10 June 2015
This feature release improves the integration with the local operating system and provides a new branding facility for white label usage.
18 July 2014
The new JSON-RPC API has been introduced to facilitate the integration with Pincette in more environments. Pratice has shown that WebDAV-bindings are not so trivial, while JSON APIs are very popular these days. The new API preserves the semantics of WebDAV, but wraps it in a much easier syntax, which is accessible from various programming languages. Especially web-applications can take advantage of it.
3 December 2013
You now get 5 GB of space for your books instead of 1 GB. This is enough to store a few thousand books. The price remains 9.95 euro per year (21% VAT is applied for EU-citizens). If you need more space you can rent additional units of 5 GB.
It has also become possible to synchronize your books with DAVbox, which has been fully integrated in the personalbookspace service with a free license. Uploading books is simpler than ever. You can create any folder structure you like on your computer. Everything will be replicated on the server. At the same time you still enjoy full-text search in your e-reader and automatic meta-data and cover preview extraction.
13 July 2013
The VSKO, who oversee the catholic school-network in Flanders, have been a pioneering Pincette user for many years. Since last fall they are gradually building a new website with Drupal. Eventually each department will have its section in it. For several of those they have integrated Pincette in the website in order to disclose documents for their public as well as to create workgroups.
This was made possible by two crucial Pincette features. Firstly, its web-interface is designed in such a way that it can be embedded seamlessly in any website. Secondly, both the website and Pincette make use of our single sign-on solution, which is based on OAuth 2.0.
2 July 2013
Tesseract is a
very accurate open source OCR tool. Pincette now uses it, together with
hocr2pdf,
to add a text layer to PDF-documents, which haven't got any text. Technically
this is a PDF-to-PDF transformer.
So now you can create a hot folder
for optical character recognition to
which you upload scanned documents. From there they can be moved to their final
destination within Pincette. Since Pincette is a
WebDAV-server, direct
integrations with different kinds of devices are possible.
22 June 2013
PincetteWeb is the touch-first web-interface of the Pincette document management system, which logs every action a user does in its audit trail. The latest version of PincetteWeb adds a few convenient functions to examine this audit trail and obtain some statistics such as the number of downloads per day, unique visitors per day etc. It can also show some nice charts of the data, which was made possible by the wonderful jQuery plugin jqPlot. Have a look at some videos.
14 June 2013
This release makes it easier to deploy DAVbox as an enterprise synchronization solution because of two new features. In the centralized configuration synchronizations can now have a relative path for the local folder. It will be resolved against the user's home folder. This way you don't have to bother about the home folders on the different platforms.
The other feature is a new type of unlimited license that is bound to a server. You can install this license on the server for all users. It will allow them to synchronize only with this server. This should be combined with a centralized read-only configuration. You can then let users synchronize with their home folder on the server without them having to manipulate any settings.
1 March 2013
The web-interface for Pincette is now touch-friendly
. As a
side-effect it has become more flexible than ever to create all kinds of
deployments that are tailored to specific situations. It also comes with new
features like easy sharing of links to documents and subscribing to folders as
RSS-feeds in order to stay up-to-date with changing documents. Try it out at
https://demo.pincette.net/
(demo/demo).
26 November 2012
Only modifications in the document management system used to be recorded in the audit trail. From now on every request is registered. This means that document retrievals, searches, meta-data consultations, etc. are all logged. With this feature legal requirements can be met, but it also provides more insight in how the system is used.
Another new feature is RSS. Every folder in Pincette is now also an RSS-feed, which will return modified documents at any level under the chosen folder. The automatically extracted previews and titles as well as the abstract are used to populate the feed. This is a nice way to stay up-to-date with an area of interest in the document management system.
13 November 2012
OAuth 2.0 is a protocol that makes it possible to separate the account provider of a user from the services she wants to use. Through this mechanism users can now log into Pincette with their Google, Facebook or Windows Live accounts. This further facilitates the integration of Pincette with other systems. It is another example of how Pincette uses open standards wherever possible to enhance interoperability.
