#40 Mac OSX select printer dialog fails to fill in print command

[Nick]

From http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346799
Opened by Nick Hill (reporter, points: 4)
2006-07-06 19:53 UTC [reply]

Please describe the problem:
Gimp installed through Gimp-2.2.11.dmg using
X11user.dmg from Apple using OSX
10.3.9. Printing works on other X11 apps such as
Openoffice but not Gimp. CUPS
is installed and working, accessible through localhost:631.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select Print
2. New Printer... give it a name
3. Click setup printer
4. Select printer model from list. (NOTE: Unlike on
GNU/Linux, the Command:
text box remains blank)
5. Click OK.
6. Select printer settings, compose image.
7. Click print & save settings.
8. Progress bar moves as if printing.
9. Nothing prints. No jobs appear in the completed jobs
list in CUPS

Actual results:
Gimp goes through motions of printing, but no jobs are
seen by CUPS and nothing
prints.

Expected results:
I expect the command: box to hae a print command like
lp -s -d'Stylus_880c'
-oraw and I would expect jobs to be sent to CUPS. I
tried manually entering the
following commands in the Command: box:

lp -s -d'Stylus_880c'
lpr -PStylus_880c

When I hit print or print and save, I expect the
printer to spin into action,
and I expect to see a job appearing in the cups queue.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:

Comment #1 from Nick Hill (reporter, points: 4)
2006-07-06 19:59 UTC [reply]

To clarify, when I open the setup printer dialog box in
Gimp, the Command: box
is blank. When I select a printer model, the Command:
box remains blank.

After determining that nothing prints, I tried the
following in the command:
box with no success

lp -s -d'Stylus_880c'-oraw
lpr -PStylus_880c

Comment #2 from sven gimp org (GIMP developer, points: 23)
2006-07-06 20:09 UTC [reply]

Which print plug-in comes bundled with gimp.app? Is
that the old gimp-print
plug-in or the newer gutenprint plug-in? Did you report
this problem to the
maintainer of the binary package for Mac OS X? It seems
that the gimp.app
maintainer would be the one who should look into this.

Comment #3 from Nick Hill (reporter, points: 4)
2006-07-06 21:15 UTC [reply]

(In reply to comment #2)

Hello Sven

> Which print plug-in comes bundled with gimp.app? Is
that the old gimp-print
> plug-in or the newer gutenprint plug-in?

Gimp-Print V4.2

> Did you report this problem to the
> maintainer of the binary package for Mac OS X?

No. There is nothing obvious suggesting where I should
send bugs to for that
version. I naturally looked at gimp.org which pointed
here.

According to the gimp.org web site at:
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ it
appears Aaron Voisine packages the gimp.app. However,
there is no apparent
method to report bugs to him. Perhaps the page on
gimp.org linking to the
packaged versions needs someting to direct where to
send bugs to for each of
these versions.