Text change for errors 335 and 360 (#15890, #16270)
• Licensing: Replaced error code 24 with errors 361-368 (#16271)
• Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.35.319

DATE: 03-13-2023
Version: 14.40 (revision 2185)

• Added the Tiff Viewer Core Web Application (#16123)
• Stability improvements when opening a local TIFF file with Drag and Drop in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16224)
• New feature to burn in annotations when saving a TIFF document with Chrome / Edge extension (#16341)
• Save icon renamed to Save As to reflect the functionality better in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16340)
• Stability improvements for printing PDF Forms in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16277)
• Stability improvements for printing PDF files after copying and pasting pages in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16264)
• Stability improvements for drawing Rubber Stamp and Stamp annotations in Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16236)
• Stability improvements for memory usage when using OCR feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16230, #16279)
• Stability improvements for the “Enable Thumbnail Mode” when opening PDF documents in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16287)
• Stability improvements for using the Intelligent Redact feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16312, #16322)
• Stability improvements for using the “Magnifying Glass Mode” and then navigating between pages in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16316)
• Stability improvements for the Note annotation Opaque feature in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16241)
• Stability improvements for zooming with the mouse wheel in the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16198)
• Stability improvements for opening TIFF files with large Stamp and Rubber Stamp annotations in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16343)
• Stability improvements for using Rubberband Zoom on PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16357)
• Quality improvements for the Arrow and Note annotations in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16235, #16280, #16281)
• Quality improvements for resizing the Note annotation in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16313)
• Quality improvements for saving TIFF files with JPEG compression in the Chrome / Edge extension (#16342)
• New OCR icon for the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16266)
• Minor stability improvements for the Tiff Viewer Chrome / Edge extension (#16268, #16237)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension (#16295, #16233, #16265, #16282, #16267, #16337)
• Tiff Viewer installer turns off the “Recent File List” option when Tiff Viewer is installed to a Citrix server (#16211)
• Removed the language selection option from the Tiff Viewer update (#16225)
• Stability improvement for opening certain color TIFF files containing an incorrect Photometric Interpretation tag (#16208)
• Stability improvement for restoring file associations when uninstalling Tiff Viewer (#16347)
• Stability improvement for filling PDF forms generated by the Black Ice Printer Driver (#16100)
• Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTiff.dll) to version 13.06.957

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