Little bug in RC1: the two LaserJets supported by the pcl-4v model choice (LJ 4V and LJ 4Si) are 600-dpi printers (see linuxprinting.org) but GIMP-Print only offers up to 300 dpi for them. Can you fix this for the final Release? Till Robert L Krawitz wrote: > > This is the first release candidate of gimp-print 4.0.0. Please test > it to ensure that there are no remnant problems. This is very close > to the real 4.0. > > Gimp-Print 4.0.0 contains the following fixes over Gimp-Print 4.0b3: > > 1) All HP LaserJet printers except for the 4L are capable of 600 DPI > resolution. > > 2) Any residual problems with the plugin printer list containing > duplicates should now be fixed. > > 3) Any residual problems with scaling not being set properly in PPI > mode should now be fixed. > > 4) An extraneous dependency on the glibc version of getopt() in > escputil has been removed. > > 5) 'make clean' is now a bit more complete. > > 6) Certain Epson Stylus printers (the Stylus Pro XL, Stylus Color 400, > 500, and 600, and Stylus Photo, Photo 700, and Photo EX) will not > print quite as close to the bottom of the paper, due to some > reports of overrunning pages. This is presumably due to paper size > or printers not being perfectly in spec. > > Errata: > > 1) PostScript files (and PPD's) with embedded .setpagedevice commands > to choose a media type will not function correctly. In place of > MediaType, stpMediaType will allow a choice of media type. This > will not be fixed in the release; it is not always possible to know > what media types are valid at the time of the .setpagedevice call, > which GhostScript requires. > > 2) The higher resolutions of the HP Deskjet 900/1220C and the HP > PhotoSmart P1000/P1100 have been disabled as they do not work. > Investigation into these modes (Photo-Ret III) is continuing. > > 3) There are some known color generation problems. In particular, > greens (particularly weakly saturated greens) tend to be quite > weak, giving grass a somewhat tan look. This may be improved > somewhat by printing in 4-color rather than 6-color mode. We do > not anticipate much if any further improvement in the release > beyond the change in saturation noted above. The errors in color > are not radical, but it may be hard to get a close match for > extremely critical work. > > If the image is radically too light and washed out, please check > the color settings, and try setting the defaults (1.0 for all > options). > > 4) When using Epson 4x6 photo paper that is perforated to allow > tearing off the unprintable margins it is possible to print part > way into those margins. This will not be fixed in the release. > > 5) Red Hat 6.1 users cannot configure the plug-in. The problem is > that neither the gimp nor the gimp-devel rpm's in that release > include gimptool, which is necessary for configuration to work. > This will not be fixed in the release. > > The recommended workaround is to recompile the Gimp from source > (either 1.0.4 or the latest 1.1/1.2 release). That will install > gimptool, and you will then be able to build the plug-in. This > does not affect the Ghostscript driver. > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-print-devel mailing list > Gimp-print-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gimp-print-devel
