Snowbound Software Imaging Technology Blog » RasterMaster http://blog.snowbound.com Accelerating the Document Revolution Tue, 22 May 2012 16:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 RasterMaster .NET 18.0 x64 with VS2010 Samples is here! http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1599/rastermaster-net-18-0-x64-with-vs2010-samples-is-here/ http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1599/rastermaster-net-18-0-x64-with-vs2010-samples-is-here/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:13:40 +0000 Barbara Bazemore http://blog.snowbound.com/?p=1599 I am ever so happy to announce our first major version upgrade for RasterMaster in 2011!  RasterMaster .NET v18 in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors is now generally available. It has has been available for free evaluation download since the beginning of July 2011.

The new features in RasterMaster .NET 18.0 include:

  • Dozens of new sample projects in C# and Visual Basic for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2008, including one for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).  Our team  has spiffed up some old favorites and brought them up to speed for use with the latest Microsoft development environments.  This will make it easier for evaluators to get up and running.
  • We even have a video guided tour of one of our RasterMaster samples on You Tube
  • We have added support for PowerPoint 2007 documents to both our RasterMaster .NET products using Aspose.Slides.
  • We have added support for the following formats on the RM .NET x64 platform:
    • AFP
    • PCL
    • Word, Excel, DocX, XlsX, MSG, RTF
    • PDF
  • We have revamped documentation, including online documentation at RasterMaster.com. The documentation has a Quick Start chapter to help our evaluators get going fast.
  • In addition to the new features we have document format fixes for AFP, Doc, PDF, XLS, etc.
  • As always our Support team is ready and waiting to help you succeed with your RasterMaster project.

RasterMaster the Smarter Imaging and Document Conversion SDK enables you to easily add document viewing, printing, conversion, annotation, scaling, zooming and other features with just a few calls to our powerful methods.  Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

 

]]> http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1599/rastermaster-net-18-0-x64-with-vs2010-samples-is-here/feed/ 0 Announcing Snowbatch 4.1 using RasterMaster DLL 17.9.10 http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1242/announcing-snowbatch-4-1-using-rastermaster-dll-17-9-10/ http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1242/announcing-snowbatch-4-1-using-rastermaster-dll-17-9-10/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:16:09 +0000 Barbara Bazemore http://blog.snowbound.com/?p=1242 Our batch conversion product SnowBatch v4.1 is based on our RasterMaster imaging SDK.  The 4.1 release of SnowBatch:

  • adds a feature to allow you to delete partially converted files from the output and see the deleted filenames in the log
  • the “success” and “failed” folders can now be specified on the command line
  • corrects an issue with producing color pdf output for AFP documents
  • adds better handling of HTML documents

We update SnowBatch with each RasterMaster release to help you process a wider variety of documents and get better output. We have been making lots of improvements to AFP (MO:DCA), Word, Excel and PDF format support.  The current production version of SnowBatch is v4.1 based on RasterMaster DLL 17.9.10.

Contact Snowbound Software Technical Support at http://support.snowbound.com to get your SnowBatch update.

]]> http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1242/announcing-snowbatch-4-1-using-rastermaster-dll-17-9-10/feed/ 0 RasterMaster Java 12.9.11 and RasterMaster .NET 17.9.10 Released http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1230/rastermaster-java-12-9-11-and-rastermaster-net-17-9-10-released/ http://blog.snowbound.com/rastermaster/1230/rastermaster-java-12-9-11-and-rastermaster-net-17-9-10-released/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:03:26 +0000 Barbara Bazemore http://blog.snowbound.com/?p=1230 We continue to refine our mature and capable RasterMaster product line with our latest releases, RasterMaster Java SDK v12.9.11, RasterMaster .NET SDK v17.9.10 and RasterMaster DLL SDK v17.9.10.

These releases include better support for:

  • international characters in our MO:DCA (AFP), Office, and PDF format support
  • write-password protected PDF files now render output
  • Office files with macros, hidden data and Excel merged rows now render better
  • better alpha channel processing for TIFF images

If you haven’t obtained a release recently here are some of the enhancements we’ve made in the last few maintenance updates:

  • PDF raster output is now PDF/A compliant
  • better handling of PDF documents created by Kofax, Xerox and other PDF creators
  • better handling of PDF documents that have invalid or incomplete cross reference data
  • MO:DCA (AFP) documents make better use of embedded fonts
  • several edge-case fixes for the IMGLOW_extract_text method

As always we are happy to provide our  customers with the latest and greatest product releases. To get your update please enter a support ticket at http://support.snowbound.com.

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