Quote: There are other ways to handle printing that might be a little more general.

I am most open to any other options to meet this requirement of printing a page to a Windows network printer in landscape orientation. I have tried to explore several options today such is working from the DOS command line. But I have not found anything that quite gets me to the finish line.

I am not sure your PDF or related suggestions would work, but if I am mistaken please enlighten me. There is no human interaction with the process once it is up and running. The application watches a directory during the quite night time hours. When if finds files are loaded there, it starts extensive processing of them resulting in many many database transactions and several text files.

One of these text files is sent to a printer where, the following morning, somebody grabs the resulting pages from the output tray, stuffs them into envelopes and mails them all over the State of California.

If anybody can suggest alternatives to the Win32::Printer{::Direct} option, I am all eyes.

Thank You
Ian

In reply to Re^2: Print a text file to a Windows network printer in a landscape orientation. by iskinner
in thread Print a text file to a Windows network printer in a landscape orientation. by iskinner

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