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From: tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Tony Gedge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Writing Printer Drivers...
Keywords: printer driver
Message-ID: <2805@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 22 Feb 90 09:32:41 GMT
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Does anyone out there know where I might find some more information
about writing a Printer Driver for the Mac?  I've read the stuff about
it in Inside Mac and after looking at the HP DeskJet Printer Driver
code I can understand most of what is required, but I still don't know
how the communication between the Printing Manager and the PDEF
resources is handled nor how exactly to tie the PDEF resources to the
global settings and to the low level driver itself.

The DeskJet Driver is not too badly commented, but the use of that
special header on the PDEF resources really threw mw a bit.

Thanx in advance.  Please e-mail responses to the address below.

Tony Gedge.

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