Technical FAQs

Question

Why did my license stop working?

Answer

There are a couple reasons why a license might stop working. The most common would be if the MAC addresses changed (on a virtual machine, or after significant hardware change). Additionally, a temporary two week license can be put on a machine via the Server Licensing Utility if there are no licenses available when you license a machine. Feel free to contact us at marketing@accusoft.com if you have additional questions. If you want a new license please contact info@accusoft.com.

Question

Why do I get a “80040154 Class Not Registered” error when using the License Development Kit on IIS?

Answer

If you are receiving a “80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).” error while trying to use the LDK on a website created through IIS, it is likely because of a platform conflict (x32 vs x64). To fix it, try checking (or unchecking) “Enable 32-Bit Applications” for the App Pool associated with the website.

Question

Why do I still get the “Accusoft Licensing” popup after I have licensed my machine?

Answer

There are a few reasons why this might happen:

  1. You have licensed your machine with a runtime/deployment license and you are not calling the SetSolutionName and SetSolutionKey methods in your code. By default, Accusoft products will look for a license in the registry at this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Accusoft\Licensing\Accusoft. However, for runtime licenses, they are stored at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Accusoft\Licensing\YourSolutionName. So, when you call SetSolutionName, that tells your application to look in the correct directory to find the runtime license. You can find the necessary parameters for these methods on the customer portal customer portal.
  2.  You did not successfully install a license on your machine and the temporary license installed has expired. If you use the SLU (Server License Utility) or the LDK (License Deployment Kit) to license your machine and it fails, a temporary 14 day license will be placed on your machine. When that expires, you’ll no longer be able to use the product. If this happens, you’ll need to run the SLU or try using the LDK again. If that doesn’t work, you might want to try licensing your machine in offline mode.
  3.  You are trying to use a development license and you are calling SetSolutionName and SetSolutionKey in your code. You should only call SetSolutionName and SetSolutionKey in your code when you are deploying your application and using a deployment license. When you install a development license on your machine, it is placed into the registry at the following path: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Accusoft\Licensing\Accusoft”. When you call SetSolutionName in your code, you are telling the control to look for a license at a different path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Accusoft\Licensing\YourSolutionName. If you are calling SetSolutionName and SetSolutionKey while trying to use a developmentlicense, simply comment out those lines for now.
  4. The license information you’ve entered might be wrong. Check on the customer portal to make sure you’ve got the values parameters for the SetSolutionKey and SetSolutionNamecorrect.
Question

Why, when I tried to run the SLU, do I get a ” Component ‘COMDLG32.OCX’ or one of its dependences not correctly registered” error?

Answer

This error happens if a particular deployment machine doesn’t have the COMDLG32.OCX file registered. To fix this: 1.   Install the comdlg.ocx dependency, if not available on the target machine. If the comdlg.ocx is not present on the system than it will need to be obtained from a system that has it (it should be available on your development machine in the directory mentioned in step 2). 2.   Place the file in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. (C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on a 64 bit machine) 3.   Register the DLL via the regsvr32.exe command. 4.   You should see a successful message and then be able to proceed with the licensing installation.

Question

I need to share a large file with Accusoft support. What should I do?

Answer

Accusoft FTP

EXISTING CUSTOMERS:

If you are an existing customer, you can access our server using any of the following with your current credentials:

Protocol URL Port
FTPS ftp.accusoft.com 21
SFTP ftp.accusoft.com 22
HTTPS https://ftp.accusoft.com 443

To access the server with FTPS/SFTP using a browser, you may need to install/enable a plugin or extension. To access using HTTPS, you would use the URL shown above. FTPS and SFTP are accessible using most any FTP Client (e.g. filezilla, WinSCP etc.) Windows 10 b1803 and newer have sftp.exe built-in. This is a command-line-only utility for transferring files using SFTP.

Share with us from your Cloud Storage

You can share your files with us through your choice of service. Here are some of our suggested options below:

Google Drive

Dropbox

OneDrive

Question

What browsers does PrizmDoc support?

Answer

Please refer to our latest documentation for the most up-to-date list of supported browsers:

For documentation on older versions of PrizmDoc, please see our documentation archive.

Question

What operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.) does PrizmDoc officially support?

Answer

Please refer to our latest documentation for the most up-to-date list of supported operating systems:

For documentation on older versions of PrizmDoc, please see our documentation archive.

Question

What are the absolute essentials for embedding the PrizmDoc Viewer into my web page/application?

Answer

Viewer API (viewercontrol.js)

The Viewer API is the base building block of the Viewer. We ensure that API changes are backward compatible with point releases (for example, PrizmDoc v13.5 → PrizmDoc v13.6) and will not introduce breaking changes unless critical. With major releases we also endeavor to ensure backward compatibility with previous releases of the Viewer API.

HTML Templates (viewerCustomization.js) and CSS (viewercontrol.css, viewer.css)

The Viewer that is shipped with the product will be maintained and enhanced from release to release. The Viewer HTML and CSS markup will change with each release. Once you have begun to modify your markup, it is recommended that you consider subsequent PrizmDoc releases as sample code, in which you would evaluate product changes and choose to incorporate all or parts of those changes into your customization.

JavaScript files (viewer.js)

The Viewer JavaScript that lies above the Viewer API is unobfuscated and open for customization. While we expect many developer needs will be satisfied through configuration parameters and minor HTML or styling changes, some developers will desire to modify viewer.js for more advanced customization. You should carefully consider your development and ongoing maintenance strategy to ensure that future releases of PrizmDoc are easy to integrate into your customizations. We cannot guarantee backward compatibility of viewer.js in future releases as it is central to the functionality of the Viewer.

For information on integrating PrizmDoc Viewer, see the Getting Started section of the documentation.

For more in depth customization, see the PrizmDoc Customization section of the documentation.

Question

The ISIS Xpress BasicCapabilities and AdvancedCapabilities samples demonstrate a number of different ways to acquire images and save a batch of them to file, but how can I get a single image as soon as it gets acquired by the scanner?

Answer

During the ISIS Xpress Scanned() event, you can get the currently acquired page via the ISISXpress.Output property (i.e., – ISISXpress.Output.TransferTo() or ISISXpress.Output.ToHdib()).

Question

My document has Asian characters (CJK, etc.), which are not displaying correctly in PrizmDoc Viewer; what steps can I take to view them?

Answer

In some cases, the reason is due to the fonts not being installed on the operating system. We have outlined some commands to install fonts for select operating systems below:

In CentOS 6 do:

yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"
yum groupinstall "Japanese Support"
yum groupinstall "Korean Support"
yum groupinstall "Kannada Support"
yum groupinstall "Hindi Support"

In CentOS 7 do:

yum groupinstall "fonts"

In Ubuntu do:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-ja
sudo apt-get install japan*
sudo apt-get install language-pack-zh*
sudo apt-get install chinese*
sudo apt-get install language-pack-ko
sudo apt-get install korean*
sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-unfonts-core
Question

Many Microsoft Office files have macros in them. Does PrizmDoc execute macros that are within Office files?

Answer

PrizmDoc does not execute macros within Office documents.

Question

The PrizmDoc Office Conversion Service on my localhost:18681/admin page says it’s “Starting” or has failed to start. What could the issue be?

Answer

This indicates that the license key provided is not licensed for the Microsoft Office Conversion feature.

To fix this, modify the fidelity.msOfficeDocumentsRenderer property in prizm-services-config.yml.

For information on the supported values, see the Fidelity section in the Central Configuration topic.