Digital BW, The Print

Followed the excellent document by Roger Sopher, I have successfully 
installed QuadTone RIP on RedHat9. But the qtcups utility suggested 
by Roger's document doesn't give me the options to print my image 
with a specified size in terms of width and height. It only gives 
scale percentage and paper size options, but I want to have a precise 
output size field to specify, similarly as in Photoshop print-preview 
utility. I found GIMP has the print layout utility I want, but it 
prints strange ASCII characters even though I chose Photo option and 
pointed to the Quad1280 printer I created. Roger's document doesn't 
mention GIMP print utility. I guess Roger encountered the same 
problem and therefore suggests we use qtcups instead.

So my question for those who use QuadTone RIP on Linux: how do you 
accurately control the print size and layout?

Thanks in advance.

Chao

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:37, chaofeng wrote:

QTcups is pretty much a thing of the past. It is no longer supported in
the newer versions such as SuSE 9.0 or Fedora. There are a couple of
approaches that can be used but I think the best is to use a command
line script. David Wroblewski came up with QPR for the 2200 and I have
modified it to use other printers as well. It now seems fairly bug free
and I will send a copy of the modified script to Martin for inclusion in
the QTR-Linux file area.

As you found out, you cannot print to QTR from the Gimp. I hope that
this will be remedied in the future but for now it just won't work. 

Another possibility is to use Kprint but I haven't tried it so I can not
comment on how or if it works with QTR.

If you would like a copy of the command line script before it appears in
the files let me know and I'll send it to you as an attachment.

Roger

Yes, I'd appreciate your scripts very much. Please send directly to 
twohorses123@... when you get a chance.

Great thanks.

Chao



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roger L Sopher 
<rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:37, chaofeng wrote:
> 
> QTcups is pretty much a thing of the past. It is no longer 
supported in
> the newer versions such as SuSE 9.0 or Fedora. There are a couple of
> approaches that can be used but I think the best is to use a command
> line script. David Wroblewski came up with QPR for the 2200 and I 
have
> modified it to use other printers as well. It now seems fairly bug 
free
> and I will send a copy of the modified script to Martin for 
inclusion in
> the QTR-Linux file area.
> 
> As you found out, you cannot print to QTR from the Gimp. I hope that
> this will be remedied in the future but for now it just won't work. 
> 
> Another possibility is to use Kprint but I haven't tried it so I 
can not
> comment on how or if it works with QTR.
> 
> If you would like a copy of the command line script before it 
appears in

> the files let me know and I'll send it to you as an attachment.
> 
> Roger

At this point, there is no equivalent in Linux for being able to print
from something like Photoshop print preview. I often use GIMP for final
sizing or tweaking of an image but I print from a command line.
Actually, it isn't that much different since in Linux one can switch
from one desktop to another so, for example, the image can be
manipulated in GIMP and saved and then a new desktop brought up and the
printing done from a terminal there. 

One day I am sure we will be able to print from GIMP directly but not
yet.

Roger