From 020e2e811ea02751c25de488b74d947115ca7b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Roebling Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:19:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the Unix printing overview in the general printing overview. git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@42593 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex index 20ad4d355b..89e78e195b 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ In most cases, the only class you will need to derive from is A brief description of each class's role and how they work together follows. +For the special case of printing under Unix, where various different +printing backends have to be offered, please have a look at the +\helpref{Unix printing overview}{unixprinting}. + \subsection{\helpref{wxPrintout}{wxprintout}} A document's printing ability is represented in an application by a derived @@ -187,7 +191,6 @@ queries these data structures to get information like the printed page range wxPageSetupDialogData). - \section{Printing under Unix (GTK+)}\label{unixprinting} Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix @@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ 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 -{\it configure --with-gnomeprint} switch and you application will +{\it 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. @@ -215,6 +218,6 @@ 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). -It is expected that the printing code that is currently implemented -in the GNOME print libraries will be moved into GTK+ later. - +In version GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has finally been +added to GTK+ itself. Support for this has yet to be written +for wxGTK (which requires drawing through Cairo). -- 2.45.2