What's new in Print2Flash 5.2
Jun 25, 2020
- New features:
- Support for hyperlinks for AutoCAD documents
- Now hyperlinks are supported not only for Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents but for AutoCAD drawings as well.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Print2Flash 5.1 (Nov 8, 2019)
- Support of FitToPage option for presentation documents converted using OpenOffice or LibreOffice applications
- FitToPage property of PowerPointOptions object and FitToPage parameter of Enhanced Batch Processing, previously available only when converting with Microsoft Office, are now supported when converting presentation documents with OpenOffice or LibreOffice as well.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Print2Flash 4.0 (Aug 18, 2015)
- The main feature of this major release is support of new document format in addition to Flash: HTML5 format:
- This format allows opening and viewing Print2Flash documents in all modern browsers supporting HTML5 even without the Flash Player. As HTML5 is now widely supported, this feature provides a greater audience for your documents and makes it possible to access your documents on a greater range of computers, mobile devices and other Internet-enabled gadgets. Support for Flash documents is retained, and now you may seamlessly produce web-ready documents in both Flash and HTML5 formats for optimum functionality and compatibility. HTML5 documents rely on SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files for displaying of document pages so this release introduces a support of SVG format as well.
- Additional new features include:
- Support for programmatic conversion of Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project, Adobe InDesign, OpenOffice Writer, OpenOffice Calc, OpenOffice Impress, OpenOffice Draw and OpenOffice Math documents using special processing method
- Support of Microsoft Office Viewers
- Now to convert MS Office documents, you don't need to install commercial Microsoft Office software. You may install free Microsoft Office viewers (Microsoft Word Viewer, Microsoft Excel Viewer and Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer) and Print2Flash will use them for conversion of MS Office documents.
- New options for programmatic conversion of MS PowerPoint documents
- These options include FrameSlides option to control showing a border-like frame around each slide and OutputType option to control the PowerPoint presentation output (slides, handouts, notes, etc.)
- Option to specify frame width and height for Flash documents
- Frame size determines initial dimensions of the Flash Player window when a Flash document is opened.
- New Batch Processing and Special Processing options for Batch Processing Application
- Now Batch Processing Application features a lot of options with which you can further control the document conversion process
- Introduction of 64 bit OS support for Free Edition of Print2Flash
New in Print2Flash 3.5 (Apr 22, 2013)
- LZMA compression
- Automatic new product version notifications
- Option to print or not to print hidden slides for PowerPoint documents at programmatic conversion
- Japanese and Turkish languages support in document interface
New in Print2Flash 3.4 (Apr 20, 2012)
- Full Screen mode support
- Print2Flash documents now feature Full Screen mode button which switches Flash Player to full screen mode. It may be more convenient to view some documents in full screen mode as more details on document pages may be discerned. Document API also has setFullScreen function to control full screen mode.
- Watermark image placement options
- Now you may control where on the page you want to place a watermark image. You may place it not only at the page center but also at page corners and along page sides.
New in Print2Flash 3.3.0 (Dec 28, 2011)
- External Viewer format:
- This is a new output format for Print2Flash documents. It provides for separation between document viewer Flash movie and the document itself. This approach offers several advantages such as ability to update the viewer interface (e.g. skin) without having to regenerate documents, ability to have multiple document viewers for the same set of documents, reducing document file size, etc.
- ActionScript version control for “Single file per page” format:
- Now there is an option to control ActionScript version used for page SWF files produced in “Single file per page” format. Previously these files were generated for ActionScript 2 only.
- Initial document settings:
- You may use these settings to specify how document should be shown initially after it has been loaded. You may specify initial zoom level, the page or bookmark to scroll the document to initially, and initial rotation value.
- Hyperlink support for MS Office x64:
- Now it is possible to retain hyperlinks when converting Word and PowerPoint documents using MS Office x64 (as well as the 32 bit edition of MS Office).
- Improved 64 bit applications support for 64 bit edition:
- Deeper support for 64 bit edition is provided with additional native 64 bit executable modules. In particular, now it is possible to use Server object from 64 bit applications.
- Additional scaling options when printing a Print2Flash document:
- Now there are scaling options available when you print a Print2Flash document which uses ActionScript 3. Currently you have two options "No scale" and "Auto-Rotate and Fit".
- Enhancement of API for printing of Print2Flash documents:
- An additional Document API function is provided: printTheDocument2. It allows specifying various printing options programmatically.
New in Print2Flash 3.2.0 (Feb 20, 2011)
- The main feature added by this version is support for standard documents using ActionScript3. This should allow for seamless integration of Print2Flash documents into other ActionScript3 movies and Flex applications. Previously it was possible to use ActionScript2 documents with ActionScript3 movies but such approach had several problems because of poor interoperability support by the Flash Player between ActionScript2 and ActionScript3 movies. Now you may produce "pure" ActionScript3 documents.
- Support for standard documents using ActionScript2 is retained. You may control the ActionScript version using Document Template field in the Output Tab of Document Options window).
- Another feature added is extension of metadata file format with page width, height and resolution fields. It may be important to know the page dimensions if you develop your own document viewer.
New in Print2Flash 3.1.0 (Feb 20, 2011)
- Added several new features:
- Hyperlink support for PDF documents:
- Hyperlink support is now extended to PDF documents as well. Hyperlinks in the source PDF documents are retained in the output Print2Flash documents. The links can be clicked by user in the document interface which further enhances user experience and introduces more interactivity for this kind of documents.
