Re: Printing panoramas

TJ wrote:
> measekite wrote:
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>> The one thing about Windows is there is a standard printer widget and 
>> just about all applications use it.  Standardization not just in 
>> printing has helped get Windows the market share it has today.
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> I'm not sure how you can type "Standardization" and "Windows" in the 
> same sentence with a straight face. Microsoft ignores all established 
> standards when  designing their products and tries to dictate their 
> own. Superior marketing and monopolistic practices are what got 
> Microsoft the market share it has today. Following standards had very 
> little to do with it.
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> And by the way, that market share is dropping, while Mac and Linux are 
> on the increase.

OK lets agree to replace the word standardization with uniformity.  Most 
of the software applications in Windows use the same or very similar 
Print Dialog Box so if you do a File Print in one application and then 
from another you see basically the same thing.  This is not true in 
Linux Unbuntu. For my Canon printer in Linux I need to install it as a 
Postscript printer with an im****ted (pdd file from Canon Japan) to print 
for Gimp and install it as a Cups printer to print elsewhere like in 
Open Office.  You get different dialog boxes.  Still other applications 
use different widget dialog boxes with some or all of the features of 
the printer.  For my HP990Cse there is somewhat more uniformity.

In Linux depending on the application the print dialog box may allow you 
to switch trays or do duplex or whatever depending on the printer.  In 
Windows you get the same box (when you select properties) with all of 
the choices for your printer.  The main reason for the properties being 
complete is they are installed with the driver form the printer mfg.

Basically, Windows has the hardware sup****t that until Linux gets there 
is not way it will catch up. 

The Gimp dialog box with the choices are terrible when compared to 
Photoshop under Windows.  But Gimp has a real long way to go to be even 
on the same playing field with Photoshop.  You need at the very least 
better printer sup****t and adjustment layers as well as the newer tools 
like shadow highlight.
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> TJ