Version History - FolderMill

Version 5.4 (18 March, 2025)

New Printer load balancing feature for distributed printing (Round robin and Least loaded printer)
Print document Action: Smart color mode selection that automatically chooses between Grayscale and Color for each page based on content (Color mode: As in document), with adjustable color detection threshold
It is now possible to use the same Source (folder path) for different Hot Folders. For example, you can specify the same Windows folder for several Hot Folders and activate only the currently needed one while others remain paused
Added new Rotate document Action
Option to pause/unpause Hot Folders from the context menu on the main window
Enhanced Rescan period setting with flexible time intervals: seconds, minutes, or hours
Convert to PDF Action: PDF/A standard, OCR settings, and password-protected PDF can now be configured on the Action's window (General settings)
New setting Post-process action for combined file that lets you move output PDFs to a specified location based on defined conditions
New setting Attachments of unknown file types action that allows you to choose how to handle attachments: Ignore, Replace with placeholder, or Try to process
New setting What to do with existing attachments allowing to choose an action if the source file already has attachments (Ignore, Keep, Delete all)
New Excel file loading settings allowing to show/hide gridlines, headers, and change page orientation before converting XLS/XLSX/CSV files
Improved Convert XLS... Action with multiple output format options: XLS, XLSX, CSV, and ODS
Added Downscale shapes to page size setting that automatically reduces oversized embedded images in Outlook EML, MSG, and Word files to fit page dimensions
Upload to HTTP Action: Added User name and Password for HTTP authentication
Upload to HTTP Action: Ability to include macros like {*SrcFileName} (source file name) in the URL field
Rename document Action: Added case conversion options (uppercase/lowercase) for macros
Rename document Action: Updated regular expression algorithm for macros and added option to add a string delimiter between resultant name parts (Regexp delimiter string)
New supported formats: XCF (eXperimental Computing Facility), LWP (Lotus Word Pro Document)
New and improved component for processing Outlook PST files
Fixed subfolder structure when using Upload to FTP Action
Renamed some context menu option names in Windows tray menu
Simplified loading/saving of Rule files (.rule) that were renamed by a user via Import/Export button

Version 5.3 (September 24, 2024)

New Multiple pages per sheet mode: FolderMill now supports printing several pages on a single sheet of paper
New Booklet printing mode for creating brochures or saddle-stitched booklets
Enhanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) with the newly integrated Tesseract OCR library
Ability to convert HEIC (HEIF) images by installing the free-to-use ImageMagick application alongside FolderMill (as alternative to previously required paid codecs from the Microsoft Store)
New {*DocUID} macro for Rename document Action allowing to assign a unique sequential number to a document within a session
Convert to Image Action: Option to preserve the original image's color space for TIFF images
Hot Folder Settings: New option to enable/disable automatic unpacking of RAR, ZIP, and 7ZIP archives
Auto Portrait/Landscape option was replaced with a Page orientation dropdown menu
Added "Simulate overprinting" feature
Ignore printable area of the page option to ignore margins set by some printers by default and use the dimensions of the paper sheet only
New parameters for applying print settings from filename: color mode and paper size
Text watermark Action: New Embed font option when adding PDF annotations or text watermarks to documents
Text watermark Action: Added Source file date and Source file time macros
Updated components for better handling of Outlook PST files
Knowledge base: New how-to article: "Rename Document Action"
Knowledge base: Added Text watermark macros descriptions
Invalid page range for a document is no longer considered an error by default. You can enable the Consider print page range as error option if needed
Added new OCR language: Dutch

Version 5.2 (April 10, 2024)

