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The PDF Printer Drivers
now support full text PDF output!
New Features include:
- Owner and User
password settings are supported
- Document metadata
settings (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords)
- Supported compression
methods:
- Color image:
Flate, Runlength, JPEG
- Mono image:
Flate, Runlength, CCITT Fax
- Other streams:
Flate
- Supported fonts:
TrueType, Type1
- PDF Version
1.4
- PDF/A
- UNICODE text
The
PDF printer driver is designed for developers and
end users to build document imaging, e-commerce,
archiving applications by converting any file document
into either color or black & white PDF format. The
PDF printer driver is based entirely on Black Ice
Printer Driver technology which has been in use
since 1989, and is not based on Microsoft Mini-driver
technology.
Every
PDF printer driver purchased includes a Free
Resource ToolKit to easily integrate the PDF
printer driver into the developed application.
Supported operating
systems (terminal services MUST NOT be present):
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Windows Vista (32
and 64bit)
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Windows XP Home
and Professional (32 and 64bit)
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Windows 2000 Professional
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Windows 2000 Server
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Windows 2000 Advanced
Server
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Windows NT 4.0
The PDF printer driver
features are grouped into the following main parts.
Each of the above feature
groups' settings can be changed from the PDF printer
driver Printing Preferences dialog.
The Device Settings
Paper Size
The PDF printer driver
supports a total of 84 different
paper sizes.
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45 standard paper
(page) sizes are supported.
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36 Advanced paper
sizes are supported, including the A0 Engineering
paper size.
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3 Black Ice paper
sizes, such as User-selectable variable
(custom) paper size specified in inches
or millimeters, fax paper size and variable
paper size in pixels.
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Users can add new
paper sizes, customize existing paper sizes,
and remove unwanted paper sizes.
Page Orientation
Besides the traditional
Portrait and Landscape orientations, Black Ice PDF
printer drivers support the "Rotate landscape image
to portrait" option too.
By
using this option, the document will be printed
using the landscape orientation and then the image
will be rotated to portrait orientation.
Graphic resolutions
The Black Ice PDF Printer
Drivers support for the following resolutions:
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100 x 100 DPI
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200 x 200 DPI
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204 x 98 DPI - the
Standard FAX mode ( Draft )
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204 x 196 DPI -
the Fine FAX mode ( Low )
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300 x 300 DPI
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600 x 600 DPI
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Custom resolution
- up to 3000x3000 DPI
The
custom resolution can be set to any value ( horizontal
and vertical ) up to 3000 x 3000 DPI and not less
then 50 x 50 DPI
File Formats Settings
Use these settings to
specify the output file format for the PDF printer
drivers to generate. The printed documents will
be converted to images which will be stored in the
selected format
File Format
Printed documents can
be converted into PDF format. The original color
documents will be converted to PDF using true color
(24 bit), 256 color (8 bit), grayscale (8 bit) or
monochrome (black and white) format.
Add additional file format support using the ColorPlus
printer driver!
Multipage file support
The Black Ice PDF printer
drivers can convert multipage documents in one of
two ways: by generating one separate image file
for each page, or by generating one single multipage
PDF file. Using the multipage file support, all
pages from the source document will be stored in
the same PDF file.
Write text file
- Generate text output
If the source document
contains text information, the PDF printer drivers
can extract and save the text from the document
in a separate text file in addition to creating
the PDF file(s).
Click Here for additional text extraction information.
Save position and style
- for text output
This powerful feature
allows exact reconstruction of a document. When
this option is selected, the exact position of the
text and the font information from the source document
will be saved in a text file.
Mail Merge
The mail merge feature
is available in the PDF printer drivers, call for
details.
Photo Quality (Dithering)
In order to convert
color documents into monochrome (black and white)
format, several dithering methods are available
and can be used. The PDF printer drivers support
seven different dithering methods.
The
size and appearance of the generated PDF file vary
depending on which dithering method is used.
