From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 23:17:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B0316A41F for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:17:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B8043D46 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:17:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 10017 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2006 09:17:17 +1000 Received: from 210-84-32-140.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.32.140) by sanderstechnology.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 09:17:17 +1000 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:17:13 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: "M. Warner Losh" Message-ID: <20060401091713.5fa856c0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060331.114603.116351942.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200603311111.31202.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <20060331.105611.130847669.imp@bsdimp.com> <200603311221.26099.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <20060331.114603.116351942.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fbsdlists@gmail.com, bobo1009@mailtest2.eng.ufl.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, duncan.fbsd@gmail.com Subject: Re: Best way to print photos X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:17:19 -0000 On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:46:03 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : Are you using cups? Or something else? If you have your printer > working : under cups, then I would think that gimp would print to it. > > I have cups running. I'd have thought that too, so I'm doing > something insanely stupid. I can print to my other HP printer, but it > understands .ps natively. If the answer to printing from gimp is > 'just print a .ps' then I'm happy. Hi all, I have gimp and cups running on my box. From gimp, all I need to do is go to the option and select the (cups based) printer I want and off it goes. I actually did this yesterday with no problem. Photo quality printing and all that I havent been able to test/use yet, but I should in the near future. The comments about the right driver and using any of the several options in Gimp's print dialog would seem spot on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: [betom@ayiin] [Sat Apr 1 08:53:56 2006] ~ $ pkg_info | grep cup cups-1.1.23.0_1 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple cups-base-1.1.23.0_8 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons cups-lpr-1.1.23.0_1 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma cups-pdf-1.7.4 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers cups-samba-5.0.r3 The Common UNIX Printing System: MS Windows client drivers libgnomecups-0.2.2_1,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration $ pkg_info | grep gimp gimp-2.2.10_1,1 A GNU Image Manipulation Program gimp-print-4.2.7_2 GIMP Print Printer Driver When installing Cups, I remember seeing some instructions relating to being able to print from GIMP... ah yes, /usr/ports/print/cups-base/pkg-message: [....] ********************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: ============ To enable printing under Gimp do the following: 1) Uncomment application/octet-stream line in mime.types 2) Uncomment application/octet-stream line in mime.convs 3) Restart cupsd [....] I don't particularly remember doing this... if everything in your system matches this, let me know what other info you want and I'm happy to share it. good luck, Beto