[Digikam-users] Print Assistant

[Stuart T Rogers]

I have been doing some more on this. When I start the Print Assistant I 
see two lines in the top left box, one saying Unsupported Paper Size and 
a second line saying Custom and that's it, no templates at all.

I can see the templates.xml file in 
/usr/share/kipiplugin_printimages/templates/ and it seems to contain 
what it should and I've checked the permissions and all files are 
publicly readable. I do not have my own templates file in my home 
directory. Surely I should see the templates from this file when I start 
the Print Assistant. I think I need to fix this before trying to 
progress further.

Also found that I am unable to change orientation between portrait and 
landscape, it changes on the dialog but when I OK it and go back into 
the dialog portrait is still selected.

Stuart

On 06/08/16 06:42, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Well the driver for Qt application pass through the Qt5Print interface.
> The problem must be located in Qt5...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2016-08-04 23:01 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>:
>
>     Further testing shows that the printer driver works perfectly with
>     darktable and shotwell as well as Gimp. It only fails using digikam,
>     showfoto and gwenview.
>
>     Stuart
>
>
>     On 04/08/16 20:07, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>
>         Gilles
>
>         I will check that out but all I can say is the driver works
>         perfectly in
>         V4.14 of digikam, and in other programs. It shows the papaer
>         sizes but
>         will not allow me to select them, it still leaves the previous
>         setting
>         when I click on the photo paper size I want.
>
>         Stuart
>
>         On 04/08/16 11:06, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
>             In Print assistant, there are few config template files
>             which define
>             paper layout to use with printers (if i remember)...
>
>             Look here for details :
>
>             https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kipi-plugins.git&a=blob&h=9062af87c03cd646299aa35c6e644df21ce7024b&hb=9e52b5a0f27360750598bebf7ac927b0e832a07b&f=printimages%2Ftemplates%2FTEMPLATE_HOWTO
>             <https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kipi-plugins.git&a=blob&h=9062af87c03cd646299aa35c6e644df21ce7024b&hb=9e52b5a0f27360750598bebf7ac927b0e832a07b&f=printimages%2Ftemplates%2FTEMPLATE_HOWTO>
>
>
>             But, i feel that your printer driver is not complete and do
>             not provide
>             all device information to use in high level side.
>
>             Gilles Caulier
>
>
>             2016-08-03 18:46 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers
>             <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>
>             <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
>             <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>>:
>
>                 I have just tried to print a photo from digikam using
>             the Print
>                 Assistant and found that I am unable to select some of
>             the paper
>                 sizes supported by my printer, a Canon IP7250. I can
>             load most of
>                 the normal A4 type and Envelope sizes but it will not
>             select 5x7
>                 Borderless when I click on it, which is what I wanted to
>             use.
>
>                 I have used Gimp to print the photo now as I wanted but
>             still cannot
>                 get it to allow that size either in the Print Assistant
>             or just
>                 Print Images.
>
>                 Anyone any ideas please?
>
>                 Stuart
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