[WinPrnDev] Re: Help getting started
- From: garyp@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19:37 -0000
Dear Dominik,
Some tools you might be able to link together to do what you want,
GhostScript (obviously), then RedMon as a port monitor to kick off another
action (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/). To join PDFs in the past I
have used a command line program called PDCAT.EXE but that seems to be
chargeable these days, so you might want to check out PDFTK
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/) which will allegedly merge PDFs. You
should be able to link these tools together to create a solution without
actually having to create your own driver.
This guide should be quite helpful:
http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html
You'll have to work out some mechanism for closing off the concatenation
though!
Regards,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik Gruber [mailto:gruber.dominik@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 February 2008 12:11
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Help getting started
Hello all!
I am glad that, after hours of surfing the web for Windows driver
development, I have finally found a mailing list with exactly that issue.
I am a university student working for our local hospital and I want to
implement the following:
A Virtual Printer Driver that takes one or more of any kind of printable
Windows documents and joins them into one PDF.
As I have mentioned above I have already tried to search the web for some
hints but most answers were like 'Go get the Windows DDK'...
I am completely new to Windows driver development so any information on how
to start is highly appreciated.
What I know is that I somehow have to register my printer-driver to the
system so that applications can make use of it.
I actually don`t want to use the Windows DDK. Therefore I have already taken
a look at the opensource project 'PDFCreator'.
But going through all the sources didn`t help a lot because a lot of basics
are missing.
For PDF creation I want to make use of Ghostscript/Postscript.
I hope someone can provide me with links, hints and informations on how to
get started with Windows printer driver development.
Thanks in advance
Dominik
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