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Hey everybody.

Just discovered this site and thought it would be a good place to ask this question.

The end result I am looking for is to be able to capture (in plain ASCII text, no images) the print job contents of any application that is print enabled.

The best way I can think of is to have some kind of customised print driver that I can install in Windows so that any print enabled application could print to this special driver, and the driver would then pass the contents of the print job to a VB 6 program for processing.

Flow:

Any print enabled application -> Custom print driver -> VB6 application

The target systems are Windows 98/XP/2000/NT and the output from the driver to VB6 must be in plain text, so it would be just like reading a normal ASCII text file for example.

Thanks,
Matthew Hall
inDarkness.co.uk