novaPDF 5
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Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Softland. All Rights Reserved.


Table of Contents
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  1. Overview
  2. Revision history
  3. System requirements
  4. Installation
  5. How to contact us


Overview
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Using novaPDF you can easily create high quality PDF files in an affordable and reliable way from any Windows application. It installs as a virtual printer driver and its easy-to-use interface helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert your Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, AutoCad drawings, emails or web pages). Its purpose is to enable users to easily exchange electronic documents, independently of the application in which they were initially created. The resulted PDF files can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed. 

novaPDF can be easyly used in the network. You can install novaPDF as a printer server and it can be used from any computer in the network, without having to install it on each computer.

You can password protect the PDF files you create and permissions can be restricted to prevent the document from being viewed, printed, modified, copied or annotated. Your PDF documents will be protected and secured with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption algorithms. 

novaPDF is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server and Windows Vista and requires approximately 10MB of free disk space for the installation. It doesn't require Adobe Acrobat or GhostScript to be installed to generate the pdf file. 

novaPDF can generate PDF files with embedded fonts. This means that your PDF files can be read and printed on any system without distributing your font separately, while maintaing the original intended design. 

novaPDF has a lot of features that allows you to: modify the paper size (or create new custom page sizes for large format printing), modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400 dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), fonts embedding (support for OpenType and TrueType), compress text and images (zip and Jpeg compression allow the generation of smaller output files), graphic conversion, watermarks, detect URL and file links, and lots more. 

Using novaPDF, both individual users and businesses are able to create PDF documents and easily share them, making the process of collaboration more efficient. 


Revision history
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What's New in Version 5.3 (25-Sep-2007)
- Added text watermarks feature
- Added PDF size optimizations
- Added new user interface localization (Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Finnish)
- Bug fixes for SDK and printer driver

What's New in Version 5.2 (19-July-2007)
- Added printer driver for Windows XP x64, Windows 2003 Server x64, Windows Vista x64
- Added new user interface localization (Koreean)
- Bug fixes for SDK and printer driver

What's New in Version 5.1 (22-May-2007)
- Added OEM edition for developers
- Bug fixes for Vista and Windows 2000
- Added user interface localization (Greek, Hungarian and Vietnamese languages)
- Added "Correct fill color" option
- Other bug fixes for SDK and user interface

What's New in Version 5.0 (6-April-2007)
- Vista compatible driver
- Added Graphics feature
- Added Watermarks feature
- Server edition - see list of client computers even when not registered
- Added PDF version option
- Propagate default profiles on client computers
- Added option to disable private profiles on client computers
- Added event handling functions in SDK
- Added public / private parameter to Set / Get functions in SDK
- Added new settings in Save options
- Added option for correcting line widths
- Other bug fixes for user interface

What's New in Version 4.2 (10-October-2006)
- Internal driver changes and bugfixes for MS Publisher 2003 and MS Word 2000
- Added reset button for public profiles
- Added magnification options for PDF viewer
- Corected embedding for some fonts
- Corrected bookmarks for non-latin languages
- Added user interface localization (Slovenian and Simplified chinese languages)
- Other bug fixes for user interface

What's New in Version 4.1 (15-August-2006)
- Added user interface localization (Italian, German, Brazilian and Portuguese languages)
- Allow changes to public profiles on client computers
- Features list on the About page
- Added last generated PDF file name in SDK
- Do not uninstall port and driver if there are more printers installed
- Bug fixes for user interface, send mail from server, public profiles
- Bug fixes for handling public profiles from SDK

