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] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread Norman Silverstone
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. You have a point. However, my view has always been that, although it is great that the bulk of software

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:40:42 am 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. For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to Gimp, Linux, or Unix. That being said, I found the

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-26 Thread Norman Silverstone
snip Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imagine your mother-in-law who wants to print a photo with Gimp. She will fail. That is my point. I think that you all are missing the point that I'm making. Your mother-in-law will be confused by Print and Print with Gutenprint. Nobody has to

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Erik Lotspeiche...@lotspeich.org wrote: The fact that the Gimp engineers haven't integrated these two printing systems is unacceptable -- they should be ashamed.  Gimp will never be taken seriously until this printing nightmare is resolved.  I am a software

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 Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: 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

2009-07-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
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. 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

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-24 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi Joao, I very much appreciate your measured response to my rant! ;) I installed the Gutenprint plugin and printing works exactly as I would expect it to. Your suggestion really saved the day for me and I appreciate it greatly! For the record, I find it absurd that Gimp has two parallel

[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