If you're in need of a GUI, then wxPython might be your cross-platform printing solution.
Regards, Philippe David Isaac wrote: >> Alan Isaac wrote: >> > What is the current best practice for cross platform printing of > PostScript >> > files from Python? > > "Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Well since printing postscript files on most Unix systems (probably >> including Mac OSX although I don't really know this for sure) is >> trivially easy, why not investigate using cygwin on Windows and >> launching an "lpr" task from your python script that prints the given >> postscript file. Implementation time on Unix: 0 minutes, 0 seconds. >> Implementation time on Windows; the time it takes make a cygwin batch >> file that prints using ghostscript. > > I meant something that application users on different platforms can print > with, not something > that they could coerce a platform into supporting given enough energy > (e.g., via Cygwin). > The closest to an option so far seems to be to generate PDF and assume an > application is available to print it. Not beautiful. > > Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list