gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob
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## gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob

gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob — Print Job object for gtksourceview.SourceView

## Synopsis

    class gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob(gobject.GObject):
        gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob(buffer=None)
        def set_config(config)
        def get_config()
        def set_buffer(buffer)
        def get_buffer()
        def setup_from_view(view)
        def set_tabs_width(tabs_width)
        def get_tabs_width()
        def set_wrap_mode(wrap)
        def get_wrap_mode()
        def set_highlight(highlight)
        def get_highlight()
        def set_font_desc(font_desc)
        def get_font_desc()
        def set_font(highlight)
        def get_font()
        def set_numbers_font_desc(desc)
        def get_numbers_font_desc()
        def set_numbers_font(font_name)
        def get_numbers_font()
        def get_font()
        def set_print_numbers(interval)
        def get_print_numbers()
        def set_text_margins(top, bottom, left, right)
        def get_text_margins()
        def print()
        def print_range(start, end)
        def print_range_async(start, end)
        def cancel()
        def get_print_job()
        def get_page()
        def get_page_count()
        def get_print_context()
        def set_print_header(setting)
        def get_print_header()
        def set_print_footer(setting)
        def get_print_footer()
        def set_header_footer_font_desc(desc)
        def get_header_footer_font_desc()
        def set_header_footer_font(font_name)
        def get_header_footer_font()
        def set_header_format(left, center, right, separator)
        def set_footer_format(left, center, right, separator)

## Ancestry

    +-- gobject.GObject
      +-- gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob

## Properties

"buffer" | Read-Write | The gtksourceview.SourceBuffer to print.
"config" | Read-Write | Configuration options for the print job.
"font" | Read-Write | GnomeFont name to use for the document text (deprecated), default None.
"font-desc" | Read-Write | Font to use for the document text (e.g. "Monospace 10").
"header-footer-font" | Read-Write | GnomeFont name to use for the header and footer (deprecated), default None.
"header-footer-font-desc" | Read-Write | Font to use for headers and footers (e.g. "Monospace 10").
"highlight" | Read-Write | Whether to print the document with highlighted syntax, default True.
"numbers-font" | Read-Write | GnomeFont name to use for the line numbers (deprecated), default None.
"numbers-font-desc" | Read-Write | Font description to use for the line numbers (e.g. "Monospace 10").
"print-footer" | Read-Write | Whether to print a footer in each page, default False.
"print-header" | Read-Write | Whether to print an header in each page, default False.
"print-numbers" | Read-Write | Interval of printed line numbers (0 means no numbers), allowed values: minor or equal to 100, default value: 1.
"tabs-width" | Read-Write | Width in equivalent space characters of tabs, allowed values: minor or equal to 100, default value: 8.
"wrap-mode" | Read-Write | Word wrapping mode, default value: GTK_WRAP_NONE.

## Signal Prototypes

"begin-page" | `def callback(`sourceprintjob`, `arg1`, `user_param1`, `...`)`
"finished" | `def callback(`sourceprintjob`, `arg1`, `user_param1`, `...`)`

## Description

The gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob object is used to print the contents of a gtksourceview.SourceBuffer. You can set various configuration options to customize the printed output, and the result is obtained as a gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob object, which you can then preview with gnomeprint.ui.JobPreview or print directly with gnomeprint.Job.print

Printing can be done synchronously and asynchronously. Asynchronous methods are provided so you can give the user feedback about what's going on when printing long documents (see the "begin-page" and "finished" signals).

The task of a gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob is to produce a gnomeprint.Job. What this means is that once you get the resulting gnomeprint.Job, you might reuse the gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob to produce another output (with different configuration options for example) or just unreference it and forget about it. The lifetime of the produced object is independent of that of the producer.

Before printing you should at least set the gtksourceview.SourceBuffer you want to print (using set_buffer). Besides that, you might configure word wrapping, font, whether to print hightlighted text as seen in the gtksourceview.SourceView, line numbers, basic headers and footers.

gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob can print basic headers and footers in each page. You can specify the time like strings for text on the left, right and center of the top and bottom of the page. You can also make gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob draw a separator line between the text document and the header and footer. And you can specify a different font (from that used for the text document).

Customization beyond that is possible, but you have to do the printing manually. To do that, you need to connect to the "begin-page" signal of the job and allocate some space in the page using set_text_margins. Whenever gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob is about to print a new text page, the signal will be emitted. You can then get the gnomeprint.Context being used with get_print_context and use Gnome Print functions directly. The space you allocate is inside the document margins defined in the specified gnomeprint.Config, but outside all print area used by gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob itself.

## Constructor

        gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob(buffer=None)

`buffer` : | a `gtksourceview.SourceBuffer` or `None`
Returns : | a new `gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob`.

Creates a new `gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob` object.

