[pygtk] Printing: how to begin?

[Timo]

Stephen George schreef:
> Timo wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> My program has some sort of pedigree 
> Does this mean something that looks like a hierarchical chart?
Yes indeed.
>
> I don't know the complexity your are taking about, or the effect you 
> are after.
It should be pretty simple. I need some info on top of the file. Just a 
couple of lines plain text.
And then some rectangles that are connected with lines.

I hoped I could do this with standard Python/PyGTK modules.

Timo

> You might want to consider dot http://www.graphviz.org/
>
> It has python bindings http://dkbza.org/pydot.html which can output in 
> postscript
> or an alternate generation of dot files 
> http://software.inl.fr/trac/wiki/GvGen which you will have to process 
> further to get your output.
>