#1214 Printing to file fails under KDE Neon and Linux Mint

[Steven Friedrich]

I'm running Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon 5.2.7.
I'm using Code::Blocks
Release 20.03 rev 11997 (2020-03-28 13:56:24) gcc 9.3.0 Linux/unicode - 64 bit
I select Print from the File menu, Active editor, black and white, Print, in the print dialog I select Print to File, and Preview.
The file is mangled. Attached is the .pdf it generates under Linux Mint. Under KDE Neon, no .pdf file is produced.

[Miguel Gimenez]

Discussion in the forum and other printing test from Mint 18.

[Miguel Gimenez]

Looks like the printing method, wxStyledTextCtrl::FormatRange(), is Windows only. From the documentation:

On Windows, will draw the document into a display context such as a printer.

Surprisingly, there are no crashes on Linux and something is printed.

[LETARTARE]

See forum :
https://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,24910.msg169776/topicseen.html#msg169776

[Miguel Gimenez]

I created an issue in wxWidgets, but Vadz says the problem is inside Scintilla.

I have been looking in the Scintilla tickets, but have not found any related to this.

[LETARTARE]

Thanks.

[LETARTARE]

This problem is very very old, I found a message from r10922 ! (January 16, 2017)
printer

[LETARTARE]

I just did a comparative test :

1- Leap-15.3:: with cb-12783, gcc-750, wx-305 (gtk2.0)
print horrible !!
2- Leap-15.3:: with cb-12783, gcc-750, wx-315 (gtk3.0)
print correct.

I can't use the 'wx-305 (gtk-3.0)' pair.

Conclusion: the couple 'wx-305 , gtk-2.0' is the culprit.