New Convert to XLSX Action (works if your source files are XLS)
New supported file format: WebP file format (.webp)
New FolderMill Report utility
Pause/resume specific Hot Folders via the command line
Convert to PDF Action: Selecting page range for specific pages to be OCRed (OCR page range).
New OCR languages: Italian and Chinese Simplified
Rename document Action: New macros with Email metadata (Delivery timestamp, From..., To..., Subject), new EXIF metadata (GPS Latitude, GPS Longitude)
Resize document Action: New option to set the resize condition "not equal to" (Resize only if page size…)
Copy document Action: Handling attachments in different ways: Ignore attachments, Keep attachments only, Keep both container and attachments
Copy document Action: New macros to modify the output folder location (Source file path, 1st part <...> 3rd part , Full date, Full time, My documents, Common documents)
Text watermark Action: New option to add extra space around the text (Text margins)
Print document Action: Enable/disable printing the document and the cover page in the same print job
Print document Action: New option to print attachments only (Print only attachments)
Print document Action: Viewing additional software that is not installed to help process specific types of files (Print engine)
Filter by page size Action: New option to filter incoming files by page orientation (Portrait/Landscape)
Send to Email Action: Sending multiple files at once as attachments
Send to Email Action: Sending emails to multiple email addresses, each separated by a semicolon (";")
Email authentication (SMTP): Sending emails to multiple email addresses, each separated by a semicolon (";")
Email authentication (SMTP): Selecting TLS/SSL mode options for SMTP Server Settings: None, Implicit, Explicit, or Auto
For any Convert to... Action: New option to remove blank pages as an optional operation (Remove blank pages)
Enhanced internal component for better processing of DWG and DXF drawings
Compatibility with the latest eDrawings Viewer 2024 and its API
Integration of Autodesk Inventor API
New ability to lock/unlock the FolderMill Control Panel by setting a password
Additional Information console has been added in General Settings for checking installed printers and paper sizes. This was previously a standalone "PrintCheckTools" utility in older versions of FolderMill.
Fixed an error related to setting a non-standard path for the "Logs" folder
FolderMill now checks if the output folder for a new Action exists and creates it if it doesn't exist yet

Version 5.1 (October 24, 2023)

New Action: Crop document
New Action: Resize document
New Action: Insert file
New Action: Upload to HTTP
New Action: Filter by page color
Ability to use SSH keys for higher security (for Source: FTP and Upload to FTP Action)
Ability to schedule start/stop of FolderMill as application
Convert to Image Action: new options for Fit mode setting: Thumbnail (fit rectangle and fill color), Stretch (do not keep proportions)
Ability to set logon not only as "LocalSystem" but also as a Windows User Account (available when FolderMill is running in service mode)
Rarely used or 'under development' features and Actions are now hidden by default; can be changed with Enable extended features setting
PDF bookmarks are now created using filenames of files being appended when Convert to PDF Action + Append to existing file is used
Improved logging and better log preview in Control Panel's Events log menu
Redesigned cover page and changed "Created by..." watermark (in free version)
Redesigned Actions menu in Control Panel interface
Fixed issue with color mode for selected pages
Fixed issue with delayed printing related to accessing certificate validation servers
Fixed issue when some PDF annotations were lost after PDF was resized
Fixed issue related to duplication of file names when the Convert attachments is set to Combine (attachments after main doc) or Combine (attachments before main doc)
Fixed loading of obsolete FolderMill rules (ver. 3.1)
Improved character rendering for TEXT to PDF conversion
Improved ZPL printing
Other improvements

Version 5.0 (May 10, 2023)

New Multitasking mode – to process many files at a time
New types of file sources: Email and FTP
New Action: Upload to FTP
New Action: Send to Email
New Action: Convert to XPS
New Action: Filter by number of pages
Convert to PDF with OCR: create searchable PDFs
Task Manager – a convenient way to monitor tasks
Processing of EML, MSG message files without Microsoft Outlook
Processing of XLS, XLSX, CSV Excel files without Microsoft Office
Faster processing of files
Ability to change Color/Grayscale mode by page range for Print Document Action
Ability to change image watermark opacity
Support for eDrawings Viewer 2022
Support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 OS
New supported formats: VCF, ICS, EMLX, HEIC

Version 4.9 (September 22, 2021)

Processing of Word DOC, DOCX, RTF, SVG, and MHT files without Microsoft Word or OpenOffice
New Zoom scaling mode for Print document Action
New ways to print or convert emails and attachments
Ability to save TIFF and JPEG images in grayscale mode
Ability to change watermark position by Z-axis (Z-Order)
Italian language localization
Direct printing of PRN (.prn, Microsoft Windows Print File) file types
Improved Auto Crop feature for Convert to Image Action
Improved HTML to PDF conversion
Improved processing of Outlook MSG and EML files
Improved component for processing AutoCAD DWG and DXF drawings
The new version of eDrawings Viewer 2021 supported to process SolidWorks drawings
Filter by filename Action now works faster
Fixed ability to preserve native CMYK color space of input images
Ability to print not only the default (active) worksheet of SolidEdge drawings but all worksheets
Added processing of images with the wrong image resolution value
Improved Excel file to PDF conversion
Optimized XPS, OXPS to PDF conversion
Ability to convert JPEG image files with rotation tag to PDF
Ability to process PDF pages with 180-degree rotation tag

Version 4.8 (November 23, 2020)

