Hi Matt,
You can accomplish this task with PostScript printer drivers for
Windows
rather easily because they read the form sizes into the dialog from a
PPD
file, which is text based. For a 32 bit system, the PPD files are
usually
stored in the folder C:\Windows\System32\spool drivers\w32x86\3\.
For non-PostScript drivers, I don't know of any simple methods to
perform
the task because the form list is usually being populated from a
*.dll file.
The information in these compiled binary files typically cannot be
edited.
Best Regards,
/Paul
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:42 AM
To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: How to delete system default printer forms?
Hi Christoph,
The forms we'd like to remove are not exposed to the printer drivers'
dialogs, believe me, we've looked. Thanks for the response though :)
best,
matt wilkie
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Information Management and Technology
Yukon Department of Environment
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On 16/02/2013 7:47 PM, Christoph Lindemann wrote:
Hi Matt,
Printer drivers can also provide their own form sizes. So you might
need
to edit the forms list via the printer drivers own dialog, if it
provides
that feature.
Best regards,
Christoph
On 15/02/2013, at 21.54, Matt Wilkie <matt.wilkie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks,
On Windows there are system default printer forms which can't be
deleted
from the Print Server Properties dialog. Is there some other way they
can be
removed? We are never going to use page sizes like Envelope, B5(JIS),
US Std
Fanfold, etc. and I'd like to save users (and myself!) from having to
scroll
through a big long list of noise.
I've tried deleting from the registry key
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Forms, but that only
works for
some forms, and there many forms listed in the Server Properties
dialog that
don't show up under that registry key.
Also asked here, last year:
http://serverfault.com/questions/64607/how-to-delete-system-default-p
rinter-forms
Does anyone here have something that might work?
thanks,
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matt wilkie
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Geomatics Analyst
Information Management and Technology Yukon Department of
Environment
10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9
867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax
http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/
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