Q: How to change settings of ActMask Universe Virtual Printer Driver quickly?

A: Easy. We provided GUI tools to help you evaluate functions of SDK and change Printer Preferences settings. Clicking the "Printer Preferences" shortcut in progam group to change options of SDK quickly.

Quick Links:

Q: How I specify output file format and other options for output?
A: Please click here, Set Virtual Printer Preferences.

Q: How to check the Virtual Printing functions?
A: Please click here, Evaluate Virtual Printer Driver.

Q: How to get output files and all printing information from your virtual printer driver?
A: Please click here, Get output file(s) and all printing information from ActMask Virtual Printer Driver.

Q: How your Virtual Printer Driver notices our application after converting print job?
A: Please click here, Set TransMode to notice your application after converting print job.

How Virtual Printer works

Set TransMode

Preferences

To specify output format and other options via GUI tools, run "Printer Preferences" shortcut from ActMask Universe Virtual Printer SDK's program group, change settings and click OK button to save them.

PDF options	Output formats	Image smooth playback options
Watermark for PDF, Image	ZIP, Task, FTP	Printer tools, Printer Redirection

Set Preferences via Registry

Of course, you can set Preferences settings in registry directly. Learn more details about set registry value, please see Windows API RegOpenKeyEx, RegSetValueEx and RegCloseKey in MS SDK.

Registry Key Name

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ActMask Universe Virtual Printer SDK

ActMask Universe Virtual Printer Driver tries to load personal settings from this key first. If this key does not exist and there're settings under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ActMask Universe Virtual Printer SDK, global settings will be applied.

