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Re: Converting an App PDE into a PPD PDE

Thank you, that was the problem. I was missing the additional UUID.

>> I have an application based PDE which I started from the BasicPrintLoop PDE
>> sample code. It works as it should there -- only completing the initialize
>> call when it sees the PPD it can affect, etc. It has the required
>> PMPPDKeysSupported keyword in its info.plist with a couple nonsense values
>> so it shouldn't be getting stripped because of collisions.
>
> I started one from PDEProject instead, but same principle. In the
> Info.plist I put keys for both Print dialog application pane and
> printer module pane, so it works either way:
>
> <key>CFPlugInFactories</key>
> <dict>
> <key>UUUUUUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUU</key>
> <string>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF</string>
> </dict>
> <key>CFPlugInTypes</key>
> <dict>
> <key>BCB07250-E57F-11D3-8CA6-0050E4603277</key>
> <array>
> <string>UUUUUUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUU</string>
> </array>
> <key>BDB091F4-E57F-11D3-B5CC-0050E4603277</key>
> <array>
> <string>UUUUUUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUU</string>
> </array>
> </dict>
>
> where:
> UUUUUUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUU is my unique UUID [from 'uuidgen']
> FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF is my factory name
>
>> It doesn't seem to load when I moved it to "/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins"
>> even though the correct PPD is selected.
>
> I don't recall anything else I had to do to get the PDE to work from
> "/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins" once it was working in the test
> application. Are you sure the selected printer is considered a
> PostScript printer? If not, that won't stop the PDE from loading in
> the case of the test application.
>
> Michael
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 >Re: Converting an App PDE into a PPD PDE (From: MacLaser Software - Michael Collins <email@hidden>)



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