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[[!meta title="Documentation/Printing"]]
[[!meta author="James Bursa"]]
[[!meta date="2010-03-01T02:56:52Z"]]
[[!toc]] This document is supposed
to be a short guide of adding paged output to NetSurf. Currently the two
pieces of code using the print implementation are PDF export and GTK
printing.
printer.h
---------
The first thing the new paged output has to do is implementing the
printer interface located in printer.h. It consists of four elements:
- plotter. This are the plotters which will be used while redrawing
the content.
- print\_begin. This function is called right after the set up and
should manage all the remaining user-specific initialisation stuff.
- print\_next\_page. This function is called before the actual
printing of each page allowing to prepare the content to be printed.
- print\_end. This function is called right before the printing
routines clean after themselves and should be used for saving the
output to a file, freeing previously allocated memory, relesing
document handles etc.
print.h
-------
The provided print interface consists of a set of functions which can be
used seperately and one integrating them all making the print a matter
of one call. If it is enough you can just call print\_basic\_run and
wait for it to return. However, for the case you can't accompish the
printing task this way the print interface gives you the possiblity of
calling the print steps individually.
Only if you are using print\_basic\_run you can omit specifying the
print settings. If this is the case the default ones will be used.
As you will notice the functions correspond to those you had to
implement in the printer. The reason for this is adding some flexibility
to the system which occured necessary i.e in the GTK print
implementation.
- print\_set\_up. This sets the printing system up and calls
print\_begin
- print\_draw\_next\_page. Here after calling print\_next\_page one
full page of the dimensions given in the print settings is plotted
- print\_cleanup. This function is responsible for freeing all used
resources right after calling print\_end
Settings
--------
This is where the besic information about the print job is held. You can
use one of the predifined sets(DEFAULT and OPTIONS) or add your own. In
order to do that you have to follow this steps:
- add your entry to the print\_configuration enum
- add handling of it to the switch in print\_make\_settings
- add the entry name to this document
[[!inline raw=yes pages="Documentation"]]
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