[Digikam-users] Print Assistant

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 10:22:53 BST 2016


Where is the problem exactly in this debug trace from the console ?

Gilles Caulier

2016-08-19 11:18 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:

> I have run digikam from a console and see these messages when trying to
> use the Print Assistant. Can anyone here please help in fixing this? I am
> more than happy to do some testing but need some advice on how to proceed.
>
> kipi.plugins:  printers:  1
> kipi.plugins:  printer:  "iP7200series-TurboPrint"
> kipi.plugins:  current  "Select page layout"
> kipi.plugins: "Select page layout"
> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(-1,
> -1)
> kipi.plugins: d->m_photoSizes.count()= 0
> kipi.plugins: d->m_photoSizes.isEmpty()= true
> kipi.plugins: Empty photoSize-list, create default size
>
> digikam.dimg: "/home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG"
> : JPEG file identified
> digikam.metaengine: Loading image history  ""
> digikam.metaengine: DateTime => Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal =>
> QDateTime(2015-12-26 16:41:57.000 GMT Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime))
> digikam.metaengine: Exif color-space tag is sRGB. Using default sRGB ICC
> profile.
> digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation =>  1
> kipi.plugins: Creating new ImageListViewItem with url
> QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> for list view  KIPIPlugins::KPImagesListView(0x482c7b0)
> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(210,
> 297)
> kipi.plugins: "Select page layout"
> kipi.plugins:  before  "Select page layout"
> kipi.plugins:  current  "Select page layout"
> kipi.plugins: Creating new ImageListViewItem with url
> QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> for list view  KIPIPlugins::KPImagesListView(0x482c7b0)
> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(210,
> 297)
> kipi.plugins: Request to update thumbnail for
> QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> kipi.plugins: Request to update thumbnail for
> QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> kipi.plugins: KIPI host send thumb ( QSize(169, 256) ) for
> QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work/Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> kipi.plugins: Update thumb in list for QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work
> /Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")
> kipi.plugins: Received new thumbnail for url QUrl("file:///home/stuart/Work
> /Graphics/Pentax-K500/2015/12/IMGP7556.JPG")  for view
> KIPIPlugins::KPImagesListView(0x482c7b0)
> kipi.plugins: Chosen printer:  "iP7200series-TurboPrint"
> kipi.plugins: Dialog exit, new size  QSizeF(210, 297)  internal size
> QSizeF(210, 297)
> kipi.plugins: Dialog exit, new margins: left  0  right  0  top  0  bottom
> 0
> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(210,
> 297)
> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(210,
> 297)
>
> Stuart
>
>
> On 16/08/16 00:06, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>
>> I can see this bug on Debian Testing as well.
>>
>> Messages from the console are:
>>
>> kipi.plugins: 0x4c219d8
>> kipi.plugins:  printers:  1
>> kipi.plugins:  printer:  "EPSON-Epson-Stylus-SX420W"
>> kipi.plugins:  current  "Select page layout"
>> kipi.plugins: "Select page layout"
>> kipi.plugins: New page size  QSizeF(210, 297) , old page size QSizeF(-1,
>> -1)
>> kipi.plugins: d->m_photoSizes.count()= 0
>> kipi.plugins: d->m_photoSizes.isEmpty()= true
>> kipi.plugins: Empty photoSize-list, create default size
>>
>> I'm guessing that perhaps in parsing the templates.xml file it looks for
>> a paper size of 210x297 and fails to match against the A4 size of
>> 210.0x297.0?
>>
>> That does not explain why the selection of a different paper size or
>> orientation does not stick though.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 13/08/16 10:21, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-08-13 11:07 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
>>> <mailto: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>
>>>             <mailto: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>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kipi-plugins.git&a=blob&h=9062a
>>> f87c03cd646299aa35c6e644df21ce7024b&hb=9e52b5a0f27360750598b
>>> ebf7ac927b0e832a07b&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>>
>>>                         <mailto: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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