This version of the TIFF Image Printer brings with it major changes and improvements to how the printer operates and how to interact with the printer to control the printer settings.
The PNSrv12 COM object has been updated to support these changes and simplified to make it easier to program. Many methods that you may have used in the past may have been changed.
The biggest change is the move to use conversion profiles to control the printer settings. In the past, the settings were initialized by calling various methods on the COM object; now settings are initialized with a single call passing in the path to the desired conversion profile.
The settings can be set a single time when the printer pool is created, or multiple conversion profiles can be used to modify the settings on a per-document basis.
Conversion profiles are created using the new Profile Manager utility, a GUI-based application that makes creating, saving and exporting profiles easy. These exported profiles can then be stored with your custom application and used to control the conversion settings.
If you need to migrate existing applications that use earlier versions of TIFF Image Printer and the COM automation interface, the following steps outline what you need to change in your code.
