Undocumented Printing
http://www.undocprint.org/
2008-05-08T12:42:50+01:00Undocumented Printing
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http://www.undocprint.org/lib/images/favicon.icotext/html2008-05-08T10:43:16+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)Fonts - Important hints about **Font name collision** and **Life time of fonts**
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/fonts?do=diff&1210236196
Information about fonts under Windows. Windows Supports several different font technologies: Raster Vector TrueType / OpenType t2embapi.h and fontsub.h Microsoft provides font embedding support dll’s with all it operating systems &ldqu...text/html2008-04-28T16:19:40+01:00anonymous@75.72.50.204OAKT
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/oakt?do=diff&1209392380
Printer language used by HP Color LaserJet 1500 and Kyocera KM-1635 GX, KM-2035 GX, CS-1635 GX, CS-2035 GX. Sample $ foo2oak-wrapper testpage.ps | oakdecode 0d (80) 1 OTHER 0c (64) Fri Nov 9 20:19:23 2007, 1194661163, 2007/11/09 20:19:23 0a (80) ...text/html2008-04-23T21:08:27+01:00anonymous@190.138.54.55SHD - Microsoft® Windows Shadow File Format
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/winspool/shd?do=diff&1208977707
The print job’s spooled data is contained in a spool file. The shadow file includes some additional informations used by the spooler, like job settings. For each print job there are two spool files generated by the Windows® NT/2000 spoole...text/html2008-04-17T13:33:14+01:00anonymous@124.125.168.218PCL - HP Page Description Language
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/pcl?do=diff&1208431994
HP created PCL to provide an efficient way to control printer features across many different printing devices. PCL was originally devised, in the early 1980s, for HP’s dot matrix and Inkjet printers. The first printer in HP’s LaserJet se...text/html2008-04-16T11:26:57+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)EMF - Enhanced MetaFile format
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/winspool/emf?do=diff&1208338017
For GDI+ records embedded in EMF please see the EMF+ documentation. Enhanced metafiles provide true device independence. You can think of the picture stored in an enhanced metafile as a “snapshot” of the video display taken at a partic...text/html2008-04-09T19:14:23+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)Welcome to Undocumented Printing Wiki
http://www.undocprint.org/start?do=diff&1207761263
If you have any further informations, please do not hesitate to edit the Wiki. You can also contact me at christoph [at] lindemann [dot] nu News Undocprint has moved. The new address is www.undocprint.org. — Christoph Lindemann 2006/12/1...text/html2008-04-08T10:35:22+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)SPL - Microsoft® Windows Spool File Format
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/winspool/spl?do=diff&1207643722
The print job’s spooled data is contained in a spool file. For each print job there are two spool files generated by the Windows® NT/2000 spooler. One file with the .SHD extension for job settings, and one with the .SPL extension for the...text/html2008-04-08T09:35:47+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)EMF+ - GDI+ Enhanced MetaFile format
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/winspool/emf_plus?do=diff&1207640147
With GDI+, Microsoft released a new metafile format called EMF+. EMF+ metafiles are much friendlier to GDI+ operations, and would be very handy things to have around, except for one fact: they didn’t release any documentation on the format of ...text/html2008-03-21T19:42:15+01:00anonymous@75.72.50.204GIPD - Granite Image Printer Driver
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/granite_image_printer_driver?do=diff&1206124935
This is a GDI language produced by Monotype Imaging, Inc. Used for some Lexmark (X500) and Dell (MFP 1125) printers. Sample $ gipddecode -h </home/rick/c500n/x500web.prn 0: OFST 0 len=128 80: OFST 1 len=128 100: OFST 2 len=128 ...text/html2008-03-21T14:30:13+01:00anonymous@75.72.50.204Page Description Languages
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages?do=diff&1206106213
Printer Page Description and Markup Languages AFPDS HBP - Brother Host Based Printing Brother NCM (Brother Native Compression Mode) Brother P-Touch Canon BJL Canon UFR (Canon Ultra Fast Rendering) CAPT (Canon Advanced Printing Technology) CaPS...text/html2008-03-07T10:00:21+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)Font Formats
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/font_formats?do=diff&1204880421
See also http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/bibliography.html#Formats PostScript Standard PostScript Type0 Compact Font Format Specification (CFF) See also PostScript Multiple Master PostScript Type1 Postscript Type1 Specifications Suppleme...text/html2008-02-25T17:37:15+01:00anonymous@74.59.60.34ProPrinter - IBM ProPrinter
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/proprinter?do=diff&1203957435
The command for selecting print mode is ESC I n Below are tables of n values and what print mode each supports: Proprinter and Proprinter XL N Values Print Mode Ctrl+@ DP Resident Ctrl+B NLQ Resident Ctrl+D DP Resident ...text/html2008-02-22T06:20:42+01:00anonymous@61.11.45.126Windows Spool Files
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/spool_files?do=diff&1203657642
Warning While you might use the informations you find here to extract EMF and other data from the Windows spoolfiles, you should remember, that this informations is undocumented and might change without prior notice! "You can probably locate t...text/html2008-02-19T12:46:09+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)DEVMODE Specifications - created
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/devmode?do=diff&1203421569
Over the years the DEVMODE structure has been extended. This page should give an overview of the differences. Version ID Notes DM_SPECVERSION_0320 0×0320 Windows NT 3.x DM_SPECVERSION_0400 0×0400 W...text/html2008-02-19T12:32:58+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)Windows Printer Drivers
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/drivers?do=diff&1203420778
Windows Printer Drivers OEM Driver Plugins Driver Functions Printer Escape Functions DEVMODE Specifications Mailing List WinPrnDev - Windows Printer Driver Development This list is dedicated to the development of printer drivers and spooler...text/html2008-02-05T13:28:02+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)DPL - Datamax Programming Language
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/dpl?do=diff&1202214482
Commands used for DPL Command Description <STX>m Set the printer in metric ...text/html2008-02-04T18:04:58+01:00anonymous@140.239.89.20Linux Printing
http://www.undocprint.org/unix/linux?do=diff&1202144698
http://openprinting.org have resources to help with printing under free operating systems like GNU/Linux and the BSDs or under commercial UNIX-like systems such as Solaris and Mac OS X ...text/html2007-11-26T14:17:42+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)Printer Escape Functions
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/printer_escape_functions?do=diff&1196083062
The following printer escape functions are used with the Escape or ExtEscape functions. ID Printer escape function Driver Description 1NEWFRAME 2ABORTDOC 3NEXTB...text/html2007-11-26T13:48:40+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)CLOSECHANNEL - created
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/printer_escape_functions/closechannel?do=diff&1196081320
See OPENCHANNEL ...text/html2007-11-26T13:46:06+01:00Christoph Lindemann (christoph@192.168.10.1)OPENCHANNEL
http://www.undocprint.org/winspool/printer_escape_functions/openchannel?do=diff&1196081166
The OPENCHANNEL escape will prevent the PostScript language printer driver from downloading a PostScript language header to the printer. NOTE: In Windows NT, the OPENCHANNEL escape is mapped to the StartDoc function call. Sample 4 (pseudo code) // ...