[Gimp-user] Accurate printing and adjustments
Please forgive if this is not the right place - first time and GIMP info is so problematic to find. You that are involved do this all the time - we that dont find it very difficult and confusing to locate anything or find any help. I am using GIMP 2.6.11 I am using it to make DVD jackets among other things and have a template made. It's been about a year since I've done a jacket and made no notes - my bad. The Template is 10.597 inches wide X 7.292 inches high for a 7 mm spine jacket. I have it set in the Image - Print Size as well The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11. The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual. Only A General and Image Setting Tab. The image Setting Tab is useless as nothing I change seems to matter. the maximum size I can enter is H= 5.670 and H= 8.240 I have read section 1.6.2 Printing Photos and all the related links without finding out a thing. And nothing seems relivent. All I would like to do is make a graphic and print it out at an exact (or very close) size. I didnt think it would be so difficult. Please - will someone dirrect me to the proper forum or artical where I can research this? The GIMP manual is useless for this... or better yet just tell me why this is not working as I expect, then give a work-around or fix. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Dwayne Julin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Accurate printing and adjustments
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote: The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11. The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual. What operating system is this? What sort of printer? If Linux, are you using gutenprint or CUPS or what? What colour socks are you wearing? :) Where did you get your version of gimp 2.6.11 (and why are you using an old version...) I find I have to do file-page setup for the specific printer, and then go to file-print immediately. I can't help you any more without more information, sorry. Printing varies a lot between operating systems. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Accurate printing and adjustments
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote: The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11. The Print menu from the File menu only has 2 tabs - nothing like what is shown on the on-line manual. What operating system is this? What sort of printer? If Linux, are you using gutenprint or CUPS or what? What colour socks are you wearing? :) Where did you get your version of gimp 2.6.11 (and why are you using an old version...) I find I have to do file-page setup for the specific printer, and then go to file-print immediately. I can't help you any more without more information, sorry. Printing varies a lot between operating systems. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
