What's new in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 5.96.944 (Jan 26, 2024)
- Stability improvement for Directory Access checks (#17128, #17140)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 5.95.941 (Jan 26, 2024)
- Added support for specifying environment variables between % characters (#16958)
- Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 13.16.996, Tesseract version 5.3.3 (#14990)
- Stability improvement for printing certain 1-bit images into 8-bit Grayscale PDF files (#16952)
- Fix for duplicated text when converting already searchable documents into the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format (#16991)
- Upgraded the BiBatchConverter interactive installers (InstallShield) to version 2023 R1
- Updated Printer Driver to version 17.51.3105
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.2.757
- Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.38.326
New in BiBatchConverter Server 5.94.939 (Jan 26, 2024)
- 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 Server 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 Server 5.92.932 (Sep 15, 2023)
- Stability improvements for converting DICOM (.dcm) images with the BiBatchConverter Desktop Application (#16763)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 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 Server 5.66.871 (Nov 17, 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 Server 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 Server 5.60.836 (Sep 27, 2022)
- Improved startup speed for the BiBatchConverter Service (#15686, #15689, #15687)
- Minor user interface improvement for the Install Service dialog in the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#15694, #15733)
- Stability improvement for monitoring OneDrive folders using the BiBatchConverter Service (#15590)
- Stability improvement for monitoring Google Drive folders using the BiBatchConverter Service (#15712)
- Stability improvement for monitoring Dropbox folders using the BiBatchConverter Service (#15715)
- Stability improvement for the BiBatchConverter Service converting files multiple times when using multiple threads and the “10-second timer” option is turned on (#15714)
- Performance improvements for creating profiles (#15688)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 17.12.2891
- Added support for opening TIFF and PDF documents generated in memory in the Black Ice Tiff Viewer without writing the files to disk (#15408)
- Stability improvement for loading HTTP upload settings from profiles that were generated with older printer drivers (version 16.95 or older) (#15506)
- Removed line separator from the HTTP uploader log files (#15513)
- Added option to prompt the user for PDF password during printing (#15552)
- User interface improvements for the PDF encryption settings (#15612)
- Improved error handling when uploading documents using HTTP or HTTPS (#15005, #15519)
- Improved logging in the HTTP/HTTPS uploader utility (#15518)
- Minor user interface improvement for the custom file naming (#15646)
- Added the Product Name to the evaluation period expiration dialog (#15706)
- Updated BuRegister.dll to version 17.12.2886
- Added the product name to the Manual Registration dialog (#15707)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 5.05 Revision 734 (Dec 2, 2021)
- Redesigned BiBatchConverter application
- Minor improvements in the Service Manager user interface (#14606, #14481, #14486)
- Created separate installers (32 and 64-bit) for Windows 32 and 64-bit (#14575)
- Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is no longer supported.
- Removed the BiBatchConverter Office Addon (#14414)
- Added the “If the BiBatchConverter Service finds files in the “Monitored folder” that are not designed to be converted, the BiBatchConverter Service will move these files to the “Converterd (Output) folder”” feature to the BiBatchConverter Serice (#14610)
- Added the BiBatchConverter service start mode information to the log file (#14463)
- Added the “check the required applications at startup” feature to the BiBatchConverter Service, and BiBatchConverter desktop application (#14546, #14545)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 16.76.2731
- Added “Do not show this message again” checkbox to the “Are you sure you would like to start merging” message box (#14573)
- Stability improvement for opening the print job properties from the Print Queue window (Error 400) (#14566)
- Added “Searchable Compact PDF OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents (#14482)
- Added Floyd-Steinberg and Jarvis-Judice-Ninke high quality (larger file size) and low quality (smaller file size) dithering (#14457)
- Removed “Custom resolution” item from the list of resolutions. Custom resolutions can be added by clicking the Edit Resolutions button. (#14440)
- Added Ordered Clustered dithering method to the printer drivers (#14338)
- Stability improvement for printing with the Euclid Symbol font (#14272)
- Added special Application Layer licensing for VDI installers (#14358)
- Manual registrations are limited to the maintenance/subscription expiration date (#14264)
- Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.843
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.5.739
- Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.23.286
New in BiBatchConverter Server 5.01 Revision 686 (Oct 8, 2021)
- Added option to keep the color depth when converting images to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14409)
- Stability improvement for the “Keep the original size of images” option if the printer resolution and image resolution are different (#14417)
