Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel
Hi All,
Thanks for the input I recieved here, I've bought an Epson R300 color
printer for making photos. Once I figured out that the debian package
for libcupsys has the permissions borked for the files in
/usr/lib/cups/backend so that they aren't executable, all is well.
I've been happily browsing images in 'gqview', then loading them into
gimp 2.0, then printing them.
But I'm having issues with scaling images. I have to guess how/where
to crop the images so that I can get the maximum amount of the picture
onto the paper. It's a real pain, with lots of back and forth.
Is there a tool out there, or a gimp plugin, which allows me to take a
picture, select a paper size and gives me a template to crop/scale the
image to fit that paper size nicely? Any hints on what tools/packages
I should be looking at for this type of work?
For example, I've got a picture of my nephew and son which I wanted to
print out. I also wanted to zoom in a bit (or crop the image down to
get closer to them) so that when it printed, I maximized the use of
the 4x6 stock. A real pain in gimp 2.0, but since I'm just using the
standard Debian install, maybe there is a plugin to help with this?
Thanks,
John
13 years, 1 month
RE: [Wlug] xbiff
by Martin, Eric J.
what's xbiff?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mills-Curran [mailto:bill@mills-curran.net]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:47 AM
To: Worcester Linux Users Group
Subject: [Wlug] xbiff
Now that xbiff is gone (not in fc3), what's a good replacement? I've
gotten a lot of good use out of xbiff & use it to notify me about a
number of things. I'm surprised it's gone, but I guess it's time to
move on.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
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13 years, 10 months
PSC1210 and CUPS server
by Chuck Haines
I just recently decided to put my PSC1210 on my linux server so I
could share it with other people. I installed it using cups just
fine, it's prints beautiful from the linux machine. However when I
try and install the printer from Windows, it asks me for the INF file
to install the driver. Not unfortunately HP doesn't include this INF,
as they want you to install all their crap. I was curious if anyone
else had any experience with this.
Chuck
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13 years, 10 months
KickStart fedora core 3 minimal exclude @base group
by Matt Higgins
I am attempting a minimal fc3 install <500 MB, I was shooting for
<200MB. Looking at the @core package group from comps.xml. My
calculations show this group to be about 130MB and its description tag
reads "<description>Smallest possible installation</description>".
However the "Minimal Install" from the installer is about 530MB. With
some research it looks like, the minimal install is not just @core but
also @base and @dialup. I can easily exclude @dialup by setting the
uservisible tag to true and unselecting this package group. When I try
the same for @base it does not show up in the package selection list?
So my questions are these
1. Is it possible though some ks syntax to exclude a default package
group from my kickstart config ? i.e. -@ PackageGroup ? If this were
possible I may be able to try -@base and -@dialup
leaving only @core.
2. Is it possible to not use any package group at all and simply
select the packages I want ? In this case I would just list out all
the rpms in the @core group and thats it .. possibly some extras.
3. Is there a way to create your own core package group.. this would
sever the same purpose as number 2 but possibly make it more flexible.
Note I know you can create your own extra package groups my goal is to
modify the existing @core group.
Some other things to note.. I have to use Fedora and I would like to
have the kickstart totally unattended. I basically have the install
unattended with PXE,TFTP,NFS,DHCP but .. I need to tweak the packages.
-Matt
13 years, 10 months
xbiff
by Bill Mills-Curran
Now that xbiff is gone (not in fc3), what's a good replacement? I've
gotten a lot of good use out of xbiff & use it to notify me about a
number of things. I'm surprised it's gone, but I guess it's time to
move on.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
13 years, 10 months
[OT] Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2005 announces call-for-papers
by glim＠mycybernet.net
YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just
released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can
submit a presentation proposal via:
http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml
The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005.
The location will be in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Note that
a different date block was previously announced, but has been moved to
accomodate venue availability.)
The close of the call-for-papers is April 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm.
If you have any questions regarding the call-for-papers or speaking at
YAPC::NA 2005 please email na-author(a)yapc.org
We would love to hear from potential sponsors. Please contact the
organizers at na-sponsor(a)yapc.org to learn about the benefits of
sponsorship.
Other information regarding the conference (e.g. venue, registration
specifics) will be announced soon.
We look forward to your submissions and a great conference!
13 years, 10 months
Mailing list server upgrade
by Frank Sweetser
The server that hosts the WLUG mailing list will be upgraded today from RH9 to
FC3, so the mailing list will be temporarily unavailable. All subscriptions
and configuration should remain unchanged. I'll send out another email to
the list when the upgrade is complete.
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13 years, 10 months
Wireless and FC3
by Mike Leo
I have a new Dell D400 with a Broadcom 4309 wireless
card and I have installed FC3 and ndiswrapper. I have
installed the "correct" Windows .inf file and
everybody is happy.
when I iwlist wlan0 scan, it lists all the WAP's I can
see correctly.
However, I cannot get an IP address via DHCP, and
assigning one staticaly does not work. When i
dhclient wlan0, it finds the WAP, and the DHCP server,
but refuses to accept an IP.
My guess is that the ndiswrapper "trick" isn't working
for this driver.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Mike
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13 years, 10 months
Websphere MQ Messaging
by Andrew Robert
Hi Everyone,
If anyone is interested, I've been compiling some documentation on IBM
WebSphere MQ Messaging for the Unix/Linux environment.
You can find it on my web site located at http://shardservant.no-
ip.info:8080 .
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13 years, 10 months
samba printer config
by Bill Mills-Curran
I'm floundering trying to get my fedora 3 machine to act as a print
server for an WinXP machine. The linux box is freshly built, and I
just moved my printer from my redhat 9 machine.
What works:
1. Local printing. It's a USB printer, and it worked just fine from
the CUPS setup.
What doesn't:
1. I can't "add printer" on the WinXP machine.
2. When I start the smb daemon, I get the following in the smbd log:
[2005/01/22 18:14:51, 0] printing/nt_printing.c:nt_printing_init(383)
nt_printing_init: error checking published printers:
WERR_ACCESS_DENIED
This looks like the problem to me, but I'm not sure. When I try to
add the printer in WinXP, I get a popup "Windows cannot connect to the
printer. Operation could not be completed."
So, I'm stuck. (And under pressure -- my wife can't print!)
Any advice?
Thanks,
Bill
13 years, 10 months
