Hi All, this is followup to my original question posted way back in late September of 2004 about printing photos from Linux and finding a good tool crop photos. Gimp is good, gimp is great. It (version 2.2 lately) still sucks for locking down the aspect ratio and scaling the picture up/down to fit on the paper the way you like. But I did find a neat new piece of software, which isn't perfect, but does a pretty good job: photoprint-0.3.0 http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/PhotoPrint/About.shtml The other trick was that I went back to using 4x6 as my paper choice, not "Epson 4x6 Photo Paper", since I could *never* get gimp-print to work properly with it. All in all, it's been a bit frustrating trying to find a tool to allow me to crop photos and print them easily to the printer. John
"Andy" == Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net> writes:
Andy> I believe that the gimp-print plugin will do what you want. It Andy> should be accessible via the File...Print menu from Gimp. It Andy> shows a rather rough thumbnail image within boarders to give you Andy> a feel for where the image will be printed. Robert> I've been using this and I think it sucks. Mostly because the Robert> images are considered to be at a maximum scale when you goto the Robert> plugin, which makes it hard to scale up or down to crop it nicely. Robert> But I have to say, I'm still very happy it is there, since it's let Robert> me print some nice pictures on my Epson printer. Robert> The basic problem here is that the Print plugin isn't designed to crop Robert> at all. That's what we need to do with it. Robert> -- Robert> Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> Robert> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Robert> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Robert> Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net Robert> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." Robert> --Eric Crampton Robert> _______________________________________________ Robert> Wlug mailing list Robert> Wlug@mail.wlug.org Robert> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug