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| 2cd3cc94 | 2 | // Name: unixprinting.h |
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3 | // Purpose: topic overview |
| 4 | // Author: wxWidgets team | |
| 5 | // RCS-ID: $Id$ | |
| 526954c5 | 6 | // Licence: wxWindows licence |
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7 | ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// |
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| 880efa2a | 9 | /** |
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11 | @page overview_unixprinting Printing Under Unix (GTK+) |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix does not | |
| 14 | provide a standard way to display text and graphics on screen and print it to a | |
| 15 | printer using the same application programming interface - instead, displaying | |
| 16 | on screen is done via the X11 library while printing has to be done with using | |
| 17 | PostScript commands. This was particularly difficult to handle for the case of | |
| 18 | fonts with the result that only a selected number of application could offer | |
| 19 | WYSIWYG under Unix. Equally, wxWidgets offered its own printing implementation | |
| 20 | using PostScript which never really matched the screen display. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | Starting with version 2.8.X, the GNOME project provides printing support | |
| 23 | through the libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui libraries by which especially the | |
| 24 | font problem is mostly solved. Beginning with version 2.5.4, the GTK+ port of | |
| 25 | wxWidgets can make use of these libraries if wxWidgets is configured | |
| 26 | accordingly and if the libraries are present. You need to configure wxWidgets | |
| 27 | with the <tt>configure --with-gnomeprint</tt> switch and your application will | |
| 28 | then search for the GNOME print libraries at runtime. If they are found, | |
| 29 | printing will be done through these, otherwise the application will fall back | |
| 30 | to the old PostScript printing code. Note that the application will not require | |
| 31 | the GNOME print libraries to be installed in order to run (there will be no | |
| 32 | dependency on these libraries). | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | In version GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself. | |
| 35 | Beginning with version wxWidgets 2.9.X, the GTK+ port of wxWidgets can make use | |
| 36 | of this feature if wxWidgets is configured accordingly and if the GTK+ version | |
| 37 | is = 2.10. You need to configure wxWidgets with the | |
| 38 | <tt>configure --with-gtkprint</tt> switch and your application will then search | |
| 39 | for the GTK+ print support at runtime. If it is found, printing will be done | |
| 40 | through GTK+, otherwise the application will fall back to GNOME printing | |
| 41 | support if it is available or, if it isn't, to the old PostScript printing | |
| 42 | code. Note that the application will not require a GTK+ version = 2.10 to be | |
| 43 | installed in order to run (there will be no dependency on this version). | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | */ | |
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