[Gimp-print-devel] Yet Another Merge

[Jean-Marc V. <ver...@if...>]

I've just merged my work with the latest repository. This is in jmv-branch
again. It shouldn't look very different from yesterday's release, only in sync
with the main repository (as of 2000-06-17), including recent speed
improvements.

As before, I am very interested in comments from users of all sorts of
printers.

As I was updating, I noticed the new x_size and y_size. In a couple of places
things didn't look completely consistent. Shouldn't some of the x_size * x_size
be x_size * y_size instead (print-dither.c lines 317 or 342 for instance) ?

Also I noticed a switch between pick_matrix and dither_matrix that I
implemented
without thinking, assuming that was right.

Finally, I wanted to give gimp-print a try. Therefore I changed the Setup
Driver selection so that all printers would show. This is now a list instead of
a menu.
This is a rather quick fix and my first attempt at doing anythink with gtk, but
at least I could use my printer ! The change is in gtk_main_window.c. It works
fine but I would have a couple of question/suggestions for the gimp-print
module:
- I haven't found a way to display centimeters (or millimeters) instead of
inches.
- The layout window is apparently scaled by paper size. Is this a useful
feature ? For small media sizes it becomes really tiny. Actually I haven't
found a medium size that would even come close to filling the window with the
epson 870.
- The resolution settings would not be totally clear to me if I didn't know
what they mean from the README. How does 1440x720 enhanced compare to 1440x720
highest quality for instance ?
I don't mean to be critical, these were only some of my thoughts. It looks good
and is certainly more user friendly that ghostscript !

Again I'm waiting for comments, good bad or neutral, from users of all sorts
of printers.

Thanks,



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