The guy I'm somewhat regularly working for on web development projects, now wants something different...

He wants and email > print desktop application.

Getting emails, reading it, parsing attachments and other things related to it (filtering for instance) isn't going to be a problem.

Things I'm worried about :

• Desktop app in Perl - how to distribute it? Probably PAR or simply including perl.exe and perlxxx.dll with needed modules in archive. I'm less worried how to write GUI code as I had experience with some Java/Swing which follows the same logic.
  
  
• How to print any file-type? The app he referenced to seems to open application that is set as default for that file-type, calls print, and then close the app. Anyone knows how to do that?
  
  Of course exec 'temp_name.pdf'; will open Acrobat reader, exec 'temp_name.html'; will open IE, Opera or whatever. But how to call print command?
  
  Somewhere I read about using some of Win32::* modules for testing GUI apps - maybe that's the way ?
  
  Other idea that comes to my mind is to somehow send the file to the printer (as it is network printer) directly - but ...
  
  ** will try to get that app he referenced to check how it's working **


Edit : Sorry for mixup. This will be desktop application, no web part in it. I meant how to install on any Windows box (as they ussualy dont come with Perl)...

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