Might I raise the printing issue again

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 08:19:52 BST 2017


2017-07-15 9:14 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:
> Gilles
>
> I have tried to print to Gimp using 5.6 (package from openSUSE) with the
> Print Assistant and although I am still unable to select the correct print
> size (5x7 inches which does not even show up in the list) I have selected
> postcard and then gone ahead but it fails to open Gimp, however if I right
> click on the photo and open with Gimp that opens just fine.
>
> Next I downloaded 5.7 appimage but the same issue currently exists in that
> it fails to open Gimp from Print Assistant. The same issue is apparent over
> paper sizes as well.
>
> Now I'm not sure if the 5.7 appimage is the one with your latest version of
> the Assistant or not, it was downloaded today.


No the AppImage 5.7 is not updated with all my last changes in
PrintCreator. I will try to run AppImage build machine this week end.

>
> I am not sure what you are hoping to achieve by doing Print to Gimp, since
> opening the image with Gimp allows access to printing anyway, or are you
> attempting to just use Gimp printing support without opening the full
> program?

It generate the iamge and open files to Gimp. The printing system from
Gimp is used instead Qt5 print module.

Gilles Caulier



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