Re: F-spot-list Digest, Vol 21, Issue 14

[Paul and Sandra Koufalas <koufalas adam com au>]

Thanks for your reply Andy.

I'll have a look at gqview.

I had another look at gnome-photo-printer today. You're right, it can do
what I want in A4 printing. I had both F-spot and gnome-photo-printer
open and dragged photos from the former onto the latter. I could select
their size in the layout page and then it would fit as many of them onto
A4 as it could. It also used as much of the paper as it could (cf.
gThumb, which I found left a lot of whitespace.) I guess it would be
nice if F-spot could do that natively but in the end, it doesn't really
matter...the combination of two applications works well for me.

It also makes my other comment regarding printing and printer setup
redundant--it becomes a requirement for gnome-photo-printer. This is
because I still can't get to all of my printer settings from inside that
application either. I resort to using a third application to configure
the printer for paper type, resolution, paper size, etc.

My apologies if my initial post was unclear--hopefully not repeated here!

Cheers,
Paul.

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>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:54:26 -0500
>From: Andy Choens <gunksta gmail com>
>Subject: Re: Help on printing from F-Spot
>To: f-spot-list gnome org
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>On 1/18/06, Paul and Sandra Koufalas <koufalas adam com au> wrote:
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>>G'day list,
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>>I'm using F-Spot to manage my album and think it's  pretty good.
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>>However, printing is causing me some difficulty.
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>>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.
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>>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).
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>>Comments / advice much appreciated.
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>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.
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>Basically, I'm not sure what additional feature(s) you need.
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>--andy
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