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Remove support for Gnome printing from wxGTK.

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It was replaced by GTK+ printing several years ago and is almost never used
any longer anyhow, so any problems in this code (and there are some) would
never be found and fixed.

Also update the message catalogs to avoid having the strings not used any
more, as they were only used in Gnome printing code.

Closes #15517.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@74912 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
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Vadim Zeitlin
2013-10-01 17:09:02 +00:00
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@@ -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 <tt>configure --with-gnomeprint</tt> 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
<tt>configure --with-gtkprint</tt> 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
<tt>--without-gtkprint</tt> 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.
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