[Digikam-users] Print Assistant

[Stuart T Rogers]

Can anyone here please let me know whether or not they see this issue? I 
am getting nowhere trying to figure out why this does not work for me in 
V5 but does in 4.14 on the same openSUSE Tumbleweed system. I'd like to 
try and work out if this is a bug in the Print Assistant or if it is 
something to do with the openSUSE implementation/compilation. I must 
point out that Print Images also fails

I assume the Print Assistant is part of the Kipi Plugins which are at 
V5.1.0 and digiKam itself is 5.1.0.

Stuart

On 10/08/16 10:32, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> 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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