Hi,

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:25 +0900, Choi, JiHui wrote:

1. in windows, gimp doesn't have print preview..

That's a problem of the GTK+ print system. The implementation on Windows is lacking some functionality. I am sure the GTK+ developers would love to get some help with that.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376469

And some links to bug reports about problems with the Print preview on other platforms:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491488 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505453 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509909

As you can see there is a lot left to be done.

and in ubuntu, gimp doesn't have even print menu, either

The people who package GIMP for Ubuntu decided to build GIMP without Print support. If you want to know why, you got to ask them.

Sven

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:00 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:25 +0900, Choi, JiHui wrote:

1. in windows, gimp doesn't have print preview..

That's a problem of the GTK+ print system. The implementation on Windows is lacking some functionality. I am sure the GTK+ developers would love to get some help with that.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376469

And some links to bug reports about problems with the Print preview on other platforms:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491488 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505453 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509909

As you can see there is a lot left to be done.

and in ubuntu, gimp doesn't have even print menu, either

The people who package GIMP for Ubuntu decided to build GIMP without Print support. If you want to know why, you got to ask them.

I'm pretty sure the same thing is true of the latest Fedora package for gimp 2.4.3. But one can get the gutenprint gimp plugin which does the job quite well. I bet that is available for ubuntu also.

Sven

Hi,

to shed some more light on the issue of how preview works with the GIMP Print plug-in based on GTK+ Print, here's an excerpt from another mail on this subject:

We just hand-off printing (and previewing) to Gtk. Gtk then calls the appropriate pdf viewer. WHat is the "appropriate" previewer can be configured in .gtkrc-2.0 located in your home directory. The important entry is:

gtk-print-preview-command="evince --unlink-tempfile --preview --print-settings %s %f"

the above line should work for most older versions of evince. Of course you can also use other programs such as:
gtk-print-preview-command="gv %f"

or
gtk-print-preview-command="xpdf -q %f"

Note that evince is preferred since gtk creates temporary files and --unlink-tempfile tells evince to delete them. The other commands will keep those temporary pdf files around.

Note that this is only true for printing on Linux and other UNIX platforms. Your desktop may also override the settings in your .gtkrc-2.0.

On Win32 things work differently. As far as I understand the default viewer for metafiles is used for the preview. By default this seems to be the "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer".

Sven

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I'm pretty sure the same thing is true of the latest Fedora package for gimp 2.4.3. But one can get the gutenprint gimp plugin which does the job quite well. I bet that is available for ubuntu also.

As far as I know, it always has for Ubuntu.

Norman