[poppler] Printing with poppler on Windows

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres 06 Febrer 2008, Dominic Lachowicz va escriure:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Both the Glib and Qt backends can render directly to GDI.

Qt can't as far as i know.

Albert

>
> 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.cp
>p?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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