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- From: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft)
- Subject: Re: Printing Text efficiently
- Message-ID: <9301210538.AA05089@ensuing.com>
- Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Reply-To: karl@ensuing.com (Karl Kraft)
- Organization: Ensuing Technologies Inc.
- References: <sfLSrsq00WA7FdN0pM@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:38:27 GMT
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- In comp.sys.next.programmer article <sfLSrsq00WA7FdN0pM@andrew.cmu.edu> you
- wrote:
- >
- >One more quick question for you all:
- >
- > Is there any way to trivially print plain-text-information on a
- >printer from inside an App? Or do I need to stuff everything I wish to
- >print into a text-object and send that object a print-message?
- >
-
-
- You could just use popen() to send it to lpr.
-
-
- > (It just seems like a lot of overhead...)
- >
-
- It's not a lot of overhead (maybe 20 lines (from creation to deletion)),
- and your user will get a Print and Page Layout Panel that will
-
- * Allow them to select a printer
- * Allow them to select a page size
- * Allow them to save the postscript
- * Fax the text
- * Preview before they print to find out how many pages
- * Select certain pages to print
- * Possibly choose other fonts to print the document in
- * Select margins
-
- So do you want to use popen() and write a UI to do all that, or do you want
- to use the Text object, and get it for free?
-
-
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- Karl Kraft
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