Re: Printing in GTK+

[Igor Gorbounov <igorbounov topazelectro ru>]

Carl B. Constantine wrote:

> * Roger Leigh (rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org) wrote:
>  
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> > "Carl B. Constantine" <duckwing duckwing ca> writes:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I have some data I want to print out in my application. How do I do it?
> > > To make things a little different, I *might* print to one of those POS
> > > type printers (USB) not a regular printer.
> > >
> > > Pointers? Which classes do I need to use?
> > >      
> > GTK+ itself doesn't currently offer any printing support, so the
> > question doesn't really involve GTK+ directly.  You need to either
> >
> > 1) Open the printer device (e.g. /dev/usb/lp0) and write data to it.
> > 2) Open a pipe to the printer spooler (e.g. lpr -P queuename)
> >   and then write the job data and close the connection.
> >    
>
> Thanks for clearing this up.
>  
Why, you could use gnomeprint and gnomeprintui. There are a lot of 
formatting abilities.
   Igor Gorbounov