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The latest release of Monarch is v9.01. This is available for download from: www.datawatch.com/support/downloads.asp

Monarch V9.01, a maintenance release for Monarch V9, is now available for free download for all licensed users of Monarch V9 Standard or Pro editions. You can download and install this maintenance release via our website. Be sure to download and run the update to the same PC you originally installed Monarch V9.

For a detailed listing of the improvements of the patch please click here.

In addition to its existing functions such as converting old .mod/.prj modeland project templates to the new .xmod/.xprj XML model and project formats used in V7 and V8, the Monarch Utility now takes over the functionality in the old Prep utility and the MSRP (Monarch String Replacement Program) utility:

Replace a string with another string or an empty one
Insert line breaks into continuous stream files
Insert line breaks into files with a long line length (e.g., more than 4000 characters)
Format EDI files to enable easier processing of them via Monarch. The new Monarch Utility offers user-defined options to insert line breaks into EDI streams, better enabling Monarch to mine the data from EDI, as you would a typical report.

Please visit our technical self help forum at http://visual.datawatch.com/pilot/dwch/knwldgbs.nsf for:

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Join the Monarch User’s Forum today and you can share information with, ask questions and learn from Monarch wizards - details are at:

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Tips & Tricks

Here are a few tips from the Monarch Customer Support team when using Monarch V8 Pro's ability to open PDF files and convert them to text, ready for report mining.

This maintenance release will update any edition of Monarch 8.00, Standard and Pro, standalone or network versions, with several enhancements and some bug fixes. For the network version, the upgrade needs to be performed on the server only; you do not have to run the upgrade on your workstations. PDF to text conversion functionality requires Monarch V8 Pro.

It is important to again note that Monarch V8 Pro cannot open "Image only" PDF files. Any images in your PDF file are ignored by Monarch V8 Pro. The only way to convert an image file to text is by using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can determine quickly if your PDF file includes text (also known as a "Normal" PDF file) by opening your PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, or Acrobat Reader, and try to highlight the text in your PDF file.

To do this, use Adobe's Select Text option: click on the Select Text box and then drag your mouse over the data to see if it will highlight all the information. If none of the data can be highlighted, the PDF file is an image. If you can highlight only part of the data, the non-highlighted portions of your PDF might throw off your alignment of columns when converted to text with Monarch Pro.

The Monarch V8.02 maintenance release offers much more precision in defining how much spacing should appear between data, when converting PDF to text. This is defined using the Output Scaling option in Monarch V8 Pro. You can now define Output Scaling in increments of tenths (original Monarch V8.00 Pro did not offer this level of precision). Most PDF conversions, which did not work using Monarch Pro V8.00, will now work with the Monarch V8.01 maintenance update and its superior Output Scaling.

Vertical lines alongside your PDF data may present a problem when converting to text with Monarch V8 Pro. The vertical lines may throw off the vertical alignment of data. It would be ideal to simply remove such vertical line formatting from your PDF design, if at all possible.

Finally, in some PDF conversions, the original Monarch V8.00 Pro did a better job than the new Monarch V8.01! For this reason, you can choose whether to revert to the old Monarch V8.00 PDF conversion routines instead of Monarch V8.01 using the check boxes.

Technical Support

Datawatch Europe provide free technical support for all users. Please note that support is provided in English only, during UK working hours. For support, please contact:

Datawatch Europe Technical Support
Email: support@datawatch-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1962 835 001

Installation

Installing Monarch is usually straightforward, but for customers with network versions of Monarch some advice is available here.

Upgrades

Customers running older versions of Monarch are entitled to either free or reduced cost upgrade paths to the latest version. Please contact us or our partners for information.

Maintenance

Customers with more than 10 users of Monarch are entitled to join our Volume Licence Agreement and Maintenance Programme. For details, please contact us.