BiBatchConverter Changelog

What's new in BiBatchConverter 5.98.947

Mar 26, 2024
  • Stability improvements for BiBatchConverter Service when using the “Use a temporary directory for the converted files” option (#17216)
  • Renamed “Searchable Compact PDF” file format to “Searchable PDF” (#17205)
  • Stability improvement for the Save As window on some systems (#17186)
  • More accurate page size calculations, fix for a thin white border appearing on the bottom on certain pages (#17207)
  • Stability improvement for printing from Notepad on Windows 7 systems (#17063)
  • Fix for duplicated text when printing already searchable documents into the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format (#16991)
  • Stability improvement for printing certain barcode fonts (#17026)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 17.61.3137
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.3.758

New in BiBatchConverter 5.96.944 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Stability improvement for Directory Access checks (#17128, #17140)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.94.939 (Dec 4, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for printing certain 1-bit images into 8-bit Grayscale PDF files (#16952)
  • Disabled updating if BiBatchConverter was registered manually (#15887)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.2.757

New in BiBatchConverter 5.93.937 (Nov 9, 2023)

  • Improved character width calculation accuracy for PDF files and Improved PDF/A compliance (#16645)
  • Stability improvements for clicking on the Help button, and opening the BiBatchConverter documentation (#16867)
  • Stability improvements for BiBatchConverter Service when using the “Process Subdirectories” option (#16859)
  • Updated the End User Software License Agreements in the interactive installers
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.1.756

New in BiBatchConverter 5.92.932 (Sep 14, 2023)

  • Stability improvements for converting DICOM (.dcm) images with the BiBatchConverter Desktop Application (#16763)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.91.931 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • Upgraded the BiBatchConverter Desktop from .NET version 5.0 to 7.0 (#16684)
  • Changed the BiBatchConverter Desktop Application to a single executable application (#16139)
  • Added license type detection during update (#15790)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the BiBatchConverter installers (#16015, #16016, #16017, #16702

New in BiBatchConverter 5.90.928 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Added Built-in converter for converting PDF files (#16609, #16635)
  • Added configurable free disk space checks to the BiBatchConverter and the BiBatchConverter Service (#16649)
  • Stability improvement for converting to multi-page TIFF files, after converting to a single-page format (#16643)
  • Added license agreements of third-party components (#16526)
  • Updated Auto-print SDK to version 17.40.529

New in BiBatchConverter 5.85.913 (Jun 22, 2023)

  • New feature to automatically rotate landscape pages to portrait (#16485)
  • New feature to use the parent directory name when merging documents (#16576, #16580)
  • New feature to open the merged document from the BiBatchConverter Desktop user interface (#16579)
  • Stability improvement for converting JPEG compressed TIFF files with invalid Bits Per Sample tags (#16515)
  • Minor user interface improvement on the manual registration dialog (#16545)
  • Stability improvement for changing printer settings from Windows 11 Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Printers & scanners (#16548)
  • Stability improvement for writing into the Windows event log when using BiBatchConverter without administrative privileges (#16558)
  • – Stability improvement for the counters on the Service Manager (#16605)
  • – Stability improvement for converting XPS files (#16606)
  • – Stability improvement for uninstalling BiBatchConverter with the MSI installer when the license is not valid (#16598)
  • – Fixed handle leak during license checking (#16602)
  • – Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTiff) to version 13.10.975 to fix opening JPEG compressed TIFF files with invalid Bits Per Sample tags
  • – Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.0.750
  • – Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.37.325
  • – Updated Printer Driver to version 17.41.3051
  • – Updated Auto-print SDK to version 17.40.524

New in BiBatchConverter 5.80.895 (May 23, 2023)

