Digikam 5.7 and printing with Photoprint

[Stuart T Rogers]

I just tried the 5.8 appimage and cannot see it in there either.

Stuart

On 24/09/17 10:12, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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