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2 Installing Ghostscript on Windows 10 3. Choose the option to Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings and click Next. Under “Use an existing port,” click FILE in the dropdown list and then click Next. Click Have Disk and browse to the Ghostscript files.They are located in C:Program FilesgsgsX.XXlib (x represents the Ghostscript version number). 9 rows  Jan 30, 2019  Microsoft PostScript Printer Driver.; 2 minutes to read; In this. Jun 22, 2017  In the second case I don't see how adding a new local port would help you at all. Ports are simply where the output of the printer driver is directed. What a Port Monitor (RedMon is a Port Monitor) does is redirect the data stream sent to the port, and 'do something' with it. In the case of Ghostscript + RedMon the 'something' is create a PDF file. This section was written by Russell Lang, the author of Ghostscript's MS Windows-specific printer driver, and updated by Pierre Arnaud, the current maintainer. The mswinpr2 device uses MS Windows printer drivers, and thus should work with any printer with device-independent bitmap (DIB) raster capabilities. The printer resolution cannot be. How to set up Ghostscript PDF printer on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Posted by on 18 Feb 2013 03:04 PM. This article provides information on installing the Ghostscript PDF driver on a computer running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 for use within My Vision Express.

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  • This set of drivers enables you to print documents from your Windows applications to any printer that includes Adobe PostScript Level 2 or Adobe PostScript 3.
  • How to set up Ghostscript PDF printer. Posted by Carlos Ramos on 15 Jun 2011 02:49 PM. NOTE- This article provides installation instructions for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. The following screen should list the Ghostscript PDF driver.
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This set of drivers enables you to print documents from your Windows applications to any printer that includes Adobe PostScript Level 2 or Adobe PostScript 3. This version of the AdobePS printer driver does not work with PostScript Level 1 devices, and does not work with Windows NT 3.5x. Version 4.2.6 (4/30/99) may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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From Adobe Systems:
This set of drivers enables you to print documents from your Windows applications to any printer that includes Adobe PostScript Level 2 or Adobe PostScript 3. This version of the AdobePS printer driver does not work with PostScript Level 1 devices, and does not work with Windows NT 3.5x. Version 4.2.6 (4/30/99) may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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I would like to make my own 'PDF printer' using Ghostscript.

Most of solutions I find on the internet involve a 3rd party like Redmon to redirect the PS printer to the Gs executable.

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X plane 11 scenery downloads. Is there a way to do the same without a 3rd party (other than Gs) ?

Here is my 2 ideas:

  • Bypass the printing driver and generate Postscript directly by software (From GDI to postscript, using maybe a custom device context like the Metafile device context exist)

  • Create programmatically a new local port for each document to convert. Maybe using this technique : https://stackoverflow.com/a/1331777/99276

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The first solution would be great, but can't find anything about it.

And I am efraid the second is not efficient at all (and detect when the document is fully printed can be tricky)

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Firstly; note that the Windows printing system has been redesigned in Windows Vista and beyond. While the old system still works in WIndows 7 and 8, I am unsure of exactly how usable it is in Windows 10. In Windows 10 everything goes via XPS, and I think (could be wrong) that PostScript is generated by going via XPS first.

Your first idea doesn't sound plausible to me. How can you have a printer (and allow your application to print to it) if you don't have a printer driver ? Even if you could do so, why would you create PostScript from GDI just to send it to Ghostscript and have it create PDF ? It would be far more reasonable to create PDF directly.

In the second case I don't see how adding a new local port would help you at all. Ports are simply where the output of the printer driver is directed. What a Port Monitor (RedMon is a Port Monitor) does is redirect the data stream sent to the port, and 'do something' with it. In the case of Ghostscript + RedMon the 'something' is create a PDF file.

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I'm unclear why you don't want to use RedMon, given that you are apparently happy with using Ghostscript. However, if you really don't want to do that then write your own Port Monitor. The process is documented in the Windows Device Driver Development Kit and isn't especially hard. If you get stuck you can even look at the RedMon code as a guide. For example, see here

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