[WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
- From: Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:56:09 +0000
Dear All
Its been awhile since I last sent an email, I have been spending the time
reading up on RedMon and GhostScript. Turns out that what I am trying to
acheive isnt as impossible as I first thought. The RedMon Redirect port
redircts PostScript files to GhostScript which creates the PDF.
Now my question is can I modify the GhostScript files to save a document to a
default location instead of promting the user to choose a path? Also is there
anyway we can actually get the nname of the document, From the PostScript File
(this isnt really crucial I just thought each document having its unique name
might be better than having the output overwritten each time a document is
printed)
Finally when the pdf is created i need to triggermy application, do i do that
after ghost script is called or do I modify redmon to do it?
I figured since RedMon is already a ready made port monitor its best that i
play about with ghostscript to produce and save the PDF created to "Test.PDF"
and then trigger my application to take the path of "Test.PDF" and pass the
parameters to the server.
Does that make sense, so the crucial issue is can i set GhostScript to save to
a default location?
RegardsSam
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:50:27 -0700
From: tdemjen@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I assume you have a PDF printer driver, or metafile to PDF converter, or PS to
PDF. In that tool you can theoretically go from color to grayscale or bilevel.
You can even convert a color PDF or XPS into a grayscale one. You can't go from
grayscale to color, though, and you can't change the paper size, at least it
would be terribly hard to reflow the text afterwards.
I haven't tried this, but here's how you're supposed to go grayscale in
GhostScript:http://handyfloss.net/2008.09/making-a-pdf-grayscale-with-ghostscript/
For the XPS to PDF route, the easiest would be to print the XPS document to a
PDF printer driver. That won't preserve the hyperlinks and bookmarks, but you
can parse those from the XML and put them into the PDF.
Tom
From: Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 7:22:54 AM
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
Hey All
Here is another question I have been pondering with for awhile, once a job is
printed and spooled, is there any way to change its job properties?
For example from colour to mono?
RegardsSam
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