[Digikam-devel] DigiKam Printing

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 00.29 schrieb Till Kamppeter:
> Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Monday 19 December 2005 23:23, Gerhard Kulzer wrote:
> >>Gutenprint 5.0 from Gimp is what I
> >>use to my total satisfaction.
> >
> > gimpprint is a set of printer drivers, if you configure your printer to
> > use one, kdes printing system won't mind a bit.
>
> KDE Print will show all options of the Gimp-Print/Gutenprint PPDs, the
> only thing which you get more with the Gutenprint GIMP-plugin dialog is
> a better UI, gamma curves, and live preview of changes. So if the
> options of the Gimp-Print/Gutenprint PPDs are enough for you, you will
> have no problems with KDE apps. If your concern is the missing
> Gutenprint dialog, then there is really potential to make DigiKam
> printing better, for example by using the Gutenprint dialog or perhaps

Sounds great, would it be easily possible to use the Gutenprint dialog out of 
digiKam? 
It really does what I want. Ok, the gtk look is not KDE look. If digiKam 
wanted to improve anything, it should be the lousy resolution in the 
positional preview of Gutenprint.

> And not to forget the image position adjustment, as Gerhard already
> mentioned (but there I would suggest that one can also scale the image
> bigger than 100 % to be able to crop it, either for full-bleed or to
> through away unwished border portions.