RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32::Print ?

[Piske, H. <Har...@bo...>]

|   I thought of a solution whereby you could preformat your text &
|   images, and than output it to the printer spool.

The only thing I can contribute to this is my rather unpleasant experience
with printing graphical data in windows (GDI, not any specific language). I
tried to open a bitmap (paper size in 300 dpi, 1 bps = 1 lousy MB), write
and draw into it and then just give it to the printer driver. It turned out
that most printer drivers just refuse to handle it. The ugly workaround was
to convert the bitmap to PCL code and copy that file to the printer port,
bypassing the driver. Which, of course, restricts you to PCL printers. I
hated it.

It seems that other programs slice the bitmap and pass several stripes to
the printer driver, but I tried this and it still mangled up the picture.
Having to keep a deadline, I just took the creepy hack with the PCL and
never wanted to think about it again. I might ad that it was way back,
Win3.1 and later Win95.

My point is, it might not be as easy as you would like it to be.

Have fun,
Harald