FinePrint Version 3.60 July 9, 1999 Description ----------- FinePrint is a printer driver for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0. FinePrint prints any multi-page document onto fewer sheets of paper by printing 1, 2, 4, or 8 document pages onto each physical sheet of paper, while maintaining document integrity and clarity. FinePrint also allows you to customize your printouts by adding headers, footers, and watermarks to your pages. Benefits of FinePrint --------------------- * saves significant amounts of paper and toner, and extends printer life * works with any standard Windows application which has a Print function * returns control to your application quickly, which allows you to continue working while FinePrint prints your document in the background * works with any Windows printer (inkjet, PCL laser, PostScript, bubble jet, etc.) * particularly useful for spreadsheets, email, electronic manuals, draft memos, technical papers, presentations, Web pages, Adobe Acrobat PDF files, software source code * can be used to efficiently archive large amounts of physical documents * saves weight for business travelers--carry only 1/2 or 1/4th the amount of paper * supports all standard Windows print features such as fonts, graphics, page size, etc. * Stationery feature prints a header, footer, page number, date and time stamps with your document * a watermark may be underprinted on a page at a 45-degree angle. Watermarks include Confidential, Draft, Eyes Only, etc. * simple to install and easy to use New Features in Version 3.x --------------------------- * gives you a true preview of your print job before you print it, even when your application does not have a Print Preview feature * lets you delete pages from your print job before you send it to the destination printer * bigger scaling for better readability, even at 4-up and 8-up * provides full support for duplex printers * prints booklets and double-sided jobs on any printer * displays tool tips which explain all FinePrint features * FormFactory feature lets you save print jobs for use as custom electronic forms (letterhead, invoices, etc.) * supports more than 50 different paper sizes * one price now gets you FinePrint on all supported platforms Installation ------------ To install FinePrint, run the program FPxxx.EXE (Windows 95/98) or FPNTxxx.EXE (Windows NT), where "xxx" is the FinePrint version number. Then follow the onscreen instructions. Uninstalling ------------ In the Start menu, open the Programs folder, then open the FinePrint folder and select "Uninstall FinePrint." You may also uninstall FinePrint in the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs applet. Recent Changes -------------- -- July 29, 1998 (v3.10) -- 1. released version 3.10 -- August 1, 1998 (v3.10a) -- 2. fixed a problem where text was sometimes clipped along the left and top edges of the page 3. fixed printing problems when the FinePrint Driver was not the default printer. this caused print jobs from Netscape 4.05 and some other applications to fail. -- August 5, 1998 (v3.10b) -- 4. fixed problems printing fonts from PDF files. see the "PDF font correction" check box in the Printer Options dialog. 5. FormFactory no longer causes "access denied" error messages 6. fixed problems with margins and forms. when a form is selected, both the form and the document are drawn with Original margins, so the Margins combo box is disabled. 7. the second installation of v3.10 no longer deletes your old v1.x or v2.x FinePrint Driver. 8. thin line segments no longer disappear in the final printout -- August 5, 1998 (v3.10c) -- 9. fixed problems printing multiple copies from Word 10. fixed problems printing embedded double byte fonts in PDF files -- August 7, 1998 (v3.10d) -- 11. fixed problems with missing graphics, borders, line segments, etc. 12. fixed problems printing compressed DIBs -- August 10, 1998 (v3.10e) -- 13. stationery is now printed correctly when the "Not at all" dialog setting is chosen 14. FinePrint now installs correctly under the original Windows 95 release -- August 24, 1998 (v3.10f) -- 15. fixed problems printing some fonts from Excel VBA editor under Win 95/98 16. fixed accelerator key conflicts (Defer/Defer All) in the main dialog 17. options for the destination printer (Properties button in the Options dialog) are now saved and restored for each printer 18. added "Extra margins" and "Test page" items in the destination printer Options dialog. rearranged the Options dialog to make it easier to use. -- September 8, 1998 (v3.11) -- 19. improved handling of mixed portrait/landscape print jobs 20. landscape PDF files now print correctly at 4 and 8-up 21. white text from PDF files now prints correctly 22. fixed problems with upside-down bitmaps 23. printing a large number of documents under NT no longer causes out of memory problems -- September 11, 1998 (v3.11a) -- 24. fixed problems when cancelling the spooling phase of a print job to the FinePrint Driver on some NT systems -- September 16, 1998 (v3.11b) -- 25. colored patterns on rotated landscape pages now print correctly 26. dashed lines now print correctly from NT 27. out of memory conditions when printing PDF files are now handled 28. fixed problems with 1-up scaling 29. fixed clipping problems where content was sometimes drawn outside of the page boundary 30. fixed a problem printing single-sided documents to a printer which is set for double-sided printing 31. FinePrint Driver settings (paper size, orientation, etc.) are