## Methods

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_config

        def set_config(config)

`config` : | a gnomeprint.Config object to get printing configuration from.

The `set_config`() method sets the print configuration for the job. If you don't set a configuration object for the print job, when needed one will be created with gnomeprint.Config

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_config

        def get_config()

Returns : | the gnomeprint.Config for the print job.

The `get_config`() method gets the current gnomeprint.Config the print job will use. If not previously set, this will create a default configuration and return it. The returned object reference is owned by the print job.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_buffer

        def set_buffer(buffer)

`buffer` : | a gtksourceview.SourceBuffer.

The `set_buffer`() method sets the gtksourceview.SourceBuffer the print job will print. You need to specify a buffer to print, either by the use of this function or by creating the print job passing the parameter <methodparam>buffer</methodparam> at the constructor.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_buffer

        def get_buffer()

Returns : | the gtksourceview.SourceBuffer to print.

The `get_buffer`() method gets the gtksourceview.SourceBuffer the print job would print. The returned object reference (if non `None`) is owned by the job object and should not be unreferenced

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.setup_from_view

        def setup_from_view(view)

`view` : | a gtksourceview.SourceView to get configuration from.

The `setup_from_view`() method is a convenience function to set several configuration options at once, so that the printed output matches view. The options set are buffer (if not set already), tabs width, highlighting, wrap mode and default font.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_tabs_width

        def set_tabs_width(tabs_width)

`tabs_width` : | the number of equivalent spaces for a tabulation.

The `set_tabs_width`() method sets the width (in equivalent spaces) of tabulations for the printed text. The width in printing units will be calculated as the width of a string containing tabs_width spaces of the default font. Tabulation stops are set for the full width of printed text.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_tabs_width

        def get_tabs_width()

Returns : | the width (in equivalent spaces) of a tabulation.

The `get_tabs_width`() method determines the configured width (in equivalent spaces) of tabulations. The default value is 8.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_wrap_mode

        def set_wrap_mode(wrap)

`wrap` : | the wrap mode.

The `set_wrap_mode`() method sets the wrap mode for lines of text larger than the printable width. See GtkWrapMode for a definition of the possible values.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_wrap_mode

        def get_wrap_mode()

Returns : | the current wrapping mode for the print job.

The `get_tabs_width`() method determines the wrapping style for text lines wider than the printable width. The default is no wrapping.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_highlight

        def set_highlight(highlight)

`highlight` : | if `TRUE` the printed text should be highlighted.

The `set_highlight`() method sets whether the printed text will be highlighted according to the buffer rules. Both color and font style are applied.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_highlight

        def get_highlight()

Returns : | `TRUE` if the printed output will be highlighted.

The `get_tabs_width`() method determines if the job is configured to print the text highlighted with colors and font styles. Note that highlighting will happen only if the buffer to print has highlighting activated.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_font_desc

        def set_font_desc(desc)

`desc` : | the PangoFontDescription for the default font.

The `set_font_desc`() method sets the default font for the printed text.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_font_desc

        def get_font_desc()

Returns : | the current text font description.

The `get_font_desc`() method determines the default font to be used for the printed text. The returned string is of the form "Fontfamily Style Size", for example "Monospace Regular 10.0".

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_font

        def set_font(font_name)

`font_name` : | the name of the default font.

The `set_font`() method sets the default font for the printed text. `font_name` should be a full font name GnomePrint can understand (e.g. "Monospace Regular 10.0")

### Note

Note that font_name is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for GtkSourceView; you should use set_font_desc instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_font

        def get_font()

Returns : | a newly allocated string with the name of the current text font.

The `get_font`() method determines the default font to be used for the printed text. The returned string is of the form "Fontfamily Style Size", for example "Monospace Regular 10.0".

### Note

Note that font_name is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for GtkSourceView; you should use get_font_desc instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_numbers_font_desc

        def set_numbers_font_desc(desc)

`desc` : | the PangoFontDescription for the default font for the line numbers or `None`.

The `set_numbers_font_desc`() method sets the font for printing line numbers on the left margin. If `None` is supplied, the default font (i.e. the one being used for the text) will be used instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_numbers_font_desc

        def get_numbers_font_desc()

Returns : | the line numbers font description or `None`.

The `get_font_desc`() method determines the font to be used for the line numbers. This function might return `None` if a specific font for numbers has not been set.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_numbers_font

        def set_numbers_font(font_name)

`font_name` : | the full name of the font for line numbers, or `None`.

The `set_font`() method sets the font for printing line numbers on the left margin. If `None` is supplied, the default font (i.e. the one being used for the text) will be used instead.

### Note

Note that font_name is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for GtkSourceView; you should use set_numbers_font instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_numbers_font

        def get_numbers_font()

Returns : | a newly allocated string with the name of the current line numbers font, or `None`.

