Re: [Gnumed-devel] write documents

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:14:53PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> > Given that it should be possible to create a small Python
> > application "print.py" like this:
> > 
> >     import os
> >     import os.path
> > 
> >     the_file = os.path.normpath(the_file)
> >     try:
> >             os.startfile(the_file, 'print')
> >     except AttributeError:
> >             print "not on Windows"
> > 
> > which supposedly would invoke the application Windows is
> > configured to print a certain file type with.
> > 
> > Please test this and report back. If that works I'll include
> > the above with GNUmed directly.
> 
> 
> It does open the associated application and tries to print the file. So this 
> is one way to do it.

Good to know. I added this method to GNUmed-next. Hence
we've now got two methods to print files (pipe into
os.startfile, pipe to gm-print_doc). If no preferred print
API is configured GNUmed will try both.

> Still looking into PrintFile since it can watch for files appearing in a 
> directory and print these.

Tell me when you know the details so I can add it.

Karsten
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