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Re: [Gnumed-devel] printing on Windows
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Sebastian Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] printing on Windows |
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Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:37:22 +0200 |
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Am Samstag, 30. April 2011, 18:44:28 schrieb Jim Busser:
> On 2011-04-29, at 6:27 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >> I believe we cannot rely on Adobe Reader being installed so we need to
> >> find another way.
> >
> > Oh, I'd think it'd be reasonable to expect that. After all,
> > many academic electronic papers come as PDF.
>
> If we expect Adobe to be present, then I would remind us of
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2010-01/msg00112.html
If we really need to go down that road (which I hope not) I recommend we use
python instead.
two solutions:
1)
We can let acroread which should work better then doing it from a batch file
There are a few solutions to be found:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/544923/switching-printer-trays
2.) use gsprint.exe
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4498099/silent-printing-of-a-pdf-in-python
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.htm
I vote for using gsprint.exe as the default method. We might want to check if
we are on Windows and if so we could bypass calling gm-print_doc.bat (which
does not yet exist) and use python to call gsprint.exe
This might even allow to address different paper trays.
Let me know what you think.
Sebastian