[poppler] Printing with poppler on Windows

[Dominic Lachowicz]

Hi Peter,

Both the Glib and Qt backends can render directly to GDI.

If you know a little C code, it shouldn't be too hard to:

1) Get the Windows default printer's HDC. See UT_GetDefaultPrinterDC()
in AbiWord's code [1] for how to do that.
2) Create a cairo printing surface for it [2]
3) Load a PopplerDocument using poppler_document_new_from_file()
4) For each PopplerPage in the document, poppler_page_render_for_printing()

Good luck,
Dom

1: http://www.abisource.com/viewvc/abiword/trunk/src/af/util/win/ut_Win32OS.cpp?revision=21481&view=markup
2: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/tree/src/cairo-win32.h
cairo_win32_printing_surface_create()

On Feb 6, 2008 9:17 AM, Peter Åstrand <astrand at cendio.se> wrote:
>
> I'd like to do the equivalent of "pdftops foo.pdf | lpr" in Windows. That
> is, print foo.pdf on the default printer. I like poppler and would love to
> use it for this task, if possible. But as I understand it, no such tool is
> yet included? Perhaps poppler doesn't even support rendering to GDI at the
> moment?
>
> I've found http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/, and it
> can be invoked with "-print-to-default". However:
>
> * It does not use the normal poppler library, but rather a fork (and in
> newer versions "mupdf" instead).
>
> * It's a GUI application. I'd like a command line one.
>
> * Lots of code. I'd like something small and simple.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
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