es image printer driver user manual for mac os x
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1. This is the directory in which the File Transfer Protocol Engine will be working Temporary files error log files etc will be dumped to this directory Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Engine This is the engine that uploads the images to a web server via HTTP or HTTPS posts Figure 4 1 url The full URL to the web server that will receive the post SOAP Engine This is the engine that uploads the images to a web server via HTTP or HTTPS posts Figure 5b 1 httpEngineName This is the name of the HTTP Engine to utilize This allows for reuse of server URL s across multiple configurations if the same name is specified Ifa different name is specified for multiple configurations each will have it s own URL 2 soapAction The SOAP action for the message 3 methodName The name of the method specified in the SOAP message 4 variableName The name of the attribute for the file bytes base 64 encoded String 5 file VariableName The optional name of the attribute for the file name String 6 idVariableName This field is optional It allows one to use the special tags in the ID Value field in order to read environment variables and other settings to supply with the SOAP message This is mainly used to uniquely identify a client sending the message 7 idValue The actual value to send through the SOAP message The tags should be utilized here if desired The default is host name wh2. You may see a print progress dialog Figure 8 popup as the native driver generates the images Print Processing page 1 _ Cancel _ FIGURE 8 The driver will next launch the Printer Driver Engine to handle the produced files using the settings of Figures 1 5 as well as the XML settings The process may appear as com everlast storage FileSystemMonitorEngine since this is the actual Java class the native driver calls Output Files to Desktop Many times users will want the documents to output directly to their desktop The desktop is the main area users interact with There are 4 simple steps to follow in order to make the files appear on the desktop Step 1 Click the button next to the Output Directory text field Figure 9b This will cause a directory chooser dialog to popup 00 Printer Driver Settings Image y Engines Email FTP HTTP About Output Directory plications Utilities amp s_image_printer_driver aE File Prefix printed File Extension pdf Image Format PDF PS a V Abort On Recoverable Eror V Launch Default Viewer vel Pass All Files To Default Viewer V show Settings Dialog V store Files Locally V auto Number Files eas Force Image Size M ZIP Files Max Image Pixel Size 150 Console Program FIGURE 9a Step 2 Next click the Home button in the upper right corner of the directory dialog Figure 9b It looks like a folder
3. Email Settings The driver has the optional ability to send an email to one or more people through SMTP The printed files become attachments to the email Figure 2 refers to these options 1 SMTP Server This is the IP Address or Domain Name of the SMTP server to use to send the email 2 To Email Address This is the list of email addresses to send the email to The email addresses can be chained together with a comma as a delimiter For example info everlastsoftware com sales everlastsoftware com 3 From Email Address This is the email address that the email appears to come from 4 Subject This is the subject title of the email 5 SMTP User Name If the SMTP server requires authentication this is the user name to utilize 6 SMTP Password If the SMTP server requires authentication this is the password for the SMTP User Name supplied 7 Message This is the message or body of the email Since the email is sent just like a normal email this could be instructions details about the printed images questions etc 8 Notify After Send If checked a dialog will be displayed after an email has been sent to the SMTP server FTP Settings One more mechanism in which the driver has the optional ability to send the printed files is by FTP File Transfer Protocol Figure 3 refers to these options 1 FTP Server This is the IP Address or Domain Name of the FTP server that will be rece
4. app This encapsulates them from all but the most advanced users admins who desire changing the XML files Figure 9 shows the default contents of the directory All image files produced will go to this directory by default as well Q7 local disks FIGURE 9
5. be passed to the default viewer instead of just the 1 filename WARNING This can cause the computer to run out of memory depending on how the program handles opening multiple files at once 9 working Directory This is the directory in which the Image Directory Import Engine will be working Temporary files error log files etc will be dumped to this directory 10 storeFilesLocally This flag indicates whether the files should be permanently stored at the specified location in figure 1 or just temporarily stored until all processing takes place emails sent FTP transfer etc 11 forcelmageSize If true all images that are larger than the specified max image size will be scaled down This is useful for making thumbnails or small consistent image sizes 12 maxImageSize This is the number of pixels to scale the images to if the forcelmageSize flag is true The engine will fit either the width or the height of the image to this value if the image is larger 13 consoleProgram An optional console program that may be executed and supplied the image file names as arguments A window will be displayed that will show the standard output messages generated by the console program The user can interact with the program by typing into standard input through the window if the program so requires This is not to be confused with the default viewer program which is a GUI based Windows program Console programs are text bas
