Zan Image Printer - A Windows print to image (TIFF,JPEG,BMP,GIF,PNG,PDF,JPEG 2000) driver

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NEW! Zan Image Printer 5.0.11 has been released! Zan Image Printer allows you to convert any document to a PDF or a graphics format for archiving, faxing, and sharing. With Zan Image Printer, you can effortlessly convert any document to a PDF file for easy searching and archiving, a TIFF file for easy faxing, or any other image format (BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and PNG). After conversion to a standard image, the original application is no longer needed to view the printed output. Zan Image Printer works seamlessly with any application that allows files to be printed. April 12, 2010 - Version 5.0.11 Now you can hide the standard UNIDRV "Paper/Quality" and "Orientation" tabs on the printer property sheet. Renamed the three predefined printers to Zan Image Printer (BW), Zan Image Printer (Color), and Zan Image Printer (Fax). March 22, 2010 - Version 5.0.10 Added a user interface to enable and disable debug logging. Additional debug logging messages were added. After it is installed, Zan Image Printer is automatically set to silent mode. Changed the default maximum Email attachment size to 50MB. The app.ini and setup.ini (installdir keyword) now support the [%programfilesx86] macro. Now you can specify a regular expression to extract an Email address further down in your document rather than the first Email address. The converted document can then be automatically sent via Email to the extracted address. Rather than saving the generated images to the same folder where the original file resides, you can now optionally precede the [%srcfolder]\ macro with a destination folder when printing using the command line utilities zvprtcfg.exe and zvprtcfg_win32.exe to batch print your files. The tree structure of the source folder and its sub-folders will be replicated in the destination folder without copying any source files. The generated images will be saved to the corresponding sub-folders of the destination folder. Added a FAQ to explain how to define custom DPI resolutions. New FAQ on how to create custom paper size. New FAQ on how to print a continuous document with no page breaks by using a custom roll paper. New FAQ on how to install x86 printer drivers on an x64 system. New FAQ on how to hide the Zan Image Printer options that the user does not need. November 30, 2009 - Version 5.0.9 If you rename a printer after it has been installed, Zan Image Printer will now automatically switch to "All users share the same settings" = 1 mode (All users share the same settings). Added the "Remove whitespace" option, which allows you to remove all white space characters from the document name. Enhanced the support for Bates numbering: Zan Image Printer now increments the bates number after each stamp is applied rather than after each page. This allows you to stamp the bates number on just the first page of a print job. November 2, 2009 - Version 5.0.8 Added support for Outlook address book. Now you can select the To or Cc address from your address book rather than having to type it manually. The command line utilities zvprtcfg.exe and zvprtcfg_win32.exe now support the "email.send" command, which allow you to send Emails from the command line. Added two commands on the Settings->Application tab: removeext - which removes the file extension from a path and faxcoverpage - which adds a bmp file as fax cover page/sheet to a faxable TIFF file. July 22, 2009 - Version 5.0.7 You can use Extended MAPI to send Emails, which does not trigger an Outlook security warning dialog. Added two macros: Print Job Computer Name ([%RComputerName]) and Print Job User Name ([%RUserName]). The command line utilities zvprtcfg.exe and zvprtcfg_win32.exe now support the "configuration.allusers" command, which allows you to toggle the setting of "All users share the same settings" between 0 and 1 after installation. April 8, 2009 - Version 5.0.6 Removed Zan Image Printer's "Paper Size" tab, since it duplicates the functionality of the Windows Printers folder. Increased the maximum Email attachment size to 50MB. Zan Image Printer's "Printer Redirection" tab now allows you to select and use printers after the 10th printer in the list. January 26, 2009 - Version 5.0.5 Support any custom dpi (50-9600) and the following new preset dpis: 50 x 50, 60 x 60, 240 x 216, 800 x 600, 1200 x 600, 2400 x 600, 203 x 305, 600 x 540, 254 x 254, 250 x 250, 500 x 500. Enhanced support for system/service account printing. Added support for Windows Server 2008 shared network printing. You can add or delete printers from the command line after installation. You can back up and restore Zan Image Printer configuration. The Email body now supports the [%text] macro. If specified, Zan Image Printer sends the extracted text as the body of the Email rather than as an attachment. Added special handling for the watermark opacity. If opacity is set to 0, the watermark appears behind the page content. The command line utilities zvprtcfg.exe and zvprtcfg_win32.exe now support watched folder batch printing. This means that when you copy new files to a folder or its subfolders, Zan Image Printer will automatically convert them to image files for you. Reworked the code samples on the Developer page. Defined the policy in configure.ini file, which specifies where (CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS or CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA ) to store the machine wide common application data that can be read and written by all users. The previous versions always used CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA as the location to store all of the user's application data. Added a FAQ to explain how to create more Zan Image Printer instances. June 1, 2008 - Version 5.0.4 Added a new "Place Image File Directory (IFD) in front of image data" option (Cisco TIFF format) which allows you to fax over routers/gateways such as the Cisco 3660. Added support for 72 x 72 dpi printing. Added support for automatic SMTP Authentication when sending Email. The Auto Authentication option will detect which authentication methods the SMTP server supports and use the most secure method available to send the Email via SMTP. April 21, 2008 - Version 5.0.3 Adds the ability to automatically send the generated images to FTP server. This allows you to automatically deploy files to your Intranet or Internet site or to a storage device for automatic backup. Also new is support for multiple-line text watermarks which gives you additional flexibility to protect your documents, a new printer tray selector for printer redirection, and the ability to create up to 20 custom paper sizes during the installation. With the new dual layer PDF support, Zan Image Printer can now create a PDF in both image and searchable text layer format. The new [%email] macro allows Zan Image Printer to search the document being printed for Email addresses, extract it from the text, and then automatically send the converted document via Email to the extracted address. Finally, the new print.script command for the command line utilities has been added to allow you to automate batch printing with a script file. August 