What's new in Raster Image Printer 12.0.0.22
Mar 20, 2024
- Fixed incorrect rendering of dashed and dotted lines when creating images.
New in Raster Image Printer 12.0.0.21 (Mar 5, 2024)
- Added:
- When a manual license renewal is initiated, activated products now remain activated until their expiration date or until the manual process is completed. Previously this would have set the product into an expired state.
- Improved licensing information is displayed on the dashboard, making it easier to identify errors related to licensing.
- Fixed:
- Fixed issue drawing 1-bit images as transparent masked images.
- Fixed dashboard notification text cut off when the application screen is at its smallest size.
- Dashbaord UI layout updates for readability and use of space.
- Fixed OEM Kit installs to clean up License Notification tasks when uninstalling from Settings – Apps and Features.
- Security updates and fixes.
New in Raster Image Printer 12.0.0.20 (Dec 6, 2023)
- Added:
- New Feature – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) added.
- Create Searchable PDF from images and scanned PDF documents.
- Extract text from images and save as hOCR, ALTO, or Text files.
- Supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew and Hindu with over 100 other languages available to download as needed.
- Fixed:
- Importing an invalid profile now displays an error message instead of silently failing.
- Fixed application crash issue when importing an invalid profile.
- Fixed application crash issue with creating and copy profiles if there was a corrupt profile in the collection.
- Fixed issue where fonts were embedded in PDF files when the Embed Fonts option was turned off.
New in Raster Image Printer 12.0.0.19 (Sep 19, 2023)
- Added:
- A new color reduction option that improves the appearance of single-color gradients when reducing color.
- The antialiasing option now applies to both lines, text and images on a page. Disabling antialiasing can reduce image size.
- Optimizations to speed and performance for even faster image creation.
- Fixes:
- Image brightness options are now processed before stamps and borders are added, and before any color reduction options take place.
- Stamps and borders are now added to the page before any color counting options are processed.
- Fixed issue with inverted colors when created Optimized Color GIF images from monochrome pages.
- Fixed crashing issue when printing from Microsoft Project. Added in proper handling for 256 color image masking used by Microsoft Project.
- Fixed PDF copy text permission not set correctly when appending PDF files.
New in Raster Image Printer 11.0.008 (Jan 25, 2019)
- Fixed creation of monochrome TIFF files, and fax formats Profile F or Profile S, to comply with hardware fax solutions requirements.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.012 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Fixes for Windows security updates.
- Fixed issue with JPEG in TIFF creating files at the wrong size (too big).
- JPEG compression is now 4:4:4 (no sub-sampling) to ensure best quality, except in JPEG Color Fax which by FAX standards is required to be 4:2:2.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.011 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Fixed issue where the SaveAs Dialog would not always appear on top when printing from a 32-bit application on a 64-bit edition of Windows®.
- Fixed bug where auto-rotating a landscape page with the Copy To Page feature enabled would cause the page to rotated twice.
- Install program now automatically enables the Print Spooler Service if it is not enabled, in order to allow product to install without any errors.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.010 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Random issue with property tabs Image Processing and Page Processing on 64-bit operating systems sometimes failing to display properly is resolved in this update.
- When upgrading the Windows operating system from Windows XP or Vista and moving to Windows 7 or better, the printer would sometimes fail to install; this update resolves this issue.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.009 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Features:
- Added feature to split multipage files by page count and/or file size threshold, feature can be enabled on the Save tab of printing preferences.
- Fixes:
- Fix to allow the use of UNC naming (\\Server\Folder\) in the Output Directory field.
- Fix for PNControl temp files filling up the temp folder when using PNSrv10 COM in a Windows service running under NETWORK SERVICE account.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.007 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Fix for potentially null pointer exception in PNSrv10 on systems with low resources.
- Fix issue in locating script file when %TEMP% is setup to be session local.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.006 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Cumulative security updates to improve stability.
- Fix for handling of very large image files that produced incorrect output (parts of the page repeated or black areas) when scaling.