6. button will automatically test the connection to the database using the supplied settings in the dialog If any errors occur they will be displayed in a dialog SOAP Settings SOAP is becoming more and more popular in today s complex environments The driver has the ability to send a SOAP message to a Web Service HTTP Server etc with the files base 64 encoded inside as parameters Figure 5b refers to these options 1 HTTP Engine Name This is the name of the HTTP Engine to utilize This allows for reuse of server URL s across multiple configurations if the same name is specified Ifa different name is specified for multiple configurations each will have it s own URL 2 SOAP Action The SOAP action for the message 3 Method Name The name of the method specified in the SOAP message 4 Variable Name The name of the attribute for the file bytes base 64 encoded String 5 File Variable Name The optional name of the attribute for the file name String 6 ID Variable Name This field is optional It allows one to use the special tags in the ID Value field in order to read environment variables and other settings to supply with the SOAP message This is mainly used to uniquely identify a client sending the message 7 ID Value The actual value to send through the SOAP message The tags should be utilized here if desired The default is host name which sends the host s name 8 Ser
7. email engine will not be used even if it is configured 17 useFTPEngine If set to false the ftp engine will not be used even if it is configured 18 useHTTPEngine If set to false the http engine will not be used even if it is configured 19 useDatabaseImportEngine If set to false the database import engine will not be used even if it is configured 20 useSOAPEngine If set to false the soap engine will not be used even if it is configured 21 ftpEngineTab Visible If set to false the ftp settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 22 httpEngineTabVisible If set to false the http settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 23 databaseImportEngineTabVisible If set to false the database settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 24 soapEngineTab Visible If set to false the soap settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 25 imageDirectorylmportEngineTab Visible If set to false the image settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 26 engineSelectionTabVisible If set to false the engine selection settings tab will be hidden when the settings dialog is displayed 27 showSystemTrayProgressIcon If set to true the engine will display a printer icon in the system tray during processing If the mouse hovers over the icon a brief tooltip message will be displayed describing
8. file names are detected and assigned an auto number incremented by 1 If unchecked the file name is reused and any existing file will be overwritten 12 Force Image Size If checked all images that are larger than the specified max image size will be scaled down This is useful for making thumbnails or small consistent image sizes 13 ZIP Files If checked all printed files will be batched up and compressed into a single ZIP file This can be handy when emailing archiving or uploading many files and want to treat them as a single batch 14 Max Image Size This is the number of pixels to scale the images to if the Force Image Size option is enabled The engine will fit either the width or the height of the image to this value if the image is larger 15 Console Program An optional console program that may be executed and supplied the image file names as arguments A window will be displayed that will show the standard output messages generated by the console program The user can interact with the program by typing into standard input through the window if the program so requires This is not to be confused with the default viewer program which is a GUI based Windows program Console programs are text based and usually legacy applications Even though this is designed for console applications a traditional Windowed application can be executed with this option as well you can disable the extra console window from dis
9. 1 This allows one to have great control over where files should go and what they should be named These special tags are indicated by a value inside two characters For example in order to have the file be named the current date the following would be set in the file prefix field Yomonth day Vyear Those tags would create example filenames such as 02 15 2005 10 03 1995 etc Regular characters can be mixed with tags as well In order to have output such as Printed 02 15 2005 and Printed 10 03 1995 the following prefix could be used Printed month day year One could do the following in order to create a subdirectory for each file based on the current day by placing the following in the file prefix field month day y ear printed_document The following is a list of all the practical tags that may be used guid Generates a random GUID Globally Unique Identifier year Four digit year month Two digit month day Two digit day hour Two digit hour minute Two digit minute second Two digit second millisecond Four digit millisecond longtime Single timestamp value to the millisecond user name User name of the current user host name The host name of the machine host address The IP address of the host machine user home The home directory for the current user user dir The current user s directory java io tmpdir T