Another practical advantage of this is that companies can provide temporary access to external users without having to manage accounts for them. This way a company can, for example, share documents with its customers for the duration of some project.
27 June 2012
This new release of DAVbox comes with interesting new features such as the integration with the Growl notification system, renaming of files in several versions, selective pausing of synchronization couples and some advanced settings. Find out more about it in the release notes.
18 April 2012
DAVbox is a desktop application that synchronizes folders on a computer with folders on a remote WebDAV-server. It does this in the background. Several combinations of local and remote folders can be configured. The application doesn't require any installation and it starts automatically when the user logs in to her/his computer. This allows individuals and companies to organize simple interaction with their private or public cloud systems.
13 September 2011
The publishing company, specialized in mental health, has used ODFToEPub to convert about 900 titles to ePub. The books are now available at the Apple iBooks store. The Kindle versions can be purchased at Amazon.
31 December 2010
This subscription-based service is running on Pincette, the online document management service. It allows OPDS-enabled e-readers to browse and search through the entire personal e-book library of their users, wherever they are. Users can download any of their books any time. Those with a lot of books can use folders to organize them. personalbookspace is available for only 9.95 euros per year.
16 November 2010
BIND-spec
Pincette is actually a WebDAV-server. WebDAV is a set of specifications that define a protocol to do remote document management. WebDAV is also an extension of the HTTP-protocol. Currently Pincette implements RFC 2518 (with a few elements of RFC 4918), RFC 3253 (a.k.a. DeltaV, the versioning extensions to WebDAV), RFC 4331 (quota management) and RFC 3744 (access control lists).
Today RFC 5842 (a.k.a. the BIND-spec) has been added to this list. This lets you create additional bindings to existing resources. It is a great feature to manage your URI-namespace without breaking existing URIs.
11 November 2010
This new release can be built into applications. Publishers, for example, have the possibility to automate their e-book production processes. Combined with standard e-book templates for their authors this can greatly streamline the creation of e-books.
Other enhancements are the support of mathematical formulas (MathML), frame titles to improve accessibility, more meta-data support, horizontal table alignment and proportional treatment of paragraph margins for better reflow capabilities.
22 October 2010
ODFDiff is an OpenOffice extension for comparing ODF documents. It supports text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The differences are show using tracked changes, except for presentations. It also comes as stand-alone Java program for those that want to try it without installing OpenOffice. ODFDiff is fast and accurate.
24 September 2010
Pincette uses the new ODFDiff module to compare versions of documents in a fast and accurate way. It supports text documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the Open Document Format and text documents and presentations in Microsoft Office. Differences are presented using tracked changes, except for presentations. Users can quickly compare with the previous version or they can select any two versions of a document in its version tree. The ODFDiff module will also be released as a separate product.
17 September 2010
The ePub-format provides a way to embed fonts into a document. Whilst this increases the size of a document, it also makes sure the book can be displayed in any e-reader, regardless of the fonts it has at its disposition. Many e-readers have all the most used fonts on board or find them on the system they run on. However, those based on Adobe Digital Editions often lack glyphs for special characters or complete fonts altogether. This is why ODFToEPub now comes with an auxiliary tool to embed fonts in the generated ePub-document.
23 August 2010
The ODF Plugfest aims to improve the interoperability regarding the Open Document Format (ODF) ISO standard. It does this by promoting discussions between implementors and stakeholders of the standard. The fourth edition takes place at Brussels on 14 and 15 October. Pincette will be present with a presentation about ODFToEPub. Read more at http://www.odfplugfest.be/.
26 July 2010
ODFToEPub now comes with a stand-alone version. This makes it possible to generate ePub-documents without installing OpenOffice. Several other word-processors can export documents to the Open Document Format. Users of those tools can now convert to ePub in a more direct way.
9 July 2010
This new version adds a number of features that let you create professional e-books. You now get frames that can be floated and aligned. You have more control over the layout of the table of contents, the index of tables, the index of illustrations and the alphabetical index. There are also more internationalization features such as writing-modes and Asian and Complex ODF-styles. The spine and segmentation can now be controlled in a detailed way.