[Lazarus] Printing a formatted page

[Zaher Dirkey]

You need like as MetaFile in Delphi, did you try TPostScriptCanvas in
"pscanvas" unit, i am not test it in fact.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Dave Coventry <dgcoventry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
> <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you mean by RTF?
>
> RTF = Rich Text Format
>
>> Could you explain better what you are trying to do?
>
> I want my app to generate printed forms and letters.
>
> Currently I have to measure the page I want to print and use the
> Canvas draw commands to draw the page. If anything changes I have to
> measure the page again and input the data in terms of lineto, moveto
> and textout methods.
>
> What I'm hoping to do is to format the page using OpenOffice and then
> convert this to moveto, lineto, textout, etc.
>
> PCL uses similar methods, penup, pendown, etc; maybe I could format
> the page and output it to PCL and then convert the PCL to
> TPrinter.Canvas functions? Maybe even Postscript? I used to have the
> old Adobe "Postscript Cookbook". If I could just find it again...
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Zaher Dirkey