Okay, I now understand the distinction between printing and drawing. Using the LCL was only necessary to use it's Postscriptcanvas as that is what I'm familiar with. But as this program needs to be able to run without X, I will either puzzle out the FCL's fpcanvas, or just write the postscript myself.
Thanks, Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> Reply-to: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Postscriptcanvas Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:59:19 +0100 On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, David Copeland <david.copel...@jsidata.ca> wrote: > I had not thought that approach (a non-visual lcl program) to be > possible, but I will try it. Would I use the Nogui widgetset? No, it doesn't implement printing. > Would such a program run on a host where X was not installed? No > I am targeting only Linux. I save the output to a file (SaveToFile). The user > prints the > file if needed. Well, if you are not printing in your software then you are not doing printing, only drawing. So the answer to my original questions should have been "Drawing". So with your requirements using the LCL is probably not necessary. If you are targeting only linux then you can probably use a command line execution to print the file. -- David Copeland JSI Data Systems Limited 613-727-9353. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal