Black Ice Software is proud to announce the newest release of the BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server with several new features and many enhancements!

Some of the recent additions include maintaining the color depth of the original printed document, keeping the page orientation, maintaining the page size, and image resolution when converting images with the BiBatchConverter Service Manager.

Each of these new features can be enabled/disabled through the new options added to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager on the “Image Conversion” tab.

Some of the other notable Improvements are 8-bit grayscale PDF file size with increased quality, detection of password protection in PDF files and the ability to remove invisible white backgrounds from the PDF output.

The BiBatchConverter is now changed to a subscription-based licensing to provide our customers with the highest level of technology that made the BiBatchConverter the best high-volume document converter application for converting documents quickly and reliably to PDF or TIFF files. Existing customers with a perpetual license and support contract will receive updates and support as long as they renew and maintain their support contract.

The complete list of improvements in the latest BiBatchConverter includes the following:

DATE: 09-22-2021
Version: 5.01 (revision: 686)

• Added option to keep the color depth when converting images to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14409)
• Stability improvement for the “Keep the original size of images” option if the printer resolution and image resolution are different (#14417)
• Minor user interface improvement for the BiBatchConverter Service Manager Image Conversion options (#14418)
• Stability improvements for the BiBatchConverter MSI installer, if the Print Spooler service cannot be started (#14429)
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.494

DATE : 09-06-2021
Version : 5.00 (revision: 680)

• Added option to keep the page orientation and size when converting images to the BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14105, #14130)
• Stability improvement for detecting password protection in some PDF files (#14265)
• Switched BiBatchConverter to subscription based licensing
• Added Page Break character support to the Black Ice Print Text helper (BiPrintText.exe) (#14294)
• Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
• Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
• Updated Printer Driver to version 16.65.2699
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.488
• Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280

DATE : 07-23-2021
Version : 4.98 (revision: 670)

• Minor user interface improvement on Configuration -> PDF Converter tab of BiBatchConverter Service Manager (#14218)
• Updated Printer Driver to version 16.61.2679
• Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
• Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the “Enable advanced printing features” option disabled (#14217)
• Added suffix to output file names when using the “Exact filename” option without the “Overwrite the existing file” option and the output file already exists (#13864)
• Performance improvements for the Text Output (#14054)
• Fix for copy-pasting hyphen (-) characters from the generated PDF files (#14143)
• Added “Add White Background to Page” PDF option to turn on or off the drawing of the white background in the PDF output (#14147)
• Improved drawing of arcs in the PDF output (#14077)
• Removed invisible white background from the PDF output (#14147)
• Printing speed optimizations when Text Output is enabled (#14048)
• Removed large invisible rectangle from the PDF output (#14078)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
• Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806

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