Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog - a simple, pure Perl dialog for printing PostScript data in GTK+ applications.
use Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog; my $dialog = Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog->new; # a new dialog $dialog->set_data($postscript_data); # supply some postscript data $dialog->set_filename($postscript_file); # get postscript from a file $dialog->run; # show the dialog to the user
This module implements a dialog widget that can be used to print PostScript data. It is intended to be a lightweight and pure-perl alternative to the Gnome2::Print libraries.
This module uses a simple system of operating-system specific backends that are used to do the job of printing. Currently, only a generic Linux/Unix backend (implemented using Net::CUPS) is available, more will be added in the future.
The dialog itself is intended to comply with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). It allows the user to print to any printer installed on the system, or to an external command such as lpr, or to print a PostScript or PDF file.
lpr
This module is UNSTABLE, the behaviour and API of its components may change in the future.
Glib::Object +----Gtk2::Object +----Gtk2::Widget +----Gtk2::Container +----Gtk2::Bin +----Gtk2::Window +----Gtk2::Dialog +----Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog
my $dialog = Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog->new;
Returns an instance of Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog. These dialogs are subclasse of Gtk2::Dialog so all corresponding methods, signals and properties from that class are also available.
Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog
Gtk2::Dialog
The dialog will handle user actions itself so you will probably not need to connect to any signals.
$dialog->set_data($data);
This tells the dialog to use the PostScript data in $data. This might be PostScript data you create yourself, or from another application. This data can subsequently retrieved using get_data().
$data
get_data()
$dialog->set_filename($file);
This tells the dialog to use the PostScript data in $file. The file name can be subsequently retrieved using get_filename(). The contents of the file are read into memory when set_filename() is called, so any subequent calls to get_data() will return the contents of $file.
$file
get_filename()
set_filename()
If the Locale::gettext module is available on the system, and your application uses it, all the strings used in the dialog will be automagically translated, as long as these default values are translated in your .mo files.
Locale::gettext
Backends are Perl modules with names of the form
C<Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog::$^O>
See perlvar for details of the $^O variable. The module must have the following methods:
$^O
$backend = Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog::$^O->new
The constructor.
$backend->get_printers
Returns an array of printer names.
$backend->print_file($printer, $file)
Prints the contents of $file to the printer named $file
$backend->get_default_print_command
Returns the path to the default print command, if applicable (eg 'lpr')
$backend->can_print_pdf
Returns a true value if PDF printing is supported, undef otherwise.
undef
$backend->print_to_pdf($data, $file)
Prints the PostScript data in $data to the PDF file named $file.
Consult Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog::Unix for an example. Please note that this interface may change in the future.
ps2pdf
Gnome2::Print provides Perl bindings to the "offical" GNOME printing library. If you want a simple way to generate PostScript data, consider PostScript::Simple.
Gavin Brown (gavin dot brown at uk dot com)
(c) 2005 Gavin Brown. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Gtk2::Ex::PrintDialog
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.