Win32 API.. WritePrinter doesn't work properly

[mubin.ahmed]

Hi All,

I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this question. If it isn't please guide me to the correct one.

I am using WritePrinter (Win32 API) to write RAW data to printer. For testing I am just writing a constant string (actually I want to print a PDF). Everything goes fine, but the printing doesn't happen at all. The print queue shows the job with status "Printing" and it doesn't change. The spoolsv.exe will then take up 98% of the CPU usage.

Below is my code. Can please somebody help me out..

#include "stdafx.h"

#pragma hdrstop

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <fstream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <winspool.h>


int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{

    int i;
    char *szPrinterName ="doPDFv7";
    int    Sts    = ERROR_SUCCESS
                        ;
    DWORD dwJobHandle, dwJobInfo2Len, dwJobNumber, dwBytesWritten;
    char cDocInfo1[ 10*1024 ] = {0}, cJobInfo2[ 10*1024 ]    = {0};
    char szHelloWorld[] = "Hello World!\f";

    HANDLE hPrinter;
    PRINTER_DEFAULTS sPrinterDefaults = {0};
    DOC_INFO_1 psDocInfo1 = {0};
    JOB_INFO_2 *psJobInfo2;

    sPrinterDefaults.DesiredAccess = PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER;

    // Open the Printer
    if ( ! OpenPrinter( szPrinterName, &hPrinter, &sPrinterDefaults ) )
        {
        printf("Error in OpenPrinter");
        return 0;
        }

    printf("Got handle to printer\n");
    char *fileName = "c:\\shy.txt";
    // Set up the information needed to start the job

    psDocInfo1.pDocName = (LPTSTR)"c:\\test.log";
    psDocInfo1.pDatatype = _T("RAW");
    psDocInfo1.pOutputFile = NULL;
 
    if ( ! ( dwJobHandle = StartDocPrinter( hPrinter, 1, (PBYTE)&psDocInfo1) ) )
        {
        DWORD lastError = GetLastError();
        char buf[10];
        sprintf(buf, "%d", lastError);
        printf(buf);
        printf("\n");
        char buf2[10];
        sprintf(buf2, "%d", dwJobHandle);
        printf(buf2);
        printf("\n");
        ClosePrinter( hPrinter );
        printf("Error while StartDocPrinter");
        return 0;//( Sts );
        }

    // Prepare to get the information for the job
    psJobInfo2 = (JOB_INFO_2 *)cJobInfo2;

    printf("Out of StartDocPrinter\n");
    // Get the information for the Job
    if ( ! GetJob( hPrinter, dwJobHandle, 2, (unsigned char *)psJobInfo2, sizeof( cJobInfo2 ), &dwJobInfo2Len ) )
        {
        ClosePrinter( hPrinter );
        printf("Error while GetJob");
        return 0;
        }

    // Return some information about the job to the caller
    dwJobNumber = psJobInfo2->JobId;

    // Prepare to set specific information about the job
    psJobInfo2->Position = JOB_POSITION_UNSPECIFIED;           
    psJobInfo2->pUserName = "test_user";

    // Set the Owner of the print job
    if ( ! SetJob( hPrinter, dwJobHandle, 2, (unsigned char *)psJobInfo2, 0 ) )
        {
        ClosePrinter( hPrinter );
        printf("Error while SETJOB");
        return 0;
        }
    
    StartPagePrinter(hPrinter);
    printf("\nPrinting started...");
    // Write something to the print job
    if ( ! WritePrinter( hPrinter, szHelloWorld, strlen( szHelloWorld ), &dwBytesWritten ) )
        {
        ClosePrinter( hPrinter );
        printf("Error while WritePrinter");
        return 0;
        }

    EndPagePrinter(hPrinter);
 
    // Call EndDocPrinter to start the job
    if ( ! EndDocPrinter( hPrinter ) )
        {
         ClosePrinter( hPrinter );
        printf("Error while EndDocPrinter");
        return 0;
        }

    printf("\nEndDocPrinter done");
    // Close the printer handle, we are done!
    if ( ! ClosePrinter( hPrinter ) )
        {
        return 0;
        }
    printf("\nPrinter closed\n");

    return(0);
  
}

All the Win32 API calls are returning success values.