Gabriele,
I agree that PDF is more easily multiplatform, but sometimes you need the
output to go directly to the printer without any additional human
intervention. It would be nice if Acrobat could be told via an external
source (like REBOL) to print the current document. Additionally, Acrobat
loading on many machines is terribly slow.
It would be nice if REBOL had available printer support (kind of like
Python, but better). For that matter, printer page layout could use REBOL
faces so you could generate the output with View or VID and then send it to
the printer interface which does the conversion to the low-level printer
commands.
>> printer layout/origin [image %flag.gif text "Now is the time
for all good men to come to the aid of their country" 600 wrap] 10x20
The above would send the output directly to the default
printer. 'printer/query would query the user about which printer to use
and would allow the user to make adjustments to the print properties.
Simple things should be simple to do.
-Bo
At 12:16 PM 7/2/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Bohdan,
>
>On Monday, July 01, 2002, 6:41:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>BoRL> Thanks for all the help so far. I'm hoping that someday REBOL users can
>BoRL> have graphical access to printers. I know it would make my
>applications a
>BoRL> lot more useful!
>
>I actually prefer emitting PDF anyway, it's more easily
>multiplatform... :-)
>
>Regards,
> Gabriele.
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