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1. 34 ou Use Unicodes Instead of Glyph Ids for Embedded Fonts 34 pg Set the Page Ranges uet a Lee ER AERA E dU 35 pw Print an Encrypted PDF File sessssesssssseme menm enne 35 q Set the Quality cd RI Ihr 35 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 4 of 55 July 7 2015 r Set the R t ti n auu n ae a eukvod aE caldabbive ide oak viulivhba Neal vor eee 35 rm Rotate Pages to a Given Orientation uusessensennannannannannunnun nun nun nun nennen 35 tt TrueType Font Handling erz2r22220200nn0n non nun nn nn nn nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nenn 35 w Specify the Path to the Root Directory u2erannenennnnan nennen nen nennen namen nen 36 wd Specify the Drop Path ersernennennenennennennenn nn enn nun n nennen nennen nennen 36 wfs Process only files with certain extensions s4 s4ren nennen nennen an nennen een 36 wfi Ignore files with certain extensions sess 36 wh Set Page Width and Height ssssssssssssssseseme mener 37 xy Set the Page Offset tec e eee u 37 Autodelete of Successfully Printed Files esses 37 Create Watched Sub Folders onec et de an a ema na nen 37 Delayed Delete of Files 2 arce exe ee xe ree n n ek ex RR ie De n 38 Job Number Prefie am ka a ae nn REF EE UR ne DER UE PAR ERU FEX REDE RUE Eaux 38 LOG Path p 39 Polling I
2. TOOLS COM Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 User Manual Contact pdfsupport pdf tools com Owner PDF Tools AG Kasernenstrasse 1 8184 Bachenb lach Switzerland http www pdf tools com Copyright 2000 2015 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 2 of 55 July 7 2015 Table of Contents 1 Introduction uunuunnunnunnunnnunnunnunnunnunnannunnunnunnunnunnunnunnunnnunnunnunnunnannunnunnn 6 dst OVERVIEW p CES 6 1 2 EurnictioriSs orien Ere E EP Pb REUS Ee SER UC ea Sea 6 Features a nee E E VR eR VES V VERE EAR Veg VES VER 7 Formats i enu gu EE MEE Ue fo KE MER REM DIE 7 onis PER 7 1 3 Operating SyStemss cioe ex Hr rer ERE ERE eR TEE aan duis TAE MINER UAI Pre 7 2 Installation uunuunuunnunnnunnnnnunnunnunnannunnannunnannunnunnunnunnunnnunnunnunnannunnannunen 8 3 License Management uunzananunnanannanannanunnanannanunnanannanunnanunnanunnanannannnnannnn 9 3 1 Graphical License Manager Tool ur4ursrannennn nenne nenne nenne nenn nenne nennen nenn 9 List all installed license keys uunsnaennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnen nennen nennen nenne nun nun nun nun nenne nun nnn 9 Add and delete license keys uunsunennnnnonnennennn nennen nennen en menm mnn nennen nenn 9 Display the properties of a liCENSEC ccc cece eee eee eee eee nn nennen nennen nen nennen 9 Select between different license keys for a single product
3. newyork HP LaserJet 4258 PCL 6 The printer names listed with this option can be used in the configuration file pdfprintsvr ini To list the printer device capabilities of a printer use the option p followed by the printer name in quotes if there are blanks and then one of the options to list the bins Ib paper size Is or duplex mode Id Command Prompt C gt pdf printsur p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS ls 1 Letter Legal Executive BS lt JIS gt Envelope 18 Envelope DL Envelope C5 Envelope B5 Envelope Monarch Executive JIS gt 16K 16 Envelope Custom 32767 PostScript Custom Page Size CN Configuration Sample The following configuration file sets up three watched folders three Threads Thread 1 and 2 are both for the same printer but with a different setting thread 3 is for a different printer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 13 of 55 July 7 2015 PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete True Threads 3 Threadl p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w e HP4050 Thread2 p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w e HP4050Duplex d 2 Thread3 p MINOLTA QMS magicolor 2350 w e Minolta Important Do not use printers that have pop up message boxes such as the Adobe PDF printer driver or printing to a file Doing so will lock the service and it needs to be deleted and recreated PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 5 1
4. 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 14 of 55 Running Starting the Service Once the configuration is done the service can be started and controlled via the command line To create or delete the service administrator permissions are required 1 To create the service use the option c This function will automatically search for the executable path Important It is essential that pdfprintsvr exe be on a non mapped drive After executing this command the service is created It is now visible in the Computer Management window under Services To open the Computer Management window go to Start gt Control Panel gt Administrative Tools gt Computer Management If the services was created correctly it appears as PDF Printer Service as shown in the image below m Computer Management Action View je gt Baar 2 mum Tree Computer Management Local Bs Network Connections Manages objects in the Net Started Manual LocalSystem H K System Tools Sy Network DDE Provides network transport Manual LocalSystem gj Storage S Network DDE DSDM Manages shared dynamic da Manual LocalSystem E Es Services and Applications Bs Network News Tran Transports network news ac Started Automatic LocalSystem g Telephony SANT LM Security Sup Provides security to remote Started Manual 8 4 j Microsoft S
5. sem 1 sc 2 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology e 0 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 25 of 55 July 7 2015 Print Duplex The printer driver must have the duplex mode installed With the option d the duplex mode can be specified It is suggested to use the default duplex modes al Simplex Default 2 Vertical Duplex 3 Horizontal Duplex d 2 If the default modes do not work then try a custom duplex mode The list of all custom duplex modes can be received using the command pdfprintsvr p your printer here ld Load Device Settings This option loads a device mode setup which was previously saved on a file using the option ds on the command line dl dm dev Use EMF Instead of RAW Spool Files This option creates an EMF file which is useful in a network environment Instead of locally creating a large RAW file and send it over the network the file is sent as EMF and converted to a RAW file by the printer driver at the remote location RAW is with respect to the printer language If RAW is used for PCL printer a PCL file is generated if RAW is used for a PS printer a PS file is generated The printer device always needs a RAW file Wait until the job is completed This option instructs the tool to wait until the spooler reports that the job is done This switch is sometimes needed in conjunction with virtual printer drivers which require that temporary installed fo
6. texts and images It is also possible to query the properties of the target printer print margins resolution etc and to optimize printing accordingly In addition to all current printer models the tool supports older printers via emulation The printer supports CITRIX virtual printer drivers PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 1 3 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 7 of 55 July 7 2015 Features e Print PDF documents e Divert print to file e Local remote printing e Select paper format e Select paper tray e Select print quality e Define page sequence e Select printer specific properties e Color management control e Link printer properties with watched directories e Supports http https and ftp data streams e Print raster images TIFF JPEG etc e Group documents to form a print job e Integrate watermark text image Formats Input Formats e PDF e JPEG e PDF A e JPEG2000 and JPEG LS e BMP e PBM GIF e PNG e JBIG2 e TIFF Output Formats e Print spool formats PostScript PCL 5 PCL 6 AFP Compliance e Standards ISO 19005 1 PDF A 1 ISO 32000 PDF 1 7 Operating Systems Windows XP Vista 7 8 8 1 32 and 64 bit Windows Server 2003 2008 2008 R2 2012 2012 R2 32 and 64 bit PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 8 of 55 Installation Note Earlier version prior to 1 91 11 0 of th
7. 1 r Note that the option r is redundant in combination with o 2 Text e Ensure the two system environment variables TEMP and TMP exist and point to an existing directory These variables not being set is a common error source for service applications that run under a user that has no temporary directory and thus cannot install fonts See also chapter configuration e If you are using a local printer ensure EMF is not used e not set e Ensure embedded fonts are used oe not set e See chapter How to handle Non Embedded Fonts and in particular the sub chapter Other ways to deal with fonts that cannot be rendered correctly e If you are using an older printer driver try o9 or install a newer printer driver e Try a different type of printer driver e g PCL 6 instead of PS or vice versa Settings in the Printer or Device Mode Are Ignored Certain settings applied to the device mode behave differently on local and network printers It does not matter whether using device mode functions of the 3 Heights PDF Printer or adjusting the defaults in the printer itself A very basic setting in the device mode such as print as landscape should always work whereas a more complex setting such as print multiple pages on 1 paper may PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 7 2 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 51 of 55 July 7 2015 fail on a local printer but work on a network printer This is
8. 100 percent expands the page This switch can optionally be combined with the f switch Example Fit the page to the paper and reduce the page size to 90 s 9 f sxy 90 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 6 4 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 29 of 55 Service Configuration Options Configuration File PdfPrintSvr ini The ini configuration file defines the setting for the watched folders It is read upon starting the service PdfPrintSvr Autodelete AutodeleteAll LogPath PollingInterval JobPrefix LogLevel Threads n Threadl w Thread2 w Folders1 m Folderl 1 p Folderl 2 p Folderl m Threadn Example PdfPrintSvr Autodelete true JobPrefix false Threads 2 required optional true Or false optional true Or false optional if used must be a path like C mypath log or the keyword EventLog optional value in milliseconds default 1000 optional true or false optional 0 or 1 required required optional optional optional There must be exact as many folders Folderi1 as defined in Folders12m There must be exact as many threads as defined in Threads n Threadl p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w C PdfPrintSvr 4050PS Thread2 p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w C PdfPrintSvr 4050PS_WM wo 100 100 wt TEST TEST TEST TEST f For a sample with folders see chapter Create watch
9. 5 2 2 CreationDate 5 23 2005 11 40 2 For pre BoundingBox atend DocumentNeededResources atend DocumentSuppliedResources atend DocumentData Clean7Bit TargetDevice HP LaserJet 4050 Series 2014 108 1 LanguageLevel 2 EndComments The DSC is used to define the page settings and all printer driver dependent properties In between the DCS comments there are the actual PostScript commands all the parts that don t start with which provide all the information about the content of the page An application which is printing a spool file can first asks the GDI whether the type is PostScript If the GDI says yes then there is a so called pass through mode which can be used to provide the PostScript commands directly and let the printer driver only take care of the DSC This called direct PostScript injection Some printer drivers do not support this in such cases it should be turned off Resolution Most printer drivers support different resolutions 300 dpi 600 dpi 1200 dpi etc Depending on the printer language and the document the resolution influences the spool size For printer devices that require raster graphics to be provided uncompressed and at device resolution the size of an image at 1200 dpi is 16 the size as at 300 dpi PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 53 of 55 July 7 2015 7 3 Cannot Access Resource T
