[Laszlo-dev] proposed printing API

[Chris Lyman]

The more I think about it, the more I think creating a server side API
may be a good idea.  If we could define some type of protocol as a go
between, then it would be fairly easy to include an API client in the
various runtime executables.  It would be even easier if the generator
engine were accessible via some sort of RPC (I like SOAP 'cause I'm
simple :)

	At the moment I'm looking at:

http://opensourcesoft.net/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_
page&PAGE_id=10&MMN_position=9:9

	I don't know anything about the project or the authors (or even
how the thing works), but it appears to live under Tomcat.  I'll poke
around through the day and report back if I find anything interesting.

Best Regards,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org
[mailto:laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Allen
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:10 AM
To: OpenLaszlo platform development and bug reporting; 'OpenLaszlo
platform development and bug reporting'
Subject: RE: [Laszlo-dev] proposed printing API


This is an excellent suggestion and would be an awesome feature.  Any 
volunteers?


At 07:53 AM 1/26/2005, Chris Lyman wrote:
>Hi Sarah (and all),
>
>         Something that may be useful is the ability to output PDFs as
>well as printer output.  The reason I bring this up is because once we
>have the information formatted for printing, it's also formatted for
>PDFs.  We probably couldn't do it in the Flash Player, but I think it'd
>be worth a call back to the LPS.
>
>         Something else is when LPS moves to other runtimes, it'd be
nice
>to emulate Flash Paper.
>
>         I know at this point this would be pie in the sky, but it
might
>be useful to create the <printview> class with the creation of PDFs in
>mind.
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org
>[mailto:laszlo-dev-bounces at openlaszlo.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Allen
>Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:46 AM
>To: laszlo-dev at openlaszlo.org
>Subject: [Laszlo-dev] proposed printing API
>
>
>I've written up a proposal for adding printing to LPS:
>http://www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Printing
>
>Many thanks for Adam and Tucker for their help researching the Flash
>capabilities.
>
>Your comments, questions and suggestions much appreciated.
>
>Sarah
>
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