  • Removed page number suffix from the filename of the first printed page when printing into single-page formats (#16464)
  • Improved palette handling for 8-bit color and grayscale images (#16462)
  • Added a tooltip to improve the Service Manager User Interface, if the service is not installed (#16473)
  • Added the DADESKTOPICON and SMDESKTOPICON parameters to the MSI installer (#16514)
  • Stability improvement for the “Print with BiBatchConverter” feature in Windows Explorer (#16429)
  • Stability improvement for the PDF encryption. In some cases, Adobe Reader was unable to open the encrypted document (#16373)
  • Stability improvement for printing certain patterns (E.g. dotted hatch patterns) in PDF documents (#15936)
  • Stability improvement for converting TIFF files using JPEG compression type 6 with missing JPEG tags (#16481)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 17.34.2988

New in BiBatchConverter 5.79.0.0 (Apr 24, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for the “Keep the color depth of the document” option (#16451)
  • Updated Auto-print SDK to version 17.33.522

New in BiBatchConverter 5.78.0.0 (Apr 17, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for reading some non-standard JPEG compressed TIFF images that use the JPEGInterchangeFormat (513) and TileOffsets (324) TIFF tags. (#15218)
  • Stability improvement for reading certain color TIFF files containing an incorrect Photometric Interpretation tag (#16208)
  • Stability improvement for the printed filename, when printing MHT files with the BiBatchConverter Desktop application (#16378)
  • Stability improvement for the printed filename, when printing files that contain a dot (.) character in the filename, using the BiBatchConverter Desktop application (#13827)
  • Changed the name of the BiBatchConverter Service in the Task Manager (#16444)
  • Updated Auto-print SDK to version 16.95.519
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 13.06.957

New in BiBatchConverter 5.77.0.0 (Jan 23, 2023)

  • Stability improvements for the Custom Action DLL in the BiBatchConverter MSI installers when another Black Ice MSI installer is already installed (Critical update) (#16138)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.76.0.0 (Jan 6, 2023)

  • Stability improvements for the BiBatchConverter Desktop application when installed with the MSI installer (#16132)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.75.0.0 (Dec 15, 2022)

  • Redesigned the BiBatchConverter Service Manager Settings window to enhance the user experience (#16085, #15904)
  • Moved/Redesigned the “Detect Supported File” window to the Settings window (#15910)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the BiBatchConverter Desktop App, when the printing application is not found (#15734)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.70.0.0 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Stability improvements for sending notification emails with SendGrid email provider
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 17.25.2921
  • Enabled the “Rotate Landscape image to Portrait” option even if the orientation is set to Portrait, because some documents may contain mixed landscape and portrait pages
  • Stability improvements for printing into the “XML with PDF Image”, “XML with BMP”, “XML with JPEG”, “XML with PNG” and “XML with GIF” file formats when group file generation is disabled
  • Stability improvement for the OCR text output file naming when using TIFF output file format
  • Stability improvements for saving the HTTP Upload settings in the Printing Preferences, if the provided settings are incorrect
  • Added missing fonts information into the Debug log (.EDF file)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.66.871 (Nov 15, 2022)

  • Stability improvement for sending email and sms notifications if the monitored directory is not accessible (#15882)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the BiBatchConverter installers (#15781, #15774)
  • Decreased the default time-out value of printing the first page to 30 seconds from 180 seconds. (Error code 62) (#15898)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.65.867 (Oct 24, 2022)

  • Added Email and SMS Notification features to the BiBatchConverter Service (#15760)
  • Redesigned Web Interface for monitoring the document conversion (#15745, #15804, #15808, #15806, #15805, #15810)
  • Renamed the BiBatchConverter Special Edition installers (#15812)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 17.21.2910
  • Stability improvement for the subscription-based licensing (#15763)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.62.841 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Stability improvements for activating the BiBatchConverter with a serial key

New in BiBatchConverter 5.61.840 (Oct 3, 2022)

  • Removed the Output Folder configuration dialog from the BiBatchConverter installers (#15777)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the BiBatchConverter installers (#15772, #15779)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.55.817 (Sep 9, 2022)

  • Moved the “Number of used CPU core(s)” option to the Configuration window in the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#15663)
  • Removed the “Apply” option from the BiBatchConverter Service Manager user interface (#15666)
  • Added BiBatchConverter Service installation and uninstallation information to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager log file (#15667)
  • Disabled the Configuration option if the File Conversion is running in the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#15669)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#15680, #15679, #15677

