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

["Tor Lillqvist" <tml@xxxxxx>]

> 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.

Sure, if you want to do it extremely well, you probably might want to
take some device-specific quirks into consideration for some known
special cases.

That is not the problem with GIMP (or GTK+ actually) printing on
Windows, though. It is just broken in much more generic ways. No
device-specific knowledge is needed to make it work better.

> The implementation team has to choose just what
> range of printers in what printer families it will support,

Sorry, but this is misinformation. Flashback from Windows 3.x?

 > 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,

Of course, that is not true at all. Surely the majority of experienced
programmers *today* are experienced with Microsoft's Visual Studio? To
them it is Unix in general and Linux in particular that lack what they
("experienced programmers") expect in the way of software development
tools, i.e., Microsoft Visual Studio. Old school programmers like me
(and you?) who come from a Unix background, and still recall when Make
was a new and interesting invention, are definitely a minority.

--tml

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