Re: printing GtkTextView contents

[Emanuel Schwarz <schwarz emanuel gmail com>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> Is your GtkTextView display actually in a layout and page format
> suitable for printing, including correct pagination?
>
> I would normally just get the text from the text buffer and then print
> that.  (If you want to see my classes for printing plain text, which
> will automatically format and paginate the text on a pango layout and
> then print the text using GtkPrintOperation objects, I can point you to
> them but they are written using C++, albeit using plain GTK+ without
> language wrappers.)
>
> Chris
>
>   
I need the formating information applied to the text too.
And since the TextView stores this all in a TextLayout
internaly for displaying, i thought i could use the
TextDisplays draw function(with which a TextView draws itself)
to draw the layout in a pango-layout or a cairo-context.

It seems like there is generally no good solution for retrieving
formating information out of a TextView.

Emanuel