- Fix for issue with print jobs that are submitted to the print queue with tabs as part of the print job name. In this scenario the file would spool but not print and no output was created. The tabs are now replaced with spaces and leading and trailing spaces are removed from the job name.
- Fix for late binding when using the PNSrv10 COM interface, including using dynamic types and named and optional arguments.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.005 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Added feature to allow the output file name to be specified when a print job is created by the calling application. For example, if you Print to File from an application like Word, Excel or any other application, the specified file will be used as the save file name and location.
- This feature allows the Raster Image Printer to be used as a full replacement for the Microsoft Document Image Writer and even if you have programmed software to automatically print to the Microsoft Document Image Writer where the PrintOut method specified the output file name, the Raster Image Printer 10.0.005 will now use this information for the output file name.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.004 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- Resolved issue where Printer would failed to install on some supported Windows platforms.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.003 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- A registry key value is being stored as if the product were a version 9 product and not a version 10 product, this has been corrected.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.002 (Oct 7, 2015)
- Fixes:
- For PNSrv10 COM Interface users, improved the cleanup of printer information left behind in registry by a Microsoft Windows when they are requested to delete a printer.
- For PNSrv10 COM Interface users, added missing properties for controlling fax formating options: ‘Fax Page Use 256 Greyscale Palette’.
- For PNSrv10 COM Interface users, added missing properties for controlling control string recognization: ‘Control String Prefix’ and ‘Control String Suffix’.
New in Raster Image Printer 10.0.001 (Oct 7, 2015)
- New features:
- Supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
- Supports handling documents with millions of pages.
- Supports adding header and footer endorsements on each generated image(s).
- PNSrv10 COM interface included which supports this new release.
New in Raster Image Printer 9.0.016 (Feb 1, 2013)
- Update and Fixes:
- Latest components re-signed with updated digital signature.
- Resolved issues with older operating systems not recognizing the digital signature correctly.
New in Raster Image Printer 9.0.015 (Feb 1, 2013)
- Changes and Improvements:
- Resolved memory access voilation when storing images at 150dpi in JPEG format.
- Resolved issue where printing would randomly fail when a user switched between printing to PDF, Raster and TIFF image printers.
- Product no longer reports 'Error 5 on DrvEndDoc: 477 OpenPrinter' in Windows Event Viewer.
- Enhanced handling of the printer pool and ports when using PNSrv9 COM API to ensure ports and printers are eventually removed from the system on termination.
New in Raster Image Printer 9.0.013 (Feb 1, 2013)
- Improvements:
- Improved performance of printing lots of small documents in a row.
- Improved performance of text extraction.
- Fixed issue with COM API reporting jobs not completed when no jobs in print queue, introduced by Windows 7 and Windows 2008 SP1.
New in Raster Image Printer 9.0.012 (Feb 1, 2013)
- New features and fixes:
- New feature added to support rendering pages at resolution of printer when in Fax Mode. This feature is enabled by default. It solves the problem of Excel documents creating more pages when forced to rendered document at Fax resolution (200 dpi) as was default in prior releases.
- Enhanced support of paper selection based on paper width and height. A few products do not always select paper type (Letter, A4, etc.) but instead only use the width and height of the paper. Product now matches postscript printer driver behaviour for this situation.
- For PNSrv9 COM users, improved speed of creating printer pool, enhanced clean-up of ports and printers to ensure all registry keys removed.
New in Raster Image Printer 9.0.011 (Feb 1, 2013)
- Support added for:
- Windows 7 (SP1)
- Windows 2008 R2 (SP1)
- Internet Explorer 9.0
- Adobe Acrobat and Reader X (10.0.xx)
- New features and fixes:
- New feature added to allow creation of PDF/A-1b standard complaint files when created PDF documents.
- New feature added to support saving sent messages in the sent folder when using extended MAPI.
- Resolved issue with memory leak in spooler (spoolsv.exe) process.
New in Raster Image Printer 6.0.004 (Apr 21, 2007)
- Fixed issue where if you selected to scale the output dpi on the printing preferences File tab, the conversion process halts with a memory violation or creates images that are not correct.
- Fixed issue with Quick Start Guide failing to open correctly in Acrobat Reader.