X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/3f66f6a5b3583b02c34854556eb83e3a808524ce..HEAD:/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h index 0d11945992..151e57444c 100644 --- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h +++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h @@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ @page overview_unixprinting Printing Under Unix (GTK+) -@tableofcontents - Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix does not provide a standard way to display text and graphics on screen and print it to a printer using the same application programming interface - instead, displaying @@ -20,27 +18,13 @@ fonts with the result that only a selected number of application could offer WYSIWYG under Unix. Equally, wxWidgets offered its own printing implementation using PostScript which never really matched the screen display. -Starting with version 2.8.X, the GNOME project provides printing support -through the libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui libraries by which especially the -font problem is mostly solved. Beginning with version 2.5.4, the GTK+ port of -wxWidgets can make use of these libraries if wxWidgets is configured -accordingly and if the libraries are present. You need to configure wxWidgets -with the configure --with-gnomeprint switch and your application will -then search for the GNOME print libraries at runtime. If they are found, -printing will be done through these, otherwise the application will fall back -to the old PostScript printing code. Note that the application will not require -the GNOME print libraries to be installed in order to run (there will be no -dependency on these libraries). - -In version GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself. -Beginning with version wxWidgets 2.9.X, the GTK+ port of wxWidgets can make use -of this feature if wxWidgets is configured accordingly and if the GTK+ version -is = 2.10. You need to configure wxWidgets with the -configure --with-gtkprint switch and your application will then search -for the GTK+ print support at runtime. If it is found, printing will be done -through GTK+, otherwise the application will fall back to GNOME printing -support if it is available or, if it isn't, to the old PostScript printing -code. Note that the application will not require a GTK+ version = 2.10 to be -installed in order to run (there will be no dependency on this version). +Since GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself and +beginning with wxWidgets 2.9, GTK+ printing is used by default (i.e. unless +--without-gtkprint was explicitly used when configuring the library). +Support for GTK+ print is detected dynamically, i.e. during the run-time: if it +is found, printing will be done through GTK+, otherwise the application will +fall back to the old PostScript printing code. This allows the applications +built with wxWidgets to still work on the very old systems using GTK+ earlier +than 2.10. */