April 11th, 2012· New settings EmbedAllFonts and SubsetFonts.
· Writes a job.ini file with print job information in the printer's temp folder.
March 9th, 2012· Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview 32 bit (x86).
· Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64 bit (x64).
· Discontinued support for Windows 8 Developer Preview.
· Commercial version without Ghostscript dependency available on request.
· Internal API functions isolated in PdfInternal interface.
· Improved uninstaller.
· Updated translations.
· Minor tweaks.
January 3rd, 2012· Support for both Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 and 4.0.
· Updated translations.
· Minor tweaks.
October 31st, 2011· Works with Windows 8 (Developers Preview).
· Support for Microsoft.NET Framework 4.
September 16th, 2011· Fix for writing configuration files.
September 15th, 2011· GSLite updated to version 9.04.
· Updated translations.
August 18th, 2011· Control the priority class of the PDF processes.
· Limited support for PStill converter was added.
· Debugging feature named BugRadar was added.
April 8th, 2011· Minor fixes since the beta version 7.2.0.1288
· Modifications in the parameter exchange with customized GUI.
· CustomGui setting now holds a command line instead of only the executable.
· Many translations were updated.
February 23rd, 2011· You will now get multiple copies of the document inside the same PDF if you set the number of copies in the printing dialog.
· Now supports re-distilling of encrypted PDF documents. This requires that you are the owner of the content.
· Multiple option sets can now be defined. This enables you to select between sets of preconfigured settings when you create your PDF documents.
· Append to the output file if it already exists.
· Support for 64 bit Ghostscript 9.01.
· Better cleanup during uninstall.
· Advanced customization feature where you can replace the GUI with your own executable file made in your favorite programming language.
· Fix for background syntax. There was a problem with the notation such as F1 when used together with the pdftk.exe
September 28th, 2010· Support for Ghostscript 9.00
· Fix for runtime error 438 when the file name field in settings.ini is empty.
· Support for custom license agreements.
September 19th, 2010· New MacroScriptTimeout setting to control the script timeout when running VB Script macros.
· New MacroAllowUI setting to control the display of message boxes when running VB Script macros.
· New context value AppPath when running VB Script macros.
· Support for pdftk in superimpose operations.
· Lists only local printers when running the options dialog. Mapped printers are not shown in Citrix and Terminal Server sessions.
· Macros can abort the process by setting the Abort to true in the context dictionary.
· Scripting engine is only initialized if macro files are present.
· Updated translations (Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kannada, Lithuanian, Slovak)
May 30th, 2010· RunOnError registry setting added for error handling by the printer port.
· TempFolder registry setting added for control of temporary folder for the printer port.
May 12th, 2010· Smarttitle macro updated to filter out the [Compatibility Mode] tag in Microsoft Office.
· New registry settings 'Disable Impersonation', 'Application Data', 'Common Application Data' and 'Local Application Data' were added to improve printing from IIS and sharing the printer on the network.
· Malay language was added.
· Updated translations (Czech, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, Catalan, Korean)
March 21st, 2010· New job specific runonce files of the form runonce_documentname.ini.
· Forces that error meszsages are suppressed when the user is a service account ending with a $ sign.
· New runonce command line parameter for gui.exe to force the use of a specific runonce settings file.
· New context variables for Visual Basic Scripting (DocumentName, DocumentAuthor, DocumentCreationDate)
· Updated translations (Estonian, Romanian)
March 8th, 2010· Fix: Option dialog reported a runtime error 91 when closed.
March 8th, 2010· New macro context variables ErrorNumber, ErrorDescription, and ErrorSource.
· New settings RunOnSuccessMode, RunOnErrorMode, and AfterPrintProgramMode.
· New setup command line switches GSLiteURL and GSLiteDownloadMode.
· Registers .NET API for use in Visual Studio 2008.
· Fix: The RunOnError command line is now executed if a macro raises an error.
· Fix: Both OnSuccess and OnError event handlers fired on error and success.
· Fix: RunOnErrorDir was ignored and the RunOnError was set as default dir.
