Hi Guys,

So all the suppressing of the Wx::PrintDialog box was about trying to print my Wx::RichText doc in background to a PDF file. (See Wx::Perl, background printing, PDF document creation and PDF file names.) I never got it working despite spending a week on it.

The options I have explored are:

  1. Print in background to PDF printer, but the printer does not work without the dialogue box.
  2. wxRichTextCtrl::SaveFile with wxRICHTEXT_TYPE_PDF, but apparently wxRICHTEXT_TYPE_PDF is not yet implemented.
  3. External packages like Wx::PdfDocument, but a) The wrapping is very old, for an out-of-date version, and would need to be updated and b) it would require me to implement a per-page PrinterDC style of printing.

At the moment the last seems the most attractive, but are there any others I haven't considered?

The XML, I understand is a custom XML, so although there are plenty of XML2PDF style packages around, I guess they won't work for the Wx brand of XML, is that right?

Any ideas? Maybe I'm missing something very obvious.

Regards

Steve

In reply to How to save Wx::XML docs as PDF. by Steve_BZ

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