From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-09-05T01:23:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing in Ruby


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> It works fine in Windows or Linux with the system.
> But I don't know if there is any other simple solution. Actually I=20
> need to make a report, so there are some formatted text, also=20
> different sizes of papers etc. Any other solution for this?

I think you're probably best off doing what the unix crowds have always
done: make postscript.  After that, you can post-process with free tools
into PDF files, or you can make it into (non-postscript) printer form
with Ghostscript, or you can print it directly with a postscript
printer.

It's not super-simple, but for a surprising number of tasks, pretty easy
-- and Ruby can abstract away a surprising amount, if you write the code
to do it.  Anyone else have classes for dealing with Postscript to
share?  Mine are as yet theoretical.

Ari

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