10. ER ERE RER 20 a Pause Service ecd ee mre e ER ele Vide ea 20 0 CONTINUE SOPVIGCE irisi chee aE na nee 20 q Query Current Status of Service uersuseranennanennanennanennnn en meme 21 X R n as Executable reset a ee 21 6 2 Listing and DeviceMode Options uz urHran ernennen neta eee en ann nn nn nnnen 21 ds Edit and Save Device Settings to a File sss 21 i ELISE U SAGE ete eR eu IEEE IM UE UU AE Eds 21 I List Available Printers esee nennen nennen nennen nean nnn 21 Ib List Bins for a Specific Printer ssr sssrennnnen nenn nennen nenne nennen nennen nenn 22 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 3 of 55 July 7 2015 zld Eist Duplex Modes oae aa 22 Im List Media Type Snae ari a nennen nenn nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun sea sea nna nn nnn 23 Is List Paper Size for a Specific Printer esses 23 6 3 Printer related Configuration Options r44 sHHran nennen Hann nn en nnn nn ne 24 b Select the Bin ee en en engere ee 24 C Set Number of Coples ice etra FREE RE RR RR ERU EE ERU ERR AE ulus 24 scl Collate MOG iue ie een eher ADAE 24 Erm COPY Mode tern ende ran aan anne ca Pers aed detdiweg weds SER relie dd 24 d Print DUPER nn a en rn en oret nr ne dene 25 dl Load Device Settihngs csset ihi na 25 e Use EMF Instead of RAW Spool Files zsersersenenn son non none
11. Outlines Write text as outlines i e stroke the text instead of filling it Use the parameter 1 to turn outlines on O to turn outlines off wt Times 242 ws 1 wo 50 500 wt Text Set the Text of the Watermark This option sets the text of the watermark If the text contains blanks the whole text must be in quotes wt This is my watermark The line above will not print the text in the visual range because the position which is required is missing see Option wo The text can contain placeholders which can be used to insert document specific text The following placeholders are supported Time Date related placeholders ds short date d1 long date dt time Document Attribute placeholders t document title a document author k document keywords s document subject ns file name without path and extension js short job list name the txt file without path and extension 31 long job list name without path Page Numbering placeholders pi the current page pn the total amount of pages in the document For example the following option will add the document s title author and date to the watermark text wt watermark for the document t written by a printed on ds Or the page number PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 43 of 55 July 7 2015 wt page pi of pn 6 7 How to Handle Non Embedded Fonts Font Replacement Strat
12. PCL HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL FILE HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL Se HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL 6 hp designjet 800ps 42 PS3 HP LaserJet 4200 PCL Se hp LaserJet 1320 PS HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL Se HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL 6 556555555955 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS ext 10 printers v Local intranet 7A Exp This will list the available printers Click on the one to which you want to print via HTTP Then click Properties on the left hand side and you should see the properties including the network name of the printer ZHP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL on localhost Microsoft Internet Explorer Fle Edit view Favorites Tools Help Heak gt Dp A Qsearch Favorites Queda G D 3 M S Address http localhost printers ipp_0004 asp eprinter 4050PCL amp wiew p amp page 6611 v eo Links ake HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL on localhost Printer Queue Ready Pending Documents 0 Waiting Time 0 Printer Model HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL Location Comment Network Name Document List Properties Device Status All Printers http localhost pr inters 4050PCL pr inter Documents 0 Speed 17 PPM Number of Pages Per Minute Color Not Supported Print on Both Sides Supported PRINTER ACTIONS Pause Resume Max Resolution 600 DPI Dots Per Inch Cancel All Docume
13. This o option is required Configure PATH system variable If enabled the 3 Heights PDF Printer Service is added to the environment variable path which means it can be started and stopped from any path Command Prompt Add a command prompt for easy starting and stopping of the service fi 3 Heights TM PDF Print Service InstallShield Wizard x Custom Setup Select the program features you want installed Click on an icon in the list below to change how a feature is installed Feature Description PDF Print Service Configure PATH system variable iae uper amp Comand Prompt watched folders This feature requires 2520KB on your drive Install to C Program Files x86 PDF Tools AG 3 Heights TM PDF Print Servicel Change Inst PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 9 of 55 July 7 2015 3 License Management For services there is only one possibility to pass the license key to the application The license key is installed using the GUI tool Graphical user interface This is the easiest way if the licenses are managed manually 3 1 Graphical License Manager Tool The GUI tool LicenseManager exe is located in the bin directory of the product kit BEER amp PDF Tools License Mai File Edit Help X GS Add Key Delete Refresh List
14. Use EMF mode instead of RAW By using the EMF Windows Enhanced Metafile mode the document is sent as EMF over the network and converted to the printer language at its destination This has the advantage of sending much less data over the network because the RAW spool file e g PCL or PS is created locally The downside is possible issues with the printer driver at the remote site Use network shared printers with caution Using shared printer resources in the Windows operating system always involve that printer drivers are transferred from the printer server to the client computer It is recommended that the shared printer resource is mapped as a user with administrator rights in order to prevent from a failure of the printing application to open the printer connection Check permissions The user of a printing application must at least have the print permission to use the referred printer object 7 5 Unsupported PDF Features The 3 Heigths rendering engine supports transparency functions such as a number of blend modes as well as isolated and non isolated transparency groups but not transparency in general The filling of geometric figures with tiling and shading patterns may fail in some cases PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 54 of 55 Appendix A Default Values A 1 Duplex Modes 1 Simplex 3 Horizontal Duplex 2 Vertical Duplex A 2
15. due to the nature of how the printing system works on Windows A detailed explanation is not provided here but a work around to this type of issue is normally using the EMF mode which as a side effect simulates a network environment even for local printers Black is Not Printed Completely Black Sometimes black color is not printed completely black This is caused due to color transformations between different color spaces Version 1 8 16 1 and later of the 3 Heights PDF Printer support a so called black point compensation This allows for higher contrast of the black color Black point compensation is applied automatically if no color profile is specified i e no color profiles are available in the sub directory Icc In this situation the conversion is done algorithmically using Neugebauer and black point compensation Spool Files Are Very Large If the size of spool files should be reduced the following points can be considered e Rendering Mode e Printer Driver e Network environment RAW EMF mode e Resolution Rendering Mode The 3 Heights PDF Printer supports two rendering modes Fast default and Accurate The Fast mode uses the GDI whereas the Accurate mode uses the GDI In the Accurate mode there are several filters available These filters are intended for low resolution devices such as a monitor or a raster image On a 600dpi resolution printer anti aliasing has almost no visual impact Therefore it is generally
16. embedded fonts to Typei fonts PostScript fonts Force Windows 9x Compatibility This options enforces the use of Windows 9x compatible printer driver interface commands This can help with compatibility issues with older printer drivers Print Form Fields Annotations Only With this switch only form fields and annotations are printed without the underlying page content Apply Pre Rendering This option pre renders the page and sends bitmaps to the printer device This option can be used as a work around when a printer device fails to render the content correctly If fonts are not converted correctly the options ot and o1 should be preferred since they provide a better result and smaller spool file Disable Black Point Compensation BPC This switch disables the black point compensation feature when converting colors e g from CMYK to RGB Disable Back Buffer The 3 Heights PDF Printer uses a back buffer to simulate a series of types of transparencies This back buffer requires a lot of resources Disabling it using the option od can improve the printing speed dramatically Do not use Embedded Fonts With this option all embedded fonts are ignored As replacement fonts fonts from the operating system fonts folder are used which is usually C Windows fonts Use Pre Installed Fonts When using this switch embedded fonts are replaced by fonts installed in the operating system Only non symbolic fonts that have an equal
17. name are replaced The default behavior is that all embedded fonts are used PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology ops otO 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 34 of 55 July 7 2015 Always Use Fast Mode for Images Use fast mode rendering for images even in accurate mode Using the accurate rendering mode m 1 in combination with oi prints all non image content in accurate mode and all images in fast mode If in fast mode m 0 then the switch provides a workaround for legacy printer drivers which cannot process banded images Disable Image Filtering If images need to be down sampled rotated or skewed in order to match the device resolution then the transformation is accomplished using a filter by default This option disables filtering in these situations Convert Fonts to Outlines Convert fonts to outlines before rendering This means the spool file does not contain fonts anymore but graphic paths instead This option can resolve font related issues that can be caused by inappropriate device fonts or the use of EMF Disable Patterns This option disables patterns Disable Direct PostScript Injection This is option disables direct PostScript injection Instead all PostScript code is generated by the printer driver This can help with compatibility issues with older printer drivers Convert Strokes to Filled Paths This switch converts strokes to filled paths Convert to TrueType This op
18. server the service should be running under a different dedicated user account which has access permissions to those resources How the user under which the service runs can be changed is described in the chapter Starting the Service e The user under which the service runs must have its Windows temporary directories defined otherwise it will not be able to extract embedded fonts from PDF documents and temporarily install them For the user under which the service runs the two system environment variables TEMP and TMP must be set and point to an existing directory in which it has read and write access permission rights Once configured the service can be created started paused continued stopped and deleted via the command line To use the create and delete functions administrator permissions are required To start and stop the service operator permissions are required PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 4 1 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 11 of 55 July 7 2015 Editing the Configuration File pdfprintsvr ini Before starting the PDF Print Service for the first time the file pdfprintsvr ini needs to be modified Editing this file while the PDF Print Service is running has no impact The service first needs to be stopped and restarted after the modification When opening this file with a text editor it looks like this PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete True Threads 1 Threadl p HP LaserJet
