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

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

   Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:31:33 +0000
   From: Jean-Marc Verbavatz <ver...@if...>

   On Jun 18, 11:43am, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   > Subject: Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Re: Yet Another Merge
   >    Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:46:16 -0400
   >    From: Michael Sweet <mi...@ea...>
   >
   >    One of the things I wanted to do with my original print plug-in was
   >    to do away with sizing the preview based on the actual media size;
   >    instead, it should just represent the aspect ratio and orientation
   >    of the page...  That will remove the current tiny pages and make
   >    life a bit easier down the road for really big prints.
   >
   > I suppose that now that we have the size boxes we can do this.
   > Currently this is about the only thing really standing in the way of
   > supporting huge prints.

   So it sounds that everyone so far agrees. Perhaps we should make
   that scrollable for Epson rolls (just kidding). A correct aspect
   ration and orientation are all we need in my opinion too.

Roll paper and very long prints are two different issues.  Very long,
narrow prints are going to be hard to represent on the preview
window.  Roll paper is something else; we need to understand a little
better how Epson handles that.

   Not frivolous at all. I'm using a wide format printer at work from
   Linux. It's an hp dnj 455 if I recall well and prints up to A1 or
   A0, more than a meter wide in any case. I even use Linux to spool
   Windows boxes for that printer. We use it for scientific posters.

OK.  I'm going to plug the full table of paper sizes into the driver,
even if we can't use them yet.

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

   Go ahead. You've already gone a step further than me; I haven't even looked
   at gimp_main_window and I don't know what it does !

OK.  It's in there now.

   >    - I haven't found a way to display centimeters (or millimeters)
   >    instead of inches.
   >
   > We really should do that...

   I'll give it a try tonight (unless it's already done as well). That'll be my
   second gtk lesson.

Could you do this stuff on the mainline, not just on your branch?  I
want the UI stuff to get in as quickly as possible; your dithering
stuff is what needs more testing before committing to the mainline.

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