Re: Help on printing from F-Spot

[Andy Choens <gunksta gmail com>]

On 1/18/06, Paul and Sandra Koufalas <koufalas adam com au> wrote:

G'day list,

I'm using F-Spot to manage my album and think it's  pretty good.

However, printing is causing me some difficulty.

1. How can I print multiple photos on one A4 page from F-Spot? I tried
to select several using CTRL and the mouse, but print preview shows as
many pages as photos. I know gThumb can do it, but I'd like to perserve
with F-Spot.

2. I'm using the Turboprint printer drivers so I can print under Linux
with my Canon PIXMA iP5200. However, the print dialogue from F-Spot
gives me very few options. How can I access the full number of options
from F-Spot? This problem isn't unique to F-Spot. I notice some
variability across GNOME applications (I'm using Ubuntu Breezy Badger
5.10.) E.g. from GIMP, I can access everything, ditto from OpenOffice.
>From many other apps, I get very few options, and this includes all of
the photo album applications I tried (F-Spot, gThumb, gnome-photo-printer).

Comments / advice much appreciated.

What features are you missing exactly?  I agree with you that F-Spot's printing capabilities are rudimentary in the extreme, but I find gnome-photo-printer to be pretty useful.  YMMV, of course.  I use F-Spot to organize my photos.  When I want to print, I just select them and drag them over to gnome-photo-printer.  There I can print several "thumbnails" onto a single page, control orientation, select A4 (although I never do), etc.  Another tool that has some VERY nice photo-printing capabilities is gqview.  It is the old efault gnome photo tool.  It's major strengths are speed and browsing pictures that are organized by folders instead of tags.  But, if you select a photo in the directory that you want to print from and drag it over to gqview, it will open up that directory.  You select the photos you want to print, and the dialog does have more features than gnome-photo-print.  The biggest disadvantage that I see to this program is that you can only select photos from the currently active directory, since gqview is inherently "folder" based.  There may be a trick around this though that I don't now about.

Basically, I'm not sure what additional feature(s) you need.

--andy