· Updated translations (Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish, Finnish, Croatian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Greek, Slovenian, Indonesian, Polish, French, Turkish, Chinese - simplified, Chinese - traditional, Italian)
February 9th, 2010· New macro added to represent the application folder where gui.exe is installed.
· Fix of error when output format is different from PDF and encryption was enabled.
· Fix of problem with the Save As dialog.
· Updated translations (Norwegian, Finnish, British English, Australian English, Lithuanian).
January 19th, 2010· New wipemethod=3pass setting is now supported to do a 3 pass wipe of temporary files created during PDF or image creation.
· Settings RunOnSuccess, RunOnSuccessDir, RunOnError, RunOnErrorDir, AfterPrintProgram, AfterPrintProgramDir and StatusFile now support macro substitution.
· Fix for reading Unicode postscript properties written using octal numbers on Windows 2000.
· Fix for missing text on buttons on Windows 2000.
· Fix for selecting the correct file extension when using the Save As dialog.
· Problem where the installer reported "Not implemented" has been fixed.
· Updated translations (Croatian, Hebrew, Thai, Turkish, Romanian, Greek).
December 25th, 2009· Fix of error 429 when using ActiveX object 'BioPdf.PdfWriter.Xmp' on 64 bit systems.
· Updated translations (Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, British English, Australian English, Polish, Japanese).
December 12th, 2009· Digitally signed setup program.
· Updated translations (Hungarian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Serbian).
November 29th, 2009· Improved handling of Unicode in GUI.
· Support for Ghostscript 8.70.
· New feature: Create linearized PDF files for optimized web viewing.
· Fix: Patching PDFA XMP data structure when using non western code pages.
· New feature: Show list of page thumb nail images when opening the PDF.
· Fixed Thai translation.
· Updated translations (Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Greek, Catalan, Turkish).
November 10th, 2009· Improved handling of Unicode document titles.
· Allows appending with the same file name as the output even if the append file doesn't exist.
· GUI.EXE parameter names are no longer case sensitive.
· Advanced printer setting 'ICM Method' now defaults to 'ICM Disabled'.
· Advanced printer setting 'TrueType Font Download Option' now defaults to 'Outline'.
· New setup command line switch /PRESERVEDEFAULTPRINTER.
· The user's advanced settings are now reset during installation.
· Setup will default to paper size A4 unless the locale indicates USA or Canada.
· Setup can now distribute content to the special folders 'Application Data', 'Common Application Data', and 'Local Application Data'.
· Non translated setup messages will be shown in English instead of showing up as blank.
· Color problem when printing red on Windows XP has been fixed.
· Added translation (Thai).
· Updated translations (Japanese, Afrikaans, German, Hebrew, Slovak, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Danish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian).
October 9th, 2009· Setup detects if gslite.exe is outdated.
· Fix: Encoding of setup texts fixes the display of garbage.
· Unicode output file names support when running witout GUI.
· Unicode messages suported.
· Updated translations (Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish).
October 2nd, 2009· Official support for Windows 7.
· Microsoft.NET API was introduced.
· Ini files settings.ini, runonce.ini, global.ini, defaults.ini, and user.ini have changed location.
· Ini files no longer have the printer name in their file name.
· Status file now supports Unicode and UTF-8 encoding with descriptors.
· MessageCode and MessageText added in the status file.
· Better support for Unicode in PDF/A XMP structure.
· Auto detect Unicode or UTF-8 encoding of ini files.
· The use of cmd /c for starting external programs was removed to allow command lines containing & and other special chars
· Improvement of the smarttitle macro. It now removes additional Microsoft Office extensions.
· Australian English language was added.
· UK English language was added.
· Farsi language was added.
· Other translations were updated.
May 4th, 2009· Experimental support for PDF/A-1b document standard.
· New setting 'icc' to specify color profile for PDF/A creation.
· New setting 'format' is used to specify pdfa1b when creating PDF/A-1b documents.
· New setting 'AutoRotatePages' to control automatic page orientation.
· New setting 'Orientation' to control fixed page orientation.
· New /PreserveDefaultPrinter command line switch for the setup program.
· Requires latest gslite 8.64 or full Ghostscript 8.64 or later
February 23rd, 2009· Support for Adobe Normalizer as document converter instead of Ghostscript.
