Re: PDF Printing support from Python



"dcrespo" <dcrespo@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Grant Edwards...
>
> Your solution requires a previous installation of Acrobat. Internally,
> the OS is sending the pdf file to the Acrobat PDF Driver and then it is
> sent to the printer. So you have to have Acrobat installed. Don't you?
> I want to avoid it installing a module that could do it (maybe I'm
> dreaming:( ). If there's no solution, then I will be very sad :-S
[...]
> Acrobat Reader 7.0, but I want to do it from a Win98 as well.
> Unfortunately, there's no Acrobat version under Win98 (the maximun is
> 5.1) that supports this kind of printing (what I had seen until now).
> It prints, but the all paper at letter size :(

That doesn't sound like a fundamental problem with AR 5.1 to me --
sounds like you just need to ask it more nicely ;-)

Have you tried the latest version of APFL ghostscript, though (8.51)?


> Any help? Any other tools? Any one like Cristal Report but for Python?
> I heard that wxPython supports some kind of reporting, but I don't know
> it. Anyone knows?

First, decide what qualities you need from your output format, then
decide which format you want, and how to generate and print it. Is it
important that you have one, other, or both of bitmap or vector
output, for example?


John
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