OpenText™ Brava!

™ Server Components
Release Notes
16 EP7 (16.6.1.35)

Product Released: 2019-Feb-14

Release Notes Revised: 2020-May-25

Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Release Notes revision history ..................................................................................... 3
2 About Brava! Server Components .................................................................................. 3
2.1 Important additional notes ........................................................................................... 3
3 Packaging and documentation ....................................................................................... 3
3.1 Brava! Server Components deployment ........................................................................ 4
4 Supported environments and compatibility ..................................................................... 4
4.1 Supported systems .................................................................................................... 4
4.1.1 Brava! Server Web App ................................................................................... 4
4.1.2 Publishing Agent............................................................................................. 4
4.1.3 Job Processor................................................................................................ 5
4.1.4 Brava! License Server Web App........................................................................ 5
4.2 OpenText product compatibility .................................................................................... 5
5 Installation and upgrade notes ....................................................................................... 5
5.1 Installation notes........................................................................................................ 5
5.2 Installation troubleshooting.......................................................................................... 6
6 Patches......................................................................................................................... 6
7 Fixed issues.................................................................................................................. 7
8 Known issues................................................................................................................ 7
9 Contact information..................................................................................................... 10

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1 Introduction
These Release Notes provide an overview of Brava! Server Components 16 EP7, including new
features, delivery information, and supported platforms. OpenText recommends that you read these
Release Notes in conjunction with the documentation included with the software package. If any
conflicts exist, the Release Notes supersede the other documentation.

We also recommend that you check OpenText My Support (https://mysupport.opentext.com) for any
patches or documentation updates that may have been posted after the initial release of this product.

1.1 Release Notes revision history

Revision date Sections revised Description of revisions
2019-Feb-14 First release
2020-May-25 Section 2.1 Added important note section.
Section 4.2 Added support for Content Suite 20.2.

2 About Brava! Server Components

This section provides an overview of Brava! Server Components 16 EP7.

Brava! Server Components is a customized component delivery system intended for select
integrators. Administrators of Content Server (deploying Content Suite Viewer) and Brava! for Content
Suite are primary consumers of this product.

This is version number is 16.6.1.35 and contains components from Brava! Enterprise 16 EP7 Update
1.

2.1 Important additional notes

Tomcat, Java, and .NET Framework are no longer bundled as a part of the Brava! Server
Components installation. Users need to install their desired web server and Java runtime as pre-
requisites of Brava! Server Components. .NET Framework must be installed prior to installing the Job
Processor component.

3 Packaging and documentation

Downloads and documentation for Brava! Server Components can be found on the OpenText My
Support website (https://mysupport.opentext.com). Product downloads, administration guides, user
guides, and API documentation are available.

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3.1 Brava! Server Components deployment
Brava! Server Components is a customized component delivery system intended for select
integrators. When using its installer, the following components, within the respective sections below,
are installed. Reference the appropriate component system requirements in section 4.1.

Brava! Server Components for Windows OS:

1. Brava! Server
2. Brava! License Server
3. Job Processor

Brava! Server Components for Linux OS:

1. Brava! Server
2. Brava! License Server
3. Publishing Agent

4 Supported environments and compatibility

This section provides details about supported platforms, systems, and versions.

4.1 Supported systems

The following are the system requirements for Brava! Server Components 16 EP7:

4.1.1 Brava! Server Web App

1. Operating systems:
• Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7
• Oracle Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7. Support only includes using the Red
Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).
2. Servlet Engine:
• Application servers that support Servlet 3.1 and Servlet 4.0 APIs.
• Installation of Oracle JDK or OpenJDK versions 11 or 13.
3. In a Linux environment, integrators who wish to create WAR files should also manually install
the JRE and the JDK.
3. The web server must be set up so the /BravaServer is at the root of the same server running
Content Server. Utilizing Application Request Routing (aka ARR) is a reas onable method to
accomplish this.

