Re: Re[2]: [PHP] printing

The way that I do it on Linux is to generate TeX output, invoke TeX using system(), and then just lpr the output to the printer. The current production system that I am using actually uses a perl script invoked from a php script, really ugly, but I had the perl script from another project. Here is a PHP example: $tex_file = "/tmp/file.tex"; $dvi_file = "/tmp/file.dvi"; $fp = fopen ($tex,"w"); fputs ($fp, "This is a short story.\n"); fputs ($fp, "\\end\n"); fclose($fp); system ("tex --output-directory /tmp $tex_file >> $log_file"); system ("dvips -P el4050 $dvi_file"); You have to understand TeX/LaTeX. The good news is that if you use TeX you will end up with output that the fools that use Crystal Reports will drool over. Bill --On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:47 PM +0100 Fernando Avila <fano@inter-k.com.ar> wrote:

Hello Matthew, Friday, August 10, 2001, 8:55:24 PM, you wrote: ML> If you run windows, then see: ML> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php ML> -----Original Message----- ML> From: Fernando Avila [mailto:fano@inter-k.com.ar] ML> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:18 AM ML> To: php-general@lists.php.net ML> Subject: [PHP] printing ML> Hello php-general, ML> I was thinking about my problem about printing reports ML> CAn i do something like connecting a printer to the server where php ML> and mysql runs.. And when someone send the comand to print the quote ML> get printed in the server's printer? ML> if it's posible maybe i will be albe to print a good quote And if i run linux? because I have a redhat 6.2 server Thanks -- Best regards,

 Fernando                            mailto:fano@inter-k.com.ar

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