downscale documents before printing

[Henri =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schom=E4cker?=]

Hi folks,

I have the following problem:

We use two third-party programs to manage the workflow, products and
customers of a goldsmith's shop. Unfortunately, both programs can only
print the bills to A4 format.

To give his customers a more handy bill, we need a tool (or I would program
it myself) which is able to resize the document to print to at least A6
format to use it at the cash desk. I found a few tools which can resize
files before sending them to the printer, but all the data of these
programs come out of a database and are never stored as files on disk.

I think the optimal way would be if he could choose this "resizing tool" as
a printer device but I couldn't find such a printer device driver yet.

I would be very glad if you could tell me about an apropriate tool or give
me some advice/web-addresses etc. which could help me to code it myself.
Every language except C# is very welcomed.

Many thanks in advance for every little hint,
yours Henri

 

[Davide Guolo]

Henri,

I found a few tools which can resize
files before sending them to the printer, but all the data of these
programs come out of a database and are never stored as files on disk.

If they are character-based print jobs, then have a look at Printfil.
It can resize the job to the page set into the Windows printer driver (any
dimensions).
More info and a free trial is available for download at our web site.

Regards,
Davide Guolo
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[Andreas]

If you use a pcl driver write a new GPD (Generic Printer
Description) or Postscript PPD (Postscript Printer
Description) File with the Special A6 Format. Make your
own Minidriver and it works