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The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents
from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

This program is FREEWARE with limitations, which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use up to 10 users.
It does not contain any advertising or popups. For commercial applications with more that 10 users there is a commercial
version of the product available at http://www.biopdf.com

Features
- Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
- Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
- Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
- Control output and prompts programmatically.
- Setup can run unattended.
- Graphical user interface.
- Password protect PDF documents.
- 128/40 bit encryption.
- Quality settings (screen, printer, ebook, prepress).
- Set document properties.
- Watermark text, size, rotation, and transparency.
- Superimpose/background documents.
- Appending/prepending documents.
- User interface control.
- Command line interface to all settings.
- COM/ActiveX interface for programmatic control.
- Multiple output types supported: BMP, JPEG, PCX, PDF, PNG, and TIFF.
- Support for Citrix MetaFrame
- Support for Windows Terminal Server
- Runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64/2008/Windows 7.
- Supports 64-bit operating systems.

System Requirements
- GPL Ghostscript 8.64 or later http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript ... cript.html
Ghostscript is an open source program that is able to convert PostScript to PDF files.

Download light weight Ghostscript distribution here (~7 MB)
http://www.bullzip.com/download/gsl/gslite.exe

* The printer has been localized to Danish.
* /noghostscript parameter for setup program will skip the check for Ghostscript.
* Fix: Open PDF documents after printing.

The printer has been localized to German and Danish.
/noghostscript parameter for setup program will skip the check for Ghostscript.
Fix: Open PDF documents after printing.

2007-04-09 (3.0.0.181)
Fix: Maximize button disabled in options dialog.
Fix: Minor change in watermark routine.

2007-04-09 (3.0.0.174)
The printer has been localized to Portuguese (Brazil).
Improvement: The output setting can be used to specify a default folder.

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

2007-04-11 BullZip PDF Printer 3.0.0.186

Fix: Error message removed when installing on XP 64 bit.
Fix: Specifying folders as default file names has been improved.

2007-07-28 (3.0.0.278)

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

- Support for file systems without support for 8.3 representation of long file names.
- Fixes problems in some Vista installations.
- Problems with installing msxml6.dll has been fixed.


1. Download Ghostscripts and install it.
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/gs856w32.exe

2. Download the latest stable PDF Printer and run the setup program.
http://www.bullzip.com/downloadmgr.php?download=pdf

2007-10-07 (3.0.0.332)
Improved memory handling when printing large documents.
New Zoom setting to determine the intial zoom factor when a document is viewed.
New UseThumbs setting to show thumbnail pictures of pages when a document is viewed.
Polish language added.

2007-09-26 (3.0.0.323)
Discards abandoned jobs for improved stability on Citrix.
Override port log file folder with registry setting.
Support for debug mode in print monitor.
Monitor removes postscript file if the job is discarded.

- Supports printing in Window Vista Internet Explorer running in protected mode.
- Slovak language added.

Version History

2008-03-13 (4.0.0.564)
Support for programatic creation of JPEG, TIFF, and PNG image files instead of PDF documents.
New settings: res, resx, resy, textalphabits, graphicsalphabits, device, and statusfile.

2008-05-13 (5.0.0.609)

* Correction of "Error 53: File not found" during cleanup in temporary files.
* Fix of problem with strange characters overlaying the finished PDF document.

2008-05-06 (5.0.0.599)

* Multiple /PRINTERNAME can be specified during setup to install more than one printer. (* only available in custom builds and bioPDF PDF Writer)
* Uninstall will remove all printers attached to the uninstalled port.
* Dialog control identifiers have been modified to support hiding and disabling.
* If no global@printername.ini file is found it will fall back to search for global.ini.
* Translations added (Norwegian - nynorsk).
* Translations updated (Norwegian - bokmål).

2008-04-20 (5.0.0.594)

* Translations added (Bosnian, Slovenian).
* Translations updated (Polish, Italian).

2008-04-09 (5.0.0.590)

* Ini files are now coupled to the printer name. Ex. settings@MyPDFCreator.ini will hold settings for a printer named MyPDFCreator.
* Contents of an App folder placed next to the setup program is copied to the program folder during installation. (* only available in custom builds and bioPDF PDF Writer)

2008-03-27 (4.0.0.575)

* Problem with ini files written as Unicode has been fixed. The problem was introduced in version 4.0.0.564.
* AfterPrintProgram is now run in case of success. This was disabled by a programming error.

2008-03-26 (4.0.0.570)

* New experimental settings (hidetabs, hidecontrols, disablecontrols).
* Translations updated (Korean).

2008-03-21 (4.0.0.568)

* Version number is written to printer comment field during installation.
* Translations updated (Arabic, Greek, Portuguese-Brazil).

Translation updates (Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese).

