[Mono-list] Portable way to print

[Scott Willeke]

IMHO, the suggestions here are quite complicated for basic printing 
needs. Additionally, some of the suggestions are really not printing 
solutions at all, but seem to just produce printable documents such as PDF.

Does System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument not work in mono? Why 
couldn't one create code like that mentioned in the MSDN docs for 
PrintDocument below?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemdrawingprintingprintdocumentclasstopic.asp

Thanks,

-scott

Sergio Duran wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm looking for a way to send some text to a printer, I'm need
>portability since my program will be running on windows and linux, I
>now I cannot use FileStream("LPT1") on windows, and I've been reading
>about some ways using P/Invoke kernel32.dll  and CreateFile(), what's
>the best solution for this? (I dont need spoolers, I'll be sending the
>text to the printer directly)
>
>I'm currently coding in Visual Studio 2003, and the code compiles and
>runs perfectly under mono.
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