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Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

Having now purchased the correct printer to work with Linux I was looking to print photographs to do a quality comparison. She who must be obeyed still is insisting on doz as best for photos and when I went to print a sample from Puppy nothing.

My photos will open OK witn mtPaint 3.11 but for love nor money will not print. Where am I going wrong and how can I prove my point that Puppy rules.

Your assistance will be most appreciated

Ian · Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2008, 04:38 Post_subject:

First, can you print in Abiword.
Second, if so have you tried inserting a picture in a document and printing it that way.

eccentric · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 101 Location: China Nanning city

You can use this web site:-http://pixenate.com or install WINE and adobe photoshop. Michael.

wjaguar · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 135

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

Many thanks for all your replies.

Ian I am able to print ok using OpenOffice but as generally we want full size A4 prints I would prefer a more direct approach.

I will try searching further as I seem to remember that there was a Linux version of Photoshop.

Will advise further if I get lucky

jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

Try installing Gimp and see what results you get with it.

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

jcoder24

Many thanks for the suggestion. I had a look at this but initially found problems both in full size printing on A4 and also seemed to want to ignore my printer. I got a CUPS.pdf which no mater what I tried did nothing so I am still no further forward at the moment.

Will have to take things a bit more steady and see what develops.

jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

I saw someone recommend scribus which is available via puppy package manager.

I also saw mention of a program called photoprint which I uploaded at http://www1.rapidupload.ro/download.php?file=686356882099062. It requires gutenprint which is also available via puppy package manager.

I don't have a printer so I'm unable to actually perform a test print.

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

jcoder24

Once again my thanks. I had a look at Photoprint and had the life scared out of me by the requirements to run it. To see that I will need :
Gutenprint 5.0.0 or later, LittleCMS, GTK+ 2.4 or later,NetPBM, LibJPEG, LibTIFF and CUPS (optional)

From the list I recognise Gutenprint and think that with the CUPS setup for my printer I should have the driver ok. Otherwise the rest of the list leaves me cold. Do you know if these items are contained within Puppy 3.01?

Scribus seems to have even more possible problems as it seems to want even more up to date drivers.

If all the odds and sods are within Puppy I will try to run Photoprint and see how it works. What is your opinion of seeing if anyone has a fully updated pet package. Where should I ask the question, here as part of this post or as a separate request.

Why is it that everytime I think that I am making progress that Puppy comes and bites me on the bum. Once more one step forward and two back. At this rate of knots I will be due to retire and still be trying to convince she who must be obeyed that Puppy rules.

My sincere thanks for all your assistance

jcoder24 · Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 601 Location: Barbados

NB The wrong package was uploaded in the previous post. It has been updated with the correct one.

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I installed photoprint in puppyNOP-r2 and the only extra I needed was gutenprint. Start by installing the photoprint package and checking it for missing dependencies.
ldd `which photoprint` | grep not | sort -u

If you find any missing, see if a different version than required is installed you can use 'find' or 'ls' for this
ls /usr/lib/libgutenprint*
or
find /usr/lib -depth -name "gutenprint*"

If a different version exists then you can symlink the installed version as the required version eg
ln -s /usr/lib/libgutenprint.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libgutenprint.so.2

If it don't exists install it via petget.

Puppy's scribus lists qt as its only requirement so it's likely that puppy may have the other requirements. To check you can download and install the scribus package manually and the check dependencies as mentioned above.

Ian · Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2008, 04:55 Post_subject:

Have you tried xv..

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

I noticed that MU has produced a GImp 2.4.3 pup and decided to give this a try. Using File > Print and selecting the Epson printer from the print offering it worked first time.

Other than It would not give borderless printing on the first attempt and the colour was a bit lighter I have no real complaints. It looks that I will have some fun finding out how to master Gimp and see if I can match the output achieved on XP.

Once again my sincere thanks to all for your kind assistance