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Platform Builder: Supporting High Resolution Printing
The
Windows CE PCL printer driver seems to be a little bit simple in its
support of different Dots Per Inch (DPI) settings. It only supports
two; 150 and 300 DPI. Interesting since there appear to be settings for
low and high resolution DPI in the registry for each printer, and they
are different for the default printers. In this article, I will explain
how to clone the PCL driver and modify to hard code new DPI settings –
I will leave a fancier implementation up to you.
Steps that I used to modify the PCL driver:
1.
Sysgen a project that includes printer support
2.
Create a new folder in my platform’s driver folder named PCLPrinter
3.
Copy Public/Common/Oak/Drivers/Printer/PCL folder to the new PCLPrinter folder so that it is a subfolder
4.
Create a new folder named DLL as a subfolder of PCLPrinter
5.
Open a build window and change directories to the PCLPrinter/DLL folder
6.
Run “sysgen_capture pcl”
7.
Change the name of sources.pcl to sources
8.
Delete all of the other files in the PCLPrinter/DLL leaving only the sources file
9.
Copy PCLPrinter/PCL/makefile to PCLPrinter/DLL
10.
Create a PCLPrinter/Dirs file that includes:
Dirs=/
PCL /
DLL
Dirs=/
PCL /
DLL
11.
Edit PCLPrinter/PCL/sources:
a.
Delete the following lines:
i.
INCLUDES=
ii.
WINCETARGETFILE0=$(_COMMONOAKROOT)/lib/$(_CPUINDPATH)/pcl.def
iii.
#xref VIGUID {2a68580f-ecda-4b7c-935b-303362e741d3}
iv.
#xref VSGUID {381348d4-def9-40a6-8285-4f899762f6d1}
b.
Modify RELEASETYPE=OAK to RELEASETYPE=PLATFORM
12.
Edit PCLPrinter/DLL/sources to modify to following lines:
a.
DEFFILE=$(_PUBLICROOT)/common/oak/lib/$(_CPUINDPATH)/pcl.def to DEFFILE=../PCL/pcl.def
b.
$(_PUBLICROOT)/common/oak/lib/$(_CPUINDPATH)/pcllib.lib / to $(_TARGETPLATROOT)/lib/$(_CPUINDPATH)/pcllib.lib /
13.
Test build the driver
14.
Modify PCLPrinter/PCL/ddi.cpp:
a.
Change the RES_HIGH and RES_LOW macros to numbers that make sense for your printer
i.
#define RES_HIGH 600
ii.
#define RES_DRAFT 300
b.
Change
the page size macros for xPels and yPels to numbers that make sense for
your RES_HIGH value. Microsoft did this the hard way by hard coding
numbers, if you move the RES_HIGH definition to above these you can use
it in the definitions. If you divide the current values by the original
RES_HIGH value you will have a value to multiply by
RES_HIGH. Example: #define LETTER_xPels (DWORD)(8.5 * RES_HIGH)
15.
Build and test the driver
Now you have a PCL printer driver that can print higher definition.
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