@SwIt Printfil
This software allows character-based programs printing to any Windows printer, including USB, network printers, faxmodems and PDF writers, even if it is a Dos/Windows application or a Unix/Linux program running on a Windows PC via telnet, without changes to the original applications.
You can set your application to print to an ascii file, or you can have Printfil capturing a parallel port output, automatically redirecting your print jobs to any printer, even to a printer which is physically connected to the captured port.
it allows also:
- preview printing
- include logos or other images stored in separate files
- colorize the text
- print A4 landscape sheets in place of printing on dot-matrix 136-column printers
- print to ANY printer installed on the Windows Control Panel, including USB, GDI, Windows-only and Virtual printers
- send print jobs via fax (using any third-party fax software which acts like a printer - eg. Microsoft Fax - or a multifunction - all-in-one - printer)
- use specialist windows fonts (barcodes, for instance) as well as normal characters
- export print jobs in PDF format, with or without user intervention, even with encryption and password protection
- send print jobs via e-mail by using your own e-mail client program, with or without user intervention
- use a single, customizable set of escape sequences for ALL printers, regardless of make, model and emulation provided (if any, as for GDI printers)
- print complex jobs to legacy printers in RAW mode (graphs, drawings)
- archive a copy of all the captured jobs
- use multiple printers simultaneously
All this without changes to your applications
If you are developing host based applications (like Unix) to run on a Windows Terminal Emulator, you can stop battling with transparent-print characters and different settings for different printers. All you need is a shared file system (NFS, SCO-VisionFS, Samba and others) to store output for your print jobs and PRINTFIL.
Program Details For: @SwIt Printfil
Program Name: @SwIt Printfil
Version: 5.2
Type: Shareware
Cost: 59 US
Size: 1209 K
Category: System Utilities::Printer
Platform: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,
Special Requirements: P133, 8Mb RAM, 2 Mb HD
Updates: 1. An optimized GDI rendering engine now makes the print job creation process faster of about 30-50% on average, expecially if Preview is enabled;
2. Simplified Terminal Server installations. It\’s no nore needed to write complex logon scripts and manually replicate the Printfil.ini file to run multiple Printfil instances on the server with different configurations for the different users;
3. Licenses centralization on the network server. When Printfil is used on a network (either peer-to-peer or in Terminal Server environments) now the license codes are stored all in once, on the server, without having to register each single client anymore;
4. Environment variables recognition in the \”File to check\” field, in addition to the already supported wildcards (* and ?);
5. Improved Windows Vista compatibility;
6. When creating the Printfil virtual printer used to capture the DOS LPT1: port, you can now choose on which location the temporary file containing the captured output will be stored;
7. Added user interface in Arabic and Finnish languages;
8. Some other minor improvements and bug fixes;
Download: @SwIt Printfil
