ES Image Printer Driver Version History

1.3.7 to 1.3.8 -------------- 1) Created new installers to support Windows Vista and Windows 7. 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 -------------- 1) Incorporated ability to upload files directly into Everlast Software's Remote Storage Engine. 2) Bug fixes. 3) Major changes to converting and decoding PDFs. 4) Performance enhancements. 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 -------------- 1) Upgraded Java version to 6.0 Update 10 for online installer. 2) Bug fixes. 3) Performance enhancements. 1.3.3 to 1.3.4 -------------- 1) Support for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). 2) Bug fixes. 3) The printer driver launcher engine no longer has a background frame. A small "always on top" dialog is utilized. 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 -------------- 1) Minor bug fixes. 2) Added tag expansion capability to FTP Engine and Email Engine variables. 1.3.1 to 1.3.2 -------------- 1) Added a status dialog to show the progress during processing. 2) Fixed bugs related to black and white prints from various programs. 3) Enhancement to the file system monitor so more than one copy of the driver can be installed on the same computer. This also fixes compatibility issues with having the ES Image Capture Engine on the same computer at the same time. 4) Other minor miscellaneous bug fixes. 5) Upgraded Java version to 6.0 Update 3 for online installer. 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 -------------- 1) Significant improvement to startup time. 2) Fixed minor bugs related to the installer. 3) Added option to "Print Directly to Driver" from the installer for problematic computers. 1.2.9 to 1.3.0 -------------- 1) An optional system tray icon can now be used to quickly administer settings (required Java 6.0 or greater). 2) Fixed a rare bug related to producing text files on Windows. 1.2.8 to 1.2.9 -------------- 1) An option to create animated GIF images is now available. The frame rate and repeat flag can be controlled. Multiple images, PDF's, and multi-page TIFF files can all be converted to an animated GIF. 2) Fixed a bug related to converting PDF files to multi-page TIFF files. 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 -------------- 1) An option to create GIF images is now available. 1.2.6 to 1.2.7 -------------- 1) An option was added to ZIP a printed batch of images into a single ZIP file. 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 -------------- 1) The printer driver engine now gives the ability to choose from a wide variety of output color formats. 2) Fixed minor bugs. 3) Performance enhancements. 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 -------------- 1) Fixed a bug related to executing external programs failing under certain conditions. 2) Fixed a bug related to uploading to subdirectories on UNIX servers via FTP. 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 -------------- 1) The driver has been enhanced and is now thread safe for applications printing with multiple threads. 2) The document name being printed can be used for the file names if autorenaming is disabled in the XML files. 3) Bug fixes and performance enhancements. 1.2.2 to 1.2.3 -------------- 1) Support for Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit). 2) Minor bug fixes. 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 -------------- 1) Option to install as Windows Service. 2) Progress of print jobs can be monitored by an icon in the system tray (requires Java 6 - included in Windows installer). 3) Bug fixes, including one where settings were not saved under certain conditions. 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 -------------- 1) Ability to hide specific settings tabs (for more controlled usage in business environments) via XML flags. 2) Ability to utilize high performance mode with multiple users on the same machine. 3) Added option to turn off auto numbering of images (when the same file names already exist they will just be overwritten). 4) Updated Windows Java version to 6.0. The new version improves performance and fixes bugs. 5) Bug fixes related to multi-page TIFF files, security access on Windows XP, and multiple users on same machine. 1.1.9 to 1.2.0 -------------- 1) Developer release - Driver can now call a Java class that implements a single method interface or call a DLL function. 2) JPEG 2000 compression now configurable via XML setting. 3) Bug fixes. 1.1.8 to 1.1.9 -------------- 1) Friendlier installer for 64-bit Windows version. The installer now automatically installs native driver. 2) Minor bug fixes. 1.1.7 to 1.1.8 -------------- 1) Option to be notified by a dialog when an email has been successfully sent. 2) Bug fixes including one with the Email Engine removing images after emailing even though flag was set to store locally. 