[Gimp-print-devel] Re: Yet Another Merge

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

   Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 03:07:02 +0000
   From: Jean-Marc Verbavatz <ver...@if...>

   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) ?

Good catch.  I fixed it on the mainline.  It doesn't matter yet, but
it will as soon as we have non-square matrices.

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

That switch is correct.

   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.

I ported it to the mainline and did gimp_main_window as well.  Shall I
commit it there or would you like to?

   - I haven't found a way to display centimeters (or millimeters)
   instead of inches.

We really should do that...

   - 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.

How do people feel about this?  Actually, many Epson printers can
print 44" (over 1 meter) long, and the current preview window
restricts us from implementing that.

   - 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 ?

Maybe we need some online help?

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

I want to get this onto the mainline as soon as possible after we do
some basic testing to make sure that there's something that hasn't
been totally missed.  Even if there's a temporary regression in
quality, we should do this.

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