| 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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