What is Miraplacid Publisher

Miraplacid Publisher is software to take snapshot images from documents. Miraplacid installer adds a new printer to the system. Printer name is "Miraplacid Publisher Printer". When you print to this "printer", Miraplacid Publisher dialog pops up. You can preview the printed image, scale it, crop borders, adjust colors and gamma and so on. Then you can save it to image file, print to a real printer or upload to a server.

Miraplacid Publisher consists of the following components:

• Installer – to install the Miraplacid Publisher components
• Miraplacid Publisher Core – to process the image. Core includes image format plug ins (like JPG, TIFF and so on) and Transport plug-ins (like save-to-file, redirect-to-printer, etc)
• Printer Driver – to transfer image Windows printing system and Miraplacid image processing Core
• User Interface (UI) – to let user tell Core what to do

Learn more about Miraplacid Publisher.

Miraplacid Publisher SDK includes

• setup making wizard setupmaker.exe. Start it, set all the parameters, push "Ok" buttons and get your custom Publisher installation component mpublisher.dll. This dll has everything to install Miraplacid Publisher to new PC. Those parameters include printer driver name and all the other names. You can change it to your company name or your product name (see license agreement for detail).
• Miraplacid Publisher documentation
• SDK documentation
• Custom installer, sample registration utility and custom User Interface.

Miraplacid Publisher SDK works only on Windows 2008/Windows 7/Windows 8.x/Windows 10/Windows 11 and appropriate server variations and contain driver for these platforms only.
That means, custom driver built with SDK setupmaker will only work on these platforms.

Miraplacid Publisher saves all the settings to system registry as a set of profiles. It means, that you can set it once and use it over and over. If you never change settings, just turn auto-save mode on and Miraplacid Publisher will not bug you with UI dialog. You can add something like {{DATE}}, {{JOB}} and {{PAGE}} to path or filename, and all the result images will be saved separately.

If it works for you, you probably do not need the SDK.

All the Miraplacid Publisher controls you can see on Miraplacid Publisher UI dialog, also available through COM interface. In fact, UI communicates with Core through COM. It means, that you can write a script or application to manage printing process.

If this is what you need, you still can do it without using SDK.

There are the folowing cases when you need the SDK:

• When you integrate Miraplacid Publisher with your product and want everything to be installed by your installer. Meaning, you do not want Miraplacid Publisher installation dialogs to pop up.
• When you need custom User Interface which will be compatible with your product by functionality.
• When you need to have much more control over printing process. In this case, you will need to write your own User Interface, which could not contain any actual graphics elements. This UI may just control printing process.
• When you need to have a automation component for document-to-image convertion purposes which will be named and look like integral part of your own product (re-branding).

1. Launch setupmaker.exe. Default settings work fine. Press Ok button.
2. Copy mpublisher.dll generated by setupmaker.exe to examples.net\MP_SE_Setup\bin\Release folder.
3. Launch MP_SE_Setup.exe and press Install button.

mpublisher.dll does not include dialogs. You can implement your own UI if you need one. There is pretty straightforward setup sample UI on .Net in folder examples.net\MP_SE_Setup\

If you integrate Miraplacid Publisher into your software, you will probably prefer to use single UI for all your components and call Miraplacid Installation and Uninstallation functions form there.

There are two ways how you can integrate the installer with your system:

• through DLL function calls
• through COM interface

COM interface will give you error details and progress information.

See sample setup UI in folder \examples.net\MP_SE_Setup

These interfaces are described here

Your UI does not have to look like Miraplacid Publisher UI. You might want to manage Miraplacid Publisher core form your software rather than write a stand-alone UI executable. Just create an instance of object MP with events (if you write on VB – or implement COM events sink if you write on C++/C#), call MP methods, change properties and handle events.

See sample UI in folder \examples.net\MP_SE_UI

You will find more information on MP Core programming here

When you install Miraplacid Publisher, it shows "Trial Period" dialog with "Register" and "Continue" buttons. You can register it or continue using for 15 days. After 15 days "Continue" button disappear and you have to register or stop using Miraplacid Publisher.

If you integrate Miraplacid Publisher into your software and do not want your customers to register Miraplacid Publisher manually, you can do it through COM interface.

You will find the interface description here

See registration example in folder \examples.net\MP_SE_Reg.

If you integrate Miraplacid Publisher into your software, you really have three options:

• if Miraplacid Publisher is an optional software in your system, you can let your customers to register it themselves if they need it.
• You can purchase Miraplacid Publisher license for your customer and register Miraplacid Publisher via COM interface
• You can purchase Miraplacid Publisher SDK with Unlimited license. In this case you do not need to bother about registration. It could make a perfect sense if you plan to install your product based on Miraplacid Publisher technology on more that one hundred PCs. Please contact us: sales@miraplacid.com

See Miraplacid Publisher SDK licensing agreement for details

You will need Miraplacid Publisher software license for yourself when SDK trial period expired. You will also need software licenses for your customers. Miraplacid Publisher licenses can be purchased from Miraplacid web site.

We strongly recommend you to sign up a reseller to purchase licenses. As soon as you purchase 5 first licenses, you will get big discount on all following licenses.

Here is how Miraplacid reseller program works:

• You register as a reseller
• Login to password protected area and purchase licenses. Unlike regular license purchase, you are not getting keycode instantly. Instead, you can go to keycode generation page and
• Generate as many keycodes as you need (sorry, you cannot generate more keycodes than you purchased). You have to provide customer First Name and Last Name to generate a keycode.
• You register customer's copy of the software (see Software Registration for details). Miraplacid software registration requires customer First Name, Last Name and Keycode. All fields are case sensetive.

• About Miraplacid Publisher 2024 SDK
• Miraplacid Publisher 2024 SDK: Installation
• Miraplacid Publisher 2024 SDK: SetupMaker
• Miraplacid Publisher 2024 SDK: Installation Component
• Miraplacid Publisher 2024 SDK: Programming Guide
• Miraplacid Publisher SDK 2024 Main Page