You need like as MetaFile in Delphi, did you try TPostScriptCanvas in "pscanvas" unit, i am not test it in fact.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Dave Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you mean by RTF? > > RTF = Rich Text Format > >> Could you explain better what you are trying to do? > > I want my app to generate printed forms and letters. > > Currently I have to measure the page I want to print and use the > Canvas draw commands to draw the page. If anything changes I have to > measure the page again and input the data in terms of lineto, moveto > and textout methods. > > What I'm hoping to do is to format the page using OpenOffice and then > convert this to moveto, lineto, textout, etc. > > PCL uses similar methods, penup, pendown, etc; maybe I could format > the page and output it to PCL and then convert the PCL to > TPrinter.Canvas functions? Maybe even Postscript? I used to have the > old Adobe "Postscript Cookbook". If I could just find it again... > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- Zaher Dirkey _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
