Might I raise the printing issue again

Stuart T Rogers stuart at stella-maris.org.uk
Mon Jul 3 19:41:53 BST 2017


Gilles

If you can do that I will of course test it. I currently run openSUSE 
Tumbleweed  and Leap 42.2 so I can test on either or both.

Thanks  Stuart

On 03/07/17 19:29, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I currently to rewrite the old PrintAsiistant kipi tool in digiKam
> core as a Print Creator tool.
> 
> The implementation was bugous. I fixed a lots of problem inside.
> 
> This implementation provide a way to print through Gimp printing
> engine. Did you try this ? If Gimp work fine, i will provide you a
> 5.7.0 pre version as Linux Bundle including my last works on this tool
> (not available any more as a kipi tool).
> 
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 
> 
> 2017-07-03 18:23 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
>> Since Digikam moved over to QT printing support it has not (and still is
>> not) working correctly. The issue is that not all the correct page sizes for
>> a printer show or are selectable. Now I realise that this is not Digikams
>> fault but it does prevent me using it for printing photos which is something
>> I always used to do. There is a bug report with QT at
>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733 opened back in February but
>> there has been no movement on the issue at all. This issue not only affects
>> Digikam but every application which uses QT Printing Support
>>
>> Can I ask anyone who uses Digikam to print (or any other applications which
>> uses QT) to please get an id for QT and vote for this issue. I think this is
>> the only way to get any movement on the problem if more folks vote for it to
>> get fixed.
>>
>> Stuart
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> 

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