PDFing Release History

Processing of PCL soft fonts within macros is now correct.
Allow retry of SMTP email process when 4xx response.
Allow for multiple email addresses when *NOBOOK specified on [Burst] page of markup.
Adjusted precedence of "tags" for V3 compatiblity. Added QTAGSFIRST parameter.
Correct license-checking for non-western MS code-pages.
Added %PAD() "built-in" function.
Cosmetic GUI changes for Windows 7.

Allow processing of postscript spooled-files (without conversion).
Add functions: holdfonttabs() and datetonum() to "Lua for PDFing".
Display printer-name in "Job locked" message-box, when printing is active.

Display printer-name in properties form when printing is active.
Markup [Fonts] tab now has 40 sub-pages.

Corrected problem with calculation of *SCS page-width.
Corrected minor problems with Message.lookupaddress() function in "Lua for PDFing".
Corrected minor problems with formula adjustment in Excel feature.

Added "Inserted Page" feature on [Graphics] page of markup form.
Corrected minor problems with formula adjustment in Excel feature.

Upgraded spooled-file to excel feature, to be compatible with L4X v2.1 release.
Corrected minor problems with non-standard extensions of attached-files.
[Fonts] page of markup-forms now allows font-resizing etc.to be selected by copy-number.
[Fonts] page of markup-forms now allows constants to be selected by page type.
Corrected minor problem on [Graphics] page of markup-form.
Corrected minor problem on [Mail-list] page of markup-form.
Added fields: Job.pathall and Message.lookupaddress() to "Lua for PDFing".

Corrected problem with mis-translation of accented characters in USRDFNTXT attribute.
Corrected mis-reporting of error-codes in "Sharing" form.
Minor rework of un-install program.
Corrected NT service client, now shows correct statistics after "reset" request.

Added support for 120 DPI scaling.
Added display of error message when NT service fails in start-up. (Not in Vista).
Fixed problem with leading decimal-point in spooled-file to excel conversion.
Addressing routine now checks for *LIST* and : (colon) before calling ReplaceText(), so "invalid characters" in attribute values are (optionally) replaced.

Added support for PNG image-files.
Added support for adjusting font-heights without changing font-width.
Added "Adjust font-height" controls to Configuration and markup forms.
Added zip-name control to Configuration and markup forms.
Added EZN=zipname "tag"
Added field: Message.zipname to "Lua for PDFing"
Fixed (another) bug when virus-checking software has locked a control-file.

[Convert] page of markup and configuration forms now allows selection of Pcl2Pdf component.
Correction of PDF image problem introduced in v4.0.0.14.

[Fonts] page of markup form now allows font-mapping to be condioned by page-sequence.
[Fonts] page of markup form now allows constant search including "wild-cards".
[Paper] page of markup and configuration forms now allows resizing of font-height.
Lua for PDFing scripts can now re-write contents of spooled-file (Page.writeline() function).
Fix bug in *USERASCII spooled-files with estimated number-of-pages (for Walt Bennet).

Adjustment of "bursting" feature to preserve compatibility with previous versions.
Supported destinations now include: *ZIP*, this destination is used like *SET*, but all the files in the set are archived into one zip-file.

Correction of a serious error that occurs when saving email body text (introduced in v4.0.0.11).
*LIST* destinations now use markup-name as default mail-list name, NOT the mail-list name specified on the [Burst] page of the markup. Preserving compatibility with previous versions.
Can now save a PDF to a directory specified in the "Notify address" as well as send emails to address(es) looked up during "bursting"

Add option to omit blank lines from output asci text-file.
Lines of email body text are now un-limited.

Minor rework of thread interlocking mechanism for multi-core machines.
"Special-characters" are no longer interpreted in email addresses, unless the email address begins with special characters. This "fix" is for those (many) users sending email to and from: "R&D". Interpretion of special-characters may be forced back on, using a new control on the [Advanced] page of the configuration form.

Add new "grid-lines" controls to [Fonts] page of markup form. Allowing for add horizontal and vertical lines within a line-drawing.
Improves V1/V2 compatiblity when "scaling" font-sizes.
Automatically removes colon (:) characters from all email addresses. The colon character can be used to supress unwanted interpretation of "special-characters", thus preserving any ampersand (&) characters in the email address.
Add additional thread-start to NT service program.

