Gvim Printing

Hi,

How do I coerce gvim 6.3.86 to print letter size, page after page?

At present only the first page is printed correctly after that for the second
and succeeding pages the page advance from the top of the page is much too
much so that the printed page does not fit the letter size paper. After
several pages the paper advance is then in the middle of the page. It is as
legal size would be printed on letter size paper and I have no legal size
setting.

:help print
says
Note: If you are looking for a way to print your text
file, you need an external program for that. In the
GUI you can use the File>Print menu entry.

Which is that external program that apparently is not set correctly?

Thanks & regards
--
Peter

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Re: Gvim Printing

Hi all, sorry I inadverdently took this thread off the list!

On 4/11/06, I wrote:
> Peter,

> On 4/10/06, Peter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I coerce gvim 6.3.86 to print letter size, page after page?
>>
>> At present only the first page is printed correctly after that for the second
>> and succeeding pages the page advance from the top of the page is much too
>> much so that the printed page does not fit the letter size paper. After
>> several pages the paper advance is then in the middle of the page. It is as
>> legal size would be printed on letter size paper and I have no legal size
>> setting.
>
> Are you able to do the printing with a more GUI-fied editor, like
> Gedit or Kate? If so they should be better at printing than Gvim. If
> not I recommend a2ps, which converts a lot of formats to PostScript,
> with `pretty-printing'. So if you're printing code it'll be formatted
> nicely, with keywords in bold, comments italicised, and so on. For
> plain text, it'll look fine too.
>
> $ a2ps file.txt -1 -o file.ps -M Letter
>
> converts the plain text file file.txt to a PostScript format file
> file.ps. Another example: I just used
>
> $ a2ps tex_fit1003_a1.tex -1 -o tex_fit1003_a1_source.ps -M A4 --delegate=0
>
> to pretty-print a LaTeX (plain text) source file into PS. If I didn't
> have --delegate=0, a2ps would have run LaTeX on the file and put the
> typeset document into the output PS file.
>
> The a2ps info file is very helpful, and I definitely recommend it
> because its output looks very nice, at least to my eyes.
>
>>
>> :help print
>> says
>> Note: If you are looking for a way to print your text
>> file, you need an external program for that. In the
>
> Maybe they mean something like a2ps.

On 4/11/06, Peter wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I am aware that gvim is not necessarily made for good printing. I am using it
> to edit files mostly downloaded .html saved with lynx as .txt and since I am
> already in vim might as well print if file is not too long. I vaguely remember
> that some time ago it did print properly.
>
> Normally for my printing I am using the following command:
>
> /usr/bin/fmt -u --width=105 $1 | groff -ms | lpr
>
> That gives a nice print output, much better than gvim and fewer pages.
>
> I am using pretty-print through mpdist>mp which has mptool GUI to give print
> commands. I use it to print-out my mail.
>
> I will study a2ps.
>
> Regards
> --
> Peter
>
>


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