On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:22:00PM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "ALAN GAULD" <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote > > >For most of my GUI needs printing is rarely an > >issue and if I do need to print I generate an HTML document > > I meant to add that this is similar to the traditional way of priniting > in Unix which was to generate a [gnt]roff document and then send it > to print via lpr. > > HTML is the modern equivalent to troff...
Yeah, but like troff, it's wholly inadequate for a lot of applications, unfortunately. I'd personally just write a PostScript preamble to do what I need, generate PostScript directly, and spool it up to lpr or whatever and get away (usually) with assuming that people are using PS printers or have their lpr/cups/whatever system configured to deal with it. Windows, of course, gets in the way of that strategy painfully. (And, yeah, I've been known to output groff and TeX from apps too :) -- Steve Willoughby | Using billion-dollar satellites st...@alchemy.com | to hunt for Tupperware. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