New in BiBatchConverter 5.51.814 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Improved exception handling in the BiBatchConverter Service
  • The BiBatchConverter Service writes the Windows version in the log file
  • Stability improvement for the BiBatchConverter Desktop application not starting on certain systems with non-US date formats

New in BiBatchConverter 5.50.811 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • Stability improvement for infinite loop in the BiBatchConverter Service at startup if the full path of the monitored file is longer than 260 characters (#15567)

New in BiBatchConverter 5.47.808 (Jul 13, 2022)

  • added 256-bit AES encryption support to the PDF output file format (#14685)
  • Stability improvement for using SMTP server passwords that are 16 characters or longer (#15346)
  • Changes to static license validation for subscription-based licenses (#15332)
  • Stability improvement for activation and license checking on certain systems (#15304)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 17.00.2851
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.33.304
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.6.743

New in BiBatchConverter 5.46.807 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Stability improvement printing PDF files that have # characters in their path with Foxit Reader (#15079)
  • Updated Auto-print to version 16.94.514

New in BiBatchConverter 5.45.806 (May 31, 2022)

  • Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter Service when using multiple profiles in the Monitored (Input) folder (#15220)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the BiBatchConverter Service Manager when the BiBatchConverter service cannot start (#15196, #15212)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.98.926, Tesseract version 5.1.0 (#14990)
  • Stability improvement for Uploading to Database, when the “Disable Output File” option is enabled (#15180, #15201)
  • Stability improvement for printing documents from Windows Service (SESSION 0) or to a Shared Printer, and Email Sending or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, SharePoint uploader is enabled (#15181, #15182, #15183, #15184)
  • The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to start the Email Sender or the Database, FTP, HTTPS or SharePoint uploader utilities (#15150)
  • The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to write the group file or the temporary group file for any of the utilities (#15157)
  • Changed “Register with different serial” button to “Register with a serial number” on license error dialogs (#15205)
  • Fix for the OCR feature getting disabled if a profile file from a 32-bit system is imported to the 64-bit driver or vice versa (#15206)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 16.92.2831
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.92.2831

New in BiBatchConverter 4.80 Revision 632 (Jul 13, 2020)

  • Added view log function

New in BiBatchConverter 4.79 Revision 631 (Jul 3, 2020)

  • Minor user interface update for BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#12721)
  • Added Compact pdf file format to BiBatchConverter (#12625)
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.75 Revision 619 (Feb 6, 2020)

  • Added the Update feature to BiBatchConverter installers. Update compatible from (4.29) (#11692)
  • Stability improvement for Document Conversion if the Monitored directory is on a network drive (#12112, #12113)
  • Stability improvement for printing Microsoft Office documents using the BiCommandLineConverter from multi-threaded services (#12118)
  • Minor logging improvement for BiCommandLineConverter (#10196, #12117)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#12120, #12121)
  • Added feature to Upload Documents to Database (#11838)
  • Stability improvement for error code 304 in the Printer Driver MSI uninstallation (#12107)
  • Minor user interface improvement for uninstallation using the MSI installers (#12106)
  • Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver MSI installers when an incompatible installation was detected (#11956)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 15.99.2374
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.76.747, Tesseract release July 7 2019 – V4.1.0 (#12076)
  • Updated version of PDF files produced by the Printer Driver to PDF version 1.7 (#11931)
  • Stability improvement for IPP printer sharing (#12101)
  • Added progress dialog when merging documents using the Merge Documents window (#11642)
  • Stability improvement for content based email sending and mail merge for certain documents (#11732)
  • Improved character positioning in the PDF output for some documents (#11725)
  • Improved page size accuracy of the PDF output (#11618)
  • Stability improvement for the Merge window getting stuck on some systems Stability improvement for using the Merge Document window with the Start Application feature (application started multiple times)
  • Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
  • Added INI file option to not write the “Number of Copies” key to the Group file (#11905)
  • Stability improvement for removing registry entries when shared printers are removed (#11945, #11970, #11971)
  • Minor user interface improvement for shared printers (#11973)
  • Stability improvement for redirecting printing from a shared Black Ice Printer to other shared printers (#11148)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Printing Preferences (#11937)
  • Minor user interface improvement for license activation (#12051)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.8.712
  • Updated Image PDF DLLs to version 12.77.750
  • Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
  • Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.60 Revision 586 (Apr 18, 2019)

