Re:Printing in Gimp

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From          : klug>klug-request
 To            : adam
 Subject       : Printing in Gimp
 Date          : 09/13/99 10:22


>My setup is (no rude comments please.. :) ) is I have a shared printer
>hooked up to my Windoze box through my network. I can print to it from Star
>Office and all my other programs on the Linux box.

You use smbprint I presume?  Do you use ghostscript as a print filter or the
local Star Office print drivers?~

>But in Gimp, the "print" option is grayed
>out, so I can not even attempt
>to print directly to it. I can "print to file" and then send that file to
>printer and have it print, but that is such a pain and doesn't give me any
>control of the output. I would think I should be able to print directly from
>Gimp.

Gimp attempts to enurmerate the printers by parsing /etc/printcap (a lovely
feature, why can more linux apps to this?, Netscape)?  If it doesn't think
there are any queues there it will be greyed out.  Can you send a copy of
your /etc/printcap to the list?~