[Edu-sig] grabbing the output from turtle and sending it to a (real) printer

[Atanas Radenski]

> My students have loved drawing pics in turtle. What they'd love more (as
> would the wall of my classroom) would be if they could print their pictures
> to a printer.

Outside of Python, you can use simple OS facilities to capture the  
drawing, paste in a file, then print or do whatever else you want  
(inside a python, it is too dark to see any graphics - to paraphrase  
Groucho Marx :-). How exactly you create and paste this the drawing  
will depend on your particular system: Windows, Macintosh,  Linux, etc.

In Windows, for example, perform the following steps.

* Click on the title bar of the drawing widow to make it the active window.
* Use Alt + Print Screen to copy the window onto the clipboard. The  
above step will have no visible effect to you.
* Start any application that can handle graphics, such as the Paint program.
* Use Edit -> Paste to paste the window copied from the clipboard onto  
an empty document.
* Print the document.

If you have no access to Paint, you can use a word processor, such as  
Microsoft Office Word or Open Office Writer.

Atanas
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Quoting Matt K <matt.kameron at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> My students have loved drawing pics in turtle. What they'd love more (as
> would the wall of my classroom) would be if they could print their pictures
> to a printer.
>
> Does anybody know of how to do this?
>