Advanced printing using win32ui in python - help!
Darcy Kahle
darcykahle at sympatico.ca
Fri Aug 6 19:39:34 EDT 2004
I am trying to do some advanced printing in python using the win32ui
module, and have run into an issue. I need to print a page landscape.
As I could not determine how to specify the orientation of the printing,
I arranged the graphic elements on the page the way it should be. When
I got to printing text, it went across the page, not down as I need it
to go. I tried to use the hDC.SetWorldTransform(0, -1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
command to rotate the print counterclockwise 90 degrees, but this
command was virtually ignored. The other solution that I can see
involves specifying that the page is in landscape mode, but as I
indicated earlier, I cannot determine how to accomplish this. The
command win32ui.CreatePrintDialog(1538).DoModal() presents the dialog
where the user can specify landscape mode, but it appears that the OK
button is not hooked up to a default callback. There is a PyCPrintInfo
object, which it looks like I can set this programmatically, and then
generate the printerDC object, but there is no documentation on how to
generate this.
Can anyone recommend to me how I could either specify the page to be in
landscape mode, or rotate the text that is printing? Any assistance
that you can provide is greatly appreciated, and I am certain that there
are others out there that want to know how to do this as well.
BTW, I am currently using WinXP and Python 2.3, but the solution should
be accessible via Win98 and up. I plan to use py2exe to run the final
product on other windows boxes.
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