Re: how to print dilbert comics
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:53:15AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
| 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)
The only way I can do that is with an option to lp. Galeon has no
portrait/landscape selector in the print dialog.
| 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...
It is what I want, I just can't get it :-).
-D
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