Bullzip pdf printer problems

PDF documents are created in a different way by a variety of applications. Especially PDF documents created by Adobe products have incompatible color models or other advanced unsupported features. The problems can result in different types of errors. Sometimes the colors are not correct and other times you will get a blank page followed by a page with cryptic error information.

You can try to print it using different PDF viewers. They have different ways of printing the PDF and the resulting PDF will have different properties depending on the viewer that printed it. Usually, you can create a working background PDF this way. Firefox and the Google Chrome browser renders print jobs as graphics instead of text.

This means that the PDF Printer does not see the actual text that is printed but only a picture. Therefore, you cannot copy and paste text from a PDF printed from Chrome. This enables you to implement a workflow where you create a PDF archive of all your print jobs. This post will show you how to create such an archive printer as a separate printer on your system. First, you download the latest PDF printer and install it from a command line with the following command line switches:.

This will install a new virtual PDF printer on your computer. After the installation has completed, you can use this printer as a normal PDF printer. We need to configure it to send all print jobs to a PDF archive folder and to another real printer. This is done with the global. The output setting specifies the name of the saved PDF document. The output name uses macro names that will be substituted by real information at run time.

You can see a complete list of macros here:. Click here to see all the Macro tags. All the show settings control the dialog. The settings used here will hide the printing dialog and automatically save the PDF.

The printer settings control how the PDF document is printed to a normal printer. Click to see a complete list of PDF printer settings. Each file will have one page from the original PDF. This situation occurs when the printing program sends everything to the PDF printer as an image. The recent versions of popular browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera does this.

There is nothing much you can do about this other than trying to use another program to print. Try using the Microsoft Edge browser or Internet Explorer. They both print the text as text so that you can select it and search it in the PDF. MSI package changed to preserve the default printer and suppress message boxes.

Bug Radar removed from Windows 8 Start Menu. Product split in three different versions free, pro, and enterprise. AVG sponsors the free download with an optional offering.

Support for PDF compatibility level 1. Built using Visual Studio OwnerPassword and UserPassword settings now support macros. New macro creates an UTC timestamp. New macro creates a random string of 10 letters and numbers.

Support for attaching files inside the PDF document. Silent MSI package. Support for Windwos 8 RTM was added. Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview was removed.

Print from Metro style applications in Windwos 8. Register assemblies for use with Visual Studio Samples of global. Changes in license file. Print encrypted documents. Writes a job. Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview 64 bit x Discontinued support for Windows 8 Developer Preview. Commercial version without Ghostscript dependency available on request. Improved uninstaller. Minor tweaks. Support for Microsoft.

NET Framework 4. Limited support for PStill converter was added. Debugging feature named BugRadar was added. CustomGui setting now holds a command line instead of only the executable.

Many translations were updated. Now supports re-distilling of encrypted PDF documents. This requires that you are the owner of the content. Multiple option sets can now be defined. This enables you to select between sets of preconfigured settings when you create your PDF documents. Append to the output file if it already exists.

Support for 64 bit Ghostscript 9. Better cleanup during uninstall. Advanced customization feature where you can replace the GUI with your own executable file made in your favorite programming language. Fix for background syntax. Support for custom license agreements. Support for pdftk in superimpose operations. Lists only local printers when running the options dialog. Mapped printers are not shown in Citrix and Terminal Server sessions.

Macros can abort the process by setting the Abort to true in the context dictionary. Scripting engine is only initialized if macro files are present. TempFolder registry setting added for control of temporary folder for the printer port. Malay language was added. New runonce command line parameter for gui. Fix: The RunOnError command line is now executed if a macro raises an error. Fix of error when output format is different from PDF and encryption was enabled.

Fix of problem with the Save As dialog. Fix for reading Unicode postscript properties written using octal numbers on Windows Fix for missing text on buttons on Windows Fix for selecting the correct file extension when using the Save As dialog. Problem where the installer reported "Not implemented" has been fixed. Xmp' on 64 bit systems. Support for Ghostscript 8. New feature: Create linearized PDF files for optimized web viewing. New feature: Show list of page thumb nail images when opening the PDF.

Fixed Thai translation. Allows appending with the same file name as the output even if the append file doesn't exist. EXE parameter names are no longer case sensitive. The user's advanced settings are now reset during installation. Non translated setup messages will be shown in English instead of showing up as blank. Color problem when printing red on Windows XP has been fixed.

Added translation Thai. Fix: Encoding of setup texts fixes the display of garbage. Unicode output file names support when running witout GUI. Unicode messages supported. Ini files settings. Ini files no longer have the printer name in their file name. Status file now supports Unicode and UTF-8 encoding with descriptors. MessageCode and MessageText added in the status file. Auto detect Unicode or UTF-8 encoding of ini files. It now removes additional Microsoft Office extensions.

Australian English language was added. UK English language was added. Farsi language was added. Other translations were updated. New setting 'AutoRotatePages' to control automatic page orientation. New setting 'Orientation' to control fixed page orientation. Hindi language was added. Requires latest gslite 8.

Merge operation allows Postscript files as input in addition to PDF files. Postscript added as output type. New devices are pswrite and psraw. Translation updates. Fix for problem with creating folders on UNC paths.

Translation updates Swedish, Norwegian. Creates output folder if it doesn't exist. Ignores missing merge files when controlled via runonce. If Scripting is not available then all VB Script macros will result in an empty string. New Esperanto translation. Implementation of the DeviceList setting was improved.

Problem with diagonal strange black dots should be solved. This extends the programmatic control you have over the PDF Writer. New setting: LicenseFile. With this setting you can specify which license to use. This feature is meant for a redistribution scenario. New setting: MacroDir. This controls where the VBScript macros and event handlers are loaded from. New setting: ExtractText.

The printer can now extract text information from the print job. This text can be parsed and values can be extracted and used as macros such as author or title. Translation updates Russian. Fix in config. Translation updates Catalan. Improvements for PDF Printer redistribution and customization.

Installation and unstallation now supports multiple instances of the program installed on the same computer. Uninstall only removes printers where the AppFolder registry value matches the application folder being uninstalled.

The home page icon will not be installed in the start menu when this parameter is specified. It will control the PDF compatibility level. Valid values are 1. This setting can also be controlled from the GUI. This will split the resulting PDF document into one file per page. With this you can superimpose on print jobs from Internet Explorer and Firefox. Tab order fixed. Setup customization through setup.

Freeware license was limited to 10 users. Dependency on the Microsoft Scripting Dictionary component was removed. Better support for Adobe PageMaker. Use "general" PPD setting in printing dialog. GUI now supports creation of image formats.

Resolution can be specified for background PDF documents in superimpose operation. Fix of problem with strange characters overlaying the finished PDF document. Dialog control identifiers have been modified to support hiding and disabling.

If no global printername. Translations added Norwegian - nynorsk. Translations updated Polish, Italian. Contents of an App folder placed next to the setup program is copied to the program folder during installation. The problem was introduced in version 4. AfterPrintProgram is now run in case of success. This was disabled by a programming error. Translations updated Korean. Translations updated Arabic, Greek, Portuguese-Brazil.