Raster Image Printer Releases

Released: Mar 20, 2024

Updates in 12.0.022

Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect rendering of dashed and dotted lines when creating images.

Released: Mar 5, 2024

Updates in 12.0.021

Features

  • When a manual license renewal is initiated, activated products now remain activated until their expiration date or until the manual process is completed. Previously this would have set the product into an expired state.
  • Improved licensing information is displayed on the dashboard, making it easier to identify errors related to licensing.

Fixes

  • Fixed issue drawing 1-bit images as transparent masked images.
  • Fixed dashboard notification text cut off when the application screen is at its...

Released: Dec 6, 2023

Updates in 12.0.020

Features

  • Added support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
    • You can create searchable PDFs from images or scanned PDF documents.
    • You can extract text from images and save as hOCR, ALTO or text files.
    • Supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Hindu with over 100 other languages available to download as needed.

Fixes

  • Importing an invalid profile in the Profile Manager now displays an error message instead of silently failing.
  • Fixed a Profile Manager application...

Released: Jul 25, 2023

Updates in 12.0.019

Features

  • Added a new color reduction option that improves the appearance of single-color gradients.
  • The antialiasing option now applies to lines, text and images on a page. Disabling antialiasing can reduce image size.
  • Optimized speed and performance for even faster image creation.

Fixes

  • Image brightness options are now processed before stamps and borders are added, and before any color reduction options take place.
  • Stamps and borders are now added to the page before any color counting options...

Released: Apr 11, 2023

Updates in 12.0.018

Features

  • Added a new run command tool, PNStart12.exe, which runs a single command or application once.

Fixes

  • Correctly format comments in image printer script files.
  • Fix writing to script file causing a crash on Windows 2008 R2.
  • Fixed issue causing SxS Activation Context error messages in the event log.
  • Security patch to update to zlib library 1.2.13.
  • Fixed error reporting to emit correctly formatted error message with error code.

Released: Jan 17, 2023

Updates in 12.0.017

Features

  • Added support for filenames and folders that contain leading and trailing spaces.
  • Added new option to replace text in custom print job names.

Fixes

  • Handle case of application crashing when the printer profile cannot be found. An error message is now displayed and also logged to the event log.
  • Fixed issues with incorrect hardware margins when rotating pages or using landscape pages.
  • Fixed issue with missing round end caps on lines causing the appearance of gaps and missing segments...

Released: Nov 2, 2022

Updates in 12.0.016

Features

  • Updated internal libraries for PDF append feature.
  • Improved quality of image scaling when creating files at a lower resolution than originally printed. Can affect page copying, page resampling and creating fax images.

Fixes

  • Fixed rare issue of alpha blended color not appearing in the created output.
  • Fixed issue of hardware margins not honoring settings in the profile; hardware margins now limited to a range of 0 to 1 inches or 0 to 2.54 centimeters.
  • Fixed licensing issue for VMWare...

Released: Aug 3, 2022

Updates in 12.0.015

Features

  • Added new 'append to PDF' support for multi-paged PDF files. Multiple documents can now be printed and combined into a single multi-page PDF file.
  • Added new window state parameter to the RunCommand tool PNExec12.exe. Commands can now be launched as hidden, shown, minimized and other options.
  • Security updates and improvements.

Fixes

  • Fixed issue with creating PDF documents exceeding 2GB in file size.
  • Fixed issue with automatic licensing under Windows 7.
  • Removed external dependency on VC...

Released: May 25, 2022

Updates in 12.0.014

Features

  • Added support for undefined '%ENVIRONMENTVARIABLE%' which is used at the start of a path or file name. It is used in the Save, Filename Creator, Stamping, Run Commands, Email and Zip settings.
  • Added new RunCommand batch file 'PNRenameFilesSubString.bat' that allows you to rename the output filename using a substring of the original name.
  • Added new command line install options to remove application shortcuts, Dashboard, Print Management, Profile Manager, or Profile Editor features for...

Released: Mar 29, 2022

Updates in 12.0.013

Features

  • Notification messages for software updates and upcoming subscription renewals are now shown in the Microsoft Windows notification area, as well as in the Dashboard.

Fixes

  • Fixed issue where printing images with color and masking would cause memory fault errors.