Re: how to print dilbert comics

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

dman wrote:
> 
> Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who
> wouldn't go look on the web.
> 
> Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it
> on-screen, but when I print it comes out a little too wide and gets
> cut off on the right (us-letter paper).  I can print to a file, but it
> has the same problem.  I can specify "-o landscape" to 'lp' but then
> the whole top of the comic is cut off (the bottom left of the paper is
> the postscript origin, and the paper is shorter in landscape).
> 
> A solution might be to save the image, load it with gimp and then
> print.  That is fine by me, except when I get "lp: stdin empty".  Gimp
> won't print anything at all.  I even checked the gimp1.2-print package
> version and grabbed the latest from sid (4.2.0-1.1).  I have the
> latest gimp also (1.2.2-2.1).

  try view image, then you get a webpage with image only. print it!
(landscape)

  that assumes it's one image only. if it's few images you'd have one
page for each so it might no be exactly what you want... you might be
able to print to file and somehow merge resulting postscript...

	erik