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20. suggested to use the Fast mode However there are certain documents that print quite differently using GDI or GDI Printer Driver Most printer devices understand more than one printer language Most HP printers for example support different types of PCL Printer Command Language such as PCL 5 PCL 5e or PCL 6 and in addition PostScript There are also printer devices which only support one printer language It is usually best and also suggested by printer manufacturers to use the printer driver that works best If PostScript yields large spool files or has rendering issues try a PCL printer driver or vice versa The smallest spool sizes can be achieved by using either PostScript or PCL 6 This is heavily depending on the PDF input file PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 52 of 55 July 7 2015 PostScript Injection The reason why different applications can create spool files of very different sizes of the same PDF document is the way the spool file is created PostScript is generated using the PScript5 dll To this DLL there are different plug ins which are printer driver dependent these plug ins are psd file For example something like hp4050 psd A part of the created spool file uses a language called Document Structuring Conventions DSC These commands are printer driver dependent and could look like this SsTitle input pdf Creator PScript5 dll Version
21. 148 mm 449x1lin 4510x1lin 4615x1lin 47 Envelope Invite 220 x 220 mm 48 RESERVED DO NOT USE 49 RESERVED DO NOT USE 50 Letter Extra 9 275 x 12 in 51 Legal Extra 9 275 x 15 in 52 Tabloid Extra 11 69 x 18 in 53 A4 Extra 9 27 x 12 69 in 54 Letter Transverse 8 2275 x 11 in 55 A4 Transverse 210 x 297 mm 56 Letter Extra Transverse 9275 x 12 in 57 SuperA SuperA A4 227 x 356 mm 58 SuperB SuperB A3 305 x 487 mm 59 Letter Plus 8 5 x 12 69 in 60 A4 Plus 210 x 330 mm 61 A5 Transverse 148 x 210 mm 62 B5 JIS Transverse 182 x 257 mm 63 A3 Extra 322 x 445 mm 64 A5 Extra 174 x 235 mm 65 B5 ISO Extra 201 x 276 mm 66 A2 420 x 594 mm 67 A3 Transverse 297 x 420 mm 68 A3 Extra Transverse 322 x 445 mm 69 Japanese Double Postcard 200 x 148 mm 70 A6 105 x 148 mm 71 Japanese Envelope Kaku 2 72 Japanese Envelope Kaku 3 73 Japanese Envelope Chou 3 74 Japanese Envelope Chou 4 75 Letter Rotated 11 x 8 1 2 11 in 76 A3 Rotated 420 x 297 mm 77 A4 Rotated 297 x 210 mm 78 A5 Rotated 210 x 148 mm 79 B4 JIS Rotated 364 x 257 mm 80 B5 JIS Rotated 257 x 182 mm 81 Japanese Postcard Rotated 148 x 100 mm 82 Double Japanese Postcard Rotated 148 x 200 mm 83 A6 Rotated 148 x 105 mm 84 Japanese Envelope Kaku 2 Rotated 85 Japanese Envelope Kaku 3 Rotated 86 Japanese Envelope Chou 3 Rotated 87 Japanese Envelope Chou 4 Rotated 88 B6 JIS 128 x 182 mm 89 B6 JIS Rotated 182 x 128 mm 90 12 x 11 in 91 Japanese En
22. 4050 Series PS w C PdfPrintSvr HPLJ pg 1 1 The meaning is as following AutoDelete True This option automatically deletes a PDF file after it is printed successfully When set to False the processed file will be copied to the sub directory Succeeded Documents that fail to print are never deleted Threads 1 stands for the total amount of concurrent printer threads Each thread can have its own assigned printers and settings Threadi sets the options such as printer output folder and other settings for Threadi p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS sets Threadl to use the printer with this specific name The string is in quotation marks because it contains blanks Whenever a string contains blanks it must be in between quotation marks If it doesn t have blanks quotation marks are optional This applies to all strings such as printer names or watched folders w C Pd PrintSvr HPLJ sets the watched folder for Threadi The path must be an absolute path Network mapped drive letters or relative paths or driver letters mapped via the subst command should not to be used as they are possibly not recognized by user under which the printer service process is running such as the default user LocalSystem The user can be changed as described in chapter Creating and Starting the PDF Print Service pg 1 1 sets the page range to page 1 to 1 This means if a PDF document is moved to the folder C PdfPrintSvr HPLJ4050 it is processed by the
23. All Users Curent User License Properties 3 Heights TM Document Converter 2 Name Value V f 0 10A0M EHEN Key 0 J0A94 EEE Uta f 0 BCASN S T I EST MUTLT FA FREE Product 3 Heights TM Image 3 Heights TM Image to PDF Converter API f Intended Use Productive V 7 0 J0A94 ini un oi arbe Lnd B he Y Platform Windows 3 Heights TM Image to PDF Converter Service Volume Page s re IV V 0 1CA0J 1T EFL Flo NP CE REN v oe Dicite zat Vf Maintainance Expiration 2033 12 31 2 Uniaht e TAN Tmaaan ta NNE Fam netar Chall List all installed license keys The license manager always shows a list of all installed license keys in the left pane of the window This includes licenses of other PDF Tools products The user can choose among e Licenses available for all users Administrator rights are needed for modifications e Licenses available for the current user only Add and delete license keys License keys can be added or deleted with the Add Key and Delete buttons in the toolbar e The Add key button installs the license key into the currently selected list o Note Services run by default under the LOCAL SERVICE user not under the current user e The Delete button deletes the currently selected license keys Display the properties of a license If a license is selected in the license list its properties are displayed in the right pane of the window PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technol
24. Bins LE Upper 8 Tractor9 Small FMT 2 Lower 10 Large FMT 3 Middle 11 Large Capacity 4 Manual 12 undef 5 Envelope 13 undef 6 Envelope Manual 14 Cassette 7 Auto 15 Form Source A 3 Paper Sizes 1 Letter 8 1 2 x 11 in 2 Letter Small 8 1 2 x 11 in 3 Tabloid 11 x 17 in 4 Ledger 17 x 11 in 5 Legal 8 1 2 x 14 in 6 Statement 5 1 2 x 8 1 2 in 7 Executive 7 1 4 x 10 1 2 in 8 A3 297 x 420 mm 9 A4 210 x 297 mm 10 A4 Small 210 x 297 mm 11 A5 148 x 210 mm 12 B4 JIS 250 x 354 13 B5 JIS 182 x 257 mm 14 Folio 8 1 2 x 13 in 15 Quarto 215 x 275 mm 16 10x14 in 17 11x17 in 18 Note 8 1 2 x 11 in 19 Envelope 9 3 7 8 x 8 7 8 20 Envelope 10 4 1 8 x 9 21 Envelope 11 4 1 2 x 10 3 8 22 Envelope 12 4 X276 x 11 23 Envelope 14 5 x 11 1 2 24 C size sheet 25 D size sheet 26 E size sheet 27 Envelope DL 110 x 220mm 28 Envelope C5 162 x 229 mm 29 Envelope C3 324 x 458 mm 30 Envelope C4 229 x 324 mm 31 Envelope C6 114 x 162 mm 32 Envelope C65 114 x 229 mm 33 Envelope B4 250 x 353 mm 34 Envelope B5 176 x 250 mm 35 Envelope B6 176 x 125 mm 36 Envelope 110 x 230 mm 37 Envelope Monarch 3 875 x 7 5 in 38 6 3 4 Envelope 3 5 8 x 6 1 2 in 39 US Std Fanfold 14 7 8 x 11 in 40 German Std Fanfold 8 1 2 x 12 in PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 55 of 55 41 German Legal Fanfold 8 1 2 x 13 in 42 B4 ISO 250 x 353 mm 43 Japanese Postcard 100 x
25. G Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 15 of 55 July 7 2015 e The service monitors the configured watched folders Any PDF document or raster image that is copied or moved into a watched folders is picked up and processed e Picked up files are optionally renamed and moved to the folder Jobs The renaming gives the file a 16 character long timestamp to a create unique job ticket e A worker thread picks up the file from Jobs and move it to InProgress e Successfully spooled files are available in the folder Succeeded if Autodelete is set to False in the configuration file otherwise they are deleted e Documents that cannot be processed are moved to the folder Failed A log text file is created for failed documents This log has the same name as the input file but the extension txt The log file is available in the sub folder Logs Additionally a entry in the log file of the thread is created 3 To stop the service use the option t To restart use s again 4 To delete the service use the option d c5 Command Prompt G gt pdfprintsur t PdfPrintSvr StopService The operation completed successfully G gt pdfprintsur d PdfPrintSurl DeleteService The operation completed successfully s gt 5 2 Error Log Files There are two types of error log files 1 The log file of the service This log file contains entries about the service itself It is creat
26. Installable Options gt Duplex Unit If you can print duplex using other Applications e g MS Word try using the value 2 or 3 as parameter d 2 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 50 of 55 July 7 2015 Page Does Not Fit on Paper The option f scales the page to fit the paper size This option should be used when the dimensions of the PDF and the dimension of the paper size are different Sf Pages do Not Come Out with the Desired Orientation Every page in a PDF document can have a separate rotation value For example a page which visually appears as a landscape can actually be a by 90 degrees rotated portrait When sending such a page to the printer it will be sent as portrait When using the option r it will be sent the way it is viewed as landscape Then the next option comes into play o While r was for the page o is for the paper The default of option o is 1 which means the printer driver defaults are used 2 means the automatic mode is used this will set the orientation so that the page best fits the paper Value 1 and 2 force the orientation to portrait and landscape If you would like to print a page that appears as landscape as landscape and filling the paper use a command like this o 2 If you would like a landscape to be printed as portrait and thereby only filling half of the paper use a command like this f 0
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28. Progress File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 Folders E ig My Computer EH E 315 Floppy A E amp 3 Local Disk C Jobs File Folder 23 04 2007 15 27 H E Documents and Settings __JLogs File Folder 23 04 2007 15 27 amm Select an item to view its description C Succeeded File Folder 23 04 2007 15 27 C HP4050Duplex eC Inetpub Minolta i a Program Files See also My Documents My Network Places Mv Computer Each of these folders has five subfolders Failed InProgress Jobs Logs and Succeeded The polling interval is 5000ms default is 1000ms This means about every five seconds it is checked if a file as been dropped into any of the watched folders A user can now copy files into any of the directories C V7P4050 C HP4050Duplex or C Minolta for example via Terminal Server Session The 3 Heights PDF Printer Service grabs the file and processes it with the appropriate options If the user places a PDF file into the directory C HP4050Duplex it first is moved to C HP4050Duplex Jobs and renamed by adding a 16 character time stamp prefix then printed to the printer HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS with duplex mode and is then deleted The PDF files for each watched folder are printed with a first in first out priority order However threads among them do not have a priority order which is intended for a multi threaded environment PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Serv
29. QL Servers PDF Printer Service 3 Heights TM PDF Print Ser Started Automatic Ez 3 SQL Server Configuration Manager Sy Performance Logs a Configures performance log Manual WMI Control Sy Personal Secure Dri Personal Secure Drive servic Started Automatic LocalSystem Be Services Bs Plug and Play Manages device installation Started Automatic LocalSystem 3 88 Indexing Service Ba Pr Driver HPZ12 Manual LocalSystem a B Internet Information Services Sy Portable Media Seri Retrieves the serial number Manual LocalSystem Sy Print Spooler Loads files to memory for lat Started Automatic LocalSystem By default the user is set to LocalSystem After the service is created the user can be changed This will be required in a situation where a network share is used as a watched folder or remote printers are used and the process needs to run under a user with the appropriate access permission rights 2 After it is created the service can be started with the option s The path can be omitted if the pdfprintsvr exe is included in the path environment variable The following image shows these two steps Command Prompt j The executables path d bin bin PdfPrintSur exe PdfPrintSvr CreateService The operation completed successfully G gt pdfprintsur s PdfPrintSur StartService The operation completed successfully e Files can now be copied or drag and dropped into the watched folder PDF Tools A
30. aa a ENa EA E nun nennen nenne nennen 32 m Rendering MOE eurer a ere ex ERU EENE A E EA Ie o a NA IKE 32 ol Convert to Typel icm err e eet c ce e e n c e e 33 09 Force Windows 9x Compatibility u4sr nHe nennen eee anne nun nenn nennen nn nn nen 33 oa Print Form Fields Annotations Only eusesseneenennnnn nun nun nun nn nnnm 33 ob Apply Pre Rendering cccccecceseeceeee eee non nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nenn 33 oc Disable Black Point Compensation BPC usr sHsran nennen nennen nn en nen 33 od Disable Back Bunter m RR EEE 33 oe Do not use Embedded Fonts 44 rHnnen nn nennen ernennen nennen nennen nennen 33 ofp Use Pre Installed Fonts erssrsersenenenn none nn en nun nun nun nun nun nun une n nennen nennen nenn 33 oi Always Use Fast Mode for Images 4 s4srennnnen nennen nennen anne nun nennen 34 0j Disable Image Filtering z4s4 rHenen nn nenne nennen nn nennen nun nennen nennen nn en nen 34 00 Convert Fonts to Outlines uassssensenennnnennnnennn nenne nennen nenn nennen nun nenn 34 op Disable Patterns uc ned Lee 34 ops Disable Direct PostScript Injection sssssssersssrrssrrnrsrrnesrrnnsrrnnerrnnerrnnns 34 os Convert Strokes to Filled Paths sssesssssseem mme 34 0t Convert to Tr elype sis tie circa tet eds Hacienda eb x teeth nets eiu 34 ot0 Convert embedded Type1 OpenType to TrueType fonts
31. ait or Landscape In contrast to the switch o the page is rotated before being sent to the printer whereas the switch o specifies the orientation of the physical paper Supported arguments are p for portrait and I for landscape rm p TrueType Font Handling With this option it can be configured whether the printer driver shall load pre installed fonts when printing PDF files that use TrueType fonts Default value is 2 The allowed values are 1 Print bitmaps The glyphs of the text are rendered as bitmaps This option is useful for reducing the spool file size if the PDF document uses a lot of different fonts and has few pages PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology TW wfs wfi 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 36 of 55 July 7 2015 2 Download soft fonts Fonts are copied from the font directory of the operating system to the printer If the PDF document uses a lot of different fonts a large amount of disk space printer memory and a long download time for loading the font to the printer is required This option is useful if the PDF document has much text but uses only a few fonts 3 Use device fonts The built in fonts of the printer are used for the rendering process A significant reduction of the spool file can be achieved with this option tt 3 Specify the Path to the Root Directory This option sets the path to the root directory This parameter must always be the
32. ay is defined with the statements KeepTimeForSucceeded and KeepTimeForFailed in the configuration file The units are hours It is required to set AutoDelete to false The following configuration deletes the successfully spooled files after 1 day and the failed documents after 2 days PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete False KeepTimeForSucceeded 24 KeepTimeForFailed 48 The times is absolute which means restarting the service has no influence on the time of deletion other than the files are not deleted while the service is shut down Job Number Prefix At the time when a document is copied from the watched folder to the Jobs sub folder it is renamed and added a 21 character prefix containing a time stamp Job 8 digits 8 digits Something like Job 01C61DD4 E72bE1BCE The job number prefix ensures the same document name can be processed multiple times Adding the prefix can be prevented with the following line in the configuration file PdfPrintSvr JobPrefix False Not adding a prefix makes sense if printing to a virtual printer and the job name is directly converted to the file name Keep in mind though that if two files with the same name are printed the later one will overwrite the previous PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 39 of 55 July 7 2015 Logpath Log messages created by the service are by default written to the sub directory og To alter the direct
33. color size etc are made Example Correct sequence Set font to bold wb and set position wo to 50 points from left and 500 points from the top then write text wb 1 wo 50 500 wt Bold Example Incorrect sequence The settings for bold wb and position wo have no impact wt Bold wb 1 wo 50 500 omr OMR marker string The string specifies OMR markers which are printed on each succeeding page until the marker is changed or deleted The syntax of the string is as follows Example 0 20 10 4 15 0 01110011 0 horizontal position of the first marker 20 vertical position of the first marker 10 horizontal extension of the marker 4 vertical extension of the marker 0 markers are drawn from either top of page to bottom 1 or from bottom to top 0 01110011 Array of Boolean numbers indicating whether the marker shall be present or not wb Set Bold Style Write watermark in bold text Use the parameter 1 to turn bold on 0 to turn bold off PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology wi wr 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 41 of 55 July 7 2015 wb 1 wo 50 500 wt Bold wb 0 wo 50 550 wt Not Bold Set the Color of the Watermark This option sets the color of the watermark in RGB Red Green Blue wc 255 0 0 wo 50 50 wt RedText wc 0 255 0 wo 50 50 wt GreenText Set the Font and Font Size The default font is Helvetica size 10 This of course is rather small for watermar
34. driver are on a remote host These are the remote printers which are not listed by the option Ib host By default the PDF Print Service is running under the LocalSystem account The LocalSystem has permission rights to print to local and shared remote printer drivers 1 but not to remote printer drivers 2 In order to print to remote printer drivers the account under which the service is running needs to be changed to an account which has the appropriate permission rights on the remote systems This can be done in the Services Windows by right clicking the PDF Print Service and choose properties and then select the user in the Log On menu For printing via HTTP see chapter Internet Printing Set the Priority of the Print Job This switch allows for adjusting the priority of the print job The parameter passed as argument to the switch must be a value from 1 lowest to 99 highest The default is inherited from the printer preferences which is normally set to 1 Example to grant the print job priority 2 pri 2 The exact behavior of jobs with different priorities depends on the settings in the printer properties tab Advanced PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology S 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 27 of 55 July 7 2015 e Radio button Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster This must be diaked relied in ax red in the screenshot General Sharing Ports Adva
35. e the printable area i e close to the border of the page it will not be printed To print Letter 8 x 11 inch on an A4 paper or the other way around the option f fits perfectly When used to print an A4 PDF on a 8 x 14 inch paper the printed document will fit the width but not the length since otherwise it would be stretched Insert Filler Page This switch instructs the printer to conditionally insert a filler page before the next document is printed in order to start the next document on an even page number PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology file j 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 31 of 55 July 7 2015 There is an equivalent option f4 available which inserts filler pages so the next document starts on page number that is a multiple of four This can be used when printing two pages on one paper Print to a File A print job can be printed to a file in two different ways The option file filename can be applied in the pdfprintsvr ini configuration file to print a file instead of the sending the print job to a physical printer This option overrules the port configured in the printer driver Note that all print jobs will go to the same file name and therefore overwrite each other The port of the printer driver points to an absolute file name Note that setting the port to FILE causes a pop up dialog asking for the file destination this pop up message will likely not be visible as the
36. echnology 5 4 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 17 of 55 July 7 2015 Using the PDF Print Service Printing Single PDF Files When the service is running it monitors watched folders When a PDF document is placed into a watched folder the PDF Printer Service does the following 1 Grab the file give it a unique file name by adding a job number prefix and move it to the subfolder Jobs 2 When a job is printed successfully the PDF file will be moved to the folder Succeeded or deleted depending settings 3 When a job fails to print e g when the file is not a valid PDF document the file will be copied to the folder Failed or deleted depending on settings These subfolders are created automatically and used by the 3 Heights PDF Printer Service They are hidden folders and should not be modified nor should any files be copied into any of them directly Printing a List of PDF Files Alternatively a list of PDF files can be merged into one print job This is done by copying a control text file with the file extension txt into a watched folder This text file contains a list of PDF files For example File printjobl txt C documents file1 pdf 1 document C documents file2 pdf 2 d document This will print the two referenced files and move them to the Succeeded or Failed folder accordingly to the AutoDelete property The original file s will not be moved or deleted The u
37. ed Sub Folders PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 30 of 55 July 7 2015 bandUsing Banding for Bitmaps cms The service per default uses banding for images with a size larger than 64kB This ensures that the image processing in the printer device does not run out of memory If the printer still runs out of memory the maximum size of the bitmaps can be decreased Select a CMS Engine This switch allows to specify the name of the Color Management System CMS engine used to convert colors from one color space to another Valid names are none neugebauer e msicm which is the default on Windows e Icms which is the default on Unix systems The name can also be a file name containing a set of customized Neugebauer parameters cms neugebauer Center the Page This option centers the page horizontally and vertically Without this option the page is placed in the upper left corner of the paper Color Mode This options sets the color mod The supported values are monochrome 1 and color 2 co 1 Scale Page to Fit Page Size The options f scales the PDF to fit the page The page is resized so that both page width and height fit on the printable part of the paper supported by the printer device The relation width to height remains unchanged If this option is not set the size of the page remains unchanged If part of the content is outsid
