Black Ice Software has released 15.80 of the Black Ice Printer Driver! The new release includes the ability to print specified pages by using the new "Pages to Print" feature of the Printer Driver.

The print specific pages option is useful in both Automated printing and Batch printing applications. In the legal field, case documents may require printing only the first 3-5 pages. In the transportation industry, documents may only need the first 1-3 pages of the document. Also there are some applications that force the user to print the entire document or intentionally limit the user’s ability to select the pages to print.

The new "Pages to Print" feature of the Printer Driver is available in the OEM printer driver for developers with the API interface.

The "Compact PDF" format is now the default for the PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers. The "Compact PDF" file format produces a significantly smaller PDF file then the Standard PDF file format.

The Text Output default format is now "Text with Layout" which provides an approximate positioning of text layout in the document.

The User interface of the Device Setting Tab is reorganized to be more user-friendly.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Printer Driver includes the following:

• Added option to specify the printed pages in the Printing Preferences (#10347)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager (#11634, #11635)
• Changed the Printer Drivers to write lowercase extensions by default, added INI file option to write uppercase extensions (#11635)
• Changed default file format of PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers to "Compact PDF" (#11643)
• Changed default text output format to "Text with Layout" (#11644)
• Updated manuals

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