On 2/17/2006 9:02 AM, Daniel Crespo wrote: > Hi to all, > > I want to print a PDF right from my python app transparently. With > "transparently" I mean that no matter what program handles the print > petition, the user shouldn't be noticed about it. > > For example, when I want to print a PDF, Adobe Acrobat fires and keep > opened. This is what I don't want to happen (and I thing there are a > lot of people who want this too). So I just want to send the PDF to > the right handler and print it. That's all. > > I've seen some things like Adobe's Postscript driver that can read a > PDF, or Ghostscript, but I still don't know how to use it. > > Any help for printing a PDF transparently? > > Thank you > > Daniel >
You may find that RedMonEE is a useful piece to your puzzle. I find it to be stable and quite invaluable. http://www.is-foehr.de/ > RedMon - Redirection Port Monitor EE > > Transparent PostScript printing from Windows NT, W2K and XP. Overview > > > The RedMon EE port monitor redirects a special printer port to a > program. RedMon EE is commonly used with Ghostscript and a > non-PostScript printer to emulate a PostScript printer. > > RedMon EE can be used with any program that accepts data on standard > input. > > Using RedMon EE you create a redirected printer port. If you connect > a Windows printer driver to the redirected printer port, all data > sent to the redirected port will be forwarded by RedMon to the > standard input of a program. The output of this program can be sent > to different printer port, or the program can generate whatever > output it desires. > > A PostScript Windows printer redirected to a RedMon port can shared > on a network. When this printer is configured to use Ghostscript and > a non-PostScript printer, it appears as a PostScript printer to other > network clients. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
