[Beaver-devel] Printing progress..

[Double 12]

Hi,

I managed to print a test page with GtkPrintOperation, and I commited it 
to the CVS. GtkPrintOperation emits two important signals: begin-print 
and draw-page. When a user has chosen all properties in the Print dialog 
and clicks the Print button, the begin-print signal is emitted. You have 
to connect a function to that signal, in which you split the document 
into seperate pages and tell GTK how many pages you are going to print. 
For every page, the draw-page signal is emitted and the draw_page 
function gets called.
Now I just set the number of pages to 1, and just printed a test message 
in draw_page.
If we want to use this for serious printing, we have to split the 
document into pages.

Another thing is that the Pango layout text is printed by first drawing 
the outline of the characters and then filling them. There's not a lot 
wrong with that, but it can leave the paper with a lot of ink if you set 
a too thick outline, so there must be a better way.

By the way, is the original tools.c file still in use? I thought you 
moved everything to the plugin. There are still some utility functions 
in the original tools.c (like get_text to get the text out of a buffer) 
that are still used. Do those functions have to be moved to other source 
files, or to the API? Or will we just leave them there?

Double 12