Re: Printing Postscript Data

[Chad Hardin]

Ok, I suppose you could go that route.  But everything is based on the printing backend setup now, so that has to be taken into consideration.

Both printer backends handle their jobs with PS, but future ones (win32) will likely not.  Something to think about down the road.

As far as your situation...it sure would be handy if there was a addition to NSPrinter...  That would solve this problem quickly and easily.  Of course it would be GNUstep specific but what the heck.
Maybe something like this:

@interface NSPrinter (DirectSpooling)
+(BOOL)        canPrinterNamed: (NSString*) printerName
directlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;

+(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NSString*) filePath
ofType: (NSString*) type
toPrinterNamed: (NsString*) printerName;

-(BOOL) directlyPrintFileAtPath: (NsString*) filePath
ofType: (NSString*) type

+(BOOL) canDirectlyPrintFileOfType: (NSString*) type;
@end


Or something similar

Wouldn't that be nicer?

Chad


On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:00 AM, stefan@wms-network.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Yikes, that's a good one.  Let's see.  The NSGraphicsContext your
> Thanks :-)
>
> > NSView will get will come from the NSPrintOperation.....
> > But you don't want anything to do with that.
> >
> > Maybe you can make a NSGraphicsContext category?  Add a method that
> > will take this PS code and it will forward it on for you?  I don't
> > know, just late night ideas....
>
> Hmm, sorry, but don't really know  what you mean.
>
> I thought about addiding a category to NSPrintOperation. This category
> can contain a method like 'runOperationForMe' and bypass all the view
> stuff. Instead, it will use PDFKit and the settings from the print info
> object to produce a ps file at a temporary location. It than could set
> the _path ivar of NSPrintOperation to this location and call [self
> deliverResult].
>
> Do you think this could work?
>
> greets
> Stefan
>
>
>
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