[pygtk] how to print from pygtk?

daniel daniel at littlesaigon.homedns.org
Wed Jun 23 15:59:11 WST 2004


to print
1) import os
2) linux->printer=os.popen("lpr -r","w")
           or
   for window printer=os.popen("lpt1:","w")
3) printer.write(" some text")
4) printer.close()

daniel

Rubens Ramos wrote:

>--- Ivan Brkanac <ivan.brkanac at email.htnet.hr> wrote:
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>>Xavier Ordoquy wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 20:57, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
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>>>>On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:11:28PM +0200, Ivan Brkanac wrote:
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>>>>>I would like to do some printing from pygtk (on windows)
>>>>>how can it be done I haw data in text buffer and it needs to go to 
>>>>>printer, as I searched
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>>>>If you want to use GNOME's printing facilities, one alternative is
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>>using
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>>>>the gnome-print bindings that Gustavo started a while ago. I'm not
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>>sure
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>>>>in what state they are in, but I suspect they do work.
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>>>I'm not sure gnome print works on windows.
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>>>Regards,
>>>Xavier Ordoquy.
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>>Yes I indeed need print on Win32 also printing what I need is really 
>>simple, I imagined tat there would exist some sort of text view but not 
>>for displaying it on Monitor but for printing it to printer. I think 
>>that wXwidget have some HTML widget that can do this, also reportlab is 
>>overkill for my project. (It is much simpler copy paste to notepad and 
>>print)
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>Last time I checked gtkhtml2 (the html widget supported in pygtk) did
>not have any support for printing...
>And yes, I believe the HTML widget for wxWidgets is able to print.
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>Hope this helps
>Rubens
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