How to print in a portable way?

[Benjamin Binford]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:06:52 +0000, Antonio Cuni wrote:

> I need to print some simple tables and reports from a python program: I'd
> like to do it in with no platform-specific method: is there a chanche? I
> thought to generate some HTML to be printed by a web-browser, but most of
> them add extra infos (e.g. the filename and the page number) at the top
> and the bottom of a page, so the output doesn't look very nice. Any other
> idea?
> Thanks in advance
> 
> ciao Anto

Take a look at fop at http://xml.apache.org/fop/
You generate some xsl formatting objects, and it dumps it out in the
format of your choice (print, ps, pdf, etc...) I use it to pretty print a
grocery list at home and it works very well for that, but I've never used
it in a production environment.