FileConverterPro 1.0.69 – Convert CSV files

CSV (Comma Separated Values) files can also be converted to PDF or PDF/A using FileConverterPro. Either as individual files or as email attachments or files in container files (ZIP, 7ZIP ….).

Configuration:

  • The CSV extension must be defined as “alias” for the XLS extension.

  • The conversion can be done either “directly” or via “MS Office” / “MS Excel”. It should be noted that in the direct conversion for the CSV file a “,” (comma) or in the “MS Office / MS Excel” a “;” (Semicolon) must be used as a separator. If a different delimiter is used then the CSV file is not processed like an XLS but like a normal text file and no columns are generated. However, this only applies to MS Office / operating system in German. If MS-Office and the operating system are used in English then “,” and not “;” as CSV separator.

 

Download – FileConverterPro (FCpro) ~150MB >>>

PDFSign FM – PDF, PDF / A and ZUGFeRD provided by folder monitoring with signature / time stamp

The PDFSign FM is based as well as our other PDF signature applications – the Web service, the CL command line application and the eDocPrintPro PDFSign plugin on the PDFSign .NET component as a common basis.

The PDFSign FM is installed as a service on an MS Windows computer and is able to monitor one or more input folders via configured jobs. The incoming PDFs in the folders are recognized and processed either immediately or at a specific time and stored in the associated output folder.

 

PDFSign FM features:

  • MS-Windows service to sign or timestamp PDF, PDF / A and ZUGFeRD.
  • PDF / A and ZUGFeRD conformity is maintained.
  • Selection of signature parameters via stored PDFSign signature profiles.
  • One or more input folders can be monitored by job definition.
  • Processing the files via filter – name, created (date, time), changed (date, time)
  • Sorted processing (name or time).
  • Processing all PDF’s from a folder / subfolder structure – Options: Create the folder structure in the target folder, delete the folder structure after processing.
  • Definition of the file name in the target directory via text and variables (date, time, counter, original name).
  • Start processing via file events (immediately) as well as over time interval (min) or date / time (once, daily, weekly).

         

    Download – PDFSign FM – Signing PDF through Order Tracking >>>

PDFSignCheck – Check PDF signatures via web service (REST / SOAP)

PDFSignCheck – is a service which can be installed under MS Windows and which has a REST / SOAP web service interface to check signed PDF documents and to read out their signature parameters.

Scope – validation of electronic evidence:

In order to pay the customer for PDF invoices z.b. via a web application to give the opportunity to check whether an email sent as a PDF invoice really comes from your own company or to check whether the PDF document has not been changed or manipulated.

Using a valid PDF signature can ensure that the PDF document has not been tampered with, as any change invalidates the signature immediately.

With the help of the PDFSignCheck application, it can be checked whether the document / signature is valid and therefore unchanged and on the basis of the signature criteria stored on the PDFSignCheck server, it can also be checked whether the document was issued / signed by the company itself.

 

     

Definable criteria – AND shortcut for “Ok” / “not ok”

  • Signature status (0 – unknown, 1 – valid signature, 2 – file can not be opened, 3 – PDF not signed, 5 – signature invalid, 6 – validity unknown)
  • Issuer of the certificate / signer
  • reason
  • location
  • ContactInfo
  • Filter / Sub-Filter / algorithm
  • Revision
  • page
  • Signature Text

processing flow:

PDFSignCheck is installed under MS Windows as a service and provides a REST / SOAP web service interface for other applications. PDF files are transmitted via the web service and checked using a PDFSignCheck profile stored on the server. As a result, a file is created in JSON format that can be downloaded and processed further. The JSON file contains information about the read signature as well as the result of the check (“Ok”, or “not ok”).

In addition to the service, two C # sample programs / VS projects – one for REST and one for SOAP incl. EXE and source code are installed. Thus, the PDFSignCheck service can be easily tested or show the examples of how the functions can be integrated into your own applications.

 

     

Notice:

  1. Root certificates and revocation lists are constantly updated, therefore the computer installed on the PDFSignCheck should also have an active internet connection.
  2. By default, PDFSignCheck runs as a Windows service under the “System Account”, the user interface for configuring the application under the logged-in user. Each user and the computer itself use their own memory for the certificates. In order to use the same certificate store, the same user account should be used for the service as the logged-on user with whom the configuration is performed.

Download – PDFSignCheck – PDF Signaturen prüfen über REST / SOAP >>>

PDFSign CL – Command line application to sign PDF, PDF / A and ZUGFeRD as well as timestamp them

PDFSign CL – allows PDF, PDF / A or ZUGFeRD documents to be signed and / or timestamped. PDFSign CL is based on our PDFSign – .NET signature component and provides its functionality in the form of a command line application.

Features PDFSign CL:

  • Command line application based on the PDFSign – .NET signature component
  • PDF, PDF / A and ZUGFeRD PDFs can be provided with an electronic signature and / or an electronic time stamp.
  • PDF / A, ZUGFeRD compatibility is retained.
  • Processes – single files, lists of text files, folders, and entire folder structures.
  • Configuration and selection of signature settings via PDFSign profile files.
  • Logging the processing.

