Printing in Kate

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2024-12-02 05:50, Waqar Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Simple solution is to not use Kate for printing. If I am being honest,
> the printing situation is more or less unmaintained and largely
> untested. For KF7 I will propose to drop printing support from
> KTextEditor simply because there is a lot of bugs that Qt doesn't want
> to fix or ignores and the whole things is just buggy and crappy. There
> are better things out there, use them. For e.g, export to html and use
> a browser like chrome to print things.

Hi,

I don't think we should drop printing as it is useful.

I tried to fix some bugs and I don't see any obvious faults in the last
test pdfs I did.

If the stuff mentioned below still happens with 24.08 that should just
be reported as bugs.

The stuff beside 1) could be Kate bugs. For the settings I am not sure.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Regards,
> Waqar
> 
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 9:15 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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