On Friday 24 July 2009 12:40:42 am Erik Lotspeich wrote: > Hi, > > I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious > problem with printing that I cannot figure out. > > For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to > Gimp, Linux, or Unix. > > That being said, I found the printing in Gimp 2.2 to be near > perfect. It worked perfectly and had a feature to auto-fit the > image to the correct paper size. Image rotation > (landscape/portrait) was never an issue. > > I find the printing interface in Gimp 2.6.2 to be a complete > failure in terms of both interface and functionality. Here are > links to some screenshots: > > https://joomla.lotspeich.org/~erik/gimp-print-fail.png > https://joomla.lotspeich.org/~erik/gimp-image-properties.png > > I would like to know why the width and height do not correspond > to any reasonable value. I set my paper size to 4x6 borderless > on an HP OfficeJet 6110. Printing on this printer works > perfectly in other programs; I'm using hplip and CUPS. > > Why is there no auto-resize like there is in Gimp 2.2? > > Why is the X and Y resolution pegged to 1133.948? Why won't it > let me set this value? > > The preview does not correspond in any way to my paper size (see > the huge border on the bottom!). > > I'm sorry to sound upset by this issue, but I'm completely > shocked that a wonderful program like Gimp would have such a > complete regression. I'm using the distro version of Gimp > (OpenSUSE); I haven't tried to compile the latest version from > source. > > I also tried Gimp for Windows on my wife's Windows Vista > computer. Printing here is just as much of a failure. On > Windows, it's actually worse since the page setup options that > Gimp provides conflict with the printer driver's settings (e.g. > paper size, rotation, etc.). I tried all permutations of > portrait/landscape and could never find a way to print correctly. > > Any help or assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
My history with Gimp is much more limited than yours. I have always used Gimp for creation/manipulation of images and some other program for printing out the results in a document. When I rarely need to print color work locally I throw a switch to redirect traffic to my Epson Stylus Color 880 and select that printer from the Cups popup. Someday I hope to get a color laser. But I will still use Gimp for image massaging and something else to print out the results. Perhaps I should test Gutenprint directly from Gimp just to be sure it works. My Epson 880 is ancient. Hence it is well understood by software. When it dies I may try to find another on EBay. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
