Re: Text to postscript

Hi

You could use fpdf to convert text to pdf as per:

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import fpdf

text = """The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from The
Boston Journal. In an article titled "Current Notes" in the
February 10, 1885, morning edition, the phrase is mentioned as a
good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set
by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it
contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog.'"[1] Dozens of other newspapers published the
phrase over the next few months, all using the version of the
sentence starting with "A" rather than "The".[2] The earliest
known use of the phrase in its modern form (starting with "The")
is from the 1888 book Illustrative Shorthand by Linda Bronson.[3]
The modern form (starting with "The") became more common despite
the fact that it is slightly longer than the original (starting
with "A")."""

pdf = fpdf.FPDF(orientation="P", unit="mm", format="A4")

pdf.set_font("courier", "", 10)

pdf.set_auto_page_break(True, margin=5)

pdf.add_page()

pdf.multi_cell(180, 5, txt=text)

pdf.output("test.pdf", "F")

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Regards

Paul Malherbe

On 18/06/2019 12:09, Vasilis Vlachoudis
wrote:

Thanks Michael,

not exactly what I was looking for.
I am investigating how difficult is to write my own ps exporter,
based on the Canvas postscript source code.

Vasilis

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Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:16
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Subject: Re: [Tkinter-discuss] Text to postscript

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:16:49 +0000
Vasilis Vlachoudis <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all,

Canvas has this nice method to convert it to postscript, which is
perfect for printing. Is there something similar for Text(), I could
not find anything internal but if there is something external to
convert to html, ps, pdf it would be nice.

maybe you could use tkimg to create a "screenshot" of the widget in
postscript format.
To enable tkimg's "window" handler once it's installed you just need to do
something like

root.tk.call('package', 'require', 'img::window')

early in your code.

IIRC by default tkimg's "window" handler will include only the visible
part of the widget, but here:

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Img

George Petasis posted a recipe that seems to be able to capture the whole
contents of a canvas widget. I don't know how well this actually works
though and if it can be done with a Text widget in the same fashion.

Best regards

Michael

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