  • Stability improvements for the Web Interface for loading the Document Converter Settings (#10728)
  • Stability improvements for the Web Interface for displaying the log events (#10729)
  • Stability improvements for installing the Web Interface on Servers with foreign language (#10014)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 15.53.2140
  • Added option to open a Web Page after HTTP upload (#10900, #10901, #10902)
  • Added TLS 1.2 support to the HTTP upload feature (#10946)
  • Minor user interface improvement (#10792)
  • Changed HTTP uploader window titles to use the printer name
  • Added second custom parameter to the HTTP upload feature
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printing Preferences dialog (#10666, #10667, #10668, #10669, #10678)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.03.224
  • Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
  • Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.50 Revision 565 (Jan 31, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for running the BiBatchConverter Service Manager as Administrator (#10447)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 15.45.2065
  • Added Compact PDF file format (#9815, #10327)
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 3.0.0.703
  • Supporting Windows Server 2019
  • Stability improvement for the “Send printed document in email” feature, Outlook window appearing behind the printing application (#10331)
  • Stability improvement for printing documents containing very large number of images in parallel to PDF format (#10320)
  • Stability improvements for printing using fonts with names longer then 31 characters into PDF file format (#10314)
  • Replaced the Watermark option with the Text Watermark option on the Save As dialog (#10024)
  • Added option to Profile Manager tab to export current settings as a configuration INI file for customized installations (#9978)
  • Added “Display email sent successfully message” and “Display error message” options to the email settings (#10080)
  • Stability improvement for using environment variables in Header, Footer and Annotation text (#9929, #10027)
  • The file format drop down lists is made larger to show all the file formats without scrolling (#10074)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#9880, #9733)
  • Added Text Watermark and Text Stamp features for the Watermark/Stamp Tab of the Printer Drivers (#9928)
  • Stability improvement for handling 32 bit PNG images as watermark (#10010)
  • Added support for Unicode output file names for all formats (#9888)
  • Stability improvement for handling new line characters in content based email sending (#9608)
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.61.612 (#9888)
  • Updated Auto-print to version 15.46.413
  • Added support to Compact PDF file format (#10349)
  • Stability improvement for printing into BMP format (#10451)
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.46 revision 560 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • – Updated Auto-print to version 15.25.410
  • – Added From, Sent, To and Subject header to printed email file format (#10238)

New in BiBatchConverter 4.45 Revision 556 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Added the ability to set up multiple profiles based on the directory the BiBatchConverter Service is converting (#10128)
  • Stability improvement for reading the license server information from the configuration file (#10028, #10071, #10072)
  • Stability improvement for detecting the supported file formats (#10133)
  • Added the version number to title of BiBatchConverter installers (#10032)
  • Updated Auto-print to version 15.25.408
  • Improved error handling for invalid characters in file names (# character in PDf file names) (#10070)
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 15.26.2006
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.40 Build 539 (Jul 10, 2018)

