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How to Modify a Driver to Print PDF to Dot Matrix Printers in Text Mode from Windows

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From: Hwakins Wester
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:30
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I'm writing a Windows 2000 Driver for Line Matrix Printers. The reason
is that printing text is faster and clearer than printing documents
using Image mode on this kind of printers.

The driver is a customization of Microsoft UniDrv for Win2k included
in DDK.

The problem I'm facing is that Acrobat Reader 6.0 dosen't call the
DrvTextOut function, it calls DrvBitBlt instead. However, Acrobat
Reader 5.0 calls DrvTextOut, but there is another problem.

Driver cannot load font data associated with the PDF file, beacuse
font names seem to be random and they cannot be identified by
GetTTUnicodeGlyphIndex.

Now, I'll be thankfull if someone could provide info on how to tell
Acrobat Reader 6.0 call DrvTextOut instead of DrvBitBlt. And where and
how to locate temporary fonts used by Acrobat when printing.

Thanks
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