Re: Gimp won't reduce graphics to Print Size on printing

["Tor Lillqvist" <tml@xxxxxx>]

> changed the resolution from 90dpi to 300dpi, whereupon the millimetre dimensions
> reduced sufficiently to fit the paper.

I doubt that is necessary. The "dpi" (should be ppi) information
inside image files is just for information, no software needs to
actually use it. Any software that is good at printing will have
options to ignore any "dpi" setting in the file anyway, and offer
possibilities to scale the image to fit the paper, etc. (I assume this
is possible in GIMP, too, but then printing in GIMP on Windows is
broken anyway, read on.)

> Eventually I had to use  (blush!) Microsoft Photo Editor, a freebie that
> comes with Windows XP.

Nothing to blush about. If it works, use it. Printing on Windows is
known to be broken in various ways in GTK+ 2.12 (GTK+ is the toolkit
that GIMP uses). It is hopefully better in GTK+ 2.14. Until you have a
GIMP where printing works reliably, by all means, use another
application to print your images. If printing out images is the main
thing you use GIMP for, and you print several times a day, GIMP is
probably the wrong application for you anyway.

--tml

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