Digikam 5.7 and printing with Photoprint

[Stuart T Rogers]

My apologies I can see it in the right click menu on an image. Obviously 
this is there because I have it installed. I had assumed, wrongly, it 
was there because the print function has been removed from digikam.

One of my main uses of digikam is to print my photos and prior to it 
using QT this was what I always used for printing. Because of the QT bug 
it was not possible to use the printing facilities of digikam.

Now I realise that the print function problems are not digikam's fault 
but it is so frustrating that QT are ignoring the paper size selection 
bug (QTBUG-58733), this has been open since February this year and 
nothing has been done by the QT devs.

If the printing capabilities of QT are not fixed and the print options 
of digikam restored I will need to try to find another image management 
tool which allows me to both manage and print successfully which is a 
great shame since I do like its management capabilities. It is a huge 
shame that applications like digikam have to remove useful options 
because of a bug elsewhere.

Stuart

On 24/09/17 08:42, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> What do you mean by "photoprint" ? Where do you see any reference of 
> photoprint in digiKam ?
> 
> 2017-09-24 9:33 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk 
> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>:
> 
>     I noticed that printing now is accomplished by using Photoprint
>     rather than the original tools. However this does not work for me.
>     Photoprint is quite old and seems not to be actively supported
>     although the website still exists. It looks like it works and seems
>     to send data to my Canon iP7250 (over wireless) but nothing happens
>     at the printer. Has anyone here actually printed successfully using
>     Photoprint and if so how? Was the printer wireless or USB connected?
>     I am using the latest available version of Photoprint.
> 
>     Sadly the QT paper size bug preventing successful use of printing
>     seems to be being ignored by the QT developers.
> 
>     Stuart
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