On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Clive Lansink wrote:
>
> > I need to write a Perl application that must produce some printed
>> information which requires both portrait and landscape printing at the same
>> time, with lines and boxes. This is for a Windows 98 system. I've been
>> pondering on how best to do this and have the following questions:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> * What is the simplest way nowadays to program an application to have good
>> printer control and to produce reports etc with a variety of fonts, lines
> > and boxes etc.
>
I can't speak to doing this on a windows system, but on unix, I've
done something similar by creating passing an arrray to enscript
containing the escape codes and text that I want, and telling
enscript to print to standard out, storing that in another array,
which I then send to the printer later in the script.
I can send you my script for reference, if it will help, but I don't
know if enscript is available for windows, and I have no idea how to
do the same thing with PCL.
--Sandy
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sandor w. sklar
unix systems administrator
stanford university itss-css
