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| From: | Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@u...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml |
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote: > > Printing is another area where things are complicated. Under Unix > it's relatively straightforward: generate a PS or PPM file and pipe it > into 'lpr'. On Windows things are much more complex. For the app I > wrote in 2003, I managed a primitive form of graphic-only printing by > hacking out a standalone printing program from the guts of the GIMP > Windows printer driver (written in C, not OCaml). I can let anyone > have this if they're interested. There is gsprint.exe (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.htm) which makes it easy to print PS files on a window box. It is a bit heavy -- you need Ghostscript -- but it works well. I have been using it for several months to print to a win$ only color laser printer (with the help of a LPD daemon written in OCaml! :). Hope it helps, ChriS