# To subscribers of the xforms list from "James D. Stegeman" <stegeman@grc.nasa.gov> :
Steve,
If you could "cough" up the routines for printing I would greatly
appreciate it. And thanks for the tip on the Xlib calls. I don't speak
X very well (as you can probably tell).
Thanks alot,
Jim Stegeman
Steve Lamont wrote:
>
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
>
> > 1. Printing. ...
> > ... My question is then: What is the best way to
> > generate a file (postscript, hopefully) which can be saved or sent
> > directly to the printer? Is there a device context in Xforms that I've
> > missed which can do this? Or do I have to learn to speak postscript?
>
> fl_object_ps_dump() may be of use.
>
> I've also written some functions which will produce Postscript graphs
> from xyplot-like input data. There are a couple of things that might
> be needed to generalize them completely, but if you want them as a
> starting point, you're welcome to them. Say the word and I'll
> scrounge them up.
>
> > 2. Fonts. ...
> > ... What
> > we would like to do is have the fonts automatically be adjusted for the
> > given window/screen size. Is this possible using Xforms? Also, would
> > that technique follow over into window resizing? (We've got an
> > algorithm which sizes the fonts by a percentage based on screen size,
> > but we want to automate this for maintainence when we get new devices).
>
> You can get the screen size with some Xlib macro calls --
> WidthOfScreen() and HeightOfScreen() -- they willl cough up the
> resolution of the screen.
>
> This should give you a good start.
>
> spl
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