May 18th, 2012· Fix: Printing from Internet Explorer crashed in certain situations
· Fix: Fixed the /InstallonlyNewerVer setup parameter
May 12th, 2012· Update: Changed the hash algorithm for image optimization
· Fix: Conversion corrections for text with ColtFont font
· Fix: Changed font names for subsetted fonts to have correct ANSI characters
· Fix: GUI crashed when adding text watermarks in certain scenarios
· Fix: Signature didn't work correctly in certain situations
May 12th, 2012· New: Added Macros for Text Watermarks (page number, date/time, doc/file/profile/user name, workstation, doc info)
· New: Multiple copies of the same page/document can now be converted to a single PDF file (with or without Collate)
· New: novaPDF can now be installed using parameters from a single setup configuration file (instead of using the parameters one by one)
· Update: After installation is successful, you have the option to open the website for tutorials, documentation and other resources
· Update: Optimized conversion when using Unicode fonts (i.e. documents in Tamil language are now accurately converted)
· Update: When using the Publisher Addin, the printing process is not cancelled even if the user does not have rights to set printer page size
· Fix: Corrected language selection depending on regional settings
· Fix: For silent installations, a novaPDF icon was briefly shown in taskbar, now it won't show up anymore
May 12th, 2012· Fix: Corrected overlay with rotated pages
· Fix: Corrections for converting Type1 fonts with custom embedding
· Fix: Added a parameter for command line installation called PROGRAMFILES (X86)
· Fix: The Save As dialog will always be on top of other windows
May 12th, 2012· Fix: Changed font names for subset fonts to have correct ANSI characters on documents containing Chinese fonts
· Fix: For fonts that didn't have italic characters, novaPDF calculated an angle for skewing that increased with every character, now is fixed
· Update: Modified text on About window and changed footer notice for unregistered versions
November 23rd, 2011· Fix: Conversion of rotated text in CAD drawings
· Fix: Spooler crash when printing from IE9
· Fix: Overlay error in some situations
· Fix: Several memory leaks
· Fix: Problem with grayscale conversion
October 10th, 2011· New: Add-in for Microsoft Publisher
· New: Add-in for Microsoft Visio
· Fix: Corrected bookmarks for the Microsoft Word add-in
· Fix: Corrected behavior for Microsoft Word add-in when used from Outlook 2003
· Fix: Conversion correction for overlay images
· Fix: Corrected problem when converting files with long name
· Fix: Minor corrections for PDF/A (CIDSets)
· Fix: Corrected conversion from Visio when backgrounds were used
· Fix: Fixed delete watermark message
· Fix: Corrected behavior when appending using the add-in for Office
· Fix: Corrected Terminal Services message for Desktop editions
July 19th, 2011· Fix: Corrected a problem when printing from Internet Explorer 9
· Fix: Links in encrypted PDF files were sometimes damaged
· Fix: Tiff files printed from PageMaker were not converted correctly
· Fix: Corrected downsampling error for 8bpp images
June 10th, 2011· Fix: Corrected the installation process on Windows XP (32-bit) when the x64 folder does not exist
· Fix: Corrected the Append to PDF process on client computers
· Fix: Corrected an overlay error with pages that have TrimBox
June 10th, 2011· New: Added new predefined page sizes
· Fix: Fixed some Print Spooler hangs on client restart on 32 bit Windows 7 computers
June 10th, 2011· New: Added /InstallOnlyNewerVer parameter for command line installations
· New: Added an option to cancel the print job
· Fix: Corrected installation on Windows 2000
· Fix: Correction for Greek character conversions
· Fix: Corrections for watermarks with public profiles
· Fix: Correction for rendering patterns
April 29th, 2011· Fix: Correction in the add-in for Microsoft Word, when filename contained Greek characters
· Fix: Owner password is required now in the Security tab on Save As dialog too
April 29th, 2011· New: Added root bookmark option
· Update: Optimized the monochrome image conversion
· Fix: Lines created with Highlight in Windows Journal are not printed
· Fix: Small correction for PDF Overlay
· Fix: In some cases bookmarks were not created correctly using the Add-in for Microsoft Word
December 16th, 2010· New: Added full version info for startup application (novapdf.exe from the Program Files directory) to improve version detection for update managers