Corrects a minor bug where under-lined text was not replaced correctly by the "text replacement" feature.
New version of ActiveX printing component.
Reconnects to ActiveX printing component after errors, to prevent stalling.
Corrects a destination bug that happened when "Burst" specification does not include address-code extraction.

Corrects a minor bug where under-lined text was not processed correctly by the "font-mapping" feature.
Added flag "r" to printer parameters, which specifies a range of pages to be printed.
Added field Message.printrange to "Lua for PDFing", which specifies a range of pages to be printed.
Added "Maximum rows" and "Maximum columns" controls to the Paper tab of the markup form. These may be used to set identical font-size correction for all spooled-files selecting this markup.

Corrects a major bug in "start-up" routines (introduced in v4.0.0.3), where new installations reported an error when reading the \Markup directory.
Corrected a bug in "Lua for PDFing" where the value of field Message.copyuserattachment was not reset after use.
Changes to [Convert] and [Fonts] pages of markup form. For Antonio Malerba.
- Allow multiple copies of an "un-transformed" *SCS spooled-file to be output to a single PDF.
- Allow "constant-text" to be applied to a particular copy of an "un-transformed" *SCS spooled-file.
- Allow searching for particular "constant-text" strings in an "un-transformed" *SCS spooled-file to which font selection and line-drawing should be applied.
- Allow evaluation of "special-characters" in "constant-text".
The [Fonts], [Graphics] and [Text] pages of markup form now have buttons at the bottom of the page which allow moving the contents of a numbered page to the next or previous page.
The Status column of the "open grid" now shows "prt" if the PDF has been printed. If printing errors have occurred then "prt" is shown in red.
The copies edit-control now allows for the output of multiple copies by the printer-driver, instead of multiple print-outs by PDFing.
Added table Column.Format.A .. IV to L4X (spooled-file to Excel) feature.

Corrects bug in text-replacement, when last column of text in a row was replaced.
Allow text-replacement on all pages of the spooled-file and conditional evaluation of "special-characters" in "replace-with" text. For Antonio Malerba.

Added "leading" control on [Fonts] page of markup form, allowing for adjustment of space between lines.
Corrected bug in PCL to text conversion, where end-macro instruction was ignored.
The "Queue" and "Configuration" directories can no longer be deployed on a remote device.

Corrected bug in "font-mapping" process that occured when mapped area extended past the end of a line.
The "file-save" process now only deletes/renames files with a recognized file-extension.

Corrected bug that occurs when L4X scripts include "event functions"
Corrected the interpretation of "special-character" &d when used in directory names.
Service client only requires "read"access to the PDFing directories.

Lua for Pdfing - added existsfile() function.
Added command-line options for NT service client.
Improved help-file.

First release of PDFing Version 4, see new features in Version 4 for details.

Correct a minor bug in text-replacement feature.
Correct a minor problem when OS400 connection closed prematurely.

Correct a major bug in memory allocation for OS400 spooled-files attributes.
Correct processing for email-addresses with TO: prefix.
Properties pop-up menu allows [Files] option for error-jobs.

Correct "burst" processing when address-code is absent.
Correct HP GL/2 bug.
Maximum size of "LuateX" scripts is now 32,767 characters.
Macros in excel files will now run automatically.

Allow holding of unaddressed messages.
Check message-parameters before release of held messages.

Allow for multiple "extra" email addresses.
Field: Message.userlogname added to Lua for PDFing.
Dollar-sign ($) address-separator is now optional. See [Advanced] configuration page.

Correction of spelling mistakes.

PDFing v3.1 can now run on Window NT4.
Improve look-up of printer names and address-list display.
Fixed a problem with replacing multiple text-strings.
Fixed an EOF problem in PCL processing.
Fixed a problem when the "markup" is specified by a "Lua for PDFing" script.

Fix problem when replacing text-strings.
Fix problem when looking-up printer-name.

Allow customization of the digital-signature "widget". See our digital signatures page for details.
Fix memory-leak in digital-signature component.

Add "look-up" of printer-name based on spooled-file attribute values.
Add -p prefix to distinguish printer-names in mail-lists.
Add -n *NULL* entry for mail-lists.

