On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Clive Lansink wrote:
> I need to write a Perl application that must produce some printed
> information which requires both portrait and landscape printing at the same
> time, with lines and boxes. This is for a Windows 98 system. I've been
> pondering on how best to do this and have the following questions:
>
> [...]
>
> * What is the simplest way nowadays to program an application to have good
> printer control and to produce reports etc with a variety of fonts, lines
> and boxes etc.
If you're on Windows, the easiest thing is probably to generate RTF files
and then print those. As far as I remember, Windows should know natively
how to print RTF files. You might want to have a look at the
RTF::Generator module for this.
The only other alternative is generating PCL/Postscript directly, but I've
made bad experiences in the past with this. The basic problem here is that
you always need a programmer to change the basic templates.
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