Hi Dick, hi x2go-dev list,
Context: Dick Lindix contracted me to make PyHoca-GUI usable for his
company software. We are currently testing functionality heavily to
get it ready for roll-out in his company. I post this mail to the
x2go-dev list as there might be someone who has an opinion and/or idea
about the described problem.
I am currently not really happy with the X2goPrintActionPRINT
implementation of Python X2go on Windows (print incoming X2go print
job directly to a printer). Till now, I have used a win32api
ShellExecute call to print the incoming PDF document (that gets posted
to the client by x2goprint). The ShellExec API calls the standard app
for PDF (Acrobat Reader X on my system), but the Acrobat Reader X
(might be an issue of this version only) does not handle the printing
well: an empty Acrobat Reader window remains open after the print job
has been handed over to the GDI print spooler...
What I am currently implementing as first choice printing in Python
X2go is usage of gsprint.exe from gsview/Ghostgum. To use this
printing method the Ghostscript and the Ghostview application has to
be installed on the client. This seems to be the cleaner approach to
printing (that is: diverting the Acrobat Reader). However, this means
an extra app to be either side-installed next to PyHoca-GUI or to be
shipped with PyHoca-GUI itself (which would inflate the setup.exe
tremendously...).
I am currently still playing with gsprint to see if it really works
for PyHoca-GUI, I suppose it will. However, if gsprint is not
installed on the client there will always be a fallback to the
system's standard PDF app via win32api (that is Acrobat Reader in most
cases).
However, maybe someone on the list has another idea about PDF Windows
printing from a Python environment...
Greets + Thanks, Mike
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