cross platform printing - using a GUI ?

[Philippe C. Martin]

If you're in need of a GUI, then wxPython might be your cross-platform
printing solution.

Regards,

Philippe



David Isaac wrote:

>> Alan Isaac wrote:
>> > What is the current best practice for cross platform printing of
> PostScript
>> > files from Python?
> 
> "Warren Postma" <wp at tekran.spammenziemichnichtdankeschon.com> wrote in
> message news:mVa5e.6469$6k4.803027 at news20.bellglobal.com...
>> Well since printing postscript files on most Unix systems (probably
>> including Mac OSX although I don't really know this for sure) is
>> trivially easy, why not investigate using cygwin  on Windows and
>> launching an "lpr" task from your python script that prints the given
>> postscript file. Implementation time on Unix: 0 minutes, 0 seconds.
>> Implementation time on Windows; the time it takes make a cygwin batch
>> file that prints using ghostscript.
> 
> I meant something that application users on different platforms can print
> with, not something
> that they could coerce a platform into supporting given enough energy
> (e.g., via Cygwin).
> The closest to an option so far seems to be to generate PDF and assume an
> application is available to print it.  Not beautiful.
> 
> Alan Isaac