[THIN] Re: Adding printer ports at login?
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:27:10 +0100
No, it's much simpler than that. I have a printer setup on the machine,
using the MS Publisher Imagesetter driver. This outputs nice clean
Postscript. The printer is set to print to a named file instead of a
standard port. When the named file turns up, my software grabs it and does
its' stuff.
That way, anything that is printable within Windows can be captured.
Anyway, I've found a nice application called Alphatronics Virtual Port
Monitor that comes close enough to doing what I want. I'm just working on an
NT service to fill in the functionality gaps now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 October 2005 13:00
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Adding printer ports at login?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angus Macdonald
> Sent: 13 October 2005 10:15
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Adding printer ports at login?
>
> So, to the actual query! I can programmatically create
> printers at login using RUNDLL32 PrintUI.Dll... but I can
> only print to ports that already exist. Does anyone know of a
> way to programatically create "Print to file"
> ports (like c:\users\user1\stdref.ps,
> c:\users\user2\stdref.ps etc) from a script or an application
> called from a script? Also, is it possible to change the
> security on printers from a script, as the newly created
> printers assign permissions to "everybody" by default.
>
> All suggestions welcome.
>
> Angus
I do this from a similar application to what you've wrote, to create
printable files (office documents).
Presumably at the moment do you use COM to automate an adobe application
to create the PS file?
Neil
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