Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:47:57 -0500 From: Erik Lotspeich <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The native printing does not appear to work properly either on Windows or Linux. Are there plans to improve this? Can Gutenprint be made to be a dependency? Are there efforts to add CUPS support directly to Gutenprint? As Sven said, it was decided to decouple GIMP and Gutenprint quite a while ago. I (as Gutenprint project lead) agree with that decision. It also gives us opportunities to do things that would be more difficult if we were tied to the GIMP release schedule. (I think that the GIMP native plugin needs to support full PPD functionality -- last I looked, it only handles a small set of options from the PPD file -- but that's a problem with GNOME Print, not GIMP per se.) In my opinion, taking the CUPS functionality of the current native Gimp printing and integrating that into Gutenprint would be the best option. This would work with any CUPS-configured printer since Gutenprint can be configured to print PostScript and CUPS provides the PPD. Once this is done, Gutenprint can be made a dependency of Gimp (as it was before with gimp-print). To what end? While Gutenprint can generate PostScript, that path loses functionality over the native drivers and is less efficient since there are more stages of conversion going on. Using native Gutenprint drivers, the plugin reconfigures its options appropriately depending upon other options that are set (e. g. when you set black and white mode, it removes all of the color controls). CUPS also doesn't have any notion of curve data types. I think that what you're really asking for is for the Gutenprint-based plugin to query CUPS for the attached printers. That would be a worthwhile RFE, if you're interested in helping out. I have used Gimp nearly since its inception and I'm quite a fan. As a software engineer, my motivation is to try to help to improve Gimp to make it better. Although I am quite busy, I may be able to make some time to donate to an improvement of printing under Gimp. Our mailing list is gimp-print-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You can subscribe by going to http://gutenprint.org and clicking on Mailing Lists. -- 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
