• DataLink Viewer 5.9001 has been released (May 2009).
  
  
• Visual CUT 6.1 has been released (March 2009). Among many other enhancements, it adds an alternative emailing engine that supports queueing, archiving, advanced authentication, encryption, and message signing options (NTLM, CRAM-MD5, SSL, STARTTLS). This version also adds a PDF_Linearize command line argument that web-enables exported pdf files so they open much faster from web links.
  
  
• A new version (6.0) of Visual CUT has been released (November 23, 2008). Among other features:
  1) MS Word template documents can be filled with Crystal field/formula values and saved/emailed to dynamic destinations
  2) users can avoid repeated logins during interactive use of Visual CUT by enabling Integrated Interactive Authentication functionality
  3) Merging of PDF files can automatiocally generate bookmarks based on the merged file names.
  
  
• New httpFileExists() function (checking if a file exists on a web server), DistanceByZip(), Distance(), and GetLatLongFromZip() were added to CUT Light (March 2009).
  
  
• A new version (5.9001) of Visual CUT has been released (August 01, 2008).
  
  
• DataLink Viewer 2008 (using Crystal Reorts 2008 runtime components) has been released (July 25, 2008). Among other key enhancements it:
  a) provides a new intuitive and customizable grid interface for arranging previously opened reports, b) remembers the last export format, folder, and file name for each report,
  c) adds useful preview toolbar buttons (e.g., quick-print to default printer ) and shortcut-keys, and
  d) reduces memory requirements.
  
  
• A new version (5.8001) of DataLink Viewer has been released (July 25, 2008).
  
  
• A new version (5.7001) of DataLink Viewer has been released (February 26, 2008). Among other things, it adds an option to the Integrated Authentication functionality allowing an administrator to securely share integrated authentication information with any other user who successfully logged in to the same machine.
  
  
• A new version (5.8001) of Visual CUT has been released (November 25, 2007). Among other things, it adds the ability to move/clone report settings.
  
  
• A new version (5.7001) of Visual CUT has been released (September 27, 2007). Among other things, it adds a text files merge cabability, enhances PDF processing options related to merging, bookmarks, page numbers, and tables of content, and adds excel processing options such as print setup directives (e.g., fit to 1 page), auto-filter, and auto-fit column and row sizes.
  
  
• A new version (5.6001) of DataLink Viewer has been released (September 24, 2007). Among other things, it adds selective parameter refresh functionality (users don't have to provide all parameter values when refreshing a report) and the Crystal XI version is now upgraded to XI R2 (Crystal XI Release 2).
  
  
• A new version (5.6001) of Visual CUT has been released (March 31, 2007). Among other things, it adds support for other character sets in email messages (for example, allowing chinese characters using the big5 character set), custom email headers, faster export and email bursting, faster processing of pdf files, ability to process extremely large pdf files, button to automate the process of inserting the command line into a new/existing batch file, ability to specify multiple printer destination in a text file, ability to merge dynamically specified (controlled via a Crystal field/formula) multi-page TIFF files into pdf files (a typical use scenario is to combine scanned images of signed delivery document into bursted/exported pdf invoices before emailng the combined pdf file to customers), and ability to generate Form Fields in exported pdf files based on formulas placed on the report - this means you can use Crystal to design pdf forms, and Visual CUT to generate, burst, and distribute these forms).
  
  
• A new version (5.5001) of DataLink Viewer has been released (January 12, 2007). Among other things, it adds compatibility with document management programs such as Documentum and an option to convert double-clicks from regular drill-down action to In-Place Drill-Down action.

Millet Software provides tools that work with Crystal Reports.

History:

DataLink Viewer was first released on August 2002. Since then, there have been 50 new releases with various enhancements.

Visual CUT was first released on June 2002. Since then, there have been 62 new releases with various enhancements.

The CUT Light User Function Library (UFL) was first released on December 2003. Since then, there have been 12 new releases with various enhancements and new functions.

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