10. ES IMAGE PRINTER DRIVER USER MANUAL FOR MAC OS X Overview ES Image Printer Driver is a software printer driver that is accessible from any program that can utilize a CUPS Common UNIX Printing printer Images are produced from the driver and stored on a specified drive and location with incremental numbers The printer driver is flexible and supports several image file formats such as PNG BMP JPEG JPEG 2000 TIFF Multi Page TIFF PNM and PDF default 600 Printer Driver Settings Image f Engines Email FTP HTTP Database SOAP About Output Directory f printedFiles ue File Prefix printed File Extension kif Image Format Multi Page TIFF a R Color Format Default j V abort On Recoverable Error V Launch Default Viewer Pass All Files To Default Viewer V show Settings Dialog V store Files Locally V auto Number Files ra Force Image Size ZIP Files Max Image Pixel Size 150 Console Program CANCEL FIGURE 1 It also supports sending an email to anyone via SMTP The images printed are added as attachments to the email and users may type in a full text message for the body of the email This is accomplished by displaying a graphical user interface at print time which is optional This interface can be suppressed at each print K Xora Printer Driver Settings SMTP Server fnyhost mailcom ssi 3OSt i lt lt C CS tws To Email Address frike techsupport com S From
11. Email Address fdoe joesemalicom i i C C Subject FinancingProgramLockedUp S SMTP User Name SMTP Password JE l Message The financing program locked up again Here s a screenshot of when it happened OK CANCEL FIGURE 2 FTP sending is also an option with the driver The images that are produced can automatically be uploaded to a FTP server on any TCP IP network Intranet Internet etc e600 Printer Driver Settings FTP Server foesftpserverccom s s SOSCS S Port Be o SSS Login Id be oo Password eee Remote Directory Esje oS Remote File Name Eereensh tti S Ot C S OK CANCEL FIGURE 3 HTTP posts are also an option with the driver The images that are produced can automatically be uploaded to a web server via HTTP or HTTPS on any TCP IP network Intranet Internet etc e600 Printer Driver Settings Server URL fittp www myserver com ImageServlet OK CANCEL FIGURE 4 The driver has the capability to save the images into a database This can be done with any standard JDBC or ODBC connection e600 Printer Driver Settings Image f Engines f Email f FTP f HTTP Database About Database Engine Name PatabaseEngne i it S Database Table Name rhive iti S Database File Prefix Column flere Database File Ext Column fleet Database File Bytes Column ileBytes Database Timestamp Colum
12. ParameterName The parameter name to be used for before and after events when sending a batch of images through a HTTP post This helps the post handler to determine what files are in what batches in multi threaded situations 10 httpTransactionGUIDParameterName The parameter name for the transaction id again to help determine a batch of images A transaction id is always a unique string a GUID for every batch 11 httpTransactionFileParameterName The parameter name for the index number of the file being uploaded a counter 12 httpTransactionFilePathParameterName The parameter name for the original file path and name being uploaded 13 showHTTPTransactionResults If this is set to true a dialog will be displayed with any text returned from the HTTP post If false no dialog is displayed 14 interfaceClass The driver has the ability to call a Java class that is in the classpath if it implements a special interface This allows developers to implement their own class to gain full control over the print process The class is called after the files have been produced by the driver See the developer section for more details 15 nativeLibraryInterface A Windows developer also has the option to call a native DLL that has a special callback function Just like the interfaceClass the DLL will be called after the files have been produced by the driver 16 useEmailEngine If set to false the
13. can be administered and changed for use in business environments or for mass printing lt com everlast storage PrinterDriverEngineInitializer gt lt imegeDirectoryImportEngineNeme gt Image Directory Import Engine lt imageDirectoryImportEngineNeme gt lt emailEngineName gt Emsil Engine lt emsilEngineName gt lt ftpEngineName gt File Transfer Protocol Engine lt ftpEngineName gt removeLocalFilesAfterPrint gt false lt removeLocalFilesAfterPrint gt lt engineName gt Printer Driver Engine lt engineName gt lt readOnly gt false lt readOnly gt lt shutDownTimeout gt 300000 lt shutDownTimeOut gt lt className gt com everlast storage PrinterDriverEngine lt className gt lt workingDirectory gt D Program Files EveriastSoftware ES Image Printer Driver Printer Driver Engi lt showGUI gt true lt showGUI gt lt guiClassName gt com everlast storage PrinterDriverPanel lt guiClassName gt lt guid gt 2df7fea6 72b2 459d 8866 25f60e7cT38E lt guid gt lt com everlest storage PrinterDriverEngineInitislizer gt FIGURE 6a Purpose All of these options make the printer driver an excellent tool for bug reporting problem tracking etc for businesses wanting to maximize their business time For home users the driver is great for printing web sites images from other programs emails etc It s also a quick way to share screenshots with friends and family All businesses small medium and large deal with and rely on many other computer pro
