Printing From Python

[Harald Massa]

> Saying that printing (to a printer :-) wasn't easy (at least on
> windows - let alone *cross* platform) - and that was dated 2000.

Printing is not easy, it is a complicated matter.

You can find 4 simplifications:

1) wxPython has a print-framework, wxPython is cross platform (alas, I only 
used it in win32)

2) print postscript. Ghostscript is available on "every" platform. 
(printing on PDAs and watches is  really different). Postscript is 
documented

3) create PDF. PDF viewers & printers are available on "every" platform.
PDF can be created by (free) ReportLab toolkit, and I'm sure there are more 
PDF-Classes

4) create XHTML & a Print.CSS. HTML viewers are available on every 
Plattform, .CSS allows fairly good styling of printouts.


Harald