"Alphatronics Virtual Port Monitor" is an excellent add-on that can replace
print to file functionality. It is independent from the nature of the
printout, so both Postscript and PCL out put is supported.
Regarding NT service. With Alphatronics you do not need to create NT service
(although I see scenarios where service can be used) and can utilize
Alphatronics ability to launch executables for post-processing of the
output. We use it for compression and encryption of captured documents
before archiving together with information about document owner, client
computer name and other environment variables specific to the user that
originated the printout. You can also redirect captured document to a
physical printer opening interesting possibilities such as "proximity"
printing.
Another interesting aspect of using Alphatronics Port Monitor is ability to
create high throughput virtual printers that can utilize drivers that are
safe for Terminal Services and offloading all printing from TS/Citrix box to
external print server running Alphatronics - we achieved throughput of about
2,000 pages per minute processing PCL output through standard HP drivers.
ALEX
From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Adding printer ports at login? 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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