Macro

Summary

Binds a stream variable and prints its output.

Package

capi

Signature

with-output-to-printer ( stream &key printer
tab-spacing interactive jobname )
&body body => result

Arguments

stream

A variable.

printer

A printer or nil.

tab-spacing

An integer.

interactive

A boolean.

jobname

A string.

Values

result

The result of evaluating body .

Description

The macro with-output-to-printer binds the variable stream to a stream object, and prints everything is that is written to it in the code of body .

If interactive is t then print-dialog is called to select the printer to use. If interactive is nil then printer is used unless it is nil in which case the current-printer is used. The default value of interactive is t and the default value of printer is nil.

The values of jobname and tab-spacing are passed to print-text, which is used to actually do the printing. The default value of tab-spacing is 8 and the default value of jobname is "Text".

See also

current-printer
print-dialog
print-text
Printing from the CAPI—the Hardcopy API