Scary Leatherworks Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 I recently downloaded gimp mainly for pic resizing and printing for pattern making and I am unable to print with it. It doesn't seem to send it to the printer. Anyone have any experience with GIMP? Quote
Members HellfireJack Posted October 12, 2011 Members Report Posted October 12, 2011 GIMP can be finicky when it comes to printing. What OS are you using? The quick work around is to save your working file as an actual image, open with a different program, and print from there. Quote
Scary Leatherworks Posted October 13, 2011 Author Report Posted October 13, 2011 On 10/12/2011 at 2:25 PM, HellfireJack said: GIMP can be finicky when it comes to printing. What OS are you using? The quick work around is to save your working file as an actual image, open with a different program, and print from there. I'm using windows 7 Quote
Contributing Member TwinOaks Posted October 13, 2011 Contributing Member Report Posted October 13, 2011 One thing that might be stopping it is the file size. With the multiple layers capabilities, the program saves the image as a pretty large file so that it can be further manipulated. Be sure to "flatten objects" and/or save as a common file such as .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg. I had a similar problem with Microsoft digital image suite saving things as a .PNG file. I'd tried to upload a couple of pics and they were in the 15-20 Mb range....changed them to .jpg and it dropped to something like 2Mb. Quote Mike DeLoach Esse Quam Videri (Be rather than Seem) "Don't learn the tricks of the trade.....Learn the trade." "Teach what you know......Learn what you don't." LEATHER ARTISAN'S DIGITAL GUILD on Facebook.
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