Hi People, I am using the RichText framework, which is more or less doing what I want from it, however, I'd like to create a PDF file.
There is a wxPdfDocument structure in wxWidgets, but it is unwrapped, so I
thought it would be easier to use the Print framework instead.
The issue is that if I call the print dialogue everything works fine, and I
can create a PDF with no problem, however (as I want it to be transparent to
the user), when I do it bypassing the print dialogue, it doesn't work.
Code follows at end of email.
My question is:
1 - does anyone have background (or at least dialogue-less) printing working
for any printer type?
2 - does anyone have an alternative method for creating PDFs from wxXML
objects? Or anything else?
3 - am I using the print framework commands properly?
As always, many thanks for your ideas.
Regards
Steve
my $loc_pdf_printdata = $self->{Ctl_RTC_Printing_Obj}->GetPrintData;
$loc_pdf_printdata->SetOrientation( wxPORTRAIT );
$loc_pdf_printdata->SetNoCopies(1);
$loc_pdf_printdata->SetPaperId( wxPAPER_A4 );
$loc_pdf_printdata->SetPrinterName("Virtual_PDF_Printer");
my $loc_printdialogdata = Wx::PrintDialogData->new();
$loc_printdialogdata->SetPrintData($loc_pdf_printdata);
my $loc_pdf_printout = Wx::Printout->new("PDF Report");
my $loc_wxPrinter = Wx::Printer->new($loc_printdialogdata);
my $loc_success = $loc_wxPrinter->Print( undef, $loc_pdf_printout, 0 );
print $loc_success.";
# Print $loc_success returns "1".
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