  • Improved file detection when monitoring folders with shared network directory with UNC path (#9806, #9807)
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 15.10.1964
  • Stability improvement for blank pages, when printing from certain applications and redirecting the output to another printer
  • Stability improvement for Text Output when using the “Add font information, position and style” formatting style
  • Added “Line Adjustment” INI file option for text output
  • Added “Embed Identity encoded CID fonts only” option to PDF font options
  • Added “Pages Per Sheet” (N-Up) feature to the Printer Drivers
  • Added INI file options to hide resolutions from the user interface
  • Fixed Print Preview appearing color when 8 bit grayscale is selected
  • Changed default fax resolution to “Fine fax compatibility”
  • Stability improvement for closing email sender application when the SMTP server name is invalid
  • Stability improvement for HTTP upload test when “Delete printed document after uploading” is checked
  • Changed priority of emails from Low to Normal when silent email sending is enabled
  • Performance improvements for the Text Output
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.4.692
  • Stability improvement for font embedding when printing certain documents
  • Fixed images appearing black when printing certain documents
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.15.207
  • Manual registration window was not shown on some connection errors (43 and 44)
  • Minor user interface improvements for BiBatchConverter Service Manager if evaluation period is expired
  • Stability improvement for configuring the output directory using the BiBatchConverter MSI CUSTOMINI parameter
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.39 Build 534 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Added the “Document Converter Configuration Manager” to BiBatchConverter Server
  • Added extended logging to BiBatchConverter/BiBatchConverter Server MSI installer
  • Added the registration feature to BiBatchConverter Service Manager
  • Minor interface improvement for BiBatchConverter Service Manager
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 15.00.1901
  • Added “Send each page as separate email” option to email sending
  • Disabled the Outlook security popup window when sending emails
  • Performance improvement on some systems when the “Start Application” feature is used
  • Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
  • “[Read-Only]” text is removed automatically from the document name
  • Stability improvement for text output even when the printed page contains no text
  • Added custom error to HTTP upload feature, to allow customers to show personalized error messages (Error code 621)
  • Added “Number of Copies” parameter to the “Start Application” feature
  • Added “Closing filter” option for the OCR to improve recognition
  • Stability improvement for Custom File Naming preview
  • Stability improvement for using Custom File Naming with Bates Number and the “Save each page as separate file” option
  • Improved text rendering when printing to 1 bit image formats with dithering
  • Added INI file option to control Text Antialiasing
  • Stability improvement for the “Add space in records” Text Output option
  • Added option to Bates Numbering to count the documents instead of pages
  • Minor stability improvements in the Printing Preferences dialog
  • Stability improvement for drawing the watermark to 1 bit images without dithering
  • Added option to Text Extraction that allows detecting space characters inside text records
  • Stability improvement for Text Extraction for documents containing Arabic text and numbers
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.57.589
  • Added hOCR output format to OCR
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.14.206
  • Fixed error 37 during registration
  • Stability improvements for version checking
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.1.688
  • Stability improvement for calculating character widths for certain documents
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.392
  • Stability improvement for converting PDF documents in parallel on some systems (Error code 62)

New in BiBatchConverter 4.37 Build 522 (Dec 4, 2017)

  • Added the ability for BiBatchConverter to be shared between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems
  • Added registration dialog for BiBatchConverter MSI installers
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.99.1861
  • Added hOCR output format to OCR
  • Added option to generate OCR output in memory
  • The printer name, job ID and document name parameters are passed to every message capture event
  • Added option to Text Extraction that allows detecting space characters inside text records
  • Stability improvement for Text Extraction for documents containing Arabic text and numbers
  • Added INI file option to turn off the file access check when appending using the save as dialog
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.57.589
  • Added option to Bates Numbering to count the documents instead of pages
  • Minor stability improvements in the Printing Preferences dialog
  • Added option to generate Text Output in memory
  • Stability improvement for drawing the watermark to 1 bit images without dithering
  • Stability improvement for Custom File Naming preview
  • Stability improvement for using Custom File Naming with Bates Number and the “Save each page as separate file” option
  • Improved text rendering when printing to 1 bit image formats with dithering
  • Added INI file option to control Text Antialiashing
  • Stability improvement for the “Add space in records” Text Output option
  • Fixed Save As dialog opening behind the printing application
  • Added “Number of Copies” parameter to the “Start Application” feature
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.10.199
  • Made some error messages clearer

New in BiBatchConverter 4.36 Build 518 (Nov 24, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for handling locked files in the BiBatchConverter installer
  • Minor user interface improvements for BiBatchConverter Server
  • Added demo registration for BiBatchConverter MSI installers
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.383
  • Stability improvement for printing PDF files with BiBatchConverter Server service on Windows Server 2016
  • Stability improvement for printing PowerPoint documents with Office 2016
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.58.591
  • Stability improvement for opening certain LZW compressed TIFF files

