Placing graphics & text on printed page - jan06call.jpg (0/1)

[Roger Upole]

Pywin32 wraps most of the GDI functions used to draw
lines and text directly on a printer device context.
Many of them are only implemented as methods of
MFC objects rather than exposed directly.

See \win32\Demos\print_desktop.py for some examples
of working directly with a printer DC.

     hth
         Roger

"Michael Galvin" <michaelgalvin at verizon.net> wrote in message news:aq5ds1lsop1m2gkfu7bfn3ser83v87b4gl at 4ax.com...
> To see an example of what I am trying to accomplish, look at this page
> on my personal website:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/michaelgalvin/jan06call.html
>
> I now realize my attachement could not be posted on this usenet group.
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:16:02 -0500, Michael Galvin
> <michaelgalvin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to use Python to send to the printer a calender filled
>>with a mix of text and simple graphics.  I want to draw on the printed
>>page something like a table with 6 rows and 7 columns to represent a
>>calendar.  I want to place text precisely within those boxes on the
>>printed page. I am using Python 2.4 on Windows XP
>>
>>I was  in the past able to do this within Visual Basic using its
>>printer object.  Visual Basic's printer object uses a coordinate
>>system to allow you to draw lines and to place text on the printed
>>page precisely. I have attached a file "jan06call.jpg" to this message
>>to illustrate what I am trying to do.
>>
>>Does Python have a module which would help me do this?
>>
>>To put it another way, can Python control the placement of text and
>>graphics precisely on the printed page?
>>
>>I have scoured my Python programming texts,  python.org, and this
>>usenet group without success.  Mark Lutz's wonderful book "Programming
>>Python"  has not one reference to the word "printer" in its index.
>>Surely, I must be overlooking something or thinking about this wrong.
>>
>>Michael Galvin
>>Muskegon, MI 



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