2008-09-18 (6.0.0.684-4)
Translation updates (Russian, Japanese, Portuguese).

2008-09-16 (6.0.0.684-3)
Translation updates (Serbian, Polish).

2008-09-16 (6.0.0.684-2)
Translation updates (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese).

2008-09-15 (6.0.0.684)
ConfirmOverwrite setting is now supported in unattended mode. Use ConfirmOverwrite=no if you want to overwrite the destination file without a prompt.
Translation updates (Russian).

2008-09-14 (6.0.0.679)
Aviod detection as a virus for F-Secure users.
Fix in config.exe to allow mixed case parameter values.
Translation updates (Catalan).

2008-09-05 (6.0.0.664)
Driver settings USERTEMP and USERDATA are no longer supported.
Improvements for PDF Printer redistribution and customization.
Installation and unstallation now supports multiple instances of the program installed on the same computer.
Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Bullzip PDF Printer\AppFolder is now written to associate the installed printer with a specific program folder.
Uninstall only removes printers where the AppFolder registry value matches the application folder being uninstalled.
/NOHOMEPAGEICON command line switch for the setup program. The home page icon will not be installed in the start menu when this parameter is specified.
Translation updates (Estonian, Vietnamese)
Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bullzip\PDF Printer\Settings\GhostscriptFolder is no longer added by the setup program when it installs Ghostscript.

2008-08-10 (6.0.0.659)
New compatibilitylevel setting. It will control the PDF compatibility level. Valid values are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. This setting can also be controlled from the GUI.
Support for the <pageno> macro in the PDF output file name. This will split the resulting PDF document into one file per page.
Updated translations.

2009-02-22 (6.0.0.766)

* Support for Adobe Normalizer as document converter instead of Ghostscript.
* Merge operation allows Postscript files as input in addition to PDF files.
* Superimpose operation allows Encapsulated Postscript as input in addition to PDF files.
* Postscript added as output type. New devices are pswrite and psraw.
* A new file name macro <smarttitle> was added to remove strings like "Microsoft Word -" from the document title.
* Translation updates.

2009-01-26 (6.0.0.744)

* New gslite.exe distribution to fix performance problems on Citrix installations where the C drive is a mapped client drive.
* Translation updates.

2009-01-13 (6.0.0.741)

* Experimental support for Windows 7 beta.
* Fix for problem with creating folders on UNC paths.
* Translation updates (Swedish, Norwegian).

2008-12-24 (6.0.0.728)

* Error when saving a document to the root folder of a drive has been fixed.

2008-12-20 (6.0.0.725)

* New defaults.ini file introduced to override default values.
* Creates output folder if it doesn't exist.
* Ignores missing merge files when controlled via runonce.ini.
* If Scripting is not available then all VB Script macros will result in an empty string.
* New Esperanto translation.
* Translation updates (Afrikaans, Croatian, Estonian, Hebrew, Slovak, Turkish).

2008-11-01 (6.0.0.702)

* The Save As dialog now selects the output format based on the file name extension.
* Implementation of the DeviceList setting was improved.
* Problem with diagonal strange black dots should be solved.
* Translation updates (Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Latvian).

2008-10-21 (6.0.0.695)

* VBScript macros and events are now supported. This extends the programmatic control you have over the PDF Writer.
* New setting: LicenseFile. With this setting you can specify which license to use. This feature is meant for a redistribution scenario.
* New setting: MacroDir. This controls where the VBScript macros and event handlers are loaded from.
* New setting: ExtractText. The printer can now extract text information from the print job. This text can be parsed and values can be extracted and used as macros such as author or title.
* Translation updates (Estonian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Finnish).

2008-09-26 (6.0.0.690)

* Multi merge feature released. more...
* Translation updates (Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Swedish, French, Slovenian, Czech).

2008-09-19 (6.0.0.684-5)

* Translation updates (Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese).

* Official support for Windows 7.
* Microsoft.NET API was introduced.
* Ini files settings.ini, runonce.ini, global.ini, defaults.ini, and user.ini have changed location.
* Ini files no longer have the printer name in their file name.
* Status file now supports Unicode and UTF-8 encoding with descriptors.
* MessageCode and MessageText added in the status file.
* Better support for Unicode in PDF/A XMP structure.
* Auto detect Unicode or UTF-8 encoding of ini files.
* The use of cmd /c for starting external programs was removed to allow command lines containing & and other special chars
* Improvement of the smarttitle macro. It now removes additional Microsoft Office extensions.
* Australian English language was added.
* UK English language was added.
* Farsi language was added.
* Other translations were updated.

Setup detects if gslite.exe is outdated.
Fix: Encoding of setup texts fixes the display of garbage.
Unicode output file names support when running witout GUI.
Unicode messages suported.
Updated translations (Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish).