From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T19:50:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing through Ruby

Sabyasachi Mustafi wrote:

>Some days ago there were some threads about printing through ruby. Here is =
> my bad solution. As I expect to make print outs in a easy but feature rich=
>ed process as in Visual Basic 6.0 =0AVery frankly speaking that I want to l=
>ove Ruby but always I compare it with the fast programming experience in Vi=
>sual Basic. I hope it will not take too much time to get a Ruby IDE =0AI ma=
>de a simple thing in ruby for printing to the printer.=0AMake the output in=
>  a file and then print it.=0A=0App=3DFile.open('C:\test.doc','w')=0App.pri=
>nt "hello print"=0App.close=0Asystem('D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Off=
>ice10\Winword "C:\test.doc"')=0A=0AIt 
>
As long as you stick with Windows (sic),  VRuby has an example 
printer.rb that you might
want to look at.

good luck, -A