Re: Gnome2::Print

[Emmanuele Bassi <bassi-e libero it>]

* Cornel Ghiban <green neomedia ro>:

> I didn't find any info(API docs) about printing in Gnome. 

They are going to be added for the next release.

> I tried the small demo in the manual but it didn't happend anything till I added
> $job->print;

The code dsiplayed inside the manual is just a "snapshot" of some
plausible code: it should not be considered somewhat "usable", apart
from gaining some clue about how to access some methods/data.

That is why there's the "examples/" directory, which contains a pair of
examples (weird, uh? :-)); the first one (test-print.pl) is pretty much
a simple printing application, that shows ho to call the print dialog,
the preview dialog, and how to operate with the concepts of jobs and
contexts.  The second example (basic-font.pl) shows how to use fonts.

I'm planning to port from C to perl the examples that can be found
inside the libraries tarball, but most of those are so simple that are
of no use when building some complex application.

A source of working code could be the "GtkSourceView" project.
GtkSourceView uses libgnomeprint to generate print contexts and print
jobs of the displayed code; it's useful especially in order to know how
to break lines from a textview in order to respect the margin of the
page, instead of the widget's one.  Unfortunately, GtkSourceView is
written in C.

> A link from the Gnome documentation site is wellcome.

I find the lack of documentation disturbing.  Even the usual API is
missing.  You should file a bugreport in GNOME BTS for that.

Regards,
 Emmanuele.

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