The `get_numbers_font`() method determines the font to be used for the line numbers. The returned string is of the form "Fontfamily Style Size", for example "Monospace Regular 10.0". This function might return `None` if a specific font for numbers has not been set.

### Note

Note that font_name is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for GtkSourceView; you should use get_numbers_font instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_print_numbers

        def set_print_numbers(interval)

`interval` : | interval for printed line numbers.

The `set_print_numbers`() method sets the interval for printed line numbers. If interval is 0 no numbers will be printed. If greater than 0, a number will be printed every interval lines (i.e. 1 will print all line numbers).

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_print_numbers

        def get_print_numbers()

Returns : | the interval of printed line numbers.

The `get_font_desc`() method determines the interval used for line number printing. If the value is 0, no line numbers will be printed. The default value is 1 (i.e. numbers printed in all lines).

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_text_margins

        def set_text_margins(top, bottom, left, right)

`top` : | the top user margin.

`bottom` : | the bottom user margin.

`left` : | the left user margin.

`right` : | the right user margin.

The `set_text_margins`() method sets the four user margins for the print job. These margins are in addition to the document margins provided in the GnomePrintConfig and will not be used for headers, footers or line numbers (those are calculated separatedly). You can print in the space allocated by these margins by connecting to the "begin_page" signal. The space is around the printed text, and inside the margins specified in the GnomePrintConfig.

The margin numbers are given in device units. If any of the given values is less than 0, that particular margin is not altered by this function.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_text_margins

        def get_text_margins()

Returns : | a list of margin numbers.

The `get_text_margins`() method determines the user set margins for the job. This function retrieves the values previously set by set_text_margins. The default for all four margins is 0. Any of the pointers can be `None` if you want to ignore that value.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.print

        def print()

Returns : | a closed GnomePrintJob with the printed document, or `None` if printing could not be completed.

The `print`() method produces a GnomePrintJob with the printed document. The whole contents of the configured `gtksourceview.SourceBuffer` are printed. The returned job is already closed and ready to be previewed (using gnomeprint.ui.JobPreview) or printed directly. The caller of this function owns a reference to the returned object, so job can be destroyed and the output will still be valid, or the document can be printed again with different settings.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.print_range

        def print_range()

`start` : | the start of the region of text to print.

`end` : | the end of the region of text to print.

Returns : | a closed GnomePrintJob with the text from start to end printed, or `None` if job could not print.

The `print_range`() method is similar to print, except you can specify a range of text to print. The passed GtkTextIter values might be out of order.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.print_range_async

        def print_range_async()

`start` : | the start of the region of text to print.

`end` : | the end of the region of text to print.

Returns : | `True` if the print started.

The `print_range_async`() method starts to print job asynchronously. This function will ready the job for printing and install an idle handler that will render one page at a time.

This function will not return immediatly, as only page rendering is done asynchronously. Text retrieval and paginating happens within this function. Also, if highlighting is enabled, the whole buffer needs to be highlighted first.

To get notification when the job has finished, you must connect to the "finished" signal. After this signal is emitted you can retrieve the resulting GnomePrintJob with get_print_job. You may cancel the job with cancel

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.cancel

        def cancel()

The `cancel`() method cancels an asynchronous printing operation. This will remove any pending print idle handler and unref the current GnomePrintJob

Note that if you got a reference to the job's GnomePrintJob (using get_print_job) it will not be destroyed (since you hold a reference to it), but it will not be closed either. If you wish to show or print the partially printed document you need to close it yourself.

This function has no effect when called from a non-asynchronous print operation.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_print_job

        def get_print_job()

Returns : | a new reference to the job's GnomePrintJob, or `None`.

The `get_font_desc`() method gets a reference to the GnomePrintJob which the job is printing or has recently finished printing. You need to unref the returned object.

You may call this function in the middle of an asynchronous printing operation, but the returned GnomePrintJob will not be closed until the last page is printed and the "finished" signal is emitted.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_page

        def get_page()

Returns : | the current page number.

The `get_page`() method determines the currently printing page number. This function is only valid while printing (either synchronously or asynchronously).

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_page_count

        def get_page_count()

Returns : | the number of pages of the printed job.

The `get_page_count`() method determines the total number of pages the job will print. The returned value is only meaninful after pagination has finished. In practice, for synchronous printing this means when "begin-page" is emitted, or after print_range_async has returned.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_print_context

        def get_print_context()

Returns : | the current GnomePrintContext. The returned object is owned by job.

The `get_print_context`() method determines the GnomePrintContext of the current job. This function is only valid while printing. Normally you would use this function to print in the margins set by set_text_margins in a handler for the "begin-page" signal.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_print_header

        def set_print_header(setting)

`setting` : | if `TRUE` you want the header to be printed.

The `set_print_header`() method sets whether you want to print a header in each page. The default header consists of three pieces of text and an optional line separator, configurable with set_header_format.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_print_header

        def get_print_header()

Returns : | `TRUE` if the header is set to be printed.

