[WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
- From: Abdul Qader <abqader.iqbal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:54:16 +0530
Sam,
I think i misunderstood your intentions.I thought you wanted the user to
view the "queued" print jobs before they were printed. Which is why i
suggested the idea of extracting the EMF.
Well if you dont want that then why bother? Saving the spl files in your
server should do the trick.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jason
>
>
> I keep rereading your email to try and understand what your explaining. So
> both SPL and XPS files contain the fonts that were used to print the
> document, but that isnt on the EMF. Is that why playing back an EMF wont
> gaurentee that the document will be the same as the original?
>
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> Also from what I understand is that the Spool file contains fonts of the
> printed document while polaying back the EMF pages wont have the same fonts.
> So again the question is why use EMF if we can copy the spool file? Given
> that the driver installed prints a spool file that can be understood by my
> server.
>
>
> Could it be because playing the EMF we dont have to worry about the drivers
> ~(~PS or PCL) because in a way the driver is what handles "how" to print
> them we are just giving it "what" to print via EMF, but if we copy the spool
> file it contains all the fonts or all the "how" but its printer driver
> specific, so I would have to make sure the spool file is understood by my
> release printer.
>
>
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> Is that an overly simplified version of the problem of "pages" vs "spool" ?
>
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