[Gambas-user] gambas3, question about printer and sending files to the printer

[Fabien Bodard]

I think you can directly do it with printer object,  and the gb.PDF
component... It's quite simple.

If you want I can do an example
Le 10 sept. 2012 10:37, "Charlie Reinl" <Karl.Reinl at ...9...> a écrit :

> Am Montag, den 10.09.2012, 08:48 +1000 schrieb Richard Terry:
> > Karl Reinl wrote:
> > > Salut Benoît,
> > >
> > > I look for a way to send a pdf or ps document to a printer, without
> > > passing by a pdf/ps viewer.
> > > Like I would do it with lpr/gtklp.
> > > But I would like to use the printer.Configure() dialogue.
> > > Do you see a possibility  for that.
> > >
> > I use this in my medical records program to send the pdf directly to the
> > printer - just ignore the bits you don't need. Regarding the  printer
> > dialog, not sure - I installed a samsung laser on my machine last week
> > and all of a sudden much to my annoyance my program started to present a
> > popup printer dialog. When I investigated it the linux common printing
> > stuff I'd installed had symlinked their lpr (which file  presumably
> contained
> > the dialog code) to the original lpr. When I changed it back the dialog
> > disappeared.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > richard
> >
>
> Salut Richard,
>
> thank you,
> yes I do it in a similar way, but I want to avoid all that code, because
> the printer object do and control that.
> What he needs is the possibility to send a file with the Printer.Print()
> function to the printer
> --
> Amicalement
> Charlie
>
>
>
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