APIs For Printer Page Number
Nov 25, 2009APIs for Printer Page number
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Get Number Of Page That Printed By Printer?
Apr 25, 2012How can i make a program that can get number of page that printed by special printer?
For example: my printer is HP 1015
i want check my printer by timer every time of period and when printer start to printing, get number of page that is printing...
VS 2008 Printer Spooler - Retrieving Page Count And Serial Number?
Mar 4, 2010I'm helping the IT department at my school do an audit of all our printers (there are hundreds). They are all networked, so I wrote a vb.net program that sends PJL (printer job language) commands over port 9100 to all the printers to retrieve the page count. @PJL INFO PAGECOUNT actually gets the page count for all the printers, but for color printers we also need to know the color / mono page counts (number of color pages printed, number of black and white pages printed).... the number being returned by the PAGECOUNT command right now seems to be the total pagecount on color printers, so if I can find a command that will give me either the mono or color page count, I'll have the other number. I also need the serial number of every machine (the spreadsheet I'm working off of is unreliable). @PJL INQUIRE SERIALNUMBER actually returns the serial number for about half of the HP printers, and some random non-HP ones, but I can't figure out a way to get the serial number for the other 50%. I sent emails to some of the people who wrote the articles about PJL I was following, and they advised I try using printer spooler functions (from my brief google search it would appear these are windows API's that facilitate communication with a printer).
Does anyone have any experience with working with the Printer Spooler functions or know a PJL command I might have overlooked that will help me get any of the info I'm looking for?here is my program right now. Ignore GetSerialNumber2 and GetSerialNumber3... they don't work (well actually GetSerialNumber2 works on 5 printers... but yea). GetSerialNumber() is the one that gets the serial number successfully for about half of the printers. (edit: I took out those functions in the version I posted, along with some other stuff that wasn't needed for this, to fit the post size limit)
Show Page To Get All APIs Used In VB?
Jul 27, 2009Show the page where i can get all the APIs used in vb.net? Also i need a program to put my Vb.net program in the startup.
View 8 RepliesGetting Multi-page Output To Printer?
Aug 3, 2010I am continuing a previous thread to keep it from becoming tooooooo long. I tried most of the helpful suggestions offered by kind forum contributors but can't seem to make them work. I tried to analyze somewhat but it's beyond my skill level. So a different approach was to try to incorporate the code in the PrintDocument1_PrintPage event of my application that prints acceptably, but only prints first page of multi page document. I had three somewhat different approaches offered by John Anthony Oliver, ACAMAR, and Crazy Pennie. I cut the code and placed in the PrintDocument1_PrintPage event code. All three approaches made the "Printing"message box page counter go wild without outputing to my printer. Family Man Mike suggested resetting the variables after the e.HasMorePages=false line. I tried that approach but couldn't make that work for me, I really don't comprehend but made an attempt such as num_of_pages = 0, startVal = 0, endVal = 0. That had no affect on the functionality.
Public Sub DrawStringRectangleFormat _
(ByVal stringToDraw As String, _
ByVal stringFont As Font, _
ByVal stringFrmt As StringFormat, _
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Scaling A Bitmap To Fit A Printer Page?
May 24, 2011I've checked through most of the nfo I can find in forums about scaling a picture, but still haven't stumbled over the answer. ALl I want to do is print my form on the printer. The problem is I don't know what monitor the form is being dispayed on and how big or small the user has madt it. I just want it to fit on the printer when it is printed. Basically I want it to, "Fit the Page".
I thought I could do it by using a rectangle and adjusting the size of the rectangle to fit the 8.5 x 11 paper, All this seems to do is magnify my form on the printed page and clips the sides and bottom of the form instead of making it "fit" on the page. What am I doing wrong?
Here is what I am using: Public MyForm As New Bitmap(Me.Width, Me.Height) Private Sub ToolStripButton3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ToolStripButton3.Click
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Using Printer Object Page Not Clearing
Jan 24, 2010I have a form that uses the printer object and the print preview. A user clicks on a Print button, the preview comes up. This works fine the first time they do so, but if they click on this button more times, the output is overlaid ontop of the first report. The printer object is destroyed at the end of the print creation, and I have tried various other means to make sure that the page gets cleared without success.[code]
View 20 RepliesPrint Page When I Click On Button Without Showing Printer Dialog?
Feb 4, 2010I have a web page and a button inside, how can i print the page when i click on the print button without showing the printer dialog?
