Network use

novaPDF Printer network auto-install

novaPDF Printer Server Edition can be installed on one computer and can be used by any computer in the network, without having to install it on each computer. This is to ease the work of network administrators both at installation time and future upgrades.

novaPDF Printer Server driver supports Point and Print technology. This means that you can install the printer on one computer on the network, share it, and you can connect to it from any other computer. The system copies the necessary files for the driver, without any user interaction. On the server there are installed both i386 and x64 drivers and you can connect from the network with any i386 or x64 computers.

For more details on how the novaPDF Printer Server can be installed and licensed on the network see the novaPDF Printer help file.

How to use novaPDF SDK in a network

If you have a large network you can install novaPDF Printer Server and your application which integrates novaPDF SDK on a single computer and use it from any computer in the network.

All you need to do in your software is to initialize the INovaPdfOptions interface with the correct printer name, including the name of the computer on which it is installed (like "\\server\novaPDF Server Pro v5").

When the application initiates the first print job to the printer server, the system copies the necessary printer driver files without any user interaction and the print job is completed on the printer server.

You can configure private or public profiles on the printer server. Public profiles will be copied on the client computers when you open the Printing Preferences dialog on client computers or when performing a print job to the printer server. Private profiles are saved and read from the local registry. See Private and public profiles for more details.

The COM has to be registered on every computer that uses it. But this can be done programmatically, as you can see it in the Hello World (network) sample.