I have some photos in f-spot that I want to print, 4 to a page. But when
I try to print them, the printer does nothing. I suspect that the photos
are too large for the printer to handle, so I want to tell f-spot to
reduce the resolution on printing. Is there a way to do that?
I don’t want to change the resolution of the photos themselves, just
what gets printed.
I also tried printing to a PDF, which worked. But when I try to print
that PDF, it fails in the same way. So is there a way to postprocess
images in a PDF?
I have photos with large resolutions like 50 MB in size.
I use gimp to reduce by scaling it down and export
with a different file name then later delete it after
I am done using it.
I am not using f-spot so I have no idea if there is the
same function.
> I also tried printing to a PDF, which worked. But when I try to print
> that PDF, it fails in the same way. So is there a way to postprocess
> images in a PDF?
I change printer driver instead. My printer is postscript (HP), but with
large photos it “crashes”. So instead I use the pcl3 or hpijs pcl3
drivers, which apparently do the processing on the computer instead than
on the printer.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
conram wrote:
> I have photos with large resolutions like 50 MB in size.
> I use gimp to reduce by scaling it down and export
> with a different file name then later delete it after
> I am done using it.
Yes, that’s exactly the ‘solution’ I want to avoid
I’d like to have the computer do the grunt work for me.
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-12-03 12:34, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
>> I also tried printing to a PDF, which worked. But when I try to print
>> that PDF, it fails in the same way. So is there a way to postprocess
>> images in a PDF?
>
> I change printer driver instead. My printer is postscript (HP), but with
> large photos it “crashes”. So instead I use the pcl3 or hpijs pcl3
> drivers, which apparently do the processing on the computer instead than
> on the printer.
On 2013-12-03 19:16, conram wrote:
>
> I tried shotwell to open a photo and click print
> and I can reduce the printing dpi size
> If this could any help.
>
> The resolution is controlled by the printer
> I am using a brother printer here.
Well, yes, but this should happen anyway you print. It depends who does
the processing to convert to a printer bitmap: if you send “ps”, the
printer is capable of doing it (or so I understand), but needs memory.
You could send a photo at 3000 dpi to the print system, which then sees
the image size on paper, see the printer resolution at, say, 600 dpi,
and thus it calculates a bitmap reduction on the fly. And if you expand
the photo, it does interpolation. It can be done on the computer or on
the printer, saving computer time (in theory).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-12-03 19:16, conram wrote:
Thanks to you both. I found a solution. I can print OK to a PDF file, as
I mentioned. And I found that the acroread print dialog has a button
squirreled away that says ‘print as image’ (or similar, I’m not in front
of that computer now). Clicking that allowed the print to work
