Re: formatting GtkCList for printing -- please help

[Jim Parker <hopeye cfl rr com>]

G'Day !

I also have the need for this so let me know what you find out.

Many years ago I fiddled around with the formatting available in the
standard C library for the printf family.  I do know you could come up with
 a pretty ugly hack using printf formatting, if desperate.

As for elegant solutions, ....

cheers,
Jim Parker

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, randylhess netscape net wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:09:37 -0600
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> From: randylhess netscape net
> Sender: gtk-app-devel-list-admin gnome org
> Subject: formatting GtkCList for printing -- please help
>
> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but can't seem to find 
> a good answer anywhere.
>
> The situation -- Small Non-profit training organization, needs registrar 
> program and mailinglist database program.  Commercial registrar program 
> $20,000, plus dedicated expensive equipment.  I was the closest one to a 
> programmer they had working for them.  In Jan this year, I started 
> learning C and MySQL and started using glade in Feb.  Cannot find how to 
> properly format things for nice output on a printer.
>
> Already looked at -- Main books read are "Teach Yourself C for Linux 
> Programming in 21 Days", "MySQL", and "MySQL Building User Interfaces". 
>  Searched the web through several search engines, searched archives of 
> mailing lists, read header files of glib, gtk, read FAQs and tutorials 
> online.  Not much help.  Some with fprintf but no real formatting.  I 
> also searched sourceforge.  I tried looking at openoffice source, but it 
> is in C++ and I was having a hrad time finding where the real print 
> formatting is done.  I just discovered gnome-print and Pango. 
>  gnome-print appears to be unix/linux only.  Is pango what I need to 
> use?  Does someone have sample code I could modify for this project?
>
> I need to format a GtkCList to print on standard Avery mailing labels 
> (the most urgent need) and I need to format a GtkCList to print as a 
> transcript.  (Everything else that needs to be printed doesn't need any 
> particular formatting.)  This is why fixed width fields within a line 
> are needed.  Also, I need to select the font family, size, bold or not. 
>  I need to set the margins.  The code needs to be portable between 
> windows and linux as much as possible.  I have to have it running in 
> about a week from now, at least with the printing for mailing labels. 
>  If someone already has code for something like this, I would appreciate 
> very much having a copy to look at and tweak for this project.
>
> Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Randy Hess
>
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