Bert, One thing working in my favor is that I am selecting the distribution(s) and would have fairly tight control over the machines. By "the command" is it safe to assume that one would pipe PostScript into gs and then into a spooler? Put another way, if I had a .ps file, I could do all this from a terminal?? If that is true, I am starting to get it. Thanks! Bill -----Original Message----- From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Bert Freudenberg Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 1:40 PM To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Cc: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Linux graphics for Windows programmers?? On 16.04.2010, at 20:20, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
Hello all,
Are there any good tutorials that explain the transition from Windows to Linux with respect to graphics (device contexts, etc.)? I am especially interested in frameworks for printing, and wrappers that provide a canvas interface to a printer. I found a copy of Sophie 1.04 that has some code in Sophie-Printing. Is there anything else I should study?
Under Linux, the lingua franca for printing is PostScript. So if you can generate a PostScript file you're almost settled. How to send this to the printer is unfortunately dependent on the environment - you need to make the command configurable, and perhaps make a good guess at a default. PostscriptCanvas is a place to start, but depending on your app's needs might require some fiddling. OTOH, writing PS files from scratch isn't that hard either. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project