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Any workarounds for incomplete job information in PostScript comments on Win2000?

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From: Oliver Wilcock
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 16:25
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Our company has two Xerox colour printers which use the PostScript comments %%For: and %%Title: to record the user and job name for auditing purposes. 

This worked reasonably well in Win9x, though not perfectly.  There are a number of inconsistencies with the driver. 

Is anyone aware of a workaround?  How could I encourage Adobe to fix this? 

What is supposed to happen is that %%For: should be set to the username, and %%Title should be set to the name of the job as reported by the application. 

If one chooses desination FILE: on Win2000 one gets the correct behaviour.
 %%Title: Microsoft Word - Document2
 %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2
 %%CreationDate: 5/9/2002 12:22:7
 %%For: ow
 

If one choose LPT1: on Win2000 one gets less correct behaviour:
 %%Title: LPT1 Job ID 9
 %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2
 %%CreationDate: 5/9/2002 12:22:7
 %%For: ow
 

If one chooses a Novell queue on Win2000:
 %%Title: Microsoft Word - Document2
 %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2
 %%CreationDate: 5/9/2002 12:22:7
 %%For: UNKNOWN
 

If one chooses Novell queue on Win9x:
 %%Title: 
 %%Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2
 %%CreationDate: 5/9/2002 12:22:7
 %%For: ow
 

Pieces of information get lost depending on the destination port.  Grrr. 

Will there be a driver release which fixes this?  When?
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