-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sven, Thanks for your reponse. > It works nicely for me and for most other users. If it doesn't work for > you, then there appears to be a bug or some misconfiguration on your > system. Perhaps you should try to isolate the problem and open a bug > report. I posted a detailed report of the issues that I was having to the gimp-user mailing list. The response from everyone was that it was common knowledge that native Gimp printing was problematic and to use Gutenprint. Not a single person disagreed with me when I concluded that the native Gimp printing was broken and unusable. I pressed the issue further inquiring why Gimp would ship with a known-broken printing system. The response I got was that my Linux distribution (OpenSUSE 11.1) was broken for not installing the Gutenprint Gimp plugin by default! >> In my opinion, taking the CUPS functionality of the current native Gimp >> printing and integrating that into Gutenprint would be the best option. > > There is no CUPS functionality in the current native GIMP printing. The > GIMP print plug-in knows nothing about CUPS or whatever other print > backend you may be using on your system. It uses the GTK+ print API > which provides a nice abstraction layer on top of the platform-specific > print system. I used the wrong term; I apologize. The GTK+ print API can integrate with CUPS and I just used the word CUPS by mistake. > Your help would be appreciated. But you did not tell us what the problem > with printing is that you want to improve. If it's just that printing > doesn't work for you, then I am sure that you will be able to find and > fix the problem in your setup. If you want to improve the native GIMP > print plug-in, then please propose those enhancements here. My wife has Gimp on Windows Vista. Windows allows printer drivers, such as the one for our HP OfficeJet 6110 to set parameters like paper size, orientation, etc. The Gimp native printing also allows these options to be set. This creates a conflict. After many dozens of wasted sheets of photo paper, I concluded that Gimp's native printing does not work on Windows (at least for my printer) at all -- no setting results in the desired output. My printer accepts photo paper lengthwise on the right-hand side of the printer. With Gimp on Windows -- even when the printer driver and Gimp's paper size and orientation are matched -- printer prints in the center of the carriage and in landscape mode. I have tried all possible permutations of paper size between Gimp and the Windows driver. Since this setup works great for all other applications (e.g. Word, IE, Firefox, etc.), I don't see how the problem could lie anywhere else than Gimp. Additionally, on my Linux computer, I also had problems. You can see my post on gimp-user for reference (or I could re-post here). The most serious problem is that it wouldn't allow me to set the dimensions (the were stuck at 1.5in x 1.5in) at all and the dpi was stuck at 1500. Neither the dimentions or the dpi could be changed making it impossible for me to print anything but a small square in the image. Not only that, but it didn't have the "use original image size" button to auto-fit the image. The native gimp printing doesn't have an auto-orientation feature either; this is another failure point. The auto-orientation feature is critical since different printers accept paper in different ways for portrait and landscape. For reference, I have a server connected to an HP OfficeJet 6110 running CUPS. The back-end CUPS driver is Foomatic/HPIJS. Both my wife's Windows Vista computer and mine (OpenSUSE 11.1 running CUPS) do network printing. I got my printer working using the Gimp Gutenprint plug-in using PostScript level 2 and the following command line: "lp -s -d hpoj6110 -o sides=one-sided -o PrintoutMode=Photo". I haven't tried the native Gutenprint drivers, but I'm sure they'd work well too. Regards, Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqKtJQACgkQY21D/n6bGwdnxQCeLYVvbrEPkXoVA9P4cSvJSxRn fE4AoMBPcf6rb6+/nhDbH2fyEiDIkfqy =MCvL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