· Fix: Corrected Type1 font subsetting (Monospac821 BT Type 1 font was not correctly embedded)
· Fix: Corrected link detection behavior (links not containing dots were not detected, such as http://machinename:8000)
· Fix: Corrected emailing other attachment files having blank characters in filename
· Fix: If "Send email" option is selected with "Open email client", the email was not opened if no details were set for email receipient and body text
December 2nd, 2010· New: Added an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint
· Fix: Embed fonts lists correction
November 20th, 2010· Fix: Corrected a crash when printing from Excel in special conditions
· Fix: Corrected printing emails with long attachments from Lotus Notes
· Fix: Corrected embed Type1 fonts (Print Spooler was crashing)
· Fix: Corrected verticaly written fonts conversion error
November 20th, 2010· New: Added PDF version 1.7 in the list of available versions (1.5 default one)
· Update: Change public profiles file name to not contain computer name
· Fix: Corrections for profiles used in SDK
November 20th, 2010· New: Added back port monitor due to access problems for local ports
November 20th, 2010· Fix: Corrected Print Spooler hang on client computer restart
October 14th, 2010· Update: Removed port monitor, now using a local port instead
· Fix: Corrected some conversion errors for symbol characters
October 14th, 2010· Fix: Corrected missing characters when printing from Publisher
· Fix: Corrected add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2010 when using brackets in document name
· Fix: Optimized PDF size when overlaying with an jpeg image PDF file
September 20th, 2010· Fix: Corrected newlines in email body
· Fix: Corrected A0, A1,... paper sizes on Vista and Windows 7
· Fix: Corrections for Excel images
· Fix: Corrected installer crash when importing profiles
September 20th, 2010· New: Extended Email functionality
· New: Added macros for folder name in Save settings
· New: Added Profile name macro for file and folder names
· Fix: Fixed images from Excel 2010
August 31st, 2010· Fix: The temporary files after an append operation for desktop editions were not cleaned up, now they will be deleted
· Fix: A default profile was created each time profiles were imported, now default profiles aren't created during import
· Fix: "Prompt Save As dialog" "When file exists" offered to save the PDF in a different folder by default, instead of the original folder
· Fix: Corrections for the Romanian translation
August 26th, 2010· Fix: When canceling the Select profile dialog, the print job would still run
· Fix: Appending to a PDF with bookmarks, while keeping the Enable Bookmark feature on, resulted in a spooler crash
· Fix: Signature generation error for large PDF files
· Fix: Crashes occured when creating PDF files with OpenType fonts and embedding those
July 6th, 2010· Update: Changed default high color compression to JPEG
· Fix: Add-in for Excel cancelling processing when errors
· Fix: The dll for sending emails was not loaded on Windows 2000
June 18th, 2010· Update: Optimized the size of resulting PDFs after appending (PDF with images)
· Fix: Do not hang when printing Word documents with embedded files
· Fix: Install even if EnumPorts fails
· Fix: Setup translations correction
June 5th, 2010· Update: The add-in for Microsoft Office is by default docked
· Update: Optimized the size of resulting PDFs after appending
· Fix: Various language corrections
May 14th, 2010· New: Add Hebrew language to user interface
· Update: Optimized PDF file size for documents with Asian characters
· Fix: Corrected selection on edit fields on Paper page (when pressing TAB the selection didn't switch correctly)
· Fix: Compatible with Windows 2000 now (didn't work before)
· Fix: Several corrections to the Add-in for Microsoft Office
· Fix: Corrected usage of Default profile on clients when private profiles are not allowed
· Fix: Watermark char "©" on Chinese systems is now printed correctly
· Fix: Append/insert/overlay PDF files with security now work correctly
April 15th, 2010· New: Added visibility layers for watermarks
· New: Added Document Creator option
· New: Added Page Scaling options
· New: Added option to remove PDF after emailing
· New: Added Lithuanian language
· Fix: Changed default compression for high color images to zip
· Fix: Rendering corrections (including outlined text)
· Fix: Add-in for Microsoft Word ignores links with error and processes rest of the document
