Often abbreviated [WIBNI]...
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***[Tk] had the built-in ability to generate [PDF] from the [text] widget?***

It would more-or-less negate the need for a printing solution, as our apps could generate PDF and spawn an external program to print. Almost equally compelling would be to be able to take a text widget and convert it to valid [HTML]+[CSS], but I like the idea of a single file PDF more.

''[escargo] 09 Jan 2008'' - While being able to generate [PDF] is useful,
being "able to take a text widget and convert it to valid [HTML]+[CSS],"
would greatly simplify the creation of web page (and potentially web site)
editors.

[EKB]: There appears to be a nice start at [Text2PDF]. It only does the text, not the formatting, but it seems like a very good place to start.

[Martyn Smith]: This is exactly the approach I used in my editor [http://msedit.googlepages.com/home] using the [pdf4tcl] library, the code can be viewed/edited from within MSEdit by typing 'pedit PrintFile' and 'pedit PDFNewPage' in the internal tcl console (F12), I think the only changes I made to [pdf4tcl] were to add the A4R and A3R paper sizes. The printing prints either the whole file or the current selection to a file then starts up the default PDF viewer on windows or the chosen viewer on Linux.

[EKB] Nice! Nice web site, too. Very straightforward, attractive, and clear layout. Unfortunately, the PDF generation feature didn't work for me (under Windows). It opened a command window, but then it sat there.
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