Advanced printing using win32ui in python - help!

[Larry Bates]

You may not want the additional overhead, but this is
pretty easy using wxPython (wxWindows Python package).
The additional benefit (which may not be important to
you) is that it is portable.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"Darcy Kahle" <darcykahle at sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:XEUQc.48836$Vm1.1127573 at news20.bellglobal.com...
> I am trying to do some advanced printing in python using the win32ui
> module, and have run into an issue.  I need to print a page landscape.
> As I could not determine how to specify the orientation of the printing,
> I arranged the graphic elements on the page the way it should be.  When
> I got to printing text, it went across the page, not down as I need it
> to go.  I tried to use the hDC.SetWorldTransform(0, -1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
> command to rotate the print counterclockwise 90 degrees, but this
> command was virtually ignored.  The other solution that I can see
> involves specifying that the page is in landscape mode, but as I
> indicated earlier, I cannot determine how to accomplish this.  The
> command win32ui.CreatePrintDialog(1538).DoModal() presents the dialog
> where the user can specify landscape mode, but it appears that the OK
> button is not hooked up to a default callback.  There is a PyCPrintInfo
> object, which it looks like I can set this programmatically, and then
> generate the printerDC object, but there is no documentation on how to
> generate this.
>
> Can anyone recommend to me how I could either specify the page to be in
> landscape mode, or rotate the text that is printing?  Any assistance
> that you can provide is greatly appreciated, and I am certain that there
> are others out there that want to know how to do this as well.
>
> BTW, I am currently using WinXP and Python 2.3, but the solution should
> be accessible via Win98 and up.  I plan to use py2exe to run the final
> product on other windows boxes.