Lie Ryan wrote: > 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. > Or unless you are printing to a production mailing system, and don't want job headers printed or interspersed jobs.
>> 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. > A client of mine just built a web site where output from queries could be HTML, PDF (Piza and ReportLab) or CSV (just written out). It's not that hard (though the code isn't open sourced I may be able to get them to document an outline of the process, or let me (in my copious spare time). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
