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Apr 13th, 2005

help needed to print from turbo pascal

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im still struggling to print an invoice that i have made in pascal to a usb port printer. any help please. i have tried using various inbuilt function but have had no luck probably because im coding it wrong. thanks in advance

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Apr 13th, 2005

Re: help needed to print from turbo pascal

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im still struggling to print an invoice that i have made in pascal to a usb port printer. any help please. i have tried using various inbuilt function but have had no luck probably because im coding it wrong. thanks in advance

This works in Delphi 7 / WinXP:

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program ptest;
 
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
 
uses
  SysUtils,
  Printers;
 
begin
  Printer.BeginDoc;
  Printer.Canvas.TextOut(200,200,'Hello, world!');
  printer.EndDoc;
end.
program ptest;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  SysUtils,
  Printers;

begin
  Printer.BeginDoc;
  Printer.Canvas.TextOut(200,200,'Hello, world!');
  printer.EndDoc;
end.

I don't have/use Turbo Pascal so can't say if it works there as well...

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Re: help needed to print from turbo pascal

tried it in turbo pascal but it doesnt work its says cannot find file 'sysutils.tpu' thanks for your help though!! any other ideas please.

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Re: help needed to print from turbo pascal

About the only thing I could suggest would be to write the information to a file the use the Exec function (in DOS unit -- at least it is in Free Pascal) to launch NotePad or WordPad and print from there.

If you're running Windows, you could also move up to Delphi. I've also had pretty good luck with Lazarus (although I haven't used it much). It's an open source IDE for Free Pascal similar to Delphi.

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