Below is a list of the revisions to AcroPlot Repro and the date that they were fixed. The newest revisions are listed first and unlike most companies we will fix and release a new version often instead of waiting 6 months and releasing a bunch of fixes. 2010-02-24 Fixed a user reported bug with DWF files that were not converting as a blank page. Revised command line parameters to match some of Ghostscripts calls as well as adding some additional ones for AcroPlot Repro features. Please see the Command Line Options in the Help. Added some output types in the Command Line Parameters to match some of Ghostscripts.
2010-02-17 Fixed a user reported bug with text being slanted when Helvetica fonts were installed. Fixed an internal bug with some DWF files that were likely corrupt but would view in Design Review but not convert in AcroPlot Repro. Fixed a user reported bug with stamps in certain DWF files showing up as transparent when they should not be.
2010-02-01 Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit) Support Added. Fix for slanted text in customer supplied files. Enhancement to check the file type for plt files and to use Ghostscript to convert Postscript PDF files if you have Ghostscript installed on your computer. Improved performance for high resolution color output. Added additional output format options for color output. Added support for user defined units (scaling) in PDF files. Added support for Packaged PDF files.
2009-07-09 2009-05-02 2009-04-27 Added support for PDF files where the fonts are not properly embedded. Several user supplied ArchiCAD PDF files seamed to have this problem. Added additional warnings if PDF files have problems or invalid data. Added a warning and error image so it's easier for users to know if warning or errors occurred. Fixed some DWF and DWFx files that users supplied which were not converted over 100% correctly.
2008-11-29 Support for DWFx files added. Fixed the DWF font problems with Revit DWF files where multiple subsets of the same font are embedded on a page. Just like the Autodesk Design Review we will now substitute those fonts with the Arial font. Improved dithering patters for all file types. Check out our new AcroPlot Repro Enhanced 2 pattern which works well for light thin lines. Fixed several customer reported problems with specific PDF, DWF, and DWFx files. Improved speed on certain files. Added a right-click option from Windows Explorer. (Not yet available in Vista).
2008-04-02 Fixed drag and drop support so users can drag files from Windows Explorer into the files list. Improved the speed of the PLT to Image conversion. Fixed the delete function so it selects the next file after deleting one. Changed the slider to a textbox and up and down arrows for the Brightness control. Fixed a registration problem on 64 bit machines. Fixed some problems on Vista installs.
2008-03-05 2008-02-05 2008-01-31 2008-01-30 2008-01-28 2008-01-10 2008-01-04 2007-12-30 Fixed a bug in some DWF files where the textmask was transparent. Added the AcroPlot Repro Enhanced Dithering 2 which is slightly better for gradient fills without loosing the light gray color optimization.
2007-12-27 2007-12-24 Added a Check For Updates function under the Help Menu. Fixed problems with the install in XP64 and Vista 64 bit that caused the program to not run if certain files were not installed. More speed improvements in both PDF and DWF files.
2007-11-13 Fixed a problem with certain PDF files where the lineweights of text were varied by a pixel. Changed the output filename to not add the -0001 when running through our interface for single page PDF or DWF files. Added the ability to sort filenames in our interface. Added the ability to resize columns in our interface and have the columns restored to that width the next time you run it.
2007-11-12 Greatly improved the speed of conversion for DWF files. Improved speed of PDF files with images. Most non lines merge PDF files should be close to the speed of ghostscript now where ones with lines merge will be 10-20 times faster. Fixed a bug with PDF files that had both document level rotation and page level rotation which was causing the image to be stretched. Fixed a bug in some DWF files where text was being dropped out. Enabled drag and drop from Windows Explorer to the files list in our interface. Modified the AcroPlotReproHalfsize.exe program to allow you to both decrease and increase the scale of the conversion when running through other programs like Oce Reprodesk, KIP Powerprint, and Metaprint. Fixed the dialog to not steal focus from the current program you are working with when running through other programs like Oce Reprodesk, KIP Powerprint, and Metaprint.
