Re: Printing with GIMP 2.4 (workaround)

["Howard Larson" <hblarson43@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tip!

--- In gimpwin-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jean-Louis Hamel <jlhamel@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> As shown in a recent thread, the new GTK print plugin of GIMP 2.4 
is 
> buggy; it is unusable on my HP printer (impossible to set some 
printer 
> parameters).
> 
> I would not revert to GIMP 2.2 only for printing and I don't want 
to use 
> another application for that task, because I am using a script-fu 
to 
> format my output (print one or several images on one A4 sheet with 
some 
> specific parametrizations).
> 
> I was happy with the print module of GIMP 2.2, and I discovered 
that 
> this module works with GIMP 2.4 too:
> - extract the file winprint.exe from the lib\GIMP\2.0\plug-ins of 
the 
> GIMP 2.2 installation
> - copy it in the corresponding directory of a GIMP 2.4 installation.
> 
> Fortunately, this plug-in is compiled for an environment compatible 
with 
> the two versions of GIMP, but for the future, it would be nice if 
it was 
> possible to keep this "winprint" plugin in the Windows version of 
GIMP; 
> the corresponding menu item could be renamed as "WinPrint" in order 
to 
> avoid  confusion with the GTK print plugin.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> JLH
>




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