Miraplacid Publisher SDK 6.2

Miraplacid Publisher SDK 6.2 brings users all the functions of virtual printer driver that you find in Miraplacid Publisher. You can customize it and embed into your software. With the driver generated with Miraplacid Publisher SDK you can convert (print) any document to an image or web presentation. Anyone can open your document across a broad range of hardware and software, and it will look exactly as you intended - with layout, fonts, and images intact. No one can modify or copy and paste your texts.

After installation on your PC, driver generated with the SDK appears as a new virtual printer in your system. All the documents you print to this "printer" will be accessible from you software via COM interface. You scale the image, adjust hue, saturation and value, get rid of unused white borders, and do some other image processing. Then you can save results images to disk, upload to FTP or HTTP server,or print them to a real printer.

Miraplacid Publisher SDK supports following output formats: PDF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, TGA and Web Presentation. When redirecting to a printer, reduce saturation to save color cartridge or increase value to save black ink. Use borders detector in manual mode to set printing area when you need to print only the document part you need.

Turn "Auto Send" on if you want the driver to send images to chosen destinations without waiting for your input. If you want every document to be saved to an individual file, add {{DATE}}, {{TIME}}, {{IDENTITY}}, {{PAGE}} or {{JOB}} to the file name or path. They will be replaced with current date, time, some unique number, page number and print job id respectively.

SDK is free, but you will need a license to use or redistribute the printer driver it generates.

Do you need SDK or regular Miraplacid Publisher is what you need?

Miraplacid Publisher saves all the settings to system registry as a set of profiles. It means, that you can set it once and use it over and over. If you never change settings, just turn auto-save mode on and Miraplacid Publisher will not bug you with UI dialog. You can add something like {{DATE}}, {{JOB}} and {{PAGE}} to path or filename, and all the result images will be saved separately.

If it works for you, you probably do not need the SDK.

All the Miraplacid Publisher controls you can see on Miraplacid Publisher UI dialog, also available through COM interface. In fact, UI communicates with Core through COM. It means, that you can write a script or application to manage printing process.

If this is what you need, you still can do it without using SDK.

There are the folowing cases when you need the SDK:

• When you integrate Miraplacid Publisher with your product and want everything to be installed by your installer. Meaning, you do not want Miraplacid Publisher installation dialogs to pop up.
• When you need custom User Interface which will be compatible with your product by functionality.
• When you need to have much more control over printing process. In this case, you will need to write your own User Interface, which could not contain any actual graphics elements. This UI may just control printing process.
• When you need to have a automation component for document-to-text conversion purposes which will be named and look like integral part of your own product (re-branding).

How to start working with SDK

With Miraplacid Publisher SDK you will prepare printer driver installation package and install the driver on your PC.
If you skip these steps and launch some sample application, you will probably get an error mesage, cause some SDK components require proper registration and installation.

Launch setupmaker.exe. Default settings work fine. Press Ok button.
Copy mpublisher.dll generated by setupmaker.exe to examplessetupui folder.
Launch Setup.exe and press Install button.

Now you can start over and change settings or play with other SDK modules. 

Major Features:

1. Setup making wizard  setupmaker.exe. Start it, set all the parameters, push "Ok" buttons and get your custom Publisher installation component mpublisher.dll. This dll has everything to install Miraplacid Publisher to new PC. Those parameters include printer driver name and all the other names. You can change it to your company name or your product name .
2. Miraplacid Publisher documentation
3. SDK documentation
4. Custom installer, sample registration utility and custom User Interface.

Enhancements:

• Editable page number
• Monitors default printer change
• Handles DOS text input
• COM model improved
• New options
• Some fixes made

Requirements:

• Pentium-II 266
• At least 256 MB RAM
• At least 100 MB HDD
• Windows 2000/XP/2003/XP 64-bit/2008/Vista.