Jim & Joanne Collins wrote:
> I've completed a semester of computer programming in Python
> and one thing we didn't learn was how to send data to a windows
> printer instead of the screen. I've also asked this question in one
> of the Python help places and received about three responses.
> None of them worked.
since you didn't tell us what responses you've always gotten, I guess
I have to provide more than three...
- write directly to the printer device (PRN, LPT1)
- write the output to a temporary file, and use the "print" command
to send it to the printer
out = open("temp.out", "w")
...
out.close()
os.system("print /D:LPT1 temp.out")
- use the win32 extensions, and talk to the GDI and spooler functions (see
Windows API documentation for details).
- use a printer aware UI toolkit, and draw on the printer instead of the screen
- use ReportLab or any other PDF-generating toolkit, and use Acrobat to
print it. (same as the second alternative, but generates nicer output):
os.system("start acrord32.exe /t /h temp.pdf printer")
if you try any of these and it doesn't work, let us know which one, and
what happened.
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