On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:46:03 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Are you using cups? Or something else? If you have your printer > working : under cups, then I would think that gimp would print to it. > > I have cups running. I'd have thought that too, so I'm doing > something insanely stupid. I can print to my other HP printer, but it > understands .ps natively. If the answer to printing from gimp is > 'just print a .ps' then I'm happy. Hi all, I have gimp and cups running on my box. From gimp, all I need to do is go to the option and select the (cups based) printer I want and off it goes. I actually did this yesterday with no problem. Photo quality printing and all that I havent been able to test/use yet, but I should in the near future. The comments about the right driver and using any of the several options in Gimp's print dialog would seem spot on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat Apr 1 08:53:56 2006] ~ $ pkg_info | grep cup cups-1.1.23.0_1 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple cups-base-1.1.23.0_8 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons cups-lpr-1.1.23.0_1 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma cups-pdf-1.7.4 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers cups-samba-5.0.r3 The Common UNIX Printing System: MS Windows client drivers libgnomecups-0.2.2_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration $ pkg_info | grep gimp gimp-2.2.10_1,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp-print-4.2.7_2 GIMP Print Printer Driver When installing Cups, I remember seeing some instructions relating to being able to print from GIMP... ah yes, /usr/ports/print/cups-base/pkg-message: [....] ********************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: ============ To enable printing under Gimp do the following: 1) Uncomment application/octet-stream line in mime.types 2) Uncomment application/octet-stream line in mime.convs 3) Restart cupsd [....] I don't particularly remember doing this... if everything in your system matches this, let me know what other info you want and I'm happy to share it. good luck, Beto _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