4.1.2 Publishing Agent

1. Operating systems:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7
• Oracle Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7. Support only includes using the Red
Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).
2. Web servers:
• Application servers that support Servlet 3.1 and Servlet 4.0 APIs.
2. Installation of Oracle JDK or OpenJDK versions 11 or 13.
3. Microsoft’s Office Automation print-publishing is not available with the Publishing Agent.

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4.1.3 Job Processor
1. Operating systems:
• Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
2. Installation of the .NET Framework components, version 4.6.2 or newer. Windows Updates
KB2919442 and KB2919355 might be required before installation of Brava! Enterprise,
depending on the .NET Framework version installed.
3. The Job Processor installation includes installation of the CSF Writer printer drivers,
necessary for print-publishing.
4. (Optional) Licensed copy of Microsoft Office for use in print-publishing (Brava! for Content
Suite only, Content Suite Viewer does not support print-publishing):
• Microsoft Office 2019 (64-bit)
• Microsoft Office 2016 (64-bit)
• Microsoft Office 2013 (64-bit)

4.1.4 Brava! License Server Web App

1. Operating systems:
• Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7
• Oracle Linux x86-64 versions 7.0 through 7.7. Support only includes using the Red
Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).
2. Web servers:
• Application servers that support Servlet 3.1 and Servlet 4.0 APIs.
3. Installation of Oracle JDK or OpenJDK versions 11 or 13.

4.2 OpenText product compatibility

The section provides details about which versions of other OpenText products are compatible with this
release of Brava! Server Components 16 EP7.

Note: For the latest compatibility information for OpenText products, refer to the Compatibility
Matrix (https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/matrix) on OpenText My Support.

Product name Version Notes

Brava! for Content Suite 16 EP7
Content Server 16.2.11, 20.2

5 Installation and upgrade notes

This section provides additional installation and upgrade information, including related or third-party
product information and any required critical patches.

5.1 Installation notes

Before installing Brava! Server Components, review these additional installation notes and verify
related product or third-party product requirements.

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 1. Brava! Server Components 16 EP7 requires a 16.6 license key. Customers running prior
versions must upgrade their license before using Brava! Server Components 16 EP7. The
license file used for Brava! Server Components 16 EP6 should continue to be used for Brava!
Server Components 16 EP7.
2. When running the Brava! Server Components installer, use the machinename\User method to
specify service account association. The .\User method is currently not supported.

For additional installation information, including installation instructions, reference the “Server
Components for Content Suite Viewer Admin Guide” available on My Support.

5.2 Installation troubleshooting

The following information is useful for installation troubleshooting:

1. If using Tomcat, please determine whether the heap memory settings are appropriate for the
installation; larger displaylistcache usage likely requires a larger maximum heap memory
setting. A maximum value of 512MB is set by the Brava! Enterprise installer for its bundled
Tomcat instance. The setting can be manually overridden in the installed Tomcat instance
with a more appropriate value.
2. When upgrading an existing Brava! Server Components install using the MSI package,
carefully consider whether any hotfix files were installed in that prior version. The cached
MSI will remove the hotfix files but the new MSI will not deploy new versions of the files if any
are older than the versions of the files added by the hotfix. This is a limitation of Windows
Installer technology. The solution is to manually re-install the hotfix files after the upgrade or
by first deleting the hotfix files before running the upgrade.
3. When Brava! is under load (in production or during performance testing) it is recommended to
add another Tomcat connector to handle the Done servlet. In Tomcat’s Server.xml file add the
following under the default setting of "Connector port”:
<Connector port="8081" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443"
maxThreads="200" />
Next, edit the Brava! Server.properties file and change the port on “done.servlet.url” to point
to the new port:
done.servlet.url=http://<Brava! Server>:8081/BravaServer
Restart all Brava! Enterprise services once both changes are made and saved.

