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Printing from Windows

Markus Schaber use-net at schabi.de
Tue Dec 4 05:10:22 EST 2001 
Hi,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:35:44 +0100
"David Brown" <dav-nospam-id at westco-nospam-ntrol.com> wrote:

> It doesn't look like there is much hope for using Tkinter for printing,
> so I'm generalising my original question.
> 
> Are there any good ways to make a printout from a Python program?  I'll
> be running mostly on Windows, but I'd much prefer a cross-platform
> solution for later migration to Linux.  Sure, I could use the Win32 api
> directly - but that is the sort of thing I am trying to avoid with
> Python + Tkinter.  There must surely be thousands of developers out
> there with the same problem.
> 
> Any hints or ideas would be much appreciated.

Maybe the gtk+ printing works with windows and unix in the same way.

This has the disadvantage that gtk+ is not part of standard python, but there are some extreme powerful widgets there (including embedding the mozilla engine).

markus
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