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| Re: printing capabilities (newbie) [message #17318 is a reply to message #17186] |
Sat, 25 September 1999 00:00  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Christophe Geraud (roge@free.fr) writes:
> I need to offer a solution to a customer (using Windows NT).
> The idea is that a user can have some windows on the screen.
> Each window can contain data, picture or curves.
> Then the user want to print the contain of the screen.
> The basic solution could be to print an hardcopy of the screen.
Well, it's a basic solution, but one that most people
find inadequate as soon as they look at a picture of
their numbers. :-( Remember that screen shots are
in device resolution (72 pixels/inch), whereas most
people like to look at hardcopy in printer resolution
(600 pixels/inch).
> Now I think it could be a good idea to offer communication with an other
> tool to make reports. (sorry I don't speak a very good english :-)
Don't worry about it. Most of us don't write very
swell English, either. :-)
> Is it easy to copy data or picture in the clipboard to use them with
> Word97 or any other tool ?
Yes, it is easy if the *user* is doing it. Bring the focus
to the graphics window, type Ctrl-C to put the contents
on the clipboard, open up Word97, and do a Ctrl-V to
paste it into the document.
But is it easy to do it *programmatically*? Well, that
is a different story. I suspect you will have to become
adept at the Visual Basic language that Microsoft uses
to communicate between its suite of business applications.
And this would probably mean writing a DLL for your IDL
application, so you could get the data out of IDL and into
something else.
It can be done. But I don't think it is a half hour
project. :-)
I think I would lean toward producing a page of output
for each graphics window on the display. With some
thinking before-hand, you can easily come up with
something like the XWindow capability where you
could create a PostScript file of a window's
content or send the content directly to a PostScript
file in printer resolution.
Cheers,
David
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| Re: printing capabilities (newbie) [message #17319 is a reply to message #17186] |
Sat, 25 September 1999 00:00 |
Christophe Geraud
Messages: 3
Registered: September 1999
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Liam Gumley wrote:
> Christophe Geraud wrote:
>> Is it possible to print a set of windows ?
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First, thanks for your answer
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> Can you be more specific and give us an example of what you'd like to
> do?
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Yes !
I need to offer a solution to a customer (using Windows NT).
The idea is that a user can have some windows on the screen.
Each window can contain data, picture or curves.
Then the user want to print the contain of the screen.
The basic solution could be to print an hardcopy of the screen.
I used PV-Wave 6.0 three years ago. As I can remember, PV-W has no
reporting facilities. True ?
Now I think it could be a good idea to offer communication with an other
tool to make reports. (sorry I don't speak a very good english :-)
Is it easy to copy data or picture in the clipboard to use them with
Word97 or any other tool ?
Any suggestions are welcome
Thanks for help
Christophe Geraud
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| Re: printing capabilities (newbie) [message #17326 is a reply to message #17186] |
Fri, 24 September 1999 00:00 |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
Registered: November 1996
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Christophe Geraud <geraud@realix.fr> writes:
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> Is it possible to print a set of windows ?
> or: is it possible to copy curves and images and table in a single
> window ?
As others of have pointed out, you haven't given us enough
information to make a complete answer.
If you run on Unix, consider my one-button print solution under
X-windows, called XFWINDOW. Unlike the screen-dump solutions,
XFWINDOW preserves the graphics commands precisely as you type them,
so the output comes with full fidelity. It is included in the
xfilter-0.6 package, available from this web page:
http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html
Be sure to download xfilter-0.6.tar.gz. XWINDOW (without the "F") is
a different program from XFWINDOW (with the "F"). Full documentation
is included in 00README. Soon I will have a new version which
simplifies installation even more.
If there are any IDL folks out there experienced in compiling DLM's
for IBM or HP unix machines, please let me know. I would like to get
these working as well. Or download the source and take a look at it.
It's tricky, so feel free to contact me.
Thanks,
Craig
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