win32printing 0.1.3

Printing utils.

printing

Printing utils for Windows.

Install

pip install win32printing

Installed Utils

• win32printing.get_system_fonts
• win32printing.PrinterBase
• win32printing.PrinterContext
• win32printing.Printer

Printer APIs

• text(text, align="left", font_config=None)
• new_page()

Usage Example

from win32printing import Printer

font = {
    "height": 8,
}
with Printer(linegap=1) as printer:
    printer.text("title1", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title2", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title3", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title4", font_config=font)
    printer.new_page()
    printer.text("title5", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title6", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title7", font_config=font)
    printer.text("title8", font_config=font)

Printer init parameters

• printer_name: The printer name which will be used to print. None value means use system default's printer. Default to None.
• doc_name: The file name will be used. None value means "NoNameFile". Default to None.
• margin: The page margin. Default to (0, 0, 0, 0).
• linegap: Gap between two lines.
• default_font: Default font config used in print, will be override by .text(..., font_config).
• auto_page: Do auto page or not. Default to False means you shuold care about pagination by yourself.

font_config items

• height
• width
• escapement
• orientation
• weight
• italic
• underline
• strikeOut
• charSet
• outPrecision
• clipPrecision
• quality
• pitchAndFamily
• faceName

Note: See item detail at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf-wingdi-createfontw

Releases

v0.1.3 2020-06-21

• Add auto_page for Printer.
• Fix Printer(..., default_font) not used problem.
• Update doc, add new_page usage in example.

v0.1.2 2020-02-12

• Fix printer_name parameter not using problem. Thanks to Mark Butsch.

v0.1.1 2019-10-22

• Fix py_modules problem in setup.py.

v0.1.0 2019-10-22

• Allow text printing on Windows system.
• Support text alignment and font settings.
• Support linegap setting.