Re: flexfax: Question about mac/adobe PPD files and windows printer drivers

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

Bernd Proissl wrote:
> 
> Hi to everybody,
> 
> on the Mac the printing dialog can be customized (by PPD-files)
> to accept additional data, eg. fax number and recipient name.
> 
> This is done by the printer driver which reads the information out
> of the resource fork of the PPD file and then creates
> the modified dialog.
> 
> Does anybody know if this can be done on windows also?
> Exists a windows driver which can read the resource fork data from
> some place, e.g. a certain file in the windows file system?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Bernd

Hi,

windows has ressources, but it differs largely like this 
from MAC. Since the windows ressource concept is relatively
brain damaged i don't think that such a printer driver
exists.

Uli 
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