[K12OSN] Re: The Gimp and printing

Lee Harr missive at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 22 20:59:24 UTC 2005


>>You might try setting gimp to just print straight to the printer (try
>>setting it to raw or lp) I just looked at my gimp setup and was
>>surprised to see that I do not even have a File->Print option.
>>So that shows how often I try to print from gimp :o)
>
>Well, from the toolbox, there won't be a "Print" option, since, what,
>do you want to print the toolbox? ;^)
>
>It would be the "File" menu in a particular image's window.
>(In Gimp 2.x, there's finally a menu bar across the top.  In all versions
>of Gimp, right-clicking the canvas brings up a pop-up menu with the various
>menus, including "File".)
>
>Under there, you'll find "Print" hiding. :)
>


Nope. I looked there too. No print option anywhere.

The major problem in my setup is a painfully old gimp 1.3.23
compiled with the -gimpprint use flag set, which apparently
made the print option go away completely.

Oh well... at least now I am motivated to upgrade to 2.0.

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