tktopdf

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What you need to run this package

How to install

How to use

What you need to run this package?

* Tcl >= 8.4 (it uses dictionaries)

* Tk

* nothing more, tktopdf is pure tcl package.

How to install

Tktopdf is very simple package, you can install it in sevreal ways.

1) By including source file

You can simply include source files by adding these lines to your source file:

source pdf.tcl
source transformations.tcl
source tktocanvas.tcl
source tktopdf.tcl

2) By setting up auto_path variable

If you have your application and tktopdf in the same directory, you only need put these lines into your application:

set dir [pwd]

set ::auto_path "$::auto_path $dir"

package require tktopdf

3) By putting tktopdf into your packages directory.

In this case you will only need to add one line to your application:

package require tktopdf

How to use

To export a window, you need to do three steps:

1) first, you must pinpoint a pdf file name, and it's parameters. To do this you must use

tktopdf::startFile command, it's arguments are:

2) Next you must pinpoint which window you want to export:

tktopdf::exportWindow $windowName

2a) If you want to export more than one window you may use

tktopdf::nextPage

command, and then you must again call tktopdf::exportWindow with window's name you want to export

3) In the end, you must simply call

tktopdf::endFile

command, to acomplish whole process.

And now, if everything goes fine, you should get pdf file with exported window(s).

Sample use:

tktopdf::startFile -file "__test.pdf" \
        -scalex 1.0 -scaley 1.0 \
        -marginleft 0.25i -margintop 0.25i -marginright 0.25i -marginbottom 0.25i \
        -pagex 0 -pagey 0 \
        -rotatexy 0 -pagewidth 800 -pageheight 600
tktopdf::exportWindow .
tktopdf::endFile