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31 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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// Licence: wxWindows licence
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/**
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@page overview_unixprinting Printing Under Unix (GTK+)
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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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Since GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself and
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beginning with wxWidgets 2.9, GTK+ printing is used by default (i.e. unless
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<tt>--without-gtkprint</tt> was explicitly used when configuring the library).
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Support for GTK+ print is detected dynamically, i.e. during the run-time: if it
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is found, printing will be done through GTK+, otherwise the application will
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fall back to the old PostScript printing code. This allows the applications
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built with wxWidgets to still work on the very old systems using GTK+ earlier
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than 2.10.
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*/
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