novaPDF SDK messages
| Message name | Event | WPARAM | LPARAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVAPDF2_STARTDOC | sent when the printer driver begins processing the print job and generating the PDF file | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_ENDDOC | sent when the printer driver finished processing the print job | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_STARTPAGE | sent when the printer driver starts processing a new page | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_ENDPAGE | sent when the printer driver finished processing a page | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_FILESENT | sent when the printer driver finished generating the PDF file and sent it to the computer that started the print job | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_FILESAVED | sent when the PDF file is received and saved by the computer that started the print job | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_PRINTERROR | sent when an error occurred during the print job | error no. | jobID |
| NOVAPDF2_EMAILSENT | sent when the email option is enabled and a email with the generated PDF file was sent | jobID | |
| NOVAPDF2_EMAILERROR | sent when the email option is enabled and there was an error sending the email with the generated PDF file | jobID |
The following error numbers are sent by the printer driver, in the NOVAPDF2_PRINTERROR event:
1 - Error saving temporary PDF file on the printer server.
2 - Error reading license information on the printer server.
3 - Error generating the PDF file.
4 - Print job was canceled
5 - Licensing error: too many copies running with the same license
6 - Client computer is not licensed
7 - Error sending email
9 - Could not read printer info
10 - Could not read profile
11 - append pdf file - no or wrong password
12 - insert before pdf file - no or wrong password
13 - append pdf file - could not read file
14 - insert before pdf file - could not read file
15 - overlay pdf file - no or wrong password
16 - overlay pdf file - could not read file
18 - sign PDF - error signing
19 - sign PDF -error creating signature form
20 - sign PDF - image file not found
21 - image watermark - error drawing
22 - overlay - error drawing
25 - license error
26 - wrong parameters for action
27 - error creating folder
28 - error open viewer
29 - error run application
30 - file name error
31 - error copy file
32 - error delete file
33 - MAPI error
34 - SMTP error
35 - profile consistency error
36 - FTP error
37 - SFTP error
38 - error open file
39 - error pdf viewer
40 - access rgigths error
41 - open pdf error
How to register windows messages
You can register windows messages using RegisterWindowMessage function. Here are some samples of how to do it: