[fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas

[Mattias Gaertner]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> hat am 17.
Januar 2012 um 13:59 geschrieben:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, David Copeland
> <david.copeland at jsidata.ca> wrote:
> > I had not thought that approach (a non-visual lcl program) to be
> > possible, but I will try it. Would I use the Nogui widgetset?
>
> No, it doesn't implement printing.


The printer4lazarus package uses cups by default. I have not tested if it
works with the nogui widgetset.



>
> > Would such a program run on a host where X was not installed?
>
> No
>
> > I am targeting only Linux. I save the output to a file (SaveToFile).
The user prints the
> > file if needed.
>
> Well, if you are not printing in your software then you are not doing
> printing, only drawing. So the answer to my original questions should
> have been "Drawing". So with your requirements using the LCL is
> probably not necessary. If you are targeting only linux then you can
> probably use a command line execution to print the file.


Yes.

OTOH cups gives some information about the queue and the printer.

Mattias
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