Re: Printing from GIMP

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> Le lundi 28 juillet 2008, Marc Shapiro a écrit :
>   
> > Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> >     
> > > Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, Marc Shapiro a écrit :
> > >       
> > > > I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available
> > > > for it in Etch, which I am running.  Gutenprint 5.0.2 has the
> > > > necessary drivers and I compiled it from source and the printer
> > > > works great. My problem is that there are no 'Print' options on
> > > > the GIMP menus.  I am running the version of GIMP from the Debian
> > > > Etch repository.  How do I get Debian's GIMP to recognize the
> > > > compiled from source gutenprint 5.0.2 and allow me to print
> > > > directly from GIMP.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Marc Shapiro
> > > > mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
> > > >         
> > > Silly question but to you have gimp-print installed ?
> > >       
> > Gutenprint is what used to be called gimp-print.  So, yes, I have
> > gutenprint 5.0.2 installed from sources.  No, I do not have the
> > Debian package 'gimp-print' (which is gutenprint 5.0.0) installed.  I
> > needed the newer version to get the drivers for my printer.  I just
> > checked in Lenny and Sid.  Both have the gutenprint-doc package for
> > gimp-print 5.0.2, but neither of them actually have the gimp-print
> > 5.0.2 package. So I have no choice but to compile from sources, which
> > seems to leave me without the print option on the menus.
> >     
>
> gimp-print is marked as conflict in sid/testing version of gimp so I 
> think gimp now provides gimp-print. Maybe you could try backporting 
> gimp from testing.
>
>   
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >     
>
> No other idea for the moment but hey, it's late.
>   
On further searching, I see that, starting with Lenny, there is a 
'gimp-gutenprint' package which is the gutenprint 5.0.2 package.  So if 
I hang in there until Lenny goes stable, I can use the Debian package 
for gimp and gimp-gutenprint.  That might get my menu options back.

--
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com