View 1 RepliesC# - Read Printer Pool To Get Number Of Pages Being Printed
Aug 12, 2010I have a network printer in the classroom lab. I'd like to keep record of how many pages of each student has printed. I want to know how can I read the printer pool to get the number of pages, when a student prints. Here's what I have in mind: Write a Windows service to get:
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How To Find Remaining Number Of Prints Left On Printer
Dec 23, 2010I want to find the remaining number of prints left on the printer. I use a Sony UP-CX1 dye sub printer. If I go to Printer Properties>Preferences it tells me the remaining prints and also the total prints on the current thermal head. How can I tap into this information with vb.net?
View 1 RepliesSpecifying Extra Data For Non-printer Printers (e.g. Filename For PDF, Phone Number For Fax)
Dec 22, 2010Some printers aren't actually printers e.g. CutePDF, PDF995 etc are printer drivers that "print" PDF files, and the built in fax support for Windows is through a printer driver that "prints" to the fax modem.
Both PDF and fax need a little bit more information than a normal print job - PDF needs a filename, Fax needs a phone number. Usually there is a pop-up dialog that prompts the user for the extra information.
Is there any way to set this information programmatically?
There is a property Printing.PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrintFileName but this only seems to work when Printing.PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.PrintToFile is set to TRUE, which is not the case in these situations (even though a PDF printer writes a file, it is not "save print job to file" in the normal sense).
E.HasMorePages - Written A Function That Will Plot Long Texts Onto Printer And Should Insert A New Page Everytime
Apr 30, 2011I'm having issues with e.HasMorePages.. I've written a function that will plot long texts onto the printer and should insert a new page everytime yPos > PrintHeight
e.g.
Module Scope var i is the count
PrintPage
if i<=10
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I can certainly add pages from the printpage, but my function will plot characters individually onto the printer and will increase ypos at the end of the printers width.
Print An Array WebBrowser Each Time To A Different Printer Without Changing The Default Printer
Feb 24, 2009I want to print an array WebBrowser each time to a different printer without changing the default Printer (not to use the SetDefaultPrinter function) I tried to work with the PrintDocument object(he have the Print function and also i can choose a printer name) but I cant attach the
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Print Word Document In Dot Matrix Printer With Printer Default Font?
Apr 21, 2010i m using this this coding to copy and print the word document
System.IO.File.Copy(Application.StartupPath &"PrintT.doc", Application.StartupPath & "PrintT1.doc", True)
Dim line1 As String
Dim line2 As String
line1 = "Line1 Replace"
line2 = "Line2 Replace"
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now i need to print the Word Document with Printer Default Font(Draft 17.5 CPI) in Dot Matricx Printer
Print Directly To The Printer : Change Printer Font Size?
Jul 2, 2010For my current application development I need direct printing technique,For the purpose I refer Microsoft Support page Titled"How to send raw data to a printer using VB.Net "The code snippnet specified is perfect for my application.Refers link [URL]But I need something more like Setting the Printer font to Condensed.By default my printer use the font 10cpi ,by using this font size I limited to print only 80char on A4 sheet,but I have more than 80 char on line so I prefer Condensed font size.
View 2 RepliesVS 2008 : Get Network Computer's Printer List And Printer Info?
Dec 7, 2009get a list of printer's (name,port,model) from a computer over the network. I know how to list my own, but it's from querying the Win32_printer object on my machine, I need to be able to do something similar on a remote machine.
View 4 RepliesCheck Printer Status On A Win98 Shared Printer?
Sep 3, 2009I'm trying to check the printer status of a shared printer on a Win98 platform pc and need some samples to get started.
View 3 RepliesGet Page Number From PDF?
Jun 1, 2010I am trying to get the page number (may be in a form or array) from the PDF file that contains certain search text. for e.g. if user search for "VBforums" and if this word is present in 4,5,8th page in PDF file than output should be "4,5,8"
right now i am planning to split each page of PDF file as new PDF file (file name will be PageNo.PDF) and than convert it into .txt format and search the word in each individual .txt file.
How Do APIs Work
Feb 20, 2009i am terrible when it comes to the programming area of APIs. Though APIs are well used in Visual Basic.NET so i must learn it.How do APIs work?How are they used?Can anyone either explain or supply me with a link about writing an API?
View 3 RepliesGet Information On APIs In Program?
Mar 12, 2009Is it possible to get information on the APIs in Vb.Net?
View 2 RepliesPossible To Access APIs In Python
Mar 17, 2011To programming in Python, I was wondering if there is a way to access VB .net APIs using Python.
