Re: Printing environment under MS Windows (Was: Re: EPS from view failed)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Feb 2006, at 07:48, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Excuse me for replying to my own post, but ... does anyone know how  
> to sett-up any, even null printing environment under MS Windows so  
> it would be possible to produce EPS output from a NS View?
>
> I received no hints so far :-/

I don't know/understand the print system ... but the current code in  
svn has a few fixes I put in last week ... and I know that with that  
code print to file works to produce  files containing what looks (on  
casual viewing) like good postscript.  I haven't tried feeding the  
file to a printer or postscript viewer on windows though ... I don't  
have such a printer and haven't taken the effort to locate/install or  
learn how to use a postscript viewer under windows.

Basically the fixes were to write to file under windows, to set up  
default printer and save the default setup, to avoid some unnecessary  
warnings, and to catch exceptions where the postscript viewer program  
is not found (just stops apps crashing when there is no viewer).