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Hi PureBasic Developers,

I often find it useful to output my code to a printer for a hard copy, but note there is no File > Print function in the IDE. I appreciate the same file can be opened in Notepad++ and printed from there (which is what I am currently doing), but its an extra step and would be nice to see this added as standard in a future version please?

Would you consider adding this feature to allow the code, with line numbers, and colour to be output to the printer to provide a hard copy of the program?

It would be great to see the File Name and Date in the header, and page numbers in the footer, as well as a character to indicate when a long line wraps to the next, but is actually a single line.

Options to include/exclude line numbers, colour, Comments etc. would be great, but not essential.

Many thanks.
John

+1 for this, so I can print to PDF with a PDF driver.

In the meantime -> viewtopic.php?p=559427#p559427

PB definitely has the facilities for this, hope to see it implemented!

Out of genuine curiosity though, what would the actual use be? As someone with absolutely no usable vision I can't see how printing out code onto a printer could be helpful, but it's entirely possible I'm just missing it.

Quin wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:27 amwhat would the actual use be?

From the other topic -> viewtopic.php?p=559422#p559422

For myself, I often use paper and pen for debugging, to write down program flow and calculations that it needs. So being able to draw arrows from notes that point to code lines is helpful to me. It's so much quicker for me and the paper is separate "screen" of info that doesn't take up room on my monitor.