Accurate printing and adjustments
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| Accurate printing and adjustments | Dwayne Julin | 23 Oct 01:05 |
| Accurate printing and adjustments | Liam R E Quin | 23 Oct 02:00 |
| Accurate printing and adjustments | Liam R E Quin | 23 Oct 02:03 |
| SNT121-W566A074E61FF4819C10... | 24 Oct 14:10 | |
| Accurate printing and adjustments | Liam R E Quin | 24 Oct 14:08 |
Accurate printing and adjustments
Please forgive if this is not the right place - first time and GIMP info is so problematic to find. You that are involved do this all the time - we that dont find it very difficult and confusing to locate anything or find any help.
I am using GIMP 2.6.11
I am using it to make DVD jackets among other things and have a template made. It's been about a year since I've done a jacket and made no notes - my bad.
The Template is 10.597 inches wide X 7.292 inches high for a 7 mm spine jacket.
I have it set in the Image - Print Size as well
The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11.
The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual. Only A General and Image Setting Tab. The image Setting Tab is useless as nothing I change seems to matter. the maximum size I can enter is H= 5.670" and H= 8.240"
I have read section 1.6.2 Printing Photos and all the related links without finding out a thing. And nothing seems relivent.
All I would like to do is make a graphic and print it out at an exact (or very close) size. I didnt think it would be so difficult.
Please - will someone dirrect me to the proper forum or artical where I can research this? The GIMP manual is useless for this... or better yet just tell me why this is not working as I expect, then give a work-around or fix.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Dwayne Julin
Accurate printing and adjustments
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote:
The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11.
The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual.
What operating system is this? What sort of printer? If Linux, are you using gutenprint or CUPS or what? What colour socks are you wearing? :) Where did you get your version of gimp 2.6.11 (and why are you using an old version...)
I find I have to do file->page setup for the specific printer, and then go to file->print immediately.
I can't help you any more without more information, sorry. Printing varies a lot between operating systems.
Liam
Accurate printing and adjustments
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote:
The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11.
The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual.
What operating system is this? What sort of printer? If Linux, are you using gutenprint or CUPS or what? What colour socks are you wearing? :) Where did you get your version of gimp 2.6.11 (and why are you using an old version...)
I find I have to do file->page setup for the specific printer, and then go to file->print immediately.
I can't help you any more without more information, sorry. Printing varies a lot between operating systems.
Liam
Accurate printing and adjustments
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 08:43 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote:
Operaing system Vista Home Prem. (I know... I know....) Printer is an Epson Artisen 810
Sock color Dark blue - (today)
Got GIMP 2.6.11 from the Official GIMP website (link to windoz installer)
OK, so now we know we're on Windows and not Linux or Mac. Thanks.
I am using it because I dont use it often and have a lot of add-ons for video and animation installed. Hate to mess with yet another learning curve and this computer - its all I've got. I have also read a lot about the next version that was coming out (after 2.6) talking about limiting file handing to GIMP's "native" format and restricting older image file formats.
This is not correct, there was just a change to the menu item and the keyboard shortcut, GIMP still works with other file formats.
2.6 worked for me but has never printed the way I like or think it should. I'm just trying to see if there is a problem with my installed version of GIMP or if its a bug in its code. For instance - not being able to change to landscape. The printer seems to work with all other software installed and individual program settings do change to landscape.
On Linux I can print in landscape just fine. I don't have a Windows system here to try that, I'm afraid, but I recently heard that there are some problems with print under Windows for GIMP. The main developers use Linux, so unless the problems get reported in detail by Windows users, no-one knows there's a problem... it may be that someone else can answer. I'm guessing you are using the Windows driver that came from Epson.
(also, I can't currently send mail to hotmail addresses from this account so Dwayne probably won't see this reply, I'll send a private copy)
BTW: to properly address a question to the group - I use the subject line of the email to pose the question?
The subject line should be a short summary of the question, which is then repeated in more detail in the message, along with all the information someone might need to be able to answer it.
