samelamin
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hey All
this question has been bothering me for quite some tiime, im in the process of learning about printers and port monitiors and i am trying to print across networks
now the ideal solution would be that a client would have a virtual printer installed with a custom port and when the end user prints to this printer the document is sent (or better yet uploaded) to the server
now I also started playing about with RedMon which is essentially a port monitor that redirects an output to a program, so if you print to a document that has the RedMon port set a postscript file is created (*.PS) it then uses GhostScript to convert this file to pdf
I was thinking if I have the pdf I can then upload it to the server using an upload application that i already have running on the server, given the path uploading is very simple.
The question now is can i create a program or a watch folder that calls a program everytime redmon creates a ps file, and this program would run ghostscript to convert the postscript file to PDF then take the path and send the parameters to a web application that would upload the document
this question has been bothering me for quite some tiime, im in the process of learning about printers and port monitiors and i am trying to print across networks
now the ideal solution would be that a client would have a virtual printer installed with a custom port and when the end user prints to this printer the document is sent (or better yet uploaded) to the server
now I also started playing about with RedMon which is essentially a port monitor that redirects an output to a program, so if you print to a document that has the RedMon port set a postscript file is created (*.PS) it then uses GhostScript to convert this file to pdf
I was thinking if I have the pdf I can then upload it to the server using an upload application that i already have running on the server, given the path uploading is very simple.
The question now is can i create a program or a watch folder that calls a program everytime redmon creates a ps file, and this program would run ghostscript to convert the postscript file to PDF then take the path and send the parameters to a web application that would upload the document
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its fine i dont need a user interface i just need to pass the path to a website
so what your saying is that i need to write my own windows service?
how do i go about doing that? I am using visual studio 2008 so what sort of project is that?
so what your saying is that i need to write my own windows service?
how do i go about doing that? I am using visual studio 2008 so what sort of project is that?
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brilliant thanks guys
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or will it watch out for all documents with the format *.ps?
because in realiy all im doing is watching for the creatig of a .ps file to trigger conversion, if its too difficul to accomplish then just a trigger when a ps file is created to give the path to a asp.net app which will upload the document