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Using EnumOptions

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Important

The modern print platform is Windows' preferred means of communicating with printers. We recommend that you use Microsoft's IPP inbox class driver, along with Print Support Apps (PSA), to customize the print experience in Windows 10 and 11 for printer device development.

For more information, see Modern print platform and the Print support app design guide.

A caller can use EnumOptions to retrieve a keyword list of options for supported driver features and any PPD features. For PPD features, EnumOptions is always supported and it returns the options defined by PPD.

For driver features, EnumOptions is supported only for features that are currently supported and have a fixed set of options. For example: %AddEuro has two options: "True" and "False", and %PageOrder has two options "FrontToBack" and "BackToFront". EnumOptions is supported for %AddEuro (if the Language level is 2 and higher), as is %PageOrder (if spooler EMF spooling is enabled). But features such as %CustomPageSize, %PSMemory, and others have an unlimited number of possible options, which means that EnumOptions isn't supported for them.

For driver features that aren't currently supported, or for supported driver features that aren't enumerable via EnumOptions, EnumOptions returns E_NOTIMPL.

Also, some options of a driver feature may not be supported under certain conditions. For example, if spooler EMF spooling is disabled on Windows 2000 and later operating system releases, then the "Booklet" option isn't supported for the %PagePerSheet feature. For another example, if the printer doesn't have a Type42 rasterizer, then "NativeTrueType" option isn't supported for %TTDownloadFormat. These unsupported options won't appear in the output keyword list of EnumOptions.

Pscript handles the following feature keywords in a special way:

  • The *CustomPageSize feature keyword is converted into an option of the *PageSize feature keyword, with "CustomPageSize" being the option keyword. Call GetOptionAttribute to obtain its PPD parameters.

  • The *ManualFeed True entry is converted into an option of the *InputSlot feature keyword, with "ManualFeed" being the option keyword name.

  • For the *InputSlot feature keyword, Pscript always adds a driver-generated option with option keyword name "*UseFormTrayTable" as the first option (the "*" prefix is used in the option keyword name to avoid possible name conflict with PPD-defined options), which is followed by options defined in the PPD. If the "*UseFormTrayTable" option is selected, Pscript will use the form-to-tray assignment table to automatically select the paper tray that supports the selected paper size.