The Perlprint Project

Planned Features
Use the open office API to print more complex documents on windows (MS Word, Excel type data)

News

May 28th 2004 : I've got 0.98 together with all the planned features coded, it just needs some testing before I release it (oh, and the docs need redoing too ).

I've rewritten the Win32 printing code so that the basic ASCII text printing routine uses Edgars Binan's Win32::Printer module and added OLE printing subs (accessible through print_command) to print via IE, Word and Excel.

February 16 2004 : I'm still here :) I've added some OLE functionality to the windows code for the next release, this adds support for printing through MS Word, Excel and Internet Explorer. I'm currently working on some xs code to add list_jobs functionality to the windows release, so there are some good things coming up.
October 11 2002: Version 0.97 released. I've changed the windows printing so it should work better with windows 2000/XP.
December 6 2001: Version 0.95 is now available. I've added a routine to allow users to select a specific print command to use. This is intended primarily to allow windows users to print Postscript easily by using Ghostscript.

Purpose

What this module can do

• print to a specific printer or the system defualt
  • This works on windows and linux. It should work on Unix, but this hasn't been tested yet.
• List available printers.
• inspect the print queue
• This doesn't work on windows

Availability

ppm set repository perlprint http://perlprint.sf.net/Packages/
ppm install Printer

Or with ActivePerl 5.8, rep add perlprint http://perlprint.sf.net/Packages/

Download

• Windows build
• Source code