· Merge operation allows Postscript files as input in addition to PDF files.
· Superimpose operation allows Encapsulated Postscript as input in addition to PDF files.
· Postscript added as output type. New devices are pswrite and psraw.
· A new file name macro was added to remove strings like "Microsoft Word -" from the document title.
· Translation updates.
January 26th, 2009· New gslite.exe distribution to fix performance problems on Citrix installations where the C drive is a mapped client drive.
· Translation updates.
January 13th, 2009· Experimental support for Windows 7 beta.
· Fix for problem with creating folders on UNC paths.
· Translation updates (Swedish, Norwegian).
December 25th, 2008· Error when saving a document to the root folder of a drive has been fixed.
December 21st, 2008· New defaults.ini file introduced to override default values.
· Creates output folder if it doesn't exist.
· Ignores missing merge files when controlled via runonce.ini.
· If Scripting is not available then all VB Script macros will result in an empty string.
· New Esperanto translation.
· Translation updates (Afrikaans, Croatian, Estonian, Hebrew, Slovak, Turkish).
November 2nd, 2008· The Save As dialog now selects the output format based on the file name extension.
· Implementation of the DeviceList setting was improved.
· Problem with diagonal strange black dots should be solved.
· Translation updates (Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Latvian).
October 21st, 2008· VBScript macros and events are now supported. This extends the programmatic control you have over the PDF Writer.
· New setting: LicenseFile. With this setting you can specify which license to use. This feature is meant for a redistribution scenario.
· New setting: MacroDir. This controls where the VBScript macros and event handlers are loaded from.
· New setting: ExtractText. The printer can now extract text information from the print job. This text can be parsed and values can be extracted and used as macros such as author or title.
· Translation updates (Estonian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Finnish).
September 26th, 2008· Multi merge feature released.
· Translation updates (Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Swedish, French, Slovenian, Czech).
September 19th, 2008· Translation updates (Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese).
September 17th, 2008· Translation updates (Serbian, Polish).
September 16th, 2008· Translation updates (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese).
September 15th, 2008· ConfirmOverwrite setting is now supported in unattended mode. Use ConfirmOverwrite=no if you want to overwrite the destination file without a prompt.
· Translation updates (Russian).
September 14th, 2008· Aviod detection as a virus for F-Secure users.
· Fix in config.exe to allow mixed case parameter values.
· Translation updates (Catalan).
September 6th, 2008· Driver settings USERTEMP and USERDATA are no longer supported.
· Improvements for PDF Printer redistribution and customization.
· Installation and unstallation now supports multiple instances of the program installed on the same computer.
· Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintPrintersBullzip PDF PrinterAppFolder is now written to associate the installed printer with a specific program folder.
· Uninstall only removes printers where the AppFolder registry value matches the application folder being uninstalled.
· /NOHOMEPAGEICON command line switch for the setup program. The home page icon will not be installed in the start menu when this parameter is specified.
· Translation updates (Estonian, Vietnamese)
· Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREBullzipPDF PrinterSettingsGhostscriptFolder is no longer added by the setup program when it installs Ghostscript.
September 1st, 2008· New compatibilitylevel setting. It will control the PDF compatibility level. Valid values are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. This setting can also be controlled from the GUI.
· Support for the macro in the PDF output file name. This will split the resulting PDF document into one file per page.
· Updated translations.
September 1st, 2008· Superimpose on top of printout is now supported. With this you can superimpose on print jobs from Internet Explorer and Firefox.
· Tab order fixed.
· Setup customization through setup.ini.
· Multiple printers can be installed using the /PRINTERNAME="Printer1,Printer2" setup command line switch.
September 1st, 2008· Major version changed from 5 to 6.
· Freeware license was limited to 10 users.
· Dependency on the Microsoft Scripting Dictionary component was removed.
· Better support for Adobe PageMaker. Use "general" PPD setting in printing dialog.
· More image formats are now supported (BMP, JPEG, PCX, PDF, PNG, TIFF).
· GUI now supports creation of image formats.
· Resolution can be specified for background PDF documents in superimpose operation.
· macro was changed from special folder CSIDL_DESKTOP to CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY.
