PDF Writer

Introduction

The PDF Writer is a great utility. And to realise that such a great application is here lying on CodeProject absolutely free of cost is amazing. The original author has done a great job. But when I tried putting all the pieces together there were a lot of issues. So once I managed to get the PDFWriter working for me I thought of putting all the stuff back here so that other people can get it done in one step.

Using the code

I have basically used the same code for achieving the PDF Writer. The previous application was an MFC based Windows application and contained a lot of MFC code for generating windows and dialogs. I removed all the code and converted it into a Console Application and also migrated it to a Console Application.

bool AddVirtualPrinter()
{
    bool resultstep1= AddMonitor();
    if(resultstep1==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of monitor process failed.\n";
    //    return false;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of monitor Succeeded.\n";
    }
    bool resultstep2=AddPort();
    if(resultstep2==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of Port failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of port Succeeded.\n";
    }
    bool resultstep3=CopyPrintDriverFiles2System() && AddPrinterDriver();
    if(resultstep3==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of Printer Driver failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of Printer Driver Succeeded\n";
    }
    bool resultstep4=AddPrinter() && UpdateRegInfo();
        if(resultstep4==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of Printer failed.\n";
        return false;
        }
    else
    {
        std::cout<<"Addition of Printer Succeeded\n";
    
    }
        return true;
}
bool RemoveVirtualPrinter()
{
    bool step5result=DeletePrinter() && DeleteRegInfo();
    if(step5result==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Removal of Printer failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else{
        std::cout<<"Printer Removed Successfully\n";
    }
    bool step6result=DeletePrinterDriver();
    if(step6result==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Removal of Printer Driver failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else{
        std::cout<<"Printer Driver Removed Successfully\n";
    }
    HWND hWnd;
    bool step7result=DeletePort(hWnd);
    if(step7result==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Removal of Port failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else{
        std::cout<<"Port Removed Successfully\n";
    }
    
    bool step8result=DeleteMonitor() ;
    if(step8result==false)
    {
        std::cout<<"Removal of Monitor failed.\n";
        return false;
    }
    else{
        std::cout<<"Port Monitor Removed Successfully\n";
    }
    return true;
}
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    std::cout<<" \n1. Press 1 to Install the PDFWriter.\n2. " + 
          "Press 2 To Uninstall The PDFWriter.\nEnter a Choice";
    int i=0;
    std::cin>>i;
    if(i==1){
        bool addresult=AddVirtualPrinter();
        if(addresult==true)
        {
             std::cout<<"PDF Writer Installed Successfully";
        }
         else{
            std::cout<<"There was an error installing PDF Writer, Please Try Again";
         }
    }
    if(i==2)  
    {
        RemoveVirtualPrinter();
    }
    std::cin>>i;
    return 0;
}

I hope you find my contribution useful. This is all the previous author's work so all credit to him. I have just tried to make it simpler.