{"id":511,"date":"2009-06-17T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=511"},"modified":"2009-06-17T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:57:16","slug":"printing-scripts-from-eclipse-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/printing-scripts-from-eclipse-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing Scripts from Eclipse in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Printing scripts can be very useful &#8211; but not if the font size is enormous.  Unfortunately, eclipse (3.4.1) under Ubuntu (Jaunty) had exactly this problem (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coderanch.com\/t\/106543\/IDEs-Version-Control-other-tools\/Printing-eclipse\">http:\/\/www.coderanch.com\/t\/106543\/IDEs-Version-Control-other-tools\/Printing-eclipse<\/a>).  A solution I found was to shrink the font, print, and then restore the font.  Given that I hardly ever want to print scripts (only when I&#8217;m really, really stuck and dealing with a complex piece of code) this is an acceptable workaround.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you change the font?  Doug Hughes supplied the answer here &#8211; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alagad.com\/go\/blog-entry\/changing-the-font-size-in-eclipse\">http:\/\/www.alagad.com\/go\/blog-entry\/changing-the-font-size-in-eclipse<\/a>).  In Ubuntu it is Window>Preferences>General>Appearance>Colors and Fonts>Text Font.  Because of the hundreds of options available, it can be very difficult to find the ones you need most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing scripts can be very useful &#8211; but not if the font size is enormous. Unfortunately, eclipse (3.4.1) under Ubuntu (Jaunty) had exactly this problem (see also http:\/\/www.coderanch.com\/t\/106543\/IDEs-Version-Control-other-tools\/Printing-eclipse). A solution I found was to shrink the font, print, and then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/printing-scripts-from-eclipse-in-ubuntu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}