May 6th, 2008· Multiple /PRINTERNAME can be specified during setup to install more than one printer. (* only available in custom builds and bioPDF PDF Writer)
· Uninstall will remove all printers attached to the uninstalled port.
· Dialog control identifiers have been modified to support hiding and disabling.
· If no global@printername.ini file is found it will fall back to search for global.ini.
· Translations added (Norwegian).
· Translations updated (Norwegian).
April 22nd, 2008· Translations added (Bosnian, Slovenian).
· Translations updated (Polish, Italian).
March 21st, 2008· Version number is written to printer comment field during installation.
· Translations updated (Arabic, Greek, Portuguese-Brazil).
March 13th, 2008· Support for programatic creation of JPEG, TIFF, and PNG image files instead of PDF documents.
· New settings: res, resx, resy, textalphabits, graphicsalphabits, device, and statusfile.
February 22nd, 2008· Translations added (Ukrainian, Korean).
· Problem with installing olepro32.dll on Vista should be fixed.
February 12th, 2008· "Save As" dialog shows in front of the printing application in Windows Vista.
· Translations updated (Afrikaans, Russian).
February 4th, 2008· /PAPERSIZE installation switch added.
· Translations updated (Czech, Finnish, Galician, Simplified Chinese).
· Registration of comdlg32.ocx changed to avoid launching other Windows Installers.
January 10th, 2008· Bulgarian translation completed.
· Swedish translation completed.
· Portuguese (Brazil) translation completed.
· Polish translation completed.
· Japanese translation completed.
· Hungarian translation completed.
· Catalan translation completed.
· Bulgarian translation completed.
December 17th, 2007· Automatic download and installation of Ghostscript Lite distribution.
· Progress indicator is now shown it the system tray.
· Balloon tip notification when the PDF is created.
· More work done on the Visual Basic Script macros.
· New settings supported: showprogress, showprogressfinished, runonerror, runonerrordir, runonsuccess, and runonsuccessdir.
· Fix: Earlier versions could sometimes remove custom defined paper sizes for other printers during installation.
November 27th, 2007· Watermarks now use TrueType fonts instead of Ghostscript fonts.
· Requires Ghostscript 8.50 or later.
· Runtime error 380 should no longer occur during startup
November 15th, 2007· New Feature: Remember last used folder name.
· New Feature: Remember last used file name.
· New Feature: PDF Watermarks/stamps can now be placed both over and under the normal print. This enables the use of PDF stamping the PDF files.
· New Feature: PDF Watermarks/stamps can use different colors, fonts and outline style.
· New Feature: PDF Watermarks/stamps can be placed anywhere on the page.
· New Feature: Open destination folder after PDF creation.
· Setting watermarksize is now obsolete use watermarkfontsize instead.
· Setting watermarktransparency is now obsolete use watermarkcolor instead.
· By default the watermark will now behave as a stamp and be placed on top of the print.
· Setting suppresserrors is default set to no.
· Setting usedefaultauthor is default set to yes.
· Setting usedefaulttitle is default set to yes.
· New setting watermarkcolor is now supported.
· New setting watermarkfontname is now supported.
· New setting watermarkfontsize is now supported.
· New setting watermarkoutlinewidth is now supported.
· New setting watermarklayer is now supported.
· New setting watermarkverticalposition is now supported.
· New setting watermarkhorizontalposition is now supported.
· New setting watermarkverticaladjustment is now supported.
· New setting watermarkhorizontaladjustment is now supported.
· New setting rememberlastfilename is now supported.
· New setting rememberlastfoldername is now supported.
· New setting zoom is now supported by the user interface.
· User's current selection of folder and file name are now saved in user.ini.
· Japanese language added.
October 15th, 2007· Supports printing in Window Vista Internet Explorer running in protected mode.
· Slovak language added.
August 27th, 2007· Fix: Unstall no longer removes additional printers
August 24th, 2007· Fix: Setup program of version 3.0.0.309 was not compressed.
August 10th, 2007· Experimental support for named instances of the printer. This allows installation of multiple printers running with different settings.
July 30th, 2007· Support for file systems without support for 8.3 representation of long file names. Fixes problems in some Vista installations.
