Printing in Windows (and not only?) [was Re: Hi, there! :-)]

Some time ago, Andy Piper wrote... Ok, my model is as follows. First, you create a printer *device*, which represents a connection to a printer, CreateDC(). Next, you create a *frame* on that device, which represents a print job, StartDoc(). Frame positioning on device surface determines printing margins, among other factors. The redisplay for the device is not performed automatically, redisplay() just skips redisplay_device() for those devices. It is done rather by (redisplay-frame) only. A frame may contain one buffer, or we can create three horizontally layered windows, for header and footer. It is a lisp code job, I do not care from the C part. If modeline is not disabled from the lisp code, it will be printed. If minibuffer is enabled, it will be printed. Just layout everything from the lisp code, call (redisplay-frame), and one page goes out. You then move the starting position of the window one windowfull down, adjust page number if used, and call (redisplay-frame) again, to get to the next page, all this from lisp. Deleting the frame commits print job. Deleting the device disconnects from the printer. The architecture is not MS-Windows specific. Are there any X libraries which treat paper surface just like window surface, to allow for WYSIWYG printing? Comments? Big K