38. ed in the same directory as where the executable of the service resides The log file is locked by the service as long as the service is running e The log file contains general messages such as Service thread for directory c PdfPrintSvr started Thread for directory c PdfPrintSvr terminated e Error messages such as Error O while opening file c PdfPrintSvr Jobs Job 01C5EE97 6F2667EC document pdf For each document which could not be processed there is an error log file created The log file is written to the folder Log and has the same file name as the print job with extension txt There is no error log available if a document cannot be opened e g is not a PDF document PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 16 of 55 July 7 2015 5 3 State Diagram of the Service The 3 Heights PDF Printer Service behaves as described in the state diagram below If Stop if called when the service is in the state Paused the current job is aborted This means the current page is finished processing then the job is terminated If Stop is called when the service is the state Running the current job all pages is finished Then the service is stopped Create Stop Abort Start Stop Resume 3 Unknown Running Pause R Restart an Stop Start Abort Start Delete Delete Marked for Delete PDF Tools AG Premium PDF T
39. egy This section describes the exact behavior of font handling of the rendering engine It is rather technical and it is not required to be understood in order to properly use the software The following steps are performed sequentially in the search of a font If a font is found the search is stopped otherwise the next step is performed 1 If the font is not embedded or ofp is set a If the font name appears in the Replace section in the configuration file fonts ini the name is replaced and looked up in the installed font collection b if it is a standard font it is replaced by the equivalent TrueType font name and it is looked up in the installed font collection c If the font name appears in the Fonts section in the configuration file fonts ini the name is replaced and looked up in the installed font collection d If the font has Italic or Bold in its name the font without these styles is looked up in the installed font collection 2 If a font name is looked up in the installed font collection then the name compare is performed as follows a PostScript name b TrueType name without blanks a missing style is interpreted as Regular or Normal c TrueType name without modifications 3 If the font is embedded it is converted to a Windows compatible font and temporarily installed If oe is used then the glyphs of the fonts are converted to either bitmaps or outlines If oo is used then the glyphs are converted to outlines
40. eleteAll True Create Watched Sub Folders The 3 Heights PDF Printer Service supports watched sub folders A watched root folder represents a thread All sub folders belong to the same thread This allows for saving memory and creating a more compact directory structure The root folder and all its sub folders can have individual settings Any output Log Succeeded or Failed are shared in the root folder If a thread is to have watched sub directories the amount of sub directories is defined in the configuration file using a statement Folders Thread Number Amount of sub folders the individual sub folders are defined using a statement Folder Thread Number Sub Folder Number Equal statement as for root folder PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 38 of 55 July 7 2015 The sub folders to not inherit any setting from the root folder Therefore the printer driver name must be provided in the sub folders as well See also Example 2 Using watched folders with subdirectories in chapter 2 Example PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete False Threads 1 Threadl p printer driver name w C Root Folders1 2 Folderl 1 p printer driver name w C Root FitPage f Folderl 2 p printer driver name w C Root PrintPagel pg 1 1 Delayed Delete of Files Documents that are processed and moved into the folders Succeeded or Failed can be deleted with a delay The del
41. ence over the watched folder options and only page 2 is printed fit page to paper size is applied Use JPEG Compression If the printer supports JPEG compression this option can be used to send the images inside a PDF with JPEG compression thus allowing a faster printing It also mean that PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology load m 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 32 of 55 July 7 2015 images lose some information which normally is not visible though If the printer does not support JPEG compression it is recognizes this and the option is ignored Preload Library If a printer driver calls a system library for each page several times during the print process it has a significant effect on the print processing time With the switch load library pathWibrary this library can be preloaded on order to optimize the runtime Please note this behavior is caused only by some printer drivers Well designed printer drivers do not require this option Which system DLLs are loaded several times by the printer driver can be figured out by running the print command within a current version of the Microsoft tool Dependency Walker Usage of Microsoft Dependency Walker for this purpose e Open the Microsoft Dependency Walker e g Version 4 1 3790 e Menu File gt Open Select pdfprintsvr exe e Menu Profile gt Start Profiling Set x in the field Program Arguments In the field Starting direct
42. first parameter of a thread w D Path Note that the service supports path lengths including file name of up to 258 characters This includes the 21 characters of the job ticket If a file name exceeds this value its file name is truncated at the end of the file name and before the file extension It is therefore suggested that watched folder names are kept reasonably short Specify the Drop Path This options sets the path of the drop directory If this option is not set the root directory is equal to the drop directory The drop directory is the watched folder where input files are picked up and processed by the service The drop directory can be at any existing network location It is required that e The directory exists it is not automatically created unlike the root directory e The user under which the service runs has access permissions to this directory wd D Path DropFilesInHere Process only files with certain extensions By default the service tries to process all files dropped into the drop in folder regardless of the extension With this option the processing can be restricted to a set of known file extension Example Restrict the processing to JPEG and PNG files wfs jpeg jpg png Ignore files with certain extensions By default the service tries to process all files dropped into the drop in folder regardless of the extension With this option files with certain file extensions ca be ignored Exam
43. h Adobe Acrobat use the MarkUp Text Tool Mark the text of which you would like to know the font name right click it select Properties installed_font_ is the font family name of the installed font To retrieve this name find the font in the Windows font directory and open it by double clicking The first line in the property window displays the font family name this may vary depending on the operating system The font family name does not include font styles so an example of a font family name is Arial but not Arial Italic font_style is an optional style that is added coma separated after the font family name The style is always one word Examples of font styles are Italic Bold BoldItalic 6 7 1 2 Example fonts Ryumin Light MS Mincho GothicBBB Medium MS Gothic replace Ariallta Arial BoldItalic Other Ways to Deal with Text Issues 6 8 The following list provides possible work arounds if text is printed incorrectly Options should be tried in ascending order 1 Using the option oe inhibits all embedded fonts from being used in the spool file and the printer hardware Instead the glyphs are converted to either bitmaps or outlines Using the option oo at the same time the conversion is restricted to outlines 2 Using the option ofp inhibits embedded fonts which have the same name as the corresponding installed font from being used This option can also be used to reduce the
44. he 3 Heights PDF Printer Service runs by default under the user LocalSystem This user does not have access to any remote resources such as printers on a remote host or if a watched folder is on a shared folder In a network environment it is best to run the service under a dedicated domain user which has the required permissions on remote resources A typical error message if a remote printer cannot be accessed has the form time Error error number while opening printer W server name M printer name In the log of the service such an error message could look like this 2007 03 01 12 10 07 590 Error 5 while opening printer Server01 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS Please see chapter Creating and Starting the PDF Print Service which described how to set the user of the service A similar behavior can occur if a local or remote resource is on a mapped drive which is not know to the user of the service E g if the command subst is used to map a directory to drive Z the drive Z may be unknown to other users 7 4 Printing In a Network Environment It is preferable to not send large spool files over the network To handle this there are two different approaches e Print the PDF at its destination Usually a PDF is much smaller than a spool file Therefore it makes sense to not print the PDF first and send a large spool file over the network but instead send the PDF over the network and print it at its destination e
45. he paper size s 2 is specified the 3 Heights PDF Printer calculates the paper sizes of the pages It transmits the paper size to the printer which then selects the paper from the appropriate bin automatically When setting s 2 the switch b is ignored Largest Available Paper Size Set the maximum paper size that is supported by the automatic paper size feature o 2 Any paper size that exceeds the paper width or height is excluded The paper sizes are represented by an inter value as returned 1s see also Appendix Paper Sizes Example If MaxPaper is set to 66 A2 then larger paper sizes such as A1 are ignored by the automatic paper selection PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology sl SXy 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 28 of 55 July 7 2015 Set the list of approved paper sizes Set the list of paper sizes used when selecting a paper size automatically e g when option s 2 is used The value is a comma separated list of paper numbers Valid paper number values are those listed at the beginning of the strings returned by Is also see chapter A 3Paper Sizes Example set the approved paper sizes to A3 A4 and A5 ss 2 sl 8 9 Il Scale the Page by a Factor After the page has been scaled to fit the paper size an additional scaling can be specified by using this switch The scale factor is given in percent A number less than 100 percent shrinks the page A number greater than
46. ice Version 4 5 Page 19 of 55 July 7 2015 Example 2 Using Watched Folders With Sub Directories Here is an example of a configuration file that starts two threads one with two the other with three sub folders In total there are seven watched directories PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete False Threads 2 Threadl p HP 4250 PCL w C PdfPrintSvr HPLJ4250 f Folders1 2 Folderl 1 p HP 4250 PCL w C PdfPrintSvr HPLJ4250 Pagel pg 1 1 Folderl 2 p HP 4250 PCL w C PdfPrintSvr HPLJ4250 All Thread2 p Canon LBP3200 w C PdfPrintSvr Canon3200 Folders2 3 Folder2 1 p Canon LBP3200 w C PdfPrintSvr Canon3200 Pagel pg 1 1 Folder2 2 p Canon LBP3200 w C PdfPrintSvr Canon3200 All Folder2 3 p Canon LBP3200 w C PdfPrintSvr Canon3200 Watermark wo 90 90 wt 12 After the service is started the following file structure will be created Folders x p 1 Name Size Type Modified A My Computer p Y n Ga File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 E 31 Floppy Failed File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 EHE Local Disk C Canon3200 L InProgress File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 Documents and Settings C Jobs File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 Inetpub Select an item to view its description Logs File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 EHCJ pafprintsve o Cipaget File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 AES mi succeeded File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 i i ly Documents j iad HPLJ4250PCL Maitiak Places C watermark File Folder 23 04 2007 15 25 i Cc Pr
