#1 Printing Postscript in wxWidgets

[Anonymous]

I am using wxGhostscript in a wxWidgets app to view
Postscript files, and it's great. What I want to do is to
print the Postscript file, either to a Postscript printer or
non-Postscript printer. I believe there are two avenues of
approach.

1. Simply send the Postscript file to the (Postscript)
printer. I am having trouble doing this because I don't
know how to send the Postscript stream to the printer
given the printing architecture in wxWidgets.

2. Draw the Postscript image to a dc that is given to me
by the Printing architecture. I am also having trouble
doing this and hope that somebody has already done it.

The third approach would be to copy the screen window
with the Postscript image to the dc given to me by the
printing architecture, but I don't want to do this as it
would not give me the best resolution as determined by
the printer's capabilities.

I can provide more details, but I wanted to first see if
anyone has done it with success, or if you could give
me some general direction.

[Nigel Hathaway]

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Use Ghostscript itself to print the files. See the Ghostscript
document. wxGhostscript allows you to feed arbitrary
commands to Ghostscript. Ghostscript has output devices
which are printers, e.g. the Windows print system. On Unix
platforms you can usually feed the Postscript directly to the
print queue anyway - most Unix (or Linux) systems use
Ghostscript to drive non-Postscript printers anyway.

Hope this helps.