From c2331d9b50dffbd3f2c0caf06b514fd4c96b3b94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Roebling Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:28:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain various printing backends in GTK+ git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@48584 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775 --- docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex index 21498384ee..db064e4927 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tprint.tex @@ -218,7 +218,16 @@ 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 finally been -added to GTK+ itself. Support for this has yet to be written -for wxGTK (which requires drawing through Cairo). +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 {\it 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). -- 2.45.2