6 Patches
A patch is a piece of software that is designed to fix or improve a computer program or its supporting
data. These may include repairs to security vulnerabilities or resolution of bugs and may also improve
usability or performance. On OpenText My Support you will find two general types of patches.
Hotfixes are also known as quick-fixes or bug fixes. Updates are also known as service packs or
service releases.

Updates consist of several fixes combined into a single patch. Typically, the third digit of the version
number of the product will increase, for example from 16.6.0 to 16.6.1. An update may also include
new features proactively introduced into the product. In most cases, updates are cumulative.

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7 Fixed issues
This section provides information about past issues that have been fixed in this release.

Issue number Issue description

CDL-3458 Exported PDF size is much bigger than the original
CDL-3453 In versions below 16.6 P1, some vector-based PDFs are very blurry when
zoomed-in past 100%, and none of their snap points load.
CDL-3247 Font weights in ActiveX vs HTML Viewer
CDL-3243 The characters display blurry in HTML viewer.
CDL-3211 DWF f ile when published to PDF has cracks in some of the text
CDL-3197 Brava ActiveX Viewer crashes IE when screen is 4K
CDL-3170 Markups not drawing when using banded printing
CDL-3159 Drawing state is coarse when printing with "Optimize f or PDF/Postscript printing"
checked
CDL-3176 CLONE f or 16.7- Brava! HTML viewer displays Thai characters incorrectly
CDL-2914 HPGL f ile displayed ActiveX viewer is really darker than it displayed in HTML
viewer
CDL-3165 Slow Performance during Pan or zoom
CDL-2848 Converting PDF with Bold Chinese Characters creates unreadable text
CDL-2797 Clone f or 16 EP7 – Issue With Minimum Line Thickness
CDL-2739 Cutting word is not searchable in Brava
CDL-2688 Brava HTML viewer shows hollow words
CDL-2560 Brava Enterprise - PDF Missing Content on View

8 Known issues
The following known issues exist in this release.

Issue number Issue description

BE-4444 High CPU utilization and slow processing 10,000-page PDF
CDL-3793 CLONE - In Brava additional characters appear in drawing.
CDL-3792 A PDF f ile is not viewing correctly in Brava! HTML viewer
CDL-3791 Brava HTML Viewer blurry compared to Active due to a "bad" layer
CDL-3786 When publishing dgn files to PDF or/and TIFF are not displaying correct line
weight.
CDL-3785 CLONE - Missing/corrupt area when converting PDF -> XDL
CDL-3779 Print output from HTML viewer results in reduced document resolution quality
and incorrect page orientation
CDL-3773 A specific customer file is not displayed correctly by the HTML Viewer when
compared to Adobe
CDL-3761 Document Not Viewing Correctly on HTML viewer
CDL-3752 Chevron - Unable to modify comment Adobe when CAD File is published by
Brava.
CDL-3746 CLONE f or 16.4 - Brava! HTML shown incorrect size for some Thai characters
CDL-3730 Text in PDF looks incorrect in Brava! HTML Viewer
CDL-3729 Characters doesn't render smoothly for specific CAD drawing file

