Re: flexfax: Question about mac/adobe PPD files and windows printerdrivers

[Wout Mertens <Wout.Mertens@rug.ac.be>]

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Bernd Proissl wrote:

> 
> Hi to everybody,
> 
> on the Mac the printing dialog can be customized (by PPD-files)
> to accept additional data, eg. fax number and recipient name.
> 
> This is done by the printer driver which reads the information out
> of the resource fork of the PPD file and then creates
> the modified dialog.
> 
> Does anybody know if this can be done on windows also?
> Exists a windows driver which can read the resource fork data from 
> some place, e.g. a certain file in the windows file system?

IIRC, the drivers normally are written around unidrv.dll and you write
miniport drivers. This means you get to make your own setup screen if you
like, but you don't have to.
Download the win98 DDK at http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/ (28MB or so)
extract only the printer stuff, related documentation and the building
base.
You need MSVC5.0 (or 3.0 too I think) to make it work, the others
versions can't build drivers (ROFL)

Good luck,

Wout.