Usual applications that integrate the printer driver are typically using only a few file formats. Faxing application most likely will use only the TIFF Group3 1D file format. If the end user changes the printing output to color JPEG, that may cause problems in the application which integrates the printer driver. The best solution is to restrict the end users to only use the file formats supported by the developer’s application.
File formats can be disabled using the printer driver’s .INI file. At the [UI FileFormats] section, enter a 0 for each file format name you would like to hide, and a 1 for each format name you would like to show. This way the disabled file formats will not show up for the end user in the File Format selection list. If a file format name is missing from the .INI file, the file format is shown, as the default value is 1 for each file format. For technical details on the .INI files please see the The Printer Driver INI Files section of the manual.
Example 1
To hide only the “TIFF Group 4 (*.tif)” file format but show every other file format on the user interface, enter the following into the INI file:
[UI FileFormats]
TIFF Group 4 (*.tif)=0
Example 2
To disable every file format on the user interface except the PDF and PDF/A file formats, enter the following into the INI file:
[UI FileFormats]
PDF (*.pdf)=1
PDF/A (*.pdf)=1
Compact PDF (*.pdf)=0
PDF Image (*.pdf)=0
JPEG (*.jpg)=0
JPEG LAB (*.jpg)=0
PNG (*.png)=0
GIF (*.gif)=0
TIFF JPEG (*.tif)=0
TIFF Group 4 (*.tif)=0
TIFF Group 3, 1 Dimension (*.tif)=0
TIFF Group 3, 1 Dimension, with Fillbits (*.tif)=0
TIFF Group 3, 2 Dimension (*.tif)=0
TIFF Packed (*.tif)=0
TIFF Lempel-Ziv & Welch (*.tif)=0
TIFF Uncompressed (*.tif)=0
TIFF for CISCO (*.tif)=0
TIFF for Dialogic boards (*.tif)=0
TIFF for NMS boards (*.tif)=0
TIFF for Gammalink boards (*.tif)=0
HTML - editable (*.htm)=0
HTML with GIF (*.htm)=0
HTML with PNG (*.htm)=0
HTML with JPEG (*.htm)=0
HTML with BMP (*.htm)=0
XML - editable (*.xml)=0
XML with GIF (*.xml)=0
XML with PNG (*.xml)=0
XML with JPEG (*.xml)=0
XML with BMP (*.xml)=0
XML with PDF Image (*.xml)=0
Microsoft Bitmap (*.bmp)=0
PCX (*.pcx)=0
INTEL DCX (*.dcx)=0
Enhanced Metafile (*.emf)=0
IBM MMR IOCA (*.mca)=0
CALS (*.cg4)=0
Raw CCITT (no header) Group 3, 1 Dimension (*.raw)=0
Raw CCITT (no header) Group 3, 1 Dimension, with Fillbits (*.raw)=0
Raw CCITT (no header) Group 3, 2 Dimension (*.raw)=0
Raw CCITT (no header) Group 4 (*.raw)=0
G4 Multi Page=0
G4 Single Page=0
G3 Multi Page=0
G3 Single Page=0
No Compress Multi Page=0
No Compress Single Page=0