On 01/17/10 02:37, W. eWatson wrote: > D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:17:35 -0800 >> "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: >>> Could be, but I have no way of easily knowing. In any case, I was >>> trying to write a simple report that could be printed with titles at >>> the top of each page. If there's another "common" format that I can >>> write in to produce the file, that's fine. It may be this is so >>> difficult to be impossible. Long, long ago this was no problem. :-) >> >> Why not generate a PostScript or PDF file in the first place? Check >> out reportlab. >> > > New Courier and NotePad produces a good looking result. > > I'm trying to keep this effort to a minimum. I don't think tracking down > how to write PP code PDF code is worth for this effort.
How about creating a new print job for each discontinuous page? AFAIK, modern printer spooler don't continue printing between separate jobs? A bit of hackery, but guaranteed to work unless you're using roll paper. > In another related effort that I might get involved in, it would be good > to be able to produce graphical data as from MatPlotLib and be able to > print that to a printer directly from a Python program. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