First release of PDFing Version 3.1 See New features in Version 3.1 for details.

Allows NT Service-controller to run on multiple desk-tops on the same PC.
Fix for an egregious problem that occurs when *SCS instructions cross buffer boundaries.
Corrects problems when OS400 LPR does not receive final ACK. Finally prevents OS400 sending the same spooled-file more than once.

Corrects other "pipe" bugs in the NT service controller. In particular error "243" which may occur when e-mails are sent to multiple recipients.
Corrects windows authority problem on jobs database file. This caused the erroneous error "another copy of PDFing is active"
Speeds-up acknowledgements to OS400 LPR. Prevents OS400 sending the same spooled-file more than once.

Corrects problems when SMTP stop delayed.
Corrects bug when "purging" jobs database.
Corrects an intermittent "pipe" bug in NT service controller.

Corrects "generation" processing when saving files to disk.
Adjustments to thread priorities to speed up NT Service.
Increases speed when "purging" old control-files.
Corrects processing of Lua Message.maildestlist, (was Message.maildestinationlist).

Integrates the "3-heights PDF Printer" which allows PDFing to print the PDF files it generates.
PDFing can now add a specified prefix to saved file-names, as well as the generation number. The [DESTINATION] page of the configuration form has the additional control for this feature. Giampaolo Cossa had the idea.
The PDFing Service Client (PDFingCntrl.exe) no longer requires access to the "Service Manager" and can now run on Win 95/98.
Corrects a serious memory-leak in "Lua for PDFing".

Opening of spooled-file grid is (at least) 5X faster.
Increased processing speed.
Improved memory-management. Allows PDFing "Service" to run for many weeks, without memory fragmentation.
Enhancements to LuateX functions, including saving VB macros.
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Cosmetic changes to GUI for cleaner appearance on Windows XP.
Add Event.OnBeginSecure() to Lua for PDFing.
New configuration option to specify "Excel Example" file.
Enhancements to LuateX functions, to match latest LuateX documentation.
Fix for bug that occurred when the extracted address-code did not have a matching e-mail address.

Fix for bug in correction of document names.
Fix for bug when creating directories.
Add "From Address" to [Mail] page of properties form.
Fix for bug in text-extraction/replace feature (*AFPDS and *USERASCII).
Allow Lua for PDFing to specify * (no address) for .maildestination & .notifydestination fields.

Improvements to "Filter" user-interface.
Allow specification of ESMTP authentication method (CRAM, LOGIN, PLAIN).
Help files now refer to LuateX, rather than Luasheet.

Fix for (rare) bug that could cause the NT service to lock.
Fix for LPR/LPD bug that could occur when receiving small spooled-files.
Fix for "Lua for PDFing" bug when specifying accented characters for email body text.
Fix for sort-order bug and new case-sensitivity option in "Mail-Lists".
Add [View|Filter] option for NT Service controller. Allows selection of jobs by user etc.
Add [Text] page to the "markup" form, so that (up to 20) text strings can be extracted from spooled-file text and used to replace the new "special characters" &1 - &20
New "special characters" &K are replaced by book-mark text.
Optionally, honor page-range attributes for spooled-files. See: "Use Page Range ?" control on the [Advanced] configuration page.
Can now convert *SCS spooled-files in Ebcdic code-page 423 (Greek)
Can now send "burst" spooled-files for the the same address as multiple attachments to one spooled-file. See the "Email Per:" control on the [Burst] page of the markup form.
Luasheet renamed as LuateX and release of LuateX IDE for Excel v1.0
Improvements to Excel conversion feature as in latest release of the LuateX IDE.

Release of Luasheet IDE for Excel v1.3
Improvements to Excel conversion feature as in latest release of the Luasheet IDE.
Minor improvements to Lua for PDFing.
Fixed bug which caused invalid replacement of special characters &B and &C when specified for notification e-mails.
Fixed bug which lost accented characters in the mail body text.
Improvements and fixes to *AFPDS to ASCII-text conversion feature.
Improvements to LPR/LPD error-handling.
Improved help-file.

