Document
Imaging SDK/ActiveX is here!
Black
Ice Software is proud to announce the availability
of its highly anticipated Document Imaging
SDK/ActiveX product.
The
new Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX is built upon
Black Ice technology that was available and
used by customers for many years in products
like TIFF SDK/ActiveX, Annotation SDK/ActiveX
and Image SDK/ActiveX, but also includes many
new features that have been developed exclusively
for the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX product.
Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX is a software development
tool that helps application developers and programmers
to create applications with sophisticated image
processing capabilities. The SDK works on every
Windows operating system from Windows Server
2003 to Windows 95 and because it includes both C/C++ libraries and
ActiveX controls, the functionality of the product
can be accessed from most programming languages
like C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, MS FoxPro,
MS Access. Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX is also
.NET compatible meaning that VB.NET, C# and J#
programmers can also take full advantage of the
product.
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BLACK
ICE PRINTER DRIVERS -
New exciting additions!
Printer
driver profiles introduced.
Black
Ice printer drivers can be used to generate image
files for different types of applications. All
these applications require a different set of
printer settings like file format, resolution,
paper size, etc. For example to generate images
for a fax server, the printer driver has to be
set to generate monochrome TIFF images. However
to generate images for a document archiving application
the printer needs to be set to generate full
color, high resolution JPEG files.
When
a user wants to switch the printer from one application
to another and the application does not provide
an automatic way for changing printer settings,
the user not only has to know which settings
must be changed to fulfill the requirements of
the other application, but also has to change
all the settings manually. This is a time consuming
task and it could cause problems if the user
makes a mistake by settings printer driver parameters
to incorrect values.
To
provide a solution to this problem, printer driver
profiles have been introduced. A printer driver
profile stores every printer setting at a given
moment. This means that one can have separate
profiles for different applications and switching
from one application to another means that another
printer driver profile should be loaded. Users
do not have to know what settings the application
requires and they do not have to make printer
settings changes manually. They simply select
another profile from the profile list and the
printer driver will make all the necessary changes
automatically.
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