OpenPCL

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: v0.07

Notes: Howard Hoagland. In this v0.07 August 6, 2007 version is implemented the print setup dialog options: Use Windows Print or print PCL Direct, Print as displayed (no change in page order and no change in page size - Letter images print on Letter paper and Legal images print on Legal paper), or Legal first then Letter, or Letter first then Legal, or All on Legal, or All on Letter (automatically shrinks Legal images down to fit on Letter paper, but works for Windows/Image print, not for PCL direct), number of Additional Copies, Print Form Names at the bottom left corner of pages, Duplex pages (but works for PCL Direct but not for Windows/Image print). At program startup time, and at program exit time, using the new class PosPersistPrintOptionsValues, read and write all the print setup dialog options to the local persisted storage using the java.util.prefs.Preferences in a platform independent way. For Windows, it will write to the Registry at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\openpcl\viewer". For Macintosh, the Preferences object in the local running JVM writes the settings in a Macintosh specific way. Also, new in this v0.07 version is pages print faster than before by drawing the print image on a 2 color black and white image instead of full color making the print file in the print queue be smaller. Also in this v0.07 version is fixed the problem that previously, patterns of dots on the screen when the page is zoomed smaller (because of automatic zoom width for example) would look too dark and look like a checkerboard pattern and you couldn't read the text on the page. This was fixed by progressively automatically removing more and more dots as the image gets smaller and smaller.