[Gambas-user] Printing without X library

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 19/07/2013 20:47, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 19/07/2013 20:32, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>> Just stumbled over this one: When I make a Gambas2 script for a
>> webserver, it refuses to execute because I have to use gb.qt and
>> gb.qt.ext, and it doesn't find the X server (cannot connect to X server)
>> when started by Apache.
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this?
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>
> gb.cairo would allow you to generate a PS or PDF file that you would
> sent to a printer. Alas gb.cairo is not finished, it can only draw on an
> image at the moment, and it does not implement the Paint class interface
> (only the Cairo one, but they are very similar).
>

Sorry, I told rubbish. gb.cairo *can* generate PS and PDF files. Once 
you get one, you can send it to CUPS (for example) with the 'lpr' 
command-line tool.

See:

http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.cairo/cairopdfsurface/_new?v3


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Benoît Minisini