14. choice for black and white printed documents because of the small file sizes lossless Group 4 compression and universal acceptance However if there are ever any doubts PNG is probably the best bet PDF and Multi Page TIFF are the only formats that put all the images into a single file multi page 5 Color Format This is the color format the image will be saved in if the selected Image Format allows such a color format The possible choices are Default Binary black and white 8 and 16 Bit Gray Scale and 8 16 24 and 32 Bit color If set to default the image color format will be whatever is set in the native driver settings Figure 8 This option will only have a true effect if the native driver prints in color If the native driver is set to print in black and white this option will convert the image to the appropriate color format but cannot produce real colors or gray scale Printing in color with the native driver and then converting to black and white is much slower which is why the native driver has the option for black and white great for documents If you want any color format besides black and white make sure to choose Color from the native driver settings Figure 8 6 Abort On Recoverable Error Sometimes the driver can detect certain types of errors with individual files and recover or basically skip those files and continue on to the next ones If this flag is checked the driver will attempt to do thi
15. ctual JDBC driver to use Ifa specific JDBC driver is wanted simply plug in the class name and make sure the driver is in the classpath when the driver executes 3 databaseURL The URL for the JDBC driver to connect to the database If ODBC is desired the String must always start with jdbc odbc and end with the data source name such as LocalServer 4 databaseUser The user name to obtained connections to the database 5 databasePassword The password for the user name to obtain connections to the database 6 maxConnectionPoolSize The total maximum number of connections to utilize for connection pooling 7 initialConnectionPoolSize The initial number of connections to obtain from the database for use in connection pooling 8 databaseShutdownStatement If a special statement needs to be sent to shutdown a database after a print the SQL statement can be set here In order to use a custom JDBC database driver the classes must be in the Java classpath as mentioned in the databaseDriver tag above Note For all the mentioned XML files only a subset of the information contained was mentioned The other information is system settings that should not be changed If the values are changed the engines will most likely fail File and Output Directory Tags The ES Image Printer Driver has the ability to specify special tags in the file prefixes file extensions and output directories see Figure
16. e color format will be whatever is set in the native driver settings Figure 8 This option will only have a true effect if the native driver prints in color If the native driver is set to print in black and white this option will convert the image to the appropriate color format but cannot produce real colors or gray scale Printing in color with the native driver and then converting to black and white is much slower which is why the native driver has the option for black and white great for documents If you want any color format besides black and white make sure to choose Color from the native driver settings Figure 8 19 packageInZipFile If true all the printed files will be packaged into a single compressed ZIP file Email Engine This is the engine that uses SMTP to send an email to one or more people with the printed images as attachments Figure 2 1 smtpServerName This is the IP Address or Domain Name of the SMTP server 2 smtpPort The port that the SMTP server listens on 3 defaultMessageBody The message body of the email 4 defaultSendTo The email addresses of the people to send the email to recipients 5 defaultSentFrom The email address that the email should appear to come from 6 defaultSubject The subject of the email 7 working Directory This is the directory in which the Email Engine will be working Temporary files error log files etc will be dumped to this direc
17. ed and usually legacy applications Even though this is designed for console applications a traditional Windowed application can be executed with this option as well you can disable the extra console window from displaying via the showConsoleProgramOutput setting 14 showConsoleProgramOutput If true a window will be displayed as the console program executes displaying the text being output and allowing user interaction Set this flag to false if the program to be executed is a Window GUI application and not a console application 15 binaryTIFFCompression The compression type to be used inside binary TIFF files The following options are available CCITT T 6 CCITT T 4 CCITT RLE The default value is CCITT T 6 16 colorTIFFCompression The compression type to be used inside color TIFF files The following options are available PackBits LZW JPEG Deflate ZLib The default value is LZW 17 jpeg2000Compression The compression ratio to use for JPEG 2000 files The value can range from 0 1 to 1 0 The lower the number the greater the compression at the cost of quality The default value is 0 5 18 colorFormat This is the color format the image will be saved in if the selected Image Format allows such a color format The possible choices are Default Binary black and white 8 and 16 Bit Gray Scale and 8 16 24 and 32 Bit color If set to default the imag