New in BiBatchConverter 4.35 Build 508 (Sep 22, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for installing BiBatchConverter on certain systems

New in BiBatchConverter 4.34.507 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.97.1807
  • Stability improvement for mail merge and content based email sending (disappearing page content)
  • Removed empty lines before pages in text output
  • Stability improvement for using the Printer Driver with Microsoft Word with 204×196 DPI Fine Fax mode
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Save as dialog
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Printing Preferences dialog Profile Manager tab
  • Stability improvement for SharePoint uploader utility when the log file path is missing
  • Added option to change the height of linear barcodes
  • Stability improvement for the custom file naming
  • Added Date and Time option to custom file naming
  • Stability improvement for the Delete files after uploading to SharePoint option
  • Stability improvement for appending documents using the save As dialog
  • Fixed inserting unnecessary space characters after the Bates Numbering Prefix
  • Removed extension from document names when printing pdf documents
  • Fixed page number in text output to appear in a new line
  • Added Bates Number field to Custom File Naming
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.9.0.686
  • Fixed drawing opaque background for some text records
  • Stability improvement for drawing patterns
  • Improved rendering of lines with dash-dot-dot patter
  • Stability improvement for printing from GhostScript
  • Stability improvement for handling unsupported GDI object types
  • Fixed upside down text in some documents
  • Fixed some images appearing black
  • Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter installer for Windows Server 2008 64-bit
  • Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter uninstaller when the Serial number is suspended
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.33.501 (Feb 24, 2017)

  • Upgraded build process for the BiBatchConverter components and installers
  • Minor interface improvement for the subject of the Email notification when the conversion is stopped
  • Removed the Everyone and Just Me radio buttons from the user interface of the MSI installers
  • Removed the Repair option from the user interface of the MSI installers
  • Minor user interface improvement in the MSI installers
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.83.1677
  • Increased maximum custom parameter length to 8192 characters for the "Start Application" feature
  • Fixed Apply button on the printing preferences dialog not activating when the custom parameter is changed
  • Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.559
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • Stability improvement for empty print jobs (E.g.: Printing empty page from Notepad)
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Upgraded build process for the drivers
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.3.677
  • Stabilty improvement for printing into Editable XML and Editable HTML output file formats.
  • Fix for lines and brushes when printing certain documents from SAP
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.08.30
  • Stability improvement for resuming paused print jobs
  • Added support for <<USERNAME>>, <<COMPUTERNAME>>, <<USERDOMAIN>> and <<IPADDRESS>> environment variables in the output folder for shared printers
  • Stability improvement for using period character in custom file names
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.10.193
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.82.376
  • Upgraded build process for the Auto-print components
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.57.563
  • Added support for loading 3 bpp TIFF documents
  • Added support for loading tiled TIFF documents
  • Stability improvement for Drag and Drop when BiBatchConverter is running as Administrator
  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.32.488 (Jan 6, 2017)

  • Updated InstallShield Projects to version 2013
  • Added Upload to Web feature
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.76.1619
  • Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.09.189
  • Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
  • Stability improvement for uninstallation after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
  • Stability improvement for handling connection problems
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.76.368
  • Stability improvement for handling low memory conditions (fixes deadlock)
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.31.477 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Added filename generation option: "Use the Document Name with the Output Directory from an INI file"
  • Added option to Custom file naming to read the Output Directory from an INI file
  • The printer driver now generates an empty txt file for text output even if the printed page contains no text
  • Stability improvement for Content Based Email Sending and Mail Merge when printing certain documents, including PDF files and Web pages
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter to version 14.76.1596
  • Enabled the dot character in the Merge parameter
  • Added the ? parameter to the parameter list
  • Stability improvement for printer driver detection
  • Minor log improvements
  • Updated manuals
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.30.471 (Nov 28, 2016)

