newsletter archives - May, 2004

Volume 9. Issue 5.

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Eicon Networks Diva Server supported by Fax C++/ActiveX Eicon Networks Corporation (“Eicon”), a global provider of communication products for networked business applications, today announced Black Ice Fax C++/ActiveX development toolkit support for the Eicon’s Diva Server platform. The Eicon Diva Server products are based on open technology enabling the server to take advantage of the extensive capabilities of third-party applications. As a member of the Eicon Networks Technology Partner program, Black Ice is able to offer high quality and timely solutions to the market place. The Diva Server products provide all the capabilities needed for a powerful fax solution, ranging from single basic rate (BRI) adapters, for the small to medium sized enterprises, to T1 and primary rate (PRI) models, fulfilling communication needs of large enterprises. Diva Server fully supports Fax Group 3 based on the T.30 fax standard including error correction (ECM) and compression standards (MH; MR; MMR) ensuring fast and reliable fax transmission with a transmission speed of up to 33.6 kbps (V.34). Printer Driver Tips Solution for Error number 1796 The Black Ice Technical Support Team recently encountered a handful of computer systems where the printer driver installation failed with the following error message: “Error in function dAddPrinter, Parameter Black Ice PDF (Demo).  Error code 1796". It turned out that on all of these systems, the registry privileges were very limited, keys were created with read only access right, and the setup wasn’t able to create the necessary registry keys to correctly install the printer driver  on the system (“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Ice Monitor P (Demo)\ PortList”, in the case of the PDF demo driver) . In the latest version of the printer drivers, Black Ice has solved this issue by forcing read and write access rights to the Black Ice specific registry keys. The Group file What is a Group file ? A “group file” is generated by the Black Ice printer driver for every print job. The group file contains information about the generated images such as Paper size, DPI, color depth, encoding (JPEG, TIFF, PDF, etc) and of course the name of the generated files. After printing, how can I learn the name of the group file? The group file name is the same as the generated image file name, ending with a .grp extension. It is located in the same directory as the generated image file. The name of the group file is also sent with the start doc and end doc event when you capture the printer driver messages. How can I get the name of the generated image files? The group file contains the name of the generated images. First the application should check for the print status, to see if the document was successfully printed. Newt read the number of total pages from the “Total number of pages=” value. The name of each image is saved to the “FileName” value in the section reserved for the actual page ( section [Page 1] for the first page, etc.) [Black Ice TIFF] Image Format=TIFF Group 4 Append Image Enabled=Yes Bits Per Pixel=1 Print status=Printing finished successfully Document name=Microsoft Word - New.doc Total number of pages=1 [Page 1] FileName=C:\Documents and Settings\alpar.BLACKICE.001\Local Settings\Temp\AAA10.TIF TextFileName=C:\Documents and Settings\alpar.BLACKICE.001\Local Settings\Temp\AAA10.TXT

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