7.2
Table Of Contents
- Copyright Information
- Table of Content
- Overview
- Capturing Data
- Sample Data File
- Spool File
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install on a Printer
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install in your PlanetPress Suite Work...
- Capture Sample Data in Windows NT
- Capture Sample Data in Windows 2000/Server 2003/XP
- Capture Sample Data in Windows Host Using a Novell Print Server
- Capture Sample Data in UNIX (Solaris)
- Capture Sample Data using an AS/400 Systems
- Capture Sample Data From a Serial Port
- Creating Triggers
- Trigger
- Trigger Syntax
- Techniques for Inserting Triggers
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 3.x
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 4.x and 5.x with NDS or Bindery Printers
- Implement a Trigger under Windows with TCP/IP
- Implement a Trigger under BSD Printing Systems (BSDi, FreeBSD, Linux)
- Implement a Trigger under UNIX System V (Solaris)
- Implement a Trigger and Configure an AIX 4.3 Printer
- Implement a Trigger under VMS
- Implement a Trigger with AS/400 Systems
- Prepare SAP Device Type for PlanetPress Design
- Implement a Trigger under HP 3000
- Special Printer Requirements
- ASCII Conversion Table
- CL Program for AS/400 Systems
- Index
Capture Sample Data in Windows 2000/Server 2003/XP
You perform this procedure on the machine that controls the printer, not on the workstation.
1. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
2. Right-click on the printer on which you intend to execute your document and choose Pause printing.
3. In the application you use to manipulate the input data, send the data you want to capture to the printer you selected in
step 2
The printer driver creates a printer spool file containing the representative data sample.
4. In the Windows Start menu, choose Run.
The Run dialog box appears.
5. In the Run dialog box, in the Open box, enter COMMAND.(
A DOS Command Prompt window appears.
6. In the DOS Command Prompt window, change directory to the spool folder:
cd C: \windows\spool\printer
7. Copy the spool file (.spl) you just created to a floppy or to another folder.
The *.spl file contains your data.
8. Close the DOS session.
9. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
10. Right-click on the printer you paused and choose Pause printing.
The spooler sends the job to the printer.
Capture Sample Data in Windows Host Using a Novell Print Server
This procedure describes how to capture data for a document you intend to execute using a Novell print server.
To capture data on a Windows host that uses a Novell print server:
1. Start the NetWare Administrator.
2. In the NetWare Administrator window, double-click the print server in the list of printers. For the purposes of this
procedure, the print server is the optra1650s-nds.
The Print Server dialog box for that print server appears.
3. Click Status.
The Status dialog box appears.
4. Note the values of the Volume and ID fields and then click Close.You use these values later to navigate to the print
queue.
5. In the Print Server dialog box double-click the print queue for the print server. The print queue is the file whose file
name ends in the letters pq. For example, the print queue for the optra1650s-nds print server is optra1650s-nds-pq.
The Print Queue dialog box for that print server appears.
6. Disable Allow service by current print server and click OK.
7. To verify the print server is paused, print a test page and verify the spool file remains in the print queue. You can print a
test page by clicking Print Test Page in the General tab of the print queue properties dialog box for this print
Capturing Data
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