New Printer Driver INI file generating utility

Black Ice Software is pleased to announce the release of a new utility which will revolutionize the way that developers define the Black Ice Printer Driver’s default settings.

Setting the default printer settings for the Black Ice printer drivers plays a key role in the success of a developer’s application. By setting the Black Ice printer driver’s default settings from their product installation, developers can be sure that the printer driver’s settings will meet the settings required by their application, and reduce the number of support calls from end users with incorrect printer driver settings.

The most common way for developers to set application specific printer driver settings for the Black Ice printer drivers is through the use of the INI file. Previously, developers had to set the required default settings by specifying the desired flags, totaling those flags and converting them to hex. A simple arithmetic error and your printer driver doesn’t install with the expected settings.

To simplify this process, Black Ice Software has released a new utility which automatically generates an INI file based on the current settings of the selected printer. Now, developer’s can simply specify the desired settings from the Black Ice printer driver’s user interface and then run the new INI file generation utility to generate an INI file containing the exact settings of the selected printer.

New Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX filters

Black Ice Software has recently added 8 new filters to the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX development toolkit. The new additions include the following:

1. Mosaic filter
2. Puzzle filter
3. Average filter
4.Cylinder filter
5.Multiply filter
6.Polar filter
7.Impressionist filter
8.Add Noise filter

Developers can download the latest Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX toolkit from the Black Ice website to try these latest filter additions for themselves.