now preserved when you install a new version of FinePrint 32. fixed problems with incorrect spacing of double byte characters -- October 13, 1998 (v3.12) -- 33. fixed problems printing text and graphics from PDF files 34. fixed problems drawing rotated landscape pages to 256-color devices 35. fixed problem with text respacing in certain circumstances 36. fixed problems printing shaded cells from Excel 37. fixed problems printing filled areas from Word under NT 38. fixed problems with double byte character spacing -- October 26, 1998 (v3.12a) -- 39. fixed problems printing rotated landscape pages 40. FormFactory now works correctly when the UI is set to "Before printing starts" 41. print jobs sent to FinePrint while it is printing to a physical printer are now handled correctly 42. fixed problems with text spacing 43. fixed problems printing certain fonts from PDF files -- November 4, 1998 (v3.14) -- 44. fixed system slowdowns that sometimes occur when FinePrint is running 45. fixed problems drawing filled shapes -- December 18, 1998 (v3.20) -- 46. FinePrint now automatically emulates the destination printer, which ensures that line breaks and page breaks will be the same whether you print to FinePrint or directly to your printer 47. installing FinePrint no longer requires you to restart Windows 48. fixed display problems in the Information and Registration tabs 49. changed the duplex options and moved all duplex settings into the printer options dialog 50. added the "Bypass" layout option which passes documents directly to the destination printer without scaling or other modifications 51. stationery files (FP3.STA) now use the same format under Windows 95/98 and NT 52. fixed problems drawing dashed and dotted lines to some printers 53. fixed problems drawing rotated text on rotated landscape pages 54. fixed problems drawing rotated landscape pages to some printers 55. improved the appearance of booklets by adding a gutter between the adjacent pages 56. you can now print multiple copies from FinePrint with the "Copies" option on the main Layout tab -- January 7, 1999 (v3.21) -- 57. fixed a scroll bar problem when you delete the last page of a document 58. fixed the up/down direction of the "Copies" item 59. reworked the duplex UI to improve ease of use -- January 10, 1999 (v3.22) -- 60. fixed problems that resulted from clicking the Close (X) button on the FinePrint dialog instead of the Cancel button 61. fixed a problem with rotated landscape pages under Japanese NT 4.0 -- January 19, 1999 (v3.23) -- 62. fixed a problem printing complex clip regions from Adobe Acrobat 63. now produces larger scaling when printing booklets to a printer with large margins (e.g. inkjets) 64. fixed problems with the following paper sizes: Ledger Envelope B6 US Std Fanfold 8 x 6 in #10 Env. 9.50 x 4.12 in DL Env. 220.0 x 110.0 mm Fanfold 12.00 x 8.50 in Fanfold 14.50 x 11.00 in 65. fixed a problem printing a partial page range from Excel when multiple worksheets are selected 66. rotated double byte fonts now print correctly 67. underlined double byte fonts now print correctly 68. fixed a problem with text spacing of smart quotes 69. user-defined stationery is now properly preserved when FinePrint is reinstalled under NT -- January 22, 1999 (v3.30) -- 70. initial release of FinePrint Enterprise Edition -- January 29, 1999 (v3.31) -- 71. the "Copies" option is now reset to 1 on each new print job 72. FinePrint now works correctly with the Windows TIFF viewer 73. closing a zoomed preview window with Alt-F4 no longer causes problems -- March 16, 1999 (v3.35) -- 74. fixed a problem where editing, creating, or deleting stationery under NT could cause the stationery file to become corrupted 75. fixed problems with deferred printing when "Show FinePrint dialog" is set to "before printing starts" 76. fixed a problem where the FinePrint dialog sometimes displayed a scroll bar when it shouldn't 77. added options to control how rotated landscape pages are displayed and printed. You should use this if you are having trouble printing documents which contain both portrait and landscape pages. See the Printer Options dialog for details. 78. you can now select single or double sided output when doing Bypass printing 79. FinePrint now installs a shortcut in the Send To folder, so to print a document to FinePrint you can just right-click on the document and select FinePrint Driver from the Send To menu 80. fixed problems printing certain text and graphics from Acrobat to Postscript printers 81. fixed problems printing some embedded TrueType fonts 82. changes made to the Form and Margins settings are now persistent when you are in Booklet layout 83. FinePrint now uses GDI resources much more efficiently. Complex documents which use many fonts or brushes now display and print much faster, and without running out of memory. 84. fixed a problem where text on a form was sometimes printed in a Wingdings font 85. two-page booklets now print correctly on manual duplex printers -- March 18, 1999 (v3.36) -- 86. fixed problems printing PDF files under NT 4 where sometimes text was not bold when it should be, or the wrong characters were printed -- April 5, 1999 (v3.40) -- 87. most FinePrint registry settings are now stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so multiple users on the same computer can maintain their own FinePrint settings. 88. FinePrint data files are now stored in the user's Application Data folder instead of in a common location. 89. fixed problems with FinePrint Enterprise Edition in a secure NT environment 90. fixed a problem that could cause the installer to crash -- April 7, 1999 (v3.41) -- 91. fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when printing very large bitmaps under Windows 95/98 92. fixed a problem with occasional missing text in the screen display 93. fixed problems with the installer that sometimes resulted in an incomplete installation -- April 8, 1999 (v3.42) -- 94. fixed a problem with printing rotated text under Windows 95/98 -- April 15, 1999 (v3.43) -- 95. fixed a problem where the FinePrint program group was created more than once 96. added support for printers with non-standard resolutions 97. the installer now creates the Application Data folder if it does not already exist -- June 7, 1999 (v3.50) -- 98. FinePrint now supports all international fonts and character sets, including Middle Eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. 99. fixed a clipping problem under NT -- June 14, 1999 (v3.55) -- 100. you can now delete multiple pages easily by right-clicking on a page and selecting "Enter page delete mode" from the menu 101. fixed a problem printing certain types of text under NT 102. fixed a text clipping problem under Windows 95/98 103. fixed a problem printing certain shapes (e.g. round rectangles) to some printers 104. fixed an installation problem that affected some NT and Windows 2000 systems -- June 21, 1999 (v3.56) -- 105. removed the 8-page limit when printing from an unregistered copy of FinePrint 106. headers, footers, and watermarks can now be as large as 400 points 107. the installer now optionally makes FinePrint the default printer 108. fixed problems printing End User Defined Characters (EUDCs) under Far East versions of Windows 109. fixed an installation problem with the dispatcher 110. fixed a problem where the scroll bar sometimes did not appear in the main FinePrint dialog --- July 9, 1999 (v3.60) --- 111. the FormFactory tab no longer sets the current form when you are in Bypass mode 112. fixed problems when printing multiple PDF files to the FinePrint Driver under NT. the problem most commonly caused text to appear as black blobs. 113. major improvement in text drawing speed onscreen 114. improved font handling on complex PDF files, so they do not cause out of memory errors anymore 115. fixed a problem when printing multiple copies of a job to a duplex printer. each copy now starts on a new sheet of paper. 116. fixed a problem printing to certain Oki printers 117. smart borders now work correctly with PDF page ordering Company History --------------- We are FinePrint Software, a company founded in 1995 by Jonathan Weiner and Mark O'Brien. Our mission is to create printing products that maximize the functionality of existing printing hardware. Our innovative approach to printing allows us to create software on all Windows platforms that works with all existing printers. Setting Default Paper Size -------------------------- In many countries the default paper size is A4. It is possible to set FinePrint to always use this or other supported sizes by default. In the Start menu, open the Settings Printers folder, then right-click on the FinePrint Driver and select Properties (Windows 95/ 98) or Document Defaults (Windows NT). This will present you with a list of choices, and you can select A4 or any other supported paper size as the default. FinePrint Dispatcher -------------------- The FinePrint Dispatcher is a program that runs in the background and manages the flow of print jobs within FinePrint. The Dispatcher must be running in order for FinePrint to operate. If you ever get an error message about "Could not locate the FinePrint Dispatcher", you can try re-launching it from the FinePrint program group in the Start menu. Or, you can reboot your computer, since the Dispatcher is launched upon startup. Registration ------------ You have downloaded a trial version of FinePrint. If you decide to use it, registration to the full version costs $29.95. The registration mechanism we use allows payment by check, credit card, and electronic payment. When payment is received, you will be sent a registration key which you then enter into FinePrint. Once you have registered by entering your key, two things will happen: 1. The "unregistered" message printed on each page will be removed. 2. The 8 page limit will be removed. Registering entitles you to receive free maintenance upgrades of FinePrint. Major new releases will be made available to registered users at a substantial discount. To register, click the Register tab in the FinePrint window and then click the Order Form button to fill out an order form. You can also click the Register Online button to connect to our registration page. After you have registered and receive the serial number, enter it along with your name in the spaces provided. Support Information ------------------- We are committed to providing excellent support for our customers. We can be reached for technical support and comments via email at support@fineprint.com. Contact Information ------------------- sales: sales@fineprint.com support: support@fineprint.com web: http://www.fineprint.com FinePrint IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. SINGLE TRACK SOFTWARE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SINGLE TRACK SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF SINGLE TRACK SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FinePrint is a trademark of Single Track Software.