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 Issue number Issue description
CDL-3711 Brava! HTML viewer displays incorrect drawing content.
CDL-3706 Unable to view dotx file in Brava! viewer
CDL-3693 Processing times significantly slower in 16.6 when compared to 16.0
CDL-3687 Some parameters are ignored while converting PDF to TIFF
CDL-3683 Publishing PDF file leads to CDL error "Net-It Now not installed"
CDL-3670 Black image appears in content when viewing PDF in Brava
CDL-3662 PDF: Section is missing the letter 'U' in all words. See attachments.
CDL-3659 In HTML viewer 16.4.0.101 , Some file contents are missing when viewing the pdf
f iles
CDL-3608 Brava! HTML viewer shows overlapping text in PDF file
CDL-3591 Customer cannot search for some Arabic words after stamping and publishing
some PDFs
CDL-3559 Snap points functionality missing, appears to be raster when certain vector-based
PDF document is viewed
CDL-3547 Cannot Print specific tif files to high quality PDF in Brava! Enterprise 16.6
CDL-3520 PDF f idelity issues - "Noise" on image
CDL-3516 Text extraction from tables does not preserve rows anymore
CDL-3515 Tif f generation significantly slower with 16.6.1
CDL-3500 DWG f ont issue on Mac OS
CDL-3498 Size of published SVGz significantly larger with 16.6.1
CDL-3497 Table not correctly rendered in published tiff
CDL-3495 Size of published tiffs significantly larger with 16.6.1
CDL-3479 DWF f ile slow to load and navigate w/ poor quality in ActiveX client
CDL-3471 Brava! HTML viewer crashes while viewing some document.
CDL-3392 Tif f to Tiff conversion does not honor tiffexportmaximumdimension
CDL-3367 Perf ormance degrade when printing from ActiveX
CDL-3356 Brava! HTML Viewer - 'Zoom' and 'Pan' performance is very poor when viewing
complex PDF documents
CDL-3342 In Brava ActiveX viewer the specific PDF file is some pages are unreadable.
CDL-3290 Clone f or 5.7- Loading snap points for a PDF document causes Chrome to crash
CDL-3275 File content not displayed correctly in HTML viewer
CDL-3266 Brava! is inconsistent while viewing specific file
CDL-3264 Quality of text under highlights in a specific PDF file are blurry once rendered in
Brava!
CDL-3260 PDF contents shows blurred when viewing in ActiveX viewer using Basic upload
CDL-3249 Tif f to Tiff publish see dramatic output file size increase
CDL-3248 Annotations differ (slightly) in PDF output from original markup file.
CDL-3235 Some PDF files lose text when published PDF files are viewed in Chrome
CDL-3225 Yellow markings on PDF appear very lightly when viewed in Brava 16.4 HTML
viewer
CDL-3114 .csv file is auto-recognized as a hpgl file.
CDL-3058 Cannot open specific PDF file if MaxRasterDimension set 10000
CDL-2978 Printing operation sometimes fails for a specific file when using HTML viewer
CDL-2902 When Publishing a document via Brava as PDF Comments they lose certain
metadata
CDL-2883 Browser Crashing when trying to view a pdf in HTML

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 Issue number Issue description
CDL-2819 Brava HTML Viewer – Not Able To View DWF Document Correctly On IE
CDL-2817 Reduce complexity of SVGs
CDL-2801 When rendering Word files text is blocked out like it is redacted, or has lines
across.
CDL-2732 Brava adding extra margin space to document when printing via HTML viewer
CDL-2716 PDF view distorted
CDL-2713 Brava HTML Viewer – Specific PDF Is Blurry
CDL-2697 Black lines visible around some objects after publishing to PDF
CDL-2655 CLONE - Embedded fonts of generated PDF/A files do not contain the font-name
anymore
CDL-2644 Brava - Publish to PDF causes markup text shift
CDL-2642 Comments made vertically not visible on PDF
CDL-2558 Brava Enterprise – HTML Viewer - Deselecting layers does not change which
layers are visible and issue changing background color
CDL-2501 Unable to view some DWG properly
CDL-2480 Brava Enterprise - Publish to PDF From Source PDF Strips Most Content From
PDF
CDL-2370 Some Chinese characters insome documents cannot be viewed in HTML viewer
on IE
CDL-2139 Linux , setup character mapping for symbols since we do not have a one to one
Windings equivalent
CDL-2093 Perf ormance degeneration of XDL-to-SVG conversion in Brava 16.2
CDL-2078 Perf ormance degeneration of XDL conversion in Brava 16.2
CDL-1552 Thai Characters not displayed properly in Brava
CDL-1424 Files size increasing after batch stamping with certain files

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9 Contact information
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