Printing Source Code from Padre

[OldArchitect]

Version .90 of Padre had a print function that did not work on Ubuntu without the use of a postscript printer (I do not have one of these and could not make it work at all). Version .94 has omitted any print function. Since this function was there before , but defective and now not there is is not an enhancement but rather a Task to revive it and make it work.

on Linux gedit does an admirable job of formatting code but lacks the ability to specify page breaks to allow for breaking up large files into reasonable chunks for reading and desk checking.

If the print function on version .90 worked with a non postscript printer then it would be a great start. The addition of Headers and footers and page breaks would help immensely. Please consider this for the next iteration of Padre (this is a Perl request but I'm sure it is applicable to all languages supported).

[bowtie]

uncommented file.print to re-enable printing r19183

[bowtie]

please test so we can close ticket

[bowtie]

this my be relevant

​http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/overview_unixprinting.html

[bowtie]

thanks to dod++ for info

There's no easy way. the configure options are hard-coded in debian/rules file
(which is a makefile that will run configure, make and make install).

wxwidget debian/rules is enormous [1], but there's no trace of a -with*print
option within this file.

Hope this helps

[1]
​http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=freewx/wx.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;hb=HEAD

I think this means you have to curry your own :)

[dod]

Hmm, another possibility is to log a bug in Debian BTS against wxwidget source package to ask the maintainer to add the relevant option in the debian/rules file.

HTH

[bowtie]

see also #702

[claudio]

The latest Ubuntu (12.10) and all the Debian releases (stable, testing, unstable) only have wx 2.8. So no 2.9 coming soon.