Printing solutions?

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Mon Sep 29 09:42:57 UTC 2003


jennyw <jennyw at dangerousideas.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just wondering what people are doing for printing.  Is there a good way 
> from Squeak?  I'd like to be able to print forms and reports, like what 
> one might do from an Access application.  If there is no way to print 
> flexibility from within Squeak, is there a way to interface with an 
> external application to print?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jen

Well, some (not all) ideas off the top of my head:

- Squeak can produce postscript from Morphic. Not sure in what shape
that code is today though. Just look in the red halo icon (menu) under
copy & print.

- Squeak can always rather easily produce formats that external
applications can print. Two other ideas (than Lukas' SPDF) are say
Lout/TeX or HTML. Easiest approach would be to just use Squeak to
produce a file in such a format and then use FFI or OSProcess to fire up
an external program to produce the output.

regards, Göran



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