Printing problem

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From: Paul Champan (chappy.uk_at_virgin.net)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:00:55 -0700

Hi,
  Im drawing to a printer Graphics object in GDI+. The actual print job is
going to a postscript printer driver, which is setup to 'Print To File'.

I want to perform some operation on the Graphics object, which will embed
some sort of comment or tag in the resulting postscript file, so I can later
perform a second pass on the postscript.

I know this is very dependant on the driver, and GDI+ will not likely expose
such methods, but Im really stuck because I need this functionality.

Does anyone have any suggestions please?

The reason I need this is because I want to parse the postscript later, and
embed EPS files into the print job. I cannot paint EPS onto the Graphics
object because I need them to stay vectored in the resulting postscript
file, and not rasterised. I cannot replace them with a bitmapped image.

Please help !

Thanks

P

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