47. is product were not delivered as MSI This chapter describes how to install using MSI For instructions on how to install an earlier version please refer to an earlier documentation 1 Download the ZIP archive PRNR Version MSI zip from your download account at www pdf tools com If you are using a 64 bit operating system it is required to install the 64 bit version of the service Extract the MSI file that is contained in the ZIP archive Run the MSI file 3 Heights TM PDF Print Service msi and follow the instructions of the install wizard Depending on your OS and security Do you want to nm this file settings you may receive a security A Lal Name IN32 MSI zi i PDF Print Service msi warning and need to agree that the PS installation is executed Press Run to C ere do so 4 Steps in the Install Wizard Open File Security Warning x From C Wsers support AppData Local Temp 1 Temp1_P Lae cw m While files from the Intemet can be useful this file type can e potentially harm your computer Only run software from publishers gt you trust What s the risk In the welcome dialog press Next License Agreement Read the license agreement You must agree to the agreement in order to proceed Destination Folder Adjust the installation directory if required Select Type Select Complete or Custom Custom Setup PDF Print Service This installs the 3 Heights PDF Printer Service
48. k font The following command uses the font Times with font size 242 and places it in the middle an A4 page wf Times 242 wo 50 500 wt Text Note that when setting a font the size must also be specified Set Italic Style Write watermark in italic text Use the parameter 1 to turn italic on O to turn italic off wi 1 wo 50 500 wt Italic wi 0 wo 50 550 wt Not Italic Set the Position of the Watermark This option must always be set or the watermark will be not be visible The following option sets the watermark 100 points from the left border and 200 points from the top an A4 page is 595x842 points wo 100 200 wt mywatermark Note that there is always a clipping border of about 14 points which will clip text that is too close to the border Add a Watermark Picture Print an image or PDF as watermark The position can be specified with the option wo The path to the file is specified with the option wp wp c image mypicture gif Set the Rotation Angle Using the option wr the rotation angle of the watermark text can be set The rotation axis is at the position set by the option wo wr 55 wo 100 500 wt Text wf 100 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology wz 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 42 of 55 July 7 2015 Set the Scale Factor Using the option wz the scale factor of the watermark can be set Default value is 1 wz 1 2 wp c image mypicture gif Write
49. nced Security Device Settings Otherwise i e if printing directly to the printer the priority has no Always available impact C Available from 00 00 to 06 00 Priority 1 e Radio button Start printing after ioie f 4 last page is spooled Driver HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS v New Driver This means among all jobs which i 9 fasted are completely spooled the job Start printing after last page is spooled with the highest priority is C Start printing immediately printed next Print directly to the printer e Radio button Start printing Hold mismatched documents 2 immediatel y IV Print spooled documents first This means among all jobs which Keep printed documents h ave at least one pag es pooled IV Enable advanced printing features 1 the job with the highest priority Printing Defaults Print Processor Separator Page is printed next Cancel Apply Select Paper Size To select a paper size the name of the printer and the number that represents the paper size must be known To determine the name of the printer use the option p to determine the number representing a paper size use the option Is If no printer is specified the Windows Default printer is selected To select the paper size use the option s followed by the paper size number s 9 When no paper size or s 1 is specified the default paper size of the printer is selected When t
50. nn nun mmm 25 jw Wait until the job is completed 4 s4s4 r He nen nn nennen nn nennen nennen nennen 25 0 S t Paper Orientations nenn a RT AI E I EGE e AINE ITE VERUS 25 p Selecta Printer ie ra DE In 26 pri Set the Priority of the Print Job sssssssssssessememmmen 26 S Select Paper Size ne nr NER ra ELI TE DOE a EE 27 sm Largest Available Paper Size sssssssssssessseemememen enne 27 sl Set the list of approved paper sizes essensenennennnnnnnnnnnnnnn nennen nennen nennen nenn 28 sxy Scale the Page by a Factor euassenensenennnnennnnnnnnnnn nennen nenne nennen nennen nenn 28 6 4 Service Configuration Options ururanrnnanennnnen namen nn teens teens teens nennen 29 Configuration File PdfPrintSvr ini essesersnsenannennnnnnnnennnnennnn en nun en nn nenn nennen 29 bandUsing Banding for Bitmaps 4 s4erennnnen nenn nenn nenn nennen nennen nennen nen 30 cms Selecta CEMS ENNE a 30 cn Centerthe Pagen A eer bere Re RR en here ee 30 c0 1 Color Mode ire ae 30 f Scale Page to Fit Page Size een ne na nn ana ne 30 f2 Insert Fille Page na hn ee Yer xr Ee X kx t ved a e ec E E A 30 file gt Print to a Flle vce lee ie eere sen nr Ex HERRERA t ra Ex HERE Ur Reh 31 fo Enable Options by File Name Convention zuesseneennnnnnnnnnn nennen nennen nennen nenn 31 j Use JPEG Compression a n se ek tenes ht Etre e exer RR Ru 31 load Preload Library nei aeaii nannaa ia
51. nt resources are being retained until the job has finished If the input file contains embedded fonts and their use is not disabled and the printing is done locally then the wait function is enabled by default The option enables the wait function unconditionally Set Paper Orientation This option sets the paper orientation The default value is 1 The allowed values are 2 Automatic Mode The page is placed to best fit the paper 1 Printer Default The values set in the printer driver are applied 1 Portrait PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology p pri 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 26 of 55 July 7 2015 2 Landscape Example o 1 Select a Printer When not specified otherwise the Windows Default printer is used to print the PDF documents To select a printer one first needs to know its exact name The name can be determined using the option I It is required that the printer driver do not pop up a message box When the name is known use the option p followed by the name p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS Or for a remote printer p myhost MINOLTA QMS magicolor 2350 There are two types of remote printers 1 The printer is connected to a remote host or is a network printer and its own host and the printer driver is installed or shared on the local machine These are the remote printers which are listed by the option Ib host 2 The printer and the printer
52. nt status of the service C gt pdfprintsvr q The service starts automatically during system startup The service is stopped PdfPrintSvr QueryService The operation completed successfully Run as Executable With this option the PDF Printer runs as an executable instead of as a Windows Service It provides the same functionality as long as the executable is running pdfprintsvr x Listing and DeviceMode Options These options provide a list of printers and their capabilities The values obtained through these options can be used the configuration file Edit and Save Device Settings to a File This option opens the device setting of the printer driver and saves the setting to a file pdfprintsvr ds dm dev The printer if not the default printer must be specified before this option using the command p pdfprintsvr p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL ds dm dev Note The saved device mode is a binary file and is not to be edited with a text editor it should there also not be saved with the extension txt List Usage List all available options for the configuration ini file Pdfprintsvr i List Available Printers To get a list of all available local printer use the option I pdfprintsvr 1 This will list all available printers the list could look like this 1 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS FILE 2 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology id 3 Heights PDF Prin
53. nts The URL can be something like http localhost printers 4050PCL printer Of course localhost needs now to be replaced with the real name of the server so the name could be http printerserverOl printers 4050PCL printer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 47 of 55 July 7 2015 Setting Up the Client Start the Add Printer wizard on the client system Select Network Printer and then Connect to a printer on the Internet or on your intranet As URL provide the Network name retrieved previously This step is required and ensures the client system can communicate with printer driver on the server It does not install a printer driver Add Printer Wizard Locate Your Printer How do you want to locate your printer http printerserver1 printers 4050PCL lt Back o ne gt f __ Cancel PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 48 of 55 July 7 2015 Connecting to a Printer via HTTP When a printer is installed as described in the previous chapter it can be accessed via HTTP instead of NetBIOS The corresponding command could on the client could look like this p http printerserver01 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL Note the two backslashes before the http Keep in mind that using a printer via an Internet connection as described above may be unstable PDF Tools AG P
54. number of fonts in a spool file if the printer hardware memory capacity is limited 3 Pre render the page in a bitmap and send the pre rendered image to the printer ob This results in large spool files Internet Printing Printing via HTTP instead of the NetBIOS protocol requires the following three steps e Retrieve the name of the shared printer on the server e Provide the network location of the printer to the client e Select the URL as printer driver name These three steps are described in the next three chapters PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 July 7 2015 Page 46 of 55 Retrieving the Printer Name On the server where the printer is shared open an Internet Explorer Window and type http localhost printers Instead of localhost you also write the actual name of the server this will also work on the client if it is authorized to access the server E All Printers on localhost Microsoft Internet Explorer CE x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Back gt gt gt amp A Qsearch Favorites media 4 E4 G Address je http localhost printers Go Links Si r E Ll S All Printers on localhost Model Comment Dell Printer 3100cn PS Fiery S300 SOC K v1 1 Status Location Dell Printer 3100cn PS Fiery S300 SOC K v1 1 HP DesignJet 800 PS3 HP LaserJet 4200 PCL Se hp LaserJet 1320 PS HP LaserJet 4050 Series
55. nusuunnanunnanunnanunnnnunnannnnannnnanunnanunnannnnannnnannnnannn 54 Al Duplex Modes desse eri tux etur euer ea 54 Bid BINS EE 54 Aud Paper Sizes ann eee e e ex es nre Rx rh rns a ete vlad aie b ce ed ee ac 54 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 6 of 55 July 7 2015 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview The 3 Heights PDF Printer Service is a configurable Windows service that allows for automated background printing of PDF documents and raster images using watched folders It can print to any local or remote Windows printer including PostScript PCL or virtual printers The tool is characterized by its high level of performance it is adaptable to specific requirements and supports PDF A compliant printing PDF Printer PDF ct A PS Printer PDF PDF A n 3 a 5 ET UO 2 E x cm E a i i f a E oe g rt TIFF JPEG a t PCL Printer etc a ub Group of PCL PS File RAW Files 1 2 Functions The 3 Heights PDF Printer translates PDF PDF A TIFF JPEG and other image formats into the language of a printer driver such as PostScript or PCL Documents are either printed on a physical printer local remote or via Internet or issued as a file The tool offers a variety of printer control options such as paper tray paper format duplex printing stapling merging multiple pages to form a single print job and applying watermarks in the form of personalized