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 -------------- 1) Ability to specify the SMTP port number via the Email Engine XML file. 2) Minor bug fixes. 1.1.4 to 1.1.6 -------------- 1) Ability to specify binary or color TIFF compression using the following values: 'CCITT T.6','CCITT T.4','CCITT RLE','PackBits','LZW','JPEG','Deflate','ZLib' 2) Bug fixes, including one that prevented the File System Processor from working under certain conditions. 3) 64-bit version released for AMD 64 compatible processors. 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 -------------- 1) Added the ability to generate XML files with information about the produced images, machine environment, etc. 2) Added customizable GUI components (via XML) for gathering additional information from users at runtime. 3) Updated user manuals. 4) Fixed bugs, including one that prevented SMTP emailing from working if the Database Import Engine is enabled. 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 -------------- 1) Added ability to generate thumbnail images (force larger images to a specified size). 2) Updated user manuals. 3) Fixed bugs. 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 -------------- 1) A bug was fixed where sometimes not all text was produced, for color prints on Windows 2000 and XP, when text files were enabled. 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 -------------- 1) A new utility called the ES File System Processor allows the importing/converting/processing of a directory as though the images inside had been printed. 2) Fixed minor bugs. 3) Updated user manual. 4) Updated program icons. 1.0.9 to 1.1.0 -------------- 1) The Windows 2000, XP, 2003+ version of the driver can now optionally produce text files in addition to the image files. The text files have the same filenames as the image files plus '.txt' appended on the end. The text files can even be used to automatically choose a different configuration to utilize based on the contents (unique identifiers, keywords, etc). 2) Fixed minor bugs. 3) Updated user manual. 1.0.8 to 1.0.9 -------------- 1) Added the ability to send SOAP messages with the files inside to web services, HTTP servers, etc. 2) Fixed minor bugs. 1.0.6 to 1.0.8 -------------- 1) Added the ability to save files directly into a database via JDBC or ODBC. 2) Fixed minor bugs. 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 -------------- 1) Created a new native driver for Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. Also the same core that will be included in the upcoming 64 bit versions. 2) Fixed the Windows 98 and ME installer to install Java 1.5.0_06 properly (would sometimes skip before). 3) Updated installation manuals. 4) Fixed an issue that would cause 100 DPI color images to sometimes not be available on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003. 5) Fixed other miscellaneous bugs. 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 -------------- 1) Added a launcher for multiple configurations. User is presented with a dialog to choose at print time. 2) Added directory and file tags so dynamic keywords may be used. A few examples are GUID, User directory, timestamp, date, host name, etc. 3) Updated installation and user manuals. 4) Made Uninstaller remove the printer automatically on Windows 2000 & XP. 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 -------------- 1) Fixed a bug in regards to Large Buffer Protocol Engine classname getting corrupted. Specific error was "The specified engine name 'Large Buffer Protocol Engine' had an invalid class name of 'com.everlast.engine.XMLEngine' set. Please verify that the XML is not corrupt." 2) Added an email dialog for users to optionally supply an email address so they can be notified when their related bugs are possibly fixed. 3) Fixed a bug related to the Clipboard Monitor Engine failing on certain occassions. 4) Fixed other minor bugs. 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 -------------- 1) Added LZW compression for color TIFF and Multi-TIFF to reduce file size. 2) Added a browse button for selecting output directory in settings dialog. 3) Fixed various minor bugs. 4) Corrected mistakes in the user manual. 5) Changing the output file format in the settings dialog automatically updates the file extension. 6) Completed the Mac OS X version of the driver. 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 -------------- 1) Added multi-page TIFF support. 2) Improved exception handling. 3) Fixed various minor bugs. 4) Made demo expiration more friendly. 5) Added automatic native driver installation for Windows 2000 (already existed for Windows XP).