  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.71.361
  • Stability improvement for Custom File Naming when printing Email files
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.07.180
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.75.1579
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Email Settings dialog
  • Performance improvement for printing some pages with extremely large amount of EMF records
  • Stability improvement for reinstalling the BiBatchConverter if the demo period is expired
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.29.465 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter installer if additional DLL files is locked
  • Stability Improvement for uninstalling BiBatchConverter
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.74.1568
  • Added User Name, Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number parameters to the "Start Application" feature
  • Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to all formats
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.1.667
  • Stability improvement for printing documents that contain zero length text records
  • Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to PDF format
  • Stability improvement for Bates Number and Annotation rotation
  • Changed Page, Annotation, Bates Numbering rotation to clockwise
  • Removed raw file formats from the user interface by default
  • Added Tooltips to the Printing Preferences dialog
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.71.361
  • Reduced the timeout of the first page of the document to be printed is to 3 minutes
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.06.179
  • Stability improvement for multi-user, parallel license checking (Error codes 47 and 24)
  • Stability improvement for registration with some VPN virtual network interfaces
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.07.292 (May 7, 2015)

  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.27.151
  • Stability improvement for printing HTML documents
  • Improved timeout handling for HTML document printing
  • Improved timeout handling for XPS document printing
  • Added Unicode filename support for printing image files
  • Added Unicode filename support for printing PDF files
  • Moved PowerPoint and Visio printing code to the BiPrintOffice.exe helper to improve stability
  • Improved printing using the Merge documents printer driver option
  • Added "Merge to PDF", "Merge to TIFF", "Split multipage PDF documents to single page" and "Split multipage Tiff documents to single page" profiles to printer driver
  • Added "Merge documents" and "Split multipage documents to single page" options to BiBatchConverter
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.06.286 (May 7, 2015)

  • Added debug logging option
  • Removed barcode tab from printing preferences
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.19.108
  • Added Adobe Acrobat Pro support for converting PDF documents
  • Fixed "Timout interval elapsed" error when printing certain PDF documents with Auto-print
  • Improved printing PDF files with embedded JavaScript with Auto-print
  • Update Printer Driver to version 14.19.1065
  • Stability improvement for handles when checking registration during the conversion
  • Improved temporary font handling
  • Stability improvement for printing with "Enable advanced printing features" unchecked, output disabled and text output enabled
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases a 0 byte TIFF file got generated besides the output file
  • Performance improvement for the "Extract text" option when "Eastern character support" is enabled
  • Added INI file option to turn off directory access check at the start of printing
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Fixed memory leak related to temporary font files when printing from Adobe Reader when the "Extraxt text to file" option is enabled
  • Stability improvement for "Generate output in memory" option
  • Improvement for "Start Application" option: Document Name, Group Filename and Output Filename parameters are available when "Start Before Printing" is selected
  • Improved TIFF error handling
  • Stability improvement for printing with Message Capture
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.05.277 (May 7, 2015)

  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.16.102
  • Improved printing Excel files with multiple sheets
  • Improved printable area detection when printing PDF input files
  • Updated BiAutoPDF.dll to version 2.6.2.617
  • Stability improvement when printing PDF input file
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 4.02.131
  • Improved error handling for non-connection errors during registration
  • Added watermark images for the BiBatchconverter
  • Improved registration handling after installation
  • Minor user interface changes
  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.04.270 (May 7, 2015)

  • Improved BiBatchConverter user interface to enhance user's experience
  • Added AutoCAD (*.dwg) document support
  • Update Printer Driver to version 14.16.1011
  • Stability improvement for Mail Merge
  • Improved output filename generation when printing from Visio
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.613
  • Stability improvement when printing documents with Eastern characters to PDF format
  • Stability improvement when printing to HTML format
  • Improved filename generation when printing PDF documents
  • Improved profile loading
  • Enabled Profile Manager for Agent Printers
  • Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter licensing
  • Updated Auto-print to version 14.16.74
  • Added automatic spooler restarting to enhance reliability
  • Improved error detection when multiple users convert in parallel
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter to version 14.17.1015
  • Added /PDNG parameter to use the Printer Driver file name generation settings for conversions
  • Small user interface improvements
  • Added capability to use short name of BiCommandLineConverter for conversions; BiCC
  • Updated BiAutoPDF.dll to version 2.6.2.616
  • Stabiliy improvement when printing PDF input documents
  • Added capability to the filename generation to save the printed documents in the same name as the source document
  • Updated manuals
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.03.243 (May 7, 2015)

