Printing hack

[epatel]

Hi Rasmus,

Here is a cleaned up version of the printing hack I made. I have tried to clean up according to your suggestions, the feeding of the file content by stdin I skipped as that will need better knowledge of original content type and stating that to enscript through the command line parameters.

Cheers,
Edward

[rsms]

After trying this out I realized what actually happened — no "really print? ok, how..." dialog and an implicit but visible postscript-to-pdf conversion. I think this might better off as a js plugin rather than to replace the OS standard printing. What should be done is rather to setup the to-be-printed view with a bright color scheme and suiting font size, hooking into the standard printing system.

[epatel]

Sure, and as I have been writing, this is a 10 line hack that will give "some" usable output while we wait for the real implementation.

Yes, it will format the sources and output it as postscript that is shown in Preview which then can be printed. Personally I like enscript for printing and often use that than many editors own print feature. But a native implementation is certainly better than this hack :) As for js plugins I'm not the guy to help you there. Need to learn some js first :)

Cheer!
Edward