What’s new in Print Conductor 9.0:
Completely renewed processing components:
- New and improved component for printing HTML files
- New and improved CADLib component for printing DWG and DXF files
- New and improved Microsoft Outlook PST files' processing component
New features:
- Printing a cover page between the email and its attachments
- New actions for "unknown" attachments: Ignore, Replace with placeholder, and Try to process
- Defining the number of pages to print for each new print job
- Setting print job names using any text or a template
- Saving a file list (.FLIST) containing relative file paths
- Quick preview of recently saved Print Conductor Settings file (.INI) when using the Import button
- Exporting recent log files as a ZIP file, including current Print Conductor Settings
- Saving a Detailed report on each print session as PDF to a user-defined folder automatically
- Adding background image and text to documents listed in Excel using new Text watermark macro {customtext}
Improvements for CAD drawings:
- eDrawings Viewer version 2023 is now supported
- Ability to disable printing "Not to Plot" layers of DWG and DXF drawings
- New Display line weight setting available for CAD drawings
- New Fonts to bold setting: ability to make font bold in texts of DWG and DXF files before printing
- Fixed issue with Disable printing empty pages setting when processing MathCAD and DWG files
- Fixed a CADLib issue resulting in missing encoding value in SHX font files
- Increased processing speed of SolidWorks files
Other fixes and improvements:
- Only one instance of Print Conductor is now enabled by default under one Windows user account to prevent print settings from getting mixed
- The email subject is now used as filename when Outlook emails are added to the List of Documents via drag-and-drop
- Fixed a post-processing issue when printing files from ZIP archives
- Fixed an issue where a list of files could not be loaded from XLS and XLSX files
- Fixed an issue where several pages per sheet were being printed incorrectly
- Fixed a color mode issue in Single print job mode
- Fixed an issue where Data Matrix barcode shapes were not printed correctly
- Fixed an issue where PLT file page size was not detected correctly
- Fixed an issue where the cover page size was defined incorrectly
- Fixed issues related to printing text- and image-based watermarks
- Fixed issues related to importing and exporting watermark settings
- Fixed an issue where date/time fields were not being displayed correctly when loading a list from an XLSX file
- Fixed a total pages quantity calculation issue when handling a long list of files
- Added the ability to define encoding for "old" LST files created by obsolete versions of Print Conductor
- Improved UI localization
How to get the latest version
- Customers who bought the program within the last 3 months prior to version 9.0 release (in summer 2023) are welcome to request the new Print Conductor 9.0 for free;
- A 50% discount is available for registered customers who purchased the license earlier;
- The trial version of Print Conductor 9.0 is available for free download;
- New customers can buy the full-featured commercial version.