Hi,
Am 02.07.2013 14:51, schrieb James Green:
That's pretty much where we are, except I've not really found much to parse
through a postscript file with. I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel
particularly when dealing with something so complex.
One workaround we had was to introduce custom DLLs provisioning individual
printers - one colour and one black and white - for people to select. These
can then invoke the java application with relevant flags but doesn't really
help with duplex/non-duplex.
Searching for "postscript duplex" leads among others to the following
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/print/prt08-PSPrinting/ar01s05.html
On 2 July 2013 12:41, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Am 28.06.2013 16:54, schrieb James Green:
Hi,
This may be the wrong place to ask but we've written a Java app that
receives a print job via Windows port redirection and converts the input
(postscript) into PDF for further manipulation.
Our problem is that the printer properties dialog in Windows allows the
choice of colour vs black & white, and duplex vs no duplex but once our
application has received the job we have no obvious way of telling what
was
previously selected.
Any ideas on this matter would be appreciated!
Hmmm, I'm not sure that I got your point. To receive the print job means
you
got some sort of stream containing the ps file. Assuming that I'm right,
the
only chance to determine any printer properties is to analyze the ps file.
The
ps printer driver may add same ps commands to activate duplex printing or
to
limit the output to b&w.
Thanks,
James
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
