Re: Printing in GTK+

["Carl B. Constantine" <duckwing duckwing ca>]

* Roger Leigh (rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org) wrote:
> Some of the recent (paid) work I've done with GTK+ has involved output
> to receipt printers for point of sale applications, where this sort of
> thing would have been quite useful.  As it was, I just used normal
> pipes.  And all the reporting used groff as a backend; a GTK+ frontend
> is also planned.  For Gimp-Print, the libgimpprintui library provides
> its own print dialog, providing full control over the printer, but
> it's currently dependent upon libgimpprint and so would only be good
> for client-side processing.  I talked with Jody about moving some of
> the widgets into libgimpprintui if they would be useful (once the code
> has been cleaned up--it's not currently modular enough).

What kind of label (POS) printer are you using? I'll need to get
something I know works.

> The PostScript rendering API could use the same GIOChannel to send the
> print job--it would just be an extra layer that you have the choice of
> using or not as you see fit (and the fact that there are two layers
> could be hidden by the rendering API).

That would be nice.

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