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Printing from GIMP - exercise in futility... - dziadekles - 05-03-2025
The image: 80x120mm, 300 dpi, portrait orientation
In GIMP:
-File-Page Setup: Size A4, Orientation: Portrait, Margins:0
-clicking File-Print: "GNU Image Manipulation Program - Print" window shows up, with Orientation "Landscape"
-changing the orientation to "Portrait"
-clicking "More settings" which brings Canon's "Printing Preferences" window - again with "Landscape" orientation in "Quick Setup"
-sigh...and changing the orientation to "Portrait" (what does it actually means?? Is this paper orientation or image orientation?)
-Page Setup - Page Layout is set to "4-on-1 Printing".
-clicking OK-OK brings us back to the "GNU Image Manipulation Program - Print" window
-click "Print"
Now we should see the preview with the image taking up approx. 1/4 of the A4 sheet.
But...no.
What we see is a thumbnail, and no amount of manipulation of the print settings can change this.
However...
The same image opened in DPP4 and "printed" - shows up properly in the Preview window.
Comparison of the GIMP and DPP4 preview result is shown below.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
It appears that the whole "GNU Image Manipulation Program - Print" window could be replaced with just TWO controls: "More settings" and "Print" - since that window not only has null effect, but it looks like any GIMP settings of the print are ignored (and the image is reduced to a thumbnail).
OK...issue resolved (although the logic of it escapes me 100%).
The image size in GIMP needs to be set to full size (e.g. 210x297mm or close).
Then - when printing "4-on-1", the image is automatically scaled down to 1/4 size, and the preview actually shows the 1/4 of the sheet taken up by the scaled-down image.
Very confusing, and different than any other photo editor. Well...live and learn...
RE: Printing from GIMP - exercise in futility... - rich2005 - 05-03-2025
(Yesterday, 06:59 AM)dziadekles Wrote: ---big verbose snip....
It appears that the whole "GNU Image Manipulation Program - Print" window could be replaced with just TWO controls: "More settings" and "Print" - since that window not only has null effect, but it looks like any GIMP settings of the print are ignored (and the image is reduced to a thumbnail).
For any Windows 11 user who wonders about the Gimp print dialog. Microsoft strikes again.
see: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-legacy-print-dialog-windows-11/
A before and after applying
Code:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Print\UnifiedPrintDialog" /v "PreferLegacyPrintDialog" /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /fRE: Printing from GIMP - exercise in futility... - dziadekles - 05-03-2025
(Yesterday, 07:28 AM)rich2005 Wrote:(Yesterday, 06:59 AM)dziadekles Wrote: ---big verbose snip....
It appears that the whole "GNU Image Manipulation Program - Print" window could be replaced with just TWO controls: "More settings" and "Print" - since that window not only has null effect, but it looks like any GIMP settings of the print are ignored (and the image is reduced to a thumbnail).
For any Windows 11 user who wonders about the Gimp print dialog. Microsoft strikes again.
see: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-legacy-print-dialog-windows-11/
A before and after applying
Code:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Print\UnifiedPrintDialog" /v "PreferLegacyPrintDialog" /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f
Thank God, I started thinking that I was seeing ghosts
