PDF Image Printer versions

v9.0 [Aug 27, 2010]
Improvements:
- Improved performance of printing lots of small documents in a row.
- Improved performance of text extraction.
- Fixed issue with COM API reporting jobs not completed when no jobs in print queue, introduced by Windows 7 and Windows 2008 SP1.
New features and fixes:
- New feature added to support rendering pages at resolution of printer when in Fax Mode. This feature is enabled by default. It solves the problem of Excel documents creating more pages when forced to rendered document at Fax resolution (200 dpi) as was default in prior releases.
- Enhanced support of paper selection based on paper width and height. A few products do not always select paper type (Letter, A4, etc.) but instead only use the width and height of the paper. Product now matches postscript printer driver behaviour for this situation.
- For PNSrv9 COM users, improved speed of creating printer pool, enhanced clean-up of ports and printers to ensure all registry keys removed.
- New feature added to allow creation of PDF/A-1b standard complaint PDF documents.
- New feature added to support saving sent messages in the sent folder when using extended MAPI.
- Resolved issue with memory leak in spooler (spoolsv.exe) process.
Support added for:
Windows 7 (SP1)
Windows 2008 R2 (SP1)
Internet Explorer 9.0
Adobe Acrobat and Reader X (10.0.xx)
- Resolves issues in the PNSrv9 COM Interface where the SetTIFFCompressionOptions method did not correctly configure compression to JPEG in TIFF when called with any of the JPEG compression options as follows:
- pnColorCompressionMethod.pnColorCompressionJPEG[High|Medium|Low]Quality
- pnIndexedCompressionMethod.pnIndexedCompressionJPEG[High|Medium|Low]Quality
- pnGreyscaleCompressionMethod.pnGreyscaleCompressionJPEG[High|Medium|Low]Quality
which resulted in only LZW compressed images instead of JPEG compressed images in TIFF files.
- Resolved conversion performance/speed issue found on computers with no internet access.
- Added feature to allow enabling Fax Mode to use a full 256 greyscale palette when dithering to black and white. The default is still to use a 64 greyscale palette to reduce size of fax and eliminate low intensity colors used normally to shape areas.
- Added feature to allow setting the Control String prefix and suffix to a single unicode character value. By using this feature, products like Crystal Reports 11 and Adobe Reader can be configured so the product recognizes control strings. The default prefix of '~0%' and suffix '?' are used if this feature is not in affect.
- Resolved a multi-thread issue causing trial watermark to appear randomly on output when printer used in highly threaded application on computers with more then 4 CPUs.
- Resolved another issue with paper sizes off by 1 pixel when user paper size specified instead of form name.
- Resolved issues in Fax Mode with paper sizes off by 1 pixel.
- Added support to detect pre-rotated forms like 'A4 Rotated', so operation like rotated landscape pages will be applied correctly to these paper sizes.
- Enhanced watermark brightness to allow full range from -100 to 100 for improved control.
- Resolved issues with PrintRange, SkipPage, and watermark control strings.
- Resolved issue with $copies variable not reporting correct number of copies selected during print operation.
- Fixed spooled page count for PNSrv9 COM users on Windows 2008 systems.
- Fixed auto selecting of paper size in fax mode to when paper is printed landscape.
- Added new feature to support auto selecting of paper size in fax mode based on first page of document.
Technical Enhancements Include:
- Improved the performance of the printer driver to take advantage of parallel processing capabilities on multi-core machines.
- Custom paper size improved, major improvement for those working with large paper or rotated paper sizes such as AutoCad users.
- Added the ability to create faxable images:
- Supports creating Profile F and Profile S monochrome fax images, and Profile C color fax images.
- Fax images can be created in Letter, Legal, A4(ISO), A3(ISO) and B4(ISO) paper sizes.
- Customize fax image scaling and its alignment on the fax-sized page.
- Supports the following fax resolutions: 100 x 100, 200 x 100, 200 x 200, 204 x 98, 204 x 196, 300 x 300, 400 x 400, 408 x 391, 204 x 391, 300 x 600, 400 x 800, 600 x 600, 600 x 1200, 1200 x 1200.
- A reduced fax mode palette is used when creating Profile F and Profile S fax images.
- New Color Reduction options have been added to give greater control over the output files:
- Reduce to 256 color palette will reduce each page to a maximum of 256 colors.
- Reduce to 16 color palette will reduce each page to a maximum of 16 colors.
- Reduce to optimal palette, 256 colors max will reduce each page to its minimum number of colors with a maximum of 256 colors.
- Reduce to optimal palette, 16 colors max will reduce each page to its minimum number of colors with a maximum of 16 colors.
- Output file type, color reduction and dithering methods are now all controlled on the Save tab to make it easier to select the output file type.
- Fixes Include:
- Error 1798 during installation; updated the install file.
- Arabic and Tibetan script produced error when used in the filename field.
- Watermark feature now available in PDF Image Printer 9.0.
- Fixed problem of Custom Paper Right margin not working correctly.
Error log now created when Error Log field is left blank.