htmltopdf Re: [Gnumed-devel] Printing

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-01-15, at 1:18 PM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> MacOS and Windows both have printer setup/selection dialogs but no means to 
> call them from the command line ?


The following was supplied and offered to me from offlist however the starting 
point is html and therefore more suited to a browser-based EMR like OpenEMR or 
Oscar McMaster unless we have a use-case for html?

> http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list
> 
> I've been using this  to output all my stuff to the printer, using this sort 
> of code:
> 
>   Shell "wkhtmltopdf " & modHTML.Write_HTML(shtml) & " /tmp/any.pdf" Wait
>   Shell "lp -d " & Left(printername, InStr(printername, ":") - 1) & " " & " 
> /tmp/any.pdf" Wait
> 
> I think it is available for both linux, mac and windows.
> 
> Works instantly and flawlessly on linux.

-- Jim