The `get_print_header`() method Determines if a header is set to be printed for each page. A header will be printed if this function returns `TRUE` and some format strings have been specified with set_header_format.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_print_footer

        def set_print_footer(setting)

`setting` : | if `TRUE` you want the footer to be printed.

The `set_print_footer`() method sets whether you want to print a footer in each page. The default header consists of three pieces of text and an optional line separator, configurable with set_footer_format.

### Note

By default the footer format is unspecified, and if it's empty it will not be printed, regardless of this setting.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_print_footer

        def get_print_footer()

Returns : | `TRUE` if the footer is set to be printed.

The `get_print_footer`() method determines if a footer is set to be printed for each page. A header will be printed if this function returns `TRUE` and some format strings have been specified with set_header_format.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_header_footer_font_desc

        def set_header_footer_font_desc(desc)

`desc` : | the PangoFontDescription for the font to be used in headers and footers, or `None`.

The `set_header_footer_font_desc`() method sets the font for printing headers and footers. If `None` is supplied, the default font (i.e. the one being used for the text) will be used instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_header_footer_font_desc

        def get_header_footer_font_desc()

Returns : | the header and footer font description or `None`.

The `get_header_footer_font_desc`() method determines the font to be used for the header and footer. This function might return `None` if a specific font has not been set.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_header_footer_font

        def set_header_footer_font(font_name)

`font_name` : | the full name of the font to be used in headers and footers, or `None`.

The `set_header_footer_font`() method sets the font for printing headers and footers. If `None` is supplied, the default font (i.e. the one being used for the text) will be used instead.

### Note

the result is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for gtksourceview.SourceView; you should use set_header_footer_font_desc instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.get_header_footer_font

        def get_header_footer_font()

Returns : | a newly allocated string with the name of the current header and footer font, or `None`.

The `get_header_footer_font_desc`() method determines the font to be used for the header and footer. The returned string is of the form "Fontfamily Style Size", for example "Monospace Regular 10.0". The returned value should be freed when no longer needed. This function might return `None` if a specific font has not been set.

### Note

the result is a GnomeFont name not a Pango font description string. This function is deprecated since GnomeFont is no longer used when implementing printing for gtksourceview.SourceView; you should use get_header_footer_font_desc instead.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_header_format

        def set_header_format(left, center, right, separator)

`left` : | a format string to print on the left of the header.

`center` : | a format string to print on the center of the header.

`right` : | a format string to print on the right of the header.

`right` : | `TRUE` if you want a separator line to be printed.

The `set_header_format`() method sets time() like header format strings, to be printed on the left, center and right of the top of each page. The strings may include strftime(3) codes which will be expanded at print time. All time() codes are accepted, with the addition of N for the page number and Q for the page count.

Separator specifies if a solid line should be drawn to separate the header from the document text.

If `None` is given for any of the three arguments, that particular string will not be printed. For the header to be printed, in addition to specifying format strings, you need to enable header printing with set_print_header.

### gtksourceview.SourcePrintJob.set_footer_format

        def set_footer_format(left, center, right, separator)

`left` : | a format string to print on the left of the footer.

`center` : | a format string to print on the center of the footer.

`right` : | a format string to print on the right of the footer.

`right` : | `TRUE` if you want a separator line to be printed.

The `set_footer_format`() method sets time() like footer format strings, to be printed on the left, center and right of the top of each page. The strings may include strftime(3) codes which will be expanded at print time. All time() codes are accepted, with the addition of N for the page number and Q for the page count.

Separator specifies if a solid line should be drawn to separate the header from the document text.

If `None` is given for any of the three arguments, that particular string will not be printed. For the header to be printed, in addition to specifying format strings, you need to enable header printing with set_print_footer.

## Signals

### The "begin-page" gtksourceprintjob.SourcePrintJob Signal

        def callback(sourceprintjob, user_param1, ...)

`sourceprintjob` : | the sourceprintjob that received the signal
`user_param1` : | the first user parameter (if any) specified with the `connect`() method
`...` : | additional user parameters (if any)

The "begin-page" signal is emitted when the sourceprintjob is about to print a new text page. You can connect to this signal to provide the user with feedback about the progress of printing, or to customize the printed page by for example, printing your own headers and footers.

### The "finished" gtksourceprintjob.SourcePrintJob Signal

        def callback(sourceprintjob, user_param1, ...)

`sourcebuffer` : | the sourcebuffer that received the signal
`user_param1` : | the first user parameter (if any) specified with the `connect`() method
`...` : | additional user parameters (if any)

The "finished" signal is emitted whenever an asynchronous print job has finished. You can connect to this signal to get notification when a job has finished printing. When it's emitted, the GnomePrintJob the sourceprintjob was producing has been closed and it can be either previewed or printed to the physical device.

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