Filename Generation
Settings
The Filename generation
settings allow the name of the generated images
to be specified. The Black Ice PDF printer drivers
support seven different filename generation methods:
These
filename generation methods provide huge flexibility
to the application which integrates the PDF printer
drivers.
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Use the prefix and extension:
the output filename will be generated from random
characters. The first three characters will
be the characters specified in the ‘Filename
Prefix’ edit box and random numbers will be
added.
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Prefix and extension from
the registry:
The file name prefix and the extension will
be read from the specified registry key.
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Prefix and extension from
the INI file:
In this case the filename and the prefix will
be read from the specified INI file. The driver
will search in the INI file for a printer name
section. Use the “File Name Prefix" key for
the file prefix and the “File Name extension"
key for the extension.
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Exact filename:
The printed file will be generated with the
exact name as specified in the ‘Enter the filename’
edit box.
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Exact filename from the registry:
The filename will be read from the specified
registry key.
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Exact filename from the INI
file:
In this case the filename will be read from
the specified INI file.
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Use the document name:
The driver will use the document name which
the application passes to the driver when generating
the name of the output file.
Output Directory
The PDF printer drivers
will generate the PDF file(s) in the specified folder.
This folder can be on the local hard drive, can
be a mapped network drive, or it can be a folder
on another computer.
Group File Options
For every print job
(printed document) the PDF printer drivers creates
a "group file". The group file contains information
about the generated PDF file, including the name
of the document, the full path and file name for
each page, color depth, paper size, orientation,
and printing status.
Delete
the group file after printing
- The PDF printer drivers will
automatically delete the group file at the end of
the printing. Applications can still use the information
from the group file during printing.
Disable group file generation - If it is
not needed, the group file generation can be turned
off.
Start Application
Settings
One of the features
of the Black Ice PDF printer drivers is that the
printer driver can start an application before or
after printing. If the application is started before
the printing starts, the applications can wait for
the messages sent by the printer driver. When the
application is started after the printing has finished,
a custom application can read the command line parameters
of the generated group file, which will contain
all of the necessary information about the generated
PDF files.
The order of the parameters
passed to the started application can be changed,
and unnecessary parameters can be removed from the
parameter list.
Watermark
Settings
Add a watermark image
to every printed document using the Print Watermark
feature of the Black Ice PDF printer drivers. The
selected image (your company logo, signature, etc.)
will show up automatically on the generated images.
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Watermark image file:
If needed, two different watermark images can
be specified for portrait and landscape orientation
images.
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Position:
The watermark can be placed
on the document using four options:
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Brightness:
controls the visibility of
the watermark image on the original document.
The
watermark is always in the background, so the document's
text and images are clearly visible.
Embedded Annotation
Settings
It is possible to define
a custom annotation text that will be placed on
every printed page. The annotation text can also
contain the current date and/or the time. The format
of the date and time, the position of the annotation
text on the page, and the font used to print the
annotation can be fully customized. The Black
Ice PDF printer drivers can also add user specific
annotations such as the printing user name, computer
name, IP Address, etc. which can be specified using
predefined fields and environment variables.
Profile Manager
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.
Bates Numbering
Bates numbering
is a unified way to refer to and track documents
and pages by number rather than name. Bates number
is normally a series of letters followed by sequential
numbers which are incremented for each printed page.
Bates Numbering is mostly used by law firms to aid
in the referencing of documents.
The Bates
Numbering provided by Black Ice Software is composed
of two components: prefix and number. The prefix
can be any string including letters and numbers,
such as a case number, client name, etc. The second
part of the Bates Number, the actual number, will
be incremented for each printed page. The user can
specify a starting number that will be incremented
by the driver automatically for each printed page.
Advanced features
and technologies
Black Ice PDF printer
drivers support several features and technologies
that no other printer driver vendor supports. In
order to make use of these technologies, there are
several applications included in the
Resource Toolkit that demonstrate these features.
The following list enumerates
these Black Ice specific technologies. Please click
on the links below to get more information about
these features.
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