Yea. TclTk (at least the packages we use) doesn't have any good built in printing routines. I wrote one that is included in the GUI, but it needs ghostscript to translate from the native postscript of the canvas into print output.
Michael On 9/3/07 8:57 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah. Another one to work on bundling in my binaries. > > On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Michael Barton wrote: > >> Ghostscript is also used by the GUI if available to allow direct >> printing >> from a map display. >> >> Michael >> >> >> On 9/3/07 8:46 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> There are a few extras in one or the other: >>> >>> - Lorenzo includes ghostscript, for printing and creating ps output >>> it looks like. I don't know how much better that that is than using >>> builtin GRASS methods for generating postscript. > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and with no > particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can until the war is > over. That is my duty." > > "Don't you even hate 'em?" > > "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions of people > of the allied nations devoted an entire year exclusively to hating > the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor shorten the war one day." > > <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers." > > - Tarzan, on war > __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
