artemcarabash
Programmer
Hi! Now I'm working on tool which will provide me number of pages and copies from windows spool files. I'm trying to understand how to do that with known tools like pkpgcounter and pclparaphernalia - it's really not so easy. So I'm using pkpgcounter tool to check how many pages has the printjob and pclparaphernalia to get all needed sequences. Now I faced with a problem with simple pcl5 drivers from Konica Minolta and HP. I downloaded this drivers from official web site, there was info that this are PCL5 Universal Print Drivers. So I stuck with it. Here is attached spool files that was generated with those drivers.
00015.SPL - KONICA MINOLTA Universal Print Driver Ver.2 Maintenance Release 8 (PCL/Version 2.80.0.0, PCL5/Version 2.80.0.0)
00014.SPL - upd-pcl5-x64-5.9.0.18326 - Name of HP driver
I found sequence that matches number of pages and copies in spool file generated with Canon PCL5 UP, and its - <Esc>*p723x - Cursor Position Horizotal. Not sure if it's correct. But for other PCL5 drivers it doesn't works.
Who knows how to get number of pages and copies From PCL5 spool files? What tags? pclparaphernalia - give error when I'm trying to decompile these attached files. Pkpgcounter gives me - "unsupported file format"
Any Ideas?
For the moment I already can count pages and copies from PCLXL (aka PCL6) spool files. By counting EndPage Tags.
Thank You in advance !
SPL Files:
00015.SPL - KONICA MINOLTA Universal Print Driver Ver.2 Maintenance Release 8 (PCL/Version 2.80.0.0, PCL5/Version 2.80.0.0)
00014.SPL - upd-pcl5-x64-5.9.0.18326 - Name of HP driver
I found sequence that matches number of pages and copies in spool file generated with Canon PCL5 UP, and its - <Esc>*p723x - Cursor Position Horizotal. Not sure if it's correct. But for other PCL5 drivers it doesn't works.
Who knows how to get number of pages and copies From PCL5 spool files? What tags? pclparaphernalia - give error when I'm trying to decompile these attached files. Pkpgcounter gives me - "unsupported file format"
Any Ideas?
For the moment I already can count pages and copies from PCLXL (aka PCL6) spool files. By counting EndPage Tags.
Thank You in advance !
SPL Files: