priPrinter - PDF Publisher
PDF Publisher is part of priPrinter Professional Edition. If allows you to save printer jobs as PDF files, send produced PDF file by email or preview it in PDF viewer. As usual you can print to priPrinter from any application, change layout, apply watermarks or letterheads, crop pages, redact or highlight text. You are free to print to your printer and now with priPrinter Professional Edition you can publish current print preview to PDF in just one click without additional software.
Save As PDF
Just select Save As PDF in File menu. In this case you should select destination folder and file name. PDF file will be saved with provided file name. Or you can simple click on Save As PDF button in quick launch bar.
View PDF file
Just select View PDF file in PDF tab or in quick launch toolbar.
PDF file will be generated and
PDF Viewer will be launched. In most common case it is Adobe® Acrobat®
Reader. However, you are able to change PDF viewer in options dialog box.
Send PDF file
In order to send PDF file as attachment just click on Send PDF File in PDF tab.
PDF file will be generated and email client will be launched. You are able to change email client in options dialog box. In case of Microsoft Outlook, priPrinter can send email in little bit more convenient way.
Details
Images. priPrinter provides ability to change quality and resolution of images embedded into PDF file. Of course you can keep them in original resolution and quality.
Security. You can protect files with password and restrict access to PDF features.
Fonts. All *non standard fonts are embedded into PDF file.
That is recommended PDF export strategy. Not used characters are removed from fonts.
* Times, Helvetica, and Courier font families are standard PDF
fonts. These fonts are part of any PDF viewer.
Implementation
priPrinter PDF Publisher is able to generate correct PDF file even in case of complex graphics. For example all kind of XOR, AND or OR operations are detected and replaced with supported ones. Result will look in the same way as on the screen.
PDF Publisher is part of priPrinter preview application, while printer driver saves results in priPrinter file format. The advantages of such strategy are:
- priPrinter can show print preview very fast, there is no need to create PDF file in driver.
- Driver is still small and fast.
- PDF Publisher can access whole document in order to provide optimal results and works in more friendly environment.
- You are free to change layout, watermarks or everything else in interactive print preview window and create PDF file only when you are fully sure about results.