5.0.70.4 posted 3-18-09
By Leroy | April 10, 2009
On March 18, we posted a new beta version of RPM Elite, 5.0.70.4. It has all the same fixes and enhancements as the same version of RPM Select. Read more about it on the RPM roadmap page.
As some of you know, the biggest reason for RPM to continue as a beta is that it does not yet include the web interface, known as the Remote Print Administrator (RPA). The next beta version will have a mostly working version of the RPA. RPM now has an integrated HTTP server, so it will in no way require or use Microsoft IIS. It, like the product itself, will not resemble version 4.5 in any way. You’ll be able to configure HTTP listening ports in the same location as other ports: the General Settings, and in fact you can now.
For those eagerly awaiting the RPA, please be prepared to test the next beta version for your needs. We intend a short period of testing the RPA before removing the beta status and releasing RPM Elite as a fully-tested and supported product to replace RPM Elite 4.5.
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Another new beta 12-12-08
By Leroy | December 19, 2008
We are attempting to keep the RPM Elite beta version inline with the RPM Select release versions. Here are the two small fixes for RPM Elite 5.0.70.1.
- All settings for every transform were removed when deleting a queue, not just those for the deleted queue. The transforms themselves would remain.
- Upgrading to the same version would fail; the setup window immediately disappeared before the upgrade would begin.
The only difference between RPM Elite 5.0 beta and RPM Select 5.0 is the number of printers and Elite has a configurable number of worker tasks.
You can download RPM Elite 5.0 beta version 5.0.70.1 by clicking the download button on the left side menu.
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New Elite beta 11-11-08
By Leroy | November 11, 2008
With the release of RPM 5.0.70.0, at the same time we are releasing RPM Elite BETA at the same version. It has the same enhancements and fixes as RPM Select. They are listed below. We continue to work on the remote browser interface and other Elite-only features. You can download it here, or by clicking the download button on the left.
Enhancements
- The database and the spool and temporary folders are now located under the “All Users” application data directory
- The old database will be automatically copied (the first time) from the programs folder to the new location.
- Print jobs are not moved as the entire path is stored in the database. Do not move or delete the existing spool folder without deleting the jobs from RPM first.
- User interface settings are found under the logged on user’s application data directory.
- Added support for additional character sets
- Now supports several hundred commonly used characters
- Output now changes the line spacing if specified in the source file
- Tab support in PCL is improved
- Saving text markup to plain text now supports languages such as Thai where vowels print over consonants, which affects spacing in columnar output
- Now supports a combination of horizontal positioning commands and overprinted text.
- Now supports a login and password for your SMTP server, if required.
- Added a column for the device status in the Devices tab
- If a job errors, you can see the text in the Job properties window.
- If you send a job that is not in text markup to actions (like text printing) or transforms (like PCL) that require it, the job will fail. Previously the job could fail silently or produce incorrect results.
- When archiving a job to a folder, RPM no longer tries to create the folder if it doesn’t exist. Now it sets “device” status (that is, on the folder) to “error”; you can take corrective action by creating the folder, then opening the action in the UI.
- Tab support is improved in text printing, PCL, and HTML
Bug fixes (these problems are all fixed)
- On some files PCL generated an extra page.
- Null characters were not being removed
- Text printing could be off on succeeding pages if the last line of a page was empty, or the first line of the next page.
- If you printed interactively, and set the printer port to write to a file, and cancelled the file dialog, the “textprint” program would crash. Now it logs an error.
- Certain errors would not clear. For instance, if you inserted a file, then removed the file, the job error would not clear even if you replaced the insert file.
- One customer reported that the event log had messages about the JOBATTRS table. This is resolved.
- Long lines, for instance over 132 characters, could have a space character in the 133rd column.
- If you tried to save files to the root of a shared folder, the file would be saved to the wrong folder on the local computer.
- If you were logged in as an unprivileged user, or on Vista you did not run the UI elevated, and attempted to add credentials to an action, the UI would exit. Now it displays a dialog box.
- If you tried to import a configuration file from previous versions of RPM and the font was corrupt, the UI would exit when you opened the “text markup” dialog. Now it substitutes Courier New size 12 instead.
- Some users reported that the UI would exit when making a list of network printers for the raw print action.
- Turning off the “admin required” feature was not completely implemented.
- If you had a suspended queue, with jobs that were not held, changing the “suspend” setting would not cause the jobs to print.
- The top printed line of a PDF page was off by one if the last line of the preceding page was blank.
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