Re: Printing in GTK+

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

What about a cross-platform method for printing?

-todd

Igor Gorbounov wrote:

> Carl B. Constantine wrote:
>
> > * Roger Leigh (rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org) wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > "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
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