Uitgavegeschiedenis PDF Creator

Hieronder vindt u beschrijvingen van de wijzigingen en vernieuwingen in de opeenvolgende versies van PDF Creator.

PDF Creator 2.4.0

PDF Creator is de populairste gratis software om pdf'jes mee te maken van bijna elk document. PDF Creator werkt als een virtuele printer waarmee je bestanden kunt omzetten naar pdf.

PDF Creator 2.4.0 is maandag uitgebracht. In deze uitgave kun je bestanden nu uploaden naar Dropbox. Verder is PDF Creator sneller geworden en zijn veel foutjes opgelost. PDF Creator 2.4 is de laatste versie die Windows XP nog ondersteunt. Hierna zul je Vista of hoger moeten hebben. Details kun je hieronder nalezen.

PDF Creator is beschikbaar voor Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1 en 10. Let op voor onnodige extra software die tijdens de installatie kan worden aangeboden. Lees nauwlettend de installatie-instructies om deze gebundelde software niet mee te installeren!

Release notes:

Important announcement

  • PDFCreator 2.4 will be the last version to run on Windows XP. Further versions of PDFCreator will run on .NET 4.5 and require at least Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2.

Breaking changes

  • The COM interface has been moved to the file PDFCreator.COM.dll. If you are referencing the PDFCreator.exe, you now have to reference the PDFCreator.COM.dll. If you are using the object name, no changes will be required. The interface itself did not change.

Improvements

  • Dropbox integration allows to upload files to Dropbox and add shared links to your mails
  • Default metadata: You can now define templates for all metadata fields including subject and keywords
  • Business: PDFCreator can now extract user tokens from the source document and use them for the conversion. See User Tokens.
  • Terminal Server: The licenses on a Terminal Server are now managed per machine to allow users to float between servers in a server farm
  • We did a major architectural redesign, which will allow us to change this faster in future and also greatly increases the application performance
  • Updated to Ghostscript 9.19, which seems to be the most stable version available at the moment
  • When inserting a new license key, you can now optionally transfer it to all other users on the machine

Bugs fixed

  • Only certain characters are allowed in the Stamp feature. PDFCreator will now filter invalid characters.
  • Sometimes a DirectoryNotFoundException occurred when converting a file. This should be fixed now.
  • Title replacements were broken for the InputFilename token
  • PDF/A files became very large and couldn’t use RGB colors. This was fixed by the Ghostscript update
  • The COM method SetProfileByGuid did not work
  • PDFCreator could not be run from a guest account
  • The tokens NumberOfPages and NumberOfCopies could contain wrong values
  • When settings were set in HKU\.Default, PDFCreator would not initialize the profiles
  • PDF Architect was always installed in silent mode
  • There was a bug that caused the license check to fail on Turkish machines
  • When converting jobs with mixed page sizes and orientations, they did not always persist. This was fixed by the Ghostscript update.
  • Plus the usual round of small fixes

PDF Creator 2.3.0

PDF Creator is de populairste gratis software om pdf'jes mee te maken van bijna elk document. PDF Creator werkt als een virtuele printer waarmee je bestanden kunt omzetten naar pdf.

PDF Creator 2.3.0 is gisteren verschenen. In deze uitgave is de drag and drop verbeterd (waarmee je bestanden op het programmavenster kunt slepen). Ook het samenvoegen van pdf'jes is geoptimaliseerd. Verder is het context menu uitgebreid en zijn foutjes opgelost. Details kun je hieronder nalezen.

PDF Creator is beschikbaar voor Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1 en 10. Let op voor onnodige extra software die tijdens de installatie kan worden aangeboden. Lees nauwlettend de installatie-instructies om deze gebundelde software niet mee te installeren!

Release notes:

Improvements

  • The improved shell extension has better support for multiple files and a filter for non convertible files
  • Enhanced title replacements with regular expressions
  • Improved Drag & Drop: Simply drop printable files on the program link or on a PDFCreator Window.
  • When dragging PDF files (e.g. for merging) to PDFCreator, they are converted directly instead of being printed
  • The merge window displays the total number of pages for print job
  • A new license tab in the application settings makes managing the license more comfortable
  • If an existing file cannot be overwritten, PDFCreator requests a new name instead of determining one
  • If the the input filename is not provided, the according token does not remain empty. Instead it sets the print job name.
  • Fresh new setup image.
  • In the unlikely event that PDFCreator should crash, you can now send us the crash report online
  • The languages Swedish, Slovenian, Estonian, Gaelic and Valencian are available again

Bugs fixed

  • The compression of TIF files was always set to LZW. The profile setting was ignored.
  • Renaming printers could change the primary printer
  • The option “last used profile” in the printer mappings was set correctly but not displayed
  • Shortened file paths were potentially still longer than the Windows limit

PDF Creator 2.2.1

PDF Creator is de populairste gratis software om pdf'jes mee te maken van bijna elk document. PDF Creator werkt als een virtuele printer waarmee je bestanden kunt omzetten naar pdf.

PDF Creator 2.2.1 is gisteren uitgebracht. Dit is een kleine onderhoudsupdate voor de net verschenen PDF Creator 2.2. Twee fouten worden opgelost in deze uitgave. Details kun je hieronder nalezen.

PDF Creator is beschikbaar voor Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1 en 10. Let op voor onnodige extra software die tijdens de installatie kan worden aangeboden. Lees nauwlettend de installatie-instructies om deze gebundelde software niet mee te installeren!

