You're probably thinking of this document <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Printing/Reference/TicketServices_Ref/index.html> but it is geared more toward PDE and Printer Module authors. Some of the constants, ticket layout, and other info should still be relevant, however.
Hope that helps.
Dave
On Tuesday, January 04, 2005, at 07:50PM, Bill Peters <email@hidden> wrote:
>I've done what you propose (unofficially of course :-) to read/set
>the printer duplex setting. It does seem to work, but is not
>guaranteed to be forward compatible. You'll have to walk down the
>structure till you get the entry you need, modify it, and then put
>everything back together.
>
>I personally don't understand most of the fields either. I would just
>concentrate on the com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopies setting and
>ignore the rest.
>
>Some calls that will be helpful include PMFlattenPrintSettings,
>CFDataCreateWithBytesNoCopy, ..., CFPropertyListCreateXMLData, and
>PMUnflattenPrintSettings.
>
>Also, I've seen Ticket manager documentation somewhere. Either on
>Apple's website or in the Developer folder. Or maybe I just read the
>appropriate header file. But it seems more geared to PDE authors.
>When I tried it in my application, the calls didn't give me what I
>needed.
>
>Maybe you'll have better luck.
>
>Bill
>
>
>
>At 9:40 AM -0800 1/5/05, Bui Hung Viet wrote:
>>Dear all,
>>I am two months Macintosh/CodeWarrior programmer. I am working on a
>>project that needs to use Carbon-Printing manager. I failed to find
>>any document relating to Printing Ticket.
>>For instance:
>>OSStatus PMSetCopies ( PMPrintSettings printSettings,
>>UInt32 copies, Boolean lock );
>>This function is to set the number of copies to PMPrintSetting.
>>However, I know for sure that there is an alternative way to set
>>this settingvalue. That is to use TicketRef. It is something like
>>setting some ticket value to PMPrintSession in proper way. In this
>>way, we need to know the exact structure of such a ticket reference.
>>Actually, I printed out the structure of ticketRef, it turns out
>>quite complex. Some points I don't really understand.
>><key>com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopies</key>
>> <dict>
>> <key>com.apple.print.ticket.creator</key>
>> <string>com.apple.printingmanager</string>
>> <key>com.apple.print.ticket.itemArray</key>
>> <array>
>> <dict>
>>
>> <key>com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMCopies</key>
>> <integer>1</integer>
>> <key>com.apple.print.ticket.client</key>
>> <string>com.apple.printingmanager</string>
>> <key>com.apple.print.ticket.modDate</key>
>> <date>2004-12-24T02:11:29Z</date>
>> <key>com.apple.print.ticket.stateFlag</key>
>> <integer>0</integer>
>> </dict>
>> </array>
>> </dict>
>>Should I mimic the same this XML structure and then set to
>>PMPrintSession, shall it work ?
>>Anyone experienced this stuff please help me.
>>Thanks a lots.
>>Regards,
>>Bui Hung Viet.
>
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