[Digikam-users] Print Assistant
Gilles Caulier
caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 10:21:32 BST 2016
2016-08-13 11:07 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
> 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
>
> No idea about OpenSuse.
If it work with 4.x and not 5.x, i suspect something different with Qt5
about Print interface and the way to handle printer features/configuration.
The tools have been ported as well from Qt4 to Qt5. Nothing have been
removed especially.
> I assume the Print Assistant is part of the Kipi Plugins which are at
> V5.1.0 and digiKam itself is 5.1.0.
yes it is...
Gilles Caulier
>
>
> 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=9062af
>>> 87c03cd646299aa35c6e644df21ce7024b&hb=9e52b5a0f27360750598be
>>> bf7ac927b0e832a07b&f=printimages%2Ftemplates%2FTEMPLATE_HOWTO
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kipi-plugins.git&a=blob&h=9062a
>>> f87c03cd646299aa35c6e644df21ce7024b&hb=9e52b5a0f27360750598b
>>> ebf7ac927b0e832a07b&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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