Printing in Python

[Roger Binns]

uri bushey wrote:
> I am trying to print the contents of the WaveSurfer canvas. Is there
> an easy way to do this in Python? Also, I can pretty easily use the
> WaveSurfer "print" function in my program, but taht only prints to a
> PostScript printer or prints out a PostScript file.

Printing was one major reason I dumped Tkinter in favour of
wxPython which does the printing side on all platforms well.

> I would like to automate the process of printing the PostScript file
> in a manner that is not terribly unwieldy and as transparent to the
> user as possible. Is this possible?

On Windows, users can install PDFCreator and associate it with
.ps files.

You may also want to look to see if you can generate PDF instead
of postscript (eg reportlab).

Roger