Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-07-25 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 09:59:10 pm bumpkin wrote: > The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new > file with the appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for > windows. I imported and scaled down the logo to the appropriate > size and placed it at the top, finished adding the te

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Erik Lotspeich wrote: > The fact that the Gimp engineers haven't integrated these two printing > systems is unacceptable -- they should be ashamed.  Gimp will never be > taken seriously until this printing nightmare is resolved.  I am a > software engineer myself,

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris, I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only solidifies my point which is: Native Gimp printing = FAIL Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribution backe

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: >Hi Chris, > >I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only >solidifies my point which is: > >Native Gimp printing = FAIL >Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN > >My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribu

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gene, Your point is well taken. I do not expect the Gimp people to keep on top of printing at all. But why not have Gutenprint be a pre-requisite to Gimp? Why deliver a broken default printing system? For the record, my distro does deliver the

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imagine your mother-in-law who wants > to print a photo with Gimp. She will fail. That is my point. I think > that you all are missing the point that I'm making. Your mother-in-law > will be confused by "Print" and "Print with Gutenprint". Nobody