Ability to preserve native CMYK color space of input images
Using external ICC profiles for files in CMYK color space
Improved processing of Outlook email message files
Ability to block unwanted email attachments with Extract Exclude Mask (for Print Action)
Ability to keep bookmarks' structure of source documents
Ability to create bookmarks when merging files to a multi-page PDF
Auto-crop ability when converting raster images
New custom page zoom feature for HTML files
New supported format: Adobe InDesign INDD
Keeping original JPEG resolution for JPEG to PDF conversion
Compatibility with eDrawings Viewer 2021
Other improvements and fixes

Version 4.7 (May 19, 2020)

Ability to send ZPL or text files directly to a printer via Generic Text Printer Driver
Ability to rotate ZPL files to a certain degree
Ability to configure proxy settings for ZPL to PDF conversion
Ability to set a specific page range for Add text or file watermark Action
Compatibility with eDrawings Viewer 2020
Using SHX fonts for CAD files
New filetypes supported: DICOM, P7M, Outlook PST, OST
Improved naming of attachments
Reduced margins when printing plain text files
Improved sorting of output files
Fixed importing of Hot Folder Settings from older versions
Fixed an error when the application could crash in multi-processing mode
Improved detection of Microsoft Word and Solidworks
Improved logging
Improved file conversion to PDF/A
Improved HTML files font processing
Improved PDF, EML, MSG attachments processing

Version 4.6 (June 11, 2019)

New processing core with an ability to switch between different modules
Processing one, all or an exact number of files at once within a Hot Folder
Ability to print and convert PCL files
Direct printing of PostScript (PS) files
Convert Word to PDF and reduce the file size
Automatically add image filename on margins
Set page orientation and filename template for Convert to image Action
Disable original subfolder structure in the output folder
Combine files to a single PDF or TIFF and rename by subfolder name
Ability to run FolderMill in desktop mode on a schedule
Ability to add EXIF data to filenames
Improved CAD files processing: grayscale mode and paper size fixed for DWG
Improved processing of Outlook messages
Improved log sorting and daily log scheduler
Other fixes and improvements

Version 4.5 (November 15, 2018)

Conversion and printing of AutoCAD DWG and DXF drawings without CAD software
Automatically print MathCAD XMCD, MCDX drawings
New supported format for conversion and printing: Solid Edge DFT
Filter incoming PDF files by text with new Filter File by Contents Action
Automatically convert Zebra ZPL labels to PDF
Specify the exact page range to print by adding the values at the end of the document name
Convert files contained in password-protected RAR, ZIP, 7ZIP archives
Process only certain files by file mask (but keep others intact)
Include filename or part of filename into text watermark
Include Creator / Author name into watermark from original file metadata
Specify text watermark font size as a percentage of page height
Compatibility with eDrawings Viewer 2019
Improved priority for simultaneously added files to Hot Folder
Improved alert notification by e-mail

Version 4.4 (March 6, 2018)

Insert pages before existing PDF or TIFF files
New PDF compression function
Print crop marks for PDF
Set paper size for cover pages
Exclude subfolders from processing
Localization to French
Improved Filter by Paper Size: better paper size detection
Improved Add text or watermark Action parameters
Improved log file processing
Improved Windows 10 menu icons and new Action icons
Fixed binary and dynamic library files (.exe, .dll)
Fixed Convert to XPS plugin
Fixed paper size format display in Filter by paper size Action

Version 4.2 (November 15, 2017)

New ability to split multi-page PDF files into single pages
New ability to sort batches of files in the processing queue by Date (default), Name, Type, or Size
New Action added - Filter by Paper Size
New Action added - Convert to XPS (available upon request)
New page scaling & orientation settings for Print Document action
New Strict Mode: processing rules stop on error, First In, First Out (FIFO) algorithm, timing control for locked files
Improved Logs: better structure for General and Detailed logs
Other performance and stability improvements

Version 4.1 (April 28, 2017)

New faster PDF engine
New formats supported: Zebra ZPL, MPP, HPGL, SWF, ONE
Ability to convert files in ZIP, RAR or 7ZIP archive into PDF or image
Ability to pause certain Hot Folders
Ability to set ignore masks for Hot Folders
Ability to rearrange the order of Actions
Ability to automatically select printer tray for PDFs depending on paper size
Ability to automatically delete original input files from Processed Folder on schedule
Ability to use a list of passwords to process password-protected PDFs
Ability to force printer settings: paper size, printer tray, page orientation, color mode, duplex mode
Ability to instantly send files to a Hot Folder via Windows Explorer right-click menu
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing via Adobe Acrobat
Log clean-up on schedule
No need to have Microsoft Outlook installed to process EML or MSG files
Fixed data communication issue between the program and the printer
Fixed issue with FolderMill Processor on launch in service mode
Fixed issue with filename when using date and time macro

