Might I raise the printing issue again

[Gilles Caulier]

ok, i will start to rebuild AppImage now...

Gilles Caulier

2017-07-03 20:41 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
> 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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