Auto-print technology - Programmatic Document Conversion

By using Auto-print technology, an application can print out commonly used documents automatically without any user interaction.

 

The Auto-print SDK contains samples written in C++, Visual Basic and C# that show how to implement applications capable of Auto-printing. These simple but powerful samples can help developers build applications that can print out MS Office documents such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, HTML, Adobe and Foxit PDF files, XPS documents, Image files (TIFF, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, FAX) and AutoCAD files and Email files (MSG, EML) without any user intervention. The Auto-print DLL source code is only available in the Release version of Auto-print SDK. The Auto-print Service sample source code is available in the Demo and Release version of the Auto-print SDK.

 

Some of the business applications of the Auto-print technology are:

 

Large scale batch file conversion.

Unattained server based document conversion.

Web Service based document conversion.

Fax document management.

Archiving application.

 

The Auto-print sample provides developers with a framework for creating an application which will do document conversion either without user intervention, or to create applications which perform document conversion through the Black Ice printer without the user knowing.

 

The Auto-print sample can be enhanced by developers to include support for additional file types, as required by the target application. Source code for the Auto-print sample, Auto-print Service sample and Multi-Threaded Converter sample included in the “Sample Source Code” folder of the installation.