[cups.development] Text box within the GUI for the printerdriver

[Michael R Sweet]

On Jun 21, 2009, at 5:26, "franz.pfoertsch.brose" <franz.pfoertsch at brose.com 
 > wrote:
>> franz.pfoertsch.brose wrote:
>>> ...
>>> thanks for the information!
>>>
>>> what must be done, to get it into the CUPS Windows driver?
>>
>> I think the only way to do it would be to replace the Windows
>> PostScript driver entirely.
> who can do something like this?
> If we exchange the well known, well tested and robust MS Postscript  
> driver, we could run into new problems.
>
> In my opinion only a companie like apple could do something like this!

Most companies contract this out...

>>
>>> Does it make sence to work on the windows driver kit, because the  
>>> Driver DDK from Microsoft is out of date.
>>
>> That is the only way to develop a Windows printer driver, so yes we
>> have to continue working with the Windows DDK.
> but what's going on with vista, windows 7 and so on?
> Are vista and windows 7 using the classic windows postscript driver?
> does this work sence?

The same driver is used since 2000.

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