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In comp.sys.next.programmer article <sfLSrsq00WA7FdN0pM@andrew.cmu.edu> you  
wrote:
>
>One more quick question for you all:
>
>    Is there any way to trivially print plain-text-information on a
>printer from inside an App?  Or do I need to stuff everything I wish to
>print into a text-object and send that object a print-message?
>


You could just use popen() to send it to lpr.


>    (It just seems like a lot of overhead...)
>

It's not a lot of overhead (maybe 20 lines (from creation to deletion)),  
and your user will get a Print and Page Layout Panel that will

* Allow them to select a printer
* Allow them to select a page size
* Allow them to save the postscript
* Fax the text
* Preview before they print to find out how many pages
* Select certain pages to print
* Possibly choose other fonts to print the document in
* Select margins

So do you want to use popen() and write a UI to do all that, or do you want  
to use the Text object, and get it for free?


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