Miraplacid Publisher 2008: Scripting Manual

Scripting and Programming Support with Miraplacid Publisher

Miraplacid Publisher registers itself as an ActiveX object and could be used from any scripting and OLE-compliant software.
Using this ability, you can control the printing process directly from your script or application.

Miraplacid Publisher Scripting Object Creation

Unregistered version of Miraplacid Publisher will not show registration dialog until trial period expiration if used in autosave mode. After that, object creation will fail with appropriate message in errorinfo.

Object Miraplacid.Publisher Reference

Miraplacid Publisher Properties Reference

Miraplacid Publisher Output Format (Format plug-ins) parameters

To query or modify Format plug-in parameters, use FormatParam property of Miraplacid Publisher object.
obj.FormatParam("GIF","palette")=64

Miraplacid Publisher Send To (Transport plug-ins) parameters

To query or modify Transport plug-in parameters, use TransportParam property of Miraplacid Publisher object.
obj.TransportParam("File","filename")="image_{{PAGE}}"

Miraplacid Publisher Post-Processing System

You can setup Miraplacid Publisher to launch an application to handle the results of image generation process.
Select Send To: File, check "Open with" checkbox and specify post-processor application.
If you check Every page checkbox below, the application will be called for every generated page with a full filename of the generated image as argument. If Every page checkbox is unchecked, Miraplacid Publisher will generate a special list file containing names of files generated during the print job, one filename per line. On a print job completion, post-processor will be called with a name of the list file in a command line.
For example, you can execute img2wp.exe, web presentation generator, using the following settings:


Open With: "c:\Program Files\Miraplacid\Publisher\PostProcessors\img2wp.exe"
Parameters: "c:\Program Files\Miraplacid\Publisher\PostProcessors\template.html"
"Every Page" unchecked.

Quotation marks are necessary when file name or path contains space characters.
Or, you can set up a viewer to open result images for every printed page:

...\some_viewer_application.exe
"Every Page" checked

Notice that applications and files you use in post-processing should be specified with full path.

Web Presentation Generator

Web Presentation Generator, img2wp.exe, is a post-processor. It is designed to be called after print job completion.
It generates HTML files with navigation bars containing images, one page per image. For HTML files generation process utilizes template file with following optional pseudo-variables (placeholders):

• %PREV% - link to the previous page of the presentation
• %NEXT% - link to the next page of the presentation
• %NAVIGATION% - navigation bar with links to all the presentation pages
• %IMAGE% - placeholder to the image on the page

You can build your own templates for your web presentations and use them instead of default template.html.

Web Presentation Generator installed in PostProcessors folder together with default template, template.html.

See also:

• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 About
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Installation
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Registration Dialog
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 License Manager
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Advanced Settings
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Main Preview Window
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Settings Dialog
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Scaling and Borders Settings
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Colors and Gamma Settings
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 System and Format Settings
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Output To: Settings
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Scripting Guide
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 Main Page
• Miraplacid Publisher 2009 SDK