56. o play when the font in the PDF document does not have an embedded font program or the embedded font is not usable The mapping only works if the font types of the specified fonts are matching e g if the font in the PDF is a symbolic font such as Symbol or ZapfdingBats the mapped font must be symbolic too The section fonts is only considered if the font matcher does not find an appropriate font amongst the existing installed fonts It is suggested to only use this section The section replace is stronger and applied before the font matcher This means a font will be replaced as defined even if the correct installed font is available on the system 6 7 1 1 Syntax The syntax of the mapping file is this fonts PDF font l installed font 1l font style PDF font 2 installed font 2 font style replace PDF font n installed font n font style PDF font is the name of the font in the PDF This name can be found in one of the following ways eUse any tool that can list fonts Such as 3 Heights PDF Extract or 3 Heights PDF Optimization Ignore possible prefixes of subset fonts A subset prefix consists of 6 characters followed by the plus sign For example KHFOKE MonotypeCorsiva in this case only use MonotypeCorsiva as font name in the mapping file PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 45 of 55 July 7 2015 r eOpen the document wit
57. ogram Files Mw Creer ber PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 20 of 55 July 7 2015 Reference Manual 6 1 Service Control Commands C S 0 These options are used to control the service The create and delete functions require administrator rights The start and stop functions require operator rights Create Service The print service is created using the option c C gt C pdf tools bin pdfprintsvr c Important It is essential that pdfprintsvr exe be on a non mapped drive Delete Service The PDF Print Service can be deleted with the option d pdfprintsvr d Start Service Once created the print service can be started with the option s pdfprintsvr s Stop Service To stop the service use the option t pdfprintsvr t If stop if called while the service is running the current job all pages will be finished after that the service is stopped If the service was paused before calling stop the current page while be finished processing After that page the job is aborted Pause Service This option pauses the service pdfprintsvr a Continue Service This option resumes the service pdfprintsvr o PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology q X 6 2 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 21 of 55 July 7 2015 Query Current Status of Service This option returns the curre
58. ogy 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 10 of 55 July 7 2015 Select between different license keys for a single product More than one license key can be installed for a specific product The checkbox on the left side in the license list marks the currently active license key 3 2 Platform considerations Windows The license keys are stored in the registry e HKLM Software PDF Tools AG for all users e HKCU Software PDF Tools AG for the current user 4 Configuration In order to configure the 3 Heights PDF Printer Service different necessary steps must be taken The main step is editing the configuration file however it may also be required to adjust settings on the operating system level e Edit the configuration file pdfprintsvr ini This file must reside in the same directory as the executable pdfprintsvr exe Any changes applied to the configuration file take impact after the service is re started How to configure this file is described in the chapter Editing the Configuration File pdfprintsvr ini e Like any Windows service the 3 Heights PDF Printer Service runs under a defined user The default user is the user localsystem Any resources such as printers or directories must be accessible by user under which the service is running When using local watched folders printing to local printers the user LocalSystem should be sufficient however when using resources on remote hosts such as a print
59. only 4 If the font is not embedded and the Unicodes are available then the nearest font from the installed font collection is tailored to the metrics of the font 5 If the font is embedded then it is converted to outlines 6 In all other cases the nearest font from the installed font collection is used 1 e g Times Roman Helvetica Courier The outline of a glyph is a vector graphic without any reference to the original font program PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 44 of 55 July 7 2015 Installed Font Collection The installed font collection contains fonts from the directories SystemRoot Fonts and Fonts which must be a direct sub directory of where the product s executable resides The fonts and their properties are cached in a font cache located in the files TMP font database It is recommended to clear the cache if you add or remove fonts from the font directories Using the Font Mapping File fonts ini fonts ini is a configuration file to map fonts used in the PDF to fonts pre installed on the system The mapping file must reside a directory named Fonts which must be a direct sub directory of where the main DLL or executable resides The mapping file is optional It consists of two sections fonts and replace Both sections are used to map fonts in the PDF to fonts in the installed font collection on the operating system This comes int
60. ory add a line similar as shown below to the configuration file PdfPrintSvr LogPath C path log Messages created by the service can be added to the system s application event log instead of written to a log file This is achieved by adding the following line to the configuration file PdfPrintSvr LogPath EventLog The system s application log event will then log messages similar as shown below e CreateService The operation completed successfully e StartService The operation completed successfully Note that the messages are only fully accessible while the service is created Otherwise a message as shown below is displayed e The description for Event ID 1 in Source PdfPrintSvr cannot be found The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer The following information is part of the event DeleteService The operation completed successfully Polling Interval The polling interval defines the time in milliseconds that the polling thread pauses between two polls The time passing until the same watched folder is polled again maximum pick up time is The value of PollingInterval plus the actual time it takes to poll all watched folders The higher the polling interval the lower the network traffic and the longer it takes until documents are picked up Suggested values for the polling intervals are 1000 to 10000 milliseconds PdfPrintS
61. ory the installation directory of the 3 Heights PDF Printer Services has to be inserted Check Hook the process to gather more detailed dependency information Check Log LoadLibrary function calls Uncheck all others Press the OK button e Print a file Search the log for DLLs which are loaded multiple times Rendering Mode There are two rendering modes O default is the fast mode and 1 is the accurate mode The fast mode is the recommended mode for printing to any physical printer device such as a laser printer or ink jet printer It uses the Windows GDI for rendering This mode is generally faster and creates smaller spool files than the accurate mode The accurate mode is intended for virtual printers such as a TIFF printer It uses the Windows GDI for rendering This mode allows for image filtering sub pixel rendering and anti aliasing It should not be applied for physical devices such as a laser printer due to the fact that those devices do not support the above features Using the accurate mode creates generally larger spool files than the fast mode User s Tip The rendering mode is not to be mixed up with the printing quality q The fast mode is optimized for printing to physical devices and creating a high quality PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology ofp 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 33 of 55 July 7 2015 spool file with a small file size Convert to Type1 Convert
62. ple Ignore temporary files PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 37 of 55 July 7 2015 wfi temp tmp Set Page Width and Height This option asks the printer driver to select a paper size that is at least as large as the defined dimensions and limit its printable area If no paper size is available this option limits the printable area of the currently set default paper size Example If the option wh 400 400 is set and the printer driver has the paper sizes A4 A3 A2 and Ai available it should select the paper size A2 420 by 594 millimeters and only a 400 by 400 millimeters section is printable However sometimes printer drivers do not select the correct paper size and instead just keep the currently set default paper size Set the Page Offset This option allows to specify a page offset in the horizontal and vertical axis The units are 1 100 millimeters xy 200 0 Autodelete of Successfully Printed Files When a print job succeeded the PDF document will be moved from the folder Jobs to the folder Succeeded To automatically delete the successfully printed files the value AutoDelete can be set to True on the pdfprintsvr ini file When set to False the files will remain in the folders Succeeded Documents which fail to print are not deleted PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete True To delete failed documents as well use the following setting PdfPrintSvr AutoD
63. remium PDF Technology 7 1 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 49 of 55 July 7 2015 Troubleshooting General Printer Is Not Listed Verify the printer is installed correctly and the user under which the 3 Height PDF Printer Service is running has access to it Go to Control Panel gt Printers to see what printers are installed When using a local printer it must be listed in this window in order to be used Ei Control Panel Printers OO ini GO cornme OR 2 File Edit View Tools Help Organize v 5 Views f Addaprinter J Server properties e Folders v Name Documents status z Comments Location Public F9 7 Lexmark W840 PS3 V EI Zu Add Printer m fo ME Computer zd 299 Ready Ne Microsoft XPS Document E TOSHIBA e STUDIO Control Panel Writer ite Administrative Tools o 0 n 0 mg AutoPlay Bluetooth Devices e Default Programs eo Ease of Access Center IR Fonts Network and Sharing Center Ei Personalization Power Options i Printers Programs and Features jE System amp User Accounts amp Windows Update j Recyde Bin Duplex Mode Is Not Listed or Does Not Work If the duplex mode is not listed check if the printer driver has an option that needs to be installed to allow duplex printing Go to Start gt Settings gt Printer gt right click your printer gt Properties gt Device Properties gt Look for Options like
64. s PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 23 of 55 July 7 2015 List Media Types List all media types supported by a printer pdfprintsvr lm p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS The list could look like this 1 Plain Paper 266 Thin Paper 265 Thick Paper 264 Thicker Paper 263 Bond Paper 262 Envelopes List Paper Size for a Specific Printer This option lists all available paper sizes that are supported by a specific printer The printer s name must be known If no printer is specified the available paper sizes of the Windows Default printer are listed pdfprintsvr ls To list the available paper sizes on a specific printer use the option p to select a printer pdf printsvr ls p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS Then a list like the following will show all available paper sizes with a corresponding number 1 5 T 9 11 13 121 122 123 124 125 126 327 Letter 8 1 2 x 11 in Legal 8 1 2 x 14 in Executive 7 1 4 x 10 1 2 in A4 210 x 297 mm A5 148 x 210 mm B5 JIS 182 x 257 mm Custom paper Custom paper Custom paper Custom paper Custom paper Custom paper 67 Custom paper PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 24 of 55 July 7 2015 6 3 Printer related Configuration Options All configuration options are set in the configuration file pdfprintsrv ini Some of the parameters need first to be retrieved u
