I have problems printing from gedit in Windows

Question

Gedit in Linux works like a champ. For me, in two installations Gedit in Windows XP works well except that it will not print properly on HP LaserJets or Toshiba's laser printers. It will make a 90 page project out of two pages of text composed in gedit. It puts one or two confused lines of text at the top of a sheet and then ejects the page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

As Brian already mentioned in the comments, it might be a driver Problem. I´ve gotten the same issue with HP printers at work. Except in some other office applications like Office 2k3. Try changeing the driver from PCL5e to PCL6 or, if that doesn´t work PostScript. I don´t know yet, how to say which driver is needed before trying, but everytime I´ve got this problem this solution worked.

P.S.: if this is the correct answer, please vote up Brians comment ;-) it should be his reputation for mentioning it first.

Answer 2

You could look at jEdit:

Some of jEdit's features include:

• Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.
• Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customizable.
• Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor.