The 3-Heights™ PDF Printer is a compact component for printing PDF documents.
PDF documents are used in many areas of business and need to fulfill differing demands with regard to printing. These include a high throughput rate, high visual fidelity even with complex documents, PDF/A-compliant printing, printing on paper or in print datastreams such as PS, PCL and XPS.
The component is characterized by high performance and ease of integration. It is available in three versions: as an API designed for programmatically controllable printing, as shell for uncomplicated mass printing and as a service for automated printing in the background.
The PDF Printer component has a wide range of options for print control and can print raster images such as TIFF.
Input Formats
PDF (Portable Document Format)
PDF/A (PDF for Archiving)
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group)
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
BMP (Window Bitmap)
EPS (Encapsulated Post Script)
JB2 (JBIG2, Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group)
JP2 (JPEG2000)
JPX (Extended JPEG2000)
PBM (Portable Bitmap File Format)
JIF (GIF Flate)
Output Formats
Print spool formats: PostScript, PCL, etc.
Compliance
Standards: ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A-1)
Operating Systems
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7 - 32 and 64 Bit
Interfaces
API: C, Java, .NET, COM
Programming Languages
All program libraries are written in efficient and thread-safe C++. API offers a selection of the following connections to programming languages:
C#, VB .NET, J# via .NET
Java via JNI
MS Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, MS Office products such as Access and C++ via COM
C and C++ via native C
Product Variants
Shell tool (command line)
API (programming interface)
Windows service (system service)
Product Code
PRN