Registry Value Name	Data Type	Value
OutputFormat OutputFolder OutputFile OutputMode	String String String DWORD	Specify output format for file(s) exported from ActMask Virtual Printer Driver. "PDF" - Export PDF format. "EMF" - Export EMF format. "SPL" - Export SPL format. "JPG" - Export JPG format. "BMP" - Export BMP format. "GIF" - Export PNG format. "PNG" - Export PNG format. "TIF" - Export Multi-Page / single page TIFF format. "TGA" - Export TGA format. "PCX" - Export PCX format. "TXT" - Export TXT format. ActMask Virtual Printer Driver saves file(s) to this folder. If you would like to specify file name for output directly, set this setting before printing. and OutputMode should equal to 2. Specify output mode. 2 - Save file with name specified. 3 - Save file to folder specified.
PDFTitle PDFSubject PDFKeywords PDFAuthor PDFDocVer	String String String String String	Specify title of PDF document. Specify subject of PDF document. Specify key words of PDF document. Specify author of PDF document. Specify version of PDF document. Default value: "1.4" "1.2" - PDF 1.2 version. "1.3" - PDF 1.3 version. "1.4" - PDF 1.4 version. "1.5" - PDF 1.5 version.
PDFCompressContent PDFCompressImages PDFEmbedFont PDFUnicodeSubset PDFSupportAsian PDFCodePage	String String String String String DWORD	Compress PDF content. "0" - Don't compress PDF content. "1" - Compress PDF content. Compress images within PDF document. "0" - Don't compress images within PDF file. "1" - Compress images within PDF file. Compress fonts within PDF document. "0" - Don't embed fonts. "1" - Embed fonts. Embed UNICODE Subset into PDF document. "0" - Don't embed UNICODE Subset. "1" - Embed UNICODE Subset. Support Asian characters. "0" - Don't support Asian characters. "1" - Support Asian characters. Specify codepage for PDF file. Default value: 0 0 - Detect automatically, don't apply codepage. 437 - PC-ASCII US (437) 850 - ISO8859-1 Western European (850) 852 - PC-ASCII Eastern European (852) 1250 - Windows - Eastern European (1250) 1251 - Windows - Cyrillic (1251) 1255 - Windows - Hebrew (1255)
PDFEncryption PDFPassUser PDFPassOwner PDFPermPrint PDFPermCopy PDFPermEdit PDFPermAddNotes PDFPermFillFields PDFPermCopyAccess PDFPermPrintFull PDFPermAssemble	String String / Binary String / Binary String String String String String String String String	Apply encryption for PDF document. "0" - Don't encrypt PDF Document. "128" - Apply PDFPassUser, PDFPassOwner for PDF document with 128 bit encryption. User password for PDF document. If you want to hide password in registry, use dll we provided to store password with AES encryption. Owner password for PDF document. If you want to hide password in registry, use dll we provided to store password with AES encryption. "0" - Don't allow the user to print the PDF document. "1" - Allow the user to print the PDF document. "0" - Don't allow the user to copy text and graphics from the PDF document. "1" - Allow the user to copy text and graphics from the PDF document. "0" - Don't allow the user to edit the PDF document. "1" - Allow the user to edit the PDF document. "0" - Don't allow the user to add annotations. "1" - Allow the user to add annotations. "0" - Don't allow the user to fill in form fields. "1" - Allow the user to fill in form fields. "0" - Disable copying for use with accessibility features. "1" - Enable copying for use with accessibility features. "0" - Force low-resolution printing of the document only. "1" - Enable High-Resolution Printing. "0" - Don't allow the user to assemble the PDF document. "1" - Allow the user to assemble the PDF document.
JPEGQuality MultiPageTIF ResizingRate ResizingWidth ResizingHeight ResizingMode	DWORD String String DWORD DWORD DWORD	The graphics quality for JPEG output format. Defaulet value: 85 Specify how to create TIFF file(s). Defaulet value: "1" "0" - Create single TIFF file for each page. "1" - Create multi-page TIFF file contains all pages. The scaling rate for image output. Defaulet value: 33 Specify width for image output, in pixels. Set it to 0 to create image(s) with ResizingRate. Specify length for image output, in pixels. Set it to 0 to create image(s) with ResizingRate. Specify mode for image scaling. 0 - Create image(s) with Simple Playback mode. 1 - Create image(s) with Nearest Neighbour Playback mode. 2 - Create image(s) with Bilinear Playback mode.
WatermarkEnabled Watermark0 WatermarkPDFTranslucent WatermarkOrder	String String String DWORD	Apply watermark on output file(s). "0" - Disable watermark. "1" - Enable watermark. Watermark settings on output file(s). Format: "Text:;HAlign:;VAlign:;Rotation:;Color:;FontName:;FontSize:;" For example, "Text:This's Demo;HAlign:0;VAlign:0;Rotation:30;Color:8080ff; FontName:Verdana;FontSize:0;" Set watermark on PDF as Translucent. "0" - Apply solid watermark on PDF. "1" - Enable translucent watermark on PDF. Z-order of watermark.
ReDirectToPrinter	String	Redirect print job to another printer.
DispRunTaskMode DispRunTask	DWORD String	0 - Don't call Task. 1 - Call Task after creating file(s). 2 - Call Task after distributing file(s). A null-terminated string that specifies the command line to execute, and you can pass parameter %1, %2 or %3 to the application. %1 - The name of first file created. %2 - Number of files. %3 - The name of ZIP file created. For example, "C:\YourApplication.exe %1 %2" "C:\YourApplication.exe %3"
DispZIPCompress DispZIPPass	String String / Binary	Create ZIP file for output file(s). "0" - Don't create ZIP file. "1" - Created ZIP file. Create ZIP file with this password you specified. "" - No password protection. "Your password" - Created ZIP file with this password. If you want to hide password in registry, use dll we provided to store password with AES encryption.
DispFiles DispZIPFiles DispDelFilesAfterDisp DispZipDelFilesAfterDisp	String String String String	Distribute file(s) created. "0" - Don't distribute file(s) created. "1" - Distribute file(s) created via FTP. Distribute ZIP file(s) created. "0" - Don't distribute file(s) created. "1" - Distribute file(s) created via FTP. Delete file(s) created after distribution. "0" - Don't delete file(s) created. "1" - Delete file(s) created after distribution. Delete file(s) created after distribution. "0" - Don't delete ZIP file(s) created. "1" - Delete ZIP file(s) created after distribution.
DispFTPEnabled DispFTPHost DispFTPPort DispFTPAccount DispFTPPass DispFTPRemoteDir	String String DWORD String String / Binary String	Upload file(s) created to FTP server. "0" - Don't upload file(s) created. "1" - Upload file(s) created to FTP server. Host name of FTP server. Port of FTP server. Default value: 21. Account name. Password of account. If you want to hide password in registry, use dll we provided to store password with AES encryption. Upload file(s) to this directory.
DispSocksProtocol DispSocksHost DispSocksPort DispSocksRequestAuth DispSocksAccount DispSocksPass	String String DWORD String String String / Binary	Specify if Socks proxy is used. "" - Don't use proxy. "Socks4" - Upload file(s) via Socks4 proxy. "Socks5" - Upload file(s) via Socks5 proxy. Host name of Socks proxy. Port of Socks proxy. Default value: 1080. Specify if Socks proxy requests account authentication. "0" - Account authentication is not requested. "1" - Account authentication is requested. Account name. Password of account. If you want to hide password in registry, use dll we provided to store password with AES encryption.

Quick Links:

Q: How I specify output file format and other options for output?
A: Please click here, Set Virtual Printer Preferences.

Q: How to check the Virtual Printing functions?
A: Please click here, Evaluate Virtual Printer Driver.

Q: How to get output files and all printing information from your virtual printer driver?
A: Please click here, Get output file(s) and all printing information from ActMask Virtual Printer Driver.

Q: How your Virtual Printer Driver notices our application after converting print job?
A: Please click here, Set TransMode to notice your application after converting print job.