Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-15 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 14 November 2004 3:43 pm, David wrote: > That would work quite nicely, but I would like to do a wee bit of text > formatting.  I would like to change my font sizes in a place or two, > and, just guessing, you couldn't do that with a2ps, could you?  (I've > never used it to know.) You can

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread David
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:28:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > David wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:33:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>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

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread David
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:08:58AM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > Another simple idea would be to pass your output to a2ps or muttprint. That would work quite nicely, but I would like to do a wee bit of text formatting. I would like to change my font sizes in a place or two, and, just guessing, you co

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread Brad Sims
Another simple idea would be to pass your output to a2ps or muttprint. -- I came; I saw; I frelled up -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David wrote: 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

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
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. S

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:13:57PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > > 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" conver

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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.

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:00:20 +0100, David wrote: > 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". I've used latex before, bu

[OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-13 Thread David
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