<rationalization>
Sure, this is a Windows program I'm working on, still, the end result is to
create .pdf files, which are better than .doc files, right? (Flame me if you
must.)
</rationalization>

My friends are always sending me .doc files. I prefer .pdf

So I wrote a small utility --  basically, it's a spruced up file "save as"
dialog box:

Let's say you just typed up a term paper, well my dialog box allows you to
type "term paper" and it searches the harddrive for something like those
terms, and locates a
directory, say called "myTermPapers."

Anyway, I'd like my friends to be able to use this nifty program to not just
to find directories faster, but also when integrated with a print to pdf
printer driver.

Let me explain:

There are a lot of postscript printers out there. And there's GhostScript,
which converts .ps to .pdf. I'd just like to paste those all together and
create a virtual organizing pdf printer.

Use case:

1 - (In any Windows program) file->print, select myCoolPDF printer, print
2 - My nifty organizing program pops up, they enter a search string and
eventually select a directory and filename.
3 - With the document to print (and that path and filename,) an installed
postscript printer creates a .ps file
4 - Ghostscript then produces a .pdf file (which I can view in Linux.)

Now, I have no idea how to glue those steps together. :(

Problem is, I've never written a printer driver for Windows.

Any tips on how to begin?

ryan

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