general printer driver question

Hi

Does someone have a solution how to implement a fax-printer driver that
provides a virtual printer that you can share in the network?
Today the problem is, that fax-drivers show the "enter fax number"-dialogs
on the server and not on the computer that sends the fax. Now, this doesn't
work... and I don't know if it's possible to solve this.

MR

ScottRobins
Tue Jun 01 07:26:03 CDT 2004

Turning off the "Enable advanced printing features" checkbox on Properties/Advanced tab will work at least SOME of the time; I'm not sure if it will work ALL of the time

Scott
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Scott Robin

Meier
Tue Jun 01 15:24:53 CDT 2004

"Ashwin [MS]" <ashwinn@online.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:35C13C14-5B72-41CF-B442-C5E9AC1E80B8@microsoft.com...
> This problem is caused by the fax driver incorrectly displaying dialog/UI
in the rendering/graphics dll. Since the graphics dll is loaded in the
server's context, the dialog shows up on the server. The dialog should
really be displayed by the UI dll which runs in the client context. Ideally,
the fax driver should implement DrvDocumentEvent to display the dialog and
pass this information to the graphics dll via the private devmode or some
other form of shared memory. DrvDocumentEvent is the function to do this
though.

hey, sound's easy to implement... I'll try that... I really hope you're
right
thanks for this information

MR

> - Ashwin
>
> Microsoft Printing, Imaging and Fax Team
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>

vipin
Sun Jul 25 08:11:48 CDT 2004

It also depends on where in DrvDocumentEvent(...) you intend to show the
dialog,some events would come on the server, as you said there is server
side processing in your case.

thanks
vipin


"Meier Rudolf" <meiru@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:OWrCbaBSEHA.3660@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> "Ashwin [MS]" <ashwinn@online.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:35C13C14-5B72-41CF-B442-C5E9AC1E80B8@microsoft.com...
> > This problem is caused by the fax driver incorrectly displaying
dialog/UI
> in the rendering/graphics dll. Since the graphics dll is loaded in the
> server's context, the dialog shows up on the server. The dialog should
> really be displayed by the UI dll which runs in the client context.
Ideally,
> the fax driver should implement DrvDocumentEvent to display the dialog and
> pass this information to the graphics dll via the private devmode or some
> other form of shared memory. DrvDocumentEvent is the function to do this
> though.
>
> hey, sound's easy to implement... I'll try that... I really hope you're
> right
> thanks for this information
>
> MR
>
> > - Ashwin
> >
> > Microsoft Printing, Imaging and Fax Team
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> >
>
>