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2009-01-10
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2009-01-11
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2009-01-11
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I really like this lightweight approach, since I'm running standard maemo os2008 (not debian, not booting off mmc). I set up cups on my little nslu2 NAS (backup server mainly, "unslung").
Is there some kind of standardized file selection gui we could easily build off of? It would also be cool to add capability for a few more print options. These would be simple to add to your xterm-based script, though. Mostly file selection is a pain. Maybe calling from an existing file browser would be easiest.
BTW, here's a bookmarklet to convert the current web page to pdf for printing with lpr (still takes an extra couple of clicks to save the pdf):
javascript:void(location.href='http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/?url='+escape(location.href))
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2009-01-11
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Did my python script work for somebody? Is there demand to continue my work on it?
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2009-01-11
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Also, are you saying that "lpr" (which is some sort of Unix printing function?) provides a way to print a pdf from the Tablet? (For me, who hasn't figured out how to print from the Tablet, the bookmarklet is useful because it gives me a way to email myself a pdf of a webpage, which I would then print from a computer.)
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2009-01-11
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I'd love for you to continue development if you want to (and if you don't, I will). Regardless, thanks for what you've done so far.
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2009-01-11
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Does anyone know if there's such an easy way as what we are doing here to talk to a printer shared by a Windows box? That could be a common case for a lot of people. I assume we might have to communicate via samba instead of ssh. Would it make it any easier if the Windows box was running an ssh server?
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2009-01-11
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2009-01-11
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To follow up on my own thought, here, if the Windows box runs an ssh server, we could transfer a file and then launch an individual application that knows how to print the file in the background.