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[Vernon Cole <vernondcole@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I ended up using "lp" to obtain a printout.  I don't want to have
to teach people how to do that.  The point of having a GUI system is not
having to use the command line.  Gedit is the tool that opens when I
click on a .txt file.  Printing should be a one step operation after
that.  We're supposed to be making it easy for them (the command line
challenged).

The report has been forwarded to Gnome, and a link established.  Thanks
for your help!  The link and how-to were perfect.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904032

Title:
  gedit fails to obey page breaks when printing

Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
  Unknown
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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