Re: Gtkmm Printing in Ubuntu 7.10

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:15 -0700, Garth's KidStuff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As covered in some earlier posts, Murry helped point me to the bug report on
> Ubuntu 7.10 that showed that gtk+ printing just didn't work there.

Specifically, there is a problem with the printing API when used from
gtkmm (not with GTK+ printing in general) and Ubuntu need to take the
upstream fix.

>   I've
> upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (beta), and Printing now works great for me (yay!).
> BUT I'd like to distribute this app to users who are still on Ubuntu 7.10.
> Is there a recommended way to solve this?  (Other than, of course, having
> the Ubuntu folks upgrade gtk+

gtkmm

>  so that it's just fixed).
> 
> BTW Using the Gtkmm::PrintOperation was an absolute pleasure once I upgraded
> to 8.04.  It's a nicely designed bunch of code *grin* .

You can always use the C API together with gtkmm, by using the gobj()
and Glib::wrap() functions.

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