Digikam 5.7 and printing with Photoprint

[Stuart T Rogers]

Gilles

I have just looked at the Tools menu at the top of the screen in 5.7.0 
and there is no Print Creator menu entry. Also cannot find it in any 
other menu either which is why I thought the print function ha been removed.

Stuart

On 24/09/17 10:02, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> But we don't remove print feature at all...
> 
> Print must be avaialble everywhere in 5.7.0 release. Look for ex in 
> Tools menu, there is an entry named "Print Creator" that you can send 
> data to print to Gimp engine to process work on printer device.
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2017-09-24 10:47 GMT+02:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk 
> <mailto:stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>>:
> 
>     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>
>         <mailto: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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