[reportlab-users] Changing printer

[Jade Meskill]

Darryl,

You can do something like this using DDE and Acrobat on Windows, for
*nix I just os.spawn*() and pass lpr the correct paramaters:

## BEGIN SAMPLE CODE
## NOT TESTED AND OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD
## BUT SHOULD WORK
import win32ui
import dde

s = dde.CreateServer()
s.Create('')

c = dde.CreateConversation(s)

c.ConnectTo('acroview', 'control')

# driverName is optional (I think)
c.Exec('[FilePrintTo("%s", "%s", "%s", "%s")]' % (filename, printerName,
driverName, portName))

s.Destroy()

## END SAMPLE CODE

I wish there was a better way to do this, but this is the best I could
find.  Be careful using DDE to batch print, as Acrobat seems to get
overwhelmed and will start throwing up errors...

-Jade

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:58, Darryl Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Is it possible to change the printer associated with a document from
> the python script that created it. We are creating three different
> documents from different python scripts and each one needs to go to a
> different printer. It is laborious to have to change it for each one
> before printing.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Darryl
>  
> Darryl
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