Re: win32 printing

[Chris Seaton <chris chrisseaton com>]

> I think what I need to do to print is the following:
>
> 1.  draw to a GdkPixmap
> 2. get the GdkPixbuf from the Pixmap
> 3. pass the GdkPixbuf ( which I believe is just raw image data? ) to the 
> function described here 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN;138594
>
>
> I think my reasons for being unsure about how to proceed are because 
> win32 refers to images as bitmaps while gtk+ refers to them as pixmaps.  
> Are they the same?
> And are they interchangeable?

That won't works: your printer will not be expecting a raw bitmap. As 
the article says, it's printer specific. This is for the lowest level 
control of a printer - like writing a user space driver or something odd 
like that.

If would suggest dumping the pixbuf to a file (.png or something else 
less lossless) and then using another program to print it. I'm sure 
paint or something can be asked to print a file from the command line 
like notepad can be with text files.

Chris Seaton