[WinPrnDev] Re: Duplicate Print jobs
- From: Alex Egorov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: winprndev <winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:11:44 +0400
How do you get print job handle?
How big your bufsize? (Can't be more than 64k)
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Octavian Rinciog <octavian.rinciog@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Thank you Alex for your quick answer.
>
> Indeed, my source print job is paused, because this is how I can
> intercept and copy the spl file.
>
> Actually convert to pdf is not a such big job. It can be done very
> easy with redmon+ghostscript.
>
> This is way I want to duplicate the print jobs (one copy should be
> transmitted to the real printer and the other copy should be
> transmitted to the virtual printer which converts to pdf and sends the
> document to some server).
>
>
>
>
> 2013/10/1 Alex Egorov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > First of all - your source print job should be paused,
> > Try your code on the printer with the pause state.
> > Possible situation - that source print jobs already
> > was sent to printer from queue and you try it to read.
> >
> > Converting to pdf this is additional big job
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Octavian Rinciog
> > <octavian.rinciog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to duplicate print jobs (it means when someone prints a
> >> document, this document is printed automatically also on another
> >> printer). The purpose is that I want to transform all printed
> >> documents into pdf and send them to a server.
> >>
> >> I was able to retrieve all print jobs using
> >> `FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification` and I was able to retrieve job
> >> content using `ReadPrinter`.
> >>
> >> The job is in EMF form.
> >>
> >> But when I want to write this job to another printer, using
> >> `WritePrinter`, the job seems to get to the printer, in the status
> >> window of the new printer is written `Printed`, but it doesn't happen
> >> anything. The job doesn't arrive to the printer.
> >>
> >> The code that duplicates the job is:
> >>
> >>
> >> do{
> >> if (!ReadPrinter(hPrinterJob, lpBytes, BUFSIZE, &dwBytesRead))
> >> {
> >> return FALSE;
> >> }
> >>
> >> else
> >> {
> >> if (!WritePrinter(hPrinterNew, lpBytes, dwBytesRead,
> >> &dwBytesWritten))
> >> {
> >> return FALSE;
> >> }
> >> }
> >> }while(dwBytesRead!=0);
> >>
> >> Does anyone know what it's wrong and how to fix?
> >>
> >> An example of software that does something like this is: [link][1]
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >> P.S I know this is not a printer driver problem, but maybe you have an
> >> idea how to fix this.
> >>
> >> [1]: http://www.colorpilot.com/emfprinterpilot.html
> >>
> >> --
> >> Octavian Rinciog
> >> ---
> >> Questions? First check the UndocPrint pages at
> >> http://www.undocprint.org/winspool
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alex Egorov
> > http://usefulsoft.com
>
>
>
> --
> Octavian Rinciog
> ---
> Questions? First check the UndocPrint pages at
> http://www.undocprint.org/winspool
>
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