Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hi Drew,
Drew Jensen escribió:
Designate specific printer for specific reports.
Definitely. Also specify what paper stock is to be used or which tray.
Good points - I fiddled a bit with printer settings using basic a
while back and had some issues time to look at that again.
there is no API for getting the available printers' names, nor the tray,
etc. See issues 87883 and 87495
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87883
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=87495
IMHO, the one that developed the printing API was too lazy: internally
all these is available cf. the Printer class in /vcl/inc/vcl/print.hxx
For 87883
static const std::vector< rtl::OUString >& GetPrinterQueues();
For 87495
USHORT GetPaperBin() const;
BOOL SetPaper( Paper ePaper );
et al.
How many month can take to wrap this into a new or existing
interface/service?
I have no idea on that last question, but that was the problem 3 years
ago when I looked.
I could make this a Windows only feature, fairly easily.
But that solution is what left me cold before...all platforms is the goal.
So - Working plan:
Use the Java print services API in a function that could be called from
an OOBasic script?
All it really needs to do is return the names of installed print
services for the first cut. Then add support for paper bins, etc
afterwards. ( I don't know maybe that would be simple enough to include
in a first cut )
The jar file would be included with the report runner oxt file. ( or
maybe there is a broader audience for this? )
Well, that is my thinking at the moment and having just looked at the
documentation for JPS API it looks pretty straight forward.
Drew
ps - the response on Issue 87495 was sure a lot of help..if the request
does not belong to the scripting subcomponent it would have been nice if
"ab" had changed the value to the appropriate one...I suppose I have
enough rights to do that instead as soon as I can figure out what the
appropriate subcomponent is.
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