- Control of hyperlink target window:
- Hyperlinks in previous versions were always opened in a new browser window. Starting from this version you may control the link target and open hyperlinks in any frame or window. You may even retain the targets specified in the source document.
- Support of navigation to bookmarks via Document API:
- Bookmarks were already supported by previous versions of Print2Flash. However, starting from this version you may make the document to show any bookmark location programmatically using Print2Flash Document API.
- Control of text highlight color:
- This features enhances the customization of document interface. Now you can control the color with which the text is highlighted when it is selected with mouse or at text search.
New in Print2Flash 3.0.1 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Small enhancements and minor bug fixes
New in Print2Flash 3.0 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Support of alternative document toolbar skins:
- With this version you can change the way how the document toolbar looks. You can choose from several alternative toolbars skins so you do not have to use only a single toolbar design. The standard skin of previous versions is retained, too. You may even customize several standard toolbar and document colors.
- Ability to design custom skins:
- If you are not content with built-in skins, you may design your own skins with your logo and button images. You may either do this from scratch or customize an existing built-in skin.
- Support of custom document viewers:
- If you want a unique document interface and features, you may design your own Flash viewer for it. This approach allows you to customize all aspects of document viewer display and operation. Then Print2Flash will merge you viewer with document pages and you'll obtain a single file Flash document fully customized to your needs.
- "Single file per page mode" output mode:
- This feature makes it possible to produce a Flash document not as a single SWF file but as a set of SWF files without the document viewer, one file per each document page. This approach allows you to create an external Flash viewer movie that can load these page files for displaying the document the way you need it. An advantage of this approach to a single document file method is your external Flash viewer can be modified independently of already existing Flash documents.
- Hyperlink support for some kinds of source documents:
- Starting from this version it is possible to retain the links from original documents in MS Word and MS PowerPoint formats. The links can be clicked by user in the document interface which enhances user experience and introduces more interactivity.
- Extracting of parsable hyperlinks:
- For other types of documents you may make Print2Flash parse hyperlinks out of document text. If a document contains a valid text string that looks like a URL, Print2Flash can convert this string to a hyperlink which is clickable and opens the specified URL when clicked.
- Watermarks:
- Print2Flash can apply watermarks to document pages. A watermark is text or an image that appears above existing document content, similar to a stamp. For example, you might want to apply a “Confidential” watermark to pages with sensitive information.
- Page thumbnails:
- Print2Flash supports creation of thumbnail images for each converted document page. You may use these images on your web site or in your application for displaying of document page previews. Thumbnails images are created and stored in separate graphic files of either JPEG or PNG format.
- Document metadata file:
- Along with the Flash document file itself Print2Flash can create a file describing the document named metadata file. Currently the information about documents includes document text and total number of pages. You may use this information, for example, for creation of index of your documents for your search engine.
- Restricting access to documents for loading only from certain domains:
- If you are concerned that your documents in Print2Flash format may be viewed when downloaded from locations other than your web site (domain), you may restrict viewing only to certain domains. If a user stores a protected document on disk or retrieves it from disk cache or uploads it to another web site, this protection technique will not allow this document to be shown in these cases. Thus your documents appear to be "linked" to your site without a possibility to view them from other sites or disk.
- Support of special processing conversion method:
- For some types of documents and applications Print2Flash supports a new programmatic conversion method called "special processing method". To invoke printing on the Print2Flash Printer and perform conversion of documents to Flash, Print2Flash uses special APIs of those applications. This method provides more robust conversion processing and more conversion options.
- Additional options for converting PDF, Excel and PowerPoint documents:
- Using special processing method additional options for conversion of PDF, Excel and PowerPoint documents are available. For example, you may control which Excel sheets should be converted (previously only a single sheet could be processed) or how PowerPoint documents slides should be scaled.
- Printing jobs:
- Using printing jobs you can "capture" any print job sent to the Print2Flash Printer and convert job output into a Flash file. This method offers some advantages, for example, you may convert documents of any types besides those that have an application registered for printing of this kind of files in the operating system provided that you can send this file to a printer programmatically
- Batch Processing Application:
- Batch Processing Application is a graphic user interface (GUI) application with which you can convert multiple documents to Flash with just several clicks. It may be useful if you need to convert a lot of documents.
- Support of additional languages in the document interface:
- Support for several new languages is provided: Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Serbian and Swedish.
New in Print2Flash 2.7.3 (Nov 11, 2008)
- Optimization for documents with complex structure
- Ability to print a page range from the converted documents
- Document API event fired when user prints a document
- Support for proper unloading of documents if they are loaded into other Flash movies
New in Print2Flash 2.7.2 (May 7, 2008)
- Several enhancements and minor bug fixes
New in Print2Flash 2.6.1 (Dec 28, 2007)
- 64 bit edition, adjustment of document toolbar colors, Portuguese language support, ability to choose a document language, support for arbitrarily oriented text, ability to prevent user from scrolling the document
New in Print2Flash 2.5.2 (Sep 14, 2007)
New in Print2Flash 2.3 (Mar 23, 2007)
- Image storage optimization (JPEG images support), Flash Player version optimization
New in Print2Flash 2.2.1 (Nov 30, 2006)
- Converted document interface customization;
- Option to remove any buttons from converted document interface;
- Options to protect from copying text from or from printing converted documents;
- Programmatic access to Print2Flash documents; Accessibility for users with disabilities;
- Batch processing