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change/document PDFCreator

$30-5000 USD

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Posted almost 16 years ago

$30-5000 USD

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PDFCreator is a open source printer driver that - working like a printer - can create a PDF file from any windows application. PDFCreator code is avaiable at [login to view URL] . When an application completes a print to PDFCreator, a SaveDialog box is shown that asks for the wanted filename. I need to change this behaviour. I want PDFCreator to always print to the same file name and path. This filename and path should be read from an INI file (no register, please). If a file with the same name is found, the old file will be overwritten. Some way should be found to detect when the 'printing' is complete. Probably testing that the destination file size has not changed for the last N seconds will be ok. It is possible that PDFCreator does already all that (it seems that somebody built an ActiveX interface to PDFCreator), but the documentation is poor and I don't have the time to research. The coder will provide a Delphi program that will 1. print from code to PDFCreator printer driver 2. create the expected filename in the expected path (the ones written in some INI file) with no SaveDialog box showing at the end of the process 3. detect the end of the printing. If needed, the coder will massage the original printer driver source code (which is probably written in C language). In this case, the coder will provide also an EXE that installs the tampered driver as PDFCreatorPlus (new driver name). The test Delphi code should compile with Delphi 5.
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