· Fix: Do not hang printer queue if client is not available (log off)
· Fix: Fixed page orientation from Excel, Word, TextMaker and others on x64
· Fix: Corrected PDF/A namespace
· Fix: Fixed create new predefined form
· Fix: Changed About tab for SDK and OEM editions
· Fix: Fixed platform string on About page
· Fix: Corrected OEM parameters (OEMSaveLocal)
· Fix: COM events separate on TS sessions (SessionID)
March 2nd, 2010· Fix: Corrected font left clipping
· Fix: Fixed /HidePrinterPages
· Fix: Fixed /NoInstallifExists - allow for all editions, not only for SDK
· Fix: Unicode Innosetup - Unicode command line params
· Fix: OfficeAddin - automatically attached to a novaPDF printer, if only one installed
· Fix: Use local time instead of system time for creation date and time
February 18th, 2010· Fix: Corrected Danish language
· Fix: Updated Korean language
· Fix: If a printer exists with the same name and different driver, gets deleted before install
· Fix: Removed register dialog from Advanced save (SDK only)
February 18th, 2010· New: User interface translated in Malay
· New: User interface translated in Thai
· New: Addin for Office now works with network printers too
· New: Add Registration-Free COM in C++ "Hello World (network)" sample (SDK)
· Fix: Conversion problem with page orientations in Word documents
· Fix: 0 byte PDF files created when checking rights, now gets deleted and recreated
· Fix: Licensing error mesage
February 18th, 2010· Fix: Save dialog didn't show on top of other windows on Windows7 x64
· Fix: Crash on Win7 x64 computers in some situations
· New: Added "single computer" restriction to OEM licenses
· New: Added the Signature page for HidePrinterPages parameter
February 18th, 2010· Fix: Registered succesfully message box showing even if wrong key was entered (x64 computers)
· Fix: Corrected duplicated fonts problem (virtual memory)
· Fix: Solved a problem when printing images from Adobe Viewer
· Fix: Registry handle leak
February 18th, 2010· Fix: Minor fixes regarding the add-in for Word (filename and some links positioning)
· Fix: Fixed problem appending PDFs from FireFox when logged in with standard user
· Fix: Fixed truetype fonts with SO_GLYPHINDEX_TEXTOUT
February 18th, 2010· Fix: Bug in add licensed machine dialog
· Fix: Bug in signature operation (zero width and height)
December 10th, 2009· Added option to digitally sign PDF files
· Type1 fonts are now supported
· novaPDF now includes add-ins for Microsoft Office (Word and Excel)
· Added a start page to allow quick access to create PDFs
· Fully compatible with Windows 7
November 16th, 2009· New: Uses local time instead of system time for PDF creation date and time
· New: Added scrollbars for email body message
· New: Added Danish language for the interface
· New: Added "Allow change folder" option when saving the PDF file
· New: Added options to forcefully embed licensed fonts
· Update: Moved the Advanced save options on the Profiles edit page
· New: Creates folders (multiple levels) when saving pdf file, if folders do not exist
· New: Added /PropagateActiveProfile command line parameter
· New: Added Net user and password for overlay file, image watermark file, and saving pdf on network folders
· Fix: Corrected bug numeric values when no decimals allowed in regional settings - numbers
· Fix: Corrected mirrored images in printer driver
· Fix: Corrected bug to keep the resolution set in preferences
· Fix: COM events are unique for each printer
· Fix: Crash in spooler (when copying LastBitBlt info in ResetPDEV).
· Changes in novaPDF 6.3.301 (15-5-2009)
August 11th, 2009· New: Uses local time instead of system time for PDF creation date and time
· New: Added scrollbars for email body message
· New: Added Danish language for the interface
· New: Added "Allow change folder" option when saving the PDF file
· New: Added options to forcefully embed licensed fonts
· Update: Moved the Advanced save options on the Profiles edit page
· New: Creates folders (multiple levels) when saving pdf file, if folders do not exist
· New: Added /PropagateActiveProfile command line parameter
· New: Added Net user and password for overlay file, image watermark file, and saving pdf on network folders
· Fix: Corrected bug numeric values when no decimals allowed in regional settings - numbers
· Fix: Corrected mirrored images in printer driver
· Fix: Corrected bug to keep the resolution set in preferences
· Fix: COM events are unique for each printer
· Fix: Crash in spooler (when copying LastBitBlt info in ResetPDEV).
