[WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
- From: Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:21:35 +0000
Clinton
Thank you for your email, I am just looking at the RedMon source code, I still
have no idea how they produce the INF from the code but i am assuming that to
build an inf of a printer port I will have to maybe work with the WDK.
I guess im just lost as to where to start with creating the Port, once i
compile the C Code for the port monitor would that create an inf file?
From what i understood in your email your advising that I write a bridge
program that creates the temp file of the input(Stdin) that it receives from
RedMon and then call Ghostscript to create the PDF from the temp file, and
although Ghost script does this its better if I am in control of this process
incase of bugs or crashes.
so the first thing i need to do is create the Redmon that would redirect to my
program instead of Ghostscript and although i know i can just do that via the
configure in the port menu I would muh rather get stuck in! and start learning
by playing around with it.
how do i create the inf file for my new redirection port though?
RegardsSam
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:13:19 +0100
> Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
> From: clinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi Sam,
> If I remember correctly. REDMON can output to stdout ( Program handles
> output ). So you would need to create a little app ( C would do ), that
> accepts stdin, creates a TEMPFile and then calls Ghostscript to create the
> PDF ( another Temp ). This then can be "remotely sent". Technically
> GhostScript can accept stdin stdout, BUT I do advise you controlling the
> file creation ( if something goes wrong, you know where ) and passing
> these as parameters to the PDF driver type.
>
> Hope it helps!
> Clinton
> PS: I read in a previous email someone saying that Microsoft were trying
> to remove sockets/ports, this I don't think will ever happen as the
> spooler CORE is designed around this also CLUSTERED PRINTING only support
> TCP/IP printing ( which is socket based through ports )
>
> >
> > That sounds like much neater. OK so the next step is to actuallly learn
> > how Redmon works and modify it to launch a .Net application. I will also
> > need to learn how Ghostscript works and how to convert the Postscript file
> > produced to PDF, but what about naming. Does the port monitor know the
> > name of the document? or will it be overwritten?
> > RegardsSam
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:33:36 +0200
> >> Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Creating a Printer Driver
> >> From: jjflash@xxxxxxxxx
> >> To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Sam Elamin <hussam_88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > So what if I print to a redmon port (RE1) which will redirect to
> >> ghostscript
> >> > which produces the PDF, then print the PDF to RedMon Port 2 (RE2) and
> >> the
> >> > second port will print to a .NET application which was created soley
> >> to
> >> > upload a job.
> >>
> >> Or have RedMon Port 1 launch your .Net app that first spawns
> >> GhostScript to do the conversion and next upload the result somewhere?
> >>
> >> ;)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rune
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