Re: Printing an image

[JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller)]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:07:01AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm running CUPS.  I've got a large image that I want to print
> landscape and scale to fit a single page.
> 
> moseley@bumby:~$ identify 1.jpg
> 1.jpg JPEG 1232x962+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 308kb 0.000u 0:01
> 
> 
> I can use "display" to print, but it only prints a small image.  I can
> pull it up in mozilla and tell it to print landscape (and print
> perview shows landscape, but it prints portrait.
> 
> I tried printing with Gimp-2.0 but for some odd reason I get the text
> of the post script printed.

Printer configured wrong? E. g. 'raw'?
For me it works. Gimp can place the image somewhere on the sheet, or scale it. I
use Gimp 1.1 though, and lpr.
> 
> Any good, easy tricks?

a2ps ?

HTH
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Joachim Fahnenmüller

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