How do you print?
Jeff Bowman
jeff at dvns.com
Fri Mar 1 16:09:46 UTC 2002
"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> Jeff Bowman <jeff at dvns.com> wrote:
> ... I need to be able to print to a printer. The printer is
> most likely not a postscript printer, and it is most likely on a
> Windows computer (I happen to use Linux:) I can't find anything
> like a PrintStream or other object which would encapsulate
> printing to a printer.
>
> Ghostscript is available for Windows, so you may be able to print
> Postscript on the machine anyway.
>
hmmm didn't know that... thanks for the tip.
> I have text (no graphcs at the moment but there will be in the
> future) to print which I can format as I like. I need to be
> able to create a button that says 'Print' the user can press and
> get a report.
>
> OSProcess is being ported to the Windows environment, so a two-stage
> process where you save the text (and later, graphics) as an HTML file
> and then fire up Netscape to print it might work.
>
Yeah, I've been thinking about doing something like this until I
figured out the print thing. Just for my edification, what is
OSProcess and it's importance in the current discussion? (I'm still
learning a lot)
> I've tried browsing and searching for print, printer, printing on the
> swiki, but no luck so far.
>
> Printing is coming Real Soon Now; people are working on it.
>
:)
Cool, I really like squeak with what I have seen so far. And the
support is fantastic. I realize you said RSN, but is there a goal
(3.3, 3.4, 4.0, whatever) where printing is likely to appear? Just
curious that's all.
Jeff
wolfjb
--
__
/ / (_)__ __ ____ __
/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a
/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
More information about the Squeak-dev
mailing list
|