[Gimp-print-devel] Re: feature-request gimp-print

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:35:35 +0200
   From: Joern Clausen <jc...@ge...>

   I'm using your print plug-in for Gimp. It seems to do a great job. But
   I'd like to propose some additions:

    - Sometimes it's necessary to print to a file, but still have
      certain properties defined. We have a HP DesignJet (A0 size plotter),
      which is not available to all users. Still, they should select this
      printer in the dialog, to get the correct config via the PPD file,
      and print their image to a file.

      Strange enough, *after* selecting this printer, and switching back
      to "File", the media sizes are still there, so one can select A0 then.
      Maybe offering a "print to file" option in the setup dialog of each
      printer would be better.

That's an interesting idea.  You should be able to select any driver
at all with any printer, though, so I don't quite see what's happening
here.  It sounds like there's a bit of a bug in terms of paper size
handling, though.  If you select any given printer type, you should
have all of its properties available irrespective of what printer
you're printing to.

    - I'd like to prepare a global printerrc, which contains the correct
      defaults (especially PPD files) for all our printers. I don't know
      if Gimp can be configured to copy additional files to the user's
      .gimp directory. Maybe a global file in Gimp's share directory, which
      the print plugin reads in addition to the user's copy, wouldn't be bad.

The current way that printers are handled (the plugin runs lpc or
whatever to find out what printers are on the system) is a complete
botch.  We're looking at other ways of handling this.  We've been
thinking in terms of having no auto-discovery, and users can define
their own printers.  I'm not quite sure how your idea would work in
all cases (since the shared copy can't be written back to, and since
on some systems users install their own copies of the Gimp), but
certainly your suggestion is timely.

   Regards,
     Joern

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