  • Updated manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.03.242 (May 7, 2015)

  • Changed license registration communication to HTTPS
  • Added Proxy handling in the license registration
  • Improved Jpeg compressed Tiff file handling
  • Disabled group file generation by default
  • Updated Image Dlls to version 12.53.491
  • eLicense version 4.01.129

New in BiBatchConverter 4.02.238 (May 7, 2015)

  • BiBatchConverter now uses AutoPrint for printing
  • Added XPS file support to BiBatchConverter
  • Added FAX file support to BiBatchConverter
  • BiBatchConverter server is not using the Black Ice License Manager (BILM) anymore
  • Stability improvement in Office Add-in Printer Settings feature
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.13.972
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter (14.14.969)
  • Improved error handling for PRINTER parameter
  • Improved error handling for DNM parameter
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 4.01.196 (May 7, 2015)

  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.13.961
  • Improved parameter handling in BiCommandLineConverter
  • Improved logging in BiCommandLineConverter
  • Extended exit codes in the BiCommandLineConverter
  • Stability improvements for using ROTATE parameter in BiCommandLineConverter with unspecified orientation
  • Added /DNM parameter to leave converted input files in the original directory
  • Updated BiCommandLineConverter manuals
  • Updated manual

New in BiBatchConverter 4.00.195 (May 7, 2015)

  • Renamed FileMorph to BiBatchConverter
  • Added BiCommandLineConverter
  • Removed Save document manually option
  • Removed Demo limitation when reached 250 converted documents
  • Fixed Help buttons in the Printing preferences dialog
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.13.953
  • Update manual

New in BiBatchConverter 3.02.176 (May 7, 2015)

  • Improved user interface in the installer
  • Improved user interface in the application
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 14.11.895
  • Update manual

New in BiBatchConverter 3.01.171 (May 7, 2015)

  • Improved user interface in the installer
  • Improved user interface in the application
  • Improved pending file handling in the installer
  • Added HTML editable to FileMorph Office Add-in Printer Settings
  • Added XML editable to FileMorph Office Add-in Printer Settings
  • Update manual

New in BiBatchConverter 3.00.160 (May 7, 2015)

  • Updated Printer Driver to version 13.80.597
  • Improved compatibility with older Black Ice products
  • Updated TiffViewer to version 10.14.536
  • Updated Manual

New in BiBatchConverter 3.00.155 (May 7, 2015)

  • Improved directory monitoring with new features
  • Added Office 2013 support to the office add-in
  • Added Office 2010 support to the office add-in
  • Added Publisher support to the office add-in
  • Updated Printer Driver to version 13.79.586
  • Updated TiffViewer to version 10.12.510
  • Updated Document Imaging to version 12.16.427
  • Combined Demo and Release installers
  • Updated Manual

New in BiBatchConverter 2.56 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • Improvements in the server version

New in BiBatchConverter 2.55 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Updated Image DLLs to version 12.11.272
  • Stability improvement for reinstalling FileMorph

New in BiBatchConverter 2.54 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.6.1.414

New in BiBatchConverter 2.53 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • Updated Manuals

New in BiBatchConverter 2.52 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Stability improvement for PDF, PNG and JPEG output
  • Stability improvement for printing long documents

New in BiBatchConverter 2.51 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Stability improvement for Windows 8 installer.

New in BiBatchConverter 2.41 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Fixed requirements dialog box refresh problem.
  • Fixed message box syntax.
  • Fixed .tiff extension related problem.
  • Fixed cleanup procedure bug.

New in BiBatchConverter 2.40 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Improved PDF dlls to latest version