New subject: [Wlug] Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0

28 Sep 2004

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