18. ettings Image y Engines Emaii FTP HTTP About Output Directory plications Utliies amp s_image_printer_driver ER CORS Choose Lookin stehnsoderman Applications File name Users Stehnsoderman Desktop Files of type All Ales y Cancel FIGURE 9d Step 4 Finally click the Choose button in the lower right corner of the dialog You will notice the Output Directory has now changed to where your desktop is Figure 9e oo Printer Driver Settings Image y Engines Email FTP HTTP About Output Directory Users tehnsoderman Desktop ed File Prefix printed File Extension pdf Image Format PDF aa V Abort On Recoverable Error V Launch Default Viewer een Pass All Files To Default Viewer V show Settings Dialog V store Files Locally V auto Number Files seas Force Image Size ZIP Files Max Image Pixel Size 150 Console Program OK CANCEL FIGURE 9e Directory Structure The ES Image Printer Driver for Mac OS X is installed to the Applications utilities area This is most likely found in Applications Utilities es_image_printer_driver This directory will contain the App for launching the settings dialog for the driver It also contains an Order HTML page for purchasing the driver as well as a page to find the Everlast Software homepage http www everlastsoftware com The actual code XML files etc are located in the App directory ES Image Printer Driver
19. grams in order to maximize their employees time They often utilize both 3rd party software and in house software developed specifically for their needs Almost all businesses have had the experience of finding show stopping bugs in various programs that prevent them from getting their job done Often time businesses have an entire department committed to helping the users either find work a rounds for the software ways to fix the software or submit incident reports to the developers of the software This is a very time consuming task not only for the computer support department but also the employees that use the software who must communicate the problems to the support department in a clear manner so that the real problem can be understood This is where the ES Image Printer Driver can be of great aid and save businesses thousands if not millions of dollars a year A picture can speak a thousand words and that is exactly what the driver does With the simple print of any document image screenshot etc instead of the results going to a laser printer images are produced which can be instantly emailed to a support person transferred to an FTP server or simply saved to the local computer s storage with one simple click All of this can happen in the background too without requiring user interaction thus saving MORE time for the employees while maximizing the information for someone to help troubleshoot the problem Another common pr
20. he Output Directory displays a file dialog Figure 1b below where one can pick the directory with a graphical user interface 2 File Prefix The prefix to save each file with This is always followed by an incremental number automatically by the printer driver For example if printed was the prefix and 3 pages were printed the actual file prefixes will be printed_1 printed_2 and printed 3 The driver automatically detects filenames with the previous name if some already existed and continues to number from there 3 File Extension The extension to save each file with Typically this should be the same as the actual chosen image format but some users may choose to make this something different It has no impact on the actual image format produced and can be anything 4 Image Format This is the actual image format the files are saved as The possible choices are PNG BMP JPEG TIFF Multi Page TIFF PNM and PDF Typically PNG files are the best choice for color prints because of the wide variety of color formats they support Also PNG files use lossless compression which means the images produced are exact images of the data and don t change appearance from their compression JPEG files can sometimes be smaller than PNG files but the compression is lossy so sometimes they can appear blocky or fuzzy TIFF images are a very popular format used in many document imaging systems They are probably the best
21. he temp directory launch text The text value selected by the user in the launcher launch engine The engine name selected by the user in the launcher xml dir The directory where the engine XML files are being utilized log dir The directory where the main log XML files are being written Native Printer Driver Settings The ES Image Printer Driver has a native component which is the actual piece that the Mac OS X programs talk to directly The native core driver is called cups pdf It operates under the GPL http www gnu org copyleft gpl html As mentioned earlier the native driver creates PDF files The ES Image Printer Driver can then convert the PDF files to a different format behind the scenes Figure 7 shows what the printer dialog may look like when printing to the ES Image Printer Driver It is accessible through any standard Mac OS X program that utilizes CUPS Common UNIX Printing Adjust the number of copies to print range etc and then click Print to use the driver Make sure ES Image Printer Driver is selected as the printer Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help 4 Mon 4 17PM ery Printer ES_image_Printer_Driver H Presets Standard a id Home Sign i Copies amp Pages i Copies a i Collated Pages All OFfrom 1 to 1 Preview Save As PDF Fax _ Cancel E Print See Super Bow TV ads on Google Video 2608 OAE C eae FIGURE 7