Version 4.0 (July 27, 2016)

Added service mode
Improved processing queue manager, with priority settings for Hot folders
Added multithreaded task processing
Added support for new formats
Added localization to German, Spanish, Dutch and Russian languages
Improved append to multi-page PDF or TIFF feature
Added option to overwrite image files
Added flexible output files numbering
Added detailed descriptions for Action Set options
Added an option to keep the original folder structure
Added feature to resume suspended processes in case of system failure
Added an ability to choose a type of limitation in the free version of FolderMill
14-day trial version of FolderMill available by request

Version 3.1 (November 19, 2015)

New document formats supported to print and convert: CorelDraw CDR, WordPerfect WPD and Outlook MSG files
Adobe PDF Portfolio files now can be automatically printed and split to separate documents
Adobe PDF to PDF/A conversion module updated
Control panel and actions GUI is updated
Password protected PDF and Microsoft Word DOC files are supported
New plugins were added: "Copy to", "Rename" and "Run custom application"
Append documents to a single multipage TIFF file

Version 3.0 (July 30, 2015)

Redesigned FolderMill control panel interface
Each hot folder now may contain several actions sets. Each actions set can include several actions in row
New feature to split multi-page document to single-page TIFF files
New Watermark action applies text or image watermarks on output files or printouts
New Filename filter action processes or skips files by filename mask
Print action now saves individual printer settings
Print cover pages feature is available in commercial version of FolderMill
FolderMill Processor can be shut down using command line parameter
New helper components for processing Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Autodesk AutoCAD, DesignReview, HTML, MHT and PostScript files.

Version 2.1 (March 24, 2015)

Native TXT to PDF conversion is implemented
Extended log files
New PowerPoint component for print and convert PPT and PPTX files
New formats are now supported for print and convert: Photoshop .PSD, Windows Metafiles .WMF and Enhanced Metafile .EMF
Fixed Microsoft Publisher 2013 x64 for convert and print and Microsoft Outlook 2013 x64 for print
Print PDF files now doesn't require Adobe Acrobat and printing PDF files became much faster

Version 2.0 (January 22, 2015)

New fast and reliable file processing component for converting documents and image files
Added feature to print incoming documents on desktop or network printers
Now it is possible to define several actions for the same document
List of supported file types extended for Microsoft Office Publisher XPS, HTML and image files
Updated control panel interface

Version 1.5 (July 25, 2011)

Now supports the latest version of Universal Document Converter 5.3
Now supports TIFF, JPEG, PNG and WMF source files, as well as most other graphic formats
Now supports MS Visio source files
New "pass-through" filters for all file types
Improved networking
Improved control of file processing and error monitoring
Option to receive e-mail alerts when errors occur
Fixed user-reported issues

Version 1.3.2 (December 12, 2010)

Corrects issues discovered by product users
Improved support for the Portable Document Format (PDF) input files
Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office 2010

Version 1.3 (July 6, 2010)

Implemented support for the Portable Document Format (PDF) input files
Verified compatibility with Microsoft Office 2010
Reviewed Solutions are available
Corrected and improved installation package

Version 1.2 (March 17, 2010)

Implemented full compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
Corrected installation on the Domain Controllers (32 bit & 64 bit)
Improved network processing functionality in Active Directory
Support new version of Universal Document Converter v5.1 implemented
Improved user interface of "FolderMill Control Panel"
Changed and reviewed I\O protocol between "FolderMill Service" and "FolderMill Control Panel"
Multilanguage support for the interface and log-files added
User interface localized in English and German
New and reviewed Solutions are available

Version 1.1 (October 26, 2009)

Document conversion server implemented as system service
"FolderMill Control Panel" monitoring and configuration utility added
All settings of the FolderMill and conversion Rules are stored in the system registry now
Export and Import to text files for Rules added
Compatibility with 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows systems added
Compatibility with Microsoft Vista and Microsoft 7 UAC improved
Documets from Microsoft Office 2007 are supported
Fixed de-installation and re-installation procedures
MS Excel workbooks support improved
Parameters for conversion rules are optimized

Version 1.0 (August 18, 2008)

First completed version of the FolderMill Document Conversion Server
Server application is implemented as windows-mode application
Universal Document Converter v4.2 is used as document converter
Supported Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2000, 2003
Conversion rules are stored as ini-files
"FolderMill Control Panel" configuration utility developed to manage conversion rules