NewCustomPrinter

Rendering and printing

Description

Creates a custom printer and returns the name of the custom printer. The returned printer name can be used as the PrinterName parameter of the PrintDocument function. Before printing, the properties of the printer can be set using the SetupPrinter function.

Syntax

Delphi

function TPDFlib.NewCustomPrinter(Const OriginalPrinterName: WideString): WideString;

ActiveX

Function PDFlib::NewCustomPrinter(OriginalPrinterName As String) As String

DLL

wchar_t * DLNewCustomPrinter(int InstanceID, wchar_t * OriginalPrinterName);

Parameters

OriginalPrinterNameThe name of the printer to use for printing. This is the name that appears in the Windows Print Manager. Use the GetPrinterNames function to return a list of valid printers on the system.