22. ich sends the host s name Database Import Engine This is the engine that saves the files into a database Figure 5 1 databaseEngineName This is the name of the Database Engine to utilize This allows for reuse of database specific settings user password etc across multiple configurations if the same name is specified If a different name is specified for multiple configurations each will have it s own settings This name must match the Database Engine XML file name minus the xml 2 databaseTableName The name of the table to insert into 3 databaseFilePrefixColumn The name of the column to store the filename prefix 4 databaseFileExtensionColumn The name of the column to store the filename extension 5 databaseFileB ytesColumn The name of the column to store the file s bytes 6 databaseTimestampColumn The name of the column to store a timestamp of when the file was saved into the database 7 moveFiles If set to true the printed files will automatically be removed from the file system after being imported into the database Database Engine This is the engine that stores user password etc for the database Figure 5 The databaseEngineName in the Database Import Engine XML refer to one of these XML files 1 databaseName The name of the database to connect to Not used by the driver only for information 2 databaseDriver This is the Java class name of the a
23. iving the files 2 Port The port in which the FTP server is listening on This is almost always port 21 3 Login Id The login id to use to make the connection 4 Password The corresponding password for the login id 5 Remote Directory This is the location on the remote server where the files will be uploaded to If the path contains subdirectories or fully qualified path make sure to use the proper operating system path separator vs 6 Remote File Name This is the filename prefix to be used for the files being uploaded They will be assigned an incremental number in the same manner as the File Prefix from Figure 1 only this time it will be on the remote server HTTP Settings Besides being able to utilize FTP the driver is also able to do HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol posts Figure 4 refers to these options 1 Server URL This is the full URL to a web server that can accept HTTP or HTTPS posts The example in figure 4 is using HTTP In order to do a secure upload HTTPS may be used To compare to figure 4 the URL would be https www myserver com ImageServlet for secure transfer The URL is parsed the standard way any HTTP URL is protocol domain_name port context Database Settings The printed files can be automatically inserted into a database using JDBC or ODBC Figure 5 refers to these options 1 Database Engine Name This is the name of the Database Engine to uti
24. lize This allows for reuse of database specific settings user password etc across multiple configurations if the same name is specified If a different name is specified for multiple configurations each will have it s own settings 2 Database Table Name The name of the table to insert into 3 Database File Prefix Column optional The name of the column to store the filename prefix 4 Database File Extension Column optional The name of the column to store the filename extension 5 Database File Bytes Column The name of the column to store the file s bytes 6 Database Timestamp Column optional The name of the column to store a timestamp of when the file was saved into the database 7 Database JDBC Driver This is the Java class name of the actual JDBC driver to use On Windows if ODBC is desired always leave this set to sun jdbc odbc JdbcOdbcDriver If a specific JDBC driver is wanted simply plug in the class name and make sure the driver is in the classpath when the driver executes 8 Database URL The URL for the JDBC driver to connect to the database On Windows if ODBC is desired the String must always start with jdbc odbc and end with the data source name such as LocalServer 9 Database User The user name to obtained connections to the database 10 Database Password The password for the user to obtain connections to the database 11 Connect This
25. ml Printer Driver Engine This is the main engine utilized by the driver It actually starts and uses the other engines mentioned 1 ftpEngineName The name of the FTP Engine to start Whatever this is set to is what named XML file it will attempt to read from minus the file extension 2 emailEngineName The name of the Email Engine to start Again determines which image settings XML file to use 3 imageDirectoryImportEngineName The name of the Image Directory Import Engine to start Again determines which image settings XML file to use 4 readOnly If set the settings will never save even if the print driver settings are changed and the user clicks the Ok button At print time the settings the user changes will take place for the print but will not be saved permanently in the XML file 5 removeLocalFilesAfterPrint Sometimes administrators don t want the printed files to be saved locally on a user s machine Instead the driver is more or less used for just transferring the images to someone else If that is the case this flag should be set to true 6 showGUI If true the printer driver settings dialog will be displayed at print time 7 working Directory This is the directory in which the Printer Driver Engine will be working Temporary files error log files etc will be dumped to this directory 8 httpEngineName The name of the HTTP Engine to start 9 httpTransactionEvent
26. n fimestamp ssts lt S s S Database JDBC Driver Fun jdbc odbe JdbcOdbeDriver Connect Database URL dbc odbc LocalServer Database User j Database Password OK CANCEL FIGURE 5 SOAP is becoming more and more popular in today s complex environments It allows various languages web services environments etc to communicate with each other through a common programming interface The driver has the ability to send a SOAP message to a Web Service HTTP Server etc with the files base 64 encoded inside as parameters 8086 Printer Driver Settings Image Engines Email FTP HTTP Database SOAP About HTTP Engine Name BOAP Hyper Text Transfer ProtocolEngine SCS SOAP Action fssop o Method Name fetImage oo Variable Name mae File Yariable Name ileName ID Variable Name Mo ID Value Puhostname ii S sS C S Server URL fittp jilocahosttest o OK CANCEL FIGURE 5b The optional Email FTP HTTP and Database engines can easily be enabled disabled from the Engines tab This allows all the settings to be kept for those engines while preventing them from actually being utilized during the current print e020 Printer Driver Settings Image Engines Email FTP HTTP Database SOAP About Select the engines to utilize V Email Engine Verte Engine V HTTP Engine V Database Import Engine V soap Engine CANCEL FIGURE 6 The driver is driven by XML files that
27. oblem in a business environment is sharing information with clients and or others in different departments There are many times when files must be shared but the receiver does not have the correct program to be able to display or view them Almost every business has some means of viewing images Images are a universal way to share information The ES Image Printer Driver instantly allows printing of information from any program and the production of images in several formats These images can then be emailed uploaded etc to the receiver for their usage Not only can the ES Image Printer Driver do what was mentioned above it has been designed to easily develop and plug in other interfaces so that businesses may tightly integrate with their own support systems environment etc If a certain interface is important to your business don t hesitate to ask about it even if it is a completely custom interface We are dedicated to helping our clients make their businesses more economical and to save them time After all time is money Printer Driver Settings The driver has several standard options and settings in order to produce and save the images created Figure refers to these options 1 Output Directory This is the directory to save the produced images to It can be any standard Windows drive such as c myFiles or it can be a UNC pathname such as winserver C uploadarea The optional button showing next to t
28. playing via the XML file 16 Ok By clicking the Ok button the printer driver settings are saved If the dialog is being displayed during a print Ok also allows the print to continue and produce images 17 Cancel By clicking the Cancel button the printer driver settings are discarded and stay as they were If the dialog is being displayed during a print Cancel causes the print to abort AAO Printer Driver Settings Image Engines Email FTP ATTA About Output Directory plications Utilities amp s_image_printer_driver Choose Cancel SKORS Choose j Lookin 9 Utiliies y l Activity Monitor app L Directory Access app eS OL Home fninistrator L AirPort Admin Utility app C Disk Utlity app L Print Center app l C AirPort Setup Assistantapp esjmage_printer_driwer L Printer Setup Utility C Asia Text Extras C Grab app C Stuffit Expander app C Audio MIDI Setup app C Installer app C System Profiler app C Bluetooth Ale Exchange app C iPod Software Updater localized Terminal app C Bluetooth Serial Utility app C Java mp f C Bluetooth Setup Assistantapp Keychain Access app C ColorSync Utlity app C Netinfo Manager app ga Digital Color Meter app C Network Utlity app E jai Ale name Applications Atlites s_image_printer_driver Files of type All Ales F FIGURE 1b
29. s If not the first error will cause the driver to abort and not continue 7 Launch Default Viewer If this flag is checked after all the images are produced by the driver the default Windows program will be launched to view handle the images 8 Pass All Files to Default Viewer This flag works in conjunction with the Launch Default Viewer flag It only applies when the Launch Default Viewer flag is checked If this flag is checked all files are passed as multiple separate parameters to the Windows program Some programs may be able to handle these multiple parameters causing all the images to be opened viewed instead of just the 1 image 9 Show Settings Dialog If this flag is checked the dialog displayed in Figures 1 6 will be displayed at print time to allow a user to control and change settings on the fly Sometimes especially in businesses administrators may not want this to prevent the users from making a mistake and causing an error If that is the case this flag should not be checked so the settings are automatically used and no dialog is presented 10 Store Files Locally If this flag is checked the images will be saved permanently in the specified location even after all functions are performed such as emailing launching default viewer HTTP post etc If it is not checked the images will be removed after being processed through all the functions 11 Auto Number Files If checked duplicate
