I have been print screening and pasting multiple screens into photoshop so far, but there must be an easier way?
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5Has anyone **tried** this before upvoting?! Printing in Visual Studio kills all the formatting, changes the font to Courier New and prints it in all black...
Timwi
2010-10-15 10:16:54
Notepad++ preserves the syntax highlighting when printing.
JRL
2010-10-15 13:08:38
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In Visual Studio, you can just copy and paste the source. If you paste it into any rich-text enabled software — e.g., Microsoft Word — the code will be formatted the same way as it is in Visual Studio, with all fonts, colours and bold styles intact.
Once you’ve pasted it into Word, you can do with it whatever you want, including printing to PDF.
Timwi
2010-10-15 10:09:06
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Why do you take screenshots for printing out code??
Just open your file in Visual Studio, Eclipse, Notepad++ and select File - Print and you'll get your file with a nice coloring (when using a color printer).
If you need it as a hard-copy on your screen just take FreePDF to print it into a pdf file.
Update
I tested it right now with the above PDF printer driver and it comes out just as expected. So i think you just using a Bulls**t pdf printer driver.
Oliver
2010-10-15 10:09:08
@Timwi - Visual Studio does print in colour, if a colour printer is available to it (just tried in 2008). Whether the PDF printer drivers support colour printing is another matter entirely.
Damien_The_Unbeliever
2010-10-15 10:28:09
@Damien: Then how do I enable this? I specifically chose “Color” in my PDF printer (Bullzip) and yet the result is all black (and no boldface either).
Timwi
2010-10-15 10:32:07
romkyns
2010-10-15 10:41:56