Re: [Gnumed-devel] printing on Windows

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Freitag, 29. April 2011, 23:30:30 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:49:06AM +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > > I believe we cannot rely on Adobe Reader being installed so we need
> > > to find another way.
> > 
> > someone asked a parallel question on another list
> > following suggestions appeared
> > ============
> > 1) Post the invoice
> > 2) Click the Print Button
> > 3) Click the Print Preview Button
> > 4) Save the preview as a (pdf) file.
> > ===============
> > I like Bullzip PDF Printer under Windows. Free and unobtrusive.
> > 
> > ============================
> > Another good PDF printer for Windoze is CutePDF.  Don't be mislead by
> > the cheap looking name, it works very well.
> > =====================
> > I use the free Nitro PDF Creator from
> > http://www.nitropdf.com/free/index.htm to create pdf's in Win7 -
> > installs as just another printer and you can select to print to it just
> > like any other printer and it will create a pdf for you on demand.
> > ================
> 
> We may have some disconnect here. GNUmed creates the PDF
> just fine. What we're in need of is something that can be
> told: take this PDF, let the user choose a printer and send
> it to that printer.

Exactly. What makes me wonder ist what make this so hard.  GTKlp and kprinter 
are such solutions.

Almost all programming languages have some measure to print to pdf. Printing a 
pdf to a printer is rudimentary at best.

Sebastian