NAP - Virtual Printer
Overview
The virtual printer (VP) is a Nirva connector that retrieves files issued from desktop applications and sends them on a Nirva server to be processed. Optionaly, the virtual printer calls a browser for post processing features.
The virtual printer is seen as a printer on the user’s workstation.
The virtual printer connector is located on the Sdk/Connectors/virtual_printer subdirectory of Nirva installation directory.
The virtual printer is seen as a printer on the user’s workstation.
The virtual printer connector is located on the Sdk/Connectors/virtual_printer subdirectory of Nirva installation directory.
Downloads
Documentation
Virtual printer interface to nirva
http://download.nirva-software.com/extensions/others/virtual_printer/docs/interface_iv_nirva.pdf
Technical documentation
http://download.nirva-software.com/extensions/others/virtual_printer/docs/nvp_technical.pdf
http://download.nirva-software.com/extensions/others/virtual_printer/docs/interface_iv_nirva.pdf
Technical documentation
http://download.nirva-software.com/extensions/others/virtual_printer/docs/nvp_technical.pdf
Updates
Version 3.30
Version 3.29
Version 3.26
Version 3.25
Version 3.24
Version 3.22
Version 3.20
Version 3.00
Version 2.02
Version 1.25
Version 1.24
Version 1.23
Version 1.22
Version 1.21
- Mac: compatibility with el capitan and Sierra.
- Possibility to define a maximum number of login retries.
- Adding time in log file.
- Possibility to authenticate the user by an external program (external security)
- Adding a new dynamic mode.
- Hide display modes that are not available.
Version 3.29
- Mac: El capitan compatibility.
- Possibility to define the number of login attempts
Version 3.26
- Mac: Yosemite compatibility.
- Linux version (64 bits only).
- Installation log file.
- Adding internal version to log file.
- The virtual printer version is now sent to the server when sending the file.
Version 3.25
- Mac version: if the browser was not opened before using the virtual printer, the page was not displayed.
- Mac: adding automatic proxy detection (already available on windows).
Version 3.24
- The machine name encoding was not processed correctly with unicode values. This may produce a bad password response from the server.
- There was an issue with unicode path names when the user name was unicode. This may produce an error when transmitting the file to the server.
- On MAC version, the error messages were not displayed.
- Reducing the number of commands in the protocol. This should speed up the file transmission to server.
- Possibility to define and call an external filter before sending the file. This can be used for example to transform a postscript file to a pdf file on the client side
Version 3.22
- Reducing the number of commands in the protocol. This should speed up the file transmission to server.
- Possibility to define the file block size from the directory (65536 by default).
Version 3.20
- Lzma compression. Requires a Nirva server 4.7.010 version minimum.
- Internal version is now displayed in configuration screen
- Token security management. This allows users to not have to re-enter their password everytime.
- Compatible with OSX Mavericks
- Compatibility with windows 8.1.
Version 3.00
- The Virtual Printer is now available for Mac OS (64 bits)
Version 2.02
- The Virtual Printer code has been entirely rebuilt with QT technology. This should allow a future mac and unix version. The config file should be edited and saved in UTF-8 without Bom format. All values in config file entries must be written with double quotes.
Version 1.25
- The Virtual Printer is now entirely Unicode. The config file should be edited and saved in UTF-16 LE format.
Version 1.24
- The default browser path was retrieved at machine level instead of user level.
Version 1.23
- The virtual printer dialogs didn't get the focus on some environments.
Version 1.22
- Possibility to disable the "Keep password" feature.
Version 1.21
- Possibility to define proxy parameters at machine level instead of user level.
- Adding an optional http log file.