What's New in Version 4.0 (5-July-2006)
- New Server Editions with support for public profiles visible on all client computers
- Added support for PDF bookmarks
- Extended NovaPdfOptions interface in SDK with new options and functions
- Added MS Word OLE samples in the SDK
- Corrected sending mails with MS Outlook
- Other bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 3.3 (5-June-2006)
- Added user interface localization (French and Czech languages)
- Minor bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 3.2 (24-May-2006)
- Added user interface localization (Swedish, Serbian and Ukrainian languages)
- Other minor bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 3.1 (21-April-2006)
- Added support for asian languages in the user interface
- Added user interface localization (Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Polish and Japanese languages)
- Read default paper from profile when override flag set
- Other minor bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 3.0 (27-March-2006)
- Added user interface localization (English and Romanian languages)
- Send generated PDF files by email, using SMTP or default email client
- Extended NovaPdfOptions interface in SDK with new options and functions
- Added A3 form
- Use smaller port names (NVP3)
- CID Fonts corrections
- Corrected Word image rectangles
- Other bug-fixes in Printer driver and SDK

What's New in Version 2.5 (9-January-2006)
- Added optimization of image sequences in Printer driver
- Added NoInstallIfExists parameter to silent installer (SDK)
- Other bug-fixes in Printer driver and SDK

What's New in Version 2.4 (7-December-2005)
- Added NetBIOS and DNS machine names for network licensing
- Added support for OLE applications to novaPDF SDK
- Added silent print option for novaPDF SDK
- Other bug-fixes in Printer driver and SDK

What's New in Version 2.3 (21-October-2005)
- Added Access and VB.Net samples to novaPDF SDK
- Added methods to set encrypted strings in INovaPdfOptions
- Corrected Foxit reader problem (rotate pages)
- Added page mode viewer option
- Other minor bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 2.2 (5-October-2005)
- Added a Demo printer driver for novaPDF SDK
- Added VB samples to novaPDF SDK
- Bug-fixes in Printer driver

What's New in Version 2.1 (12-September-2005)
 - Added Left, Right, Top and Bottom paper margins
 - Corrected scale handling and added an extended zoom factor
 - Added save options to auto number existing pdf files
 - Corrected detection of file links 
 - Other bug-fixes

What's New in Version 2.0 (16-August-2005)
 - Network installation and licensing
 - PDF Links - detect file and URL links in the printed document
 - Other minor bug-fixes

What's New in Version 1.2 (8-July-2005)
 - Speed optimization for big true type fonts, especially for asian characters
 - Extract corect PDF document name from the print job name
 - Other speed optimizations and minor bug-fixes

What's New in Version 1.1 (9-June-2005)
 - Create Standard PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing 
 - Generate High-Quality PDF files, retaining the precise layout of the original file 
 - PDF Security and Document Protection (40-bit/128-bit encryption) 
 - Set Document information for the generated PDF file (title, subject, author, keywords) 
 - Optimized File Sizes (support for JPEG and ZIP compression) 
 - Create User profiles
 - Advanced Font Embedding, Graphics and Page Size Controls 
 - International Language Support
 - Does not Require Adobe Acrobat to generate the PDF file 


System requirements
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To install novaPDF you need Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP, Windows® 2003 Server or Windows Vista and approximately 10 megabytes of free disk space.

Additional disk space is needed for the output directory where the generated PDF files will be placed. The amount of free space needed depends on the size of files to convert to PDF and the compression settings.


Installation
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The installation process does not take much time. All you need to do is to follow the instructions of the “novaPDF Setup Wizard”.

If you have already installed an older version of novaPDF, you can install the new version on top of the older one, no need to uninstall it; your old settings will be preserved. You might need to close novaPDF if it is running (or if the novaPDF Properties window is opened in another application). After the installation process finishes, you might be asked to reboot your computer.  

To uninstall novaPDF, you will need first to close the application. Then go to the "novaPDF Printer" application group (from the Windows “Start” menu, go to "Programs"->"novaPDF Printer" and click “Uninstall novaPDF Printer”).
You can also uninstall the application using the “Add/Remove programs” icon from the “Control Panel”.


Program credits 
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novaPDF Printer makes use of the following freeware components: 

'zlib' general purpose compression library version 1.1.4, March 11th, 2002
   Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
   http://www.zlib.org/ 

The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
   "this software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group"
   Copyright (C) 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane.
