PDFing version 5 has the following new features :

• SSL/TSL connection to SMTP servers.
• Connection to two SMTP servers and the ability to select a particular server for an email.
• Faster emailing on most SMTP servers.
• Hard copy printing now runs in a separate thread.
• Extra controls for hard copy printing parameters.
• Conversion to Excel 2007 (.xlsx) files. (NT service only)
• Conversion to PDF/A (1-b) standard files. (NT service only)
• Can use PDF files as "overlays".
• Can attach additional file(s) of any kind to email.
• Application of font changes, pdf overlays and graphic images can be conditioned by the text in spooled-file pages.
• Support for bar-code font (code 39 and code 128) check-sums on [Font] pages.  (NT service only)

Some SMTP servers such as gmail and office 365 require that its clients use the TLS/SSL protocol when they connect to the server. For this reason the [System] and [SMTP2] pages of the PDFing configuration form now have a new control, labelled "TLS/SSL ?" that allows you to specify that the connection to your SMTP server is encrypted using the TLS/SSL protocol, either implicitly or explicitly.

A new [SMTP2] page has been added to the PDFing configuration. This page allows you to specify a connection to a second SMTP server. You can specify which one of the two possible SMTP servers that an email must be sent by:

• Use the EMV=n "tag", where n=0 means no preference of server, n=1 send by the server specified on the [System] page, n=2 send by the server specified on the [SMTP2] page.


• Use the control labelled "Server for domains" on the [System] and [SMTP2] pages of the configuration form to enter a list of domain-names (one domain per line). If any of the "to" addresses for an email has a domain name which in this list, then the email will be sent by corresponding SMTP server.


• If all the "to" addresses of an email have the same domain as the one specified in the control labelled "From address :", then the email will be sent by corresponding SMTP server.
  

If no SMTP server is selected, then the email will be sent by the SMTP server to which PDFing is currently connected.

If two SMTP servers are specified then one server can act as a backup server for the other and only one needs to be online for PDFing to send email.  However, if  the "Server for domains" control is not empty, then the corresponding SMTP server must be online for PDFing to send email. 

The control labelled "Encoding ?" on the [System] and [SMTP2] pages of the configuration form allows you to specify how email attachments are encoded. By default PDFing encodes attachments using the "base 64" method,. For certain SMTP servers like MS Exchange 2010, you may select "binary" encoding for faster transmission of email. The SMTP log-file (if specified) will show the encoding that was actually used for email attachments.

Because printing now runs in a separate thread email for a particular job can be sent at the same time as the PDF is printed. There is a new "Print" column in the grid of converted spooled-files which shows any printing activity for a job.

New controls for rotation, x-offset and y-offset have been added to the "Edit printer" sub-form on the [Destination] page of the configuration and markup forms. The equivalent address string may also be specified using the EPN=  tag.  

If you use a "scripted" workbook with the .xlsx extension to control spooled-file to Excel conversion, then the output workbook will be in the same (Excel 2007) format.If you have two "scripted" workbooks of the same name, then the one with the .xlsx extension will be used to control conversion.  The latest IDE for L4X, is available at: www.pdfing.com/l4x This version is easier to use and has much improved help.

.The "PDF ?" control on the [Convert] page of the configuration and markup forms, has a new option. If the PDF/A option is selected, then the output PDF will conform to the PDF/A-1b standard for archiving.

The new [Attach] page of the markup form has controls that allow you to use pages from existing PDF files as "overlays" for the PDF files output by PDFing.

If you specify a PDF file and select the "Append PDF?" radio-button, then the pages from the specified PDF file will be added after the last page of the output PDF file.

If you specify a PDF file and select the "Merge PDF?" radio-button, then you can select from further sub-options to determine which pages of the output PDF will have the overlay. When "merging" only the first page of the specified PDF is used as an overlay, unless the "Cycle?" radio-button is selected.

If the "Cycle?" radio-button is selected, then first page of the specified PDF is used as an overlay for the first page of the output PDF, then the second page of the specified PDF is used as an overlay for the second page of the output PDF, and so on until all the pages in the specified PDF have been applied, when the cycle begins again at page one of the specified PDF.

Using a PDF page as an overlay has many advantages over graphic images, the resulting PDF is usually smaller and the text is very much more legible.  

The new [Attach] page of the markup form has controls that allow you to specify files that are to be attached to email in addition to the output PDF.

Select the "Basic?" radio-button if you do not want PDFing to make a copy of the specified file.

Select the "Copy?" radio-button to specify that PDFing should make a copy of the specified file and attach the copy.

Select the "Move?" radio-button to specify that PDFing should make a copy of the specified file, delete the specified file and attach the copy.

Selecting an option that copies the specified file allows you to re-send an email with exactly the same attachments as before, even when the specified file has been changed or deleted. 

The [Texts] page of the markup form now allows you to specify that a condition-number be set for a page, depending on the pages text matching a specifed text-string. The numbered sub-pages of the [Graphics], [Attach]  and  [Fonts] pages also have a new control labelled "When condition?". This control allows you specify the condition-number that must be set, before the actions (as specified on this numbered sub-page) are actually applied to this page.

The new "Bar?" control on the [Fonts] page of the markup form allows you to specify that a check-sum be calculated for text that is to be rendered by a bar-code font and start/stop characters added when required. The options are:

• 128   - code 128.
• 128b - code128 subcode-b.
• 39    - code39.
• 39cs - code39 with checksum.

We can also supply free code-39 and code-128 fonts. This feature only applies to "untransformed" *SCS spooled-files only and requires an NT service license-key.