May 7th, 2013· Fix for Printer Configuration Scaling and Orientation not being applied. Will also resolve borderless printing showing with white borders.
April 29th, 2013· Changed the way the application use TCP port. It will now pick a random open port instead of a fixed 9631 TCP port.
· Moved version from Beta to Final as it is very stable. Many thank’s to all that provided feedback and helped us make it where we are now.
March 18th, 2013· Fix problem with disabled printers still showing as shared after turning handyPrint OFF and ON.
· Various code optimization and cleanup.
· Fresh compile under Xcode 4.6.1.
February 22nd, 2013· Fix for duplex printer advertisement
· Implemented new buttons to add and manage virtualprinters. The old ones where missed by most users. We hope the new design will be easier.
February 21st, 2013· Removed expiry
· New “Trial” tab under license.
February 21st, 2013· Fix for wake-up bug causing printers to not be online upon Mac wake-up
· Fix bug causing PrefPane hang when trying to save printer configuration. Oups!
· Fixing above will cause a temporary bug for non duplex printers. Make sure to select to not print in Duplex on your iOS device when printing as a work around. We will fix in the next beta release.
January 31st, 2013· new print engine
· no longer require that printer be shared for them to be made available
· ability to customize print settings for each printers
· new flexible virtual printer support (print to file, print to screen, print to application, etc)
· simplified interface
January 24th, 2013· Fix for iOS reporting printer offline after changing printer config under a3… I hope. Work around if this happen is to flick the switch to OFF and ON.
January 24th, 2013Added the ability to “unshare” printers:
Made menu context aware of type of printer being shared (real vs virtual):
· Bug fixes for per printer options
· Fix for paper margins being too thin
· Other bug fixes
January 22nd, 2013· Brand new per printer print options configuration. You can now select the paper size you want, print layout, black and white vs color, etc.
January 21st, 2013· Relabel of v4.0.0b3 as stable v4.0.1
January 3rd, 2013· Fix for page range not always being properly applied in some applications
· Some under the hood code optimization
· Fix for bug where alternate print engine and print two pages per page was not working
· Minor bug fixes
January 3rd, 2013· Memory leak fix
· New option to remove authentication forced on some printers shared via Windows or Linux
· Other bug fixes
December 27th, 2012· Relabeled a22 to b1.
· Minor GUI change
December 22nd, 2012· Another attempt to fix a bug that caused the Daemon to crash when printing web pages. One very patient user was able to validate that this version did the trick for him. We hope it will for everyone.
December 21st, 2012· Fix for random daemon crash (we hope this will do it)
· Added an option to activate an alternate printing engine in case the default one does not work.
December 20th, 2012· Added routine to report new version as we are getting closer to beta
December 20th, 2012· Fix for bug preventing the proper printing of Photos
December 20th, 2012· Fix for random handyPrintDaemon crash (we hope).
· Added option to keep Printer Default media type to Media type drop down list.
December 20th, 2012· Added the ability to select default printer media type
· Added debug code so crash report will give us more information.
Integrated Notification Center under 10.8 to notify when printing to PDF or actual printer is done:
December 20th, 2012Add the ability to “Show on my Mac”. This option turn your Mac screen into a virtual Printer. Everything you print will appear in Preview on your Mac. Simply enable the new virtual printer under the new “Virtual Printers” tab:
December 20th, 2012· Added a new option called Imsoniac. It will prevent the computer from sleeping when enabled
· Changes to engine to fix crash on certain print. Still not 100% there.
December 8th, 2012Introduces two new features by which you can:
· Prevent your Mac from going to sleep when running handy print. To do this simply select the new option under the Options tab
· Advertise remote printers that are not directly shared by the Mac running handyPrint (Option above the Keep machine awake…).
November 30th, 2012· We now handle the print between the iOS device and printer vs letting iOS talk directly to the printer. This should make problematic printers finally work. It will also allow us to provide options like “print in Black and White”, Rotate print, Quality, Paper size, etc in the future;
· We should now support non locally shared printer like we used to under v2.x;
· New built-in virtual Print to PDF file printer. You can enable it under the Options section.
November 26th, 2012· Introduces a full printing engine that will handle all print activities between the iOS devices and the actual printer. This allows to better control paper size, color vs blank and white, etc, etc.
· It also provides built-in print-2-pdf (called handyPDF for now).
October 19th, 2012· Improved Assistant;
· Restart Daemon after wakeup from sleep;
New option to hide computer name from printer advertisements:
· Other minor bug fixes
September 22nd, 2012· Resolve issue with iOS6 on OSX 10.6.8 and some 10.7 upgraded systems
· Add the ability to disable new version check under new “Options” section
· New Assistant logic
September 22nd, 2012· Resolve issue with iOS6 on 10.6.8
· Add the ability to disable new version check under new “Options” section
· New Assistant logic
September 17th, 2012· Resolve issue with IPv6 and IPv4 support
September 15th, 2012· Resolve issue with support of some Printer/Computer names containing non regular ascii characters (like french accents)
May 17th, 2012· Bug fix release. Fix issue with Stealth mode report and annoying “New version” warning.
