I believe I am nearing the end of month long porting of a rather extensive, 1500 line, 15 year old Perl application that used to run on one of our old Solaris Unix boxes to running on our new Windows 2003 box.

I believe the last obstacle to over come is to print a text file to a network printer in a landscape orientation.

After much searching I have found the Win32::Printer and Win32::Printer::Direct modules. But I'm not sure how to make use of them to achieve my goal.

Creating an instance of Win32::Printer, I can supposedly tell it to print in landscape.

use Win32::Printer;
$foo = new Win32::Printer( orientation => LANDSCAPE );

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With Win32::Printer::Direct, I can easily print the text file.

use Win32::Printer::Direct;
Printfile('\\\\hardcoyp\\ApDev','test.txt');

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How the halibut can I combine these features? Assuredly there has got to be a way, but what it is I can not fathom.

Win32::Printer
Win32::Printer::Direct

My experience with Perl is a bit stale dating from the late 90's. And then I was just a novice making simple modifications to canned CGI scripts that sent e-mails from form submits. I do not think I understand modules well enough to know how to get the more specific 'Direct' module to use features of the more general 'Printer'? I don't even understand enough to know if that is a sensible question to ask.

TIA
Ian

In reply to Print a text file to a Windows network printer in a landscape orientation. by iskinner

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