Printing in Kate

[Will Senn]

Hi All,

I have been using Kate for a very long time and I really like it for 
editing tasks. The one thing it doesn't (didn't) do is print reasonably. 
By reasonably, I mean, in a different font, with correct line spacing, 
without highlighting, etc... in other words, so that it looks good on a 
laser monochrome printer. That has changed somewhere along the line and 
now it is much better - you can set a different font for printing, yay! 
However, it seems to have a few issues. I'd like to run them by y'all 
and see if there are settings or something that can address the issues:

1. When you select a duplex setting (print on long edge), the setting 
doesn't persist across restarts of KDE. My workaround, which I don't 
like, but which works, is to default my printer to duplex.

2. The inter line spacing is way to big on the printed file (looks like 
it's nearly a full line-height between printed lines. Yuck. Compared 
with Xed, or BBedit on Mac, or Notepad++ on Windows, the linespacing is 
awful. A file printed with one of these is 4 pages, but becomes 6 with 
the extra space. I saw a setting for line spacing in the editor, but 
that messes with the editing experience, and it's an upper bound anyway. 
What would be ideal is if the app used single line spacing for printing.

3. Syntax highlighting and any selections or bracket matches (if cursor 
is sitting on a bracket) get sent to the printer. It'd be swell if there 
was a way to suppress this behavior with a setting.

Any solutions, workarounds, etc. appreciated.

Thanks,

Will