That's great, thanks. Bought the book, by the way. Very useful even though I've been using Gimp for quite a long time now.
Thomas On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:00:18 -0000, Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Worthington writes: >> > Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work like the old >> > Gimp-Print one? The new one is hopeless: doesn't list my printers >> (which > > norman writes: >> that I haven't yet got Gimp 2.4.1 installed as there is nothing yet for >> non-techies using Ubuntu. However, according to the image in Akkana >> Peck's book it looks the same as in earlier versions of Gimp as does the >> page in Gimp 2.4 rc3. > > The new GTK print system wasn't introduced into GIMP until after > "Beginning GIMP" went to press, so the dialogs shown in the book are the > Gutenprint ones, not the new default print dialog that comes from GTK. > >> > I assume that the print dialog in 2.4 is a placeholder for soemthing >> else >> > but I don't know what. Should I be using Gutenprint now? > > You can still get the Gutenprint plug-in from the project's web site > http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ -- or you may be able to > install it as part of your distro. Ubuntu Gutsy seems to install > Gutenprint by default, instead of the gtk print plug-in, but I don't > know what other distros are doing with 2.4. You can have both > installed -- they'll show up in the File menu as "Print" and "Print > with Gutenprint". > > I use Gutenprint myself, because of the control it gives me over > resolution, paper type, and placement on the page, its live preview, > and because GTK print is still a bit buggy; but GTK's print has > improved quite a bit recently, so it may yet become usable. > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
