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Paddy Landau
Asked: 2016-07-23 04:19:22 +0800 CST

How can I print PHP syntax highlighting on a colour printer?

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This must have been answered before, but I simply cannot find the answer either here or elsewhere.

I edit a PHP file in gedit, which is all nicely coloured for syntax.

But when I want to print it, it prints only in black-and-white.

How can I print it in colour? I will accept an editor other than gedit if needed, because of bug 1313283.

I'd prefer a GUI option, please, partly because finding my printer's name for the command line is hard, and partly because I don't know how to set my printer's options from the command line (I think that its default mode is black-and-white).

I have discovered enscript, but unfortunately it doesn't have PHP highlighting.

EDIT

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit and gedit version 3.10.4.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I just went into one of my PHP files in gedit (Ubuntu 16.04). It does come up nicely color-coded. I then did ^P, selected an HP Photosmart C4100 series printer in the print dialog. All the color-coding printed beautifully. It worked painlessly for me. I hope this helps.

    Will that printer print color from another application?

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