Manager: Printing Manager

Carbon will support the high-level programming interface defined by the Printing Manager. Carbon will, however, make the following changes to your use of this interface:

* The print (TPrint) record will no longer be directly accessible to your application. In place of a print record, the Printing Manager will provide your application with a reference to an opaque data structure. Access to other Printing Manager data structures, such as the printing graphics port (TPrPort), will remain unchanged in Carbon.

* The opaque structure replacing the print record won't necessarily be 120 bytes long--your application must not assume it to be of any specific size.

* Apple will introduce new panel-based dialog boxes for printing. Your application should limit calls to the functions PrStlInit, PrJobInit, and PrDlgMain for adding items to the Page Setup and Print dialog boxes.

* Apple will make print dialog boxes movable and modal. This will require you to provide an event handler to respond to update events when your application displays these dialog boxes.

* The 68K code resource mechanism for accessing drivers will be replaced by a shared library mechanism, requiring the revision of print drivers.

* All print drivers will have to support their own spooling.

 PrClose

PrClose does nothing; you don't need to call it.

 PrCloseDoc

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrClosePage

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrCtlCall

To send various print requests to the printer driver, use the higher-level functions instead.

 PrDlgMain

Apple will introduce new panel-based dialog boxes for printing. Your application should limit calls to PrDlgMain for adding items to the Page Setup and Print dialog boxes.

 PrDrvrClose

This and other low-level Printing Manager functions aren't supported.

 PrDrvrDCE

This and other low-level Printing Manager functions aren't supported.

 PrDrvrOpen

This and other low-level Printing Manager functions aren't supported.

 PrDrvrVers

 PrError

 PrGeneral

Apple will supply more specific printing functions to use in place of PrGeneral.

 PrintDefault

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrJobDialog

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrJobInit

Apple will introduce new panel-based dialog boxes for printing. Your application should limit calls to PrJobInit for adding items to the Page Setup and Print dialog boxes.

 PrJobMerge

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrLoadDriver

This and other low-level Printing Manager functions aren't supported.

 PrNoPurge

 PrOpen

PrOpen performs nothing; you don't need to call it.

 PrOpenDoc

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrOpenPage

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrPicFile

This function has become obsolete. Printer drivers perform their own spooling; therefore, applications end up not calling PrPicFile.

 PrPurge

 PrSetError

 PrStlDialog

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.

 PrStlInit

Apple will introduce new panel-based dialog boxes for printing. Your application should limit calls to PrStlInit for adding items to the Page Setup and Print dialog boxes.

 PrValidate

In place of a print record, the Printing Manager uses a reference to an opaque, variable-length data structure.