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54 lines
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// Name: unixprinting
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// Purpose: topic overview
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// Author: wxWidgets team
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// RCS-ID: $Id$
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// Licence: wxWindows license
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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/*!
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@page overview_unixprinting Printing under Unix (GTK+)
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Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix
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does not provide a standard way to display text and graphics
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on screen and print it to a printer using the same application
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programming interface - instead, displaying on screen is done
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via the X11 library while printing has to be done with using
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PostScript commands. This was particularly difficult to handle
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for the case of fonts with the result that only a selected
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number of application could offer WYSIWYG under Unix. Equally,
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wxWidgets offered its own printing implementation using PostScript
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which never really matched the screen display.
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Starting with version 2.8.X, the GNOME project provides printing
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support through the libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui libraries
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by which especially the font problem is mostly solved. Beginning
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with version 2.5.4, the GTK+ port of wxWidgets can make use of
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these libraries if wxWidgets is configured accordingly and if the
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libraries are present. You need to configure wxWidgets with the
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@e configure --with-gnomeprint switch and your application will
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then search for the GNOME print libraries at runtime. If they
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are found, printing will be done through these, otherwise the
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application will fall back to the old PostScript printing code.
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Note that the application will not require the GNOME print libraries
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to be installed in order to run (there will be no dependency on
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these libraries).
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In version GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+
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itself. Beginning with version wxWidgets 2.9.X, the GTK+ port of
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wxWidgets can make use of this feature
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if wxWidgets is configured accordingly and if the GTK+ version is = 2.10.
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You need to configure wxWidgets with the @e configure --with-gtkprint
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switch and your application will then search for the GTK+ print support
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at runtime. If it is found, printing will be done through GTK+, otherwise the
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application will fall back to GNOME printing support if it is available or,
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if it isn't, to the old PostScript printing code.
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Note that the application will not require a GTK+ version = 2.10
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to be installed in order to run (there will be no dependency on
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this version).
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*/
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