ImprovePhotoPrinting
Launchpad Entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-desktop-n-improve-photo-printing
Created: 2010-10-12 by Till Kamppeter https://launchpad.net/people/till-kamppeter
Contributors: Till Kamppeter https://launchpad.net/people/till-kamppeter
Packages affected: All photo managing and editing applications: shotwell, f-spot, digikam, gimp, ...
Summary
Printing office documents, e-mails, and web pages usually just works. You simply click File -> Print, usually do not change any parameters, and your document comes out on A4 or Letter paper. If you open a photo manager or editor application and want to print photos like you get them from the lab (usually one picture filling one page) it gets ugly: In GNOME applications (shotwell, f-spot, GIMP, ...) you have to click File -> Page Setup, choose the printer and then the desired paper size, after that you click File -> Print, choose all other printing-relevant parameters, and then finally click "Print". In KDE programs (digikam) you have to set the four margins manually to zero to print borderless, geeqie does not get the printer parameters from CUPS, ... In addition, the printing functions of photo applications are not well tested. In Maverick, f-spot immediately crashes when sending a print job and GIMP sends blank pages.
Rationale
If a user sees a nice photo in his photo manager and would like to have it on paper, he should be able to print it in high photo quality and scaled to fill the sheet with a few simple clicks and in an intuitive, user-friendly way.
Use cases
Scope
Photo managers/editors under Linux
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues
Get the continuation of the development funded.
BoF agenda and discussion
UDS Natty:
Further discussion