[Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-23 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi, I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious problem with printing that I cannot figure out. For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to Gimp, Linux, or Unix. That being said, I found the printing in Gimp 2.2 to be near perfect. It worked perfectly and had

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-24 Thread Erik Lotspeich
engineer myself, so it's not like I'm speaking simply from a user point-of-view. Regards, Erik. Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: Hi, I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious problem with printing that I cannot figure out

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris, I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only solidifies my point which is: Native Gimp printing = FAIL Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribution

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gene, Your point is well taken. I do not expect the Gimp people to keep on top of printing at all. But why not have Gutenprint be a pre-requisite to Gimp? Why deliver a broken default printing system? For the record, my distro does deliver the

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi Norman, I guess that it is possible your theory is correct and that this is the motivation. Since printing with Gimp on Vista does not work properly, it calls this theory into question, however. Regards, Erik Norman Silverstone wrote: snip Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imagine

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling a foto

2009-08-17 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi Monika, I haven't experienced a loss in quality with scaling photos smaller; as you mentioned, loss of quality will occur with enlargements. Are you scaling before you crop the photos? How are you scaling (I scale with Image-Scale Image). What are your original target sizes? Regards,