On Fr 25 Feb 2011 15:50:33 CET Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Dick, hi x2go-dev list,-----------Context: Dick Lindix contracted me to make PyHoca-GUI usable for his company software. We are currently testing functionality heavily to get it ready for roll-out in his company. I post this mail to the x2go-dev list as there might be someone who has an opinion and/or idea about the described problem.-----------I am currently not really happy with the X2goPrintActionPRINT implementation of Python X2go on Windows (print incoming X2go print job directly to a printer). Till now, I have used a win32api ShellExecute call to print the incoming PDF document (that gets posted to the client by x2goprint). The ShellExec API calls the standard app for PDF (Acrobat Reader X on my system), but the Acrobat Reader X (might be an issue of this version only) does not handle the printing well: an empty Acrobat Reader window remains open after the print job has been handed over to the GDI print spooler...What I am currently implementing as first choice printing in Python X2go is usage of gsprint.exe from gsview/Ghostgum. To use this printing method the Ghostscript and the Ghostview application has to be installed on the client. This seems to be the cleaner approach to printing (that is: diverting the Acrobat Reader). However, this means an extra app to be either side-installed next to PyHoca-GUI or to be shipped with PyHoca-GUI itself (which would inflate the setup.exe tremendously...).I am currently still playing with gsprint to see if it really works for PyHoca-GUI, I suppose it will. However, if gsprint is not installed on the client there will always be a fallback to the system's standard PDF app via win32api (that is Acrobat Reader in most cases).However, maybe someone on the list has another idea about PDF Windows printing from a Python environment...Greets + Thanks, Mike
As gsprint.exe works fabulously with Python X2go printing, it will be the default print mechanism on Windows with the next python-x2go release. However, if gsprint.exe is not installed on the client system, python-x2go will fallback to win32api.ShellExecute (synonymous for Right-Click on PDF and select ,,Print'').
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