Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger L Sopher" <rlsopher@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: MIS VM Sepia and QTR


> Hi Ernst,
>
> Could you elaborate on Gimp-Print 4.3.21 and QTR? Does this in
fact allow
> printing via a QTR driver from The Gimp?
>
> Roger

Roger,

No that isn't possible and it is a shame. It is the Gimp-print
plugin of Gimp that makes the trouble. I've contacted Robert
Krawitz of Gimp-print on that issue and asked him whether they
could integrate QTR into that plugin. They are busy to bring the
stable version of 4.3 now so he hasn't really answered that
request. They were not aware of a conflict though which is a
first step to solve it (one hopes). I'm wondering if a temporary
hack could make it possible.
Right now I'm using xpp in Suse to print from and that is not
what I like at all. But it prints with 4.3.21.

I'm checking some other Linux distributions that are leaner and
meaner than Suse. Coollinux with the ROX filing system boottable
from CD, Crux and Gobo Linux. Applications stored in one
directory etc. I'm more familiar with an OS like that to do some
digging in. In Suse I tend to start stripping first and that
doesn't work. There are about 3 printer managers in that
distribution even if you don't count Yast that can also
configurate the CUPS printers but not QTR. I hate KDE also.

Ernst, slow learner.