Text editor for printing C++ code

I'd usually use enscript: something like

$ enscript --highlight=cpp
           --header='|Real Name|Class 101'
           --footer='|Page $% of $=|'
           -poutput.ps *.cpp

will be a start - this writes postscript output to output.ps, so you can preview and overwrite that while you're tinkering with the config and then print it once you're happy. See the man page for more very extensive options.

EDIT getting the footer to work correctly is a bit of a pain with enscript - I'd never noticed because I've never required it. If you save this file to ~/.enscript/so.hdr (you probably need to create the directory), you'll actually get the required output with

$ enscript --highlight=cpp
           --header='|Real Name|Class 101'
           --footer='|Page $% of $=|'
           --fancy-header=so
           -poutput.ps *.cpp

giving

Roughly,

• LaTeχ is the best quality and the most work to set up,
• enscript or a2ps are intermediate in both quality and work,
• vim's :hardcopy command is easy but not that flexible, and
• doing syntax highlighting manually in a non-code-aware editor is a lot of effort for a poor return.

You can use the :TOhtml command in vim. This renders what you see (i.e. syntax highlighting) as html. From there, a web browser that can print to pdf works, as you can usually customize the header/footer content.

This is probably similar to the :hardcopy command mentioned by Useless, but I can't verify on my system right now.

Another possibility is to print from QtCreator, however there doesn't appear to be a way to set the headers/footers.

You just need LibreOffice Writer .

Paste your C/C++ code.

Find the words and make the Bold all the C++ keywords.

You can find them here: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/keyword

To find a word Press Ctrl + F. Select "Match case" and click Find All (as shown in screenshot).

After that you need a Header and Footer with your name and page number.

Since you ask for an editor, you can print directly from Emacs, using ps-print-buffer.

The headers and footers are in the Customize group called ps-print-headers.

Assuming you use font-lock, you probably have the syntax highlighting that's required. It can be adjusted, if necessary, using the ps-extend-face function.

Having said that, I'd still recommend that you use a proper 'grind' tool such as a2ps, enscript, or LaTeX+listings.

What is it in SCiTe that doesn't work for you? It's quite a decent editor (for it's size).

Scite can export as html, pdf, latex, and other formats.

Headers & footers can be adjusted in the local/user/global -options files. Start with a look at: SciTE Menu -> Options -> Open Global Options File

I also want to advise you to read the manual on how the different options files work.

PS: I'm using mint and the version of scite from my package manager was quite old (>2years). So I downloaded the source & compiled it myself. First the lib, and then the editor itself. My current version is:

Version 3.6.4 compiled for GTK+ 2.24.23 Mar 18 2016 16:29:57

gedit allows you to print out code with a header. It should be available on any gnome system.

In the past when KDE3 was still a big thing, I used Kate becaus for a text editor it really produces the best output. Today I would go with latex for a more embedable solution, with the package lstlisting. This package is not for color output, but on a laser printer colors are not an advantage.