On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:33:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > David wrote: > >I know this has nothing to do with Debian, but, really, I don't know > >exactly where to ask this question anyway. > > > >I have a program for my personal use, written in C. It's a > >records-keeping application. So far, for my hardcopy, I simply fopen > >/dev/lp0 and talk straight to the printer. My output is just a few > >reports, all with a tabular output, and about the only printer > >manipulations I need is to change the character size in an instance or > >two.
> >The solution I've come up with is to rely upon Latex. That is, generate > >the output text, insert any tex formatting and send this to a temporary > >file, let "dvips" convert to postscript and pipe this to "lp" or "lpr". > >Could someone indicate whether this is reasonable, or is there a more > >straightforward approach? > I use Qt from Trolltech for that sort of stuff. Granted that means C++. > If that is no problem, everything becomes easier because you use its > classes for everything, including printing. Well.. actually, I've never tried writing C++ code, but as a matter of fact, just a day or two ago, I had downloaded some documentation on C++ considering getting into it - mainly for the class structuring. > What I do is mostly > graphics, so maybe that changes things. Well, again, perhaps coincidentally, I had considered converting this program to a GUI app, just for the fun of it, mostly. However, I've been trying to learn GTK. Unfortunately, if I understand correctly, GTK doesn't support printing directly, but you have to extend into the GNOME interface for printer support. I was hoping to not spread myself too thinly by adding another interface (GNOME) to learn. > Anyway I have an example: > > http://esquipulas.homeunix.com/index.php?p=46 > > If the server is up that shows you what I do with Qt and then you print > it using its classes, giving you a .ps file, shown there too, or going > straight to the printer. I got a "connection refused". Perhaps it was down at the moment. I'll give it a try later, perhaps tomorrow. > HTH Yes, it has helped. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
