[WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
- From: Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:45:48 +0000
True but once i have my head completly around ghost script and RedMon maybe I
can create my own hack of it and wrap it all in one tidy install, hence avoid
all the legal troubles and licensing issues.
Its a matter of sitting down and understanding the code.
RegardsSam
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:20:43 -0700
> From: curveto@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
> To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Technically, yes. But clients have to have GhostScript and the RedMon port
> hack installed (which is no small task, btw). That, plus I don't believe the
> RedMon hack will work for certain "modern" systems (Microsoft is slowly
> removing raw sockets support which this relies upon). But for developers in a
> university setting it should be do-able. You should know that GhostScript
> isn't something you can just blindly package up (for sale) either (unless you
> enjoy speaking with attorneys).
>
> As you've figured out "getting to PDF" on the client's machine is a serious
> challenge and "getting to PDF" sevrer side (if you elect to capture/send
> PostScript to a service and then transform there has it's challenges too.
>
> Look at CUPS (*nix print server technology) for some inspiration. There are
> various ways to smooth out the path (with commercial bits like those from
> DataLogics et al.) but they aren't free (and you cannot just "package/ship"
> them out to clients to make the process easier).
>
> FWIW,
> JR
>
> --- On Tue, 4/6/10, Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
> To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 8:56 AM
>
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>
> 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
>
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> 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
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> {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}
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> 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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