Hi! Am going nuts trying to determine how many print job copies has a user
selected from the print dialog in Microsoft Word. I'm writing a program that
monitors all print jobs and reports information (no. of pages, no. of
copies, etc.) to a server. It works perfectly with the printer and print job
API, getting the info from the DEVMODE structure (dmCopies, etc.), with any
application except for: guess what... Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft Excel reports n separate print jobs for a print job with n copies,
which is quite unique, no other app does this, and of course it spoils the
functionality of my program, but not in a fatal way.
Microsoft Word reports a single copy no matter how many the user is actually
printing, I couldn't find any way it actually tells the printer how many
copies does it want, and this of course completely ruins the functionality
of my program.
If anyone out there has encountered this abnormal functionality of these
applications and knows any way around this, please help.
Or maybe someone can at least explain to me why in the world all the
applications ever written comply to the Microsoft Printer API, except for
these two Microsoft Applications.
Thanks a lot,
Claudiu.
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