65. se of such a list is particularly useful to maintain a predefined order of printing since all files are merged into one print job The account under which the PDF Printer Service is running needs to have access to the files listed in the text file Therefore it is suggested to avoid mapped folders Individual parameters can optionally be defined within the control file on the line prior to the file name Example pg il Setting of 1 document C documents file1 pdf 1 document pg 23 Setting for 2 document C documents file2 pdf 2 d document The following switches are not supported in the control file W wd p PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 18 of 55 July 7 2015 The following switches are only valid when set before the first input file C cl cm dl e file load pri Example 1 Using Multiple Watched Folders Let s take the configuration file from the chapter Editing the configuration file pdfprintsvr ini PdfPrintSvr PollingInterval 5000 AutoDelete True Threads 3 Threadl p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w C HP4050 Thread2 p HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS w C HP4050Duplex d 2 Thread3 p MINOLTA QMS magicolor 2350 w C Minolta This file creates three watched folders C HP4050 C HP4050Duplex and C Minolta as shown in the image below Name Size Type Modified Cl Failed File Folder 23 04 2007 15 27 C3 In
66. service and printed using the printer HP LaserJet 4050 Series PS Only the first page is printed Retrieve Information about Available Printers and Settings Open a shell and type pdfprintsvr without parameters This lists the usage displaying all available options as shown in the image below The first six options c d s t a 0 are used to control the service process these should only be used once the configuration file is completed PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 12 of 55 July 7 2015 Command Prompt G gt pdfprintsur PDF Printer Service Version 1 6 8 39 of Nov 15 2007 pdfprintsvr options c Create service specify fully qualified path m Delete service stop and close services window first s Start service t Stop service a Pause service o Continue service m Query current status of service 1 Configuration ini gt file options usage ds fn Save device settings to a file 1 hl List available printers of a specific host 1b List bins for a specific printer u E33 List paper sizes for a specific printer List duplex modes Use the option I to get a list of all available printers G gt pdfprintsur lp Default printer HP LaserJet 4858 Series PS 1 HP LaserJet 4258 Series PCL 6 i PS PCL 6 P CLJ 3866 Adobe PDF 3 Heights lt TIM gt TIFF Producer 3 Heights lt TM gt PDF Producer newyork HP CLJ 3866
67. service is usually running on a different machine and or under a different user such as LocalSystem Enable Options by File Name Convention If this switch is set for a watched folder the service parses the file name for options This means options such as f or pg 1 1 can be contained in the file name directly rather than in the configuration for a watched folder Spaces are to be replaced by the underscore character Options set by file name convention are combined with other options The precedence from lowest to highest is watched folder options job control file options file name convention options The following switches are not supported by the file name convention w wd p dl file load Example Have a look at the configuration file below Thread 1 prints only the first page pg 1 1 and scales the page to fit the paper f Thread 2 prints all pages and scales the pages to fit the paper additionally it parses the file names for additional options fo PdfPrintSvr AutoDelete True Threads 2 Threadl p HP LaserJet 4050 PS w e HP4050 pg 1 1 f Thread2 p HP LaserJet 4050 PS w e HP4050 FileNameConvention f fo If pg 2 2 filel pdf is the file name of a PDF document with two pages and it is dropped into the watched folder e HP4050 it is scaled when printing and only page 1 is printed If the same file is dropped into the second watched folder the file name convention pg 2 2 takes preced
68. sing the listing options see previous chapter If an option is set multiple times the last instance set is valid b Select the Bin To select a bin use the option b followed by the corresponding number The default bin numbers are listed in the Appendix The option Ib lists custom bins however these custom numbers may be different for different printer drivers for the same printer Which means the number of the bin may not correspond to the physical bin number of the printer It is suggested to use the default bins Use the custom bins only if the defaults do not work When not printing on the Windows Default printer the printer name must also be specified b 1 C Set Number of Copies To print more than one copy of a document use the option c followed by the number of copies you want to print To print three copies the command looks like this ze cl Collate Mode Enable 1 or disable 0 collate mode if supported by the printer Collate refers to grouping copies in output trays el 1 cm Copy Mode This option sets the copy mode There are two modes 0 Repeat Page Mode Default 1 Repeat Document Mode In the Repeat Page Mode every page is copied as many times as copies are selected then the next page etc This mode creates small spool files In the Repeat Document Mode all pages of the first copy are printed then all pages of the second copy etc In this mode the pages are sorted but the spool file can be much larger
69. ter Service Version 4 5 Page 22 of 55 July 7 2015 3 HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL 4 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer 5 3 Heights TM PDF Producer To get a list of all available printer on a host use the option I followed by the name of the host pdfprintsvr 1 myhost This will list all available printers on the host myhost the list could look like this 1 myhost MINOLTA QMS magicolor 2350 2 myhost HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL List Bins for a Specific Printer This option lists all available bins that are installed on a specific printer The printer s name must be known If no printer is specified the bins of the Windows Default printer are listed pdfprintsvr 1b To list the bins on another printer specify the printer using the option p pdfprintsvr lb p MINOLTA QMS magicolor 2350 The returned list contains all available bins with the corresponding number For example like this 15 Form Source 262 Automatic Selection 261 Automatic Selection 260 Tray 1 259 Tray 2 258 Tray 3 257 Tray 4 5 Envelope List Duplex Modes The Duplex Modes can be listed using the option Id Note that on some printers drivers the duplex unit must be installed or it won t be listed The following command returns a list of the available duplex modes of the Windows Default printer pdfprintsvr ld The list could look like this 5310 Custom duplex mode PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Height
70. tions converts embedded fonts to TrueType fonts This option is recommended for PCL printers it is not recommended for PostScript printers Convert embedded Type1 OpenType to TrueType fonts This switch inhibits the conversion of embedded Typel fonts to TrueType fonts It is mainly used for diagnostic purposes Use Unicodes Instead of Glyph Ids for Embedded Fonts This option is to create spool files with text that is optimized for post processing PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology Pg q r 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 35 of 55 July 7 2015 Set the Page Range This options allows to print a specific range of the PDF document The following command prints pages 2 to 5 pg 2 5 Print an Encrypted PDF File A PDF document that has a user password the password to open the document can only be printed when either the user or the owner password is provided The password can be provided using the option pw followed by the password pw mypassword Set the Quality This option sets the quality of the print The supported values are 1 Draft 2 Low Quality 3 Medium Quality 4 High Quality Example q 4 Set the Rotation With this option the pages are printed in the same orientation as when viewed Without this option the pages are sent to the printer with their original rotation Rotate Pages to a Given Orientation With this switch the page rotation can be set to Portr
71. trieving the Printer Name ee Ban es ek 46 Setting Up the Cen weet relire ai Ree Ure hr ca bee ve Dane nahe ERE are 47 Connecting to a Printer via HPT Pareri ana ieaiaia uana aAa KENAA nun nun nennen nnn nnn 48 7 Troubleshooting uusananunnanunnanunnununnanunnanannanunnanunnanannanannanannanunnanannanen 49 BAe Generale RER 49 Printer Is Not Eisted ditte len klin 49 Duplex Mode Is Not Listed or Does Not Work sese 49 Page Does Not Fit on Paper ett nemen RR ERR e Re ke P MEER en 50 Pages do Not Come Out with the Desired Orientation ccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeaes 50 Text 50 Settings in the Printer or Device Mode Are Ignored sseseseeeese 50 Black is Not Printed Completely Black cceecee eens estes ee eee neta e neta eee ea eee eaeees 51 7 2 Spool Files Are Very Large rene IRRE 51 Rendering Mode errem en a me ax e e x vint e e e e Maleate ees 51 Printer DEVEN a a REED Reb nde 51 PostScript Injection soe ee ete tte xu etn Fee EE RE CURRERE ORE REX VUE RR IER NER EE 52 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 5 of 55 July 7 2015 Resolution er T 52 7 3 Cannot Access Re soUrce ie un dan enne nn nn nn nn ne nn nern hen 53 7 4 Printing In a Network Environment 4s s4HH nennan nn ann nn mmn 53 7 5 Unsupported PDF FEatures ieee scis sivas veals cota ene enn ale 53 Appendix A Default Values
72. velope You 4 92 Japanese Envelope You 4 Rotated 93 PRC 16K 146 x 215 mm 94 PRC 32K 97 x 151 mm 95 PRC 32K Big 97 x 151 mm 96 PRC Envelope 1 102 x 165 mm 97 PRC Envelope 2 102 x 176 mm 98 PRC Envelope 3 125 x 176 mm 99 PRC Envelope 4 110 x 208 mm 100 PRC Envelope 5 110 x 220 mm 101 PRC Envelope 6 120 x 230 mm 102 PRC Envelope 7 160 x 230 mm 103 PRC Envelope 8 120 x 309 mm 104 PRC Envelope 9 229 x 324 mm 105 PRC Envelope 10 324 x 458 mm 106 PRC 16K Rotated 107 PRC 32K Rotated 108 PRC 32K Big Rotated 109 PRC Envelope 1 Rotated 165 x 102 mm 110 PRC Envelope 2 Rotated 176 x 102 mm 111 PRC Envelope 3 Rotated 176 x 125 mm 112 PRC Envelope 4 Rotated 208 x 110 mm 113 PRC Envelope 5 Rotated 220 x 110 mm 114 PRC Envelope 6 Rotated 230 x 120 mm 115 PRC Envelope 7 Rotated 230 x 160 mm 116 PRC Envelope 8 Rotated 309 x 120 mm 117 PRC Envelope 9 Rotated 324 x 229 mm 118 PRC Envelope 10 Rotated 458 x 324 mm PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology
73. vr PollingInterval 5000 Handle Color Profiles The 3 Heights PDF Rendering Engine works in the RGB color space For color conversions the two color profiles in the folder Icc are used Color profiles can be downloaded from the links provided in the directory Icc The color profiles that are named CMYK icc and sSRGB icm are applied In order to change the current color profile overwrite these two color profiles with new color profiles If no color profile is available the conversion is done algorithmically PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Printer Service Version 4 5 Page 40 of 55 July 7 2015 6 5 Configure Log File The log file which is kept in the directory where the executable resides by default logs documents that cannot be processed successfully In order to also log successfully printed documents adjust the setting for LogLevel n 0 All messages 1 Error messages only PdfPrintSvr LogLevel 0 6 6 Watermark Options The PDF Print Service has the option to place a watermark on the pages The watermark will be printed as a vector graphic and will therefore not be editable if the output is sent to a file Only one watermark text can be printed and it is the same for all pages To print different watermark texts the print job needs to be divided into jobs with different logos The watermark content text or image must always be specified last i e after all the settings for position

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