[ale] [Gimp-user] printing landscape on 3x5 cards

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 21:14, Geoffrey wrote:
>> David Lee wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:37:17 -0400 Jim Philips
>>>
>>> <briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> I have some 3x5 templates in .png format that I downloaded. I want
>>>> to print them out in landscape format, because if I print them as
>>>> portrait my printer bracket won't come in tight enough to hold the
>>>> card in place. So, I open the .png in Gimp and flip it 90 degrees
>>>> and save it. I then try to print it from Gimp, with 3x5 specified
>>>> as the paper size. What gets printed is a long string of raw
>>>> Postscript and nothing else. I have to kill the print job. I'm
>>>> using Gimp 2.2.10 with CUPS 1.1.23 on a Slackware box. Any clues as
>>>> to what is wrong? Am I using a crappy print driver? The printer is
>>>> an Epson C-62 inkjet. It prints without problems otherwise, even
>>>> some 3x5 cards in landscape. But those are from a Web page where
>>>> formatting is enforced by CSS.
>>> I believe you will need to pick "setup printer" from the print dialog
>>> and pick the type of printer you are using.  This is what did the
>>> trick for me.
>> One thing I recall about the GIMP is that it wants a non compressed ppd
>> file.  What I've had to do is go to the directory where they exist and
>> unpack the file there.  Make sure you retain the gunzipped version
>> though because other applications look for it.  For example, for my
>> Minolta laser I have the following ppd files:
>>
>> /usr/share/cups/model/Minolta-magicolor_2300_DL.ppd
>> /usr/share/cups/model/Minolta-magicolor_2300_DL.ppd.gz
>>
>> You set this in the setup printer dialog of GIMP David has mentioned.
> 
> OK. I found the .ppd file and created an unzipped version. It made no 
> difference.

What distro is this?  Did you use the setup printer option in gimp to 
make sure it's pointed to the proper ppd file?

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