possible interception of printing

[Gary Peek]

So we have a credit card processing program that prints a receipt,
however, it does not use a printer dialog where you can select the
printer and choose to create a PDF instead of printing. It just prints,
period.

Does anyone know of a way to intercept the printing and get
to a place where I can select the printer (or PDF)?

(The program never displays the receipt in a window either, or
I could just find the window and print it.)

[Paul Dixon]

Gary,
try Contol Panel/Printers and set the default printer to the printer you want.

Paul.

[Edwin Knoppert]

One of the good things of PDF factory ( www.fineprint.com )
If you print to this device you can decide in it's preview to dump the print to a real printer without reprinting.

I use it to gather all pages and so on and then print to a printer.

[Gary Peek]

duh!

try Contol Panel/Printers, set the default printer

Well, duh! I didn't think of that.
I do this infrequently enough that this is probably the best solution.

[Pierre Bellisle]

Also...
Set default printer

[Michael Mattias]

>>try Contol Panel/Printers, set the default printer
>Well, duh! I didn't think of that.
>I do this infrequently enough that this is probably the best solution

Unless I'm mistaken you can set the default printer via a WinApi function in code... not that I can see what good that would do in this case, but it's an option. (Found it.. the deviously-named "SetDefaultPrinter" function).

Of course, the credit card processing program may just get the default printer name when it starts up and not respect any changes made thereafter. (Change "should" broadcast a WM_WININICHANGE / WM_SETTINGCHANGE message when it does it and the application should be looking for it).


MCM