Version History
What’s New in novaPDF 5.5 (28-August-2008)
- Added Import/Export profiles option
- Added external function exit code to cancel print job in novaPDF OEM
- Added "/RegisterWin32COM" install parameter for silent installers
- Added "/DoNotAskReason" command line parameter for silent uninstalling
- Added new large printing forms (A0)
- Added Norwegian and Turkish interface languages
- Changed temporary PDF files and logs location from C:\Windows\Temp to application data folder
- Added error message when PDF file wasn't created "Error creating PDF file: [reason]"
- Fixed crash when "use regional setting" was set for default language
- Fixed crash when printing from Ms Outlook on Windows Vista MSOutlook
- Fixed bug when converting fonts with GlyphID (forced now to unicode subetting)
- Fixed installation bug that changed WBEM regtype to Path
- Fixed bug when using watermark images from another computer
- Fixed bug index returned by AddWatermarkImage
- Fixed bug when sending emails via SMTP to multiple addresses
- Corrected clipping path bug (in Visio drawings)
- Corrected symbols conversion from Visio
- Corrected conversion error for documents with different page size combinations (occured in Calyx Point, MS Word, TextMarker)
- Corrected conversion error for Unicode characters used in Text Watermarks
- Corrected processing speed for registered version
- Corrected printing error when converting Word documents with embedded Excel tables
- Corrected TransparentBlt and StrecthDIBits
- Corrected page layout bug for Excel
- Cnstaller command line parameters are not case sensitive
- Corrected Chinese punctuation conversion bug
- Corrected error when printing to novaPDF from Adobe Reader 8
- Corrected conversion error when original text had vertical font
- Corrected conversion error for rotated images in Word- fixed bug with paper margins and origins when converting from Word
What’s New in novaPDF 5.4 (11-February-2008)
- Added Copy Text/Image Watermarks dialog
- Added "Lookup Address" option when sending emails
- Corrected rotated and vertical texts conversion
- Corrected conversion from WordArt, MS Word backgrounds and MS Visio drawings
- Uninstaller deletes now the driver files
- Other small bug fixes for SDK and printer driver
What’s New in novaPDF 5.3 (25-September-2007)
- Added Text Watermarks option
- Optimized text compression algorithm - the size of PDF files is now reduced by up to 80% (for documents consisting mainly of text)
- Finnish and Arabic user interface localizations added
- Minor bug fixes
What’s New in novaPDF 5.2 (20-July-2007)
- Compatibility with 64-bit operating systems (Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows XP 64-bit and Windows 2003 Server 64-bit)
- Korean user interface localization added
- Minor bug fixes
What’s New in novaPDF 5.1 (22-May-2007)
- Added OEM edition for developers
- Added user interface localization (Greek, Hungarian and Vietnamese languages)
- Added "Correct fill color" option
- Bug fixes for Vista and Windows 2000
What’s New in novaPDF 5.0 (5-April-2007)
- Windows Vista compatibility
- Added Graphics feature
- Added Watermarks feature
- Added PDF version option
- Propagate default profiles on client computers
- Added option to disable private profiles on client computers
- Added new settings in Save options
- Added option for correcting line widths
- Added event handling functions in SDK
- Added public/private parameter to Set/Get functions in SDK
- Server edition - see list of client computers even when not registered
- Other bug fixes for user interface
What’s New in novaPDF 4.2 (10-October-2006)
- Internal driver changes and bug fixes for MS Publisher 2003 and MS Word 2000
- Added reset button for public profiles
- Added magnification options for PDF viewer
- Corrected embedding for some fonts
- Corrected bookmarks for non-Latin languages
- Added user interface localization (Slovenian and Chinese Simplified languages)
- Other bug fixes for user interface
What’s New in novaPDF 4.1 (29-August-2006)
- Added GUI localization support for German, Brazilian, Chinese Simplified and Portuguese languages
- Allow changes to public profiles on client computers (server edition)
- Features list on the About page
- Added last generated PDF file name in SDK
- Do not uninstall port and driver if there are more printers installed
- Bug fixes for user interface, send mail from server, public profiles
- Bug fixes for handling public profiles from SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 4.0 (6-July-2006)
- Added public profiles support (server edition)
- Added "Save PDF to server" option (server edition)
- Added PDF bookmarks support
- Active profile displayed on each page
- Bug-fixes in printer driver
What’s New in novaPDF 3.3 (5-June-2006)
- Added GUI localization support for French language
- Added GUI localization support for Czech language
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 3.2 (25-May-2006)
- Added GUI localization support for Serbian language
- Added GUI localization support for Ukrainian language
- Added GUI localization support for Swedish language
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 3.1 (21-April-2006)
- Added GUI localization support for Asian languages
- User interface now translated in 4 more languages: Japanese, Dutch, Polish and Russian
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 3.0 (28-March-2006)
- Send generated PDF files by email, using SMTP or default email client
- Added user interface localization
- Extended NovaPdfOptions interface in novaPDF SDK with new options and functions
- Added A3 form
- Use smaller port names (NVP3)
- CID Fonts corrections
- Corrected Word image rectangles
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 2.5 (9-January-2006)
- Added optimization of image sequences in Printer driver
- Added NoInstallIfExists parameter to silent installer (in novaPDF SDK)
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 2.4 (7-December-2005)
- Added NetBIOS and DNS machine names for network licensing
- Added support for OLE applications to novaPDF SDK
- Added silent print option for novaPDF SDK
- Other bug-fixes in printer driver and SDK
What’s New in novaPDF 2.3 (24-October-2005)
- Added Access and VB.Net samples to novaPDF SDK
- Added page mode viewer option
- Added methods to set encrypted strings in INovaPdfOptions
- Corrected Foxit Reader problem (rotate pages)
- Other minor bug-fixes in Printer driver
What’s New in novaPDF 2.2 (6-October-2005)
- Added a Demo printer driver for novaPDF SDK
- Added VB samples to novaPDF SDK
- Minor bug fixes in Printer driver
- Modified documentation
What’s New in novaPDF 2.1 (13-September-2005)
- Added possibility to set-up left, right, top and bottom paper margins independently.
- Enhanced zoom option. You can modify paper origin now, center the page horizontally/vertically and align right/bottom.
- Enhanced save options. If pdf file with same name exists, it can "Auto Number Existing" files.
- Corrected scale handling and added extended zoom factor.
- Corrected detection of file links.
- Other error corrections.
What’s New in novaPDF 2.0 (16-August-2005)
- Shared network printing support (novaPDF can be installed on one computer and used by any computer in the network through the "Sharing" option)
- PDF links support (automatically recognizes visible links in a document and includes them in the generated PDF as clickable links - hidden links and internal links are not converted)
- Speed optimizations
- Minor bug fixes
- Help file updated
What’s New in novaPDF 1.2 (8-July-2005)
- Speed optimization for big TrueType fonts, especially for asian characters
- Extract correct PDF document name from the print job name
- Other speed optimizations
- Minor bug fixes
- Help file updates
What’s New in novaPDF 1.1 (9-June-2005)
- Create Standard PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing
- Generate High-Quality PDF files, retaining the precise layout of the original file
- PDF Security and Document Protection (40-bit/128-bit encryption)
- Set Document information for the generated PDF file (title, subject, author, keywords)
- Optimized File Sizes (support for JPEG and ZIP compression)
- Create private profiles
- Advanced Font Embedding, Graphics and Page Size Controls
- International Character Support
- Does not Require Adobe Acrobat to generate the PDF file
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