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- // Name: unixprinting.h
- // Purpose: topic overview
- // Author: wxWidgets team
- // Licence: wxWindows licence
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- /**
- @page overview_unixprinting Printing Under Unix (GTK+)
- Printing under Unix has always been a cause of problems as Unix does not
- provide a standard way to display text and graphics on screen and print it to a
- printer using the same application programming interface - instead, displaying
- on screen is done via the X11 library while printing has to be done with using
- PostScript commands. This was particularly difficult to handle for the case of
- fonts with the result that only a selected number of application could offer
- WYSIWYG under Unix. Equally, wxWidgets offered its own printing implementation
- using PostScript which never really matched the screen display.
- Since GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself and
- beginning with wxWidgets 2.9, GTK+ printing is used by default (i.e. unless
- <tt>--without-gtkprint</tt> was explicitly used when configuring the library).
- Support for GTK+ print is detected dynamically, i.e. during the run-time: if it
- is found, printing will be done through GTK+, otherwise the application will
- fall back to the old PostScript printing code. This allows the applications
- built with wxWidgets to still work on the very old systems using GTK+ earlier
- than 2.10.
- */
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