Re: [Gnumed-devel] Prescription printing in arbitrary countries and services.

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:39:32AM +1000, Horst Herb wrote:

> > This is in fact what Hilmar suggested we do in GNUmed and I do
> > think it is a sensible approach.
> 
> It is a very sensible approach. Only that I took the blunt shortcut for my 
> quick hack gnumed-mini and store the lot with every single prescription, 
> Wasteful for sure, but was quick and easy to do.
I understand.

> > Is LaTeX too slow ?
> 
> Not at all. But using wxPython's built in module reduces dependencies.
> It also makes it easier to "set up printers" from within gnumed.
> Don't think there is any measurable performance advantage.

I see. My question was misleading. We certainly can run
formatted files through LaTeX to generate PDF or PS and then
hand those to wxPython for actual printing. Which would give
us the best of both worlds.

Karsten
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