| Printing ASCII data with DIALOG_PRINTJOB [message #13982] |
Thu, 14 January 1999 00:00  |
Richard D. Hunt
Messages: 8
Registered: January 1996
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I hvae an array of string data and would like to print it to a postscript
printer under
<BR>MS Windows. I would like to use DIALOG_PRINTJOB so I don't
have to work to
<BR>hard to create my own interface. Does anybody have code to do
this?
<P>Thanks,
<P>Rich
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| Re: Printing ASCII data with DIALOG_PRINTJOB [message #14071 is a reply to message #13982] |
Fri, 15 January 1999 00:00  |
Michael W Asten
Messages: 4
Registered: January 1999
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Richard D. Hunt wrote:
> I hvae an array of string data and would like to print it to a
> postscript printer under
> MS Windows. I would like to use DIALOG_PRINTJOB so I don't have to
> work to
> hard to create my own interface. Does anybody have code to do this?
>
No I dont have such code, but I wonder if you really need it. The
beauty of the dialog_printjob call is that you can plot to your printer,
at full printer resolution, using existing Windows drivers, with no more
effort than repeating the code used to throw your plot on the screen. I
have (sigh of relief) abandonned the messy idl 4.x approach of
generating a ps file, then copying to a printer (and mostly getting the
plot wrongly positioned), and find the printing of images via the
Windows printer driver to be much simpler and faster.
Regards,
Michael Asten
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| Re: Printing ASCII data with DIALOG_PRINTJOB [message #14072 is a reply to message #13982] |
Fri, 15 January 1999 00:00 |
Michael W Asten
Messages: 4
Registered: January 1999
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Richard D. Hunt wrote:
> I hvae an array of string data and would like to print it to a
> postscript printer under
> MS Windows. I would like to use DIALOG_PRINTJOB so I don't have to
> work to
> hard to create my own interface. Does anybody have code to do this?
>
No I dont have such code, but I wonder if you really need it. The
beauty of the dialog_printjob call is that you can plot to your printer,
at full printer resolution, using existing Windows drivers, with no more
effort than repeating the code used to throw your plot on the screen. I
have (sigh of relief) abandonned the messy idl 4.x approach of
generating a ps file, then copying to a printer (and mostly getting the
plot wrongly positioned), and find the printing of images via the
Windows printer driver to be much simpler and faster.
Regards,
Michael Asten
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