12, 2007 - Version 5.0.2 You can use the Bates Number macro for text annotation of legal and business documents. New "Formatted text" option for text extraction, which will try to retain the original document layout. Added VC.NET/CLI, VB.NET, and C# code samples. Added batch printing commands for zvprtcfg and zvprtcfg_win32 command line utilities. Provided a new user interface for image cropping. February 11, 2007 - Version 5.0 Added support for 64-bit (x64) processors and Windows Vista. Added support for GIF/JPEG 2000/PNG/PDF (image only) formats. Added ZIP creation to package the generated files. New Support for BMP watermarks and text annotation. No longer needs the "Create global objects" privilege when printing to Zan Image Printer in a Terminal Server session. Added support for sending the generated images as Email after creation. The user interface now supports the XP theme style. Supports more DPI resolutions. Supports printer redirection. Added the "Produce an image height of xxxx lines" option to create faxable TIFFs. TIFF now supports LZW compression method. The sentinel file name can be defined with macros; Also supports template based sentinel file generation. The setup has been improved so that the user can configure the supported DPI resolutions, available paper sizes, and color mode during installation. Supports an event log for troubleshooting. New image processing operations have been added: rotate, flip, and transpose. Now supports installing Zan Image Printer to a custom folder. Added the Program Information dialog. Each of the Zan Image Printers will be assigned to its own printer port. A few more macros have been added such as user name, computer name, and file name. The folder now can also be macro defined. New FAQ on how to configure Zan Image Printer to combine/merge multiple document types into a single TIFF or PDF file. New FAQ on how to restrict the supported DPI resolutions/paper sizes to only those that will actually be used by the printing application. Provides access to history dropdown lists for many functions in addition to the folder and file name. The DPI value in BMP file header is always set to 96 DPI, this has been fixed. Some cosmetic improvements. January 15, 2006 - Version 4.0.10 Added TIFF Class F facsimile file support, Zan Image Printer now can create fax ready files (TIFF-F) for fax boards and fax applications. Improved the installation process to support installing up to 10 black & white printers and 10 color printers each time the installation is run. Provided VBScript/VB/Delphi and C++ code samples showing how to automate printing web page HTML, Word DOC and Excel XLS files. Supports using regular expressions to dynamically remove unwanted strings from the document name. The image files can also be custom named based on a field value within the document by specifying a regular expression. Added the "Color Reduction Threshold" option to remove halftone screening artifacts when printing to monochrome images. In some cases, you can improve print quality by removing halftone screening artifacts thus making images appear more natural. October 10, 2005 - Version 4.0.9 New features supported: downsize image to specified pixel size, append form feed character (ASCII 0x0c) after every page, RLE8 compression for BMP 256/grayscale files, silent install and uninstall with the -silent command line switch, includes Delphi code samples. Fixes an issue where the "Auto pick a unique name to prevent collision" option can only pick up to 99 unique file names. Improves the installation to avoid the "Unable to add printer driver..." error on some rare Windows XP computers where the path environment variable does not point to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Wbem folder. May 1, 2005 - Version 4.0.8 Added several new features: opacity of status dialog, apply this option to all documents on the warning dialog, all users share the same settings option, silent and custom install of Zan Image Printer. Also fixes a buffer overrun bug when number of history folders or file names is more than 40. October 9, 2004 - Version 4.0 Zan Image Printer 4.0 has been completely rewritten under the hood to be more powerful and robust. It supports running as an unprivileged normal user in security conscious network environments. You can set up multiple copies of Zan Image Printer that are each configured to print files to a different folder. Since the core program now is spawned in current user's security context, 4.0 supports saving to mapped network drives or UNC paths natively without needing any workarounds. The previous versions of Zan Image Printer run using the system account. Added the Save As dialog in addition to Zan Image Printer dialog before printing starts. Added support to run one or more applications for all generated image files after printing is finished. This feature enables easier automatic batch image processing. Allows you to identify and retain the original document name. The document name passed in by the printing application may contain unwanted strings (e.g., path or product name) in addition to the original document name. Supports terminal services and fast user switching with the limitation that Zan Image Printer can only differentiate between different users. Added a Cancel button on the status dialog. Added an uninstaller. Removed the filename mode, use macro commands to define file name instead. We believe this will allow more flexible ways to define how the filename is generated. Removed the Current User ID option, since the core program now is spawned in current user's security context, each logged in user will automatically have his own Zan Image Printer settings. Allows you to set the output folder and file name programmatically via the StartDoc Win32 API. All Zan Image Printer specific settings are saved in text ini files. Using ini files makes it easy for users to modify the settings either manually or programmatically. INI files transport easily to other computers as well. It is also possible to configure Zan Image Printer so that all users share the same settings. A big problem with the previous versions was the inability for each printer instance to have its own settings. Now each printer instance can has its own settings. Added the command line utilities zvprtcfg and zvprtcfg_win32 to allow Zan Image Printer to be controlled from other applications without the need for complex custom development. Added the single-strip TIFF option, since some applications cannot cope with TIFF files that have more than one strip. Call Uses Win32 API to remove the invalid characters in the source document name instead of using our own algorithm and routine to remove the invalid characters. Added automatic text extraction functionality. If the source document contains text information, Zan Image Printer can extract and save the text from the document to a separate text file. Added support for trimming borders. Added support for cropping and inverting of images. New more robust memory allocation algorithm, if printing in black and white mode, Zan Image Printer can generate the image in seconds even for large paper sizes such as A0. August 11, 2003 - Version 3.0 August 4, 2002 - Version 2.0 February 1, 2002 - Version 1.0 First release. Return to top