Hi Ian,
I think you have it right. And, in fact, your work-around I vaguely
recall using probably nearly a year ago, so maybe from MX17 and not 17.1
. And, in fact, I tried it in the past week ot two unsuccessfully, but
didn't mention it amongst all the workarounds I did try with like
outcomes. I thought it would be less guff to throw at the Lubuntu
community whom I would merely trouble to hear if anyone had encountered
a similar problem with GIMP 2.8.x.
Now I have a cascade of dichotomies to investigate, along with all the
relevant interactions:
GIMP 2.8.22 vs GIMP 2.8.?? ?
LO 6.0.3 vs LO 5.x.y ?
MX17 vs MX17.1 ?
(At least it's the same printer!)
So I'll be pragmatic rather than academic and download MX18beta1 even
though I'd rather get past the beta version and see it that cures my
problem before deciding to go bughunting.
Fact is, I don't use GIMP often enough to be confident with it. Usually
I'm trying to isolate an image from a PDF file, often generated as an
Adobe Acrobat pic, and resize it for presentation. Last time I succeeded
was with the new letterhead a graphic designer had designed for the
charity my wife and I run, to isolate the logo itself and resize it.
Yes, I did succeed - then. Now, this lad I'm mentoring drew up visuals
for the plays he had strategized for the kids soccer teams he and other
young men are coaching locally on behalf of the Sports Academy (??) of
Portugal. He did it all on GIMP, then asked me to print it for handouts
for the coaches' seminar. Much egg on face because of tiny print sizes,
also time budget. Should have taken perhaps 5 minutes, he had about 30
to spare. Which wasn't enough, with the original image refusing even LO
Draw's efforts to resize it.
I really don't do much graphics, and I probably do do it in LO
(importing, positioning, resizing externally obtained images) . I keep
GIMP around for the rare occasion where greater abilities are needed and
I can set aside an hour or so to experiment with the techniques needed
for GIMP /de jour/. But I find it frustrating that it is so difficult to
do the simplest of creative and editing functions in GIMP that I am
seriously discouraged from fiddling around with it in spare moments to
get used to doing things its way, at least at a very elementary level.
Like: <rant>
Define a point, A
Use it as the centre of a circle, C1
Define another point, B
Connect A and B with a straight line AB
Connect A and B with a freehand wiggly line A~B
Drag the circumference of C1 to pass through B, making another
circle C2
Shade the ring-like space between C1 and C2 (the torus? Is it a
/torus/? Wow! If not, then too bad, you understand what I mean) and fill
it with a selected colour
Select some portion of this exciting image by framing it with some
rectangle whose position and size I can easily define with just the mouse.
Print selected portion without resizing it
Resize and reposition by dragging on the printable space. Print it
to the corresponding size.
- all within shall we say 8 minutes, without referencing any text manual
pages, relying only on the rather intuitive menu-headings and entries
(where GIMP currently fails massively in my experience)...
If GIMP could do that - reliably, from version to version - year in and
year out, while getting more and more AutoCAD threatening if that's what
they want to do - I would play with it and graduate close on 10 children
a year from our safe home as happy, intuitive
competent-at-an-elementary-level Linux users, LO users, VLC users, and
GIMP (*gimp* maybe?) users. Living proof to the school system that they
should permit the use of open systems in the classroom and staff offices
as they are by implication obliged to do.
What would it take to write an elementary UI for GIMP, with a
much-simplified/reduced menu system and reduced option-set, with
possibly an intermediate alternative, allowing eventual progress to raw
GIMP which had been hiding behind the friendly screens all along? Select
complexity level from initial menu screen? Remember, you don't want to
mess with the innards, just the UI? Hopefully?
Ive been writing software for 50 years and hate getting egg on my face
because someone else's UI doesn't make sense to simple beings.
</rant>
Cheers
Basil
On 05/12/18 13:39, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
Hi Basil,
I hope I've understood your problem correctly...
When faced with problems like this, I import the image into
LibreOffice Draw, set the page to Portrait / Landscape, resize the
image appropriately, and print it from there.
To set the page to Portrait or Landscape, load LO Draw and go Format
-> Page Properties and then choose the appropriate Portrait /
Landscape radio button.
The above approach is used in a charity, Contact, that I volunteer in
and works for me :)
HTH,
Ian
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