RedMon - Redirection Port Monitor

Transparent PostScript printing from Windows.

Overview

The RedMon port monitor redirects a special printer port to a program. RedMon is commonly used with Ghostscript and a non-PostScript printer to emulate a PostScript printer. RedMon can be used with Ghostscript as a PDF creator.

RedMon can be used with any program that accepts data on standard input.

Using RedMon you create a redirected printer port. If you connect a Windows printer driver to the redirected printer port, all data sent to the redirected port will be forwarded by RedMon to the standard input of a program. The output of this program can be sent to different printer port, or the program can generate whatever output it desires.

See the RedMon online help for more details.

Download

RedMon version 1.7 supports older platforms including Windows 95/98 and NT (3.51, 4, 2000 and XP SP1).

Source code is included. The RedMon licence requires that you include the source if you redistribute RedMon.

All user text is stored in language specific resources. Translating RedMon to another language should be straightforward.

Changes

New:

• Support for Windows 7, Vista and XP SP3.
• x64 build (Windows 7, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition).
• Displays "Prompt for filename" dialog in the correct local session on Windows 7.
• Configure RedMon port from another program (RedMonConfigurePort API).
• Setup program prompts for Administrator credentials.
• Help file converted to HTML Help.

Isn't in this release:

• Expand environment variables in program arguments.
• Extra installer that installs RedMon and configures a port as a Ghostscript PDF writer.
• Support for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 3.5, NT 4, 2000 and XP SP1. Use RedMon 1.7 on these platforms.
• Languages other than English.
• Support for Windows Terminal Services.

Won't be implemented:

• Remote printing to a printer that uses RedMon.
• Support for Windows 10