Include latest version of \Res\Luasheet.dll

Adjust thread priorities to improve LPD reliability.
Increase maximum time-out period for LPD.
Detect error shut-down and re-build database.
Allow %SST(&x n n) operations on special characters.
Includes version 1.2.0.1 of Luasheet.

Blind-Copy problems corrected.
Improved appearance of [Mail-List] page.
Enhanced diagnostics and error-recovery.

Corrected problem with "Notify URL" and &R special-characters.
Now includes blank spooled-file pages in PDF.

Simplified "bursting" and "bookmarking" options.
Improved SMTP error reporting.

Allow use of special characters "&P" in document name.
Improved TCP/IP socket handling.

Add keyword support for RTF documents.
Add special characters "&B" for burst-text substitution.

First release of PDFing Version 3. See New features in Version 3 for details.

Date line in SMTP message headers has English day and month text (for Stefano Natali).

Fix email headers when receipt requested. (For Giuseppe Nava)

Fix problems when incomplete spooled-files are converted. (For Richard McConkey)
Tidy up file-locking.

Use "Code-Width" on [Mail-List] page to limit length of code used in "bursting". (For Mohammad Abidi).

Fix for intermittent write error in folder: \Queue\Lpd (For Anne M. Halker).

Make extracted address code available when document contains one address only. (For Lim Chee Pei).

Add date line to SMTP message headers (for Gary Singer).

Allow addition of PCL macros to *AFPDS spooled-files.

Correct error when "burst code" is numeric.

Correct situation where PDF is included in zip file, even when PDF file conversion has not been requested.
Adjust *SCS conversion to allow for spooled-files created by System/36 sub-system.

Correct implementation of user-controlled e-mailing of previously un-addressed spooled-file.

Correct occasional memory leaks in *AFPDS conversion.
Problem with right horizontal move instruction corrected.

Correct implementation of sub-script/super-script instructions
Correct problem where special-character &F was replaced by device-file name. Now replaced by spooled-file name.

Warn if another instance of PDFingMailer is running. Correction for problems with OS400 user-data.
Correction for manual email sending.
First implementation for SETS/BUNDLE email logic.

Correction for Image application logic for "On Footer ?"
Correction for DESTOPT(*OS400).
Correction for RTF conversion.

The NT Service version allows PDF Encryption settings for transformed spooled-files.
Improved NT Service control program
Minor improvements to GUI.

Improved OS400 compatabilty and a better user-interface.

Bug fixes for problems with accented characters and CPI() DDS keyword processing.

Many new features including splitting a spooled-file into multiple documents and the option to "hold" documents before emailing.

Incorporates fix for missing carriage-return after "User Defined Text" experienced after V4R4 to V4R5 upgrade.

Incorporates fixes for various "bugs" and infelicities. Particularly relating to *SCS paper margins and graphics.

This release includes a new configuration and mark-up options. Configuration is now managed by a new configuration program, which we hope will prove easier for you to use.
PDFingMailer now gives you the option to generate untransformed, *SCS spooled-files into.RTF files as well as PDF files.
You can specify, in the Convert page of the configuration and mark-up programs, that older files are renamed, so that the newest file retains the name you specified. You can also specify the number of duplicate files that are retained. If you specify 0 generations, then the older file is always replaced and no renaming occurs.
You may now choose to "keep" a file and also notify users of the new file location by email. You can specify, in the Mail-List page of the mark-up program, a list of email addresses (one address per line).

Corrects problem with irrelevant "KEEP" errors.
Corrects problem with domain separator character translation.

Process OV/400 documents.
Compression of PDF files.
Copy PDF to another drive/directory.
Select and create book-marks in PDF documents
New "User Print Information Tags".
Allows spaces within "tags".
Interpret tags in remote-print-queue name.
Can specify default mail address in markup options.

Faster *SCS to PDF conversion.
Cosmetic changes to configuration and mark-up programs.

First Release of NT service version.

Added Mail Return Address, Subject and Body Text to mark-up options.

Support for rasterisation of AFP soft-fonts.

General re-engineering.
Better support for national languages.
Support for reports up to 1024 columns wide.
Ignore "Change Drawer" SCS code.
Added PDF Title & Subject to mark-up options.
New user-print-information tags, including document name and mail subject.
New OS/400 utility commands.
Better LPD multi-tasking.