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48 lines
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// Name: unixprinting.h
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// Purpose: topic overview
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// Author: wxWidgets team
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// RCS-ID: $Id$
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// Licence: wxWindows licence
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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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/**
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@page overview_unixprinting Printing Under Unix (GTK+)
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@tableofcontents
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Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix does not
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provide a standard way to display text and graphics on screen and print it to a
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printer using the same application programming interface - instead, displaying
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on screen is done via the X11 library while printing has to be done with using
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PostScript commands. This was particularly difficult to handle for the case of
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fonts with the result that only a selected number of application could offer
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WYSIWYG under Unix. Equally, wxWidgets offered its own printing implementation
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using PostScript which never really matched the screen display.
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Starting with version 2.8.X, the GNOME project provides printing support
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through the libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui libraries by which especially the
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font problem is mostly solved. Beginning with version 2.5.4, the GTK+ port of
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wxWidgets can make use of these libraries if wxWidgets is configured
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accordingly and if the libraries are present. You need to configure wxWidgets
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with the <tt>configure --with-gnomeprint</tt> switch and your application will
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then search for the GNOME print libraries at runtime. If they are found,
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printing will be done through these, otherwise the application will fall back
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to the old PostScript printing code. Note that the application will not require
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the GNOME print libraries to be installed in order to run (there will be no
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dependency on these libraries).
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In version GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself.
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Beginning with version wxWidgets 2.9.X, the GTK+ port of wxWidgets can make use
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of this feature if wxWidgets is configured accordingly and if the GTK+ version
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is = 2.10. You need to configure wxWidgets with the
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<tt>configure --with-gtkprint</tt> switch and your application will then search
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for the GTK+ print support at runtime. If it is found, printing will be done
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through GTK+, otherwise the application will fall back to GNOME printing
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support if it is available or, if it isn't, to the old PostScript printing
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code. Note that the application will not require a GTK+ version = 2.10 to be
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installed in order to run (there will be no dependency on this version).
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*/
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