I’m tryin to script an annoying task that involves fetching, handling and printing loads of scanned docs – jpeg or pdf. I don’t succeed in accessing the printer from python or from windows shell (which I could script with python subproccess module). I succeeded in printing a text file from the command line with lpr command, but not jpg or pdf.
be glad for any clues about that, including a more extensive win shell reference for printing to printer, a suitable python library I missed in my google search stackoverflow search etc (just one unanswered question)
Well, after a little research I found some links that might help you:
1) To print images using Python Shell, this link below has some code using PIL that will, hopefully, do what you want:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html
2) To print PDF files, this link may have what you need:
http://www.darkcoding.net/software/printing-word-and-pdf-files-from-python/
I never did any of those things, but with a quick look, I could find this links and they seem to make very much sense. Hope it helps 🙂