measekite <inkystinky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
You are confused about what is adjusted, and where
though. If you are running CUPS then *all* of your
applications interface through the CUPS driver, period.
GIMP has nothing to do with it, and that is exactly as
it *should* be. It may be true that some programs offer
various options for pre-printing manipulation of the
*image*, but only CUPS configures the print driver or
the printer.
Typically the way to do that is to configure multiple
"logical printers". Hence, while I have an Epson R1800
printer there is *never* any instance that an
application knows it is printing to an R1800. Instead
the printer knows about the names I have chosen for
"logical printers", so it might be configured to print
to a device named "ep_11x14gf1", or to "ep_11x14gb2".
Those obviously are "coded" names, the first tells me
that it is the Epson printer, the paper size is 11x14,
the paper is Glossy, and the configuration is "f1",
which just happens to be for faster rather than best
printing, and on Espon Premium Photo Glossy Paper. The
second one is "gb2", indicating "best" rather than
"fast", and the 2 indicates some different glossy paper.
My applications have a couple *dozen* different logical
printers to choose from, but *never* uniquely configures
the driver or the printer in any way.
>Basically, Windows has the hardware sup****t that until Linux gets there
>is not way it will catch up.
Windows is based on the conceptualization of a single user
single tasking system, and is archaic to put it mildly.
>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.
When it comes to printing, like many other things,
"simple" is not "best". You are looking at "simple" and
claiming it is better. Choose to learn the right way to
do it to get better results.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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