Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Committer: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:10:54 UTC Commit: 973623032716617defa4383232ab23dd03941d21 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/973623032716617defa4383232ab23dd03941d...

Log Message: ----------- doc: Re-add the section about print preview, updated for GTK3

Modified Paths: -------------- doc/geany.txt

Modified: doc/geany.txt 17 lines changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -3216,6 +3216,23 @@ same as the ones which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.

All of these settings can also be changed in the print dialog just before actual printing is done. +On Unix-like systems the provided print dialog offers a print preview. The +preview file is opened with a PDF viewer and by default GTK uses ``evince`` +for print preview. If you have not installed evince or just want to use +another PDF viewer, you can change the program to use in the file +``settings.ini`` (usually found in ``~/.config/gtk-3.0``, see the +`GTK documentation`_). For example, use:: + + [Settings] + gtk-print-preview-command = epdfview %f + +Of course, you can also use xpdf, kpdf or whatever as the print preview +command. That command should ideally delete the temporary file referenced by +``%f``. See the `GTK documentation for the setting`_ for more details. + +.. _GTK documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings.descrip... +.. _GTK documentation for the setting: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-pr... +

Geany also provides an alternative basic printing support using a custom print command. However, the printed document contains no syntax highlighting.

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