[WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
- From: "Jason Harrison" <jharrison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:57:30 -0700
Hi Sam,
Or the printer driver could convert the file to PDF or XPS, both of which are
more portable and better documented than SPL, or PCL.
Can you give us more context on what you really want to achieve and the problem
you are trying to solve? We may be suggesting
incorrect solutions because we don't have the larger context.
-Jason
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From: winprndev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:winprndev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sam Elamin
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:04 AM
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
Sending a printed document might be a possible solution Jason. Do you mean send
the spool file? As long as the release printer has
the same driver then that might work. A problem that i foresee is what if the
drivers differ (PS or PCL ) . Can I maybe create a
Passthrough driver that would be understood by both printers.
I dont really have a problem with supporting just PS or PCL, but that means
when I send out the print driver it has to be a generic
PS or PCL and wrap it in an installer so as to make it easier on a client side
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From: jharrison@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:37:22 -0700
Hi Sam,
I have to agree with the other responses that if you want to "send the document
to a website" then a printer driver is not the way
to go.
However, if you would accept sending a "printed document to a website" then a
printer driver plus port monitor might work but it
would send the printout (SPL or XPS file) to the website. But not the original
document.
Do you have any other requirements or limitations like the applications that
this has to work with? Are you thinking that a printer
driver is pretty universal so it might work? What about saving the document to
a "watched folder" on the computer and then
uploading those documents?
-Jason
From: winprndev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:winprndev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sam Elamin
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:18 AM
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Creating a Printer Driver
Hello Everyone
I am trying to develop a printer driver which will be installed on a client
side, what i need this driver to do is just save the
path of documents sent to it to a string and forward that string to an ASP.NET
application which will upload the document to a print
server.
now i already have the upload client working so here is the scenario which the
printer will work on.
Document "X" is printed to a printer with the installed driver (Printer "A")
Printer "A" will then get the path of the given document and save it to string
"Path", "Path" will then be sent to a Webpage which
will upload it.
I kept it as basic as possible because i just want to know if it could be done?
Regards
Sam
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