[plug] Non-linux printers - Update(2)

[Richard Meyer]

Thanks to Arie, Bill, Michael, Cameron, Denis,

It appears that there is no "standard" way to get this going, by just a
few adjustments to SAMBA or something.

I'll look around some more and see what else I can find.

Thanks to all
RM

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 00:32 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> 	
> PDFCreator installs on Windows with the following files :
> 
> "ghostpdf.inf" and "ghostpdf.ppd" 
> 
> 
> Contents of the "ghostpdf.inf" file
> ========================
> 
> ; GHOSTPDF.INF (for Windows XP)
> 
> [Version]
> Signature="$Windows NT$"
> Provider=Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd
> ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
> Class=Printer
> CatalogFile=oemprint.cat
> 
> DriverVer=08/19/2004,1.0.0.0
> 
> ; Manufacturer section
> [Manufacturer]
> "Ghostscript"
> 
> ; Model section
> [Ghostscript]
> "Ghostscript PDF" = GHOSTPDF.PPD, Ghostscript_PDF, Ghostscript_PDF_Writer
> 
> ; Installer section
> [GHOSTPDF.PPD]
> CopyFiles=@GHOSTPDF.PPD
> DataSection=PSCRIPT_DATA
> Include=NTPRINT.INF
> Needs=PSCRIPT.OEM
> 
> [DestinationDirs]
> DefaultDestDir=66000
> 
> [SourceDisksNames]
> 1=%Disk1%,,,""
> 
> [SourceDisksFiles]
> GHOSTPDF.PPD =1
> 
> [Strings]
> Disk1="Ghostscript PPD Setup Disk 1"
> ; end of ghostpdf.inf
> 
> ============================
> 
> 
> The header of the "ghostpdf.inf" file
> ==========================
> *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
> *FileVersion: "1.1"
> *FormatVersion: "4.3" 
> *LanguageEncoding: "ISOLatin1"
> *LanguageVersion: "English"
> *Manufacturer: "Ghostscript"
> *ModelName: "Ghostscript PDF Writer"
> *NickName: "Ghostscript"
> *% PCFileName should be of the form XXNNNNNN.PDF where XX is an assigned
> *% manufacturer code.
> *PCFileName: "GHOSTPDF.PDF"
> *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
> *Product: "(AFPL Ghostscript)"
> *Product: "(GNU Ghostscript)"
> *Product: "(GPL Ghostscript)"
> *Product: "(Ghostscript)"
> *PSVersion: "(3010) 815"
> *ShortNickName: "Ghostscript"
> ============================
> 
> Perhaps these files could provide the information required to set up 
> PDFCreator as a Windows printer driver which can handle print jobs from 
> Linux boxes.
> 
> The PDFcreator printer driver should be installed on the Windows print 
> server and then be configured to "print direct to printer" - one click in 
> the "Advanced" settings for PDFcreator will take care of this.
> 
> Good luck with this if you are game to try.
> 
> Regards Arie
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