· Problems with installing msxml6.dll has been fixed.
July 26th, 2007· Improvements to Citrix installation to avoid the "The arguments are invalid" message.
· Dependency of Scripting.FileSystemObject has been removed.
· Improved encoding of the PDF property values such as title and author.
· Greek added as new language.
· Serbian added as new language.
· Swedish added as new language.
July 6th, 2007· Retries moving destination file if it is locked by Antivirus software for some time after generation.
· macro no longer contains the directory part.
· Introduction of global.ini.
· New GhostscriptTimeout setting in configuration files.
· New AfterPrintProgram setting in configuration files.
· New AfterPrintProgramDir setting in configuration files.
· New DisableOptionDialog setting in configuration files.
· PDF compatibility level changed from 1.4 to 1.6.
June 5th, 2007· Printing dialog now captures focus on Windows Vista.
June 3rd, 2007· Forces target settings to lower case. This is done to make the programming interface more robust to mixed case in the target settings.
May 29th, 2007· Italian added as new language.
May 23rd, 2007· Spanish added as new language.
· Simplified Chinese as new language.
· Traditional Chinese as new language.
May 21st, 2007· Use of /NOICONS during silent install will not install icons in start menu, desktop, and quick launch.
· Support for Scandinavian characters in watermarks.
· Additional architechtural paper sizes ARCH E1 and ARCH E1 Half.
· Turkish added as new language.
May 9th, 2007· New printer driver (PPD file)
· More paper types supported (Letter, Ledger, Legal, A3, A4, A5, 11x17, Note, A2, A6, LetterSmall, A0, A1, A4Small, A7, A8, A9, A10, ISO B0, ISO B1, ISO B2, ISO B3, ISO B4, ISO B5, ISO B6, JIS B0, JIS B1, JIS B2, JIS B3, JIS B4, JIS B5, JIS , 6, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, ARCHE, ARCHD, ARCHC, ARCHB, ARCHA, FLSA, FLSE, HalfLetter, PA4, and Custom Page Sizes)
· Specify PDF Settings (colour model, image compression, compatibility, auto rotate pages, embedded fonts, subset fonts, and page compression)
· Placing a file named debug.txt in the program folder will set the program in debug mode.
· Russian and Hungarian added as new languages.
May 4th, 2007· New printer driver (PPD file)
· More paper types supported (Letter, Ledger, Legal, A3, A4, A5, 11x17, Note, A2, A6, LetterSmall, A0, A1, A4Small, A7, A8, A9, A10, ISO B0, ISO B1, ISO B2, ISO B3, ISO B4, ISO B5, ISO B6, JIS B0, JIS B1, JIS B2, JIS B3, JIS B4, JIS B5, JIS , 6, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, ARCHE, ARCHD, ARCHC, ARCHB, ARCHA, FLSA, FLSE, HalfLetter, PA4, and Custom Page Sizes)
· Specify PDF Settings (colour model, image compression, compatibility, auto rotate pages, embedded fonts, subset fonts, and page compression)
April 12th, 2007· Fix: Error message removed when installing on XP 64 bit.
· Fix: Specifying folders as default file names has been improved.
April 10th, 2007· Fix: Maximize button disabled in options dialog.
· Fix: Minor change in watermark routine.
March 26th, 2007· The printer has been localized to German and Danish.
· /noghostscript parameter for setup program will skip the check for Ghostscript.
· Fix: Open PDF documents after printing.
March 1st, 2007· Fix: Removed dependency for Windows Scripting Host version 5.5.
· Fix: Spelling errors.
· Fix: In the previous version some jobs would lock the print spooler queue. This has now been fixed.
February 13th, 2007· Fix in detection of 32-bit Ghostscript on x64 systems
August 29th, 2006· New Feature: Output quality control.
· New Feature: 40 bit and 128 bit password encryption.
· New Feature: Access permissions.
· New Feature: Watermarks.
· New Feature: Superimpose PDF documents.
· New Feature: Set document properties.
· Fixes in the printer driver.
· Setup program imporved to solve problems on Windows XP Home
May 15th, 2006· The printer driver now works with all Ghostscript 8.x versions
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