Raster Image Printer adds PDF security

Raster Image Printer supports more than 24 file formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PDF, GIF, PNG, PCX and PSD. Raster Image Printer is ideal for document imaging, computer-aided document design (CADD), and graphic design.

Updates in 9.0

Raster Image Printer 9.0 has been upgraded and enhanced to unify the driver with PEERNET's family of image printer drivers, TIFF Image Printer and PDF Image Printer. All drivers now share the same user interface, options and most features as applicable.

Technical Enhancements Include:

• Improved the performance of the printer driver to take advantage of parallel processing capabilities on multi-core machines.
• Custom paper size improved, major improvement for those working with large paper or rotated paper sizes such as AutoCAD users.
• Removed the need to use the named paper size Custom Size; custom paper sizes can now be set directly through the Advanced Features tab without changing the paper size set on the printer driver's Layout tab.
• Can now create custom paper sizes larger than 54x54inches.
• Units for custom paper size are now entered as inches (English units) or centimeters (Metric units)
• Added the ability to create faxable images:
• Supports creating Profile F and Profile S monochrome fax images, and Profile C color fax images.
• Fax images can be created in Letter, Legal, A4(ISO), A3(ISO) and B4(ISO) paper sizes.
• Customize fax image scaling and its alignment on the fax-sized page.
• Supports the following fax resolutions: 100 x 100, 200 x 100, 200 x 200, 204 x 98, 204 x 196, 300 x 300, 400 x 400, 408 x 391, 204 x 391, 300 x 600, 400 x 800, 600 x 600, 600 x 1200, 1200 x 1200.
• A reduced fax mode palette is used when creating Profile F and Profile S fax images.
• Added the ability to set PDF security options:
• 40-bit/128-bit encryption.
• Customize user permissions on the created PDF, such as copying text and graphics, printing or changing the document and adding or changing comments and form fields.
• Set passwords for opening or changing the PDF.

File type, compression and color reduction options on the File tab have been moved to the Save tab and have been simplified to make it easier to select the output file type. The Compression options are now on their own tab, making it easier to select compression settings for individual file types.

New Color Reduction options have been added to give greater control over the output files:

• Reduce to 256 color palette will reduce each page to a maximum of 256 colors.
• Reduce to 16 color palette will reduce each page to a maximum of 16 colors.
• Reduce to optimal palette, 256 colors max will reduce each page to its minimum number of colors with a maximum of 256 colors.
• Reduce to optimal palette, 16 colors max will reduce each page to its minimum number of colors with a maximum of 16 colors.

Added the following enhancements to page and image processing:

• Added Trim feature that can automatically trim page margins based on a customizable intensity level.
• Crop had been enhanced to include the ability to:
  • crop and discard image margins
  • crop and keep an inside area of the image
• Image Brightness Level allow you to lighten or darken the image or text.
• Copy To has been enhanced to include the ability to:
  • copy all or part of the image to a new page of the same or different size, including margin settings.
  • choose scaling and alignment of the new image.
• Units are now entered as inches (English units) or centimeters (Metric units).

New image resampling features replace the older Scale output to DPI and allows:

• Scaling the output image to a particular width and height.
• Setting the new dimensions can be set using Pixels, as a Percentage of the original size, or by setting a new image resolution (DPI).

All printing is processed synchronously with the print job in the print spooler. The print job is held in the print queue until the file is created and is ready for further processing. This is different from the previous versions of the driver and should simplify the automation process for application developers who are watching the printer queue to determine when the file is created.

Control Strings can now be enabled or disabled. Control Strings are disabled when Raster Image Printer 9.0 is installed.

Added the ability to extract text from the printed documents. New Text Extraction features include:

• Text layout options to better preserve the formatting of the text in the original document
• Text extraction files encoded as ANSI, UTF-8 or UTF-16
• Emulate Windows, Unix or Mac end-of-line encoding
• Emit page breaks in the text file

Includes PNSrv9 COM Interface
The PNSrv9 COM Interface was designed to make it easier for you, the developer, to programmatically control the Raster Image Printer through your .NET applications by providing the ability to control and communicate with the Raster Image Printer 9.0 during the printing and file creation process. It replaces and greatly enhances the older script file methodology used in the previous versions of the printer.

About PEERNET

PEERNET products create solutions that range from simple display, printing, and conversion tools, to powerful high-end server-based products that leverage the web to streamline enterprise workflow. Its products allow you to convert any document from any application into a variety of graphic file formats such as Adobe PDF, and high quality digital image files like JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.