Re: [Gnumed-devel] write documents

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2011, 02:50:27 schrieb Rogerio Luz Coelho:
> I've been using Evince on Windows and it is a good alternativo do Adobe.
> 

As a reader it might be an alternative. But it cannot print from the command 
line.

Sebastian

> Rogerio
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/4/19 Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden>
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > > > > 2. The gnumed has generated pdf document and is saved in temporary
> > > > > directory.
> > > > 
> > > > OK, good. I assume that PDF *does* contain the medication
> > > > list you expected ?
> > > 
> > > That means generating the document works.
> > 
> > No, it doesn't mean that. It means that *some sort of PDF*
> > was generated, not necessarily an exactly correct one.
> > 
> > > Now we need to handle that document.
> > 
> > The problem is rather in how to determine whether the PDF is
> > actually usable despite the fact the Windows is unable to
> > provide us with a reliable exit code from the pdflatex run.
> > 
> > I am ready to "just accept" what you assumed above as well -
> > namely that the PDF is just fine if it exists after the
> > pdflatex run - but I want vbanait to confirm that at least
> > by one-time visual inspection.
> > 
> > Then I'm prepared to simply ignore Windows' follies and take
> > a bet and go on assuming the PDF is fine.
> > 
> > > handling means printing, showing etc.
> > > 
> > > For Windows there is no such thing as gtklp which means no standard way
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > > bring up a print dialog.
> > > 
> > > A few weeks back I did some research on that and found that basic
> > > functionality can be achieved by some sort of batch file.
> > > 
> > > This means in most cases one needs to install Adobe reader since this
> > > is
> > 
> > used
> > 
> > > to handle the printing part.
> > 
> > That's documented in the gm-print_doc script file. Take
> > those hints and create a gm-print_doc.bat which GNUmed
> > automatically uses if it's in the path.
> > 
> > > The other option would be to write a program in python (e.g. python QT)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > > make this a standalone exe binary which can be called to handle the
> > 
> > printing
> > 
> > > stuff.
> > 
> > There's always "PrintFile" for Windows.
> > 
> > > If anyone could do some research on how a small programm can be written
> > 
> > in QT
> > 
> > > (Nokia) that could handle printing on Windows it would be very helpful.
> > > 
> > > Until this has been written I could work on a batch file that would
> > > open
> > 
> > the
> > 
> > > generated pdf in Adobe reader.
> > 
> > See external-tools/gm-print_doc
> > 
> > Karsten
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