Hi,

you asked the same question on the perl/Tk mailing list.
If you are asking about printing from a Tk app, here is a very simple way to do that in wysiwyg quality:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = tkinit;
my $c  = $mw->Canvas()->pack;
$c->createText(20,20,
               -text   => "some text to test\nand one more line",
               -font   => ['Helvetica'],
               -anchor => 'w',
           );
$mw->Button(-text    => 'print',
            -command => sub{print_canvas( $c )},
        )->pack;
MainLoop;

sub print_canvas{
    my $c = shift;
    # draw a mark to enforce a minimum printing area
    $c->createLine qw/15c 20c 15.1c 20c
                      -fill white/;
    #calculate printing area, add margin to width and height
    my @bbox = $c->bbox('all');

    my $width  = $bbox[2] - $bbox[0] + 50;
    my $height = $bbox[3] - $bbox[1] + 90;
    my $ps = $c->postscript( -height     => $height,
                             -width      => $width,
                             -x          => '-1c',
                             -y          => '-1c',
                        );
    my $gs_cmd = 'gswin32c.exe';
    my $gs_options = '-sDEVICE=mswinpr2 -dEPSFitPage';
    open my $writeme, "|-","$gs_cmd $gs_options -"
    or die "Can't open pipe to gs: $!";
    print  $writeme  $ps  or die " Error in printing to pipe: $!";
    close $writeme or die " Error in closing pipe: $!";;
}

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This requires Ghostscript to be installed on your system and the gswin32c.exe to be in your path.

Other useful options are  '-sDEVICE=pdfwrite' '-sOutputFile="file"' '-sPAPERSIZE=aPapersize'

Cheers, Chris

In reply to Re: Print to Windows Printer by lamprecht
in thread Print to Windows Printer by keithvb

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