About the Printing Resources
Each printing extension and printer driver that you develop consists of a number of resources that you must create and package together. Some of the resources are standard Macintosh resources for the icons and panels that are part of the user interface to your extension or driver. Other resources are used specifically for QuickDraw GX printing.Some of the resources described here are used for both printing extensions and printer drivers, some are used only for printing extensions, and some are used only for printer drivers. You define some resources for a printing extension or printer driver that you develop for any imaging system, and you define others only if your extension or driver is designed for a specific imaging system. The available imaging systems are raster, PostScript, and vector.
These resources contain information such as
- code to override message
- user interface data, such as dialog boxes and icons
- data that defines how to manage color handling on a specific device
- data used to establish appropriate communications with a device
- strings displayed to a user during printing
- paper types and formats used for printing
Subtopics
- Resource ID Numbering
- Resource Attributes
- Extension and Driver Resource Files
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