- Minor user interface improvement for the BiBatchConverter Service Manager Image Conversion options (#14418)
- Stability improvements for the BiBatchConverter MSI installer, if the Print Spooler service cannot be started (#14429)
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.494
New in BiBatchConverter Server 5.00 Revision 680 (Sep 7, 2021)
- Added option to keep the page orientation and size when converting images to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14105, #14130)
- Stability improvement for detecting password protection in some PDF files (#14265)
- Switched BiBatchConverter to subscription based licensing
- Added Page Break character support to the Black Ice Print Text helper (BiPrintText.exe) (#14294)
- Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
- Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 16.65.2699
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.488
- Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.98 Revision 670 (Aug 2, 2021)
- Minor user interface improvement on Configuration -> PDF Converter tab of BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14218)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 16.61.2679
- Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
- Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the “Enable advanced printing features” option disabled (#14217)
- Added suffix to output file names when using the “Exact filename” option without the “Overwrite the existing file” option and the output file already exists (#13864)
- Performance improvements for the Text Output (#14054)
- Fix for copy-pasting hyphen (-) characters from the generated PDF files (#14143)
- Added “Add White Background to Page” PDF option to turn on or off the drawing of the white background in the PDF output (#14147)
- Improved drawing of arcs in the PDF output (#14077)
- Removed invisible white background from the PDF output (#14147)
- Printing speed optimizations when Text Output is enabled (#14048)
- Removed large invisible rectangle from the PDF output (#14078)
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
- Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.95 Revision 663 (Jul 1, 2021)
- Added the separated Cc email address to printed document from an email files (#14124)
- Stability improvement for monitoring network shared directory (14123)
- Stability improvement for printing Unicode text files (#14119)
- Stability improvement for detecting the network directory connection (#14128, #14129)
- Stability improvement for printing email files if the attachment files includes colon (#14138)
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.55.478
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.87 Revision 648 (Apr 20, 2021)
- Minor user interface improvement for File Format Filtering (#13886)
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.48.469
- Added Unicode support for printing email (.msg, .eml) files (#13890)
- Stability improvement for duplicated email body when printing email (.msg, .eml) files (#13894)
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.86 Revision 645 (Mar 24, 2021)
- Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808, KB5000809, KB5000822 or KB5000848.
- Stability improvement for uninstalling the old version of the BiBatchConverter using a newer installer (#13804)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 16.48.2647
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.85 Revision 643 (Mar 16, 2021)
- Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808 or KB5000848. (Fix for printing blank or broken pages.)
- Minor user interface improvement on About window of BiBatchConverter (#13310)
- Stability improvement for printing PNG files (#12830)
- Fixed installation on Windows Server 2019 Essentials systems. (#13713)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 16.46.2644
- Redesigned email sending window, added text formatting features (#13095)
- Minor user interface improvement for the “Exact filename from the registry” and “Exact filename from the INI file” filename generation options (#13579)
- Added option to the Redirect Printing feature to use the default printer of the user (#13610)
- Added content-based file naming feature (#12628)
- Added option to remove specified text from the document name (#13518)
- Enabled the “Embed licensed fonts” PDF option by default (#13309)
- Stability improvement for SharePoint uploading if the printer driver is set to open the output PDF with ABBYY PDF (#13331)
- Added support for paper sizes larger than 3276 mm (#13110, #13123)
- Added raw text datatype support to handle print jobs from legacy software systems (#12840)
- Added “Print document as bitmap” option to the “Redirect printing” feature (#12950)
- Changing the printing preferences for Administrators also change the printer settings for the SYSTEM user (#12936, #13023, #13027)
- Stability improvement for drawing transparent images in certain PDF/A documents (#12923
- Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.79.768, Tesseract release Dec 26 2019 – V4.1.1 (#12712)
- Added the TLS 1.2 support to the Upload to FTP feature (#12761)
- Stability improvement for the Merge Window when printing quickly (#12321)
- Stability improvement for printing from BarTender (#12308)
- Changed file format in the PDF common profile files to “Compact PDF” (#12314)
- Added progress dialog when printing using the Save As dialog (#11903)
- Stability improvement for output directory access checking in the Printer Drivers (#12146)
