| Printing a text file. [message #28330] |
Tue, 04 December 2001 09:40  |
john.copley
Messages: 8
Registered: October 2001
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I am looking for ways to print an ascii text file from within an IDL
application. I need to be able to do this for unix, windows and macos.
Unix is not a problem: I spawn a command such as "lpr -Plp0 filename".
With Windows the best I have been able to come up with is to spawn a
command such as "c:\windows\notepad.exe /p filename" which is not very
elegant (and nor is the printout). I haven't yet investigated
possibilities for macos.
Also does anyone know of a way to attach the date and time to
printouts of IDL source code? I get very confused when I have multiple
printouts and do not know which is the latest version.
Your comments are appreciated.
John Copley
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| Re: Printing a text file. [message #28393 is a reply to message #28330] |
Wed, 05 December 2001 16:45  |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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Mark Rivers wrote:
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> John Copley <john.copley@nist.gov> wrote in message
> news:cf9627bd.0112040940.4d2a9de7@posting.google.com...
>> I am looking for ways to print an ascii text file from within an IDL
>> application. I need to be able to do this for unix, windows and macos.
>> Unix is not a problem: I spawn a command such as "lpr -Plp0 filename".
>> With Windows the best I have been able to come up with is to spawn a
>> command such as "c:\windows\notepad.exe /p filename" which is not very
>> elegant (and nor is the printout). I haven't yet investigated
>> possibilities for macos.
>
> With Windows I print Postscript files by spawning "print
> /d:\\server_name\printer_share_name file_name.ps"
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> You should be able to do the same with text files.
>
> Mark Rivers
Hi Mark,
My original text printing macro written for Win 95/98 was quite happy
to do this sort of thing.
But with the advent of Win2000, something in the way our printers were
set up on our Novell cluster screwed that right up. Totally bambozzled
our system guys. Hence I resorted to a third party utility, PrintFile,
to achieve what should have been so simple...
I believe DF is a great fan of PrintFile.
Andrew
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| Re: Printing a text file. [message #28411 is a reply to message #28330] |
Wed, 05 December 2001 06:08 |
Mark Rivers
Messages: 49
Registered: February 2000
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John Copley <john.copley@nist.gov> wrote in message
news:cf9627bd.0112040940.4d2a9de7@posting.google.com...
> I am looking for ways to print an ascii text file from within an IDL
> application. I need to be able to do this for unix, windows and macos.
> Unix is not a problem: I spawn a command such as "lpr -Plp0 filename".
> With Windows the best I have been able to come up with is to spawn a
> command such as "c:\windows\notepad.exe /p filename" which is not very
> elegant (and nor is the printout). I haven't yet investigated
> possibilities for macos.
With Windows I print Postscript files by spawning "print
/d:\\server_name\printer_share_name file_name.ps"
You should be able to do the same with text files.
Mark Rivers
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| Re: Printing a text file. [message #28418 is a reply to message #28330] |
Tue, 04 December 2001 18:28 |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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John Copley wrote:
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> I am looking for ways to print an ascii text file from within an IDL
> application. I need to be able to do this for unix, windows and macos.
> Unix is not a problem: I spawn a command such as "lpr -Plp0 filename".
> With Windows the best I have been able to come up with is to spawn a
> command such as "c:\windows\notepad.exe /p filename" which is not very
> elegant (and nor is the printout). I haven't yet investigated
> possibilities for macos.
>
> Also does anyone know of a way to attach the date and time to
> printouts of IDL source code? I get very confused when I have multiple
> printouts and do not know which is the latest version.
>
> Your comments are appreciated.
> John Copley
Hi John,
I have an IDL Macro that prints the chroma-coded IDL source code of
the active edit window under Windows IDLDE. It calls a freeware utility
to do the actual printing.
I'll email the two files and instructions direct to you, and anyone
else
who puts their paw up.
Andrew
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Andrew D. Cool .->-.
Electromagnetics & Propagation Group `-<-'
Surveillance Systems Division Transmitted on
Defence Science & Technology Organisation 100% recycled
PO Box 1500, Edinburgh electrons
South Australia 5108
Phone : 061 8 8259 5740 Fax : 061 8 8259 6673
Email : andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au
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