June 7th, 2009· Fix: Corrected some crashes in COM when calling Watermark functions (novaPDF OEM)
· Fix: Corrected watermark positioning when being set up from SDK (novaPDF SDK)
· Fix: Corrected an error when editing email body text (Email page)
June 7th, 2009· Fix: When printing from Adobe Reader some characters were not converted correctly (music notes)
June 7th, 2009· Update: HelloWorld network sample updated(novaPDF SDK)
· Fix: When printing from Adobe Reader some characters were not converted correctly (music notes)
· Fix: Corrected crash occuring when showing error message box on PDF save
· Fix: Corrected some client hangs when printing particular Excel files
· Fix: Fixed crash occuring when printing from ttf16.ocx (DrvEnablePDEV)
June 7th, 2009· New: novaPDF can create now PDF/A-1b (RGB) compliant PDF files
· Update: Optimized speed for PDF overlay process
· Update: added a new parameter to the WaitForNovaEvent function in novaPDF SDK and novaPDF OEM
· Fix: Correction for 8-bit bitmaps conversion (when printing emf files)
June 7th, 2009· Fix: Corrected a problem with temporary licensing for site licenses
· Fix: Crashes occured when using some specific images as watermarks
June 7th, 2009· Fix: corrected bug in PDF overlay (when page mediabox was set in Pages dictionary)
· Fix: corrected an error when printing files with big path or file name)
June 7th, 2009· Update: Optimized speed for PDF overlay process
· Fix: Corrected cross-ref-table format (20 bytes)
· Fix: fixed a bug in extended save dialog
June 7th, 2009· Fix: corrected "Show Save As dialog" option on x64 systems when printing from Win32 applications
June 7th, 2009· Update: "Stay on top" option on Save As dialog is now by default disabled
June 7th, 2009· New: added "Stay on Top" feature for Extended Save As and Select profile dialogs
· New: added "Security" options in Save Advance dialog
· Fix: corrected read overlay files from network drives
· Fix: corrected printing images from Google Chrome (32bit bitmap with alpha channel)
· Fix: automatically remove "Crystal Reports - " from file name
June 7th, 2009· New: added message box with time out in client
· New: added a mutex for readinf / writing the PDF file in case of append/insert so multiple jobs that append the same file work
· New: added ASP.NET and Java samples in novaPDF SDK
· Update: moved check for open file to append from UI to client (when actually write the file)
January 30th, 2009· Added a Change Options button on the Advanced Save window that offers shortcuts to setting Document information, Graphics options and Email information
· Added font embedding options in novaPDF Lite
· Added informational page in the start menu group (describes how to create pdf, register novaPDF, and contact options)
· Added silent cancel printing (when pressing cancel from a Save As dialog printing stops immediatelly without other notices)
· New character allowed in PDF filename (&)
· Fixed image conversion (monochrome, grayscale, downsample) when printing from Internet Explorer
· Corrected append PDF files error on x64 systems
· Fixed crash on Vista x64 when closing Printing Preferences
· Fixed import profiles error (novaPDF OEM)
· Fixed automatic registration from command line (novaPDF OEM)
· Corrected string parameters for watermark functions (novaPDF SDK)
December 3rd, 2008· Added option to append content to an existing PDF file
· Added option to insert content in an existing PDF file
· PDF Overlay option added
· New option to "Create temporary profile for each printing job"
· It's now possible to Show Select Profile dialog when printing
· New Extended Save dialog added
September 25th, 2007· Added Text Watermarks option
· Optimized text compression algorithm - the size of PDF files is now reduced by up to 80% (for documents consisting mainly of text)
· Finnish and Arabic user interface localizations added
· Minor bug fixes
July 6th, 2006· Added public profiles support (server edition), added "Save PDF to server" option (server edition), added PDF bookmarks support (pro edition), active profile displayed on each page, bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
June 6th, 2006· Added GUI localization support for French language, Added GUI localization support for Czech language, Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
May 10th, 2006· Added GUI localization support for Asian languages
· User interface now translated in 4 more languages: Japanese, Dutch, Polish and Russian
· Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
March 28th, 2006· Send generated PDF files by email using SMTP or default email client, added user interface localization, extended NovaPdfOptions interface in novaPDF SDK with new options and functions, added A3 form, use smaller port names (NVP3), CID Fonts corrections
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