30. tory 8 notifyAfterSend If set to true a dialog will be displayed after an email has been successfully sent 8 smtpAuthentication If set to true the set user name and password will be used when calling the SMTP server 9 smtpAuthenticationUserName If the SMTP server requires authentication this is the user name to utilize 10 smtpAuthenticationPassword If the SMTP server requires authentication this is the password for the SMTP User Name supplied 11 useTLS If set to true TLS will be used for encryption when sending emails File Transfer Protocol Engine This is the engine that uploads the images to a FTP server Figure 3 1 loginId The login id for the FTP server 2 password The password for the corresponding login id 3 remotePort The port in which the FTP server is listening on 4 remoteDirectory This is the location on the remote server where the files will be uploaded to If the path contains subdirectories or fully qualified path make sure to use the proper operating system path separator vs 5 remoteFileName This is the filename prefix to be used for the files being uploaded They will be assigned an incremental number in the same manner as the File Prefix from Figure 1 only this time it will be on the remote server 6 remoteHostName This is the IP Address or Domain Name of the FTP server that will be receiving the files 7 working Directory
31. ver URL The HTTP HTTPS URL to the SOAP receiver This will typically be a Web Service About The about tab is simply for informational purposes about the product It has no settings or options Displaying the Printer Driver Settings Dialog As mentioned earlier the printer driver settings dialog will be displayed every time when a print takes place if the Show Settings Dialog checkbox from Figure 1 is checked If it is not checked you can still display the dialog by clicking Start gt Programs gt Everlast Software gt ES Image Printer Driver Settings This will display the settings and even allow the re checking of the Show Settings Dialog checkbox so that it will be displayed once again at print time Advanced Printer Driver Settings There is an advanced way in which system administrators power users etc may edit the settings without using the printer driver settings dialog This is possible through modifying XML files The printer driver utilizes several engines self configuring code modules which each have their own XML file for settings They are all located in the installation directory area More specifically if the default installation directory was used C Program Files EverlastSoftware ES Image Printer Driver The only files of importance or usage here are Printer Driver Engine xml Image Directory Import Engine xml File Transfer Protocol Engine xml and Email Engine x
32. what the engine is doing This option only works if Java 6 0 or greater is installed 28 debugMode If set to true the engine will log all messages produced instead of just errors Image Directory Import Engine This is the engine that saves the actual images to the local computer and converts file formats Figure 1 1 abortOnError This is the Abort on Recoverable Error flag from Figure 1 If this is set to false the engine will attempt to continue to the next file if a recoverable error occurs on an individual file 2 autoRenameFileNameExtension The extension to use for the files that are saved 3 autoRenameFileNamePrefix The prefix to use for the files that are saved 4 encodeFormat The actual image format to save the images as 5 encodeImages The native driver produces TIFF and BMP files The Image Directory Import Engine then converts them to the specified format if they are not of those types This can increase processing time by a small amount If this flag is set to false the encode format is ignored and the files are always left as their native format 6 launchDefault Viewer Once the images have been encoded if this flag is set the native Windows default program that handles the specified file extension will be launched 7 outputDirectory The directory to save the images to 8 passAllFilesToDefault Viewer If this flag is set to true the filenames of all printed images will
33. with a star in the middle where the mouse cursor is in Figure 9b AAA Printer Driver Settings image y Engines Email FTP y HTTP y About Output Directory 8098 Lookin 7 Utilities plications Utilities amp s_image_printer_driver Choose Activity Monitor app C Directory Access app ee OQ Home fninistrator AirPort Admin Utility app C Disk Utiity app L Print Center app AirPort Setup Assistantapp es_image_printer_driver C Printer Setup Utiity lt E Asia Text Extras E Grab app E Stuffit Expander ape C Audio MIDI Setup app C Installer app C System Profiler app ga Bluetooth Ale Exchange app fal iPod Software Updater localized Terminal app Bluetooth Serial Utility app E Java jmp Bluetooth Setup Assistantapp C Keychain Access app 3 ColorSyne Utility app amp Netinfo Manager app DigitalColor Meter app E Network Utility app File name Ap plications Utlites s_image_printer_driver Files of type All Ales y Choose Cancel M FIGURE 9b You will notice the directory list changes Figure 9c AOA Printer Driver Settings image Engines Email FTP HTTP About Output Directory plications AJtlities amp 3_image_printer_driver e e99 Choose E stehnsoderman y 2 cx EE Users Stehnsoderman Y Ales of type All Files y Choose Cancel 7 FIGURE 9c Step 3 Now click on the Desktop directory Figure 9d OOO Printer Driver S
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