View 1 RepliesGet Printer DEVMODE Or HDC With Correct Printer Settings
Feb 22, 2011I have printer vendor provided SDK implementing that i can get printer DEVMODE or HDC with correct printer settings.
My questions is:
I am already using printDocument to print the image (System.Drawing.Bitmap). How can send use this HDC or DEVMOD with printDocument.
I already tried using the "PrintDocument.SetDevMode". it seems not be working.
Printer Stuff - Detect If My Printer Is Busy ?
Mar 18, 20111. Detect if my printer is busy, because my code tells the printer to print more pages that it can cope with, so I need to delay the command for 'Print the next page' until the printer has finished printing the previous one.
2. Shift the output to my printer so that it gets printed in it's entirety on the paper, instead of seemingly being anchored to some nebulous point on the A4 page. It starts printing at X = 29mm from the left edge, and Y is 28mm from the top, and stops at X = 22mm from the right edge and Y stops at 22mm from the bottom edge, leaving (aprox) 50mm of X and 50mm of Y unprinted.
3. Get useful information on Bounds, which I'm fairly certain is what I need to control where my printing should start and finish.
I've hunted through this forum, MSDN, 'Help' (a misnomer if ever there was one) the VB Library and one or two other forums, which either baffle me with reams of code or suggest code to try which either just don't work or which doesn't declare all the variables and usually don't suggest what type of variable I need, it's all very frustrating
VS 2010 Get Phone Number On Page - Reg Exp
Feb 14, 2011Our company has an old intranet site, that has 1000's of pages, and ive created a loop to look at them all, but i wanted a way to put all the phone numbers it can find, into a text box, i have the code below but cant seem to get it to work.
Sometimes the phone numbers can be 111-222-3333 (111)-222-3333 111 222 3333
'Reg exp for phone number
Dim myMatch As Match = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(My_Text, "^([2-9]{3}-)?[2-9]{3}-d{4}$")
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APIs With 'File Download' Dialog?
Jul 13, 2011I am currently working on an application to automate file download(s). My main application is running a query for downloads with embedded browser. When the results are returned they need to be downloaded and saved. This works fine. The last step of the process it to start download and the 'File Download' dialog pops up. I wanted to create another application that would monitor for the 'File Dialog' windows (knowing the main application Process ID I can ensure that I find only the dialogs generated by my application).
View 7 RepliesCalling Win32 APIs In 64bit?
Jan 5, 2011Long story short, code that used to work on my 32 bit computer doesn't work on my 64 bit computer. Does 64 bit require something like changing Integers -> IntPtrs?
View 11 RepliesCompatible Sendmessage And Sendmessagetimeout APIs?
Jan 26, 2012I need an API for sendmessage and sendmessagetimeout for my VB .net application. I have searched quite a bit, and everything I find doesn't seem to work: either the message just doesnt seem to be sent, or the message appears to be sent with the msg parameter always 0, and the wparam setting as what I enter for the msg setting. Pinvoke's also always seems to throw an AccessViolationException for I have no idea what reason. I tried playing around with maybe just where I put the variable, but unsurprisingly, there is not a simple logical switch of the variables.I have tried pinvoke's:
<DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
Public Shared Function SendMessageTimeout(ByVal windowHandle As IntPtr, ByVal Msg As Integer, ByVal wParam As IntPtr, ByVal lParam As IntPtr, ByVal flags As
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Difference Between Winreg And Advapi32.dll APIs?
Jun 3, 2009What is the difference between the winreg and advapi32.dll APIs. I am trying to convert a VB code into Python. I have seen that the VB code has RegOpenKeyEx() from advapi32.dll. Now in Python, there is a topic on WinReg access and there this api RegOpenKeyEx() is mentioned. can I use this instead.
View 1 RepliesSwitchParent - App With The SetParent And SetWindowLong APIs
Feb 3, 2011I have consumed a word doc in my app with the SetParent and SetWindowLong APIs. When I close the app I want to leave the word doc open. I have used the SetParent and used IntPtr.Zero(2nd parameter) which kinda works - it just does not have a document border. Would I use the SetWindowLong function - if so what would the parameters be? I have looked at the SetWindowLong function, just not sure about the second and last parameters. What would be the proper way to do this?
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VS 2008 - Using APIs (Where To Get Method Params)
Dec 23, 2009Finding the documentation on windows API's for use with visual basic? I used to use API guide until they stopped updating it in 2002. All I need is the api name as well as the list of parameters in order to use the API's functions.
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