Gimp printing problem -

[Bob Goodwin]

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:

> akonstam at trinity.edu írta:
>
>> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:56:01AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running FC3 and Gimp 2.2.4 and can not print from Gimp,
>>> instead of the expected image I get what looks like a set of
>>> text instructions to the printer?
>>>
>>> Beginning with:
>>> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia
>>>
>>
>> Can you print other postscript documents? Has your printer been
>> configured to deal with postscript documents?
>
>
> I always had the same problem, both with older GIMP 1.x and LPD and/or
> CUPS, and newer GIMP 2.x, I tried it on RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9, FC1, FC2
> and FC3.
>
> The only solution I found is to print to .ps file first, view it in GV
> and print from there. GIMP produces v3.0 Postscript files, GV converted
> it to a more printer- (or printfilter?) friendly v2.0 Postscript file...
>
> The printer(s) I tried were not PS capable (I tried HP Laserjets and
> compatibles, DeskJets, a Canon BJC-250, etc), so a printer driver 
> always processed the file first. Same error: direct printing from GIMP 
> was not
> successful.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
>
Yes Zoltán, that works. Not exactly what we want but at least I can 
print what I've done in gimp!

Thanks for the help.

BobG