On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:56, Geoffrey wrote: > Jim Philips wrote: > > On Monday 17 April 2006 21:14, Geoffrey wrote: > >> David Lee wrote: > >>> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:37:17 -0400 Jim Philips > >>> > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I have some 3x5 templates in .png format that I downloaded. I want > >>>> to print them out in landscape format, because if I print them as > >>>> portrait my printer bracket won't come in tight enough to hold the > >>>> card in place. So, I open the .png in Gimp and flip it 90 degrees > >>>> and save it. I then try to print it from Gimp, with 3x5 specified > >>>> as the paper size. What gets printed is a long string of raw > >>>> Postscript and nothing else. I have to kill the print job. I'm > >>>> using Gimp 2.2.10 with CUPS 1.1.23 on a Slackware box. Any clues as > >>>> to what is wrong? Am I using a crappy print driver? The printer is > >>>> an Epson C-62 inkjet. It prints without problems otherwise, even > >>>> some 3x5 cards in landscape. But those are from a Web page where > >>>> formatting is enforced by CSS. > >>> > >>> I believe you will need to pick "setup printer" from the print dialog > >>> and pick the type of printer you are using. This is what did the > >>> trick for me. > >> > >> One thing I recall about the GIMP is that it wants a non compressed ppd > >> file. What I've had to do is go to the directory where they exist and > >> unpack the file there. Make sure you retain the gunzipped version > >> though because other applications look for it. For example, for my > >> Minolta laser I have the following ppd files: > >> > >> /usr/share/cups/model/Minolta-magicolor_2300_DL.ppd > >> /usr/share/cups/model/Minolta-magicolor_2300_DL.ppd.gz > >> > >> You set this in the setup printer dialog of GIMP David has mentioned. > > > > OK. I found the .ppd file and created an unzipped version. It made no > > difference. > > What distro is this? Did you use the setup printer option in gimp to > make sure it's pointed to the proper ppd file?
This is Slackware current. I went through the printer setup and pointed to the .ppd file. It makes no difference in the output. The description of the problem I found indicates a conflict between CUPS way of defining landscape orientation and Ghostscript's way of defining it. I can modify the raw Postscript after saving the file as Postscript. And this offers some slight gain...but it still doesn't print my image properly. Anyway, this doesn't appear to be a Gimp issue. I believe I could reproduce the problem with any Linux app where CUPS and Ghostscript are handling the printing. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user