Re: [Gnumed-devel] Printing

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> Just a quick question on printing.
> The facts:
> 
> a) we are producing a pdf file

At least as far as using the LaTeX engine is concerned.
Anything printed via the OOo engine does its own (OOo
internal, that is) printing.

> b) we send that file to kprinter

No, we send it to that gm-print_doc which is first in the
system PATH (that, however, does send it to either kprinter
or gtklp, incidentally, at least in the release default).

> The question:
> 
> So krprinter knows *how* to print a pdf ? On Mac there is no such thing as 
> kprinter but lp knows  *how* to print ?

Yes, see my other mail.

> MacOS and Windows both have printer setup/selection dialogs but no means to 
> call them from the command line ?

Apparently. On Windows, I'm sure there's some freeware,
shareware or the like (the one referenced in this thread
comes close).

> Solutions seems to be to route the files through a pdf viewer

That solution is limited to PDF files but it certainly works
for now.

> For the Mac one can potentially use the Preview app. On Windows there is 
> Foxit 
> (maybe Sumatra PDF).
> 
> Batch file for Windows : http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/prnpdf9_xp.txt

I'd say next to the non-existant system-native print-a-file
printing system frontend a very widely installed second
choice solution is much desirable. Like the pretty much
ubiquitous Adobe Reader.

Karsten
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