Graphic printing from Perl 1

[TonyGroves]

I want some of my Perl programs to be able to send graphic output (formatted text, lines, etc.) to a laser/inkjet printer attached to a Windows system. Can anybody suggest the best way to approach this? I suppose I could send raw Postscript/PCL/whatever to certain printers, but is there a more generic, preferably cross-platform, way to do it?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

 

[duncdude]

I would use almost certainly use HTML

I can write a bit of Postscript - and have used it for stuff in the past... but as you must be aware - it is nowhere near as easy as HTML. Also, HTML supports graphics, fonts, tables, colours, etc. etc. - and is pretty easy to get Perl to write. Trying to embed a graphic into Postscript is damn hard! You pretty much have to start reading the DSC standard, and this is not for the feint hearted


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TonyGroves]

Thanks for that. HTML is certainly a good way to produce formatted output. Then, I have to figure out a way to print the HTML. Hmm ... I'll work on that one.

 

[duncdude]

No problem. Thanks for the star.


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TonyGroves]

For anybody who might be interested ...

I found a Windows program called HTMLPrint, at

http://bersoft.com/htmlprint

, which silently prints a HTML file, taking all its options from a simple config file. It seems quite neat.