IceViewer PDF
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IceViewer PDF is an annual subscription. A single license is valid for a single PC on Windows 11/10/8/7 operating systems for one year. For multiple users on the same PC, no additional licenses are required. For installations on different PCs, you will need enough licenses to cover the total number of PCs.*

Black Ice Software offer different licensing models for corporate users and End Users. For more information, please visit the What license do I need? page.

IceViewer PDF Server is also an annual subscription licensed per Server on Windows Terminal Server and Citrix environments. Please see the IceViewer PDF Server pricing.

* Prices subject to change without notice

** Subscription fee includes a support subscription.

*** Please see End User License Agreement for legal definition of the licensing terms

Black Ice Software, LLC
950 Peninsula Corp Circle Suite 2017
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Tel: 561-757-4107
Fax: 561-757-4109
E-Mail: sales@blackice.com

MSI Installer for large scale deployment

The MSI installer for IceViewer PDF is designed for large-scale deployment in Active Directory environments. With the IceViewer PDF MSI installer System Administrators can create custom configurations for every User on the system and register or activate the IceViewer PDF. The MSI installer will greatly simplify mess deployment and eliminates the need for customers to build custom installations.

The MSI installer is compatible with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft SMS/SCCM, Zenworks, and Marimba.

The MSI install has the following installation features:

• Automatic silent installation
• Automatic register/activate the IceViewer PDF with a serial number
• Upgrade the IceViewer PDF while preserving the user settings using the MSI installer
  
• Install the IceViewer PDF for evaluation
• Configure installation target directory
• Install IceViewer PDF with a transformation file
• Configure the registration of the IceViewer PDF with Black Ice license server:
• 443 port with SSL (default)
• 80 port without SSL
• 3500 port without SSL
• 15000 port without SSL
• Configure the connection to the license server with proxy server
• Not using proxy server (default)
• Attempt to discover automatic proxy
• Use HTTP proxy
• Use SOCKS proxy
• Enables or Disables the Browser Plug-in for all users
• Install the IceViewer Browser Extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge
• Pre-configure the IceViewer PDF with configuration INI file during installation

The following features of the IceViewer PDF can be pre-configured:

• File association
• Tiff, Dialogic, GammaLink, Bicom/NMS (TIFF and TIF)
• Fax
• JPG
• Bitmap (BMP)
• PNG
• Cals
• ASCII (TXT)
• PDF
• Viewer settings
• First Start
• Auto Rotate
• General settings
• File extension dialog.
• Display mode.
• Controls the getting started dialog.
• Enable the Thumbnail View for multi-page documents.
• Enable Save View Setting feature.
• Enable Auto Save feature.
• Enable Show Annotation Color Lost feature.
• Enable File Navigation feature.
• Enable Thumbnail Browser feature.
• Specifies the dithering method of monochrome (black and white) documents.
• Enable Send documents in Email feature.
• Enable Upload documents to SharePoint feature.
• Enable OCR (Optical Character Recognition feature.
• Configures the Enable loading annotation file automatically option in the IceViewer PDF General options.
• Enable or disable saving.
• Enable or disable memory file.
• Enable or disable "Burn annotation into the image when saving the document" option.
• Redirect saving.
• Save directory.
• Tools ribbon tab.
• Annotation
• Document cleanup.
• Options
• Annotation settings
• Shows or hides all annotations
• Selects the stamp type for the Default Stamp button on the Home ribbon.
• Selects the stamp type for the Rubber Stamp button on the Annotation ribbon.
• Shows or hides the date on the Timestamp.
• Sets the date format for the Timestamp.
• Shows or hides the time on the Timestamp.
• Sets the time format for the Timestamp.
• Shows or hides the minutes on the Timestamp.
• Shows or hides the seconds on the Timestamp.
• Shows or hides the time zone on the Timestamp.
• Specifies the text of the Timestamp.
• Specifies the position of text on the Timestamp.
• Specifies the alignment of the timestamp text relative to the date and time on the Timestamp.
• OCR configuration:
• The absolute path of the application to open OCR documents.
• The language of the OCR.
• The absolute path of the directory to save the OCR files.
• Printing configuration:
• Enables or Disables the Center the Image Vertically option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Enables or Disables the Center the Image Horizontally option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Enables or Disables the Scale to Fit Page Proportionally option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Enables or Disables the Use Image DPI option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Enables or Disables the Stretch to Fit Page option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Enables or Disables the Print annotations option on the Print dialog of IceViewer PDF.
• Browser plug-in viewer settings:
• This option configures the default View Mode of the Browser Plug-In.
• Browser Plug-in printer settings:
• Enables or Disables the Stretched to Fit Page option in IceViewer Browser Plug-In.
• Enables or Disables the Center on Page option in IceViewer Browser Plug-In.
• Configures the Default Printing Mode in IceViewer Browser Plug-In.
• Scanning configuration:
• When this option is 1, the IceViewer PDF will always remember and use the previously used batch scan directory.
• Specifies the default scan directory where the batch scanned documents will be saved.
• Twain data source manager selection allows users to select which data source manager version must be used for scanning.

For example:
msiexec /i "[PATH]\IceViewer64BitSetup.msi" /q TARGETDIR="C:\Black Ice\IceViewer" CUSTOMINI="[PATH]\IceViewer.ini" REGNUM=xxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx



Supported Installation methods using Group Policy Deployment;

• Assign to Computer (silent install)
• Assign to User (silent install)
• Publish

Additional supported installation method;

• Installation from command line (cmd.exe)

Installing the IceViewer on VDI

The IceViewer can be installed on Azure VDI, AWS VDI, VMware VDI, or any VDI system from the master image.
The base requirement for licensing of the IceViewer is the IceViewer Special Installer with the licensing mechanism designed for VDI.
The MSI or Interactive IceViewer Special Installer can be requested from Black Ice Software Sales sales@blackice.com.

The Interactive or MSI IceViewer Special Installer for VDI is not available for a single license and is not available from the online store only directly from Black Ice Software sales.


Installing Black Ice products on Citrix VDI for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Installing Black Ice products on Azure Windows Virtual Desktop

Deploying IceViewer MSI Packages Using Microsoft Intune

Requirement

• .NET framework 4.0 or higher

For MSI Installer availability, contact sales@blackice.com.

Web Solutions

The number of cloud and web applications is more than ever. As more and more businesses are moving to the cloud, the need for a reliable and flexible web document viewer solution rises.
Black Ice IceViewer PDF offers different solutions for viewing documents in a web browser.

Which web solution should I choose?

While our solutions for the web offer a similar feature set, there are significant differences between installation and integration. Please see the most important differences below: