Components for Developers & PDF Software → Virtual Printer News and Version history

December 12 2011

Our driver now supports Windows 8

November 10 2011

The workflow of Virtual Printer Driver now is the following:
- preprocessing;
- preconverting;
- postconverting.

At the preprocessing step, your application can resume or cancel the print job.
At the preconverting step, your application can change converting options or modify source files (EMF, PostScript or RAW).
At the postconverting step, your application can do anything with result files.

October 18 2011

Version control of Agent service installation process has been implemented.

October 13 2011

Version 7.2 is released
+ setup is improved
+ fixed small issues in progress dialog
+ agent is now working from installation directory

September 20 2011

Bug with PDF page orientation has been fixed.
Bug with [PDF] section of INI-file has been fixed.

September 16 2011

Version 7.1 is released

- new multi-threaded converter for emf2bmp/jpeg/png/single tiff with up to 250% performance improvement.
- new emf2txt converter with better text formatting.
- new watermarks engine with convenient control and up to 300% performance improvement.
- added new intercommunication feature - using pipes.
- additional adjustments of productivity and quality.

September 14 2011

Bug with glyph extraction in emf2txt converter has been fixed.

August 23 2011

We have begun work on switching-on of scripting language in the converter.

August 17 2011

Virtual Printer Beta is available for testing.

May 20 2011

New watermarks engine with cache and enhanced features for configuration was realized.

February 1 2011

Shared printing has been added
Module for FTP upload has been added
POS parser has been updated
Paper size issue has been fixed
Multi-thread issue in Agent has been fixed

April 27 2010

Now we have a new service: the development of POS-printer.

March 30 2010

New concept for watermarks is released.

March 5 2010

New agent is implemented as a Windows service;
Tab for configuring the agent have been added in the Properties dialog;
Now you can can use BMP/JPEG/PNG files as watermarks.

October 15 2009

Spanish and Portuguese localizations have been added.

August 31 2009

Now our Virtual Printer is supported on Windows 7.

October 13 2011 :: Version 7.2

+ setup is improved
+ fixed small issues in progress dialog
+ agent is now working from installation directory

September 16 2011 :: Version 7.1

+ new multi-threaded converter for emf2bmp/jpeg/png/single tiff with up to 250% performance improvement.
+ new emf2txt converter with better text formatting.
+ new watermarks engine with convenient control and up to 300% performance improvement.
+ added new intercommunication feature - using pipes.
+ additional adjustments of productivity and quality.

February 1 2011 :: Version 7.0

+ Shared printing has been added;
+ Module for FTP upload has been added;
+ POS parser has been updated;
+ Paper size issue has been fixed;
+ Multi-thread issue in Agent has been fixed.

August 31 2009 :: Version 3.5

+ Windows 7 support added.

August 3 2009 :: Version 3.4.1

+ French language support added.

April 24 2009 :: Version 3.4

+ Chinese language support added.

July 11 2008 :: Version 3.3

* Updated installation scripts in keeping with the new version of PDF Creator Pilot.

March 21 2008 :: Version 3.2

* Fixed bug with dmCopies field from DEVMODE structure.

March 21 2008 :: Version 3.1

+ Added alternative algorithm for extracting EMF pages from a spool file.

November 3 2007 :: Version 3.0

+ Virtual printers are now compatible with Windows Vista.

June 15 2007 :: Version 2.8

+ Virtual printers are now able to keep approximate text formatting when converting to TXT (plain text) format.

May 23 2007 :: Version 2.7.1

+ Quality of conversion to 1-bit raster images has been improved.

May 22 2007 :: Version 2.7

+ Virtual printers now distinguish different terminal sessions of the same user.

May 21 2007 :: Version 2.6

+ Virtual printers now support Windows printer sharing.

April 26 2007 :: Version 2.5

+ Extracted plain text is now sorted according to the coordinates of a text output command.

April 18 2007 :: Version 2.4

+ Added the /S command line parameter (very silent install) for the driver setup module.

April 11 2007 :: Version 2.3

+ Added tray mapping.

April 5 2007 :: Version 2.2

* Removed a .lng file in the driver directory.

April 4 2007 :: Version 2.1

+ Now cleans up any remaining print jobs.

March 30 2007 :: Version 2.0

+ New progress indicator.
+ Added a dithering option for BMP, PNG and TIFF.