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Bug 31472

Summary: [printing] printing/copying java source code should not print background
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Dave <eclipse-bugs>
Component: TextAssignee: JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: buttler1
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Dave CLA 2003-02-10 11:49:37 EST 
I have my background set to gray. When I print the code, it prints all pages
with gray background. Should always print white background. It also prints the
current cursor line background (in the color selected for the cursor line),
should ignore that as well.

Similar problem when copying/pasting into other apps, e.g. MS Word. Should not
copy background.
Comment 1 Stephen Thompson CLA 2003-02-12 15:16:03 EST 
I agree with this bug and was planning to enter it myself, but it does open the 
question of how you would deal with someone who has set his background to black 
and his text to white.  I don't have a color printer to test this on, but I 
assume it prints the text highlighting as well?




In any case, I agree completely that the cursor line highlighting should NEVER 
be printed.
Comment 2 David Buttler CLA 2003-02-22 18:25:50 EST 
I also agree that the background color should not be printed, or at the very
least make it an option.

However, I just tried this out on a short program, and I discovered that
printing to two pages was fine, but when I shortened my program to a single page
by removing some comments and blank lines, the background color was printed.

Weird.
Comment 3 David Buttler CLA 2003-04-04 11:51:21 EST 
I have not been able to reproduce the behavior where different length of
programs change whether or not the background is printed
Comment 4 Alex McCarrier CLA 2003-10-13 16:30:06 EDT 
I use a black background, imagine my horror when I went to the printer after
printing about 30 pages .... the toner company is going to love me.
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2003-10-27 04:13:11 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14954 ***