Public bug reported:
I am attempting to use gedit to spool the printout from a legacy program to an
ink jet printer.
The file is in ASCII, with a form feed character defining each page.
Gedit displays the form feed as a box with the hexadecimal value 000C in it.
This is all good.
When I select "print" from the gedit menu, it sends the text to the printer
neatly formatted with
a header and page numbering of its own.
This is also acceptable.
When the legacy program created the text, it determined that additional
information should appear
an a new form, so it wanted to eject the nearly full form, and begin the next
block of information
beneath a new header. It emitted a form feed to produce that effect.
Gedit happily creates a graphic box with 000C in it, prints the box, and
proceeds to print the legacy
header (which says "page 2" on it) on the bottom of page One. When it runs out
of paper, it
prints its Page 2 header, continues to print the legacy second page, a 000C
box, and the header for
the legacy "page 3" and part of page three until it runs out of paper again,
and so forth.
Unicode 000C is defined as a white space control character, as are carriage
return and line feed.
You don't print them, you obey them. Do the same for form feed. Be kind to
old programs and old
programmers. If my C program contains a "printf" statement with a "\f" in it,
give me a new sheet
of paper on the printout. That way your page 2 will also be my page 2 and the
printout will appear
pretty much like the programmer (myself in a previous millennium) intended.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gedit 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 13 16:35:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi oneiric running-unity
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904032
Title:
gedit fails to obey page breaks when printing
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I am attempting to use gedit to spool the printout from a legacy program to
an ink jet printer.
The file is in ASCII, with a form feed character defining each page.
Gedit displays the form feed as a box with the hexadecimal value 000C in it.
This is all good.
When I select "print" from the gedit menu, it sends the text to the printer
neatly formatted with
a header and page numbering of its own.
This is also acceptable.
When the legacy program created the text, it determined that additional
information should appear
an a new form, so it wanted to eject the nearly full form, and begin the next
block of information
beneath a new header. It emitted a form feed to produce that effect.
Gedit happily creates a graphic box with 000C in it, prints the box, and
proceeds to print the legacy
header (which says "page 2" on it) on the bottom of page One. When it runs
out of paper, it
prints its Page 2 header, continues to print the legacy second page, a 000C
box, and the header for
the legacy "page 3" and part of page three until it runs out of paper again,
and so forth.
Unicode 000C is defined as a white space control character, as are carriage
return and line feed.
You don't print them, you obey them. Do the same for form feed. Be kind to
old programs and old
programmers. If my C program contains a "printf" statement with a "\f" in
it, give me a new sheet
of paper on the printout. That way your page 2 will also be my page 2 and
the printout will appear
pretty much like the programmer (myself in a previous millennium) intended.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gedit 3.2.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 13 16:35:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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