The invention provides a
plotter supervision and auditing method and
system, and relates to the technical field of computer application, and the method comprises the steps: responding to a printing request of a user for a target
plotter, employing a special auditing
virtual printer provided with an original
plotter drive program to capture operation
metadata, a native printing
data stream which can be directly analyzed by the plotter is generated and cached; decoding the native printing
data stream, generating a PDF snapshot, performing auditing based on the PDF snapshot, and generating an auditing result; based on the audit result, performing subsequent
processing, including adding a bar code to the original printing
data stream by adding a drawing instruction when the audit is passed, and sending the complete original printing data
stream to the target plotter for printing and outputting; based on a native printing data
stream lossless interception and forwarding technology, the problem that private attributes of a plotter are lost due to format conversion in an existing
virtual printer scheme is solved, and meanwhile the limitation of an existing file path takeover scheme in the aspect of universality is solved.