- Stability improvement for saving into JPEG LAB format (#12174)
- For shared printers, output directory is now set on the Host computer by default, added option to set the directory on the Client (#11726)
- Stability improvement for IPP printer sharing (#12101)
- Added the “Embed Windows fonts” value to the “PDF Settings” section in the printer driver configuration INI files (#12122)
- Stability improvement for application starter utility not starting in some cases (#12100)
- Added missing entries to the PDF Settings section of the default Printer Driver INI files (#12124)
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.3.720
- Improvements for vertical positioning of characters in PDF files (#13001)
- Stability improvement for appending to PDF documents saved by Adobe Reader (#12360, #12878)
- Stability improvement for the FrameRgn GDI function in the PDF output (#12860)
- Stability improvement for saving into Linearized PDF format (#12868)
- Improved image quality in certain non-letter sized PDF documents (#12870)
- PDF Output size optimizations (#12293)
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.29.463
- Added option to print text files with user specified extensions (#13287, #13288)
- Stability improvement for printing using PowerPoint 2016 and 2019 version 16.0.13328 (#13255)
- Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.18.263
- Changed some licensing related error messages to be more meaningful (#13452)
- Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.40.2625
- Added “Test Proxy Connection” button to the Proxy Settings window to help troubleshoot connection problems during registration (#13438)
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.80 Revision 632 (Jul 13, 2020)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 4.78 Revision 626 (Jun 11, 2020)
- Stability improvement for “Use a temporary directory for the converted files” feature if the Filename Generation Method is Custom file naming (#12593)
- Enabled automatic restart for BiBatchConverter service (#12312)
- Changed file format in the PDF common profile files to “Compact PDF” (#12313)
- Minor user interface update for BiBatchConverter installer (#12627)
- Updated Auto-print to version 16.12.452
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.77 Revision 621 (Apr 16, 2020)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI registration with REGNUM parameter (#12298)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.76 Revision 620 (Apr 7, 2020)
- Stability improvement for online license validation (#12232)
- Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.14.246
- Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.02.2414
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.75 Revision 619 (Feb 5, 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 Server 4.71 Revision 602 (Dec 17, 2019)
- Enabled the multi-threaded in the BiCommandLineConverter (#11928)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter Service writing into Event Viewer, removed unnecessary information (#12019)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.70 Revision 599 (Sep 12, 2019)
- Added the Foxit PDF reader support (#11679)
- Changed default file format of BiBatchConverter to “Compact PDF” (#11643)
- Minor user interface improvements (#11682, #11696, #11706, #11709)
- Stability improvements for detect the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (#11684)
- Updated Auto-print to version 15.70.432
- Updated Printer Driver to version 15.85.2280
- Added “Do not show this window again” option to the Save As dialog. (#11427)
- Added “Custom layout” option to the Text Output (#11318)
- Improved locking of the output TIFF file during printing to prevent applications from opening the file too early (Error 63 issue) (#11530)
- Added warning message to the printing preferences window to restart printing applications (#11529)
- Stability improvement for using the OCR feature in high resolution on 32-bit systems (#11586)
- Stability improvement for removing the content based/mail merge tags from the Text Output (#11589)
- Minor user interface improvements (#11599, #11600)
- Added option to specify the printed pages in the Printing Preferences (#10347)
- Changed the Printer Drivers to write lowercase extensions by default, added INI file option to write uppercase extensions (#11635)
- Changed default text output format to “Text with Layout” (#11644)
- “pmd” extension is removed automatically from the document name (#11680)
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.5.709
- Stability improvement for scaling in some objects in PDF format (#11478)
- Improvements in rendering underlined text in PDF format (#11524)
- Improvements drawing of images in PDF format in high resolution (#11525)
- Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.71.732
- Stability improvement for the “Closing filter” feature on some systems (#11533)
- Updated manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.65 Revision 591 (Jun 12, 2019)
- Updated the digital signature certificate in installers.
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.63 Revision 590 (Jun 3, 2019)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 15.56.2216
- Stability improvement for printing printing custom (not listed) paper sizes (e.g.: printing from Microsoft Outlook) (#11374)
- Added support for the “Generate output in memory” feature to HTTP uploading. (Uploading document without writing the document to disk)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.61 Revision 588 (May 3, 2019)
- Updated the digital signature certificate on software components.
New in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 4.56 Revision 582 (Feb 27, 2019)
- Added current date to log file name (#10472)
- Changed the date time format to the system’s default format in log file (#10623)
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.55 Revision 578 (Feb 18, 2019)
- Stability improvement for the “Overwrite output” option in BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#10157)
- Minor user interface update for BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#10291, #10290, #10168)
- Minor user interface update for BiBatchConverter Service Manager Advanced options(#10246)
- Stability improvement for printing when error code 63 occurs (#10497)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI installer for pressing enter key in registration window (#10485)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI installer when the user’s name contains space characters (#10527)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 15.50.2079
- Added “Force paper size” option to the Printer Drivers (#10442)
- Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.70.644, Tesseract release October 29 2018 – V4.0.0 (#10335)
- Added Outlook 2019 support (#10379)
- Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.1.3401
- Stability improvement for missing images or blank pages in the output PDF files when certain raster operations are used during printing (#10432)
- Added Print Image Watermark option to the Save As dialog (#10399)
- Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the existing document” option with Custom file naming (#10295)
- Added “Number of Copies” key to the group file (#10013)
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.1.704
- Updated Auto-print to version 15.50.417
- Added better error handling to input file checking (#10479)
- Disable the compatibility mode by default in the HTML helper (#10478)
- Stability improvements for printing HTML documents (#10482)
- Added configurable Timeout for opening a file, in case it cannot be opened because it is already opened in another application. (#10524)
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 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 Server 4.50 revision: 565 (Jan 30, 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 Server 4.46 Revision 560 (Nov 29, 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 Server 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 required document converter components installed under File Format Filtering the tab (#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 Server 4.41 Revision 545 (Aug 14, 2018)
- Added the Auto-print dll version checking to BiBatchConverter Service log (#9947)
- Added the Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader version checking to BiBatchConverter Service log (#9947)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter Service Manager service installation (#9912)
- Changed the copyright date in the BiBatchConverter (#9941)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI uninstallation when the network card is disabled (#9915)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI uninstallation when the internet connection is disabled (#9914)
- Improvements for serial number checking for BiBatchConverter MSI installers (#9789)
- Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter MSI uninstallation when the license has been changed from transferable to static (#9785)
- Stability improvement for MSI uninstallers when aborting the uninstallation (#9836)
- Stability improvement for aborting installation of the BiBatchConverter MSI installers in case of registration errors (#9830)
- Minor user interface update for BiBatchConverter installer (#9803)
- Updated Printer Driver to version 15.21.1982
- Added Stamp feature for the Watermark Tab of the Printer Drivers
- Disabled output directory access check when the output is disabled (#9827)
- Stability improvement for handling file extensions in the Save As dialog (#9503)
- Stability improvement for text output when printing certain EMF corrupted documents (#9843)
- Changed caption on profile manager tab
- Stability improvement for certain applications that could not print to the Black Ice Printer Driver if another printer was set as default
- Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.7.697
- Improved bitmap merging for PDF documents
- Stability improvement for dithering when printing from certain applications
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.40 Revision 539 (Jul 9, 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 Server 4.39 Revision 534 (Mar 13, 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 Server 4.38 Revision 526 (Jan 19, 2018)
- Updated elicense.dll to version 5.12.203
- Improved error messages
- Licensing improvements
- Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.389
- Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.58.593
- Stability improvement for opening certain LZW compressed TIFF files
- Updated Manuals
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.37 Revision 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 Server 4.36 Revision 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 Server 4.35 Revision 508 (Sep 22, 2017)
- Stability improvement for installing BiBatchConverter on certain systems
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.34 Revision 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 Server 4.33 Revision 501 (Jul 22, 2017)
- Updated build process 15.
- 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
- Stability 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 <>, <>, <> and <> 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 Server 4.07 Revision 292 (May 8, 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 Server 4.06 Revision 286 (May 8, 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 "Timeout 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 Server 4.05 Revision 277 (May 8, 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 Server 4.04 Revision 270 (May 8, 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 Server 4.03 Revision 243 (May 8, 2015)
New in BiBatchConverter Server 4.03 Revision 242 (May 8, 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 Server 4.02 Revision 238 (May 8, 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 Server 4.01 Revision 235 (May 8, 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 Server 4.00 Revision 232 (May 8, 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
- Updated Black Ice License Manager to version 4.1.0.62
- Updated manual
New in BiBatchConverter Server 3.02 Revision 214 (May 8, 2015)
- Improved user interface in the installer
- Improved user interface in the application
- Updated Printer Driver to version 14.11.895
- Updated manual