Raster-XChange Driver's SDK
for Windows 2000 and later - 32/64 bit
Available as a locally installed device - or shared Network printer.
Provides Developers with a comprehensive set of 32/64 bit Virtual Print Drivers to generate Raster image files from their software applications using our best selling XChange print drivers for all Win32/64 bit Operating systems for Windows 2000 and later. When using these drivers you can be sure that the files you generate offer the most highly compressed/optimised Image files available from any general virtual driver - smaller size files generated quickly and efficiently.
Output formats supported (Mono, Grayscale and Color) and Multi Page where allowed by the chosen format: BMP, DCX, GIF, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, JNG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP
Virtually all the functionality of our 'End User' versions of Raster-XChange are controllable by the developer - for more information on what you can do please download the SDK evaluation .
We also provide a complete 'slimmed' down Client installers (Now includes both 32 & 64 bit Drivers installs) for you to provide to your clients - or wrap within your own desired installation process (silent installation supported) - you must use this installer as it contains a mechanism to ensure that unlicensed use is not possible in 'open' mode without generating evaluation image files, it also ensures safe and correct installation (silently if required) of the drivers for all supported Win32/Win64 Operating Systems, TS and Citrix Metaframe.
Briefly, the licensing of the API SDK allows you to generate Raster Image files from your own application reports etc and even to convert output from 3rd party applications such as MS Word, Excel AutoCAD etc to an Image.
All developers should be aware that to function in non evaluation mode - the drivers require that a License and DEVCODE 'unlock' string be passed to the drivers as part of each print job - thus ensuring that any direct attempt to print from a 3rd party application by your end users (i.e. from MS Word) will generate output with an evaluation watermark and not be useable by the end user for commercial purposes - you would need to code the opening of the Word file and print from your application to Raster-XChange - then the Image would be generated 'DEMO' watermark free as described above.
The SDK comes with examples for many software tools (MFC/C++/VB/C# etc) including MS Word to TIFF conversion as a demonstration of how this process can be achieved.
Some FAQ's you may find useful from our Support Forums:
* Allows Royalty FREE distribution for up to 100,000 end user application licenses (when distributed with your software application) - above this limit you will require additional/alternative licensing for a modest additional fee.
Important Note: If you supply a demo version and the driver prints our evaluation watermark on each page - such installations do not count against your total and all full release upgrades (i.e. 4.0) set the counter back to zero on your total license distribution.
Please contact our sales department to discuss your more detailed needs.
