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. 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 > >
