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tony_yum
06-07-2005, 08:58 AM
Hi, I have been writing a point of sales in a takeaway and was going to give away this program to all my friends who works in take away. Ideally I would like to install them all on Linux however some receipt printer does not have drivers in Linux and some ppl just wish to use an existing PC and bring it down to the takeaway to use. I wanted to find a library that is cross platform so that I can print in Linux and Windows. I had a look around and there seemed to be libraries to print to PS file, but not directly to the device. I am just wondering if there are any library that is easy and cross platform like Java and Qt (I'm developing my current application with Gtkmm).

Thanx in advance

Icarus
06-07-2005, 11:05 AM
Cups and foomatic don't have drivers for the printer? Do you have the printer make and model to help us with you?

tony_yum
06-07-2005, 11:23 AM
It's an epson thermal TM-H5000II Receipt printer.

cfaun5
06-12-2005, 11:15 AM
wxWidgets is a full blown cross platform GUI library that includes cross-platform printing support on UNIX, Macontosh, and Windows.

tony_yum
06-13-2005, 04:05 PM
Thanx. It's just that it would be nice to include just a small library for printing. I already have a GUI library (GTK) and didn't want to include a full blown wxWidgets otherwise I could use Qt.