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Article #13391Re: how to detect if a printer a postscript printer in c++
From: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:44
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:44
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Hi,
"Richard Yu" <richard@colorselector.com> wrote:
>want to in a programming language detect if a printer is a postscript print
>, is it possible ? any library function can do that ?
>
It seems that I sent it to you or it is not work?
HANDLE hPrinter;
PRINTDLG pd;
DEVMODE *dv;
int nEscapeCode;
TCHAR szTechnology[MAX_PATH] = TEXT("");
ZeroMemory(&pd, sizeof(PRINTDLG));
pd.lStructSize = sizeof(PRINTDLG);
pd.hwndOwner = GetDesktopWindow();
pd.hDevMode = NULL; // Don't forget to free or store hDevMode.
pd.hDevNames = NULL; // Don't forget to free or store hDevNames.
pd.Flags = PD_RETURNDC ;
pd.nCopies = 4;
pd.nFromPage = 0xFFFF;
pd.nToPage = 0xFFFF;
pd.nMinPage = 1;
pd.nMaxPage = 0xFFFF;
if (PrintDlg(&pd)==TRUE) {
dv=(LPDEVMODE)pd.hDevMode;
char** Name=(char**)dv->dmDeviceName;
ShowMessage(AnsiString((const char*)*Name));
Edit1->Text=AnsiString((const char*)*Name);
// If it supports POSTSCRIPT_PASSTHROUGH, it must be PS.
nEscapeCode = POSTSCRIPT_PASSTHROUGH;
if( ExtEscape( pd.hDC, QUERYESCSUPPORT, sizeof(int),
(LPCSTR)&nEscapeCode, 0, NULL ) > 0 )
{ShowMessage("Escape POSTSCRIPT_PASSTHROUGH is supported" );
return;}
ShowMessage("Escape POSTSCRIPT_PASSTHROUGH is not supported" );
// If it doesn't support GETTECHNOLOGY, we won't be able to tell.
nEscapeCode = GETTECHNOLOGY;
if( ExtEscape( pd.hDC, QUERYESCSUPPORT, sizeof(int),
(LPCSTR)&nEscapeCode, 0, NULL ) <= 0 )
{ShowMessage("Escape GETTECHNOLOGY is not supported" );
return;}
ShowMessage("Escape GETTECHNOLOGY is supported" );
// Get the technology string and check to see if the word"postscript" is in it.
if( ExtEscape( pd.hDC, GETTECHNOLOGY, 0, NULL, MAX_PATH,
(LPSTR)szTechnology ) <= 0 )
return;
strupr( szTechnology );
if( strstr( szTechnology, "POSTSCRIPT" ) == NULL )
{
ShowMessage("postscript is not supported" );
ShowMessage(AnsiString("Using technology is:")+szTechnology);
return;}
ShowMessage("postscript is supported" );
ShowMessage(AnsiString("Using technology is:")+szTechnology);
}
Vladimir.
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