Printfil 5.14 is a professional tool with a suite of advanced features targeted at printing to Windows printers, from Dos, Windows programs or Unix, Linux, legacy applications running on a Windows PC via telnet or other terminal emulator software. You can set your application to print to an ascii file, or you can let Printfil automatically capture one or more parallel port (even from LPT1: to LPT9: simultaneously), and redirect your DOS print jobs to any Windows printer, including USB, GDI, IP network printers, fax printers and PDF writers.

Major Features:

1. Preview printing
2. Include logos or background images stored in separate files
3. Colorize the text
4. Print a4 landscape sheets in place of printing on dot-matrix 136-column printers
5. Print to any printer installed in the windows control panel, including usb, gdi, windows-only and virtual printers
6. Send print jobs via fax (using any third-party fax software which acts like a printer eg. Microsoft fax or a multifunction all-in-one printer)
7. Print to networked printers without having to "net use" a lpt port
8. Use specialist windows fonts (barcodes, for instance) in addition to normal characters in ansi (windows) or your own oem (dos codepage) conversion
9. Export print jobs in pdf format, with or without user intervention, even with encryption and password protection
10. Send print jobs via e-mail by using your own e-mail client program, with or without user intervention
11. Use a single, customizable set of escape sequences for all printers, regardless of make, model and emulation provided (or no emulation at all, as for virtual and windows-only printers)
12. Print complex jobs to legacy printers in raw mode (including drawings and graphics) without going through the windows driver and without changing the original data flow
13. Archive a copy of all the captured jobs in a directory of your choice
14. Print your jobs to multiple printers simultaneously
15. Easily print prn files

Enhancements:

• Added integration with the DOSBox emulator. If Printfil is running in evaluation mode, when selecting a LPT port to capture at Configuration -> Standard, Printfil detects if DOSBox is installed on the system, and, if so, it asks if you want to automatically configure it to capture the same LPT port.
• Added support for Epson Color escape sequences in GDI mode, and the single Ascii-14 that, on Epson capable printers, expands the font (Double Width), but just up to the end of the current line.
• In addition to the aSwIt Mono 437 font, added 8 new True Type PC8 fonts for Windows, to emulate different DOS Code Pages for many international languages:
• • aSwIt Mono 852 : cp852: Central Europe: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak
  • aSwIt Mono 862 : cp862: Hebrew
  • aSwIt Mono 8859-8 : iso-8859-8: Hebrew (Latin)
  • aSwIt Mono 850 : cp850: Western Europe: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Finland
  • aSwIt Mono 865 : cp865: Nordic languages: Danish, Norwegian
  • aSwIt Mono 861 : cp861: Icelandic
  • aSwIt Mono 860 : cp860: Portuguese
  • aSwIt Mono 863 : cp863: Canadian-French
• Restored backward compatibility with Windows NT 4.0. Some recent enhancements made new Printfil installations failing due to some missing standard Windows DLL on such old system. If you haven't already done it, you still have to install the latest Microsoft Service Pack 6 for Windows NT 4.0 however
• Some other minor improvements

Requirements:

• Pentium 133 MHz
• 32 MB RAM
• 4 MB HDD