Release notes:

This is a release that fixes two problems found after the release of PDFCreator 2.2.0.

Bugs fixed

  • An uncaught Exception could occur when the main window was open while a print job was printed and the profile settings were opened in that print job
  • The pdfcmon contained a bug that would cause PDFCreator not to be run under certain circumstances

PDF Creator 2.2.0

PDF Creator is de populairste gratis software om pdf'jes mee te maken van bijna elk document. PDF Creator werkt als een virtuele printer waarmee je bestanden kunt omzetten naar pdf.

PDF Creator 2.2.0 is verschenen. Dit is een grote onderhoudsupdate van PDF Creator die de stabiliteit flink moet verbeteren. Onder de motorkap zijn diverse wijzigingen doorgevoerd en ook heel veel foutjes zijn opgelost. Ook is PDF Creator nu geschikt voor Windows 10. Alle details kun je hieronder nalezen.

PDF Creator is beschikbaar voor Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1 en 10. Let op voor onnodige extra software die tijdens de installatie kan worden aangeboden. Lees nauwlettend de installatie-instructies om deze gebundelde software niet mee te installeren!

Release notes:

In this release, we have closed over 180 issues from our tracker and added many improvements and fixes.

Improvements

  • PDFCreator Plus for Business now can be controlled by fully managed group policies
  • The E-Mail button now allows to send a mail without specifying a location on the hard drive
  • We have added a lot of tests and did some refactoring to improve the stability and allow to better share the code base between PDFCreator and the Server
  • Includes Ghostscript 9.10 (patched by pdfforge). This seems to be the version with the best compatibility
  • Improved documentation on the COM interface with information on the differences between PDFCreator 1.x and 2.x
  • The COM interface no longer is marked as “Beta”
  • The COM interface has some new methods to clear the queue and to query the metadata of a print job
  • The PDFCreator settings can now be fully initialized in der Registry with the parameter /InitializeSettings
  • TXT was added as output format (but don’t expect any magic, it’s still just a text file)
  • PDFCreator now stores the settings under HKCU\Software\pdfforge\PDFCreator instead of HKCU\Software\PDFCreator.net, which is the more compliant way. The old settings are migrated automatically.
  • When a new update is available, you now also have the option to skip this single version. You will not receive further notifications until the next version is available.
  • There are two new Tokens that can be used: <NumberOfPages> and <NumberOfCopies>
  • The command line parameter /PsFile allows to add a PostScript file directly to PDFCreator without the need to print it
  • The Temp files and the Spool folder are now stored in the same folder in the Temp path to have a single point to clean up
  • This releases now works with the brand new PDF Architect 4

Bugs fixed

  • PDFCreator could not convert files that were merged from many print jobs (>300)
  • When the system culture was set to Turkish, PDFCreator could have problems during the setup and conversion
  • Ghostscript has problems with unicode characters in paths. PDFCreator tries to work around this wherever possible.
  • There could have been some files left in the program files folder after uninstalling PDFCreator
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the file extension to be wrong when converting through the COM interface
  • Some conditions where the translations could not contain proper information (i.e. with placeholders) are checked automatically now
  • When replacing tokens, the result can have been unexpected for certain (uncommon) inputs
  • The title replacements could have been ordered in a way that can cause problems (i.e. .doc before .docx lead to ‘x’ at the end of the title). This is resolved automatically now.
  • The /RegFile parameter of the setup led to an error on Windows 7
  • Due to Ghostscript bug, PDF/A files could have been corrupted when the color model was RGB. This is now forced to CMYK until the bug is fixed in Ghostscript.
  • Under certain circumstances, Windows needs a reboot after installing the .Net Framework 4.0. This is now detected by the setup.
  • Under rare conditions, there could have been an Exception with the message “Object synchronization method was called from an unsynchronized block of code”. We have added checks to prevent and (if it should still occur) catch it.
  • PDFCreator Plus: The automatic downloader did not always clean up the downloaded setups. This is fixed now.
  • If there is an unexpected exception in the application, it will now be logged properly
  • Plus the usual round of minor tweaks and fixes

PDF Creator 2.1.1

PDF Creator is de populairste gratis software om pdf'jes mee te maken van bijna elk document. PDF Creator werkt als een virtuele printer waarmee je bestanden kunt omzetten naar pdf.

PDF Creator 2.1.1 is op 1 april uitgebracht. Dit is een kleine onderhoudsupdate die enkele fouten oplost, een crash oplost en verbeteringen doorvoert. Verder geen wijzigingen in deze uitgave.

PDF Creator is beschikbaar voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8/8.1. Let op voor onnodige extra software die tijdens de installatie kan worden aangeboden. Lees nauwlettend de installatie-instructies om deze gebundelde software niet mee te installeren!

Release notes:
Improvements
  • The JobID token now holds the Windows print job id. This is not unique over reboots though. The Counter token remains always unique.
  • The COM Interface now has a method PrintFile, to call the Windows Shell commands to print a file with PDFCreator.
Bugs fixed
  • The save file dialog was still not on top in some cases, when the PDFCreator window was skipped. We thought to have fixed this, but there were more conditions where this could occur.
  • PDFCreator could crash when no settings were present in the registry for the current user.
  • Changing the Metadata in the print job window did no work, the final document contained the defaults
  • Fixed a bug in the UI where the Resampling for Color and Monochrome images could not be set separately
  • Loading settings from an INI file did not work