Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:52:49 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Lowry <vabijou@xxxxxxxxx> The reason I asked is that my goal when post-processing is to end up with a print that looks like my screen. When I print from Windows Picture & Fax Viewer, it looks like what I see on the screen. I assumed that printing from GIMP would give you a print that looked like the image that is open in GIMP, but I guess that's just silly. Who would want that? It's not silly, but the monitor profile doesn't have anything to do with printing. The monitor profile is just the profile for the monitor; it affects how the image is displayed. As for whether you'll get exactly the same output if you print through GIMP vs. if you print through the viewer, that depends upon exactly what GIMP (and the print plugin you're using -- if you're using Windows, I suspect you're using the GIMP 2.4 print plugin, not the Gutenprint plugin with which I'm familiar) does in the way of color management on printing, and exactly what the viewer does. I'm not familiar with Windows printing, so I don't know exactly where color management happens in the printing chain. But that's independent of what either GIMP or the viewer does with the *monitor* profile. --- Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2. If Try to use... is left checked, and printing is > > done through GIMP, should I expect the printed result > > to be different from the version printed through > > Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? > > What does the monitor profile have to do with printing? Nothing. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
