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how to set defaults for printing and so on

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how to set defaults for printing and so on Maggy 27 Apr 13:59
  how to set defaults for printing and so on Sven Neumann 28 Apr 22:04
2010-04-27 13:59:09 UTC (over 14 years ago)
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how to set defaults for printing and so on

When I take a screenshot, crop it in the Gimp, send it to my printer, I first have to select page layout> orientation>portrait, paper source > cassette, then I have to go to print, select my default printer from a list, go to printer preferences, select cassette as paper source once again, select portrait printing once again, go back to the Gimp print menu, go to the second tab, lower the DPI settings to fit the image to the paper size, or else I get the screen shot by default as a 300dpi stamp size in the top left corner of the paper. Or I get an error message telling me that there is no paper in the rear tray (it's always empty).
And all these actions time and time again, each time that I want to print a screen shot. Unless there is a decent way to set such things as defaults, I'm sorry to say that I find this a very clumsy time consumig way of printing. There are many other things for which I would like to set defaults in the Gimp but I've not yet been able to find where.

My Gimp is the portable version for Windows. My printer is the default printer in Windows and most other programs accept the defaults that I've set once for this printer. So normally when I click print in any program it is set to center, stretch to fill the entire page, print in portrait orientation and use the cassette because that's the only place I ever use to store paper.

So I hope there is someone out here that can tell me how to tell the Gimp how to behave in this manner.

thanks Maggy

Sven Neumann
2010-04-28 22:04:00 UTC (over 14 years ago)

how to set defaults for printing and so on

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:59 +0200, Maggy R. wrote:

When I take a screenshot, crop it in the Gimp, send it to my printer, I first have to select page layout> orientation>portrait, paper source > cassette, then I have to go to print, select my default printer from a list, go to printer preferences, select cassette as paper source once again, select portrait printing once again, go back to the Gimp print menu, go to the second tab, lower the DPI settings to fit the image to the paper size, or else I get the screen shot by default as a 300dpi stamp size in the top left corner of the paper. Or I get an error message telling me that there is no paper in the rear tray (it's always empty).
And all these actions time and time again, each time that I want to print a screen shot. Unless there is a decent way to set such things as defaults, I'm sorry to say that I find this a very clumsy time consumig way of printing. There are many other things for which I would like to set defaults in the Gimp but I've not yet been able to find where.

The settings you choose will be used as default settings the next time you print. If that doesn't work, then there's a bug somewhere or it is due to the fact that you are using the portable version for Windows. Most likely it simply can't write the settings.

Printer settings are stored in ~/.gimp-2.6/print-page-setup and ~/.gimp-2.6/print-settings.

Sven