Unable to print correct paper size with Print Creator

[Gilles Caulier]

For incompatibility reasons, AppImage still build with Qt 5.9.1, not 5.9.3.
I will switch to 5.9.3 later DK 5.8.0 release because this require to
recompile whole Centos6 environnement from scratch an this take age.

Probably the Qt 5.9.3 or better the 5.10 version just released i December
will work better with printer settings. I don't know and i must check all
regression tests before to update Qt in AppImage.

So one problem after another one.

Gilles Caulier


2017-12-29 18:18 GMT+01:00 Stuart T Rogers <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>:

> The fix for this issue in QT just hit my Tumbleweed system today. I have
> tested Print Creator under a normal install of 5.7 of digikam and it allows
> me to select the printer and QT gives me the valid paper size I want and am
> allowed to select it OK.
>
> The Appimage 5.8 however does not allow me to select my printer though so
> am unable to use Appimage version if I want to print.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 28/12/17 10:47, Simon Frei wrote:
>
>> This is still a problem with QT's print component:
>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733
>> This hasn't seen any progress for a long time, but now there is a patch
>> in review, so hopefully we will see a fix released in the near future.
>>
>> On 28/12/17 11:40, Stuart T Rogers wrote:
>>
>>> I decided to take a look at Print Creator using the latest 5.8
>>> appimage for 64 bit Linux.
>>>
>>> Printing a single image via GIMP works fine as long as I use a
>>> standard paper size like A4 or Postcard. However when I want to print
>>> a non-standard paper size which my printer supports like 7x5 inches
>>> there is no option for that size and no custom paper size, at least
>>> I've not found a way to set a custom size.
>>>
>>> This is an issue for me and actually 7x5 photo paper is quite common
>>> especially for Canon printers (and maybe others as well). I know I can
>>> scale a photo in GIMP to be that size but by the time the photo
>>> reaches GIMP it is already scaled by Digikam so I'm not working with
>>> the original.
>>>
>>> The current implementation to print via GIMP is fine if using standard
>>> paper sizes but to print on non-standard paper it is still better to
>>> open the image in GIMP and scale and print from GIMP.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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