Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs OS: Linux When printing from gwenview + kipi plugins the colour temperature is unrealistically cool. It would be very useful to have a colour correction tool in the plugins.
I guess all Linux applications are printing too cool colors then? Don't we need a global printer/scanner/display calibration application?
No, gpp, Gnome Photo Printer, prints realistic colours. The global printer/scanner/display calibration tool would be very popular, I think, with anyone who deals with graphics of any kind. Anne
Maybe Gnome Photo Printer is using other printer settings than Gwenview?
There's no way to tell. All the tabs are about selecting photos, layout, and selecting printer. There's nothing that allows any other adjustment, and no clue as to what it's doing. Maybe the info is there in the code, but it's not visible in the gui.
Are you saying that the plugin has it? If so the problem is in which gwenview use it. Is the such a print option present in digikam?
Anne, can you print an image from the standard kde print and compare the results. i had a look at gpp source and it doesn't seem to do anything fancy, it just uses standard gnome print functions. a bit of digging through the gnomeprint sources, indicates that its more sophisticated than kde printing and does seem to handle raster images well (unlike kdeprinting where everything is converted to postscript)
I have done some prints now, and both the konqueror print and the digikam print definitely have more red in them, although I think the gpp one has more yellow in it. The overall effect is that the gwenview print seems coldest. Looking at them all closely, I suspect that gpp goes to the other extreme, whereas the konqueror print and the digikam print both have it about right. HTH.
when you say you printed from digikam, did you use the kipi-plugins printer or the standard kde print from the image viewer in digikam?
The window is headed Digikam Image Editor, and it looks as though this has all the plugins - including a lot of colour manipulation tools. I just did File > Print from that window. Would that be using the kipi-plugins printer?
no. those are digikamimageplugins and the printer is the standard kde printer. the kipi-plugins printer is accessible from the main window: Menu Albums->Export->print
OK - printed from the kipi-plugins. The colour is good, definitely warmer than the original print, so I re-printed from gwenview kipi-plugins. That also has good colour. It looks as though the different paper - the original print was the last page of that batch. Sorry to have wasted your time. Anne
good to know that