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Sample SDK code (.cpp) for printing "Hello World" text to the novaPDF Printer from remote computer.

Sample SDK code (.cpp) for printing "Hello World" text to the novaPDF Printer from remote computer.

This tutorial explains how to use novaPDF (along with other useful tips) to optimize your PDF file for search engines. With the novaPDF printer driver you can generate PDF files and perform SEO from any Windows application that supports printing.

StarOffice doesn't have an integrated export to PDF option, thus in order to convert documents created with it (.sxi) to PDFs you need to install a third party PDF converter.

This tutorial shows how you can convert OpenOffice Draw documents to PDF files by using novaPDF. You just need to hit the Print button from OpenOffice Draw and select novaPDF as the printer to convert your document to PDF.

Multiple printers sample is similar with the Temporary printer sample but it uses several threads.

This SDK sample shows how to convert an existing file to PDF by using the ShellExecute function in Visual Basic.

Automatic detection of links in text and customize links appearance in resulting PDF file.

Temporary printer sample is similar with Hello World sample but it uses temporary printers. It demonstrates the use of AddNovaPrinter and DeleteNovaPrinter.

This article explains how to install novaPDF via Group Policy and automatically distribute a public profile to all client computers.

Sample VBNet app that converts a MS Word document to PDF using OLE Automation.

The licenses management section can be blocked if novaPDF detects multiple license/unlicense requests for the same computers in a network.

Windows 7 (or previous versions) by default does not install some supplemental language files when the main language used for the setup is English. Because of this, some equations/formulas might not show in the PDF file, even if they are displayed in the original document the conversion was started from. So the fact that these equations are not shown in the PDF is more an operating system issue rather than a novaPDF bug.

Windows 7 (or previous versions) by default does not install some supplemental language files when the main language used for the setup is English. Because of this, if you want to convert a document that contains characters from East Asian languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese), some of these characters might not be correctly converted. The fact that these characters might not be converted is in fact an operating system issue rather than a novaPDF bug.

If within the same network you have users connecting to a novaPDF printer from PCs and Citrix thin clients, the users connecting via Citrix might encounter errors such as "You do not have enough rights to make a connection with the printer". This might happen either because the novaPDF printer driver is blocked by Citrix or if the users trying to print via Citrix don't have enough rights to do so.

Can connect to novaPDF, but cannot print any file.

When creating a PDF file we use a lower PDF version in order to maximize Adobe Reader compatibility, so by default novaPDF will create PDF 1.5 files. Additionally, novaPDF supports pretty much all the PDF versions available starting from 1.4 until the latest version.

The mandatory post-processing operations to the resulting PDF files is a restriction for novaPDF OEM in order to stop developers from creating a PDF printer driver which would compete directly with our PDF printer driver and also to stop the end-users from simply creating PDF files with printer driver delivered via novaPDF OEM.

novaPDF SDK sends a request to create the PDF files to the printer driver that gets installed with the package, novaPDF for SDK. By default, if novaPDF SDK is unregistered, each page from the generated PDF file will contain a footer notice (that says the application is not registered). After you purchase a license and register novaPDF SDK, that footer notice won't be included in the generated PDF files.

novaPDF isn't set as the default printer after calling RestoreDefaultPrinter() function.

Do I need novaPDF SDK to change printer options? Can I generate pdf files without the notice on the bottom of the pages mentioning novaPDF?

If I set an option via COM, that be persistent after the program terminates?

What settings are needed to disable Save As dialog?

Do I need to activate a profile when I need to set its options via COM object?

Do I need to set any option before I can set the Save Folder and Save folder options?