Creating Images
This product also has the capability of creating images as output instead of PDF
files. Outputting images is very similar to creating PDF files. Almost all of
the PDF features are also available when creating images. Only a short list of the
PDF features, which doesn't make any sense for images, are not available. Settings
such as password protection and initial zoom level will not apply to image
creation. Another difference is that image creation may result in more than one
output file. With the exception of the multitiff image format all other formats
will create a separate image for each page in the printed document.
No GUI Support
Currently the GUI does not support the image settings. This means that you have
to control the printer programmatically if you want to create images. Using a new
set of settings in the ini files will help you achieve the image format and
quality that you are looking for. These settings are listed and documented in
the following sections.
Image Settings
- Device - this setting specifies which type of image is created. Device=png16m
will create png images with 16 million colors. Device=tiffgray will create a
grayscale tiff or multitiff file.
- Output - the normal output setting as been extended with a new <pageno> macro
name. This macro will be substituted with the page number of each created page.
Output=Image-<pageno>.png will create files with the names Image-1.png,
Image-2.png and so on. Simple formatting options can be added to this macro.
Output=Image-<pageno,3> will zero pad the page number to a width of 3
characters.
- Res - a resolution setting can control the quality and resulting file size of
the output. If you only specify the Res setting, the value will be used for both
horizontal and vertical resolution.
- ResX, ResY - If you want to set the horizontal and vertical resolutions
individually then you can use these two settings. The Res setting is ignored if
ResX and ResY are specified.
Multitiff
The difference between a normal tiff file and a multitiff file is that all the
pages of the document are collected in only one image file. The image file is a
multitiff it the <pageno> macro is omitted from the Output setting.
Image output example
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