2007-10-03 Improved speed of conversions and most noticeably in the conversion of PDF files that have a single scanned in image in the PDF. Added support for using AcroPlot Repro to process PLT files from Reprodesk also. Fixed some screening problems with PDF files created from ArchiCAD.
2007-08-14 Added a warning dialog box for times when fonts in the DWF or PDF are not embedded and cannot be resolved on the system. This is turned on by default and will also display with Oce Reprodesk, KIP Powerprint, and MetaPrint that normally do not provide you with this information. Added AcroPlotReproHalfsize.exe which if running will allow us to create true half size conversions from Oce Reprodesk, KIP Powerprint, and Metaprint even though they do not pass us this information. Added a rename button which will rename the output files so they are in alphabetical order according to the order you have them in our interface in case you have to then take the TIFF files and bring them into one of the other programs to send to the plotter. Added support to preview DWF files even if you do not have the Autodesk Design Review installed. Fixed a rotation problem in some PDF files. Added buttons on the brightness so you can easily increase or decrease it by a single step now. Improved support for Vista operating systems. The program is now back to being just three exe files (AcroPlotRepro.exe, AcroPlotReproHalfsize.exe and AcroPlotReproMonitor.exe used to notify of missing fonts) with no external runtime files required. This means you no longer have to run our install to install it on additional machines and also since nothing has to be registered you do not need to have administrator rights to install it!
2007-08-06 Added support for KIP Powerprint Request 6.0 as well as multipage PDF files through Powerprint. Fixed a problem where the setup wasn't copying over the correct AcroPlotRepro.exe to the psscript.exe for the KIP Powerprint Request software. Fixed a problem with some Revit DWF files where extra lines were being added around detail bullet arrowheads.
2007-06-16 All features now work on Windows 2000, XP, XP64, Vista, and Vista64 operating systems. The new install is now an Installshield MSI based install and it must install some of the latest Microsoft C++ runtime files so you can no longer just copy the exe to other computers, you must run the install to make sure the Microsoft files are available. Fixed a problem with the cached font data not being updated when a user installed a new font on the system. It now does that and it also clears out the cached data every 24 hours. This will result in a 5-20 second delay on the first file when we have to rebuild the data but it’s only 1 file per day and the safest way to handle it. Fixed a problem where dot hatch patterns in DWF files were not being converted.
2007-06-09 Fixed a problem where colors 5% black and below were being dropped out. It appears that ghostscript drops out 3% or below but we set ours to 1% or below now. Fixed a display problem with metric DWF paper sizes in the AcroPlot Repro interface for DWF files. The files were being converted properly it’s just it was listing the size in metric even if you have the display units set to inches. Due to Windows Vista compatibility problems with our technology to package a single exe file we must now install some Microsoft components on the host machine so you can no longer just copy over the exe file to a computer. More information on this will be included in the help files.
2007-06-01 Fixed the random text justification problems with the Revit DWF files. Rewrote the installer to be an MSI compatible Installshield package. You should uninstall the old version prior to installing the new version.
2007-05-20 2007-05-01 2007-04-30 2007-04-29 Fixed a problem with the install for the KIP Powerprint Request Software. Fixed a problem with the KIP Powerprint when using the Quickview command in Powerprint. Added the ability to use AcroPlot Repro for the DWF Processing in Oce Reprodesk also.
2007-04-27 Added a setup screen to AcroPlot Repro that runs on install so you can select which programs to use Repro with instead of manually configuring the KIP, Metaprint, and Oce software programs. Added the ability for AcroPlot Repro to search for Ghostscript installed on your system. If it does not find Ghostsctipt then it will not allow you to set Ghostsctipt as the dithering type now. This should prevent errors in the future. Added the ability to Save and leave the setup dialog open. This should be useful for Oce users since you could use our setup to switch between one of our dithering patterns and Ghostscript without shutting down Oce Reprodesk or Publisher. Just set Reprodesk or Publisher to use AcroPlot Repro and then change the dithering pattern in the AcroPlot Repro instead.
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