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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.

Downloads

Current version : 3.30
Donwload links

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

Updates

Version 3.30
  • 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.