How to convert a printer driver to a stand-alone console application which can generate a printer file containing the bytes to be sent to the printer?

Question

I have a situation where the only way to generate a certain datafile is to print it manually to FILE: under Windows and save it in a file for further processing.

Answer 1

You don't embed drivers in executables- drivers are for the operating system to communicate with the hardware.

You print via the Operating system.

Your 'batch' needs to select the correct printer, and print...