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

[Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@xxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Tor Lillqvist" <tml@xxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:01:28 +0300

>>> Xanthian, instead of just talking in general,
>>> could you give some concrete examples of how one
>>> needs to take printer model specific quirks into
>>> account when using the Win32 printing related
>>> APIs?

>> Not likely, 20 years later.

> But Win32 did not exist 20 years ago.

So? Once again you are entirely out of line.

Did you even bother to read to the bottom of my
original answer, or did you just return some snippy
comment out of meanness of spirit?

The unethical competition tactics and sloppy
software development and software quality control
habits at Microsoft, have existed since it was
founded. The realities of a marketplace where some
potential software targets (both hardware and other
software, like browsers) have too small a market
share for first party and third party developers to
spend time catering to them, has existed since the
first third party software was created.

The limitations of standards to define now and
forever what such a software target's interface must
be able to convey and how to take correct and full
advantages of that software target's quirks and
features beyond the standard, have all existed since
before Microsoft existed.

The problem addressing a diverse marketplace of
software interface targets with a single interface
component isn't an operating system specific
problem, it isn't even a software-specific problem;
the same issues occur for making bags full of
assorted gaskets cater for all the faucets that
buyers might have in their homes.

The intention of my original answer was just to warn
the original author that users of GIMP, and thus
downstream users of GTK+, should not expect for free
the same coverage of printer types that can be put
into commercial software by the expenditure of very
large effort and very large expense by big
companies, so that some personal printers might well
_never_ be covered by GIMP. The end result is the
usual advice: save the GIMP image in a file, import
it to some program with better printing
capabilities, and print it from there.

All of these are ongoing realities, not stuff that
needs detailed example. In GIMP, the user is
_already_ complaining about GIMP not working as
expected. Nor do the problems with MS-Windows need
separate and detailed documenting by me, they are
the stuff of legends. See my just prior posted
message to the group for just one more example of
the horror of currently sold Microsoft software.

xanthian.

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