MIRAPLACID NEWS

Miraplacid Publisher 2009 updated to version 6.2

New in version 6.2:

1. Editable page number control allows you to navigate directly to desired page.
2. New version works faster.
3. Publisher now correctly monitors add/remove printer operations and default printer change.
4. Publisher handles DOS text input to convert it to pictures.
5. New options in printer output which provides you a way to get precise results on all types of documents.
6. COM model improved.
7. New option Wait in File output helps to syncronize your automation tasks with Publisher.
8. All standard paper sizes supported.
9. Many other fixes and useful additions made.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher versions 5.x can purchase version 2009 as an upgrade for only 9.45 USD. Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher version 2008 and 2009 (6.1) can upgrade for FREE using the same registration information.

Miraplacid Text Driver 2009 updated to version 5.3

New in version 5.3:

1. Printing speed increased up to 40%.
2. Editable page number control allows you to navigate directly to desired page.
3. Text Driver now correctly monitors add/remove printer operations and default printer change.
4. New version redirects RAW print jobs to other printers (but, does not extract text from such jobs).
5. A new set of options for redirect print jobs added. Now, you have full control over your redirect.
6. New option Wait in File and Clipboard outputs helps to syncronize your automation tasks with Text Driver.
7. Email transport has an options to send printing results as an attachment.
8. COM model improved.
9. All standard paper sizes supported.
10. Many other fixes and useful additions made.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver versions 4.x can purchase version 2009 as an upgrade for only 7.45 USD. Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver version 2007/2008 and 2009 (5.2) can upgrade for FREE using the same registration information.

Miraplacid Text Driver family updated

Version 2009 released. New in this version:

1. Printing speed increased up to 20%.
2. Quality of text reconstruction greatly improved; now the text is 100% correct.
3. Reliability improved a lot.
4. New administration sofware which allows customers to control system parameters. No more manual registry changes! Also, this software provides a way to quickly and easily generate and send error reports to Miraplacid.
5. Text Driver monitors add/remove printer operations, so there is no need to reload it after such actions.
6. "Redirect to printer" feature is totally rebuilt and now it works in automatic or manual modes (for use from external programs and scripts).
7. Other software and documentation fixes made.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver versions 4.x can purchase version 2009 as an upgrade for only 7.45 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver version 2007/2008 can upgrade for FREE using the same registration information.

Miraplacid Publisher family updated

Version 2009 released. New in this version:

1. Printing speed increased by 300%, saving speed increased up to 20%.
2. Reliability improved a lot.
3. New administration sofware which allows customers to control system parameters. No more manual registry changes! Also, this software provides a way to quickly and easily generate and send error reports to Miraplacid.
4. Publisher monitors add/remove printer operations, so there is no need to reload it after such actions.
5. Other software and documentation fixes made.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher versions 5.x can purchase version 2009 as an upgrade for only 9.45 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher 2008 can upgrade for FREE using the same registration information.

Miraplacid Scripting Components for Windows updated

Miraplacid Scripting Components for Windows updated, current version is 2.0.1.

Now, it is possible to install and use them safely at 64-bit environment, on all releases of Vista.
Also, some minor fixes made in code, examples and documentation.

Happy Scripting with Miraplacid!

Miraplacid Text Driver 2008 family released

Miraplacid Text Driver 2008, Teminal Edition and SDK has been released.

What's new in this version?

1. There was a feature to use original document name in the saved file name, but it inflexible. For your convenience, we have added tag {{DOCNAME}} into file name and path. If path does not exists yet, it will be created. File exatension now represented by {{EXT}} tag.
2. FTP create recursive pathes on FTP server when necessary.
3. Windows Vista Security Requirements compatibility improved.
4. When Windows prints text document, it sometimes splits a phrase into separate chunck. Miraplacid Text Driver usually does good job gluing it back together, but sometimes it needs a little bit of fine-tuning. New version has "Whitespase size". You can adjust it to help Miraplacid Text Driver to distinguish cunked phrases from separate columns of text.
5. Some problems fixed in software and documentation.
6. Administrators may save "Common settings" for users who do not have their profiles yet.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver versions 4.x can purchase version 2008 as an upgrade for only 7.45 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver Terminal Edition version 4.x can purchase version 2008 as an upgrade for only 14.95 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver version 2007 can upgrade for FREE using the same registration information.

Miraplacid Publisher 2008 family released

We have released Miraplacid Publisher 2008, Teminal Edition and SDK.

What's new in this version?

1. Printing speed improved a lot.
2. Microsoft Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows support. Vista security requirements compatible.
3. Better Image Preview Window.
4. Better settings management system. Now you can create multiple virtual printers with different settings. For instance, you can create "PDF" printer to convert to PDF and "JPG" printer to save JPEGs.
5. Sending result images by email.
6. GIF format support, including Animated GIF.
7. HTTP transport updated to support HTTPS.
8. FTP now creates nested folders.
9. Personal settings and settings for all users support.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher versions 5.x can purchase version 2008 as an upgrade for only 9.45 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Publisher Terminal Edition version 5.x can purchase version 2008 as an upgrade for only 19.95 USD.

Miraplacid Text Driver family has been updated

We have released Miraplacid Text Driver 2007, Teminal Edition and SDK.

What's new in this version?

1. Document printing and text extraction speed improved dramatically.
2. 64-bit OS support added.
3. Text formatting algorithm improved. Formatted output now looks much better than output of version 4.4 for the vast majority of source documents.
4. User interface dialog split into two windows: big preview window and settings dialog.
5. You can create multiple virtual printers with different text extraction and saving settings.
6. New options in text rendering plug-ins.
7. You can send output text by email.
8. You can send output text to Clipboard and launch a post-processor.
9. You can use output text as RSS feed.
10. HTTPS scheme works in HTTP transport.
11. Many new useful options in Pirnter transport.
12. "Separator page" feature works now.

Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver versions 4.x can purchase version 2007 as an upgrade for only 7.45 USD.
Registered customers of Miraplacid Text Driver Terminal Edition version 4.x can purchase version 2007 as an upgrade for only 14.95 USD.

Miraplacid Text Driver 4.4 SDK released

With Miraplacid Text Driver SDK you can create your own software application to extract text from documents or embed this functionality into your software solution.
You can save the extracted information as plain, formatted text or as XML for future processing in all installed codepages and Unicode.
With "Redirect" option, you can print original print job to your physical printer at the time of extracting text.

Miraplacid Text Driver SDK is FREE. You are welcome to download it and embed it into your products.

Miraplacid Publisher 5.2 SDK released

With Miraplacid Publisher SDK you can create your own software application to convert documents to images or embed this functionality into your software solution.
Miraplacid Publisher SDK supports following output formats: PDF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, TGA and Web Presentation. It will scale and crop images for you, adjust colors and gamma and do some other image processing.

Miraplacid Publisher SDK is FREE. You are welcome to download it and embed it into your products.