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MacGorilla · Jul 7, 2003, 03:58 PM

I seem to have a problem. When I right click on an image and try to print, the command is not there. No shaded out, gone. I thought it was under file__>print. Am I missing something?

Jim_MDP · Dec 5, 2003, 02:17 AM

I just ran into this problem myself.

The online manual says that's where it should be� nada, nothing.

So, any ideas anyone?

MacGorilla · Dec 5, 2003, 10:03 AM

I actually figured this out. The builds in fink have printing disabled because gimp-print hasn't been ported to Darwin, only to CUPS.

Jim_MDP · Dec 5, 2003, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
I actually figured this out. The builds in fink have printing disabled because gimp-print hasn't been ported to Darwin, only to CUPS.

Translation for the *nix impaired?

(Knowing I'm not going to like it.

)

MacGorilla · Dec 5, 2003, 05:08 PM

Transaltion: The Gimp uses its own engine to print, gimp-print. gimp-print has not be been made to work with the Unix base.

Aniword, etc, use a different print engine which the Unix base has built in.

So, in short, you can't print from The Gimp and wont be able to for a Long Time.

Jim_MDP · Dec 5, 2003, 11:56 PM

To be clear� when I said I wouldn't like it, I expected you to tell me to hack out my current GIMP (not sure if I could find all the pieces), and install a newer version.

I wasn't expecting this�

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
So, in short, you can't print from The Gimp and wont be able to for a Long Time.

All I wanted at the moment was to work on and print some PS templates (CD labels). I see though, out of desperation, that Preview can open the templates. I'll try that route. Gee, and after I got my drivers switched over to CUPS too.

Thanks for the heads up.