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Re: [Gnumed-devel] write documents
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] write documents |
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Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:31:09 +0200 |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:14:53PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > Given that it should be possible to create a small Python
> > application "print.py" like this:
> >
> > import os
> > import os.path
> >
> > the_file = os.path.normpath(the_file)
> > try:
> > os.startfile(the_file, 'print')
> > except AttributeError:
> > print "not on Windows"
> >
> > which supposedly would invoke the application Windows is
> > configured to print a certain file type with.
> >
> > Please test this and report back. If that works I'll include
> > the above with GNUmed directly.
>
>
> It does open the associated application and tries to print the file. So this
> is one way to do it.
Good to know. I added this method to GNUmed-next. Hence
we've now got two methods to print files (pipe into
os.startfile, pipe to gm-print_doc). If no preferred print
API is configured GNUmed will try both.
> Still looking into PrintFile since it can watch for files appearing in a
> directory and print these.
Tell me when you know the details so I can add it.
Karsten
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