May 14th, 2012· Introduction of an advanced option to enable Duplex printing when your printer support it. It may or may not work.
· Improved installer that will now show “Update” if you already have a previous copy of AirPrint Activator installed.
April 29th, 2012· Fix a bug that would prevent the removal of a printer from the list when it was no longer shared
· Improved installer. You can now uninstall the application through the installer application.
· Complete change on how that application automatically start at login. Now uses common Login Items approach.
· Better handling of cleanup activities if one remove the application from the System Preferences while it is active.
· Many more under the hood improvements.
April 25th, 2012· Completely re-written AirPrintActivator Daemon. There is no more need for the helper application ‘aparedir’. Good riddance!
· AirPrint Activator GUI has been replaced by a System Preference application.
· An installer application is now provided for easy one step process.
March 19th, 2012· Made it possible to use the Advanced button while AirPrintActivator is ON.
· Changed the application default to only share local printers instead of all visible printers on the network.
· Minor interface fixes
December 7th, 2011· New option to automatically restart the daemon every 10 minutes. This might come handy for users that are experiencing sporadic printers drop from the list. To activate the feature go to “Advanced Settings” and select “Activate Daemon Restart”.
· Some other bug fix.
September 12th, 2011· Removed message about Firewall as this new version can run properly with the Firewall turned ON as long as the “aparedir” helper is added to the list of allowed applications in the advanced section of the OSX Firewall.
September 6th, 2011· new design to be firewall friendly (simply add the aparedir located in the helper folder to the allowed applications in the Firewall)
· fix an issue with firewall detection on non Lion systems
August 16th, 2011· newly compiled under XCode 4.1.1
· added a new warning window that let you know if the OSX Firewall is on and what consequence this might have on APA2
May 15th, 2011· Fix a bug with long printer names that would exceed the maximum Bonjour name length resulting in a failure to advertise the printers.
May 5th, 2011· fix small issue with printer combined name length that exceed 63 chars
· added a warning when the presence of an old V1 installation is detected
April 27th, 2011· 1st official release with PPC support. I fired up an old version of xCode and compiled a Universal binary based on a 10.5 SDK. Hopefully this should make APA available for PPC machine running 10.5.
· New UI for the ON/OFF toggle switch
· Fix for a bug with the Wireless support (hopefully)
· Fixed a bug with the preference file creation under OSX Lion
· Added an option to disable the auto-cleanup feature of the daemon (don’t use this please)
April 23rd, 2011· New and improved GUI
· New method for hostname detection that should fix issues reported by some when using hostnames with spaces and non alpha numerical characters.
April 22nd, 2011· This new release add a new advanced setting that allow users to only share local printers (like APA v2.0b1 to v2.0b9 did). This allow users to stop the advertisement of non locally shared printers.
· This new version also changes how the local hostname is validated against the advertised printer record. This should help fix some of the issues reported by a few users.
· Moved some code around to make it cleaner.
April 12th, 2011· Fixed a bug with long printer names.
· Printer names that would exceed 63 chars would not be shared. It is now truncated to 63 chars to fit within the Bonjour name length limit.
April 10th, 2011· Support for non locally attached printers is now included.
March 24th, 2011· Fixed a bug that would turn off AirPrint during logoff… not very good. AirPrint will now properly start after a logoff/login operation.
March 20th, 2011· Added the ability to customize the text prefix in front of the printer name
· Changed the application folder existence check routing in case a folder get deleted.
March 14th, 2011· Fixed an issue for new Mac account that miss some required directories
· Added a verification routine that will prevent two users from running AirPrint Activator on the same system
· Added some error message regarding failure to activate AirPrint
February 13th, 2011· Fixed a bug with the “Donation” not going away after clicking the “I already donated” button. Should be fine now. Also compiled with the latest Xcode 4 GM release. Result in tighter and faster code (not that it really matter as the application was always pretty small and fast).
January 16th, 2011· Fixe a bug with the “activation” detection routine. Everyone should upgrade to this new release if you want to properly “deactivate” AirPrint.
January 10th, 2011· Changed the logic to detect when AirPrint is activated. Should be able to handled future upgrades to the file modified by AirPrint Activator. In the event where Apple replace the file with an updated version you should simply need to run AirPrint Activator again to turn on AirPrint.
· Added a version string to the main UI.
December 7th, 2010· Completely rebuilt the application as Cocoa Objective-C. No more AppleScript. Hopefully this should fix application crash issue on start that some have experienced.
November 30th, 2010· On the request of ecamm Networks I created my own set of on/off switch. I originally used png from their product distribution thinking they where not copyrighted. I guess I was wrong. Any way, the new ones are made by me and should be good to go… unless Apple complain they look too much like the iPhone toggle switch.
· I was also advised that v1.7 contained the three old fines that are no longer needed. I made sure they are no longer included by Xcode.
November 27th, 2010· Rewrote how the hack is applied. Only one file is modified by adding the UNIRAST reference needed for AirPrint to work.
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