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

[Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Cline Frasier <misty34@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:32:13 -0400

> This printing problem is a bug in Windows version
> of Gimp 2.4.6 and 2.4.7. The only way I've been
> able to print from these versions is to experiment
> with the dpi setting in the printer dialog that
> comes up when printing. I posted the problem with
> 2.4.6 on the Gimp bug reporting list and it was
> verified as a bug. How the bug manifests itself
> during printing is a little different in 2.4.7,
> but it is still there.

Please notice that printing is essentially a device
dependent operation, and a real nightmare to
implement well even for very large shrink-wrap
software development corporations.

The implementation team has to choose just what
range of printers in what printer families it will
support, and then cater to all their quirks, at the
architecture, design, implementation, and testing
stages.

It's a bit much to expect that software built by
volunteer labor is going to match the stuff built
with big money corporate funding.

I'm guessing that someone somewhere will _always_
find that printing in GIMP doesn't work on their
particular printer, because GTK+ has not yet covered
that particular piece of hardware's quirks.

All that said, GTK+ has the opportunity to become a
"pretty good" printer library, just because it is
being used as a library by several different
application programs, focusing more attention on its
limitations.

It's a bit of a shame that MS-Windows, the world's
majority operating system, is such a pig to program
within, lacking most of what experienced programmers
expect in the way of software development tools,
that most of the open source software is developed
under *nix instead, with MS-Windows compatability
and porting almost always an afterthought.

xanthian, printer driver implementation battles:
been there, done that, Software Publishing
Corporation (makers of "Harvard Graphics"),
1988-1989.

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