 

Download – Readme – Hilfe – Beschreibung der verfügbaren Parameter DE >>>
Download – Readme – Help – Description of the available parameters EN >>>
Download – PDFSign CL – Command line application to sign PDF >>>

PDFSign CL Client – Command line application for the PDFSign service

PDFSign CL Client – is a command line application to transfer PDF, PDF / A documents via a REST web service interface to a PDFSign service to sign and / or provided with a time stamp and then back to the calling client to transfer back.

The PDFSign CL client is free of charge, available as an add-on to our PDFSign service and can be used as a client application on any MS Windows computer.

Features PDFSign CL Client:

PDFSign Service – PDF and PDF / A via SOAP & REST – Web service with signature or timestamp

On the technical basis as the FileConverterPro (FCpro) there is now also a Windows service to provide PDF or PDF / A documents via a SOAP or REST web service interface with a timestamp or with an electronic signature.

The service is based on our PDFSign .NET signature component, is installed as a Windows service and offers the same SOAP and REST web service interface as our FileConverterPro (FCpro) or AutoOCR.

Along with the main application, two C # sample projects for SOAP and REST including source code and executable applications are being installed. With the help of these examples, all PDF signatures and PDF timestamps provided via the PDFSign service can be tested and quickly integrated into your own applications.

                    

Download – PDFSign Service  ~21MB >>>

Transfer license – MOVE

Move license (to new PC)

This option allows to transer a license to a different PC. Input of UserID und Passwort is necessary! Product will remain as demo version on your PC.

OLD PC: ProductActivationManager | select license | „Move License“ Button | Username / Password | OK

NEW PC: ProductActivationManager | select application | „Activate Application“ Button | Username / Password | select license | OK

iPaper – Automated installation

An automated iPaper installation consists of the following parts:

  1. The installation of the version of GhostScript suitable for the iPaper version.
  2. Installing the iPaper application.
  3. Retrieve the license and activate the software.
  4. Configuration / distribution of the presets.

Normally our setups are executed as EXE. The EXE setup contains both the 32bit and the 64bit MSI of the application. With the EXE installation certain automated steps are executed automatically. The installation prerequisites (eg .NET Runtime, presence of the correct GhostScript version, etc.) are checked and if components are not available or not in the correct version, they are downloaded from the Internet and pre-installed. Likewise, the EXE setup decides whether on the computer the 32 or 64bit version must be installed.

Automated installation requires MSI installation packages. If the MSI packages are used, the installation prerequisites must be established correctly. It is also necessary to specify which version (32 or 64bit) has to be installed.

The “iPaperNET Client.exe” setup contains the required MSI files – but these must be extracted from the EXE.

Extract MSI from EXE:

  • /extract <path> – Extracts the MSI contained in the EXE into the specified path. If the path contains spaces, it must be surrounded by quotation marks.
  • Beispiel: “C:\iPaperNET Client.exe” /extract “C:\temp” – This command-line command extracts the MSI to the folder “C: \ temp”

A description of the parameters can be found here >>>

Depending on the operating system, the 32 or 64bit GhostScript version must be installed – for iPapers up to version 2.99.1 the GhostScript version 9.18.1 is required.

Example – Extracting the MSI and installing 64bit versions:

  • “C:\temp\iPaperNET Client.exe” /extract c:\temp
  • msiexec.exe /i “C:\temp\gs918.1×64.msi” /quiet
  • msiexec.exe /i “C:\temp\iPaperNET Client.x64.msi” /quiet

Retrieve the iPaper License:

To retrieve the licenses from our license server, this can either be done interactively via the installed PAM (Product Activation Manager) or via Commandline

  • “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\MAYComputer\LicMan.exe” /ACTIVATE MULTI=“AUTO” USERID=“user” USERPW=“passwort” APPID=“2PC” /SILENT

In the example, “user” and “password” must be replaced by the PAM login information. The AppID “2PC” is used up to iPaper version 2.99.1.

iPaper Configure and distribute presets:

All settings of the iPaper application are stored in the iPaper.xml file in the default path (C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\iPaper.NET\iPaper.xml)

If it is not found there then:

  1. Checked if an iPaper.xml exists in the iPaper installation folder
  • If it is found there, we automatically copy it to the default path
  • If it can not be found in the installation folder, then 2.) is executed.

2. It is checked whether the xml file exists in the ProgramData directory C: \ ProgramData \ iPaper.NET \ iPaper.xml

  • If it is found there, we automatically copy it to the default path
  • If the file is not found there, an iPaper.xml file with predefined (fixed-coded) default settings is generated and stored in the standard path.

To specify default settings, we recommend variant 2.)

In the iPaper.XML you can use absolute path data or system variables.

Download – Example iPaper.XML

In this example, the system variables% HOMEPATH% and% APPDATA% were used. This makes general presets and actions which can be used universally for all users.

! Note that the iPaper.XML is always written / overwritten when you exit iPaper. So you have to replace the application before you want to replace it. Otherwise the file will be overwritten with the last values from the user interface when you exit iPaper.

FileConverterPro – MS-Office conversion and PDF / A

To convert MS Office formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio …) to PDF / A, the FCPro provides either “direct” conversion or conversion based on a MS Office version installed on the FCpro computer.

We recommend using PDF/A as the output format, either the “direct” or the conversion via MS-Office 2013/2016 in the 32 or 64bit version. We have found in test that certain MS Word documents can not be converted to valid PDF/A documents via MS-Office 2010.

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